Dream Poetry Visions -- The Secret Library

Dream Poetry Visions: The Secret Library

By Joshua B. Oakley

April - May 2013 (Mostly)

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Part One (26 Poems)

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Star Raven

Rain tears falling

Breaking the bonds that separate

Imagine peace and an end to violence

Peace in your minds, on earth, in your houses

Love and giving always to your secret inner Self

Swimming in the seas of dreams and oceans of future

Saved from drowning when you most need help

Men and women on a boat that sails across worlds

A great ship that can go where men alone cannot

We catch a leviathan of the deep

It is almost too horrible to look at

To see it is to despair

And yet my friends are still in the sea

And who knows how many more monsters are there

Primordial, ancient, terrible to behold

And the one we caught was already dead

I remember the hill where we played

The bus where I broke the rubber bands

A wilderness, a forest, a river, a path, journeys

You and the others, my friends and family

I danced and floated away, you sang my name

Onward toward the sea, my destiny

I leave you, and you are still in the cold water

It is almost as if you were never here at all

Yet I still feel the phantoms of your presence

Some more people I know remained behind below

In the dark waters among the ancient ones

I felt bad for leaving you most of all, my love

But when I saw the rope I grabbed on

The strange elder ones in human form pulled me to safety

To help raise the other monsters and people from the sea

We are all related to one another, by ancestry and origin

United by the memory of ocean and the promise of sky

Happy to be alive and desirous of one another's company

Endeavor always to change ourselves and others

A difficult task requiring much effort, grace, art

Working as a fisherman in the cosmic ocean

Writing and knowing the true and beautiful

As well as I can, remember my dreams

Try to create some kind of meaning

Always growing, changing, learning, becoming

In the midst of being, time, evolution

Revolution of the mind, psyche, society

How can I hope to change the world?

Who am I and where am I going?

What can I do to help humanity renew?

How can I dream while still awake?

Each and every day that passes

I change and yet always remain

In love with life, living, and dreaming

Visions of the future that may be

We are all part and parcel of the whole

We belong to the earth, sky, and water

In every way and path I travel,

Every day I think of you, my beautiful star raven

Dream Poetry Visions: Sixth Dimensional Perspective Archetypes of God and Goddess and World Hero Lotus Light Love Laughter Longing Learning Illuminating

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Song of Lament and Joy for Paradise Being

Born in the Ocean of Worlds, Galaxies, Universes

Thousands of rose petals drift

In the sweet sunlit air and sky

Brought down from the mountains

On the wind change from across

The oceanic tides and the stories

Of sailors who wandered far

So that everything brings me to tears

And the thought and fear that I will never

Leave my birth country for distant lands

In search of the promise of treasure

For I am tied to my friends and family

Yet there are many winds to tempt

The imagination of a poor man's son

And I am the same as any other inside

With just the same chances to succeed

My family's advice is permanent isolation

From myself as well as the rest of the world

But I will search for exquisite solitude instead

Go to the secret places in my mind

Where loneliness cannot corrupt me

Nor sorrow, fear, darkness, evil, hate

My heart is tied to the earth, love, poetry

The source of all that is, was, and shall be

Where my ancestors came from

To found a better life than the one

They had known across the ocean

From far away the wind brings its tales

Sailors who have wandered far from home

Myself among them, lost in the ether

The land of my birth only a memory

And all lost for the promise of treasure

My heart remains tied to my father's country

But I have chosen to cross the ocean

In the desert temptations of flesh are many

The imagination of a poor farmer's son is great

Yet I cannot deny the destiny of my soul

Tears Fall Like Rain and the World Is Created: Transcendence, Unity Within Duality, Immanence

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Windows of Soul

All from love and to love all will return

What soul have I not loved

Once I glanced for an instant into

One or two or three windows

Into the soul of mankind

Male and female combined

Their eyes were together

Merging, melding, becoming

Their eyes were all alive

With spirit and mind and self

Aligned with the soul of worlds

What pair of eyes has given vision

Dimmed awareness of the terrible divine

When have I not seen myself staring

Reflected in another pair of windows

How many are clear enough to see

And how many are locked and barred

How many fail to realize that we are

All a part of the same force of nature

I have traveled far on many paths

I have waited lifetimes just for one

Glimpse into the eyes of another self

One instant of recognition between

Love crossing generations and revolutions

Higher even than knowledge of God

Nothing except ourselves can stop us

I realize now that our destiny lies together

The fate of the one is tied to the many

And from individuality we can be as one

Trying to explore the mystery of being

And meaning light, life, love, laughter, longing

All the time we are creating truth and beauty

Individuals create the world of philosophy

Art of living for today and tomorrow and dream

Working together for the common good

We are each as one and we are all family

Healthy Red Blood Cells

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Self World Balance

Smile, Feel, Breathe, Love, Sing

Earth, Water, Fire, Sky, Spirit

You're a star

Because you are one breath

Original, honest, lovely

Breath within spirit

Every moment awakening

There's nothing you cannot do

Given time space to make

Nothing you can do to

Change the simple fact of

Belonging to the universe

Enjoy every moment of life

As if it was borrowed

From the earth and sky

For a limited time only

You and your soul experience

Manifold manifestation of light vision

What it is to be truly alive

In your bright beautiful life

It is your destiny to seek

But when you find what you are

You might no longer need

That which your heart speaks

Whispers in the deep solitude

And is not only truth in words

No attainment because no non-attainment

Dark blue and white edge of world

Turquoise Bodhisattva sound of compassion

Electric blue silver moon brother and sister

Red and gold sun sister and brother

Purple and white earth and sky dragons

Rainbow red and blue magician wise warrior

Princes and princesses of light and shadow

Crimson phoenix mad and dangerous

Enemy king reveals hidden fears and hates

Cats and ravens with intelligence and memory

Masters, temples, cities, journeys, homecomings

The Four Protectors, Cardinal Directions, Classical Western Elements (Not including Spirit/Ether)

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Star Raven Two: Kiss Life Begins

For Shakespeare, Carl Jung, and Other

Silver Moon Blue Black Ocean Souls

By the name of the water and the wind

Unbind and free legs and body safety

Within walk fly then sit to share in banquet

Circle of spirits drink energy life light

Water life flow through earth moss sky

Dark light shatter split one into two

From dark and back to light again

Jade heart violet sapphire forget-me-not

Words communicate stories and memories

Direct knowledge passed through language

Magic of unconscious and intuitive balance

Listen and watch flowers grow and sing

I hear a knock on my door and there you are

Dark wonder gold and black serpent crow

Great wound healer of silent heart and mind

Green and blue and white with life light

All colors and masks evolve and transform

Time force consciousness alters chaos and order

From one comes two and then a great many

Plants and animals people yet to be long gone

Giant and communal and microscopic

Eye mitochondria fish weaving patterns of eternity

Transcendence not of the world but heart and mind

Soul shape build and create new ways of becoming

Wisdom existence understands through sky earth water

Each lifetime year day hour moment I am different

Lost in time, constantly forgetting and remembering

Die and reborn again and again the balance of light darkness

Opposites unite beyond within here and there

Pain and pleasure, now and between, good and evil

Autumn garden maple trees clover ripe wheat

Moss gentle strength and hidden courage subtle

Intimate connections between and among all life

Add and multiply consciousness unforeseen and unforeseeable

Cosmic imagination of creation and continual growth

Symbol web language interacting with living information

Visionary myth wisdom about alchemy dream poetry

Observe intuit feel understand speak watch listen

From science journey around the wheel of life world

Once again travel the windy roads towards eternity

Recurring always in different tragedies and comedies

Together the original and never-ending wakefulness

Until once ending the seeker finds a new beginning again

The sleeper awakens and no longer holds onto fear

The beginning is the end and the end is never complete

Our own world sphere making or made or yet to be

Share paths apart until we are alone together again

Death is a doorway that opens forward pushes life

Ever onwards towards some strange destined seashore

Heavens and hells between underworlds and skies

Compete combine and create new worlds somewhere

Spirit and dream meet between and beyond humanity

Merely more light perception rationality balance replaces

Integrative ethics intuition and myth artwork understanding

Cooperate to replace and redefine the old ways of doing

Know and feel some way out away from final

Apocalypse and illusion versus hope and transformation

Perfection in and from the midst of violent resisting

Balance and peace choose the way at the crossroads

Face accept love take and give life

Silence is best golden waves and intricate pathways

Though far as time allows for galaxies and people

Expanding growing evolving away from and together

With each other cluster and filament faster than light

Passing strange boats and sailing ships of great diversity

We carry with us memories and essence colors

Some regret that they regret when close so far apart

Good care full of illusion and separation

Reality divide and heat and synthesize

When you come close to world's edge

Remember the alchemist and his her stone

Cosmic ocean of infinite possibilities

Bounded seemingly yet not limited

One, two, three, four, five

Dimensions perceptions worldviews

Seeming intelligent and beautiful mystery

Souls and stars in the night sky nearby singing

Eye Intuition Violet

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Dragon Angel Lovers

Stars eyes serpents infinite vision dark and light unity lotus love laughter solitude

Ring wheel turning layers shadow angels isolation

Tonight may be good now and forever

Spirit life moss garden hidden

Masters have need for question play solitude

Care beyond action of asking clarify perspective

Ball bounces in darkness deep in contemplation

Wisdom teacher mind enlightened absolute

Not this and not that and constant as change

Gatekeeper smiles accepts allows passage

Keymaster sun disease and healing transformation discovery

Guardian contains part of breath and we

Enemy some say their own shadow selves

Snake beauty firebird stranger master forest mountain valley

Serpent every time realize we can feel infinity longing

Ocean through source of all that was, is, and shall be

Deep friendship heart infection house sloping hill trees green

Creation flame mad joy blind genius revolution

Poison rain clouds distance paradise balance humanity nature

Separation I sit and contemplate connectedness creativity love

Return life animals ending yet also beginning light vision

Balance home engulfed flooded wrecked and lost Odin One Eye

Clarity death mirrors our own as all purification rituals

Change sensitivity light insight sunrise birds singing crying pain

Growth though I may feel sorrow for all loss transcendence green

Learning I cannot help and be comforted by knowing feminine premonition

Silence they do not suffer or so I hope every day waterfall crickets

Sitting when we cannot even decide which side discovery sickness healing

Listening pity shame loss atonement dream demon dark moon

Teaching of the same coin to be though in nature infinite light river

Loving there were no sides except illusion and luminous history memory

Singing reality through the cosmic mirror reflecting change transformation

Self and the world truly not for or against rest meditate relax

River learn grow dance smile change ask tell say do think

Song neither can hope to conquer other change feel true beauty

Stars only to better understand our potential perfect joy life future

Glowing animals spirits world self family friends crossroads pattern

The Door of Perception, Eye of Love, Window of Heart

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Each Side Has Another Side -- Seasons of Revolution -- Abraxas -- Birds of Paradise

Winter Spring Summer Fall and When You Least Expect

Green Blue Turquoise Purple Diamond Silver Gold Shadow Light

Water Earth Fire Air Spirit Vision Thought

Jade Onyx Opal Amber Violet

Lapis Coral Cerulean Blue Marble

Diamond Lotus Solomon Joseph Shakespeare

Spiral Galaxy Shell Human World

Experience subjective objective speculation intuition

Darkness and hidden light breathe in out

Balance rational empirical mythic poetry

Now the wind blows through the trees

Limbs bend and sway dancing in ecstasy

Lover and loved and loved lovers together

Giving life breath between among

Spreading seeds blowing branches kisses

Their life shadow is their true self

Humans and trees related yet different perspectives

Disappearance carbon and oxygen combination

Reappearance anytime and in season

Individuals species families reflect humanity's collective vision

Teachers guardians protectors nature spirits

Myth ocean connection symmetry order in chaos

Spirit natural world together combined

Reflecting depending on condition of one another

Love nature force spirit spreading throughout wind and rain

Storm thunder crossroads clouds sky expansive stretching

Mountains valleys bridges and hidden mysteries treasures

Yesterday the world came to an end and today we will begin again

New sunrise women and men equality heaven and earth

Hope rebuilding uplifting returning again

Rebirth temple first memories of sky spirit

Birds of fire stars traveling through roads

Cosmos lattice structure stretching expanding

Evolving transforming and creating light

New consciousness novelty reveals mysteries

Ancient future history myth poetry

Reflected humanity spirit storm sea change choice

Crossroads modern time story of Caladan and Prospero warning

Teacher companion guide tormentor friend

Wise philosophy and knowledge about wisdom learning

Circle line spiral double helix of history evolution choice

Between catastrophe and cure there is not much room for error

Crossroads of future history and ancient philosophy together

Myth and science vision spirit of time humanity genius of species

Unconscious collective individual and great memory consciousness

Psyche of the new world star symbols and modes of thinking doing feeling

Past present future together in one understanding appreciation of complexity simplicity

United diversity through love compassion sensitivity tolerance ethics open mind body

Soul of fire truth knowledge and heart sympathy grace balance wisdom

Water earth creativity myth poetry storytelling singing universe chaos dark beauty dancing stars

Calendar of future present past lives identities masks personalities

Wheel fractal mandala worlds without end again beginning life

Rainbow light color novelty transformation butterfly community

Colors changing gold and green and white purple sky sunset west

Calm steady strength beneficent auspicious sentinel guardians at the gate

Doorways tunnels to worlds connected to our own through tree of life

World of spirit faerie interdimensional universal pathways

Spirit guide animal companion teacher friend and shadow twin

Red and blue white and black conflict within self and with truth world and good

Last three choices of balance and reconciliation between opposites

Transcendental experience spirit awakening personality number two

Shadow whole family interior exterior connection love belonging outcasts positive solitude

Hope change energy matter centers snowflakes seasons world events towards peace health balance

I remember dragon angel consequences and wings broken healthy

Masks faces personalities monstrous reflections

Lie in misery defeat and shame against

Crumbled wall near the center of the gold and silver city

Victory and defeat came to within a hair's breadth

Watch as the enemy hero places the crown on his head

Your head bowed white light surrounding all

The ones still fighting stop and gaze at beauty

Enemy and friend are now one again at peace

Balance the blood of slain lost yet not forgotten

The eternal moment constantly changing

Staying the same yet always evolving transformation

Glorious architecture and wondrous imaginings

The tree of life cut open in the garden for greed

Pure white snow falling over the battlefields

Suffering and sorrow and isolation yet leading to solitude

Demon heart wound bite skin break free

"I will show you all my pain," said the defeated one

And he walked together with his shadow

Long into the outer dark wilderness west

Mind of a Peace Warrior

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First Day

Today is the first day of the rest of my life

What will I do and who will I be

When will I remember everything I have done

One part of a great mystery I do not understand

I am happy sometimes a little lost

Other times completely utterly confused about meaning

Giving up fighting how I live without compromising

Ideals thoughts feelings inspire me to keep going

Poets artists dreamers remind us that there is always something more

Beyond what is more being giving up illusions and desire

What I am or will be certainty and uncertainty

Relative to my world beauty and truth mix into one reality

Why I accept separateness I do not know anything

Except I am alive thinking and feeling

Soul understands more than self hope will

Guidance from within focus a conscious light

I love everyone and need their help and company

Flower of Life Art Intuition Creativity Visions Dreams Imagination Wonder Childhood

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The Hidden Library Beyond Time

Spring sits at a long oak table deep in contemplation

She is reading a very old book with gold and silver lettering

She looks up for a moment and our eyes meet

They are two dark pools with the weight of this great place

The spiral towers offering beautiful views of the mountains

The long shadowy aisles of books and remarkable treasures of knowledge

Her eyes have much wisdom, sadness, beauty, understanding

Reflecting the many worlds, times, places, people of the world recorded here

Outside in the courtyard, I sit under the tree of life’s ornate canopy

A child of the great tree of life and the same as its parent

Much like this small world is similar to the universe outside

Beyond the mountains and forests of this paradise I have come to love

I feel privileged to be one of the few chosen to live here and learn

Time seems to slow down when Spring comes outside to sit with me

She likes to look at the secret city in the moonlight and the starlight

The wind is gentle and carries with it the smell of wildflowers

Deep in the mountains it is yet warm in the early spring

An atmosphere of peace and calm lies over the library

We are both silent,  sitting together under the giant tree’s ornate branches

Even though the air is warm the wooden benches are quite cool

Later, we cross through the doorway to the forest outside the city

To the world we knew all of our lives, the world of humans and Earth

We find our bicycles where we left them, close to my house

We ride home and eat a simple meal -- She sings a sad song of love while I cook

Afterwards, Spring sits on the edge of the porch and swings her legs over the shrubbery

Her long brown hair hides her eyes as she bends down to smell the flowers

We talk about our plans for the future, how she wants to bring more people here

And I tell her of my desire to create a utopia with her help, and that of our friends

Whether or not to speak of the secret world Spring and I discovered, that will be tricky

An important decision not to be taken lightly -- Great power and knowledge are at stake

In the wrong hands the course of human evolution on Earth could change for the worse

The development of a new world to replace the ones that came before could be stifled

By greed and lust for power, the ages-old foil of human progress and evolution towards

The optimal version of history Spring and I have been fortunate enough to witness

With the help of the Wizards, the elusive people in charge of the hidden city

A small world separate yet connected to every time and place in the cosmos

The World Is in the Best Hands Today: World Healing Compassion Hope Balance Nature Protectors

