LOVE DRUNK
poetry File 1
opened August 1996
(last re-write June 10, 2001, La Lunette, France)
A...
ANOTHER
MORNING!
ANOTHER WHAT A BLESSING
A RIVER MESSAGE BEFORE THE WEDDING
A TREASURE FOUND
A WET AND FIERY DESTINY
B...
BRIDE BREAKTHROUGH
BRIAN'S BREAKTHROUGH
C...
II. CORINTHIANS 3
DÉ
DRINKING FREEDOM
F...
FLOWING GOD OUT
G...
GIFTS
GIVE UNTO THE LORD THE GLORY OF HIS NAME...
GOD'S DRUNKARDS
GOD TEEMS WITH LIFE
H...
HE WHO MAKES MOUNTAINS STAND
HE ONLY TAUGHT THEM ON RADIANT DAYS
HIS EARTH IS RADIANCE
I...
I AM A BIRD SPECKLED
I AM SECRET AND HIDDEN
IF YOU HAVE NO REASON FOR JOY
IN ACTION SPEAKING
IN GOD'S HOUSE
L...
LAMB SONG
LOVE LEAPS UP
LOVE'S
GREAT BLESSING
M...
MEDITATIONS FROM PSALM 104
MY PEACEFUL FREEDOM
N...
NEGATIVE FAITH COMES EASY
NEW SHOES
NO TEACHER
NOTHING IS SEPARATE FROM NOTHING
O...
ONLY LOVE
OUR ESSENTIAL JOURNEY NOW
P...
POEMS VISIT ME IN THE NIGHT
POETRY IS LIKE
PURITY OF HEART IS EMPTINESS
Q....
Q & A
R...
RELIGION MUST BE TRANSCENDED!
REST AND ACTION
RIBALDO AT THE MARKET
RIBALDO
IN GEHENNA
RIBALDO IS DRUNK
RIBALDO IS DRUNK AGAIN
RIBALDO IS WEEPING
RIBALDO'S MORNING DEVOTION
RIBALDO
THE FOOL
RIBALDO THE TROUBADOUR
ROCKET MAN
S...
II. CORINTHIANS 3
SELF AS WORM AND ROSE
SOUL-SOIL AND WORMS
SURRENDER'S FRUIT
T...
THE DIRTY FILAMENT
THE OTHER LIGHT AND RIVER
TWO
CHRISTS
THE HOLY CHILD
THE RIVER TEACHER SPEAKS
THIS GIFT
TWO MORNING REFLECTIONS BY THE RIVER
THE
PATH OF THE RIGHTEOUS
THE REVELERS DRINK
THE UPSURGE
THE WORM AND THE LORD OF HOST
U...
UNIVERSAL ZEN
W...
WRITING WITH GREAT POETS
Y...
YOUR PASSIONATE MOUTH
YOU WALK ON WORDS
69 POEMS
LAST POEM IN THE FILE: GIFTS
THE POEMS.....
Q & A
What is the look of
God in the eye?
Young joy!
What is the music of God
in the soul?
Belly laughter!
What is the deed of God?
Freeing creation into reality!
What is reality?
Harmonious, deathless,
fluid, relational Love.
A
WET AND FIERY DESTINY
There is a wet destiny
to be met in water
and wine:
a destiny of fire
in extreme obduracy
and love.
RELIGION MUST BE TRANSCENDED!
Religion itself must be
transcended Religion itself
must be transcended
by reality
that birthed religion! by the reality religion points to!
We must simply surrender
We must simply let us go
into wind-fullness,
into wind-fullness,
water-lushness,
water-lushness,
green-riotness, green-riotness,
overflowing
overflowing
emptiness emptiness
of love. of love.
Yes! Yes!
Yes!
Ah.
ANOTHER WHAT A BLESSING
(AFTER RUMI)
Freedom depends on nothing
to be free...
What a blessing.
All Life flows out of
the free center...
What
a blessing.
The free center is everywhere.
What a blessing.
It is wind-like freedom
that builds mountains
and molds stones.
What a blessing.
All things at their wind-like core
love God, the compassionate,
joyous freedom!
What a blessing.
Words from the free core
call to the free core.
What a blessing!
With enough freedom
filling the body, it is possible
to fly.
What a blessing.
At the core
we are all Awake!
What
a blessing!
SELF AS WORM AND ROSE
(Two poems)
I. SELF AS A WORM
The self is a worm
in
a rose.
Both its pride
and humility
are obstacles
to God's freedom--
being eaters
of
the fragrance.
II. SELF AS A ROSE
Self in Christ
is a rose
of constant bloom
rooted in the central sea
of the Sun.
POETRY IS LIKE
Poetry is like
painting a colorful picture
of music
with words.
TWO MORNING REFLECTIONS BY THE RIVER
I.
We are the expression
of God
we
have been seeking.
&nbs