Life is ours, we live it our way;
Trust the hide but do not seek.
Serving the self is a Pay Day;
Although saints get a bigger peek.

Into the unknown Mystery matter flows;
I find in YOU something that seems new.
Over and under the sun, wind blows;
The book of Acts ain't only played by the Jew.

Kenny's foot is loose but he is free;
Fly like the eagle with Seal.
Open your Capital letter and find me;
Man shant live on bread alone for his meal.

Not your typical poetry, I ain't Shakespeare;
Message in a bottle might wash up on your shore.
I am an individual unit of consciousness, Spear-It;
Boogie boarding on a a wave of less, in the land of the more.

I was playing around this morning and came up with this one. Just started working on it, but if anyone has any feedback I'd love to hear it.

They’re talking on the TV
Telling us corporations are people too
They’ve bought the whole god damned world
And sold us out to boot

I hope my child and all his friends will take it back someday
This place is the place I grew up in
This world’s not one in which I can play
It’s just not the same anyway you look at it
Our beautiful world and gone to shit

You may think my words are harsh and cold
I don’t think my thinking is so damn bold
I just want everyone to all they desire
We all deserve to prosper and set the flames in our hearts afire

We’re going the way of 18th century France
The rich and the poor are gonna dance someday
And it won’t be a dosi doe
The rich seem to get it their way
And the rest of us get no say
The rich and the poor are gonna dance someday
And it won’t be no dosi doe
This revolution will come over us all
Make the world a better place
By taking back the life you were promised when you signed on
The book of life holds your name within it
And you signed on the dotted line
Right before you came into the world this time

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"All the world's a Stage and all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and their entrances and ONE man in his time plays many parts, his acts beings Heaven ages"---Shakespeare

Great thread and great posts everyone. Ill contribute with a snippet from one of mine (an unfinished song I wrote).

To not be seduced by
your own fears
To reconcile all
your beliefs
and you walk right
through these walls
while the clown drifts
into winter
still embracing the
scent of spring

Kurt

Edit: I read some more just now from the thread, and there is really some amazing stuff in this thread.

Nice Kurt!

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"All the world's a Stage and all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and their entrances and ONE man in his time plays many parts, his acts beings Heaven ages"---Shakespeare

I have to say: I'm SO happy this thread has been so actively utilized!

Great job everyone. Great expressions here. =)

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For anyone interesting in enjoying some musical poetry, feel free to check out some of my work here:

http://www.soundcloud.com/colerandall

Otherwise, keep 'em coming!!

-C

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Never live so certainly as to confuse your own convictions with what is true.

If you look real high you just might find
Sitting in the stars, glistening, glistening
Waiting for the band to come
Just waiting for that man to come.
Oh, I wonder...

Slip on down from the sun to climb,
Down to earth and down to things like time,
Because we are all, we are all just lovers,
Born of earth and light like all the others.

If you're talking to the moon,
The moon might sing about the universe
Shouting: "I don't need, I don't need time",
I breathe in time.
Where are we now?
Where are we now?

If you're looking for the river just find the mouth,
It's grinding like gnashing teeth foaming out, foaming out,
Mixing up the hell to come.
Just mixing up the hell to come.

And it's fixing up to swallow me whole.
It's fixing up to swallow me whole.
It's fixing up to swallow my soul.
Fixing up to swallow me whole.

Slip on down from the sun to climb,
Down to earth and down to things like time,
Because we are all, we are all just lovers,
Born of earth and light like most these others.

Where, where are we now?
Where, where are we now?

I was born without a name
A soldier for
The streets they say
This kid's on a mission
Running high on fame of the guillotine
No roots to find and no one to miss him

My head is like a flame
And my eyes were red

Well we all get strange
And we know it
But we're cool with it
And we all get a little bit older
In this day and age
But we deal with it

My head was like a flame
It was burning up, burning up
It was burning up
My head was like a flame
It was burning up, burning up
It was burning up

Shaking with a fire burning deep inside
Still the politicians they never listen
Blood money was a sound
I didn't care to hear
Of which the politicians they only listen

I became a child of the universe
Reborn into this galactic prism

My head was like a flame
It was burning up, burning up

This is intended to perhaps be an Anthem for the Occupy movements. Try the tune of Beethoven's Ode To Joy, the Fifth Symphony.

Occupy the Earth

Arise, arise, all Human Billions,
Take up this Universal Path.
Peaceful join all sisters, brothers,
Yet Adamant our joined wills.

In Democracy Abides All Power,
If only we United are.
From Arab Spring to cities world wide,
We must become One Family.

Look within your self and see
what it takes to make all free.
Treat all as you would be treated,
Use only what you need to be.

Let them not divide and rule us,
We must all in amity,
Work together as we're able
To ensure we all live free.

There are neither police nor prisons
Suffice our United Voice to quell.
Occupy where e'er you come from,
City street or prison cell.

World divided, haves and have nots,
Will end in loss of Liberty.
All together, World United,
We must prevail or who'll be free.

If you know someone active in Occupy, perhaps pass it on.
Dreamed one night and then written out by Ted

Some really lovely stuff here. Wonderful idea for a thread.

This is not mine (oh if only) but it's one I came across recently by Theodore Roethke and which I feel says so much of relevance to what I understand about MBT.

In a Dark Time

In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood--
A lord of nature weeping to a tree,
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den.

What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall,
That place among the rocks--is it a cave,
Or winding path? The edge is what I have.

A steady storm of correspondences!
A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is--
Death of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.

Dark,dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.

Wow Rosie,

That was a seriously deep/awesome poem. Thank you so much for sharing!

-C

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Never live so certainly as to confuse your own convictions with what is true.

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-"You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find... you get what you need"

Justin, that is great. It should be a quote on facebook, right up there with all that cool Tesla stuff. --beau

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"All the world's a Stage and all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and their entrances and ONE man in his time plays many parts, his acts beings Heaven ages"---Shakespeare

I like it very much Justin!

Reminds me of a guided meditative self inquiry from Adyashanti I listened to yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU1Agfd_nQw.

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Everything is simpler than we can imagine, at the same time more complex and intertwined than can be comprehended--Goethe, Maxims & Reflections

This is actually one of the first songs I wrote sounds better as a poem though.

Gates of Dawn

Songs we make and words we take,
come softly singing well im dreaming.
They said our love would always last
but im afraid,
like the times they
will pass.

My over-soul enlightens me
through consciousness ill be with
thee.

Echoes of the Love we bring,
Shadows of the Fear we breath,
Worlds of the Mind we breach.

Images near the Gates of Dawn,
that burn my mind, across all time.
Im taking a trip to descend,
that of which I cant defend.
Over jagged rocks, and kept up lies,
to break my most inner ties.

Echoes of the Love we bring.
Shadows of the Fear we breath.
Worlds of the Mind we breach.

Doorman man said feed you head,
and you'll be one within the sun.
Sacred, solid, golden figures moving around,
through out the sound.
Well we sit and wait,
for dawn to break.

Echoes of the Love we bring.
Shadows of the Fear we breath.
Worlds of the Mind we breach.