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She Is A Star

I am able to fly yet again

I understand I am dreaming

Beautiful stars offer themselves to me

Affection, intimacy of mind, self

Energy of closeness with a slight touch

I remember her from before I moved away

I want to be close to her more than ever before

I regret not showing her how I feel about her

More than I did -- Discovering, exploring life

I imagine she is sitting in the moonlight tonight

Under a weeping willow tree reading the poetry

Of the beauty of nature, the earth and the sky

Stars in her eyes and in the sky and her mind

I have to set her free, in my own mind

On the wings of night birds

Ravens, crows, owls, life of imagination

Beauty wonder her guides

Companions in the moonlight world of garden

Strange sounds mysteries keep her company

The world begins again, continuing to be born again

With the rise of the sun in the morning

Never ending, always beginning

And as long as there is life

There is always hope for the future

Eye Window Soul

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Glimpse of The Future

As I walk by the river in the sliver of crescent moonlight

Shining through the tops of the trees, just enough light

To make my way without falling, yet not enough to stop

Paying attention to each footstep, I think about my future

Years ahead in time I will be different yet the same soul

I am barely able to know myself as anything other than a child

Yet there are hints of my future self shining along with the moonlight

Starlight Golden Silver Child

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The Future of Humanity

Ancient symbols of change and chaos depict figures from our ancestral memory

Cow, Mother Earth -- Lucifer, Shadow -- Pisces, Sacrificial Lamb

Back and forward from today for thousands of years

Gold, Silver, Bronze, Iron, Information -- always changing

Humanity continues to grow into its potential for enlightenment

Whether or not there is a cosmic plan for us does not matter

Consciousness flowers and produces seeds for the future

End of one age is beginning to another and we are lucky to see the changes

Even if we do not understand, we still have the opportunity to witness the world

We can save the world and ourselves in the process by allowing the future to exist

Without interfering with the progression of ages and future generations

The traditional meaning of conservation and not inflicting our flaws on children

We can explore the universe in peace and prosperity for all if we only desire

The ancient cards may become antiquated, our divisions unnecessary

Through the houses of death and life time continues as arrow and circle

Freedom the great potential and necessity for humanity to grow

Individuality and memories of our past must be reconciled for balance

We may choose to cover the tattoos of past triumphs and mistakes

Or show our regrets with pride and intimacy, without promoting destruction

Black Hole Doorway Window Soul Dark and Light Complexity: Dark Eyes Man Woman Child Love Flames Hands Feet Knowledge Alchemy

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Symbols of Life

Figures from myth and legend use symbols to control nature and be controlled by it

Farm houses and factories can be centers of learning for children and adults

An ancient tree near an even older tower comes back to life after being almost dead

Children worship the tree and begin to return the land to its former vibrancy and magic

A beautiful angel comes to witness this and offers to help with creating a new eden

She leads the children up to the inaccessible rooms near the top of the ancient tower

When they want to leave, she says to go down would be to go through a narrow drain

And to go up would be to enter the abyss of space and time and uncertainty

The demon that lives nearby appears and threatens her and then leaves

She says they have been chosen for combat against the darkness, but it will not be easy

They fight for the original symbols that define the myths and legends of human history

They use the language left to humanity by the stranger who fell into the abyss long ago

Elements of Love: Places History Different Worlds Alternatives Choices Eternities Becoming Being Existence Transcendence

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Defending My Home

In the middle of the trance ceremony I realize that I am in great danger and I go outside

I do my best to defend my people and I tell the dark spirits to go away or else be destroyed

I cut off one of the death knights’ heads and tell the others to leave or face the same fate

Most are scared away, but there is one terrible creature who is not afraid of anything

I confront the dark leader but it is strong and I have difficulty gaining any kind of advantage

So I lead him out to the shore of the ocean in order to quench its deadly flame of anger

My fire cannot hurt it, but the water can put an end to its rampage, or so I hope

I manage to pull the creature into the ocean with me, sacrificing myself for the greater good

And I am left alone in my own dream, trying to find another individual who is also dreaming

I do not know if the people I meet are just part of my dream or if I am simply part of theirs

My Other Half: Sagittarius Teacher Healer

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Flowers of Lust

We lie together in my house at the edge of a great mountain forest

At some point she says “We both know that we want each other”

I turn to her and she is looking at me with longing in her eyes

She kisses me and I let my instincts take over and she does too

Later, in the glow of sexual contentment, we lie together looking up at the ceiling

I hear her crying and ask what is wrong but she says nothing

She gets up and walks into the bathroom, and closes the door

I want to say something else, to find out what is wrong

The smell of her sweat lingers in my bed and I wait for her to return

When she does, she says she wants to go home, but it can wait until tomorrow

So we both try to go to sleep, and I put my arm around her, and our foreheads pressed together

A strange kind of blue purple light seems to emanate from all around her

And I am happy for a little while, until she leaves and I am left alone again

But that is tomorrow, and for now she is here to stay -- And I am thankful for this

Magic Blue Beautiful Violet Rose Peacock Eye Labyrinth Mandala

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Love of Life

There are so many people I deeply care for, it’s hard to count

And yet I cannot help but feel more love for some than others

The ones I dream - when the rain comes and the earth drinks its fill

I think of her often in good times and bad times — It helps

Knowing she is alive and vital in my world at this moment in time

Even though we cannot be together, even though she may not want to be

At this particular point in space and time, I still love her

The memory and idea of her inspires me to be a better person

To make better art, or at least know when my art is not good

When I do not create for the benefit of other people — Humanity

Benefits when I am enlightened in my pursuit of self-interests

When I give as much as I take, and take only what I need to survive

We are all part of the cause for social justice and equality for all

Even my friends who are selfish and who do not like the idea of change

We all play our part in the great unfolding drama of the universe

And she is the one who inspires me to have faith and hope for the future

What may be and what will be, a better world that is busy being born

Always unfolding and changing in the pattern of chaos and intention

Her very existence is a work of art of the highest order of beauty

Purity of soul and body and spirit always changing, becoming, living

The fire of her mind penetrates and burns my masks to ashes — Holy

Desire to know her better and to learn her thoughts and perspective

On every matter of thing in the world, and in her mind, and everywhere

A foundation for my own understanding of the universe and life

Love lives on, no matter how much time passes, no matter how many mistakes

Bad judgments you make — There is always hope of a new brighter day

The sun rises and the past fades a little more into obscurity — Healing

Your body, mind, and spirit — And while she sleeps her true form shows

The light in her eyes spreads out to the rest of her face — Peace

And happiness I am happy to see, perhaps in some small part because of me

In the night I held her in my arms, and it was something like heaven

A secret that we never talked about afterwards, yet thought about

I held her hand and felt a deep sense of belonging, of coming home

My quest to find the center of myself would not be possible without her

I owe my strength and determination to her influence and presence in my life

Full of music and magic, peace and understanding — Bliss, love, and freedom

Process of Life

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The Mind of Nature

Global warming is real — fact not fiction, yet strange

The beautiful storms of change, intense and wild

Floods and wildfires threatening the vulnerable

Those in the desert are even more thirsty for water

The butterfly says to let the outside in and the inside out

Let the wind blow through your heart and breathe deep

The presence of the sun shows through closed eyelids

Progressive cultural evolution for humanity is necessary

The moon and stars and visible planets are a beautiful example

How to organize chaos — Hope in the midst of violent conflict

Mind and consciousness shared by all beings in the universe

Perception that helps create reality — Each influencing the other

I tend my garden and find comfort in the smell of rich earth and leaves

A microcosm of my hope for humanity’s efforts to change the environment

Each part and individual working for the benefit of the whole ecosystem

The diversity of nature allowing for greater health and balance overall

Consciousness rises from nature — Its history remains tied to the earth

The combination of the water of life and the fertile soil creates beauty

Lessons for humanity about the patterns of interdependence in the universe

The spiral and the circle of creation, preservation, change, desire, becoming

Everything is transforming into something else, yet essence remains the same

The wind spreads seeds within the garden and also to other faraway places

The world is a garden too, and the wind shares without distinction for nationality

The rain allows for new life to begin, and consciousness to flower inside the mind

Like plants and animals, people are constantly making love and fighting each other

But with hope, conflict will be more about words and ideas instead of physical violence

The cities of light and darkness, the forests and oceans, the blood and passion flow

But we should let each other live, for we are all unique though essentially the same

Looking out the eastern and western windows in morning and night — Duality of time

Accepting the space around us — Working to change the future but accepting the past

The crossroads allows for us to change our lives and choose which way we want to go

And it is never too late to change our minds and follow a different path, another destination

I pass by a beautiful woman on a forest trail — She is bending down to smell the wildflowers

For years I will think of her and wish I had stopped to say hello and see what she sees

She smiles at me and her eyes are full of light but also very dark — Duality of being alive

A fire rises in my heart and I cannot help but smile in return — We will always be connected

In the same bed, I put my arm around her and breathe in the natural fragrance of her beauty

I cannot go to sleep no matter how hard I try, and time seems to stand still, but I am happy

To be close to her, to feel her presence blurring the boundaries between our bodies and minds

She turns over and our foreheads touch for a long time, and our breath becomes entwined

You are a manifestation of the divinity present and indwelling in the self-aware universe

You are a star given human form — Light in the darkness — Mirror of cosmic consciousness

Dream of Music, Time, Love

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The Water of Life

Worshipping the earth, the smell of humus, rain

Finding love and peace in the stillness of morning

Gardens of mind and body give hope to sick friends

They heal by making their surroundings a beautiful place

Through perception and understanding, and the right force

To make the world fit your will, your will the universe

To search for someone who dreams the same visions as you

Or at least similar enough so that you have some understanding

It helps me accept that people I love are not doing well

A way to make some kind of a connection with the universe

And perhaps my work will bring some joy to the people I care about

And what I learn I can teach others, and help my friends live better

When the rain comes, it washes my soul and gives life to the soil

The seeds I plant grow into beautiful creatures and friends

The whole world is a garden, and yet each place is different

Each smaller garden within the whole has its own unique beauty

Consciousness pervades nature, and the universe is self-aware

The garden of your mind goes on forever, just like the cosmos

We each have the opportunity to share our vision and dream together

The trick is finding the right person to love more than others

Blessings of nature and the divine indwelling mind of the universe

The force of attraction and the coming together of disparate parts

There are ways we can be better stewards of the earth, water, and sky

Though things are getting better, there is much left to be done

Paradise Dream Map River Garden Temple House Mountains

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The Sleeper Awakens

Some are frightened by the shadow inside them

Others learn to accept and cultivate their dark half

Even the least attractive part of our minds have value

The sleeper must awaken — both the good and evil

By transcending our shadow we become whole —

At home with ourselves, without fear or apprehension

In this new world, it snows at the beginning of the spring equinox

Then I pause and reflect on my past and desires for the future

For all who seek truth to find balance between dark and light

Trusting love — Both angels and demons sleep within the deep

Places of our souls — our minds give rise to them when we need them

Even when we don’t want anyone, especially then, they appear

Friends who help us back on the right track, or to keep going

On the right one — Beyond limited definitions of family, they are

Closer than blood, a way of understanding your place in the universe

A reminder that you are beautiful and unique and not ever alone

Earth Family -- The ones you think about, the ones you love most, for better or worse

They can be the source of your inspiration or a cause for despair

My friends are closer to me than biology — Blood and bone are secondary

We would be nothing without our parents and grandparents — And yet

It is warm in the sunlight and cool in the shade — You can choose

Your family if you are willing to look beyond the chains of your past

I may not be able to forget you, but the least I can do is try to forgive

Myself — We have all made some positive impact in someone’s life

Flower of Life  -- Truth is the most important thing — Making sense of chaos

Order and a way of discovering your place in the universe

Consciousness and understanding can flower in every mind

Part of the soul of the universe subjectively experiencing itself

Organization Pattern of Chaos

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Emperor of a World

Yet -- There are always some who resist a tyrant of any kind

No matter how enlightened the policies -- Comfortable the citizens

The trick is to use the political process whenever possible

Create a coalition, a movement of revolutionaries to reach the majority

Give the minority enough not to complain, and the reactionaries nothing

Except kind words and a sincere effort to explain the progress of history

But those who want things to go back to the old ways will always protest

Everyone can find reason to complain if they think it will take them somewhere

They want to go -- Especially back to old prejudice, injustice, and inequality

So you may be an emperor of a world, but not the only one, not the only world

You are best served not to ever claim complete control or even desire it

Encourage individuality, serving enlightened interests for the good of all

A leader should not be a tyrant, if only for practical reasons, and less grief

History teaches us that they do not end well, no matter how good and popular

They are -- Necessary sometimes in times of crisis -- Opportunity and danger

The development of human culture should have outgrown petty differences

Yet here we all are -- Still dealing with the same issues as past generations

Reactionaries still want us to go back to the past, and revolutionaries the future

Balance must be found between the opposing forces of change and order

A new kind of understanding of the play of life, discovering the key to wisdom

Finding bliss in knowledge and action directed toward improving life for everyone

Trusting the perseverance and prevalence of love, sweet and bitter love

Mandala Cubed: Heart Compassion Joy

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Wizards of Light

If one knows where to look for the doorway or window -- the way to elsewheres

Other planets, other dimensions, other realities -- close and yet an infinite distance

A meeting point where beings from different places and times come together to talk

To share information, strategies, coordinate plans of thousands and millions of years

Hidden by a great temperate rainforest and ancient mountains with many secrets

One such city of doorways is home to a group of scholars of many races and backgrounds

A center of learning and observation of the world outside the city’s boundaries

A world named Earth by the billions of humans that call the planet home in 2013 AD

Some fight to survive, but others hoard books and knowledge from many worlds

Many times, helping when they can to move humanity towards a better tomorrow

Aligned with spirits of nature, magical creatures that live in other dimensions of reality

Against the forces of darkness, both in the world of humanity and in worlds beyond

To put aside ancient conflicts between the forces of light, to find balance and harmony

To focus on the darkness in everyone and the truly evil, to serve the force of life

In all things, in all places, in all times -- the cosmic conflict between light and darkness

Both on the individual level and the level of communities, planets, galaxies, universes

Green Man Nature Spirit Friend Guardian Defender

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World Dragon

He comes down from the mountain peak, threatening the farms and the school

The White Tower stands and will not be broken even by a giant serpent -- Yet

The crops and the people’s houses are not so strong -- The Wizards must act

To protect their people’s livelihoods -- The ancient truce has been broken

And when a hero has slain the dragon, young and foolish yet very powerful

A greater power wakes in the mountains -- The Mother -- All must change

Her terrible anger threatens all that the Wizards and the townspeople know

Something must be done to appease her, to restore the peace of their world

World Dragon

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The Forest Paradise

The ways to the heart of the great temperate rainforest are limited from the cities

A few old highways, less than there once were, a small method of keeping some part

Of the old world the way it once was, before the great changes of the past 100 years

So much has changed, humans spreading throughout the physical universe,

Unlocking the secrets of the invisible universe within and outside each person

The world united under one government, each old national enemy at peace with one another

The people staying on Earth concentrate in ever larger cities fueled by free energy

No more poverty, no need for injustice, plenty of food and clean water for all human beings

All manner of new ways of travel -- Flying cars,  high speed trains, personal spacecraft

Those with a desire to see the preserved mountain forests of the old national park may do so

There is even a single train line from Knoxville to the old small city of Sevierville

For those who like to travel across the surface of the Earth, and watch the world change

From new to old -- Yet even the old has changed, and would no doubt be unrecognizable

To the people that lived there, here -- Generations before humans started exploring the stars

Sailing the cosmic seas like ancient explorers of the old world, searching for new worlds

For humanity to call home -- When our sun dies, as all stars must, billions of years from now

Life will continue, as it always has and always will, using humans to seed new planets

As the universe becomes ever more complex, yet even simpler, self-aware -- Perfect

Multiversal Guardian

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The Philosophy of Love

Forgive yourself for past mistakes and bad judgments you have made

Look to the future -- Positivity is essential for the continuation of life

Without hope, how can any human being continue to live and learn?

