ABOVE AND BELOW

Underneath mans' driving need
Lie sex, and politics, and greed,
Controlling the vices found behind
The weakening of the human mind.
The origins of this quest for power
Are but vain attempts to stay the hour
Which looms above all mortal heads,
That every man, in some way, dreads:
When last he draws his final breath
To begin the life we've labeled 'death'.

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THE WAY

Remove your blinders
Walk with Dharma
Consider your deeds
Sleep with Kharma

Shed your possessions
Learn to let go
Release opinions
Let the truth flow

Care for each other
We exist as one
Defeat hate with love
War will be done

The path is open
For decision
Make loving-kindness
Your religion

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MOONFLIGHT

Amid the jangle of the teeming turmoil,
From the midnight depths of ocean gardens...
...To heights that diabolism cannot spoil,
I watch as night falls, when darkness hardens
The softness cast by shadow's pewter glow.

My desire to fly sends invocation
To the ethereal lunatic Queen.
Ignitable in my supplication,
I cut my tepid bond with earthly scene,
Leaving man and his troubles far below.

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SHILOH

Last night I dreamt of standing in Shiloh
With water around me swirling and white
The sky was dark with an electric glow
No sun, no moon, day dissolved into night

Before my eyes, the world became un-made
And God, Himself, reached out and turned the page
Revealing that which had underneath laid
Appointed before the start of this age

I had no fear of being swept away
For I stood upon rock, not melting clay

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LUCIFER LAUGHS

Watch my hand to see
3 ancient keys manifest
To unlock eternity's door
Ending duality's contest

To arms! Free the prisoners!
Throw open the temple doors
Infinite light floods and glows
Lucifer laughs: man's soul soars!

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THE GARDEN OF EDEN
(the wilderness forsaken)

Two lovers entwined together
Ringed around by the serpentine hedge
The fire within and the cold without
All three upon a precipitous ledge....

And three are one...
and the one are three...
and all of them are both you and me!!

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MIDSUMMER

Next crossing is Midsummer's mark
One more moon and the fairy cup
Has consumed one enchanted year
Time to plan the groom's bridal sup

Jubilee year has redeemed mankind
Every soul a savior of his brother
Let's toast to our communal success
With Father, Brother, Sister, Mother

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JUDGMENT

You judges and evangelists
And all you wall street bankers, too
Hypocrites avoiding mirrors
Toilet paper stuck to your shoe

Don't think you are obliged to judge
The acts and thoughts of another
When you haven't examined self
Don't place labels on your brother

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WE SEE

The snake, he wears a judge's robe
And lives within the mirror
That looks darkly through our minds
Seeing us far more clearer.
Than we see ourselves.

Though not good, neither evil
He adopts the name we give
When we're yet babes in our soul
Magic dreams by which we live.
Then we see ourselves.

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JONAH

Wicked seeds seek for a sign
Worm and blight, withered vine
Cruel sun blasting on their head
Without love, the wind is dead

But anger is not heaven's way
God sent love to save the day
Shining Son on cursed tree
Broken hearted slaves set free