HEART TO HEART

..
Beak to beak
..... - - ecstatic flight - -
Two humming birds
......Rise out of sight
..
Heart to heart
..... - - enjoined delight - -
Two mated souls
.....Soar into light
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
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A MUSE

..
Strong and bold, inquisitive
I walk in stress
No pussy-footing "we";
The seeking hands of healer
Lays helpful pain on me!
..
Sometimes, it seams,
The more it hurts,
The more I laugh
In satisfact'ry glee
And still,
..
When he lets go
My pain goes too,
And I will laugh
Through drying tears
..
One day I'll loose
The hapless pack
I stolidly and daily stack
Hanging on my straining back
..
And see the light
That shines so bright
Live and love delightedly,
Just by simply being me!
..

From Can Can Days by GeoE
..

SEASONS

..
Seasons come and seasons go
But life abounds in fecund grounds
And ev'ry loving, conscious hour
Reveals its brightly blooming bower
.....Those who see with heart and hand
.....Eternal presence understand
Do I die sometime before
My wary body seeks release
Or grasp with boundless glee
The tiny root that still expresses me?
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
June 2003
..

WINDOW

..
Outside my window lies
A great brick wall
Wherein my David works
Miqua by his side
.
To build a handsome fence
Where riotous spring
Will blossom wild
With new and lovely bloom
..
Wherein lies the beauty?
The dedicated labor -
The gracious bloom -
The smiles of love
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
2003

..

FOR CHARLOTTE ON HER BIRTHDAY

..
With wise old eyes
That seemed to say
"This is my place
I've come to stay"
..
A small pink rose
In a garden's bower
A loving heart
A mind of power
..
A fountain of love
Which washes away
Compassion's pain
In a cleansing rain
..
Soft sweet hands
That soothe the fear
Courageous heart
For seeing clear
..
A gift of magic in tender hands
A gift of life, A song so gay
God surely smiles
On your birthing day!
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
2003
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LOVELY SONGS

..
The sounds are lovely songs,
And this today is mine.
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
..

HEAD TO HEAD

..
Tucked around my pillow
Watching candle flick'rin' out
How gentle and secure
The midnight sound of snore.
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
January 7, 2003
..

SUNRISE

..
"Hey!", you say
"Look at me - don't look away
I'm peeping in your window -
It's today!"
..
Yet your lovely light
Cheerful land so bright,
Reveals the mess
I left last night!
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
January 8, 2003
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I AM I

..
Behind a wall
There blooms,
bright red,
A rose
I see it not
Except I sit
In silent contemplation;
And then
Its glory shines
..
Beautiful its strength
Tender its smile
Strong its statement;
I am I - don't touch!
Let me bloom
And open wide
In mine own time,
To see and touch
The glory that is life
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
June 2002
..

CHILD OF LIGHT

I read – and weep
.....My bruised heart
Filled not with guilt – but pain
.....That in the turmoil
Of unaccepted life
.....My hurt o’er whelmed by
Beauty un-expected

Yet do I truly weep
.....When out of the child of pain
Was born compassion
.....And heart of love
Freely given to embrace
......World of comfort,
World of grace.


Stiff-necked in the pride
.....Of denial – justified
Do I hear a cry
.....“See me, mother, this is I”
Gently lurks in corners dry
.....Crying, “Look! See me!”
Look – see thee!

From Can Can Days by GeoE
November 2001
...

WHO, ME AGAIN?

....
The hair I wear
Though somewhat spare
To my delight it’s mine!

And the smooth white glare
That you see right there
As I smile in mirth
Were mine at birth!
…..Or soon thereafter

I must confess
Tho’ reluctantly
The protruding girth
That shakes with mirth
……Is also me!

And the eyes that see –
Laugh at life so gleefully
Need a bit of help;
They perch upon my nose
…….At age of 63

I did not see
The joy of life – of being ME
Yet now I wait in mounting glee
…..The revelations of 83!

From Can Can Days by GeoE
June 2001

MAUDLIN MEANDERINGS

..
So - I'm not a sexpot of twenty-four
.....And never was.
And never knew
.....What to say - or what to do
When a handsome man
.....Would look at me
.............So what is new at Eighty Three?
Curiosity?
.....Someone to touch
A world to see?
.....Before the late and great GeoE
Must rest
.....And all her best
...............Mean naught - to me?
..
Yet in the dark of mem'ry lives
......The quiet - silent joy
Of reciprocity.
.....I have new life
It gives to me
.....Generations
...............To love and hold
And who can tell -
.....Perhaps the very cell
When I may choose once more
.....To venture thro' life's door
.............And then?
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
2001
..

CHANGING TIMES

..
When I was young
A hoppin' bunny
Brought baskets of sweets
And other treats
..
When I was a teen
'Bout sweet sixteen
I Bunny Hopped
To a ribald beat
..
Wisdom comes
They say, with age,
And a bunny's slippers
Soft to ease my feet!
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
2001
..

SURVIVAL

..
Who wants to leave
..........Butt prints on the sands of time?
Thumb your nose
..........And walk your talk!
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
..

BEST SELLER

..

Some beautiful

But stupid girl

Meets

Some handsome man

While some instant foreplay

Drags incestuously along.

..

From Can Can Days by GeoE
..

DOER

..
I am a Do-er
...........Not a be-er
I think -
..........Therefore I am!
Fight!
Fight the failing of the light!
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
..

