SPISCE ANIMALS

Music is the best means
we have of digesting time.
~W. H. Auden

2.2016

***

Like a Mab-Queen,

She hears the birds’ song:

Ten-thousand

Shrill speeches

Over & over,

A loop, repeating.

They are the winged politicians of the wire.

The light; the current; the white witchery 

Pokes her sad wing   

***

I dream at night

& sometimes by day

Of marvelous Women:

Joannas & Gillians,

Pollies;

Red-haired Mollies from ages ago…


As they speak

A boy forgets

What a boy must be.


& Then your face, like a Mother’s face,

Stretching your honey-hair out 

Around me

Until I am no longer 

Just dreaming.  

Let that Sad Song be carried out to Sea…

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crashinglybeautiful: “ “Meditating is seeing into oneself, and it is not the role of the seer to intervene; he does not descend to the level where what is seen takes place. The seer is a higher level in oneself, the lower remains as it is. It is...

crashinglybeautiful:

“Meditating is seeing into oneself, and it is not the role of the seer to intervene; he does not descend to the level where what is seen takes place. The seer is a higher level in oneself, the lower remains as it is. It is simply there to be seen objectively, as one would stand in front of Hieronymous Bosch’s Garden of Delights. One may be intrigued, horrified, fascinated, amused and so on, but one is an onlooker to these events and not a participant.”

–Sir Richard Temple, from an intimate personal account of Buddhist meditation in Thailand. This appears as part of his beautiful book The Art of Meditation.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past.
If you are anxious, you are living in the future.
If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

—Lao Tzu (via nevver)

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crashinglybeautiful: “The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for...

crashinglybeautiful:

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character.
So watch the thought and its ways
with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings.
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.

—Guatama Buddha, Dhammapada

Photo Credit: H.H. The Dalai Lama from sapru on flickr.

via: parabola-magazine.

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batamotel:

BOYCOTT FOREVER 21

Retail company Forever 21 sent this letter to all full time/non-management employees informing them that they will be demoted to part time, they and their families will lose their health and dental benefits, and they will no longer qualify for paid time off. Employees believe the company is punishing them to retaliate against Obamacare.

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MAKE IT VIRAL 

People Just Ain’t No Good

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Tori Amos

—Father Lucifer

I am Not my Thoughts