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.... Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2025 20:16:01 [title] => Summer into Autumn [date] => 2025/09/14 [poem] => Summer’s Blaze upon your shoulders falls
And ripe you body’s bloom admired by all
You stride in love with all the world and more
Flower of velvet pinks in blossoms prime
Speak now of autumn’s falling of your lips
Now torn and bruised and scattered to the ground
Where hips and berries echo where you stood
Your beauty passed into the season’s power
With syrup made to treat the season’s cold
You live again in autumn’s cupboard love [categories] => Seasons, Nature, Change [media] => )
.... Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2025 20:16:51 [title] => Tha gangs are on the streets [date] => 2025/09/14 [poem] => The gangs are on the street
It’s after midnight now
The boys get out their toys
Burning crazy in their eyes

A hail of bullets say goodbye
Prepare for your karma to ripen

On the streets the presents change hands
To get the highest spot on the Christmas tree

The gangs are on the streets
Fear in the blood strikes the telomeres
Offspring damaged before their chance has come [categories] => violence, karma [media] => )
.... Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2025 20:18:04 [title] => Who am I [date] => 2025/09/14 [poem] => Do I begin and end?
Am I contained in this sac?
Can I influence things around me?
Am I the same as the things around me

Do I never begin and never end?
Am I everywhere?
Do things around influence me?
Am I different from the things around me?

Blessed with the entire ocean of which we are a drop
Smile
Be
We are the entire ocean
We are the entire sky
We are all the stars and planets
We are the entire universes
At present in this form
We smile at the stars in awe as they are but a reflection of our being
We are not separate from the universe
We are the universe manifesting in a particular form for a while
Just as a wave on the ocean doesn’t have separate identity to the ocean
You are not separate from all that is
Your body and personality rise and fall like a wave
The awareness; that true nature does not begin or end
You are not a static being you are a dynamic becoming
A moment to moment unfolding of reality itself
As Zen master Dōgen put it:
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” [categories] => Spirituality, Identity [media] => )
.... Array ( [timestamp] => 9/16/2025 15:58:19 [title] => The blue jug [date] => 2025/11/30 [poem] => The blue jug sits on the speaker [categories] => Home [media] => )
.... Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2026 20:16:01 [title] => Camelias [date] => 2026/03/28 [poem] => There are camelias outside the window [categories] => Nature, Flowers [media] => )
.... Array ( [timestamp] => 3/28/2026 16:38:24 [title] => Just testing [date] => 2026/03/29 [poem] => Here's my poem [categories] => Antelope [media] => )

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And ripe you body’s bloom admired by all
You stride in love with all the world and more
Flower of velvet pinks in blossoms prime
Speak now of autumn’s falling of your lips
Now torn and bruised and scattered to the ground
Where hips and berries echo where you stood
Your beauty passed into the season’s power
With syrup made to treat the season’s cold
You live again in autumn’s cupboard love [categories] => Seasons, Nature, Change [media] => ) [2025/09/14~Tha gangs are on the streets] => Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2025 20:16:51 [title] => Tha gangs are on the streets [date] => 2025/09/14 [poem] => The gangs are on the street
It’s after midnight now
The boys get out their toys
Burning crazy in their eyes

A hail of bullets say goodbye
Prepare for your karma to ripen

On the streets the presents change hands
To get the highest spot on the Christmas tree

The gangs are on the streets
Fear in the blood strikes the telomeres
Offspring damaged before their chance has come [categories] => violence, karma [media] => ) [2025/09/14~Who am I] => Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2025 20:18:04 [title] => Who am I [date] => 2025/09/14 [poem] => Do I begin and end?
Am I contained in this sac?
Can I influence things around me?
Am I the same as the things around me

Do I never begin and never end?
Am I everywhere?
Do things around influence me?
Am I different from the things around me?

Blessed with the entire ocean of which we are a drop
Smile
Be
We are the entire ocean
We are the entire sky
We are all the stars and planets
We are the entire universes
At present in this form
We smile at the stars in awe as they are but a reflection of our being
We are not separate from the universe
We are the universe manifesting in a particular form for a while
Just as a wave on the ocean doesn’t have separate identity to the ocean
You are not separate from all that is
Your body and personality rise and fall like a wave
The awareness; that true nature does not begin or end
You are not a static being you are a dynamic becoming
A moment to moment unfolding of reality itself
As Zen master Dōgen put it:
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” [categories] => Spirituality, Identity [media] => ) [2025/11/30~The blue jug] => Array ( [timestamp] => 9/16/2025 15:58:19 [title] => The blue jug [date] => 2025/11/30 [poem] => The blue jug sits on the speaker [categories] => Home [media] => ) [2026/03/28~Camelias] => Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2026 20:16:01 [title] => Camelias [date] => 2026/03/28 [poem] => There are camelias outside the window [categories] => Nature, Flowers [media] => ) [2026/03/29~Just testing] => Array ( [timestamp] => 3/28/2026 16:38:24 [title] => Just testing [date] => 2026/03/29 [poem] => Here's my poem [categories] => Antelope [media] => ) )

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And ripe you body’s bloom admired by all
You stride in love with all the world and more
Flower of velvet pinks in blossoms prime
Speak now of autumn’s falling of your lips
Now torn and bruised and scattered to the ground
Where hips and berries echo where you stood
Your beauty passed into the season’s power
With syrup made to treat the season’s cold
You live again in autumn’s cupboard love [categories] => Seasons, Nature, Change [media] => ) [2] => Array ( [timestamp] => 9/14/2025 20:16:51 [title] => Tha gangs are on the streets [date] => 2025/09/14 [poem] => The gangs are on the street
It’s after midnight now
The boys get out their toys
Burning crazy in their eyes

A hail of bullets say goodbye
Prepare for your karma to ripen

On the streets the presents change hands
To get the highest spot on the Christmas tree

The gangs are on the streets
Fear in the blood strikes the telomeres
Offspring damaged before their chance has come [categories] => violence, karma [media] => ) )

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A memorable toucan

A memorable Toucan

Summer into Autumn

Summer’s Blaze upon your shoulders falls
And ripe you body’s bloom admired by all
You stride in love with all the world and more
Flower of velvet pinks in blossoms prime
Speak now of autumn’s falling of your lips
Now torn and bruised and scattered to the ground
Where hips and berries echo where you stood
Your beauty passed into the season’s power
With syrup made to treat the season’s cold
You live again in autumn’s cupboard love

Tha gangs are on the streets

The gangs are on the street
It’s after midnight now
The boys get out their toys
Burning crazy in their eyes

A hail of bullets say goodbye
Prepare for your karma to ripen

On the streets the presents change hands
To get the highest spot on the Christmas tree

The gangs are on the streets
Fear in the blood strikes the telomeres
Offspring damaged before their chance has come

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