Harmony [Free Verse]

Tap the resonance
And vibrate at the rate
Of those eternal emanations --
The thrumming under-pulse
Of the Universe.

The ripples that can't be heard
Or felt haptically,
But must be tuned into
To feel, otherwise.

Downshift what is you --
Put your Self into idle.

Don't panic
As you start to slide --
Frictionlessly,
A lack of friction that's
Unfamiliar & Uncomfortable,

But which will be the way
One's worldline plays out --
Effortlessly -- to the end.

My Soul Runs Cold [Lyric Poem]

My soul runs cold, and I
Fear it might be dying.
It rises into the sky --
Horrifyingly flying.

How'd it achieve liftoff,
And race to such a pace?
It started to just drift off...
Now: the cold vacuum of space.

Dare I hope for a snap back
When it reaches tether-end?
Or intergalactic bushwhack,
Stumbling lost with no descent.

Maybe, it'll sprawl on forever
To the universe's edge.
I might not be so clever,
But I'll be a universe full-fledged.

River Trance [Common Meter]

I sit on a green grass riverside,
watching brown waters flow.
Some karst monoliths stand behind
in which scrubby shrubs grow.

I feel my mind could be swept on
down to the sprawling sea,
while my body would stay behind
asleep with back to tree.

And panic and freedom both rise -
untethered from earth's hold.
As I see the future and the past
blended at the threshold.

And space, like time, has no meaning --
just an amorphous blob.
I awaken gasping spastically,
my pulse in a wild throb.

POEM: Agony’s Anchor

pain nails me to The Now

there is no pulling away

the only escape lies
in finding the drift,
riding the swells
until there is nothing
but those sacred undulations