The Slings And Arrows: Double Shadorma

THE SLINGS AND ARROWS

Give it up
These foolish attempts
To cover
The whole world
With leather so’s to protect
Our sensitive feet

Far better
Since achievable
Watch our step
And wear some
Stout but comfortable shoes
Wherever we go

(W)rapping

(W)RAPPING

Wrapping wrapping
Wrapping wrapping

Once we’ve removed
All of this wrapping
We get to the present
We get to the present

Rapping rapping
Rapping rapping

And boogie on down
And boogie on down
To a back beat track
Till the cows come home

All We Need

ALL WE NEED

Perhaps all the things
We need to learn
Are already here

And in actual fact
We only need
One single thing

To notice

Monkey Mind

MONKEY MIND

Watch the monkey mind
Chattering through the jungle
Swinging thought to thought

The Ice Cream Van

THE ICE CREAM VAN

Harken! Hear’st thou not
The jolly old ice cream van?
An old childhood memory

Reentering the present …

Ice cream in the Winter?
Dream on, my dearest, for
Now who leaves the house?

Reentering the present …

I scream at this Winter
For none enter the house
No one any more save I

Doing Nothing II: Quatrain

DOING NOTHING II

Not too practical this proposition agreed
Yet still practicality is not of the essence
While stillness may still serve to produce
Here and there an unexpectedness or two

A Winning Hand

A WINNING HAND

Patience trumps annoyance
Mindfulness trumps irritation
Non-attachment trumps ego

Free

FREE

Seeing attachments
To simply see attachments
Without attachment

Divine

DIVINE

Each new born moment
A fresh opportunity
To reseed Eden

Intuition Tuition

INTUITION TUITION

Still the mind chatter
Pay attention and listen
Silence speaks volumes