Saturday, November 26, 2016

NOT MY CIRCUS, NOT MY MONKEYS: Five new poems...

51

Homo Nuovo

Does it really matter that we can travel in time
if we have not become what we’re meant to be? Time travel
only delays our destined purpose, and we must
always return to face the music.

And does it matter that we can teleport from here to there
when we’re still the same person? We may have conquered
time travel and teleportation, a very secret agenda, but
does this help us fulfill our destined purpose?

Souls from other worlds have heeded the call to raise the
vibrations of life on earth to save our troubled planet, but
what does this tell us about who we are? Aren’t
we free to change our karmic timeline?

It doesn’t matter how much we evolve in mind and body,
the buck always stops with us, and not until we pay the piper
will homo sapiens stop evading his essential nature
and evolve into homo nuovo.

 52

The Writer`s Heart

His self-confident voice was redolent
with the wisdom of overcoming,
and every word he uttered
came from his soul, —

O victory!

Like a compulsive worm writhing
through the grime of urban life,
he slithered his lonely way
to new understanding, —

O victory!

One story led to another, easily
finding their way into the New Yorker,
and he elated with giddy delight
at his creations; but his story
never ended, —

O victory!

Always hovering near a greatness he
was too shrewd or diffident to risk,
he garnered the Pulitzer with ease;
but the Nobel always eluded his
gifted, covetous reach.

When asked why on his deathbed, he
smiled bewilderment; but the twinkle
in his little rabbit`s eye betrayed the
writer’s heart, robbing Death of
its assured victory.

53

A Window

Sitting at my desk writing poetry
a window opened up to me, and
I saw what I could not have
seen many years ago.

The window opened onto a world
that looked the same as mine,
but only millions of years ahead
of our troubled time.

I saw reptilian beings far advanced
in mental powers and technology,
but they were less than human
in spiritual discernment.

And I saw another peculiar race
of ant-like creatures more evolved
than the reptilians, but they too
were spiritually insufficient.

I could not pull my eyes away;
but when I had seen enough of these
higher races, the window closed
and I returned to my poetry.
  
54

The Poet’s Daemon

Is it cryptic or deceptive
when the poet conceals
what his daemon chooses
to reveal?

The poet does not know
what his poems will discover;
he goes in blind into the
caverns of his mind.

He may not find what he is
looking for, but he trusts
his daemon to light the way
to his hidden treasure.

That’s the nature of the poet’s
way, and he has no say on how
his daemon chooses to reveal
the wisdom of his poetry.

 55

Envy

We love most
what we cannot have,
and envy those
that have it.

It is to our nature
to be this way,
but it doesn’t have to be
if we are free.

This is our dilemma,
and not until we resolve
this inherency can we
love without envy.















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