Poetry #264

A VASTER SCOPE

Moving light,
Moves upon the stage of life,
Through many scenes edited,
Works the many plays,
Films of what is life,
It's ups and downs,
The living biography written.
From a 'future' view,
Sees the present scene of life
From some perspective
From which views of potentials
May add to the choices of creative
Movement in the moment.

Looking at the film of the 'past'
May create through lines
That support the choices
Made in the moment.
The through line provides the thrust
Upon which rides the crest of the wave.
The shifting of probables in the moment
Aligning the points of 'a' through line
That choice gives direction
Toward the result being created
Bringing a probable into actuality,
Not one that merely happens 'to one'
By circumstance in some chotic form
A subconscious sea tide against
Which one has no recourse.
Worked
Today looked three
Blocks away,
Into which walks a few seconds,
When time skips a beat.

The magical moments
When we momentarily tune into
What we are really doing here,
Like having history altered
By our thought, and
Don't know
It's been altered the moment
We think it,
Then too the next is made anew.
The occasional glimpse,
We get,
When time skips a beat.

One starts to watch more closely,
The invisible,
Show up more frequently,
When shared with one other,
The empty faces whom may overhear
Show the thoughts of judgements.
The speakers,
Obviously absurd,
If not downright,
Out to lunch,
Crazy, that is,
When time skips a beat.

Dog a human
Then a bat,
Asked which way
The laundry is, and
The response pointing up.
How does one get there?
Again pointing,
Back that way.
Pointed up then back that way,
Which way is it?
Go!
To get there!
Get up by going that way.
It's not existing.
Responding to question,
Stomach upset.
You're making
Stomach upset.
Smile,
Today was a simple scene,
Sit at bar,
Have a cigarette
While waiting - a drink.
Looking about the room,
Contemplate a moment,
Stroking beard briefly
The drink arrives,
Sip!
A few,
Brief moments at end of day,
Take four, and it's a wrap.
Spliced together it will be,
Most likely be,
Around twenty seconds at the most.
We spend days
For a few seconds memory
When reflected upon,
If recalled at all,
The flashing of a dream
That is stretched with an interpretation
That the mind can handle,
Given it's wanting everything to relate
To and fit into
It's accepted framework of reality.

Quickly passed, show, dinner,
Exercised,
Constantly
Play and watched
Discovery
Channel wild animals.
Worked letter,
Internet classes,
Now out walking to train,
Finished up dishes
And bed retire,
Yoga,
When return.
Ah, the mundane details
The evening.
Whether joys or pains
That wants to extend or alter
In creating the moment,
It strengthen bonds
To the past upon
Which memories ride.
The constant change of history
By the present
Frees experience in the now
What exist, and
To choose in the now
What it is,
It exist only in the moment.
Freedom carries the new.
Then without being bound to a narrow
Strata of what would have held to be
The definition of life.

The broadening and extending
Beyond the bounds of time's gate
Becomes possible in the focal
Point of the present.
One becomes centered within and
The storms of the past or pull
Of the future are but possibilities
Choices at risk ,
Repeating in so many ways,
It seems, yet
How more so
To hold to a history
To escape it with desires
To the contrary in an unknown future.
It has been said that to forget history
One is doomed to repeat it,
Rather to remember it is to repeat it,
One judges it and is bound by it
To repeat in masked forms
It's illusions.
Truly learning from the lessons,
One lets it go and incorporates
The essence,
Mastered into light and love
Consciousness
That opts for greater mastery
Indeed new lessons
A vaster scope.


Poetry #265

THE BUSINESS DAY

Meows with a head ache,
Alert as attention shifted
Beneath the surface
Re-orienting myself
To location sounds,
Crows caws are heard
Mixed with the roar of aeroplanes
Ascending or descending
Nearby aeroport.
Standard putting away;
Using; emptying;
Feeding; making;
Replacing thoughts distant
Brought a moment lead
To sit
To make notes
To focus attention
To what is just there before one.
The blank page
Establish flow outward,
To doing,
To clear the pathways
Centered page
Recognize being used
Through the expression.
Showered, shaved, changed,
Scanned many ideas,
Stopping the way back,
Allow the flow of thoughts
To carry into the 'new moon'
That will take place.
Returned outing happy
New window and door
To allow circulation for fresh air.
It is indeed a beautiful day,
The sun shining incredible
Cumulus clouds
Bathed with light.
Meows now used
A moment,
However mellow until
The next round.
Later afternoon
Trip leaves two dollars
To be retained
To pay tolls
When pick up returns,
Otherwise
Change will have
To do.
The post nothing box,
Hoped magazines
The computer mail order store,
To see
The current offerings, prices,
Information that may include ongoing plans.
Looked, asked, decided
To move on
The business day,
Explore next steps that will bring
Exhibition's success passage
Through current frames into the 'future.'
Creative Radiance of Being
Say, "Fin",
Thought anyway,
Demanded attention.
Threw up
Three places,
Rug cleaned up,
Stomach clear,
Throwing up,
Passing hours plus,
Brief walk
To pond and back.

©2002 - JV Harvey