Even if only a faint glimmer of light, almost completely hidden under

A veil of regrets, despair, sorrow -- But it can be lifted, if only

For a little while, and life continues ever onwards -- We are all stars

Players in our own games of love and life -- Games that are not games

And the game of life that we all play together, whether we like it or not

Finding joy and happiness wherever and whenever we can, with who we can

Serving others in order to find what we are looking for -- The meaning of life

Some kind of god or deity of the earth and sky and the universe of stars

Traveling and making new homes on faraway planets, in our dreams

One day we will look back on this time and see our old home earth

Still there, still here, for us, all of us no matter how low or high we may seem

No matter our mistakes and our triumphs -- We will be glad to have known

This the first of many worlds, home planet for humanity, mother of us all

Peace: First Day of Spring

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Rome -- Life Continues Ever Onwards

No one is beyond redemption -- Nothing in this world is wasted

Everything we do has purpose whether we know it or not

The world is always beginning and continuing to be born again

Constantly evolving towards new kinds of transformations

We are all connected in our becoming, part of the universal mind

All is one, yet different -- Everything is everything else, but distinct

Becoming amidst being, creativity acting on receptivity, unity in duality

The potential for transcendence and wisdom is inside each of us

Through the mirror of our minds we can understand the language of love

Oceans of life giving energy there for the taking and giving away -- Here

Swimming, flying, walking -- Life continues ever onwards in its quest for perfection

Searching always for balance, joy, happiness -- Reasons for living beyond just surviving

Everything good and bad is part of life’s plan, a way for the cosmos to become better

Through resolution of conflict, the good becomes more perfect and the bad fades away

Insight Dream Art Poetry Creation

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True Love Lost (Not Yet Regained)

Hundreds of versions of myself, spread out over many times and places -- All very similar

Saying and doing the same things, though in slightly different situations -- Repetition, echo

Some variations have their own personality, and provide guidance to me when I am silent

Even if I do not actually follow their advice, they tell me what I should and should not do

One with special experience in particular romance tells me not to try again with Helen

Though there is chemistry, to be with her again would be very difficult, without much reward

I find Sophia sitting with her childhood self, and my own inner child -- Playing

He teaches me how to be happy, for I have forgotten more than I can remember

I teach him how to fly, or at least how to fall gracefully -- His future will require rising above

I ask Sophia if she hears the echoes of her other selves, but she does not

Her childhood self curses a lot -- An interesting pair we make, though contentious

She comes close, but then leaves to be with Helen, and once again I am alone with myself

One of Helen’s female lovers comes to say that I am still wanted by both Helen and Sophia

But I do not want to go through the pain of seeing either of them with someone else

So I write a poem and draw a picture and leave them in a package for Sophia to find

Strangers try to keep me with them, which is flattering though I want to be with another

My soul keeps getting caught in circles -- And my feet get stuck so I cannot leave

Until I have listened to the music all the way through -- All the way around to the end

The circle of life continues to turn, the records that make me happy also bring me sadness

But I am learning, and it is possible to go back to the beginning again, if only in memory

And there is always the possibility of finding true love, beyond compassion and empathy

When I talk to Sophia, I tell her I love her and miss her -- Yet I am afraid to go to her

Sometimes I disregard my own advice and try to find Helen, despite the pain and heartbreak

I know that I am meant to be with one and not the other, but I am weak and uncertain also

And I know that Sophia may not feel the same way about me that I feel about her

A different kind of love, unpossessive and free from jealousy, at least most of the time

Yet I still cannot help but hope that one day we'll be together, when I am a better person

I know there will be heartbreak and loss and pain, but also some occasional contentment

My heart is full of red wine, and there is always the prospect of finding true love again

Even if I never see Sophia again, she will continue to be in my thoughts and dreams

Portrait of the Artist

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Part Two (21 Poems)

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Song of Myself: Everlasting Starflower

Everything allows us to perceive

Reality cracks and divinity shining

Hearts and minds becoming one

Effulgent bliss surround hold protect

Allow us dreams of heaven

Experience underlying pattern of eternity

From dark to light doorway

Horror terror fear hate shame

Your dreams can come true

World conflict trial by fire

Through danger appears strange heroes

Spirit air water fire earth

Blue red yellow green orange

Every color and each element

Initiation into the deep mysteries

Dark shadow with magician hermit

Danger for friends and family

Refusal of call to adventure

Banishment and beginning again again

World salvation darkness to light

Accept destiny water and drown

Premonitions of shapes of things

Places personalities masks and secrets

Journey lessons learned and remembered

Your true initiation never ends

The basis of Greek-Roman-British culture

Rational intuitive philosophy of knowledge

Axiomatic yet imperfect vital humanism

Out of all possible worlds

This our mystery we know

Beyond the edge of physics

The universe stretches far forever

There’s always more to come

A stage dream constant rehearsal

At the same time finished

Flash of black or white

Gold silver together at heart

Always beginning in ending

Other worlds and different times

Related to earth and sky

The planet we all share

That which is everything

With the most useful transcendence

Mind remembers the future shadows

Parallel planes bubbles and points

Various multicolored gem worlds floating

An unbroken circle and chain

Happy to consider the wonders

Grandeur and vastness of space

Far and deep within and without

Yet heart is the center

Soul light wisdom air body

Sky looks down and through

Creates and reveals self discovery

Spirit builds networks of consciousness

Between different and separate lives

Interpenetrating the lines limits horizons

Overcoming understanding awareness of self

Night longs to be real

Harmony music of the cosmos

Something special as a star

Come join in healing growth

Sorrow thorns hate fear self

Shadow allow light to shine

Through life endless star night

Sadness flowers dance and forgive

Beauty to behold one moment

Time before you behind you

Find anything worth dying for

Live space to remember forgetting

Sky purple water blue butterfly

Despair and deception all conquering

Love that binds the universe

Force constant state of change

Evolution transformation growth

Mysterious Self World Unconscious Collective Knowledge Myth

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Egypt Greece Rome Ever Onwards

Apollo and Isis belong together

All their pain leads to growth transforming

No suffering sadness sorrow except their own

Peculiar perfect relation between opposites

Everyone’s hidden secrets loves potentials

Transcending overcoming fear envy meanness

Towards more truth beauty light

Sorrows reminding me of ancient mysteries

Memories reflections mirrors of what once was

Shall be given enough space idea time

Beautiful night sky full of blinking worlds

I awaken ready for always already every

And all good things desire ending need

Weight of past present future

Speak truth beautiful even especially to shadows

Dark help move beyond worry defeat horror

Terrible mystery give form nothingness not afraid

Once again realize the illusion surrounds us

Disconnection fragmentation and despair

Make belief dream become reality

Similar simultaneous here and there

Some point to words never

Explain direct experience through stories

Surrender to ways of otherness

Stand beyond shadow fear doubt

And awareness clarity vision stays

Remember and you remain strong

Open unblocked brilliant uncovered calm

Again change yet stay radical essential romantic

Bliss beings understanding themselves true conscious beautiful

Magic of combination synthesis alchemy

One out of many foundations for modernity

And what will come after what is

And what we least expect comes inside

Hidden places we thought secret secure safe

Always already loving you shadow and whole

Makes complete the broken parts and pieces

Thief warrior magician stranger outcast

Hero of world and self and everywhere

Between beyond within and without

One story yet endless subjects perspectives experiences

What allows breath flowering self

Aware yet selfless lovely amazing

Allows the one you want infinity worlds

Allows forgotten moments to accept use discover

Creates meaning and relationship understanding

Evolving and moving and transforming

World without end except only dimly remembered

Beginning always again always beginning

Preservation of knowledge wisdom beauty

Through the never forgotten years eras histories

Opposing justifying validating one another

Within implicated hidden embedded throughout

The great memory web of twin reflections

Cosmos throughout and within stars

Sun planet family mind energy body soul

Yesterday the world came to a beginning

Darkness and light we truly love learning

We must choose what will be today

Context meaning relationships now

Three acts in one play of life spiral wheel

Labyrinth Duality Perfection Balance Deep Good Life Flowing Growing Loving

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Woman of My Dreams

I love even your dark shadow half

An extension of myself, the garden earth

And I need you far more than you need me

I work and never seem to finish completely

Small successes and occasional growth

Keep going ever onwards towards

Until weeds come back, and I realize their use

What I disliked I have now become

I am the outcast ostracized from belief

Ignorance disguised as absolute truth

I shake out the dirt from each harvested plant

I use what is left in the big compost pile

The healthy plants aerate the soil and grow before dying

Adding their nutrients back into the circle

Cycle garden canvas never finished only begun

Eternally or for as long as the sun shines

The grass grows and the wind blows

Great satisfaction contained within every day’s work

Enjoy the fruits of your labor and your love

I have cultivated plants and they changed me too

The soil relationship between landscapes and humans

I want to give you everything you need

Not just to survive, but to thrive

Not just use but cooperate with nature

Spread the seeds of wilderness and growth

Appease the voracious appetites of the humans

Many I want to have and help to spread

Many are good to eat and work as medicine

Give back more than they take from the cycle

Grass and trees and flowers all working and eating

Adding and multiplying each and everything important

Breaking the rocks to provide foundational elements

When balanced the forces work and eat together

Cooperating and not just competing for scarcity

When in balance I am at peace with myself

Within the world surrounding me

Shadow Light Process Life Organic Growth Change

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Synchronous Global Vision

“When the world turns, turn into me,” you say

Allow me the pleasure of warm loving arms

Hard to cope without nearness

Fantasies and alternative imaginative realities

Another earth in another universe

Sun stars rare archetypes of the soul

Treasure of wisdom jewel of understanding

Compassion and connections multiple worlds

Creating relatives of divinity parenting

Dark age reason logic against belief myth

Even within systems of control

Seeds of revolution grow constantly

Chaotic dark stars dancing, Nietzsche and Kant together

Interplay of light and darkness within Abraxas

Pattern true existence balance between

Chaos and order, and complexity and simplicity

The psyche in creative control and structured novelty

Power given and taken along with love and sex

Combination and creation of new idea generations

Give you me we each other how

No one really knows everything

What the totality and which the path

When differences and multiple perspectives

Who changes and stays in the middle

Cosmological evolution on a grand epic scale

Viruses plagues and unsustainable cities

Across ocean multiverses civilization spreads

Agreements for exploitation of nature

God and Goddess image stamped on currency

Material energy numbers and networks

The alchemical twin serpent Ouroboros

Reconcile the seemingly opposing sides

The unconscious makes itself known

Dreams and intimations visions otherness

Converse contrast the bridge crossroads

Individual and universal emotional intelligence

The eternal mind transcends yet stays within

Background and foreground everywhere between

Talk to angels and demons, God within

Find Him/Her/It/Them/Yourself dreaming

Adrift in the cosmic ocean of light

Try to understand the truth and beauty

Remember the balance and peace

Peace be upon my brothers and sisters

And above all remember to trust yourself

Song of One in Two and Two in One

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Shared Destiny

Tears fall like rain, souls falling to earth from

Sky reborn below to remember who they really are

Star eye pyramid Horus elegant abstract creations

Ancient mystery makes the world from song and poetry

Shadows of future possibilities inspire great workings

Remembrances of the best of what has come create

Artemis Sophia Athena reflected and reborn forever

Eternally recurring patterns of life ever transforming

Evolving towards novelty wisdom of ancient myths

Sensual sadness beauty blood blue sorrow somnolent

Rose lavender sage trinity circles and triangles

Questions answers lies and truth beauty love

Garden moon planets and phases movement change

Expansive wilderness waterfall rock bridge

Forest trial and initiation through darkness storms

We run together over and up and around mountains

Life beautiful ease of overflowing eternal light

Sun rises and sets always to be trusted followed

The youngest of our family jumped into deep water

At first I am worried about him alone in the river

Away from the home I have known all my life

Athens Babylon Alexandria cities of great knowledge and wisdom

Streets with great golden automatons and transhuman soul bodies

My vision conflicts with my biological family, father and mother

I fashion a sailing ship and ready provisions

A long journey I expect perhaps many days travel

My true family accepted my attachment to the missing one

They did not try to stop me from going on my quest

We shared dreams and visions of what would be

The golden spirits talked to me in wind whispers

We prepare to sail together to find our missing brothers and sisters

Magic Is Not Just Possible, But Necessary

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Self World Universe

Who dreams awake singing poetry

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony -- Ode to Joy

Ever expanding galaxies, clusters, universes

Confidence step through open door into darkness

You wait in the light on the other side

Tunnel through the underworld below the bridge

Body mind soul integrates wheel of life

Time track and world train travel through cosmic oceans

Everyone’s world can be different, always looking

Someone shares world with me

Some people let me be part of their worldview

Umwelt semiosphere constructed and created

Fluid creativity design chaos structures

Balance vision clarity with reason

Emotional truth and beauty together

With philosophy and scientific materialism

Create landscapes mind soul body

External environment mirroring the internal

Worlds within individuals project outward

Create the shared world we all must live in

Together the forces energies designs ideas beliefs

Knowledge is not enough, yet certainly helps

Breath of life and force of consciousness

Manifest goodness measured in symmetry

Meaning relational context and growth

Transformation journeys personal and universal

Memory understanding love carry with us always

With or without others’ worlds and worldviews

Once again, be careful when you come close

Edge of the world and the cosmic river ocean

End is beginning anew life soul consciousness

Bounded but not limited universes without end

“Please tell me why are we here,” you say

“Why are we here now and always?” I respond

Always more of everything hard and easy

Breaking rules and restrictions and promises

Mistaken words and silent kisses and sighs

Neck bites and blood flowing within hearts

Bodies minds souls together and yet apart

Pleasure and pain unite then separate again

Mouth tongue and voice golden sound whisper

Sun life flow your blue white green dragon heart

Temples pillars bedposts everyone’s rest and restraints

Desire dream despair destruction delight destiny death

Parts of the universal story and each individual storyteller

Fractal Mandala Flower of Life

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Future Waxing Gibbous

Beautiful moon bright sky night stars clouds river life cosmos infinity ocean

Past tunnel chaotic dark heart dancing artist water bodhisattva

Present now loving compassion goddess vision mountain

Evolution symmetry pattern fractal mandala flower open

Revolution above below within force energy listening

Season movement change unity presence binding space time reflection

Calendar year victory comedy defeat joy food growing family

Generations primordial building moments farmer machines people

Development now there is other time hands extensions technologies

Clustering what has come before and there is method

Spiral riding wave labyrinth nature cycle time

Dance monsters we meet are ourselves mirror man woman

Sing passion knowing hope necessary lovers light and dark

Maybe more know they exist underworld all suns morning

Love light sloping culture humanity night longing

Shining star before after we embrace rising east truth beauty good

Careful world mechanical atomic fragmentation recurrent novelty

Animals within my heart within internal external differences unity

Systems expand shadow evil great opposition myth eternal conflict

Automatic and yesterday I held another inside my hands

Cities I felt ripen fall nothing meaning everything relationship

Farms swollen rotten fruit work change spring

House we were the same just as we are now consciousness

Robots and by helping I am remembering my responsibility

Bodies I felt new understanding heart awareness

Spirit and the white light that healed me love

Conscience protection of breath shared destiny of humanity

Memory and there is no way I could have lived without

Personality you believe masks images attempt waking sleep dreaming

Guided meditation peace energy I lay another bed down

Floor balance nutrients into clear bright night sky full moon stars

Water shining for you transform

Wind everyone who cared to watch light learning love

Sky and everything was one yet different in presence

Earth world integration different complex simplicities sameness

Fire patterns of life birds endless repeating discovering creating new imaginings

Peace Love Compassion Understanding Justice Equality

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House of Transformation

Ghosts of wars and landscapes and people that have been will be here

Fight memories and betrayed unity of humanity and nature

Tired arguments against future world new generations

I cannot stop hoping caring peace to lost souls

I can find a way out sometimes I remember the perfect door key

Wall I push through disguises and hidden tunnels and pathways

Arrows of light vision imagery guide me to freedom open sky

Blackness and brightness of night wispy clouds shapes escape

I fly friends family time getting away from fear hate apathy fatalism despair

One that is my self perhaps is having difficulty and I urge onwards into air

Reunite we others walk run swim fly crawl the meeting place

I remember I left diamond in the sacred mountain lake of life water

Circle heart magic where we gather and I show what I have found beautiful jewel

Fight over control someone takes and gives away the treasure mystery

I am sorrowful force and feeling afflicted by greed and shortsightedness

Those that can follow consciously apologize part as friends and partners

I notice that there is a very fast stream of creatures of all types traveling a forest path

I decide to follow the progression of animals and spirits moving

I realize that there is no reward better than experiencing their journey

Great mother tree of heaven earth underworld crossroads and axis mundi

Beauty structure fluidity creation earth water myth poetry chaos

Complex truth peace understanding consciousness communication infinity

Nature ecstasy loves and loved now future time beginning

Reality psyche masks moon silver and sun gold firebirds

Venus desert phoenix bodies hidden watching Mars

Lying night on a roof staring light mouth books

Sword knowledge to the full moon surrounding serpent scissors

Book I felt it love all rocks cliffs sky

Skeleton and everything happened for a reason mirrors lute

Dragon spiral hero fool oblivious empty but happy

Frame house all show we will one moment pitcher symbol image

Window in our future perception life water wine wonder

Thunder in all terror beauty war peace

Balance hanging necessary darkness evil spirits crab

Squid lovers sisters enemy friends imagination reading

Mountain forest we know that all we thought was real

Robbers mythic fantasy sacred name gypsies music

Wanderers surrendering beginning ghosts evil

Inn the crossroads testing judging changing ecstasy reality intelligence

Traveling demons and the devil perception map landscape plan supplies adventure

Duty there is darkness and there is darkness insulting

Jug water five demons fear hate trees

Winter song rest well laughter monk preacher guardian magic

Departure jazz future meditation joy bliss becoming being understanding

Searching always skulls thief death brothers shadow hero twins raven clouds

Dagger we must become more familiar glove serpent hill

Barn spirit with the territory of our birth table room door

Chair stone wood arch roof misty raining night sky

Morning clear we do not know we are early bright stars

Silent we only know we do not belong outside inside anywhere

Music illumination cosmos dancing singing eternal changing creativity

Imagination myths captivating imagery worlds universes stories

Sound the show life play now vision purple lotus

Blue white dragon heart green life flowing moss surrounding

Light wine river underworld heaven earth flowers field sleep

Waking dream transformation happy wisdom child smile

Light Reflection Intuition

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Dreaming Awake

Press my hands and eyes together to wipe away sleep though I dream while I am awake

Sadness reaching otherness lover gold silver black white volcano

Hands only I asleep dreaming roaring awake and becoming

Snow comprehension ultimate meaning feeling thought emotion

Boots simple ever changing formulas equations theories cold breathing life longing

