Monday, 23 November 2009
Daye 60 / Say I Am You
i am the round sun
to the bits of dust i say stay
to the sun keep moving
i am morning mist
and the breathing of evening
i am wind in the top of a grove
and surf on the cliff
mast rudder helmsman and keel
i am also the coral reef they founder on
i am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches
silence thought and voice
the musical air coming through a flute
a spark of stone
a flickering in metal
both candle
and the moth crazy around it
rose and the nightingale lost in the fragrance
i am all orders of being
the circling galaxy
the evolutionary intelligence
the lift and the falling away
what is and what isn't
you who know jelaluddin
you the one in all
say who i am
say i am you
~ Rumi (Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi)
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Daye 58 / Soon I Will Feel I Will Feel O I Will Feel
the summer begins to float away and i give to you all of my starry dreamings and imaginings. i take them in my arms and i throw them into the fields. into the seas that surround us.
i steel myself against the karma that is due.
and i meet you that night. o i meet you that night under the elf-lights. you were a small face shining beneath a tall tree in the blue wood. i remember the long moonlit walk through the shapes and colours. o the shapes and the colours. through the leas and lanes. and come the morning. asleep in the dawn. o dew falling. o river roaring. i have burned within my mind. within my mind your image.
and i am down and you are over. but i hear you singing. i leap across. across the void into the unknown. o the unknown.
into the spaces marked only with x’s on the map at university heights. calling for my brilliant angel to be here. o be here. to illuminate my way.
i have called for my mother but she slowly suffocates me in her arms. i have called for another.
and the material has been my god. i have laid down in the tall grasses. o the tall grasses. and cried for that which i cannot have.
i played unfair and the winter encases me in ice but i am ready to thaw.
i have dreamed the key to the metareal and pulled it out of the hollow of an old tree.
“now you must be reborn into the body of a crocodile” says the puck who showered me once with scarlet poppy petals.
and i am back in the egg. small and helpless. and my second-sight has deserted me.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Daye 56 / Corn Rigs (The Rigs O' Barley)
when corn rigs are bonnie
beneath the moon's unclouded light
i held away to annie
the time flew by with careless heed
till 'tween the late and early
with small persuasion she agreed
to see me through the barley
corn rigs and barley rigs
and corn rigs are bonnie
i'll ne'er forget that happy night
among the rigs with annie
the sky was blue
the wind was still
the moon was shining clearly
i set her down with right good will,
among the rigs o' barley
i kenned her heart was all my own
i loved her most sincerely
i kissed her over and over again
among the rigs o' barley
corn rigs and barley rigs
and corn rigs are bonnie
i'll ne'er forget that happy night
among the rigs with annie
i locked her in my fond embrace
her heart was beating rarely
my blessings on that happy place
among the rigs o' barley
but by the moon and stars so bright
that shone that hour so clearly
she aye shall bless that happy night
among the rigs o' barley.
corn rigs and barley rigs
and corn rigs are bonnie
i'll ne'er forget that happy night
among the rigs with annie
i have been blythe with comrades dear
i have been merry drinking
i have been joyful gathering gear
i have been happy thinking
but all the pleasures ever I saw
though three times doubled fairly
that happy night was worth them all
among the rigs o' barley
corn rigs and barley rigs
and corn rigs are bonnie
i'll ne'er forget that happy night
among the rigs with annie
~ Robert Burns
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Monday, 16 November 2009
Daye 53 / It's Always Wet In P.a.u.l.'s Room
as i caught hold of the rocket's tail
and it pulled me into the sky
rolling so i could see underneath
m15's greenish smear
spreading itself below
and the wind stings my eyes
beneath the dazzle of white stars
i heard myself singing
as i sped forward
some sweet song
which you had placed in my mind
the words made me sleepy
and the melody began to run away from me
like droplets rushing down a window in a summer rain
we fly into a cloud
a cloud
a cloud put there by the military
filled with crystals of strange ice
nothing that was warm lived in there
nothing living lived in there
and we left as fast as we entered
as the rocket began to come apart
as the cloud begins to come apart
turning to
turning to water
water
to water
falling to earth
there is no wind where the riverruns
into the cold grey foaming sea
and the fog rises up and outwards
like the sheet ghost
in whistle and i'll come to you, m'lad
scintillating jewels hang from your necklace
the light that flickers
on/off on/off
is the city beneath the surface of the mythological sea
ruby red arising
and lascivious green
a blacklight lantern
which i hold in a dream
makes shadows which criss-cross the water
to the source of the lights
in freefall i cry out
for that dream-lantern once more
though my lungs were beginning to give up
