Tag Archives: Mindfulness

BICYCLING POEM: Mother Earth And Her Cycles

Mother Earth Has her cycles Look out! Respect her cycles Don’t be a fossil fool Ride that bike! Powered by living humans Not dead relics Exorcise those fossils, fool! Ride that bike! Get that warm feeling And cool breeze The … Continue reading

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POEM: Sow Much For Multi-tsking

Hello Hello People looking down As electronic devices Looking up Over hear Over their Owned buy virtual realty Totally Sum wear Ails Hole heartedly Parting from wholly presence How due they pay A tension So what? Sow what? Driving us … Continue reading

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POEM: Annoys Pollution

Every wear but hear Beeping phones And nobody at home Impossible to a tone Even with wringing personally With poor timing Watching volumes A little too lewd Mindless won And awe the artless With every bell and whistle Ears unplugged … Continue reading

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POEM: Paying In Attention – Owed To Mind Fullness

I under stand You are on Some kind of in Stall meant plan As long As you still Pay attention In do time I’ll pay for such in deference Hopefully not the final time Having been Pre-disposed In the passed … Continue reading

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POEM: Birth Day Present

On my birthday I was given As were you A time machine A way faring By lusty seconds And so moving Fates billed To hour credit Surpassing daze And weaks A sort of colander For casting generations And spirited characters … Continue reading

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POEM: Near Life Experience

A few years back he had a near life experience It might as well have been A disaster movie Stream of consciousness meets tsunami of denial This funny little poem addresses a sort of reverse polarity of near death experiences.  … Continue reading

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POEM: Hope Inflamed

Hope Inflamed Hope inflamed That which cannot be Put out Will consume every individual Testing their mettle Forging in feeleds Just discovered From a crucible witch lies unknown Alloys forever Stronger than any metal Purely a loan No matter How … Continue reading

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POEM: Paying Attention

Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness.  Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading

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POEM: Work Week

One day I didn’t feel like going to work Some people call them weekdays This one goes out to all of you who feel, chronically and/or acutely, that going to work is, well…work.  I wouldn’t mind being the guy who … Continue reading

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POEM: Own Worst Enemy

One day I realized that I am my own worst enemy And as it turns out, I am a formidable foe Self-awareness seems to key to one’s own progress.  This short poem offers a backhanded compliment to oneself as a … Continue reading

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POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off

POEM: Running Like Chickens With Their Heads Cut Off Have you ever looked a chicken in the eyes? Most of us city folk probably never have Where are you? Chickens can look quite different in the city Just the same … Continue reading

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POEM: Commercial Interruption

We interrupt this commercial Now that wasn’t so hard Or was it? How many times a day is our consciousness breached by some form of commercial interruption?  Way too many times!  I consider this commercial assault a major form of … Continue reading

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