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Jul 2013 · 751
bicycling
CharlesC Jul 2013
We learn once
and never
again..
never not
restoring from
imbalance..
a Singularity:
left and right
earth and sky
round and straight
movement and still
machine and spirit
bi and cycle..
such Centering
might one day
en-lighten our
struggling
world...
Jul 2013 · 1.2k
grains of sand
CharlesC Jul 2013
in William Blake's
hologram of fame..
each grain of sand
in beaches we know
contains a universe..
and in each
those beaches again
with grains for us
to look once more
and find..
in the poet's frame
holo-science might
new Reality claim...?
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.

--William Blake
Jul 2013 · 601
Why bad things
CharlesC Jul 2013
to good people fall..
on this question
faith and trust
hang and fade....
heat and passion
bitter rejection
all gain entrance..
these separators
further separate..
our duality roars
with new strength..
then with fortune
a healing balm
ancient Oneness
blooms and will
bloom again...
Jul 2013 · 1.8k
Mollie Kathleen
CharlesC Jul 2013
a descent
1000 feet down
to pristine silence
a Silence
on surface unknown..
guide speaks there of
miners and animals
struggles to eke
in candlelight
daily bread from
earth's stubborn veins..
encasements:
gold in rocks
ounces in tons
suffering and toil
in that Silence...
toured this mine
in ******* Creek
Colorado
last week...
Jun 2013 · 907
Wild eye
CharlesC Jun 2013
a fortunate photo
towhee up close
sentimental bird..
red eye warns
nature's wild
constricted point..
seeing here
what one sees
in restless tiger's
fearsome eye...
Jun 2013 · 3.1k
an Orgasmic burst
CharlesC Jun 2013
of flavor
in an A-ha moment..
at these differences
we smile.. :)
fractals are about
similarity and difference..
connectedness rules..

Let us inquire
of the similarity
in the bursts above..
all similarities
find Torus shape..
Torus is formula
iterating creating all
differences we find..

On a vertical column
curved surface surrounds
a hidden black hole..
at a Point
black hole turns white..
now our bursts
all are as One..

The Torus needs
motivation to move
arousal and stimulation
below and above..
all this Similarity
iterates the differences
so striking we see..

More differences now:
succulent juices
pulses and flow
DMT liquid light..
all these differences..
really..?
we smile again.. :)
ok Mae...
Jun 2013 · 1.0k
As above
CharlesC Jun 2013
so below..
this recipe
seems as for
all of life..
Pausing
to recognize
above and below
both belong to
this moment's
Self identity..
regrets of past
worries of future
these Surprise
ingredients in
our best
Recipe...
Jun 2013 · 724
Greenstone bridge
CharlesC Jun 2013
Creek trickles under
an old arched bridge
trees rooted feet
have their plenty
on flowing edge..
What is meaning
the synthesis
of these elements
this cool oasis in
afternoon heat..?
A word to satisfy
or simply wordless
hologram:
each in each
each in all
all in each..
each and all
in other...and...
Historic Manitou
greenstone bridge
built in 1907..
Jun 2013 · 822
Theory of Every-thing
CharlesC Jun 2013
for science
an illusive goal
try and fail..
Every-thing is shrunk
energy and matter
hidden and dark..
with added surprise:
Every-thing is
accelerating away..
notable here in
science frustration:
their outward focus
Every-thing out there..
might we ask
What is out there..?
with holistic sense
our holograph brains
processing waves
interference patterns
making apparent
Every-thing seen..
Might this seed
blossom one day
looking for that
Theory of
EVERYTHING...?
Jun 2013 · 2.0k
Pineal
CharlesC Jun 2013
A minute gland
pinecone resemblance
a mid-brain singularity..
perhaps dimensional
transition..
Secretions of fluid
some call sacred..
New realities revealed
emotional reports exclaim:
more real than real..!
New century questions:
a final frontier..?
is this contact
of extra dimensions..?
a liquid light
of prophecies
our identities
our futures now
in sight...?
See Rick Strassman, M. D.
DMT
The Spirit Molecule
Jun 2013 · 1.0k
group Dynamics
CharlesC Jun 2013
Trying to en-vision
a group's Self..
A profound necessity:
preserve at once
Each and All..
locating similarity
sensing the group's
one Name..
yet relish each
difference surprise..
two dimensions
each member
in Awareness
should own..

