I Walk Like Mist

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i walk like mist

quiet and slow

i follow a gypsy stream

flowing over

glacial boulders and polished rocks

i walk into the wonder

of morning’s birth

while golden light

dances through emerald trees

and purple clouds dance

moored to the earth

i walk into the arc of presence

riddles speaking

of generations gone by

of living fountains

of microscopic swarms of life

fiddling beneath my feet

i walk

upon landscapes never explored

i walk into lands never seen or touched

present,

i am home

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i stop

to watch the wind

blowing through

the wild old trees

brilliant white clouds

paint the glass sky

multi faceted emerald

splashes across the mountains

infinite variations

texture life

In wonder

all is included

entering me

colors of

interwoven

filaments

flow in a waterfall of light

i peer around

silent

And

I listen in

Here

there is no inner or outer

Just raging isness

flowing with love

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wholeness, love and peace

are waiting in quietude…..

it is not in chasing thought’s dreams

nor in desire or in

the endless searching of possessions

you can’t try to get at it

you can’t analyze to uncover it

it doesn’t lie in dogma

it could care less about enemies or states

hierarchy doesn’t exist here

it lies nestled

boundless

quiet

still

waiting for you to be still

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We are in a system

where we are conditioned

to buy into its creed

its definitions

its labels

defining us

through conditioning

into the roles we play

making us belief

that the system we live in

is normal and

simply our humanity

making us believe

in capitalism as if it is a good thing

yet

the system has deceived you and i

it is a system

that grows and buys deception

an economic system

toxic and hierarchical

based in fear and separation

a mirror of its creators

a system meant to delude us

to condition us

unbeknownst to us

subtly

taking us into

its promises of wealth and success

its delusion

that there are good and bad people

telling us to buy, buy, buy

tellihg us that you can

climb higher and higher

the economic ladder

to find the ultimate pleasures and achievements

blinding us so

that we don’t see there is no truth

of any of its beguiling jewels

that no matter how high one gets

one is still isolated and suffering

and in that

all the drama ensues

look around

see that with money and power

You can buy violence and war

you can buy destruction

you can buy despair

you can buy depression

you can buy suffering

you can buy propaganda

you can buy politicians

you can buy ignorance

you can buy hate

you can buy enslavement

yet,

yet,

yet,

anything worthwhile

you can’t buy

see

you can’t buy peace

you can’t buy sustainability

you can’t buy freedom

you can’t buy truth

you can’t buy love

you can’t buy awareness

nor awakening

if you want to be free

free of suffering

free of delusion

and get out of the role you play

stand still for a moment

stop and wonder with me

have you ever asked yourself

who the hell am i

have you ever wondered

do i really want to be free

to be in truth

are you willing to get underneath

to destroy

everything

you are not

to destroy all

beliefs

to destroy the

multitudes of attachments

based on this personalized enculturated self

of feeling separate,

find out

rage into your chains,

get out of the cycle of suffering,

get off the cycle of contributing

to the violence of our systemic drama

money casn’t help one here,

which means that awakening is for anyone

and in this awakening

one will come to see that

power and money

are simply reflections

of insecurity and sorrow,

and that in letting go

you will find the greatest power of all

one that is already within

wholeness

nothing is holding you back,

but you

and that is an illusion too

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present

open

nowhere to go

nowhere to be

one realizes

one has what one needs

in presence

all is

and is infinitely more powerful,

beautiful and meaningful

than all the possessions

and wealth of the world

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standing at the edge

of myself

orange webs of light

stirred this

mornings birth

a heavy

blue gray fog

flowed

over the brown

swollen river

songs chimed from the water

chimed from the wind

chimed in gentle tides

flowing through by

the amphitheater of awareness

like rainbolic colors

of delight

upon the steep slope

trees rose in arching patterns

i savored the limber branches

reaching and arching,

stretching into the blue canopy

i dove into a falling poem

read over its burgundy veins

it’s orange summits

it’s mountainous symmetry

and explored this heaven

sounds of laughter

let go from the river

signs and visions welcome me

nothing could be caught and assimilated

standing there

Like an iridescent dragonfly

with god’s eyes

i stood dancing

alone with it