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The Most Lovely Helen
Beloved wife of master poet Herman Nelson who in his words “took one last gulp of time and sank into eternity” in 2003
Again
Dervil – A Most Unusual Cat
Remembering an extraordinary cat #NationalCatDay
DERVIL
DERVIL
Dervil was the only cat
I ever knew with opposable thumbs
He didn’t really have them
but you could see
that he remembered them
from a recent incarnation
as a slightly lower life form
Studiously unrolling the roll
and flushing it down the toilet
Standing tall to grasp and turn
handles on the doors
THE HANGED MAN
THE HANGED MAN
White hands red
with the blood of eighty
million red men dead
With a soul
that’s been through a Sioux or two
Upside down on a tarot card
hanging between the worlds
AGAIN
AGAIN
To look out across sunsets and centuries
to see time as nothing – – – love as all
To touch new skins in wonder
and come together again
Under a sky, dark with a million
ancient stars
EAST OF KUNDALINI
EAST OF KUNDALINI
Let in the love and give it when you can
See the pain and relieve it when you can
Get into religions and beyond them if you can
Follow all the Gurus and pass them if you can
Dive into each teaching for all the essence there
And strip and strip and strip until you’re bare
But keep my friends I pray a little sense of fun
For when the doings and undoings are all done
and the livings and dyings are all done
Somewhere East of Kundalini
The sun with rise _____ and _____ You will be the sun
NATIVE AMERICAN POW
NATIVE AMERICAN POW
There is a legend in Africa
It says that you cannot ever really
kill a people or take over their land
Because their souls
will be reborn in
your children
WOW!
THE FIRST SUPPER
THE FIRST SUPPER
As above so below
In a life between lives
I sit at a table of light
Set like Da Vinci’s last supper
A table of light lined with people of light
The one in the center the brightest of light
Takes a knife all of light and cuts an arm all of light
The slice of his flesh drips red with his blood
(the only color in the picture of light)
To each at this table he offers
The gift of his flesh to the people of light
(the only color in the picture of light)
One by one they have a choice
not a last supper, but a first
By accepting the gift of his flesh
(the only color in the picture of light)
They come to this Earth
their own gifts to give