Still insufficient
the mapping above..
departure is next..
find our location
this morning
or at nightfall
this very moment..
A new venture
just Now begins..
paths in Ocean's
oneness..
on each path
Awareness remains...
Jun 2013 · 1.1k
Wildfire
CharlesC Jun 2013
Summer weather
raging..
destruction and escape
smoked animal fear..
Shifting winds
pass over then
return to destroy..
a Junetime inferno..
our somber prayer:
fire's rising energy
amplify our own
Stimulation
of rain...
Black Forest Fire
June 2013
Jun 2013 · 1.5k
Unmasking
CharlesC Jun 2013
Of success
masks of deeds
degrees well earned
ladders ascended
heroism one time..
all of these
each one's own..
masks of success
hiding ourselves
from ourselves..

Of failure
in mirror image
with extra power
hiding ourselves
from ourselves..

Unmasking
throws questions..
venerate success..?
castigate failure..?
Success
masks itself..?
and failure too..?
now breathing:
ego unmasking
as we go...
Jun 2013 · 1.6k
Mr. Magpie
CharlesC Jun 2013
This bird
of duality
distinct black
and white..
but then:
a high perch
seeing all..
in swooping flight
separates join and
one body soars..
Mr. Magpie retorts
I'm two in one...

Then this from
a friend:
you are forgetting
the thievery..
How about thievery
Mr. Magpie..?
collecting and
hoarding of
shiny objects..?
Mr. M. once more:
black is thievery
shiny is white..
I'm two in one..!
thanks, linda... :)
Jun 2013 · 4.9k
Morning sun
CharlesC Jun 2013
In morning sun
yellow-green leaves
black branches
such contrasts flow..
yellow sun warmth
seems to pull..
pulls the sensations
fullness and growth
and makes nature
luxuriant once more..
hidden chirpers note
the dawning of
summer...
Jun 2013 · 640
Finding ourselves
CharlesC Jun 2013
Two or three
gathered
or more..
tribes and nations
families
June lilac petals
the universe..
Each is searching
for illusive identity..
Then into our
organs and cells
the joining somehow
of local and large..

Quietly listening now
to holo-gram whispers
from each and all..
all contains each
and each all..
Whispers ask us
to find ourselves
on roadways with
two destinations
always arriving
and departing from
ports of call:
Each and All...
Jun 2013 · 562
A gray day
CharlesC Jun 2013
Sun hidden
subdued clouded
rays on this
June day..
Scaling of light
we respond
our internal scales
mirroring..
downcast some are
What matters though
are relational things
darkened contrasts..
A Wakened
relational spirit
may bring reward:
yesterday Sun...
Jun 2013 · 815
Dimensions
CharlesC Jun 2013
Science
has searched for
those extra dimensions..
Fiction
imagines spaceship travel
wormholes as tunnels
to other worlds..
Perhaps your search
and mine should
turn around toward
vast innerspace..
Locate our center
as the place
all dimensions meet..
and our growth
frequent recognition of
a relational whole
lower and upper
edges and spirit...
Jun 2013 · 309
the Point of tears
CharlesC Jun 2013
the Point
hovers between
joy and sorrow..
and it contains
a precious revelation
two emotions one..
Such fullness awakens
a birdsong rises
living creation unfolds..
and tears then
begin to flow...
"Men must live
and create.  Live
to the point
of tears."
--Albert Camus
May 2013 · 657
the Newscast
CharlesC May 2013
Ordered for us
their portrayal of
selected happenings..
the Real news
on horizon becoming
are silent discoveries
hidden from view
by a few reporters
looking out there
but inward at
the same Time..
their startling
bits of news
waking result of
polarities at play..
Newscasts with
only outward attention
may someday find
viewers retreating..
half truths
hardly digestible...
May 2013 · 1.7k
Mindfulness
CharlesC May 2013
That blade of grass
imagine
as microcosm of
the universe whole..
that last step
a motion containing
world's busy motions..
when rising at dawn
a pillow placement
enclosing all of
the coming day..
holograms
of mindfulness
joy stimulation...
May 2013 · 299
Finding the dark
CharlesC May 2013
A reminder
this morning
of scheme forgotten..
covering one's eyes
(children know)
on occasions needing
sudden escape..
into that closet
or deep cellar..
quick trip away
a moment
enough for
laughing recovery..
for the Advanced
in their journey
finding a glow
all is together
in that concealed
instant flash...
May 2013 · 769
Into Harm's Way
CharlesC May 2013
The long ago
memories persist
stories of war
back then
reenter today..
for a few
their immersion
brought glimpses
of more..
but stories persist..

