(C) 2009 Howard McQueen
This past week, I was witness to
a rugged, self-reliant, beautiful woman,
successful artist, loving wife (etc. rich life resume ...)
Completely break down
into great bouts of sobbing,
deep weeping from an inner despair.
A current friend of hers was not finding any footing
and constantly sliding away from love,
when this lady's love was close enough to be felt seemingly everywhere.
This beautiful…
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A friend called me last night,
drowning in her mix of sadness and remorse.
An eighty three year old dear friend
of her now departed mom had died this afternoon
in her bed in the assisted living home.
My friend had been a devoted visitor and friend to this lady just passed.
My friend chose the path of biting her tongue
in the face of the chafing cynicism and wit
this now passed woman had nursed…
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Get it touch with the feeling
this inner knowing
at the center of your heart
that,
Being is something exquisite.
Re-partner and repatriate
so you may take up residence and fully manifest this life.
Everything else is just playing with shadows
listening to echoes, old habits,
nothing to do with naming and experiencing energetic Love.
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The abyss of despair
You're already F'Ked.
Hope completely lost
then found in holding the
vulnerable other and consoling them.
Consoling, nurturing energies
practiced in-the-moment, on-demand,
always for someone else's welfare.
Make room for love
as it has come back home
to finally roost within you.
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We delight in playing in the light.
Come join me, finding some playfulness
in the mud and murkiness of the primitive swamp
The strength of our Container of fellowship and family
when built from the full spectrum of energies
brings a fullness of empowerment
an extra sturdiness of backbone
to stand still and face the unknowing.
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I am sitting here on the hot seat
in the spotlight I have now transformed
into an interrogation room.
I squirm with my anxiety,
a circle full of people watching.
Quit F'King laughing and staring at this shrinking me.
Truthfully, I'm having a dickins of a time
connecting in this moment to my heart.
In my swollen pride, I am not finding the pathway
or handle to add wings to the heart-feltness of…
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Eat your demons at breakfast today
Else they shall just be 24-hour-a-day
Parasites,
snacking on your essence,
stealing your thunder,
strapping on their hi-jacking charges
to collapse your backbone.
Their destructive nature is insidious and relentless
as they work diligently to encourage you to cover over and encase your heart.
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I've recently reconnected to my Buddhist acupuncturist. His recent…
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If we take a look a the state of the Human condition,
it certainly looks like we are caught up in some sort of race.
To cover over with distortions, deceptions,
cosmetic redirections
mechanistic reflections
our inner authenticity.
Expanded and condensed truths are waiting to be defined.
What a massive un-Education Project
is being readied
to restore spirit,
authenticity and
expressions of…
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To shift and transform this seemingly dark juggernaut.
Here is how I am seeing it unfold
If there was not an equivalent
aliveness of Grace
and her attendants, forgiveness, compassion, ...
We would have long ago
wiped this earth clean
of all traces of
Humanity.
We have, at our disposal, our ancestral lineage,
a bounty of energies to pull from.
Know that you are not…
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What do you attach importance to,
outside of yourself?
Take an inventory!
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Let me please have a double order
of visceral discomfort
accompanied with an in-depth understanding
by directly experiencing these energies at play.
And, slow it way down,
so I can feel and observe it emerge
and blossom in my imagination.
Ah, so this is one of the trigger points
that cranks up my propensity towards contraction.
Without this new found awareness,
I'd keep caving in to the…
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In the silent nothingness
a hatchling breaks through
her brittle shell
and life emerges ...
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Baptize yourself
to the innocence held
in each and every new day
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So, you've walked into
the Tavern of Annihilation
but you're still talking
like you're holding out
for some concoction
or cocktail of salvation.
Take a long sip from the depth of the Silence
and let everything you know be taken away,
especially all that talk and chatter about spirituality.
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Hold the simplicity of realization
that everything external is but experience,
and let Grace take care of everything else.
In the presence of the faceless love,
we bow and are undone.
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The leprechauns, they need feeding
already again intoxicated from too much drinking.
Ready the light and divine music
known to stir open their hearts.
Those leprechauns, their mischievousness always ready to peak
their known proclivity toward mean-spiritedness and misdeed.
Lets make sure they are warmed by the music
to instead celebrate the heart and be bawdy
and outrageous with their fellowship.
Let…
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So, I’ve cast the first stone, so you say,
in the fold of the first anxious, emboldened kiss
planted upon your crumbing fortress wall
adorned with the graffiti of broken love fragments.
I see shades of your beauty-torment arise
As this boundary-shattering love-offering arrives
well ahead of your orders to open the welcoming gaits.
I am stone mason, chipping away with kiss,
I am landscaper, placing stones in…
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Inner growth and healing
often follow a non-linear progression.
Facing self
provokes Grace
offering up the miracles
of gifts of insight
provoking further,
greater acts and leaps-of-faith.
There are rewards for those willing to live
in their unknowing,
feeling into the much greater wholeness.
Knowing that crisis brings forth
Necessity, the mother of inventive imagination,
detaching you…
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Do not fail to underestimate
the venomous lethargy
broadcast within the content of political analysis.
You are consuming a dark, brooding
wrapped in sophistication-tinged cynicism,
a cesspool of streaming, steaming defeatism.
This you willfully take and make
into a complete mockery of Love.
Are you not yet able to see
that you are suckling
on the teat of shock
bringing out the…
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I am not speaking to the lighter,
delightful imaginative play with fantasy here.
I lend voice to the darker side of lust
that stimulates and provokes deep distrust.
The feelings of an impending,
imminent sense of forthcoming violation.
the sense of a stalking, dreadful danger.
There is clear brutality
contained and conveyed in the X-ray vision of lust.
One is left deeply unsettled by having
one’s…
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