BANQUET

..
Dialogue the Absolute
Dissect your Taboos
Devour your favorite misconcpetions and
Dine with your Spirit Teacher;
A banquet of learnin gon the path of personal growth.
..
From Can Can Days by GeoE
1998
..

RENGA

..
Lim’rick is laughing
Poem loving and living
Haiku transcending

.....Bird sings
.....Breath rustles tree
.....God weeps

Bauble, babble Mynah bird
Cautious – root, worm, earth entwine
Night cacophony

.....Light fades
.....Dark envelopes,
.....God laughs

From Can Can Days by GeoE
1987
..

CAN-CAN DAYS

My Can-Can days are over
I can’t quite swing my hip
But the songs I sing
Make my Memories ring;
And the “games” I play
Are as rich as a bitch each day

Memory sings
On broken wings
Yet age has not closed the door,

While the tales I tell
Ring a long-used bell,
And the days of yore
Are alive once more
To fill a joyous day

..

From Can Can Days by GeoE

..

PRAYER

..

ALL THE POWER

THAT EVER WAS OR WILL BE

IS HERE - NOW

..

I AM THE CENTER

OF MY UNIVERSE

..

AND SO IT IS

..

From Time & Again

..

FASHION STATEMENT

..
On a dark and dreary day
In the streets of Monterey
Walked a fashion statement gay
..
Stretch pants black and saggy
With matching boots, quite grungy
Golden silk the skirt
Where four planels gaily flirt,
Turquoise, Green and Oriental
Petticoat a-peeking gentle
..
Over all of this chick packet
Purple and pink, a bomber jacket
Final touch to top all that
A gloriously jaunty red ski hat
..
God's truth it is no lie
Saw it all with mine own eye!
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

'Tis So!

..
A sudden burst of laughter
Across the silence of an empty room
The fading, wafts
Into the darkness of eternity
..
Was that you?
Or does the echo of your gaiety
Forever sing
To fill the empty places of my heart?
..
And is it hope - or memory;
Did you really come to say
"Hey...guess who I'm fishin' with today?
One wise fisherman -
And He won't get away!"
..
Beloved friend,
I weep for me - not thee,
And find myself impatient
With the petty goings-on
While you are finding - answers;
Self revealed;
..
Looking out upon a promised land,
Walking hand in hand with Truth
The concepts we worked too hard to understand
The dedication to a path;
The joyous crossing that was planned;
..
All this you know
And I still wait - and wonder
List'ning in the night
To hear you speak -
"Tis so - Tis so."
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

DICHOTOMY

..
Meeting each day's challenge
.....With courage and grace
..........The Karmic Debt accumulateth not
..
...........The song is heard by singing
................Love is gained through giving
.....................The race is won by watching
..
...........Vision is gained in the list'ning
.......Life takes form in the dying
..........................Courage comes with being.
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

ETERNITY

..
Were I to find proof,
Incontrovertibly
That I, in some successful past
Was Plato,
Would that decry philosophy?
..........Or could it be
..........That even he
..........Had rungs to climb?
That all the wisdom of the past
Must be re-learned
Or be forgot
...........And ev'ry single soul
...........Alone must know - or grow
...........In his own time and way?
Or that eternity
Un-divided be
And leads just to the One;
............Or perhaps, indubitably
............Last night's Martini
............Was not good for me?
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

OH, MY GOD!

..
No God awaits enthroned in judgement
.....No dev-lish glee for stupidity
But ever unfolding, time on time
.....To know my Self in Thee.
..
"There, but for the grace of God, go I"
.....Is surely the quickest way to die
For life is undivided time;
.....My heart finds itself in thine.
..
God is not some deity
.....Who hides himself as me and thee
God must simply, wholly be
.....LIFE undivided..........Stet - GeoE
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

AFTER-STORM

..
The sun
With smiling eye
............Floats high
............In soft blue sky
......................As tho'
..
Yesterday
Had not been dark
............With vicious bark
............Of lightening's spark
........................And hail
..
Flirtatious miss
Who knows full well
..............Her tantrums only tell
..............How sweet her kiss -
...........................And free
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

ON MOVING

..
Outside my window
Sparkles gold the Oaks
And flutters white the Moths,
Absorbing pain of parting
..
As seasons pass
Does one still mourn
Fierce crash of waves
On ageless rocks and shore?
..
Perhaps an aching heart
Will richly heal
In silent contemplation
Day by quiet day
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

THE GIFT NOT GIVEN

..
The gift not given
Asketh "why"?
..
And echoes endlessly
Throughout the interstice of time.
..
Was gift, or giver, false,
A lie named love?
..
"Remember me" instead of
"Pleasure thee?"
..
The heart that's broken thine
.......not mine?
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

HOLD THAT LINE

..
You said you'd call
I said I'd wait,
But life's a siren song
That has enticed me
....................New fires
....................Warm old desires
.......Tho' in the silence of the night
.......I feel your questing touch
.......That line is dead.
.......Try www.com instead
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

WISDOM

..
Sometimes I am stupid
.....Knowing beyond all understanding
Sometimes I'm wise
.....Knowing I know nothing at all!
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..

BABY DAZE

..
There's nothing like a baby
..
To shorten all your nights
.....And lengthen all your days;
For making messy diapers
.....A cause for joyous praise
Or obnoxious bragging
.....A song of witty phrase.
..
Urping on your shoulder
.....Is a blessing in disguise
And love a priceless blessing
.....In those big unfocused eyes!
No, there's nothing like a baby
.....To win life's greatest prize!
..
From Time & Again by GeoE
..