Those life endings
ordered and angered..
new remembering
brings fresh pain..
a rejection decided
brought a lifetime
burden of guilt..
a lost limb then
anchored renewal
for others today..

We need ask
on this
day of memories
that all suffering
long and brief
heavy and light
be Sighted anew
accepted at last
sharp edges of
welcome Light...
Thanks to
West Point
Class of 1967
for your
service and suffering..
Documentary:
Into Harm's Way
May 2013 · 632
Beauty
CharlesC May 2013
This illusive
name..
may be serving
in these our
turbulent times..
digging beneath
we find that
real perceiving
must look twice
to locate truth..
flowers and forms
are just anchors
are not alone..
glowing edges
come from our
Eye co-creating
consciousness
elevating..
Beauty discovered
just in time...!
May 2013 · 3.3k
Red Rectangle
CharlesC May 2013
In symmetry
and colors
a notable image..
meditative model
Hubble finding
in night sky
light years
from here
and Now..

Science musings:

How created..?

A creator or
creation..?

A centered aging
binary system..?

Polarity energy
says it all..?

The unusual shape?
Sacred geometry
expresses itself..?

A definite torus..
All Reality
and Consciousness
expressed as Torus..?

Boundaries of cones
form an X..?

Creation of symmetry
interconnectedness
recognized..?

Why unusual colors
Red and Blue..?

Left and Right
Male and Female
oppositions prevail..?

As hydrocarbon molecules
colors building blocks
for organic life..?

Center Light transforming
to component colors..?

In a few million years
the Red Rectangle nebula
will probably bloom
into a planetary
nebula..

New birth
Now announced...?
image at
polarityinplay.blogspot.com

for CharlieP
May 2013 · 382
for a friend
CharlesC May 2013
It is quiet
now..
but her voice
her singing
her robed
presence
in lakeside
memory remains..
In our quiet
we remember
her courage
seeking with us..
our grasping
and glimpses
in our
morning sun..
for her now
in ecstasy
that mountain
shadow
as Light
shines anew...
May 2013 · 421
Bird on branch
CharlesC May 2013
first surveying
then throat feathers
ruffle a song..
small so loud
distant response
or solo stage..?
beak to sharpen
red says finch
now departure..
perhaps...
May 2013 · 872
skinny snake
CharlesC May 2013
This name
she gave
to that ego
we know
and don't know..
Out of humility
the self ITSELF
declares..
a simple entrance
but never alone..
accompanying is
a serpentine
uncoiling
some large and
some small..
our life chore
is recognition
keeping our Eye
on these our
slithering friends..
and knowing
no matter how
skinny they
don't disappear..
and this more:
their fond wish
merely to grow..
Thanks to Nancy H
snake handler extraordinaire
One Simple Voice
retreat
May 18, 2013
May 2013 · 725
Requiem
CharlesC May 2013
Memories of terror
a report of
childhood hearings
of this classical
composition..
words of despair
yet hope and praise..
music with tension
the foreboding drum
repeating four beats
reminders of fears
separations with tears..

