ascension

""

i'm quite sure that adding brief glances to each other

eventually will lead me to a stare

knocking me over

fall, fall, fly!

""

my new US

""

it's been decided, once and for all -

i'm leaving the Whys.

you'll find me hanging out with

the Hows

and 

the Wheres

and

the Whats

instead.

let Us find out what the We is about

Where it'll take us, How.

Because!

""

something is coming up

""

come, come,

the time for shyness 

is long gone past its best before

your heart pounding like that 

can be nothing but it recognizing the passion 

in every beat, in every breath

- all your mind has to do is let go & follow

so come, come,

let the past fall off you

like dropping the towel in front of a gentle lover.

the present is here to love you

to make future babies happen.

""

it stroke me, gently

""

if       love     is all there is 

falling in      love     seems 

inevitable

and if      love      is all there is

falling out of      love     must be 

an impossibility

""

there are twelve apple trees in my garden

""

i watch them from different windows in my house,

follow their branches under weights of different whites,

being pulled downwards not only by gravity but also

the gradual appearance of fruit.

on due time, 

be it dawn

noon 

dusk

or somewhere in between

i go out there

i go out there,

and i let my senses guide me

sparkly; sour; green; blushing?

cinnamon; white; with veins, without?

then i approach the tree of choice with gentle steps

and ask

May I?

and i believe, was the tree to reply in words it would tell me

Child, Why Not?

Have, Please.

Enjoy.

There Is No Such Thing As A Forbidden Fruit.

Not In My Garden.

""

cleansing ritual

""

ah hell,

the forces of distraction

if they pull and tug and push,

if they urge and accumulate and pretend

if they plot and reassure and comfort

dance

curse

pray

shout

stop!

stop right there!

i'm busy having The Time Of My Life Right Now!

""

knightly advice

""

now 

dream dream dream

asleep, awake

each vision will on due time spread its wings independently.

""

an ode to the :

""

on a good day

two dots on top of each other alone

can make my heart sing.

spice it up and you get a :)

""

siriusly speaking

""

steering away from the streetlights at night

does not mean i seek trouble

i just want to establish i-contact with the stars

""

 

as above, so below

""

it becomes so obvious after rain:

the sky can be found in every puddle.

""

Harvest Moon

""

the deepening of the green of former seeds

creates space for painting my ceiling, the sky, with new dreams.

eventually these will become clouds, raining down

on the fertile ground of faith

and i shall tend the unfolding tenderly, lovingly.

""

for the anxious

""

there, there

there

is but a letter away from 

here

""

graduation day

""

the seeds of the birches leaving home,

in 30 years time any one of them

can be waving its branches at the sky

i wear white and watch them,

please, 

be my guests

""

it's dawning

""

they're everywhere,

you know

the answers

""

all in one

""

watch in wonderment, yes.

your hands know how to handle it,

they remember the craft of weaving a day.

see?

your entire Youniverse is home-made.

""

lotus position

""

not so much striving

more just falling upwards

""

water to wine

""

take a birthday, 

repeat it for years -

this is one of my favourite alchemic processes

""

like this

""

to sit in a place where the rustle of the leaves is as loud as it gets,

to be quiet, in place, until the last of the birds fall silent.

they take their time, i take mine.

hear.

have some.

""

by-pass operation

""

the bald man in a hurry
the woman in high heels
the kid with an ice cream
the grandmother with weak knees

sharpen your vision and see for yourself:
we're all more than meets the eye.

""

results of a research

""


the after after the before +/- the before before the after = about now.

subjective experience of the hypothesis:
i quite like it here.


""

there came a day when i stopped being late

""

setting the tone, i know
i'll never be out of tunes,
never out of worlds:

happy re-birth, every body!

while i make the rain bow,
the maple draws a green circle below itself.

""

playing at a party

""

passing the past
letting the pass past me

the present contains impeccable guidance

""

contemporary reincarnation

""

go against it,
go, go;
go against all of it,
all, all:
make the set shiver,
the pieces scatter,
not out of disrespect for what is,
but of respect for what can be;
now, now,
always!

""

signature

""

the air smelled different today
or was the difference merely that
the air smelled

whichever way, i felt both visited and welcome -
there may have been a subtle shift in seasons

""

look, listen, think

""

waves
are pulse embodied:
the restlessness or the calm of an ocean
depends on the state of each human heart beating


""

measuring up

""

to create a personal connection
to enough
is enough

""

survival

""

here it is again,
the tickling sensation making my eyes almost water:

i think my cells are laughing

""

impacts

""

there was the morning after:
ground slippery as if it had rubbed off,
the whiteness of another traveller's solitude.
no harm done, it seems to be evening out, night falls as usual.
sometimes facing a fellow entity is all it takes.


""

self-maintenance

""

let it be more about undressing the face,
less about dressing the hair.

""

shapeshifting

""

learning to sit still long enough
for the hole that eats me
to become a space which feeds me

...patience, my friend.
...delight, my heart.


""

journeying

""

the benefit of following paths is the sensation of company.
the benefit of finding one's own is experiencing the unseen.

in no way are these two excluding, nor contradicting, one another.
keep walking.

""

fulfilment

""

oh,
is there
but one lack in my life
let that be lack of need

after all, everything wished for
is already right here


""

a reflection

""

retracing the features of the girl i once was
reminds me:
i rather grow together and close
than up and old.

""

on borders

""

as i watch the snowflakes fill the air
i cannot make out the window,
so some of them seemingly enter my room
or maybe it is me being out there, dancing, too

""

what is left, yes, that is about right

""

speed is man-made
slowness grows on trees
next time you pass one
breath in
breath out
breath in

enjoy the sensation of direction
then,

let go


""

it came calling

""

pushing and pulling
like the forces of water,
streams beneath a surface of stillness

and from the bottom
a burst of bubbles, colour of light itself
made it all the way up
bringing the release and the relief
weaving into the element next to the tension

""

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life creates shapes.
this is waveformation.