Kosmic Artist
to a particle physicist
the sub-atomic level
is an easel
sprayed
by some crazy artist
whose name
is written in every
infinitesimal detail
so not even a physicist
can fail to recognize
the Intelligence
always presumed
to be energy.
not that
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Higgs-Boson* Is A Particle, God's Not
it has always been
unfathomable to me
how physics can posit
any unified field theory
without first factoring in
the Intelligence that formed
the equation in the beginning.
i mean,
it's as if
not even
one synapse
of gravity
is given to the question
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Cut!
if i wanted to
paint fancy faces
all over this page
i could!
if i wanted to
ramble on and on
inastreamofconsciousness
a+riverstyx &back
i could!
but i just want
my open fist
to pop out
from this page
and grab you
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Pyramid
an alien tower
left by arcane builders
who command visceral gods
must first be mastered.
seven slow steps
to peak at crown,
steel spine
ascended,
illumination all around,
levity too,
but contraction
of human
gravity too great
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Fusion
when, face upturned to sky
face co-mingles with sky,
breath drawn out
painlessly
co-mingles with cloud,
blood tide broken,
dissolved in blue
lake himalayan sages
say is without wave,
heart waveless
fused with clear cold
lotus lilies, pitiless
in an instant
of nuclear death
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For 20th Century Historians
how did a few
thousand
royal tibetan lamas
come to so influence
modern consciousness
research, psychiatry,
psychology
in only
40 some years?
i guess
the atheist
regime in power
in beijing
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Lost In Land Of Hidden Imams
like aurobindo* i fly
free from all baited nets
to shining city so bright
black letters blind sight
and passersby avert glances
at the man standing
in marketplace palms open
with a big clot of blood
spreading over his shirt
where his heart used to be
before he ripped it out
*Sri Aurobindo
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Minoru Lakes Gardens
in the rock garden
an elegantly pruned duck
hovers butterfly proud
on tortoise shell pond,
applies standard strokes,
glides forth.
royal crest
symmetrical waves
released
still point
supernova
flattens pleiades
bends orion's belt
washing clean balding green
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Shalom
yom kippur.
another year
Y'shua Bar Yosef*
goes ignored
by all but those
who have explored
the collective conscious
and like Daniel
been in the presence
of Michael,
military commander
extraordinaire.
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Seedburst
galactic seeds sprout flowers
in telescopes of astronomers
vines of strings of stars
entwine, bursting fibres
in more and more mirror
image of human brain
physicists chase
back to big roar author.
if you know that artist
enfolds kosmos
inside your mind,
congratulations!
you've entered
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