Before Beginning in the Middle: 3 poems
Here is some of the poetry I wrote just before and during the Ziji Collective leadership intensive at Karme Choling. Before Having gone to bliss Hope & fear are like detours That end where they began. Dropping persona and facade, True creativity & interest Are exposed as the ever present tidal-wave of nowness. Beginning Arriving is an abrupt And gradual process. The drala of this land is Instantly wakeful. Habitual holdings, guardings, evadings Relax slowly. Like a moon Caressing the meadow, Waxing one half A rich column of smoke pirouetting its way up into an uncontrived blue sky. Enlightened Society sounds like Nick's unobstructed beating heart Introducing us to the ziji of a shared flower petal. in the Middle Heart break ice chest Not so cold, but so hard The Vidyadhara Lone leaf lilt