How great will be the terror,
when the Judge comes
who will smash everything completely!


In modern moments
our searches scan
always for light..
the light we seek
under coverings
concealed..
This Solemnity
seems our urging
finding our peace..
claiming a vessel
of rich wholeness
on that surface
with two sides...

**Let eternal light shine upon them, O Lord,
with your saints forever; for you are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, O Lord, and may
perpetual light shine on them
with your saints forever; for you are merciful.
Verdi's Requiem
May 18th, 2013
May 2013 · 2.3k
Dandelion
CharlesC May 2013
After last manicure
preparation for guests
concern for
their notice of
most careful work..
Yet something was
hidden concealed from
close diligence..
With the sun
a yellow explosion
just that single one..
deep yellow glory
a message of
imperfection
in quick rising
Joy...
May 2013 · 771
On the trail
CharlesC May 2013
I'll let you get past
He said..
a narrowing trail
these constrictions
each and all
are miniature
black holes..
most plentiful now
our traffic snarls
scarcities abound
narrow painful news..
today's trail courtesy
an expanding gesture
in constricting times...
May 2013 · 1.0k
Parable tuning
CharlesC May 2013
Our life story
darkness and joy
is our parable
our truest name..
each day
a conversation
this dialogue with
our evolving name..
our parable then
if live and well
daily transforms..
and on occasion
noses ahead
urging our follow
invites our listen..
together we are
co-creators
mostly in tune...
Thanks, Mae...!
May 2013 · 990
Sitting under clouds
CharlesC May 2013
First the attraction
a morning sighting
of new spring warmth..
that initial penetrating
of sun's rays
an altered state..
then drifting clouds
breeze and chill
disappointment aroused
the earlier promise
seemed unfulfilled..
some alternations then
clouds and sun
is morning truth..
feeling the shadows
yield and not
clouds there are
bringing the sun...
May 2013 · 834
KC
CharlesC May 2013
KC
She loved me
and I her..
their lives made rich
this living wagging
being is embedded
in her soul..
their sharing of
each her pain
no separation then
or now..
both courageous in
life's offered struggles
seeking air and sun..
of play and joys
car rides and tennis *****
puzzles.. even rules
memories by the score..
a shadow box
now these memories fill
the shadow conceals
a shared and glowing
Light...
for Susan and KC
May 2013 · 659
...and the war came
CharlesC May 2013
Those perilous times
with union aflame..
save or destruct
these choices invite
a fateful game..
war introduced
and the war came..
what would emerge
from chaos unleashed
was new reflection..
naming the offense
to higher dimension..
war must now
prove its worth
promise to continue
finish that work..
those ancient partners
chaos and order
created together
a nation's re-birth...
digesting Lincoln's
Second Inaugural Address
March 4, 1865
May 2013 · 3.0k
Wrinkles
CharlesC May 2013
The time honored
brainstorming
collective planning
a filling blackboard
is now denounced..
storming is thought
thought on thought
wrinkle on wrinkle..
what goes begging
is quantum's leap
a leap waiting
for solitude and
an empty slate...
May 2013 · 456
Names
CharlesC May 2013
an old question
yet vital now:
my name
is it really me..?
a unique name
constricts my light
it's my edge
my circumference
rounding a center..
our names today
a good fit..?
does careful scan
find them severed
center from edge..?
remembering then
the center Light
a new name
rejoins once more..
we are ready
to soar...
May 2013 · 896
Battled Years
CharlesC May 2013
Our school days
taught the union
was the prize
from blood and
battled years..
a constitution
survival through
loss unimagined..
but now
this day in
consciousness rise
a hearing and
close listening to
Gettysburg words..
elevating purpose
echoes of equality
teasing new Eyesight
from battled years...
after viewing
"Lincoln"
the movie..
May 2013 · 622
Advocate 2
CharlesC May 2013
Speaking now
in our moment
altered..
might we shift
our perspective
most quickly
below to above..
We then join
in her Light
projecting from
her new dimension
to ours in shadow..
ecstatic with her
in pulling
those sparks from
darkness below...
also for
Kathryn
May 2013 · 621
The Parable Teller
CharlesC May 2013
The fixed and static
mostly those nouns
bear our watching..
these are snapshots
fixities in flow
making their claim
as the whole show..!
we should consult
a parable teller
to shift the lights
reveal a new show..
and we need be
especially alert
for those wishing
the teller to go...
May 2013 · 1.2k
Math lesson
CharlesC May 2013
for all of us
non-mathematicians
this for our grasp..
there are structures
which are discovered
not invented..
those notations
1 + 1 = 2
these are inventions..
behind these garments
math reality lies
which includes all
especially you..!
the math guy says
Reality = Relationship
all around
up and down...
the math guy:
Max Tegmark
May 2013 · 2.5k
Gratitude
CharlesC May 2013
encloses all with
softened light:
exercise repetitions
as health advisory..
decisions on paths
taken and not..
regrets missed connections
weather limitations..
no shorthand LOLs
a throwback letter
to an earlier time
with instant delivery..
this best of both
old and new..
an ending with
affection..
an email of note...!
May 2013 · 666
Advocate
CharlesC May 2013
speaking of
she who now
glides on
the other side..
her Knowing
perceiving now
this our dimension..
beginnings and ends
great and small
joys and interruptions
those difficult hours..
might we sense
in altered moments
a shaded tunnel
her pulling Light...
a friend
May 2013 · 1.6k
Syrophoenician Woman
CharlesC May 2013
Start 1
with bright light
imagining
unconfined
no inner or outer
a wish arises
for something other
any crumb will do..
with the finding
of that crumb
a jolt startles
from a slumber..

