Shift Movement

  Little Red Riding Cosmos   Where am I? I know this much: I am in California, on planet earth, within the solar system, part of the milky way, which is bound to the local galactic group, which forms The Great Wall Galactic structure, which is part of further strings and shapes of galaxies in [...]

The mournful sound of the fog horn out in the bay, A sad sigh for humanity’s failings, Snow flakes falling, Frozen tears, As eerie as they are beautiful. Like their spirits, Locked, Imprisoned, Hidden within, Yearning for freedom, And Truth. This is the beginning of great change, Amidst the silence, Snatched out of the freezing [...]

I give thanks for the love, That is present in my life, For all that is good, For all that is pure, For all that is joyful, For all that nourishes my soul.  I give thanks for my family and friends, Though many of them live far away, They are in my thoughts always, And [...]

Sol Luckman    I have seen two Crows Locked and spinning A tempest in a tempest Across the windswept sage Up over the Cañón rim I have met the Otter Woman By the riverside and Felt the gift of her watery Medicine Heal the worry inside As for my feminine side Downstream the Beavers are [...]

He was a Nam Vet having flash backs, I was a black band wearing hippy that protested the war. “You spit on me when I got back”. “I didn’t spit on you, you are a hero”. “We were over there dying and you were protesting”. “I was protesting because you were over there dying. I was protesting the government, not [...]

Something broke all the words. I have these words only because I was near the bottom of heaven when the languages fell in shards. I nearly died, impaled in their despairing crash. All the words are broken, all the languages are dead. I sit like a child with a giant puzzle, assembling the bits that [...]

How can beauty be killed? Melt the ice caps; Beauties that we’ve known and loved will die. Polar bears will swim to exhaustion, their cubs will starve. A beautiful creature is dying, but is beauty dead? Poach ivory from elephants until there are no more elephants. A great and profound beauty is dying. I feel [...]

Without fear, desperation and terrorism And with love , affection, compassion, and equilibrium To live with security, comfort and happiness And with truth, order and harmony But development goals adopted in last two millenniums Have failed creating more and more pessimisms Raising serious apprehension For survival of humans In the planet earth and cosmic world [...]

My daughter gave birth to her first child, a son, on 6 Jan 2011.  Whilst in the womb, she referred to him as ‘Peanutsky’ and I decided to write a song for his birthday.  The lyrics go like this: Let’s all rejoice and offer thanks for the miracle here today, A precious child has joined [...]

Hummingbird   At the tip of my nose there is something sweeter than any earthly perfume, yet I cannot smell it. Every time my eyes blink a vision appears of splendor beyond imagining; I see it not. At the ends of my fingers is a touch filled with love deeper and truer than any devotion [...]