Monday, March 29, 2010

Songs

My heart is making songs
Those who touch my heart are songs.
Every movement of my body,
My comings and my goings are songs.
The one who is playing the flute
and the one who is listening are songs.
The rhythm of my language and  my stillness are songs.
These are not just my songs,
They are songs of the universe.
I lose myself in this.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The power of love

[ For Sattva]

The very moment I say the words I love you
how many faces catch the fire of aliveness ?
How many trees flower
How many miles of earth’s wounded contours begin to heal?
I cannot count.

The very moment I say the words I love you
How many birds compose new songs?
How many homeless children feel safe and loved?
How many walls of ignorance tear down
So that we can see each other in the eyes?
How many warring brothers and sisters sit down
To eat and laugh together?
I cannot count.

Touch me with your hands

Radiant one:
How many brilliant as well as dark moments
Have I cried for you,
Have I dreamed of dying for you
So that I can feel your fresh breath on my grave?

Touch me with your hands
Move your fingers over my ribs
I will sing for you insanely like a harp
And you will hear your own song
moving through me like bullet of love.

Radiant one
Skies beam with intoxication right now
I stand here feeling this glory with all of me.
Touch me with your hands today.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

grain of barley

Another round of kindness
Has arrived on the wings of the spring.
A River might sink into the desert’s womb.
This is lovemaking. It is not resignation.
Trust me.
A skinny grain of barely left on the ground
Has suffered a heavy stampede,
punched and kicked around thousand times
She became one with panic and torture and she prevailed.
She celebrated the physical death.
And this spring, she comes back and smiles to us.
Standing elegant, long and serene .
She declares:
Look at me now. I’ve moved through tunnels of fire.
I found wisdom in my fragility and hope in my suffering.
Now who can stop the light in my eyes
From bathing the entire field?
Who can contain my glory
Between the confines of human ignorace,
between greed and endless pursuit of fame?

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Arrow of the moon

The arrow of the moon
Begs to enter you.
Don’t shut your body.
Like thunder, like midnight sun,
like cricket that sings at dusk
live directly, my friend. Live directly.
The arrow of the moon
Begs to enter you
Don’t shut your body.
The music wants to enter you.
Don’t cover your heart with morning fog.
Light begs to enter you
Don’t lock your mind with childhood stories.
Like thunder, like midnight sun,
like cricket that sings at dusk
live directly my friend. Live directly