The Muse Of Turfing

 

Ace Of Cups

 

 

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep. - Rumi

For Phil….

“Et in Arcadia ego“

At the twilight, a moon appeared in the sky;
Then it landed on earth to look at me.
Like a hawk stealing a bird at the time of prey;
That moon stole me and rushed back into the sky.
I looked at myself, I did not see me anymore;
For in that moon, my body turned as fine [...]

The Ridge...

“Probably the central concept of shamanism, wherever in the world it is found, is the notion that underlying all the visible forms in the world, animate and inanimate, there lies a vital essence from which they emerge and by which they are nurtured. Ultimately everything returns to this ineffable, mysterious impersonal unknown…” -Douglas Sharon, Wizard of [...]

Phil Davies

Prelude:

For your sake, I hurry over land and water:
For your sake, I cross the desert and split the mountain in two,
And turn my face from all things,
Until the time I reach the place
Where I am alone with You.”
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Kill Me, My Faithful Friends

Kill me, my faithful friends,
For in my being killed is my life.
Love is that you [...]

Autumn Aums…

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.” – Edward Abbey

On The Poetry Post…

Intoxicated by the Wine of Love.
From each a mystic silence Love demands.
What do all seek so earnestly? [...]

A Day In The Life…

How shall the nameless be defined
A thousand times my Guru I asked:
How shall the Nameless be defined?
I asked and asked but all in vain.
The Nameless Unknown, it seems to me,
Is the source of the something that we see.

Think On

Think within thee, till the light of day
Be as the darkness of very night—
Till the self-illuminated Way
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