CurranPoem

What are your thought shoes? The thoughts that put one foot In front of another as you walk. Stop and think about it.   Is it love? Is it faith? Is it fear? Is it hate? Is it The willingness to walk into a future Unknown?   With the mysteries of Those you have touched—who Have touched you—you wake From the dream about your shoes And walk

Sometimes I see my life As a pile of old shoes In the bottom of my closet Never worn anymore—forgotten The running shoes—trashed by miles of pavement The dress shoes—worn at operas, concerts and theater Remembered only by ticket stubs in journals no longer read And every day work shoes scraped bare and exhausted All their laces frayed by too much too much I gather them up in a trash bag And send them off to the landfill Their last journey a ride in the dumpster To a monstrous Waste Management dump truck I wave “good-by” so grateful for my new black loafers

Lend yourself to me Let me borrow you Like a book From shelves to be returned When I am done But sometimes words linger Leaving footsteps waiting Quiet moments without words

Decades ago riding, in the back of a pick-up truck, My good buddy Rick and I were talking philosophy, Truth and Counter-truth I told him—waddya mean? Life is both real and an illusion--particle-wave duality We are flesh and we are spirit—50 years later, my flesh Has lower back pain and sciatica but the spirit still loves Riding in the back of pick-up trucks—which is now illegal

Melodies like memories Dance in my mind But the melodies Are more welcome Then the memories Who only remind me Of trouble The songs bring back The good times Memories belong to the flesh Emotions belong to the soul

     Rasa is one of those Sanskrit words that has a long history and is not easily translated in to English.  In ancient Sanskrit (here we are talking about thousands of years ago) rasa meant the sap of a tree.  (Wikipedia)  The sap of a tree flows and contains the essence of the tree.  Gradually poets began to use "rasa" to apply to the essence and flow in music, dance, art and poetry.  It came to mean the emotions of creativity and eventually spirituality and by the time of the Upanishads nearly 3000 years ago, rasa would be used to describe the divine nature of the gods.  A little over 1000 year ago, the word came to be associated with Krishna.  Chanting the Hare Krishna could produce the transformational experience that would result in healing and wholeness.    Some Jews, Christians and Muslims can experience this in their prayers and meditations, musicians in their music, physicists in Quantum Physics.  It is abo...

We wear language like a garment-- A worn old t-shirt chosen because It’s comfortable worn so many Times before and it speaks for us But doesn’t say much other then Haven’t we been this way before? But there are big vowels lurking In color and adjectives in hats And metaphors in shoes and Even conjunctions in trousers All waiting for you to speak