'cos i was flying so hard
i was flying so hard
and humming harder
hmmmmmmm
oh all the saints
oh, the saints preserve us
that god-given beam of light
launchs me up
out of the seafog
and on into the stratosphere
and the stars enlarged
but they came too soon
all the while my belly ached from laughing
like a poetess i was getting all of this down
word for word
my mind for once swollen with the knowing
inky black innerspace invading the outerspace
my rocket dials hitched
a flick of a switch
and i am holding on for dear life
said my goodbye
said my goodbye
goodbye
now you can sit and watch
as i burn-up
as i burn-up on re-entry
uh, i'm back
watery wet
wet
this room is
always wet
through the window the stars are dripping
and the moon is a milky bubble
and i have remembered my self
and i was humming like an angel
the man from the government contacts me
as soon as all the dreamtime summer festivals are over
he has a kosmiche fever
star-stuff oozing from every pore
he asks me questions
and tells me i have something that belongs to him
i lie and try to hide the lantern
while it does it's best to give me away
and so the man leaves
returns moments later
with a couple of heavies
but i am not taken in
by promises or threats
begin to hum to myself
i fool them into believing
i would give them the lantern
until at the last minute i thrust my hand
into a secret panel in the wall
where the lantern is hidden
and flick the little switch
ha! the humming and
the beam of light
launch me up and out of there
harin says my house is always dreaming
always dreaming
and that it has things living in it that only we can see
she has no fear of the future
for she can remember exactly what will happen when and to whom
and now that the soft soft night is here at last
singing to us
and the stars are revolving in their heavenly firmament
far enough away so as to gently oscillate
she calls up a solar wind
an hour or two of sweet irradiation
and the words
the melody
the gush into being
the pristine long lick of a song
which i hold onto like a dream
the men have tracked me
i see them
out the corners of my eye
at night they try to break into my dreams
they covet the song as much as the lantern
so the whole of my existence
has been falsified
declassified documents fall into my hands
and then mysteriously disappear
this is a war between realities
the psychedelic christ is here
stooping to conquer
with mind-expanding drugs and miracles
harin is in a dead faint
all she could see was everything
and the boys the boys
the boys were looking to me for leadership
i had snuffed out my lantern
and i was dripping with the bright
by the time harin's swoon was over
and she had alighted
those government men were rolling their heads
against the breasts of their joyless girls
one by one they dropped their fronts
and it made me smile
watching those silly young things
pretending to be
pretending to be
something they would never be
just reminded me of me
when i was...
when i was...
still too feint
still too feint
to get my mojo working
ah, but now it's 2010 or 3019
or whatever year it is
's all the same to me
dates make no
make no difference
we are plugged into something
something that is not time extant
we are ready for it
we belong together
reality is melting
as fast as the useless plastic and chrome that fills our homes
time slips
the city shakes
my blacklight lantern still glows
even as the aether jumps like a fish in boiling water
and the heavens split open
the prophets are driving us all insane
with their endless yabbering
dust
invisibility
we all know that nothing is real except maya
i'm the original doubting thomas
my lantern in my arms
through the ceilings we fly
and i still don't believe
i have to put my fingers
directly into the crack in his head
to massage his pineal
to convince myself that it is really...
...him
he sighs
so, you have failed the acid test
says the psychedelic christ
did you dream me in the past?
if not, then why should you no longer believe?
blessed are they that have not seen
and yet have believed
my freaked out voice
and undertuned guitar were long gone
i gazed into his eyes
and they were low blue spirals
"it's funny how things can change
in just a few millenia
once i turned water into wine
now i must turn water into...
into...
into ayahuasca
...dmt
...acid.." he sighed
"i have become little more than a pusher..."
i thought then of patti smith
and the stars twinkled in the noir crayola field that we call sky
and i tripped and dropped my hand in his
here 'tis
do i feel it coming
here 'tis
i feel it coming
illuminate my daye
ah, give me back my grace
help me come to my senses
like a dreamer
like a bird
like a dancer
like a child
no longer can i live in the dark
my mind is flooded
like nuvoletta
i reflect myself in the mirror
though the heavenly one
with his constellatria and his emanations
stood between
the sun rises
the universe is an automaton
i get out of my bed
the floor is wet
the day is already folding in on itself
i see geodesics through my window
in the fried green fields
cloud nines and mellotron flutes
auroras and snowstorms
seeing and hearing everything at once
and i'm trying hard
still humming
i will travel to the isle of apples
i must find him her again
i reach for my lantern
but today there is no lantern
just this beam of light
which launches me up and through the roof


