Poetry evening

Good news! Harry and Andy are back in town, and we have a special guest this time - Taj, the Imam from the Open Mosque in Cape Town who'll be reading some 8th century Islamic poetry. So bring your friends and your verse and your lyres!

Friday 28 Dec 6:30pm at The Hearth of Cintsa Studio Gallery+ Project Space, Cintsa Drive, Cintsa East. We'll have wine.

Authentic Kate Ion

(Authentication)

Dark wine scribe

By top floor kitchen light writes

A catch up time to find the tears

To squeeze her out from all those years

It’s easy to rhyme, just not easy to feel

So I sublimate and break

From all the seemingly real

Retreat slow down stop

My life. What the fuck

Now to love like I’ve never been hurt

Or given up

Found the flow caught a fire

Living at the sea

I can’t keep me in our grief

So I set we free

Authentication back up strange

Hail the mid-halation and wake up rearranged

Reset and empty the plate

Back on straight, code fun eight

Mind erect and turned on

Access infinite energy & wisdom

Haiku - Light

Black disappears into White:

Darkness is Shade,

The Shadow cast by Light. 

Faith37

The thing about the 2012 date.

We are multidimensional.

What ancient words dare I write

To usher in, to invoke, to invite

Allies who trade,

Who first taught us to trade.

Sit care-full with deep meaning, child,

You who are innocent and can see

But have no family, 

No language

No compass,

Save faith, mixed with a bit of blood and dust.

In the paint bowls and ink wells put trust

Interspecies love

Necessary,

When the veils are thin

And the muses and daemons draw near,

To move to the borderlands,

Drink the wine

And record the songs of cheer

Sing!

Crickets; ocean hard-on:

We are nowhere near

But we keep moving 

Close to 

The Transcendental Object

At The End Of Time.

And, by Gods! We try our best

To stay close to irreverance

And congruent seeking out of experience,

To try the boundaries,

Slip through or break down

The walls we’ve so unconsciously built and bought

Finished. Soap bubbles.

Deep soak. Facial scrub.

All the mantras

All that’s trend-appropriated:

To hell with you!

Where’s the original thought?

Where did you go,

You pretty sweet-talkers

You industrious free-sharers of intellectual property

You always seem to skip town

Bear 

Owl

Wolf 

Dragon

HOWL

Roll up. Get in

Central processing unit

Sending out the code for feeling

Cell receptors capture mind food

What am I feeding on

What am I eating

What am I feeding

Stop anytime.

Stop me anytime.

Climb off when you need to.

You can stop anytime you need to.

DMTercet

Heaviness is the experience of Time,

Non movement,

And the rain is a pardon.

Haiku - The Unconditional loneliness

The Unconditional loneliness

of All

Non-human animals

Haiku - Teachings of the muse

Three basic tenets

The muse teaches 

The Good. The Beautiful. The True.

Haiku - Storage of plant memory

Storage of plant memory

For a few hours

Here, straight between the eyes

Haiku - In the midst of a great dream

In the midst of a great dream

make way across the bridge

into action

Tercet: The Everyday

The Things that disappear into Pockets

The Mundane that holds the Moments when they do

We are just Visitors here

Prayer for Winter

I would now like to de-scale,

Iron out the forming face lines,

And still smile.

I would now like to dilate flesh vessel,

Feel the pain of the world

And still smile.

I would like, now, to offload his story,

Sit and daydream, 

Access conscious intention for planetary future

And grow the growing smile.

Haiku - Snail and wild hare

A warm wind sails in

Snail and wild hare:

Love like you have never been hurt

Haiku - Happenings in linear time

Happenings

In linear time

The idea of a tomorrow

Haiku - Project:ion

What you feeding
Are you even breathing?
Check the belly button for meaning

Haiku - Ormus

Harvest your own gold

Fashion your own lenses

Try to see past the sun

About the killing of snakes

Don’t kill the snake

Why do you fear the snake

If God is good and God is great

Then all is good and all is great

And God, too, made the snake

Just like he made the woman

The woman who made you

Your mother, your sister, your lover

There is nothing wrong with this earth

Every creature has its part

There is nothing wrong with you.

You belong here. God made you.

Don’t kill the snake. Kill your fear.

Kill your kulcha

Because your kulcha made you fear the snake.

Tercet: Talismans

: wards against rocket science,

Insouciant nuclear warfaring tomfoolery

and other mimes of trickery

Haiku - Take a stand

Ground sacred union 

On this planet:

Authenticity. Consciousness

Haiku I - Goodness & Light; haiku II - With Pain

I

In all things
And at all times look only for
The goodness and the light

II

Glad to hear
Of your progress through Life.
We all have a hurt of some kind.

Haiku - Paradise

Back to Being

Bachelors again.

The Discomfort in Ecstasy