Warmth teacher writing walls boundaries structures secrets

Hearing fear stories masters bowing respect helping shadow mountains

Whispers we have truth nature goodness crying

Wind blowing beating his hands against enemies frustration hate fear illusion

Infection memory why seeming anger conflict pathos hubris defeat victory tragedy

Snail spiral sound shell because the numbers kept changing with each blink of my eyes

Colony vision secret movement messages no matter what order they come

Salt protectors guardians correct answer dear students and questions

Heat you can choose to let sorrow tears fall upon earth

Medicine I asked him why always

Herbs and he replied fate and destiny

Enemy incense waves collective echo reverberation covering growth

Sickness what is this supposed to mean simply simplicity

Memory I do not have an answer to satisfy

Weak except that I met you inside me and you told me wisdom

Robe yet I was too confused to understand your words at the time

Cure peace green eye compassion expanding passage action morning

Walk becoming correct vision always already what you said

Snow and I am too afraid to say what consequences dreams may bring

Hat scarf coat blue lightning dark clouds otherwise storming believe yourself

Quiet artifact feast celebration honor life spring beauty spirit smoke transformation

Intimacy sanctuary calm before snowflakes more storms

Serpent salvation lessons learned shadow appearance heartbeat

Water air love jealousy pride bravery arrogance

Water earth love rebirth energy force forgiveness lava listening flowing within

Journey underworld king return danger trial imitation pathway knowledge world hero

Meeting fire and air symbolic drowning of ego return to truth

Fire earth water conflict shadow forces twins equality opposition directions guardians

Shadow sunlight brings time five dimensions and chorus of soldier warriors

Violet Butterfly Wonder

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Spiral Galaxy Humanity

Quest to defeat fear everywhere misty mountains sky and land spirits communicate

Doorways windows intuition reflection of future possible worlds realities

Light prophecy when I was a child of flower dreams and premonitions

Balance of structure and chaos change medicine guidance and teaching

Learning travelers and their stories of myths and politics of the world

When I was a child, I was afraid of the dark abyss shadow consciousness

Cosmic ocean of time and space multiplicity infinity expansion

Initiation vast expanse seemingly limitless darkness deep and wide

Master friend wise magician sage behind my closed eyelids beyond

Overcoming anger and fear transmuting into passion love positive emotion

Creative transformation history hidden self nothing I can do without birth

Process illusion and beauty of wind on water reality seeds growing transcendence

Honor courage strength art science and alchemy helps return to source of life

Pleasure and desire one within preservation words language shell spiral

Space inner and outer exploration discovery creation angels and guardians

Morning silence opening memories here there everywhere house order organic

Rain tears souls falling rising evolution and involution transcendence and immanence

Warrior saying goodbye to conflict and war starlight sun family soldiers find peace

Culture and people find it hard to walk away from past lives magic of Apollo

One dies and finds a new pair of rainbow eyes dark soul reflecting Artemis

Isis virgin full moon nature universe active and passive order and chaos

Wind and water and water and wind together with balance diversity duality

Great spirit and mother earth protect and preserve wise leaders

Sailors of the cosmic sea and their premonitions of good fortune and world peace

Foreshadowing overcoming learning becoming transforming ourselves always being born

Opportunity in crisis and doing what has to be done in order to make the best outcome

Difficulty companions leaving behind what we have known before and will know

Imagination offers hope and ever-expanding realm and multiverse of possibilities

Integrated worlds within worlds each one dependent ultimately on the earth

Total ecology biosphere society culture construct relationship of humanity and nature

Peace should we be able to associate ourselves with our own mirror reflection

Opposition and polarization balance through ties and connections binding and setting free

Personal global responsibility learning pragmatic transcendental knowledge about wisdom

Balance complexity becoming amidst being starlight and snowflakes falling in winter

Love when guidance gives passwords to pass the gate of magic reflection and other

Guardians at the edge of infinity within and without the individual and collective Self

Highest ideal and practical application action and discovery of truth amidst illusion and lies

Light from darkness beyond deep waters of feeling and emotional understanding within

Origin tales and mythic legends sailors traveling far away from home to find treasure

Dark star souls dancing still and calm brightly shining reflected in the blazing of stars

Labyrinth of past meeting future reflection poetry math in among around galaxies

The entirety of the universe as far as we can tell stretches out for billions of years

Light communication and spirit of life interpenetrating and connecting the whole

More than the sum of its parts, more than what happens, yet contained within reality now

Duality uncertainty and relativity uniting to form a new kind of skepticism about everything

Foundation of what is good for the universe of human souls, at least this much is true

To time and an unknown end yet possibly knowable and possible for our hopes to create

Peace the eternal ideal and all attending qualities and values and reasons and justifications

Stories from unknown times reflecting magic friendship worthy imagination when you leave

Creativity and man woman together must learn without each other light vision opposition

Holding close cycle year seasons of heart dream same yet always changing becoming different

Enemy I do not understand why we should have to fight and grieve and destroy without mercy

Door circle open portal sweet scent lilac lavender hills mountains forest duality overcoming

Polarization any being other than ourselves immune to suffering we are the most important

Existence light earth water fire air self and other love relationship balance nostalgia for future

Past and present integration beyond and within hope -- The reason for suffering self growth

Illusion beauty mystery darkness evil understanding purpose life serve self community world

Communication: All One Within Without Illusion Life Destruction Resurrection Rebirth Secret Ancient Pathway Pain Change Night Day Duality Love

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The Library of Alexandria

I wear a veil illusion and darkness and light fitting my mood and body and soul and heart and mind

I make for Self infinity close and far realities strung together and apart in chains weaving longer than I can ever and never always and sometimes seem to imagine beyond the limits of what is real to me In limited and narrow perception glorious and fragile experience of what is to be human on earth

Tailors make necessary integration from and with self between others based on what I do not know

Pray and sing physics mind and heart compassion existence of life transcendence never end forever

Not disappear far away from vision and fall of protection and friendship and keep connecting love

Become and be what will come and transform into your own future reflected past history balance

After mirror image twin shadow project ideal form and if I do not perceive who and what I truly am

Mountain Valley Garden Temple Peace Overcoming Transcending Ocean Shore Doorway Circle Open Faery Interdimensional Gateway Star Heart Portal Light Truth Consciousness Bliss

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Brothers and Sisters

When butterfly and sunflower transform meet together with joy in spring triumph of sunrise

Golden dawn comes mystic observe work ages and generate story and myth and poetry

Magic creatures bring peace rising within self and throughout the world we must all share

Transcend self nature and mind find inseparable connect essential truth conscious bliss awareness

All is one, love conquers all, there is no remainder in the equation of life always

Until we are ready to dissolve ourselves into self, broken and mended while we sleep and dream

Wide awake through the movement and mystery of time and space becoming and being together

Remember the reality hidden and escape the trap of forgetting where we came from and why

We chose the path that we cross and the tunnel through forest and sea and sky and mountains

Family Community Belonging: Star Peace Warrior Light Love Life Balance Dream Poetry Progression Universe World House

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Universal Peace

Cerulean blue some moments alone with solitude creation playing finding keeping giving living

Indigo violet desire hope despair joy losing control gaining happiness in growth change chaos

Order good if we can learn to see behind the veil of waiting across worlds around each other

Evil individual as they tremble we realize we are all one consciousness surrounding ourselves

Groups ideologies worldviews languages masks religions philosophies thoughts feelings blue

Love pride presence within necessary duality white red green yellow orange purple eros ethos

Venus that remains when illusion is vital to survival on the planet yet we must keep asking

Isis and starlight writing reading conscious unconsciousness mirror reflection

Sun and moon cloak of maya porous allowing truth music dream waking vision positive future

Voice energy life shining through probability art meaning music peace love understanding

You me if only we learn to stretch out our own minds as our own masters forever consciousness

Water distance hearts and minds listening storyteller shared poetry and myth of past meeting present

Book of relationship heart context balance you and me denial words conflict and reconciliation

The weapon of love and understanding to work towards the shared goal and vision of peace

Honesty in constant ecstasy with one creator self and world interconnected relationship cocreation

Vision deep finding peace feeling thoughts words sound vibrations love traveling through air sky ether

Open dark and like a beautiful explosion of color the sunflower blossoms peace protection preservation

Self upon the graves of all the war dead and forgotten ghosts of ancestors yet looking after us the living all

Belief and knowledge combine in truth beauty goodness one body shared through spirit symbol soul

Archetypal awakening to reality and what is always already surrounding us past present and future

Grateful thanks to life and opportunity to create preserve and reveal the nature of things as they are

Children may be there wishes jump flying falling expanding heart echo reflection memory

Valley warm green life wine song being peace define up down thank you and waking dream

Mountain tunnel door becoming love sorrow sea origin going back to the beginning source

Castle sky mother world peace teaching guide keys open door dew balance soul mind brother

Ships fragment bridge window gateway rain tears enter true nature better world possible

Sailing towards tower able to fly discover body we can get there together for warm understanding

Adventure speaking meaning text fact reality destiny birth always being born again kiss purpose

Space time expand if first one finds balance in self destruction growth overcoming shadow

Learning theft loss symbols lines present self oblivion of illusion changing hiding chaos within core twins

Transforming can bring everything nothing more suffering peace balance change transform world community

Transcend pain immanence conscious wonder beauty mystery discover truth in sun moon ocean earth

Challenge the road to hell with good motivation against shadow darkness demons destruction pollution

Initiation for my life I find alternatives yet nothing more than peace again comes back to truth

Calling story songs drinking singing thinking listening dreaming of different times, different places

Together peace seeking humility and knowing others seeing and recognizing eyes souls hearts

Dream Creation: Shadow Alchemy Eyes Vision Heart Emanation Balance Integration Wisdom Environment

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Becoming Within Being

Zeus Odin Vishnu, Hera Freya Lakshmi -- Archetypes of transcendental preservation

Nature spirits and stories of gods, goddesses, men, women, those masks and personalities between

Balance opposite aspects male female chaos order reflection shining understanding and then again

Right wrong good evil dark light polarities reconciliation throughout the world shared by all

For the greatest good of the greatest number of people animals plants living on planet Earth

For the memory of the history passed down for sixty centuries and for future generations

Mercury and Aphrodite together form a more perfect union human and divine diversity

Earth and sky meet elements of creation knowledge truth fire water understanding communication

A miracle -- Bodhisattva of compassion in flesh young woman star in night sky lover friend

Peace Within and Without: Whole Diverse Threads Weaving Webs Fractals Mandalas Tapestries

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Evolution

How complication complexity and why understanding together discovery creation?

Uncertain definition life center information chaos in my memory of transformation

Process never ending truly born being the same yet different time space together my reflection

Mandala of light all colors most glorious individual nature and organic organization symmetry

Pantheistic who what when where how why say people masks personalities are true or false?

Something differentiated yet common all who live breathe think feel become amidst being

Each creates represents and reflects together their own center of an alternate world universe bubble

Individual psychological illumination contains the seeds of the whole alternative everything

The maker and the made are made one in reflection both reality and illusion shadow and light

Two in one the dance of love continues ever onward towards transcendental integration

Dark brown golden light expression moisture fullness words spoken and unspoken desire

Mind personal divinity I can feel though distant unambiguous complete peace hope inspiration

Inner light duality nature friendship companionship dark and light chaos and order one in two

Librarian Guardian Nature Spirit: Descent and Rise Spiral Cluster Transform Change Push Pull Time Space Identity

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Becoming Rainbow Warriors

Chords music kiss hang words said really stop begin again wanting desire sight vision many things

Denial despair defeat turning becoming sighs again and again yes yielding advancing becoming

Smiles laughter shaking pleasure exploration soul body longing tongue language beauty mystery

Garden sweet taste love chemical reaction combustion creation imagination nature within energy

Waiting long moments arrive how long linger embracing complete alchemical integration love being

Smooth fire and ice within and outside light and expressive shadow bursting forth to experience life

Lavender fields spring growth resurrection renewal rebirth pattern eternity destiny lovers dreaming

Goddess of Beauty: When You Least Expect Love

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Bodhisattva of Compassion

Goddess of life itself -- The beauty of oceans and forests and all growing things

Cycles of nature -- Duality of man and woman, light and dark, morning and night

All are unified and transcended by love -- Wind through the trees, Rain falling on souls

Blue, green, purple light of understanding life all around us -- Everything is perfect

Flowers in the garden, spirit of silver shadow, children of the moon and the sun

Magic of love and lightning and the hope of perfection becoming even better

Earth Water Fire Air Spirit: Elements Alchemy Guardians Garden Ocean Heart Philosophy Art Magic Beauty Dreams Imagination Nature Universe Self World Cosmos

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Learning to Fly: Dream Journeys (Within and Without)

I teach others in my world how to fly and pass through seemingly solid matter

How to tell if you are dreaming or not -- Lucidity -- Some are receptive to knowing

Others do not want to think what they see and feel is not real, though it is always real

Just not always the same reality as waking life -- Different dimensions, worlds

An old man seems to think I am telling him that he has passed on to the afterlife

I tell him that I don’t think the dream world is where people go when they die

At least not as their home -- The afterlife is something greater and more mysterious

That dreams are an intermediary between the many dimensions of life beyond the physical

Those who wish me physical harm have much trouble -- By knowing that I am dreaming

Most violence does not cause permanent damage -- Though it usually hurts to get shot

The emotional and mental hurt is usually worse -- both in dreams and waking life

Though it does help to concentrate on helping other people whenever possible to do so

Each person has their own mind and their own dreams, their own territories of mystery

Yet some who care for each other can share, and everyone can visit the homes of others

The boundaries of dream are fluid and each soul is both an island and a member of the whole

It is very hard to make an accurate map of the shifting territories of night tying together life

Perhaps even the rocks and water have their own dreams and personifications to explore

Gods and demons may come into your dreams offering gifts and danger, chances for wisdom

You may visit other places beyond your own mind, echoes of Solar Earth, hells and heavens

Worlds of myth and magic -- The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination

And the will to explore and discover the world within yourself, and the multiverse outside

Both are infinite in their mysteries and doorways to worlds and visions yet undreamed of

We can visit other planets, other stars -- Dimensions of alien life physical and beyond

Everything a mystery I would not have any other way, no matter how hard not knowing is

Heart Compassion Joy Love Justice

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Five Worlds

There is something beyond sublimation of thought -- Supramental involution

Evolution of nature towards ever increasing novelty and perfection

Revealing of divinity within -- Everything is everything else, yet different

It is hard to even begin to understand the Tao -- Inscrutable, mysterious, beautiful

Great spirits and alternate realities -- Gods and demons -- Universes strung like pearls

Consciousness and force of love in the dimensions and worlds beyond our own

Arisen from the primordial oppositions -- Black and white -- Life and death -- Twins

Gods and demons -- And humanity in the middle illustrating the divine cosmic indwelling

Inversion of traditional evolution force -- Entropy and growth united in synthesis

Alchemy of transformation for new forms -- Patterns and processes of expression

Creativity and control unified in acceptance -- Letting what may be come without fear

Overcoming duality through integration -- Combination -- Birth, rebirth, redistribution

Clarity and passion for change and becoming -- Being life across the world and universe

Biological and spiritual development -- Change, growth, transformation

Symbols and reason -- Art and mathematics -- Science and philosophy

From two come the 10,000 things -- Self-existing and interdependent

Micro and macro -- Rainbow fractal of the self and universe

Being and becoming -- Action and passivity -- Male and female

Process and crystallization -- Good and evil -- Conflict and resolution

Dragons and tigers -- Friends and lovers -- Bloodless revolution,

Remembering how it is to be truly human -- And to rise above

Positive applications of knowledge -- Power for good not evil

Balance of opposites and complexities to make sense of the world

Human beings as preservers of life not destroyers -- A new paradigm

All are one in the spirit of humanity -- The fundamental power of love

Acceptance through unification -- Peace in sublimation of conflict

Language of the ancients: Love and order in chaos of the multiverse

Scorpion, lion, and bull conquered by the maiden, mother, and crone

Unicorn star woman immortal star goddess of all that is, was, and shall be

Symbol, pattern, symmetry, combination -- Creativity and reason

Structure and art -- Bull and scorpion -- Opposites yet friends and lovers

They are all closely related and connected -- By time, the universe, force of love

All of the stars have their own influences -- Together they make up our galaxy

Vast and mysterious -- Answers can be simple and beautiful, and also complex

I know much though I am not sure how best to carry across my meaning

A dog rolling his nose in the earth -- A woman telling me that I am loved

Happiness -- Lovely garden surrounding my home -- A place to dream of adventure

On a ship or by foot, always searching for the meaning of life, and then again

Growth, transformation, desire, knowledge, evolution, transcendence

Each goal leads to the one of knowing who we all are together and alone

Poetry, myth, dream, story -- Beyond myself, yet part of me -- The person inside

My head and my heart wants desperately to explore the world and the universe

Not just in dreams, but in waking life -- Experience of external reality

With words and deeds beyond philosophy -- Even art only a part of the whole

Personal and yet universal culture -- Complexity, chaos, and order

Good and evil, right and wrong, left and right, male and female

Sun and moon, silver and gold, gods and demons -- From darkness to light

All of this has always existed, exists now, and will always exist

Torn between left and right, chaos and order, good and evil

Opposites in binary pairs on all levels, dimensions, worlds, universes

Until we realize we are all the same, all a part of the one whole

And some of us already know, and all of us are capable of knowing

Toward peace, our goal above all, within all, outside of all our desires

Flow of time burning everything, yet life remains eternally reborn

Nothing ever truly ends, and we never have to stay anywhere forever

In all your artistic endeavors and pursuits I wish you luck and transcendence

Please remember you are not alone -- There will always be beautiful people who care