Start 2
with lowly crumb
imagining
containment
outer no inner
a wish arises
for boundary erasure
a merging with
bright light..
with the finding
a jolt startles
from a slumber..

breathwork:  12121212...
Mark 7
May 2013 · 780
Surprise
CharlesC May 2013
Encountering
surprises on
a Friday walk..
one hanging dead
leaf from autumn
suspended through
winter winds
never to fall..
large boulders
aligned to suggest
an ancient flow..
dead rabbit remains
a coyote brought
this violent end..

walking surprises
seem endless..
those differences
carry life forces
of creation..
we then ask
what background
do these forces
expect to rely..?
consider a white
blank page as
the poet surveys
Knowing that all
is surprise...!
May 2013 · 869
May snow
CharlesC May 2013
not may
it really happened..
May day snow
Spring was dressed
in fine Winter garb..
icicles clinging
now it's day two
snow's hasty exit
icicles are drops
birds now resume
nesting arguments..
many schedules
interrupted...!
May 2013 · 505
a True Story
CharlesC May 2013
a flow
of many forks
one river source
end in beginning
beginning in end
wholeness transcends..
the river much more
with similar forks
reflecting the source..
this river story
perhaps it's location
unclear:  out there
or in here..?
if no answer
a True Story...
Apr 2013 · 340
Dream-like
CharlesC Apr 2013
Reflecting this moment
on what we call
our waking world..
from rising sun
to setting of dark..
some are asking:
is this a dream..?
some of scientists
are also asking:
observer and observed
are these contained like
dreamer and dream..?
then we are asking:
if all is dreamer and dream
what would waking
reveal...?
Apr 2013 · 2.0k
Third Eye
CharlesC Apr 2013
Four eyes
in soft contact
contact lost
and regained..
separate in merge
in this moment
four Now one..
finding the
shared illusive
Third Eye...
Third Eye as
pineal gland..
a small singular
***** behind
our eyes..)
Apr 2013 · 604
Welcome
CharlesC Apr 2013
Into our space
life varieties penetrate
many are those
greeted with joy..
yet many others
find our unwelcome
depositing a wish
to flee or fight..
and questions of Why?
darken the wish..
perhaps the Taproom
or the PastryPantry
answers the wish..
Her advice arrived
simply one day:
enclose each invasion
with a Welcome..!
then watch for
a Light display...!
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