Selected poems
Breaking through one dimensional seeing
i am a dinosaurold fogie off with pixiespoor old dodder-bloke!
come see differenti grow wings and fly up hightelling my song-story
one dimensionalsyou would put me in my box?i give you the 'bird'
Walking the Moonee Ponds Creek
To you Sister-Mother EarthDeep and expansive thanksfor the gift of Place — of this Place.Of trees and special plantingsOf water running between steep banksOf birds and friendly dogsOf humans seeking a gentle moment of joy.
Here the sacred sacrament of everyday life.And here the meeting with you — Divine Otherin the knowing of deep resonance and gentlenessthat is remaking this particular life.A life able to percolate another way of seeingalive with the imaginations of communities that dare to believe.
Contemplating the City(Point and Counterpoint)
(1) City of Freedom and Joy(Haiku Form)
Find this place of joySimplicity of formingFreedom deep in soul
Country at home hereBucolic in the urbanCounterpoint shared true
Community reignsMinds meet in fraternityConvivial life
Hope and full makingDancing with trees and waterRhythmic creating
Food wonders found hereVocational creationsNourishment of heart
Conjured transformingsFutures are made here and nowWide sharp horizons
Discovering graceBeauty in rememberingDelectable NEW
Conjoined moments fullBecomings remaking mindsLives fully OPEN
(2) Anomie Central(Musings on the Abiding City)
An ambiguous 'Thank You' cityin providing place for me.Place to hide away from any face to face reality!Hidey-holes — the most effective of placesto hide mySELF away from myself!Here in our safe little boxesOf sleepingOf thinkingOf — anonymity!
You are here — are you?I know you — perhaps!What keeps you here?Strangers living an intimate proximity!
What did you say your name is?NO DON'T TELL ME!! — I DON'T WANT TO KNOW!!I will NEVER WANT TO KNOW — anymore!
ANOMIE CENTRAL!!ALIENATION JUNCTION!!
Impounded within fencesHere in this Urban BLACK HOLEthat pulls everything into itselfand let's nothing out!
Here we are then! — finding our Centre!Secret to ourselvesand certainly to each other!Here feeding our arking brainswith the mediocrities of an impossible 24/7 real!
Feeding our bodieson mass-produced extrusions!Feeding our brainsin mass-produced mind-factories!Filling our pocketswith mass-accumulated junk bondsthat will produce nothingbeyond empty promises!
So — whoever you just might beI am not saying GOODBYEbecause we will never say HALLO!!
Jumping Deeply Inward (Intimate Ecstacy)
(On Reading Dorothea Soelle on Mysticism and Resistance')
Come know the RAGE OF THIS VERY MOMENTand in so doing know the ecstacy of Joybeyond any thought!
Step out of this everyday life-prisonto jump deep into the NOW!
Be immersed in an ecstacy of love!,Agape! — Eros! — Phileo!Love so inclusive of its many dimensionsLove leaving behind wordings no matter how deep.Love which is itself —