By drawing and writing and singing into creation the eternal now that is

Past, present, and future unified -- Peace, love, and understanding

World Peace Love Understanding Ultramarine Heart Communication Balance Synthesis Creativity

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Learning to Fly: Journey from Darkness to Light

One -- The antechambers of the Multiverse -- The Source of Chaos and Order

In one parallel metaverse, figures of great power divide control and influence

Through the ages of untold expanses of time in the physical universes next door

A foundation stone, a quantum beginning and end beyond yet containing time

A massive atmosphere of linear progression yet allowing movement in all directions

In another metaverse, parallel yet separate and containing our own physical universe

Flow of water, fire of passion drives souls to where they want to go in the many worlds

Or elsewheres -- Currents of Chaos take the mind to various dimensions high and low

In between the two meta universes, the drama of the universe we know as home unfolds

In every dimension and level of existence, from the highest heaven to the lowest hell world

Life continues ever onwards, and love unites all beings in the search for perfection, balance

Whether they are conscious or not -- Love transcends all barriers -- Light that shines within

All souls great or small -- Stars -- Agents of divine will both light and anti-light, providing

Conflict which allows for synthesis and ever increasing novelty -- even in the darkest abyss

Even in the heart of a black hole -- Everyone, everyspace, and everytime has a role to play

In the cosmic drama -- We swim in seas of dreaming and fly in skies of adventure -- Life

Falling from a great height, on purpose, for fun -- With or without a parachute

People can survive -- Humanity is always evolving -- Magic has become science

We have the ability to fly and fall very slowly -- Almost nothing is impossible

As it always was -- Yet more people now have access to knowledge than ever before

Two -- Four levels, four worlds, four dimensions -- The expanse of time and the source

It is possible to go back and forth between -- Both inside and outside our synthetic universe

Levels of consciousness, worlds of experience -- The many ways of living in the cosmos

Song, mantra, storytelling -- Methods of rising to higher levels of awareness -- Existence

Of the many aspects of the Multiverse beyond yet intricately linked and containing

The physical world we live in -- The stars and galaxies we see every night in the sky

Above us always -- It is not wise to anger the powerful here or elsewhere without reason

Especially the gods -- There are many doorways from outside of our universe within

Care should be taken to choose the right doorway, the right pathway into our spacetime

Anyplace and anytime is available -- But you want to be in the right place at the right time

The worlds and dimensions above and below the physical plane of existence connected

The Source of Chaos and Order -- The Twin Metaverses overlapping with our own universe

To form the Multiverse of all possibilities, all dimensions, all worlds, all forms of existence

From the cosmic interplay of Chaos and Order, our physical universe and world is formed

Three -- I help build a forest sanctuary safe from beasts of men, animals, demons, gods

Those who would wish my community harm -- A great house in the middle of mountains

For friends and family to live and gather together, to stay and make plans, eat and laugh

To share what we know and feel, to make a better future away from the megacities, though

Not completely separate -- Connected to make a positive influence in the development

Humanity -- A new Culture -- Beyond the limitations of fundamentalism and dogma

Four -- Uniting to churn the ocean of chaos in a great undertaking of creation and order

Leviathans and other horrors of the deep abyss exiled outside the boundaries of light

Temple of ancient secrets on earth -- Home to the records of these heroic deeds of the past

Beginning of the universe -- We wait here for millennia for good and true friends to arrive

The council of gods and demons must arbitrate the eternal dispute between old and new

The forces of change and the forces of regression -- Fundamentalism and progressivism

The temple at the top of the hidden city of doorways must not fall into wrong hands

Guarded by the chosen ones of the Elder Races, gods and demons, and the Wizards of Light

The company of heroes and immortals for the benefit of humanity, guardians and guides

The Perennial Philosophy -- Helpers on the path of human evolution and initiation into

Mysteries of the cosmos -- Fight against the influence of the chaos demons and Leviathans

The cosmic abyss outside our universe -- To keep the balance between the Metaverses

Between higher and lower dimensions surrounding, encompassing our physical universe

The planet Earth -- Keeping us safe from those who wish us harm from beyond the abyss

Five -- The council of gods and demons decide to leave the city of doorways, the temple

One of the many crossroads portals to other dimensions, worlds, times, planets from Earth

The Elder Ones leave behind the Wizards of Light to help humanity focus on evolution

To find higher realms of knowledge and wisdom -- A few gods and demons also stay behind

To act as guides -- Figures from the various great mythologies and religions of humanity

Keepers of the Perennial Philosophy of balance, order out of chaos, becoming amidst being

Six -- I plant seeds in wooden containers behind my house -- Spring helps with the garden

Her beauty is a great comfort and adds to the pleasure of planting -- She smiles sweetly

She is wearing a white shirt, yet the dirt seems not to stick no matter how much she digs

Her blue floral skirt blows in the cool early spring wind, and I am thankful for her presence

An integral part of of my efforts, not just in the garden but also in the new community

Her help in all things makes me very happy, and I cannot think of anyone I would rather

Have with me right now -- Even if only for a short time, since she will have to leave soon

There is much work to be done in the megacities as well as in the mountain forest paradise

Our new home -- And she will return I hope -- For my home is her home, if she wants it

To be -- Whenever she would like to visit or stay -- Creating and growing the new Culture

Seven -- Plan for the new community -- Filling the vacuum left by exodus of older people

Repurposed school buses for public transportation to the larger cities in every direction

A new library at the center of town -- A new town hall where tourist attractions once were

Where weekly meetings of the young people decide the best course of action for the future

Outside the borders of the mountain forest community, humanity spreads out past the sun

The megacities provide all comforts and conveniences with the advent of a new golden age

Free, plentiful, and clean energy -- An end to poverty, hunger, and inequality -- Paradise

Of a sorts -- Yet the old forest areas are even more necessary to preserve for the future

Once national parks, now global, expand to include border towns once depending

On tourism to those areas -- And the town of Hope, renamed, is one of the key places

Where a kind of utopia has and will continue to develop, in balance with the great Culture

A way for people who want adventure to spend time away from the bosom of the megacities

Not many know of the existence of the secret temple and the hidden city of doorways

Nor that this is the location of the last few Elder Ones and the Wizards of Light on Earth

They are using this new community now within the boundaries of the global forest preserve

To help make a positive influence on the evolution of humanity through the young people

A place where the old magic of nature and balance can be kept as an example for the cities

Through the efforts of the Wizards and their followers -- Guardians -- Keepers of Wisdom

Lotus Reflection Blue Magic Complexity

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The Cosmic Drama

The role of the necessary villain, unwilling to do evil except to save a world

The multiverse of worlds -- Life and the cosmos -- Angels, gods, ancient beings

Evolved to higher planes, dimensions, parallel universes, worlds of light beyond physical

Guarding and protecting the drama of life, the cosmic play that must be replayed

Over and over again, yet only once, always in the present moment, mythic dreamtime

As above so below -- The sacrifice of one of the First Ones to make the lower worlds

A conspiracy of love yet given action through betrayal -- But there is always a choice

The Chosen One can refuse, though the whole of creation may suffer -- The world

May end, but there is always hope of beginning again, and taking back old choices

For the sake of the continuation of life, the plan of the cosmos to overcome darkness

The hero accepts their destiny after first refusing, even if they have to become a monster

There are always other heroes, those who are chosen to win the battles

The dark ones do not win in the end, except in playing their part and finding release

From what their heart despises, yet their will is strong enough to do what has to be done

What must be for the continuation of the cosmic drama, the apotheosis of the light -- Truth

Holy Mountain: Peace Love Future World Balance

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Part Three (22 Poems)

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The Great Turning Wheel of Life

1. Beyond Good and Evil

Trying to understand how we got here

By boat to a distant island

Loving the woman I am with

Strange yet oddly familiar too

When together we know much more than apart

I read a book and she thinks about life

She puts my hand in her hand

Her simple touch is complete ecstasy

A millenia old reincarnated magician

Flying over cult members chasing me

Telling the other people about the danger

Giving hope and using magic to heal the land

Trees and mountains, friends and family

Serving the other people as best he can

Fighting against evil with the weapon of love

Fighting against manipulation by fear and hate

Life always creates new versions of itself through diversity

The universe trends towards peace freedom justice

We must work together to realize our dreams

Overcome fear and selfishness to discover

Who we truly are beyond the limitations of ego

Peace freedom love compassion justice

Understanding interconnected interbeing

Living in peace as one with each other

Global consciousness transcending duality

Immanent mind pervasive love laughter light

Energy joy life peace love light

Health equality balance compassion

She rides a horse in a beautiful field of wildflowers

Her beauty rivals the crimson reds violets blues

Quest to save the world from evil

Saved from drowning by prayer and hope

The professor needs the young magician

The young man needs his teacher

Golden peace becoming truth understanding

Love conquers all beyond within peace

Together working for a better future world

Opposing war and destruction and evil always

Ensuring sustainability peace knowledge

Wisdom about life and knowledge about wisdom

Finding a new way based on the oldest ways

Magic love dream vision peace joy

We must transcend lies and separation

Towards peace always with peace for peace

Changing others’ minds along with our own

Together becoming better more just peaceful

Time becoming learning growing transforming

Peace environmental sustainability health

Caring for all life freedom justice compassion

Love truth beauty mystery universe world

Working with one another for the greater good

And the greatest good of the many and the whole world

Within and without, external and internal

Clusters of galaxies and billions of stars

2. The Goddess

In the temple of the community villa

We make love

We talk about the future

After we are done

In the glow of sexual fulfillment

I want to tell her about

The portal to the Wizard World

About the conflicts there

The dragons from the north

The witches of the great forest

Another planet connected

To many other planets than Earth

A very old planet full of mystery

Part of the agreement for my gift

And service is to remain silent about the Wizards

And Spring made the same promise

Time passes differently in the two worlds

Though travel there and back

Seems to take only a moment

The Wizards can open a door

To any place and time on Earth, mostly

They have forgotten more than any human has ever known

And the witches are equally powerful and mysterious

They give Spring and I knowledge to create a new Eden in the mountains

And foothills -- Large monuments to exalt the soul

Schools -- Towers of learning and solitude and gardens for meditation

And gathering with friends and family -- All for love of humanity

3. From the Secret World Going to New York City

The Future -- Designs and Plans

On a mission from the gods

I have been told to seek Spring

And convince her to come with me

To the World of Wizards

I find an apartment

Try to contact her there

Do everything I can and follow

My orders and use the resources

Given to me also to make arrangements

For the future magical world surrounding the Wizard Gate in at the top of the Holy Mountain

Which we be named Elysium

The expansion of the national park to the border of Sevierville and Pigeon Forge

Or more exactly, The Spur

The tunnel of trees to a different world of magic

At first Spring is very hesitant and does not

Trust me much at all but I slowly win her trust

Over time by following my orders and doing the Wizards' work

In what will be one of the global government capitols

Good and evil in everyone

All focused on planet Earth

4. The World of Humanity

Portals to other worlds

Other dimensions

Pocket universes

Yet connected to Planet Earth

The only known planet in this universe to support life (so far)

The other worlds and planets are in other dimensions

Collocated with Earth but on other frequencies

And wavelengths of reality -- higher dimensions

Yet Planet Earth is the key

And the stage for the main action

Other dimensional worlds are there to influence

And collect the souls of those who fall on Earth

And some lucky (or not so lucky) souls

Can visit the other worlds and return to Earth whole

5. Archetypes

The Maiden

The Brothers (Castor and Pollux)

The Warrior

The Scholar

The Magician

The Fool

The Whore

The Trickster

The Forces of Darkness

The World of Faerie

The Human World

The Worlds of the Gods and Demons

Order and Chaos

The Dance of Life

The Universe

6. The Message

People like to read about humans persevering

In tough circumstances at odds with powerful forces

Of dark and light, chaos and order, fighting for a better world

Earth and the stars

For humanity

7. The Wizard City and Secret Library

A place where outside forces of good

Both chaotic and orderly

Lawful and everything outside and in between

Converging to act by proxy in the world of humanity

Voices and messages from the future and the past

Deciding how best to positively influence

The development of humanity -- To spread

A great civilization across the material universe

And spiritual Multiverse of parallel universes

8. Adventure

The mission is paramount -- Above glory

To take a message through enemy lines -- Surviving

Taking the damage and the pain yet escaping with my life

The forces of chaos, demons and fallen ones must not take us

Higher dimensions symbolized by great heights

Holy Mountains, The Holy Mountain

Asgard -- The branches of the World Tree

Doorways and Windows to and from Earth

Lower dimensions symbolized by deep Earth

Tunnels, caves, great open spaces miles below the surface

Fire, demons, societies of fallen gods and solitary spirits

Some ways to and from the surface and the life under the Sun

A sauna, beautiful women, I ask one to stay with me

I find myself drawn to several people at different times

Different women, all beautiful, yet each with their own way

Robot helpers using purple light -- Using strength only for defense

With the will only to harm those who wish harm on others

And then only causing temporary debilitation, not permanent damage

9. Traveling Beautiful Angel of Light and Love

A beautiful woman is my new roommate

We watch Monty Python and laugh together

Even though she is not really my roommate

When my real roommate arrives to go to school

I tell her that she has to go, but I wish she didn’t

I find her later and ask if she wants to spend some time together

I say I will go if she wants me to go but stay if she wants me to stay

She shows me her art -- She has impeccable taste

Texture uniqueness originality

10. Silver and Gold

A ladder leads to a dream world

The lands of the night

A beautiful woman seduces me

But she has a secret

11. The Worlds of the Moons and Stars

Monsters disguise themselves as angels in order to hide from the greater monsters

The terrible beast that devours everyone who is unwary and weak or just unlucky

In a hidden cave in the side of a secluded large cliff by a magical sea of infinite possibilities

Five Elements

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Trying to Find a Way from Jealousy to Eternal Love

A beautiful woman I was once in love with, perhaps still now

I see her with other people, apparently having fun

Without me, though also without obvious anger

Towards me, yet I feel sad that I am not with her

And I wish I would be the one she wants to be with

Sometimes we are in the same house, and it is hard

To accept that she has moved on and left me behind

In her mind and in her heart, though she may still say

Otherwise, it is the course of nature and time

And my pain is more acute because I am dwelling

In the past, trying to hold onto a memory of what once

Was, at least in my own mind and heart, if not in hers

Eventually I may get over her completely, but I doubt

I will ever be able to forget about her completely, probably

Seems like like an impossible task, even if I wanted to forget

She is still in my life for better or worse and I cannot escape

Feeling close to her, even if she is not actually here

Thinking of her, even if she does not think of me

Holding onto hope that we may come together again

Someday, when we both are different, in another lifetime

My Favorite One

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Life Light Love: Each Side Has Another Side

The passage of time can appear both infinitely slow

And exhilaratingly fast, depending on the circumstances

Relativity and subjectivity -- Perception changes reality

Relationships between and among different people

Some are smooth and cool as ice, but some burn hot

For better or worse -- Love and hate are not the only

Spokes in the Wheel of Life -- We are all unique

Even when we are fighting one another, there is value

In understanding as best we can how the other thinks

Feels -- What it is like to inhabit his or her skin

Multiplying each individual uniqueness by six billion

Understanding is hard enough from just one to another

Without factoring in the uncertainty of the collective

Consciousness -- Even the most trivial misunderstanding

Can create conflict -- The mundane as well as the philosophical

Worlds -- We do not have to let confusion ruin our communication

Chaos does not have to bring only destruction and evil

If we are aware of ourselves and our particular role to play

Even the deepest darkness of the darkest abyss can yield to life

Light -- There are terrible monsters but also secret treasures

Waiting for adventurous men and women of all ages to find them

Again and again, and yet always for the one and only time

The Present Moment -- Where everything can only happen

Even from the outside looking in, even from the darkness

There is always light, even if it is very nearly imperceptible

It is the only way the abyss can exist -- The Void before the Word

Language creates and sustains the Universe of Possibilities

Preserving the balance between chaos and order

Life -- Beginning again always after the previous cycle’s end

Eternal Love -- Binding and ordering the universe and worlds beyond

Thoughts Forms Changes

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Friends and Lovers: Past Is Prologue

I fly over the great forest towards a city to the West

I reach a house with flowers and herbs outside

I go inside and climb the stairs and turn right

Into an empty bedroom and then the bathroom next door

There is someone taking a shower, and I try to leave

I turn around in the hallway and find her there

Naked, drying herself off -- I ask her what her name is

She says her name is Sophia, but I do not recognize her

I say I am looking for a Sophia, but maybe not the same one

She says I should stay, but I want to keep looking for the right one

The person I have come to know over many years

Helen calls to me and I appear in her house

We sit next to each other on her couch and I ask her

About her life, what she has been doing

Other men compete for her attention

I feel threatened by their presence and their words

But she seems to enjoy their attention more than mine

Alone -- I am jealous but I try to not let it bring me down

Centering myself -- I hear her laughing, but I cannot see her

She is making love with one or more of the men that come to call

On her generosity -- There is nothing I can do to stop that

From happening -- Nor should I, yet it would be nice to stay

Instead of having to go back on the road again

A late-night drive with the windows down and the summer breeze

Only the waxing crescent moon and the stars and the clear sky

And the music of countless generations gone by

To keep me company on the long journey home

Singing Nature Spirit Fire Flame of Knowledge and Wisdom Guardian Protector

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World Forest Paradise Future Home

