Seed Only
1)
forgetting to forget
just sitting
still as a moment gone
into emptiness
gone into a pregnancy
of only empty
beginning again
seed only
2)
side by side
eye slide my hand under
the blanket
resting there
between your breasts
gone again
into hunger
for you
3)
every breath a slip
or a slide
into a cultivated dream
here
is always sacred ground
right here only one
sun
and moon
4)
loving is
hardly easy in this
maddening universe
still
a faith placed here
is enough
mountains
without end
5)
dying is
easy into your love
like boots on the ground
like feet in the river
no clinging
is enough
clouds
summer rain
6)
forms come
forms go what remains
is always what returns
this
is the faith that eye need
you
bewilderment
awe
7)
with heart open
with hands open
lessons learned good stuff
systems reek
the natural abides
why not here
wonder names
the day
8)
imagine that
is always a good place
to start
so many Tara's
so many rivers
of bliss
opening
pouring
9)
mystery
whom eye love
is of another world
while
within everything here
no beginning no end
touch
this
10)
one breath only
one breath enough
life year month
week day hour
minute second
no time
kiss
one tear
11)
ultimate friend
always
person right in front
of you
like bread
like tea
come in
stranger
12)
tripping
into the collapse
of intoxication
of course eye blame
you leaving
returning leaving
perfection
is more
13)
a lovers lust
for dissolving
into the other
and then returning
to form only
to dissolve again
this
kiss
14)
how you removed
my hat
poured hot tea
into it
and placed it back
dry upon my head
dream
season
15)
you lounge
on the couch naked
like in a Matisse painting
enticing my tongue
to swirl on breast
and to swirl more
no mind
no mind
16)
early spring walk
slip ice
on mountain path
nowhere up
birds sing
river sounds
trees
listen
17)
miss day said
all is grace as if
everything really is
grace
peeling potatoes
going to jail
this one
breath matters
18)
who knows
what's next maybe
good very maybe bad
eye give what eye can
maybe
we all do the same
could be good
could be very good
19)
no answer
for breathless questions
settle in
the beyond of question
settle in
a giving home
simple
enough
20)
thought into thought
just sitting
gathered in remembrance
tethered to grace here
life herself
becomes mother
beginning again
seed only
-- Robert Daniel Smith
1)
forgetting to forget
just sitting
still as a moment gone
into emptiness
gone into a pregnancy
of only empty
beginning again
seed only
2)
side by side
eye slide my hand under
the blanket
resting there
between your breasts
gone again
into hunger
for you
3)
every breath a slip
or a slide
into a cultivated dream
here
is always sacred ground
right here only one
sun
and moon
4)
loving is
hardly easy in this
maddening universe
still
a faith placed here
is enough
mountains
without end
5)
dying is
easy into your love
like boots on the ground
like feet in the river
no clinging
is enough
clouds
summer rain
6)
forms come
forms go what remains
is always what returns
this
is the faith that eye need
you
bewilderment
awe
7)
with heart open
with hands open
lessons learned good stuff
systems reek
the natural abides
why not here
wonder names
the day
8)
imagine that
is always a good place
to start
so many Tara's
so many rivers
of bliss
opening
pouring
9)
mystery
whom eye love
is of another world
while
within everything here
no beginning no end
touch
this
10)
one breath only
one breath enough
life year month
week day hour
minute second
no time
kiss
one tear
11)
ultimate friend
always
person right in front
of you
like bread
like tea
come in
stranger
12)
tripping
into the collapse
of intoxication
of course eye blame
you leaving
returning leaving
perfection
is more
13)
a lovers lust
for dissolving
into the other
and then returning
to form only
to dissolve again
this
kiss
14)
how you removed
my hat
poured hot tea
into it
and placed it back
dry upon my head
dream
season
15)
you lounge
on the couch naked
like in a Matisse painting
enticing my tongue
to swirl on breast
and to swirl more
no mind
no mind
16)
early spring walk
slip ice
on mountain path
nowhere up
birds sing
river sounds
trees
listen
17)
miss day said
all is grace as if
everything really is
grace
peeling potatoes
going to jail
this one
breath matters
18)
who knows
what's next maybe
good very maybe bad
eye give what eye can
maybe
we all do the same
could be good
could be very good
19)
no answer
for breathless questions
settle in
the beyond of question
settle in
a giving home
simple
enough
20)
thought into thought
just sitting
gathered in remembrance
tethered to grace here
life herself
becomes mother
beginning again
seed only
-- Robert Daniel Smith