BEAUTIFUL FACES

Teachings that come in dreams are easily lost, so teasing, ephemeral,yet no use grabbing at them fist-like, crushing dream-diamonds to sand. Last night I woke from a dream of facespoised between the male and female and me as a dream figure there in the field among themmeditating, knees bending flat to the ground,ideal posture: legs tucked, spine straight -- mountain-like -- a dignity I lack in waking life, for there my knees strain upward, ungainly. This dream-story focused on those faces blending the genders,skillful means and wisdom united. The dream was telling me such union would henceforth be my prime devotion,to rise up from meditative calm and go about the brutal worldreflecting grace. So, there on my cushionmy dreamed knees at last kept flatly down...wait, wait, let me experiment with them herein the so-called "real,"in this actual body, fierce of will, frail, daunted by pride.

Life Ahead

Our entire life is made up of choices,
What we decide,
the action we take,
the attitude we display
All represent the steps of life.

Sometimes we take two steps forward
And one-step back.
Some of us take baby steps
Some of us take giant steps

But the secret is not to let that
one step back turn into a failure.
Learn from backward steps

And keep on stepping forward in this dance
Called Life!

My Wage

I bargained with life for a penny,
And life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

For life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of life,
Life would have paid.