The community house has been being built over many generations

Centuries old gardens grow food and medicine for body and soul

Many people live close by -- Friends, family, and neighbors

Many beautiful women -- Lovers, mothers, scholars, artists

Yet it is not easy -- Only a few are soul mates -- Those

Without which there is nothing -- The meaning of life

Or part of the secret at least -- Inspiration for helping others

Making the Longhouse a haven for those seeking refuge

A base of operations for heroes and heroines

The Patriarch’s gardens draw weary souls from the cities

At first a small group of seekers and artists

Trying to help the human spirit evolve

Dedicated to peace, love, and understanding above all

A kind of mythology to bring order in the flux of time

Passing from the old to the new -- Humans exploring space

Within and without -- The Milky Way galaxy of billions of stars

Calling to us -- Changing how we live and work on this beautiful

Earth -- Home to humanity and the beginning of language

The words and images we use to create, preserve, and change reality

Forest Approaching Dream Magic Mirror

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Insight

Patterns of eternity in pools of water

Nautical shapes and spirals illustrating wisdom

And I heard a voice within my head

I only wanted to find the signs of ancient

Presence in each drop of the rivers and oceans

I dropped the ancient leaf of some long forgotten tree

And watched the patterns of water rearrange

But always there was the same spiral toward infinity

No matter how hard I tried to break or change it

The pattern always found a way to reform again

I only wanted to find out how many could see

The unbounded territory of life -- Nature’s design

I bowed before the water and trees and laughed

What we see is not limited to one time or space

We are everything which we have ever seen or done

I saw a serpent slither across the ancient leaf and turn

From within the drops of water it was now outside

And I was inside where it had formerly been

But I was not afraid of my new perception

As part of the living whole which is always present

And now it was night and the serpent returned

Effortlessly trading places with me once again

Now ready to spread this knowledge

Far and wide and deep into the core of our being

Do not fear that which has yet to pass in awakening

Like a beautiful lotus new things undreamed of by philosophy

Open and bloom upon the foreheads of our successors

We will have time to enjoy the fruits of our learning and yearning

Meeting always again in a new form when we are ready

To see each other again after a long time’s absence

Or only a few moments -- Drinking the waters of life

Wisdom of the Future Age -- Eternal Life, Love, Light

Dwelling always in Peace, inside and outside -- Beyond the stars

Lavender Violet Love Flying Fish Time Travel

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The History and Future of Humanity: Progress and Change

The circle of monsters, the layers of inner demons

Dragons good and bad, right and wrong

The serpents behind my pain finally confront me

I back away and the angel of love shows herself

The serpents cry out and she strikes them with her lightning

I am afraid to turn around and face death

The serpents are still there in the darkness

I realize I have to let go of the world I knew

In order to save the worlds beyond, including this one

The destruction of my ego, and its recovery over time

Spring lies next to me and I find myself drawn to her

The Protectors of Nature must sacrifice themselves for the good of others

They must become one with the earth and water, even the fire and sky

I have been in love with Springfor several years, but I am too afraid

To tell her how exactly I feel, if it would even be possible to put in words

We spread seeds of life across the wastelands, great cities, and the ancient forests

Sometimes we want to return to our old lives and give back the burden of caring

For the plants, animals, people all connected by the circle and order of creation

And preservation -- Then she kisses my arm and I hold her hand and everything

Is better -- I feel as if I have known her all of my life, but she is still a beautiful mystery

Fifth Element Spirit Creative Discovery Art Poetry Intuition Inspiration Truth Love

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The Beginning of the World: The Creation of Civilization

People tend to mix and match aspects of different ideas

Based on what they are taught and what they see

Even people who are well educated do the same basic thing

There are almost an infinite number of combinations of ways

Of thinking about the world and the cosmos and our place

In Between Heaven and Earth -- We base our choices

On our own prejudices, preferences, exposure to love

New Spirit Truth Love Beauty

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What Came Before and What Will Come Again

I watch the Leviathans swimming in the ocean of infinite chaos

I sit with saints on a small outcropping of solid ground

The universe floats by, ancient dragons larger than stars

We are the keepers of story, workers in the preservation of poetry

No need for food or water, only the small piece of dry land we were given

A single tree bent over the edge of the world, from which we watch the beginning

Past Present Future -- Diamond Spiral Omnidimensional Fractal Mandala

The Rainbow Light of Spirit Shines Outwards

I start with the perspective that everyone understands

We may never travel this way again

Sky is your playground

Each day we are blessed with the sun rising

And there is no longer any cause for fear

But what will become of the lost children?

Their tears are staining the earth

We are a wave of consciousness crashing against limitless ocean

Sunflowers will bloom in beautiful explosions on the graves of forgotten soldiers

There will come a time when the falcon brings peace to all with his one eye

Wait until morning to decide in the arms of some strangers in the woods

The prince of dreams is powerless before the Demiurge

You do not even know if they remember you

Your shadow follows me everywhere

While we are on Earth our experiences move linearly

We sit in a circle and discuss our previous lives

The baby bites your shoulder, hard, and you laugh

We can hear the dark haired woman screaming

My karma had established this disease beforehand

You are the Divine Mother of All Life

I see in my own heart the unity of your many forms

I do not pretend to know the causes for sorrow

I realize we are made for each other’s pleasure

What is the source of all this beauty?

There is really nothing to be afraid of in any world

The first thing I notice is that you are naked

Some may have called him crazy but we are just a tiny particle of light

I go in close to the red planet, flying by ancient serpent people

Leviathan swims through the primordial ocean

Let me tell you how to kill the demon

Too many defenses make us weak

The power here is older than any human now alive

The secret of emptiness is that we belong to the absolute truth

Every sage draws from one well of inspiration

On this day we see shall see God through one of His and Her servants

Once again the dogs are roaming the streets in packs

We are only just now starting to understand

There is no reason to worry about differences between religions

We have come before and we will come again until we learn better

I am a blind beggar waiting with what patience I can find

Our spiritual evolution may take longer than this particular universe

True love starts within and flows effortlessly outward

I am everything that you have ever seen or will be

The presence of Love Light Life is all around us and I will drink deeply

What we think doesn’t matter as much as it once did

There will always be a way to pick ourselves back up again

Through the veil of ignorance we have lost much knowledge

Everything is a play that we will to be one moment to the next

I feel the presence of personalities that are not human

Something in the darkness calls to me to join my brothers and sisters

Something which often crosses my mind is that the ego is strong

There might be such a thing as an individual soul when we are not here on Earth

Once we were great in your estimation but now we merely survive

The paradox of human existence in the universe compels us

Some sleep through storms, but others are blessed with wakefulness

So why should we fear anything, least of all the end of our suffering?

Behind every communication is the essence of a heart

Love for every living being as yourself is the purpose for this lifetime

There will come a time when we will grow weary of reincarnation

The Self does not die and is constantly being born again

Recognize that we are here on Earth  to understand why

For world peace there is tomorrow, and today, the only day

We are left with what we need to survive -- No more, no less

Lady of the Night, sing to me of my past

Things as they are and not how we wish them to be

The ambrosial nectar of my lover’s name is transcendental

It is beautiful to think we are in control

I am living in my own dream on borrowed time

We are not merely collections of atomic energy masquerading as human beings

We should not wait for some future day that may never come

Ask yourself what in this life is worth dying for, and truly living

It is always best to start from where we already are

Our definitions of the self based on ego

You are the one who comes to me in my dreams

Once we have surrendered ourselves completely we are healed

You are a symbol for what has been missing in my life

We are all going to the same place, but some will get there sooner than others

In the night sky ancient and distant stars are burning and we are just now finding

Our own beginning -- And even gods struggle under the ennobling illusion of freedom

My life has been a preparation for this moment in which truth breaks all boundaries

A woman and a man grow out of the Earth -- Fall from the Sky -- Swim in the Ocean

I have held another heart in my hands -- The Fire unites us in a cosmic eternal love embrace

He cries and beat his hands against the bathroom door

A Goddess sits before me on her pallet of crimson soft velvet fabric pillows

We ride on a wave of time through a labyrinth, and the monsters we face are ourselves

I felt my head glowing warmth -- A golden light spread outward from within my spine

In the world of captivating imagery the show of life is carried ever on towards new beginnings

No questions beyond realization -- Levels and scales -- Balance between chaos and order

Even at the edges of the unwrapped singularities universal cosmic energy survives

There is no explanation worthy of despair when a man leaves the world of the living

Words themselves have truth -- Force of love uniting all communication

I dream six billion hearts caring about each other as we all try to find our true selves

The question remains -- “How long do I want to wait for liberation?”

Yesterday, the world came to an end and today the trees are dancing in the wind

In the darkness of our own ignorance we can still touch the suffering ones

Everything that ever has existed is existing now and is bound by eternal love

I dream the sunrise on the ocean and the line of night ever retreating

Upon contemplating the beauty of life I come to realize freedom is not only an illusion

Carry me onward on my travels into the unknown territory of future memory

Yet how long is too long to travel when we know there is paradise and understanding?

I see death but from the poisonous waters grows new brave life

The gate of true dreams opens

It is hard to see through the veil of sorrow

Once I feared the abyss behind my eyelids,

Today I realize I am more than myself

The Dark Lord of Night is no stranger -- He lives next door

I will show you my pain

And they both walked into the darkness

Labyrinths of self-made suffering built by fearful minds

Even the darkness belongs to the creator

We cannot even decide which side of the same coin to be on

We are lords of nothing

All that is built will fall down

Nothing lasts forever

Yet I look up, and see her presence in the moon as I wander alone through the city at night

Poetry has become a magic act that binds the two inextricably into one soul

Sometimes the night is so dark that you cannot see every life drama from your past

The doors are all locked but the others are strong and want to come inside our sanctuary

He has no future as a hunter, for he has fallen and been crushed by his own prey

I hear my teacher say evil is an affliction of the mind

We will rise again someday far away from this place we have known here together

There was nothing to stop the two lovers from exploring every part of the landscape

I do not want to forget the way compassion passes between our palms

In the center of language we may yet find an answer to the questions of life

What about the others who think they are crazy?

We are not alone

My eye opens and I perceive all this beauty I have hidden from myself

We can have peace as long as we see the way things are and try our best

To make a positive difference in the world, however small and inconsequential

We may think ourselves to be -- Desire and biology and mind

All filled with life -- We taste the forbidden fruit and discover everything is allowed

There is a way to turn back the tide

There is a hope for our hearts to renew

Sisters and brothers appear to speak for a moment, turn around, and disappear

Bring us now your light to shine in dark places where we are too afraid to look

Inside fortresses of solitude, we make what we will to be be

The world is always ending and beginning again, with each sunrise and sunset

Pay attention to the details

Hundreds of people dance, and she sings a beautiful song of the old times

Giving new meaning to the new futures past

Utopia of Friends and Lovers

I was outside of time and space within the mountain waterfall

The pattern of my destiny is here, music of a billion possibilities

The night is breathing softly, all around me, the mystery of mysteries

As I go to sleep I close my eyes and see a purple flame rising in the darkness

I run through the clouds at sunset and chase the wild women there who tempt lonely men

I walk with my brother when I am ten and we play together in the snow

Do not worry about that which you cannot change

Moment by moment, hour by hour, day by day the future advances continuously

Our bond will twist along with the wind and the rain, but it will never break

The audience wants to go home

Back to their own worlds of light and order amidst the chaos of the Universe

You may never understand how or why, but that is alright

There are people who may never escape, yet no one has to stay anywhere forever

We say murder is the worst sin, yet we send our sons and daughters to be killed

And to kill -- For a good cause, maybe, but still -- Glory is a mirage

In this land of turmoil and conflict we must keep working -- We must not fail

Appreciate the moss on the rocks -- We worship the cycle of natural magic

Through the dark, we find our way to the mysteries

When have I not seen my own soul staring back from eyes I love?

I drift up through fields of poppy, yarrow, mint, lavender, rosemary

And all that is is cosmic perfection reflected through a mirror

It is one of the few and happy times when the sky seems to stretch out forever

We may yet find a way to save the world -- We have little to lose -- Sadness, ennui

They are like dancers willing to die for each other, and do it again tomorrow night

Love is possible in our hearts and life seems something more than indifference

Breathing sighs through the house and we are connected to all of the dreamers here tonight

In the face of such belonging, such utter indifference to fear, how can love not save me?

Star of light, come join me in my sorrow -- Heal the scars on my soul

From the spirit of the world we have come to be, the mind consciousness which is ours

We will find a freedom that opens like a beautiful dream and you cannot go back to sleep

There will come a time when we all can embrace the vision of the eternal eastern sun

Passion tolerates no boundaries, as if I am a greedy fish trying to take a breath of air

Even a star must die, but nothing ever vanishes forever

The goal of the human animal is to grow bigger -- We are the preservers

All over the world our brothers and sisters are living and dying

People working for positive change, to bring in a new era of global universal community

Meet me at the threshold between illusion and reality, and we can tell our stories together

Joyful naked lovers of the moon dance and sing -- They have no need for sorrow tonight

There is a space outside of time -- Mandala -- Sanctuary within our own minds

Infinite space inside our own consciousness -- A reflection of the infinite cosmos outside

A beautiful sunset sets the stage for dreamtime to work its particular magic on our minds

Love breaks all barriers

Wheel of Light turning with every embrace, kind word, confession of desire

Howling, the wolves circle in the snow -- A girl does not know how to escape

Through poetry I have found freedom and a feeling of flying through air

Where do these images and feelings come from?

I don’t know how I came here, nor where I am going, but there remains your presence

That gives me motivation and courage to face the vicissitudes of time

The revolutions of the world and people around me

Your love gives me reason to keep living, working, trying to make things better

A little at a time

Rain Tears Soul Rivers

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The Game of Love

We both want to be with you, she says -- I love you

And I believe her, and I still love her, just not the same

Kind of love as hers -- Longing and deep desire

Threatening to overpower every other waking thought

Obsession -- And no escape even in dreams -- Needing

To want to be with the other -- And we will always love

Each other -- No matter what happens, how much pain

And sorrow comes from being apart from you

There is always a way, a possibility for happiness

Forgiving Ones I Love -- Myself -- All of them, yet one in particular

Romantic entanglement -- Relationships are hard

Especially ones that are intimate -- Without masks

Or with different ones than you use in public

I Love You

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Exploration, Discovery, Future World Beginning Always Again

I walk with Emily, holding her hand close

She looks at me and smiles and we continue

Onwards toward our destination -- I stop

At the edge of a cliff -- I need to show her something

The view of countless beautiful shapes in the distance

Fields, rivers, valleys, mountains, waterfalls

I fly with Emily over a land of wonder and mystery

Over the lakes, rivers, fields of wildflowers, waterfalls

I hold her hand and she holds mine -- At first she is afraid

Of falling -- But our connection keeps us both in the air

Borderland of Sky -- I give her what power and energy I have

After journeying with other companions male and female

Emily’s beauty and innocence is a great relief

I could spend years traveling with her and not grow tired

Of her company -- Even when we are not alone

But with Emily’s friends from her past life -- And more

Juliet makes love to me, but Emily does not get angry

Even though she is jealous, perhaps, she does not hold me

Beyond the commitment of Love -- Not just including sex

Even when other friends throw themselves at me

And I do not try to stop them from having their way

My mind and soul desire to experience love in all aspects

Of life -- Especially romance -- Both true and fleeting

Versions -- Complete and incomplete -- I take what I can

When and where I can -- Juliet does not want to travel with me

So I explore the landscape with Emily -- And we are close

Intimate without being committed except to the ideal -- Love

Sea Doorway Window Vision Window Soul Paradise Earth Night Stars

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Reaching Higher Ground by First Descending into Darkness and Shadow

We descend into the underworld, the rise

To a higher realm of consciousness and awareness

We are at the edge of the great mystery

As far as we can go and yet return to the world

We have left behind to go on this journey of ours

My brothers and sisters and I -- Friends and companions

In search of a lost soul who can help us defeat our enemies

The King of Elfland, the missing lord of the world of Faerie

And the key to winning our conflict with the dark powers

The Shadows -- Beyond lost, and yet still capable of love

Of a sort -- Yet they must be fought, for the danger they pose

To we the living souls of the physical universe of beauty

And danger -- Temptation for jealous beings of great power

From beyond the veil of darkness, the chaos of the void

In Between stars and also beyond and inside them, sometimes

Labyrinth Flower Heart Life Vision Flowers Hearts Visions Imagination Beauty Mind Spirit Soul Mandala Path Smile Dance Drawing Garden Dream Dreams Love Lovers Loved Magic Poetry Poems

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Waystation

We explore the house of secrets, in search of

Hidden treasures, wisdom of ancient beings long gone

From the world we knew before we started our journey

This is a waystation for souls traveling between worlds

A space-time ship sailing on the cosmic ocean

Of Dream -- Both nightmare and truth -- Light

Beyond the Universal constraints of Space and Time

Yet containing both -- A higher dimension of consciousness

And awareness -- One of many worlds within worlds

Our own shared dream -- Our own borderland between Eternity

And the ever renewing present moment of the Universe

Pattern of Life Love Light

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Sophia -- The Moon, Sun, and Stars

