Friday, January 18, 2008

Sound of Snowflakes

Air moves through space
Star light echoes forgiveness upon freshly furrowed fields
Warming Earth's womb ready to unfold another

Ebbing branches dance in a soup of slow silence like an Alexander Calder Mobile
Ohm they chant
With a leaf's calming breath
I exhale into Earth's frozen skin covering ground and sky
heart hugs
heart lets go
heart feels its myssterious intent

Coffee sipped quickens
Slow morning begins to be pulled
Thousands of ice encased limbs snap
with the sound of a hunter's shot
Blending their sound with the memory of quasars
Sending their codes to consciuosness witnessing

Snow flakes are unbable to doubt
They float and melt everyday
Looking for a place waiting
a seat to sit unknown
a seat waiting without hesitation
a seat without reservation
a seat becoming
melting back
upon the sun's undebatable command

joe culley 2005

Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Corcovado Dream

Peering into the valley of my heart
It melts
Midnight clouds float
Luminously through moon glow rain
All stretches outward with completeness of being
I witness
I witness the breath
I am earth
I am music, light color, shape, taste, and texture
Singing the ancient songs of
Na
Dha
Dhin
Ti Ri Ki Ta Dha!
Guru’s awaken my talc cacked spirit
Whispering quietly its intention
Scrapping skin bark peeling
Red mud crying down the mountains of eternal stillness
Mother is here
Between the light and shadow
Between flow and stagnation
Between hugging my bones and radiating my soul
Between ego and no time
Dreams seep into being
Looping air looping Earth
Resonating to a crescendo of inner fire
Colliding with the low vibrato growl of the howler monkey’s chant
A small plastic turtle given along with this journey
Sits upon my palm from my beloved wife
Reminding me to be still and to slow with quick alertness letting go

Allowing the flow to waterfall from my eyes
Everything I have ever loved is awakened
Skipping on a tight rope above bottomless chasms
Diving into faith
Landing upon a grass runway in the middle of our ancient heart
I melt
And fade into nothingness.
joe culley 2004