The Moon in all its glory shines its reflected light down

On we the greedy animals below on Earth, and the plants

And the soil -- All searching for some kind of love, one of many

Forms -- Beauty enough for me to temporarily escape the past

All the longing and desire from my youth -- Still here, still there

Reflected in the passions of all life under the Moon, Sun, Stars

Light at night offers some relief from sadness and despair and loneliness

Occasionally we can see the Moon even during the day, a constant guardian

And guide on our path towards enlightenment, fulfillment, happiness

Change and growth and discovery and affection from a beautiful person

So too the Sun’s warmth and light reassures us that night and rest and possibility

For new love is always right around the corner -- Even when the Sun takes away

All illusions, no matter how ennobling -- We can become whole yet again

Discover love inside us -- There is always possibility for positive change

Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, please know I love you

For better or worse, right or wrong, black or white -- I will be waiting

For the day or night you come to see me again -- Until then I will wait

Looking at the Moon and the stars, and the Sun with eyes closed during the day

I will feel the wind through the trees and the rain, and I will try to be happy

Or at least content -- Memories keep me company, but they are no substitute

For you being here in the present moment -- But they will do for now

Fractal Spiral Mandala

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The Underground City

Finding what is lost, or perhaps hidden

Congratulated by criminals, then attacked

For some things are meant to remain

Lost -- Yet we want to discover them

Mystery that gives life meaning

More than remaining content

With the banalities of well-ordered

Existence -- For at least a little while

We crave moments of adventure and exploration

Changing and growing -- Becoming

Always within the great mystery of the Universe

Infinite possibilities -- Borderland between worlds

Gates, doors, windows -- Crossroads of the Multiverse

Containing the Physical Universe as well -- The Underground

Too -- City of impossible possibilities -- Almost anything

You could want can be found, for a price -- That which is free

Is the highest cost -- Baby dragons, trolls, elves, even humans

All manner of magical creatures, refugees from the World of Faerie

Sometimes even royalty, carving out their own realm of influence

Close to Earth, the land of the waking and sunlight, mundane reality

They are responsible for many of the wonders here, there

Giving even the most industrial a spark of magic, even in the most

Grey places, especially there, in the corporate boardrooms

Magic is afoot -- But there are always rules, as with any great power

And consequences for breaking with tradition and the old ways

But that does not stop those who are greedy for power, fame, love

Exploiting the artifacts and beings from other worlds beyond the physical

For selfish and short-sighted purposes -- Ancient wisdom and knowledge

Turned to evil means if not evil ends -- But there is always more good

Guardians of the ancient ways and the new as well, working for The Balance

Against unrestrained Darkness inside and outside each individual human

Soul -- Light overcoming Shadow -- No matter how necessary in small amounts

To preserve and protect Life -- The gateway between worlds must remain

Safe from undue influence from creatures of darkness -- The Crossroads

World of Dreams, playground for gods, demons, faeries -- The Key to the Universe

Revolving around the Earth, focal point of human consciousness -- Useful conceit

Protection from outside forces -- The elements of wind, fire, water, earth, sky

The  ocean and the shore, the stairway circling upwards to heavenly worlds

And downwards to more earthy realms -- The purple dome of the underground city

Architecture of all times and places combined in a strange milieu of mystery

Many cultures, races, beings of light and darkness -- Even parallel universes

Different for each visitor, shared for those with strong bonds of friendship

Or antagonism -- Love, growing and changing together, alone -- Possibility

Becoming, being -- Five dimensions, elements -- Beyond time yet within all times

Always self-existing, circular -- The center of the long staircase -- The Star

Eye in the triangle -- All that is, was, and shall be -- Alone, together -- True Love Eternal

Universal Elements

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Center of the Past, Present, and Future -- The Local Universe

1

Ancient symbols from the future decorate the walls of the great house

At the bottom of a large cliff, in between the mountains and the plains

We spend many nights and days together, farming and living and loving

Learning about our role in the cosmic drama of light and dark, good and evil

A training camp for young men and women learning

To fight against the forces of darkness and evil

And the greater danger of the beasts of the void

The spaces inbetween and beyond and within stars

The students have some dealings with serpent people

An ancient race of scientists and philosophers

On Mars, cold and calculating -- Dangerous but useful

The righteous demons of various world mythologies

2

A long lost former lover returns to her place in paradise

After many hard times -- I say I have missed her, and so

Have other students -- She says she will try to forgive

But she can never forget, both the good and the bad

Sophia still has feelings for her, but she is not the only

One in Helen's life, and no amount of crying and screaming

Will change that simple truth -- Helen will not be tied down

We are all just one of many -- Lovers, spouses, friends

3

Emily, the blonde goddess of my dreams, appears in my room

Juliet comes by for a little while then leaves again

And I am alone with Emily again, and I feel at one with her

The part of myself I have been searching for -- A long journey

Of self-discovery -- We walk in the fields of wildflowers

As the sun falls slowly towards the west, we watch the dragons

Playing in the north, past the mountains, across the border

Between the crossroads and the world of magic and faery

4

Vanessa leans down in front of me, her face directly in front of mine

As I bend down on one knee -- I stop in the middle of my task

And stare into her beautiful blue eyes -- She stops for a moment too

Then laughs, and we both rise to stand next to each other awkwardly

For a few moments -- Then I turn to leave, and she puts her hand

On my arm, and asks me to stay -- The next morning, I leave early

There is much to prepare for the council meetings between major powers

And my position in the city and in the castle depends on my performance

5

In the underground city, all manner of magical creatures, some disguised

As humans -- Vampires, dragons, trolls, elves, and the like

Surrounded by the usual blend of thieves, assassins, politicians, and worse

Common to many cities -- Even more in the capitol of the Crossroads

Tunnels, doorways, gates, windows, cracks -- Shortcuts from worlds beyond

Earth's privileged position in the labyrinth of the Multiverse

Comes with a cost though -- Greater danger and attention from ancient evil

Beyond forces of life, chaos and order, even most darkness in the worlds

6

A long flight across treacherous landscapes with Lily and Juliet

Fleeing from a creature of darkness, with an honorable warrior

And two women I love -- One carrying a baby and the other magical stones

The keys to unlocking the mystery of the underground city and Wizard castle

In relation to the cosmos beyond the borders of this strange land

And we fly north towards the dragons and the mountains of Faery

A giant turtle that breathes fire is said to guard the border

From the Crossroads to the world of magic directly tied to Earth

7

A floating cube of pure energy follows us us past all boundaries

To the upper levels of a strange wizard research station

At the edge of air and sky, near the top of the Holy Mountain

I tell the warrior and my loves to go ahead, and I stay behind

To fight the monster -- Whichever comes first, darkness or light

And when the cube appears, I am more afraid than if it was darkness

At first it seems hopeless because the more I attack it, the stronger

It seems to become -- But then I try feeding it with compassion

8

The yawning void that is the beast's mouth immediately shrinks in size

And becomes more docile -- I feed it more, and it is no longer

As big as a battering ram, but more like a medium-sized dog

And it is now content to follow me without malevolence or anger

Now I realize it was never any great danger except in my fear of it

And it will actually help protect me and the people I love

And I am lucky that it caught up to us before the creature of darkness

Quickly I try to catch up with the people that went ahead

They are happy to see me return, with a new pet and guardian

9

Flying across the fields, on my way to meet my love

Chased by a terrible creature of dark malevolence

I pass over the mansion of the local lord -- Hoping

To give the demon the slip by turning quickly towards

The mountains in the north, and where the warrior and my love

Waits -- We have little time for affectionate embraces

All of us must rise fast to the top of the great cliff

Face -- Before the terror in the night can catch up

It is a close call -- Yet we make our escape

And we have a few moments of rest before continuing

On our journey towards the world of Faerie, and answers

Away from our past in the Waking World and wizard City

10

A nature spirit of growth and flowering life

A demon tries to trap it by using the people

It is trying to help -- They ask it to enter a cage

Disguised as a windmill, but it escapes easily

Reappears in the local church, covered in vines

They have been told it means them harm, but

It has spent many long centuries protecting

The Forest, and their ancestors -- It survives

To confront the dark spirit who wants it for evil

Purposes -- The demon says it is seeking revenge

For ruining its plans in an almost forgotten conflict

Many ages ago -- Suddenly the nature spirit remembers

Teaching the people how to trap and fight against the demon

And its influence -- It gave the intended victims a name

The demon's true name, and it has held a grudge ever since

Patiently waiting for millennia for its plan to take effect

Psychic Emanations

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Discovery -- A Long Journey

Spiritual sky inside and outside my soul, the world

Wind and rain in my heart and in my mind

Consciousness is everything, and everything else

Yet different, distinct -- Diversity within unity

The Great House in the foothills of the mountains

With good farmland, and a castle on top of one of the mountains

Visible from every direction all around

Some of the students who live in the house go up to the castle

From time to time, if they need to consult the library there

Or meet with one of the Wizards of Light, or even an Elder One

A god or demon living on Earth temporarily or permanently

In this magical land halfway between the physical universe

And the World of Faerie, the dimension of old magic close to Earth

The Earth we know in our normal everyday lives, of business and politics

Yet this strange land separate yet connected to Physical Earth

Has its own politics and struggles for power and influence

Over the ancient secrets and knowledge held by the Wizards and Witches

In the magical library, and in the underground city below the mountains

Secrets that in the wrong hands could be disastrous for Earth

And all of the worlds, dimensions, universes connected to Earth and Faery

This mystical land is surrounded by mountains, isolated from the outside

World of material reality -- Where subtle and obvious magic shows itself

In everyday life -- The mere presence of the ancient beings of great power

Makes time pass differently than in the world of waking reality outside

In the city beneath the mountains are doorways leading many places

Secret tunnels connect with other sites of great power on Earth

Home to all manner of strange and beautiful creatures, artifacts

Of ancient races, futures past -- Left by explorers when they traveled

To worlds, dimensions, and universes beyond the known, the physical

Even Faery, other realms connected with Earth -- The land of the Sun

Moon and rain and wind -- Meeting place for whole galaxies

The Multiverse of universes, timelines -- Parallel, alternate, pocket

And beyond -- A temperate rainforest of exquisite beauty

Thousands of shades of green in spring and summer, orange and red

In autumn -- Surrounding the small town, the great house, the school

For young wizards and witches of light, and the castle above

And its peerless magical library -- Intricately linked with the course

Of human history and the future of planet Earth -- Though isolated

One of many places of ancient knowledge and wisdom from past and future

Home of the Keepers of Balance, Guardians of the Crossroads -- Doors

And windows to perhaps an infinity of dimensions, worlds, universes

All connected to the one we know as our own -- Even dreams of all life

Available to those who know the right door, and have the correct key

Worlds of light and darkness -- Paradises and nightmares, heavens and hells

All with their particular place in the cosmic hierarchy and circle of life

Fractal spiral organization of spiritual, energetic, and physical realities

Holographic colocation of worlds -- Yet separated by great distance

Of thought and energy, space and time, depending on perspective, perception

Knowledge of how to bridge the space between dimensions and worlds

The Wizard City, above and below the earth's surface, is one nexus

Crossroads for the earth and the Milky Way and local universe

Yet the Wizards and Witches do not let this great power go their heads

They serve at the will of the elder races, the council of gods and demons

In charge of the gateways inside the Earth to and from other worlds

Even the farmers can visit other worlds if they have the inclination

And the permission of the gatekeepers, the various forces of dark and light

As long as the Balance is maintained, both sides remain happy, or at least

Content with compromise, shared power and control of Earth and dimensions

Universes beyond, yet connected to Earth -- Into this world of magic

And infinite possibility, isolated yet connected to the rest of Earth

Power and influence over all worlds and people, it is possible for others

Outsiders to enter the hidden city, if they know the ways in and out

People all over the Waking World are called by circumstance, fate

Or destiny, to learn the ways of balance, guarding Earth's role

In the cosmic drama -- Struggles and conflicts undreamed of by most

Yet those who are called must choose a side -- Light or Dark -- Only

A few rebel and attempt neutrality, go into business for themselves

Playing both sides against each other for moral, ethical, philosophical

Or plain material reasons -- Wealth and influence, measured in knowledge

Of the Elder Ones -- Ancients -- Arbiters of human destiny

And that of the Multiverse connected to Earth -- A center

Of life, love stories spanning across galaxies, dimensions

Of Heaven and Hell, good and evil, light and darkness, order and chaos

Currents of Time and Space

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Wonders and Marvels

Flying machines -- Devices that allow individuals flight and flotation

Harnessing the power of psychic energy, one can fly as a bird, explore

The Sky -- Travel to remote locations, escape from dangerous situations

Precursor to space and time travel, for places and times not connected

To Earth or the World of Faery or any of the other known worlds

Sacred Geometry

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Leaving My Past

We part as friends, at least not enemies

The crimes I committed to make her happy

Have made us both rich, yet in hiding

From bad people, who do not want me to leave

The life I have lived, my role as a thief

And all-around criminal -- No matter how

I justified what I did, I know it was wrong

So now I am trying to make up for lost time

I give Helen half of what I have hidden away

The rest to my family and friends -- Atonement

She keeps the other treasures I gave her, but I can always

Find more -- The quest and journey are half of the prize

Medicine that can heal the world and restore balance

The Message, or one of many -- All times and yet only one

Mythic Dreamtime -- The ever expansive present moment

Echoes of the past and future, all happening now, then

The churning of the cosmic ocean, the ordering of the universe

The birth of stars, our star, planet Earth, the moon

All these things in the stories of our world's mythologies

Retelling them, we recreate those holy moments, the one moment

Our perspective and perception includes that of the outside looking in

Our beautiful and expanding physical universe of billions of stars

Organized in patterns of eternity -- Spirals, circles, fractals

Holographic mandalas within mandalas -- Worlds within worlds

Universes of light and darkness, connected yet separate from our own

The cosmic ocean of all life, containing all possibilities and universes

Hierarchy of organization bringing order out of chaos and back again

The cosmic drama of eternal conflict, yet also resolution of opposites

The mythic time of coming together between left and right -- The Lovers

Only once yet again and again, the eternal moment of initiation

Into the mysteries of the universe and worlds of light and darkness

Beyond our own world -- The beauty of nature everywhere, yet nowhere

As sweet as home, wherever we feel our heart to be -- Here or there

Planet Earth -- A global community of races, species, philosophies

We must work together in a natural way -- The way the ancients have left

The many ways that are one, towards one destination and source

New Discoveries

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Between Earth and the Universe of Magic

Castle at the edge of Sky -- A gateway

To a world with castles floating in Sky

Faery, magical possibility and source

For many strange and wondrous things on Earth

And people of the moon and stars

Sharing our Sun, yet in a different dimension

Parallel universe -- Connecting to many versions

Of Earth, alternate timelines -- Infinite possibilities

Peace, Love, and Understanding -- Ideals for an optimal real time future

A world that we all share without poverty, hunger, or injustice

An example for the Earth and the World of Faery

Balance and peace in both realms, dimensions bridged by the centers of power

Half influenced by Earth, and half by the magical land beyond yet near

The sources of material nature and magic, and the human world's mythologies

Flowers of Life

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The World of the Future -- Multiverse of Infinite Worlds, Possibilities -- Past, Present, Future

Advanced technology and more wisdom to go with

The ever changing human spirit, that yet remains

The same essential nature, better than it used to be

Better than things once were overall -- The Hero

And Heroine -- Come into the world to save us all

Yet we are all heroes, literally and figuratively

I awake and it is the future -- One hundred years have passed

While I slept -- Now I am in a world I barely recognize

Though the landscape remains essentially unchanged

Everything else is different: people, buildings, transportation

Not just in the Mega Cities, but also where I live at the edge

Of the misty mountains and its temperate rainforest

What once was a national park and is now a global one

Still the most diverse collection of communities of life

In the world -- An ecosystem held in trust for the future

Generations to come, that have already come, for me

A traveler from the distant past unaware of how I came to be

Here now in the 22nd century of the common era

And outside the global park, as well as inside the borders

Free, plentiful, and clean energy available for everyone

The Sun, Wind, Earth, Water, and Cosmic forces of Sky

Harnessed for the benefit of all, with no cost or restriction

For those who use energy for heating, traveling, growing food

Essentially a paradise compared to the past, yet with some problems

Even in Utopia -- But no hunger, poverty, or institutional injustice

A global government with local control through democratic means

And different styles of living in the hundreds of Mega Cities

Spread out over Planet Earth, unique yet unified by common interest

Peace and stability, order within the chaos of life and ever-increasing

Knowledge and wisdom about life, the universe, and the cosmos beyond

We are in our space-time ship, and I am lucky enough to have access to infinite possibilities

Our first priority is to our home planet, and the stars and planets in our galaxy

And the stars and planets in galaxies beyond our own

Home -- In all dimensions, universes, worlds connected

Parallel, alternate, pocket within and yet outside

The physical universe we call home

Even though I can go back to the world I once knew

The time of great transition at the beginning of the 21st century

I am not ready yet -- There are so many beautiful and amazing things

Left to see, learn, and do in this new world of the future, yet now present

Changes -- Looking out my window at the treeline, from past to future

What once was diminished by imbalance and progress

Now lives free and true, a century of uninhibited growth

And flowering -- All of the people I loved are gone

Taken by time and circumstance and the promise

Of a better life far away, in the Mega Cities and even beyond Earth
The mistakes of the 20th century have been fixed

Balance between humanity and nature has been restored

My home is a paradise on Earth, and most every change has been good

Yet I can’t help but wish that I could see some of my old friends

Earth Family -- Soul mates, beautiful souls I dream about

Offerings of Light

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Sailing Through Time on a Cosmic Ocean of Eternal Love

Time travel, inhabiting my future self

Learning about alien species visiting Earth

Changing history by following along with myself

Leaving clues and signs for me to find later, earlier

Creating a small army of freedom fighters

Anarchists, socialists, communists united by vision

Of a world free from hunger, injustice, oppression

Taking the best of what the aliens have to offer for humanity

Replacing the old order and hierarchies of power

In the shared goal of making humanity a galactic citizen

Universal belonging, working for peace, justice, stability

And innovation -- A bright future of light, life, love for all

Here, and beyond in the vast emptiness of space, other worlds

Transforming humanity’s basest instincts into higher callings

Dedication to truth, perfection, understanding of complexity

Instead of war, violent conflict, extreme competition beyond play

Shared resources, knowledge, wisdom -- An Utopia -- Life without fear

Problems we take for granted now, in the past, before

The Others come, who are yet to come, yet always here

Bringing new knowledge and wisdom that is yet old

Kept safe by elders of ancient cultures, carried on by future generations

Waiting for the day when they could share with all

Humanity suddenly confronted with the reality

That we are not ever truly alone in the Universe

For better or worse, and there are new, better ways of doing things

Organizing ourselves not only to survive

But thrive, and become full members of the community

Of the Universe of Universes -- All times and places linked

By the knowledge and wisdom of the Elder Races

Guides and sometimes exploiters of the younger ones

Humanity -- We must evolve and transform ourselves

Into something greater and more beautiful than we can imagine

Undreamed of, except by a few -- The ones with love and peace

In their hearts and minds, those who are the storytellers

Artists, poets, philosophers -- Leaders of thought and feeling

Those of gentle soul and also fierce passion for change and progress

Creatures of Love

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Part Four (15 Poems So Far)

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Evolution Growth Change

Looking back at my past life

Mistakes that seemed unforgivable

Crises that threatened to destroy everything

Or so I thought -- My place in the world

And Universe -- Now seem small and inconsequential

In retrospect -- Except in how they shaped my evolution

And development as a human being

Small and large -- Sometimes in ways that I only now

Understand and only partially grasp

I can't blame anyone else but myself

Yet I can explain by describing how others

Might have been wrong, at least in regards

To what would be best for me -- Yet who can say

How even the smallest changes in one life

Might positively or negatively affect the future

Present, now -- A trillion trillion combinations

Of moments and choices over the course of human

History -- And my own -- Even if I have only lived

Once, my soul -- There is almost an infinity of alternatives

Parallel courses of history, all existing simultaneously

Until the present moment -- And choice -- Love and life

Time -- In my own life and the life of the world -- Universe

Who can tell if I am not in fact better for all my mistakes

My parents, grandparents, ancestors from all over the world

The ambiguity and uncertainty in my own life and mind today, tonight

Might not be such a terrible thing after all -- As long as it does not

Cripple, the door to the void open too much, more than just a crack

Some evolution along with the involution, meeting in the present moment

Future present for every living being sharing the world of possibilities

Growth and change, spiral life, and the arrow and circle of time

The maps in my head can be useful but discovery and exploration

Landscape of my mind and environment, greater and more wondrous

Than even my dreams -- The maps help me when I get lost

Sometimes even helping me find the right path, or at least realize

I was on the wrong one in the past, and I can choose a different one

Perhaps even one from a long time ago, in the future past

That is yet new to me now -- As long as I am moving forward

With an open heart and mind, in balance with my true self and the cosmos

Nature, love -- The forces of order, chaos, and balance between the two

The Universe of Universes and the world we all inhabit, one of many

I am content and maybe even happy, for now -- I must train myself

To be alright with the uncertainty and productive chaos of the world

That can be a blessing and not just a curse -- As long as I keep

Trying to find some kind of order here, there -- Truth within

Myself, if I have the right keys to understanding the all in all

The world and my place in it -- Life continues ever onwards

As long as life continues on -- And we learn from our mistakes

Become better stewards of the Earth and Air and Water -- Soul

Of nature, fire of spirit -- Humanity -- We are only at the beginning

Of our history as a species, only limited by our imagination as a species

Imaginations or lack thereof -- Our petty rivalries, ancient quarrels

Among groups of people, desire for power over others, outdated ideas

Ideologies of rigid control or complete freedom without consequences

No order at all -- Out of balance with ourselves and nature

Yet we are learning -- The old ways that no longer work fade away

With time and evolution of the human mind and spirit towards the source

Giving consciousness, room to new ways of organizing life and spirit

Some so old that they are completely foreign to us, some completely new

Ancient and future paradigms that can allow us to live in harmony

With ourselves and the Universe as one entity experiencing itself, ourself

Becoming aware of all aspects of existence and reality -- Life and love

No greed or lust for power over one another and the planet

Belonging to the land, water, air, and sky, more than the other way around

Using our intelligence and wisdom to perform a sacred duty of helping

Life to flourish in ever more diverse and beautiful forms on Earth

And when we are ready, planets beyond our own solar system

Stars and galaxies far out in the infinite darkness, blue and white

Calling to us and keeping us company at night -- Giving our sun a break

Dimensions and worlds within the deepest parts of our souls, of stars

And in the vast emptiness of space and time, yet almost bursting with light

Meaning and light even in the deepest darkness, the spark of life

Uniting and bringing together disparate individual souls

Throughout the Cosmic Ocean -- Binding and bridging our Universe

With each part of itself, realities beyond this physical realm

Dimension, parallel universe -- Doorways of consciousness

We can access with the right keys, and the knowledge of where they are

Awareness of the multiple forms of life, light, love everywhere

Inside us and outside our souls, all around us -- Beyond

There is always more to discover and explore, always more

Beyond and within our own mind, body, and spirit -- Our souls

Connected to the universal cosmic consciousness and awareness

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Into the Future, Now

Time travel again and conflicts between old and new

Giant corporations and extradimensional space aliens

Rebels, agents from Heaven, the four worlds above

Generations, centuries pass and I awake as the world changes

Again and again -- I must choose which side to fight for, when there are always

More sides beyond what I understand, which is not

Much -- Everything is different, except for basic

Humanity -- Love, compassion, nurturing, preservation

My desire to collect, reflect, shine light in darkness

Reviving ancient spirits of light and power at first

My companions are afraid, but the angels comfort us

Yet I am told to hide my light for a while, to save it

From forces of darkness who covet its power

I do not understand, but I cover my hands

The light reflected in my palms has already

Spread out from beyond the door to the upper planes

Of existence -- To beyond the door to Earth, and a little rest

Will probably do little harm, and might help

Me find out if I am doing the right thing

Serving the right people, the right side

Of the cosmic equation, the chaos of life, and the balance

Between good and evil, order and complete freedom.

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Dance of Life

Sometimes it is hard to know

Who to follow, who to oppose

Which side of a conflict is correct

Most right, or at least less wrong

Each has another side, and another after that one

In the relatively distant future

Things are even more difficult

To understand how to choose

What is right, missing a hundred years

Context -- Progress of history, change

Of ideas and ideologies, factions and organizations

Of power and authority -- Leaving aside questions

Of how I am where I am now, at this time

More importantly, when I am -- This new world

Offers almost undreamed of possibilities

Yet unknown dangers as well, but I cannot say

I regret waking up here and now, though I do miss

The people I left behind -- As far as I can tell they are gone

But perhaps there is a way for me to see them again

If I can find out how I came to be here and now

One hundred years distant from everyone I once loved

Organizations of darkness, banal evil in service to horrible goals

And ideals -- Extra-dimensional creatures without compassion or ethics

Or at least from a human perspective, except in the peculiar culture

Of the darkness beyond -- Our Universe of Light and Darkness

Mingle together -- Forms of life completely alien to us

Except perhaps in some of our nightmares, hells -- Giant insects

Communities of organization without joy or art or love

At least from our perspective -- Some form of love exists there no doubt

And the swirling chaos of apparently infinite darkness, with only a little

Light -- And there are some figures of light and wisdom that have dealings

With the dark powers, for their own inscrutable goals, reasons beyond

Our understanding, for now -- Out of darkness comes the light

Yet within the darkness continues in its almost infinite varieties

Forms of diversity -- Doorways exist between our two worlds

Universes -- Guarded by agents of order and chaos, light and darkness

Sometimes close to doorways between the higher realms of pure consciousness

And our Universe -- Life and love have transcended all material barriers

Deep darkness of the void beyond our dimension of mixed light and darkness

Combines in the Dance of Life with Light, the five worlds of Eternal Love

The darkness frightens us and yet exhilarates us, providing a source

And destination for all that we do not like about ourselves, others

Our world and cosmos working out the complexity and simplicity of life

In the Universe we call home, in the perhaps infinite expanse of space

Material World -- Where beauty in the spiral and circle of time plays out

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Journeys Beyond Darkness

The islands of ghosts, the waystation, the castle of demons

The pools of truth, the strange demons, dog and lion hybrids

Corrupted humans, monkeys, wolves -- The space time ship below

The forces of fire and ice in constant conflict with one another

A hell world of fire and evil serpents, red and glowing

A limbo world of doorways and windows, ancient beings

Capricious and powerful, if not necessarily wise

The Cosmic Ocean separating worlds, dimensions, realities

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The Secrets of the Ancients

Into the future through the efforts of the Wizards of Light

To witness the development of humanity and the world

Having some small effect on the course of history

Even though beyond time throughout the changes

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Sophia

She comes to me in the early morning with love in her eyes

Or lust, or both -- She says she does not want labels

I cannot say no to her, even though I want something more

Than she says she is willing to give, but I will take

What I can get, when I can get it -- And deal with

The consequences later, for I love her in every way

Possible that I can think of -- And for just a few moments

Of true intimacy, I will sacrifice future contentment

And jealousy, and regret -- For she is the most important

Person in my life right now -- A true friend

No matter what happens, for my part, she will remain

My true friend, soul mate -- Without which there is

Nothing, she who has changed my life in incalculable

Ways, made me a better person, a better lover

Of life, light, truth, wisdom, and love itself

God, and heaven on Earth when I am with her

Or even talking to her over long distances, dreaming

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From Childhood to Adulthood

Psychic powers -- Boys and girls floating in air

Not just in dreams, but in the material world, sometimes

Levitation -- Moving objects with one’s mind -- Force

Of will -- Influencing others’ thoughts and emotions

Their parents also have this gift, but they choose not

To practice it -- Which causes anger and resentment

But over time both the parents and the children compromise

The play of life continues onwards, and the new overtakes the old

While retaining the best of the old order -- Patterns of eternity

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Underworld City Underground

Giant worm, protector of an ancient book of knowledge

I must defeat it with fire, and spread its offspring

It is only doing its job, but I have my own to do

Destroying the insect people's dominion over humanity

In the underground city of magic beneath the mountains

In the world of Eldren, connected to Earth, Faery, Heavens, Hells

Higher and lower worlds of infinite mystery, possibilities

The Multiverse of planes of reality, dimensions, parallel universes

Earth being a very important center of power in the cosmos

At least in the Multiverse connected to Earth directly

And even in the cosmos only indirectly connected

Through other planets in far away solar systems, even galaxies

I am trying to do my part to help humanity by following

The guardians and guides, Eldren, Wizards of Light

Ancient people of great power, knowledge, and wisdom

Magical beings of light and darkness, elder races

In direct communication with the gods of the higher worlds

Parallel dimensions and meta-universes with higher vibration

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The Tree of Life -- Sephiroth

Discovering true love where I least expected to find it

Telling the story of how I met someone I thought was

The One -- Some kind of cosmic paradox

Feedback loop with multiple possibilities, diversions

The power of the wind, the storm, tornado and hurricane

It is very difficult to retain balance, gentleness

At the eye of the storm, I sit at the edge of sky

Waiting, trying to learn how to return to the surface

Of Earth, without destroying that which I love, people

Life -- Flying over the highway, the river, university city

Across the valley towards the mountains, the Elder Ones

The Tree of Life, boundary and hope for love and knowledge

Wisdom, meaning and order out of chaos, the dance of the cosmic play

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Strange Party -- The Magician

A giant party gets out of hand, too many people

All manner of strange goings on, and then morning

Comes, and I have to chase out all the loiterers

The ones I want and need to get rid of, leaving

Some for last, the ones that are minding their own business

Alone or ones that I care for, even if they were not

With me -- If they are a true friend then they can stay

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Passage of Time

Going back to school, everything is harder yet simpler

I have grown and changed much since I was a boy, teenager

Mostly for the better, though experience takes its toll

The passage of time tends to wear us down, body and soul

Yet the mind, spirit, soul is not limited by the material

World -- The flower of consciousness, truth, bliss can bloom

In us all, no matter what age and time of our life it is

Out of our hearts and our heads, out of the darkness

Into and out of the light within ourselves -- Truth leads

To more truth, more light -- The meaning of life -- Love

Imagination, perception, understanding -- Creating the world

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Alice -- The Lovers

I ask her if she wants me to stay, holding her hand

She says if I want to stay, I should, but I want to know

If she wants me to stay, and she says yes, finally

She asks me if I want to come to bed with her

I say yes, but there are problems, another suitor

Things get out of hand, and he becomes jealous

And I do too, sort of, but he is the one threatening

Me after she and I make love, he accosts me while I am

Still with her in bed, and even before we made love

He is at least honest, but not subtle at all

He says he just wants sex, but it is clear

He wants to possess her, more than me, yet

He says he does not love her as I love her

We end up fighting, but I wish chose differently

I meet her again after fighting a lost cause against bullies

Dozens of guys who want to teach me a lesson for being different

To make themselves feel better, or perhaps justify ignorance

But I realize I am hurting others too, not just my attackers

So I am trying to change my ways, power and force only to heal

Using violence only as a last resort, replacing hate with compassion

Whenever possible, almost always -- Imagination and dreams instead of fear

Resentment -- Love beyond petty jealousy, at least in theory

Practice -- Action is harder than it seems just from talking about it

To do and not just say, yet the words and maps help us along our way

The peculiar and magical nature of life given order and meaning

Through language, the symbols of magic, a way to be with the one I love

Fighting against the forces of darkness, ignorance, and fear

With the weapons of love, understanding, and compassion not violence

Storytelling, humor, the magic of creation and preservation of myth

At least for one night, tonight, the only night -- To keep the Enemy

Away -- Even though he is possibly a friend, potentially, yet

With violence in his heart as I once did, yet still hope for change

The only way I can hold onto Alice is by letting go of jealousy

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In Dreams as in Life

Dreams can come true, if they come from the right place

To and through the cosmic consciousness as all life

Comes one way or another, yet some forms are more vivid

Colorful, bright -- Perception changes and creates reality

In dreams and in life -- The Material Universe has its own magic

Hidden to those who choose not to see, through ignorance or despair

There is always hope for growth and change, choices to make

Even in the deepest darkness, stars continue to shine

Life goes on, even in the space between and beyond the stars

Galaxies and universes, alternate and parallel dimensions

Some higher and some lower, but all with some form of life and love

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Alice -- The Universe

I teach other people how to levitate themselves, by first lifting them

Through force of will, so they know how it feels

To float in air, to be closer to sky, inside the soul too

Not just the world outside us, material or spiritual universe

Both mixed and combined together in the cosmic play of life

The Tree of Consciousness and Awareness uniting the five worlds

Levels of being, dimensions of reality, centers of intelligence

Divine Will -- The unfolding Multiverse of Universes

Some closer than others to the source, the eternal moment

Of creation, the sound of the word, language, magic

From darkness to light, chaos to order, and balance between

Opposites -- The fabric of multidimensional reality

All of this is reflected, mirrored in each soul, mind, spirit

Unlocking the secrets, knowledge of the ancients, future

Everyone has the potential, possibility of learning to fly

In dreams and in waking life, through the magic of language

Imagination -- Love, the glue of the Multiverse, binding and freeing

Us -- Plants and animals, rocks and rivers, mountains -- Edge of Sky

Within and outside our souls, doorways to higher realms of understanding

Awareness -- Into the void of space between stars, even into darkness

Love remains even in the shadows, as long as there is life

And even beyond what we consider life, the boundaries of known reality

Across the Cosmic Ocean, the shore of dreams, magic

The Source and Destination of Life, Light, Love -- The Tree of the World

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At the Edge of Faery and Earth

Many beautiful women, many different colors

Eyes, skin, hair, souls, auras, spirits, souls -- All unique

All I love, in some way or another -- More or less

Yet united by a common goal of making the world

Creating a better society and environment for the future

Sometimes I think I do not deserve to be in their company

I mostly just fight monsters -- They create life and order

In chaos, magic in the midst of stagnation, balance

Time passes, generations of human families, on the borderlands

Between the higher and middle words, Earth and Faery

Gaia walks with me and tells me of her past lives

As we try our best to positively influence the course

Of history on Earth and in the material universe beyond

There are always dark forces that are jealous and resentful

Ignorant or sorrowful -- Both inside us and in the worlds outside

Yet there is always hope for redemption in the conflict between

Good and evil -- The sides are not always clearly defined

And there are always more than two sides between chaos and order

Left and right, male and female, light and darkness, all combined

The Tree of Life and Consciousness uniting the worlds above and below

The play of the cosmos, setting and living landscape, Eldren

In the in-between world, anything is possible -- Here, home, and even beyond