Combat--the ultimate physical competition. Superiority for the winner, death to the looser.
Attraction. Compulsion.
Warriors
Warriors die on the battlefield
if they don't walk off.
Good warriors die before,
knowing all things
of the enemy.
There.
And within.
The best die daily.
To know.
Soul is life.
Is God.
Is Love.
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© 2018 Ardi Keim 10/11/15
(Another draft I found. Looks good to me. Why didn't I publish it?)
River-Tree Whispers
...and sometimes chuckles. Poetry. The Creative Mind. Humor. Soul inspired.
Friday, January 19, 2018
cosmic seed
in a moment of reality
or an expanse of deleted memory
time stops.
a temporal explosion
replaces a reality
. and I start anew
now I am.
and now again…
. © 2018 Ardi Keim
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(I came across the above in draft form. I wrote it months ago, maybe 2016. Hope to be more active blogging sometime soon. Life is full and rich. It all happens for the best. --ak)
or an expanse of deleted memory
time stops.
a temporal explosion
replaces a reality
. and I start anew
now I am.
and now again…
. © 2018 Ardi Keim
------
(I came across the above in draft form. I wrote it months ago, maybe 2016. Hope to be more active blogging sometime soon. Life is full and rich. It all happens for the best. --ak)
Monday, May 09, 2016
Awareness Strikes
Awareness Strikes
--from my morning window:
Sun-laid lace of maple shade
. on neighbor's roof
. a robin aware
Green on white and blue
. of morning sky behind
This day already blest
. by light and sound.
© 2016 Ardi Keim
--from my morning window:
Sun-laid lace of maple shade
. on neighbor's roof
. a robin aware
Green on white and blue
. of morning sky behind
This day already blest
. by light and sound.
© 2016 Ardi Keim
Sunday, October 11, 2015
The Warrior
Combat--the ultimate physical competition. Superiority to the winner, death to the looser.
Attraction. Repulsion. War. My experience with the concept. May be complete.
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© 2016 Ardi Keim 10/11/15
Attraction. Repulsion. War. My experience with the concept. May be complete.
Warriors
Warriors die on the battlefield
if they don't walk off.
Good warriors die before,
knowing all things
of the enemy.
There.
And within.
The best die daily.
To know.
Soul is life.
Is God.
Is Love.
_________________________________________________
© 2016 Ardi Keim 10/11/15
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Boy. Dog. Woods.
On our twenty acres the back fence kept farmer Jones' turkeys on his place most of the time. Togo was the first dog I remember. He got old before I knew anywhere else besides home, school, church and cousins. Oh, there were trips to town shopping at Tipton's and a Christmas movie too.
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Friend at Nine
Cold nose, black
Red tongue panting
Togo, brown Chow friend
Sticks and creek and woods we run
Turkeys were too slow.
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Boy Dog Woods
Douglas fir bark
moss on black dirt
kid Fort Flint in Fishback's woods
Togo always with me.
© 2015 Ardi Keim
Thursday, March 05, 2015
A Stretch of Peace
(Don't think too hard on this one. I didn't.)
Starts with a mocking bird
hides in a willow still weeping.
Sun sets the table of inspiration.
Yes,
March … to horizons lost
in thoughts
on the thawing song
of last winter
with its never-ending chorus of
another.
Yet never mentions poetic
stretch.
Like elastic--when rubber comes from
the family tree of memory.
Or is it a whippoorwill?
Notta lotta money tree.
This master checks off on all
particles
lit and sonic.
Vibrating endlessly.
Harmonic
I live. I love. I write.
Of love and life.
Is One.
There is no end.
I leave it ALL to you.
Can't say what else my M o t
h e r N a t u r e calling.
Wide mouth and holy.
Too loud this language of
secrets.
We have none.
Well being is never left
without a mind lapse.
Has purpose
in forgetting lets the head stuff off
its chronic condition.
Feverish before peace
to the pace
of a sun fish.
Luke warm and perfect
with your smile.
Thursday, February 19, 2015
A Convening of Feathers
Long winters may shunt the creative, but a scene rich in symbol caught my eye last week.
© 2015 Ardi Keim
A Convening of Feathers
Three pheasants on snow and litter
under brush.
A crow squawks from their side a jump
or two away
with sisters above on lamp and bare
branch.
Disturbed birds of china retreat by
quick feet
then with a call of oriental chime in
low flight west.
Black chatter hovers to chase in curious report.
Was there any agreement on the nature
of late winter?
Or can birds of cross feather ever see
the others' light?
I convene with my kind and hope
to touch heart.
© 2015 Ardi Keim
Friday, January 16, 2015
Song of Predawn Space
Mornings I come back. Choose my place and my day starting in sound before solid. Permeates my being, my space when the window is still open. You know? Like the life spirit of a new shore. When awakening is still silent. Listen.
Song of Predawn Space
Slow the pull from speed in peace
Retake and slip, and rake the sleep
From bright to fog returning faint.
I muscle forth 'gainst limbs still
bound
From pallet down to love seat choose
The peel, the toll of other rules.
Open book, yet half unwritten.
Write a seed of peace decipher
Between the lines then voice, a master
Clear till mind choose chapter pages
Lines to x and white-out writing
What is the matter gray not wasted?
Stop in halted thought and listen
Sound the room and sing the inner
Spring from deep and dream the race
Now heard the essence of this rest
The song we sing in predawn space.
To bless this day as we awaken.
© 2015 Ardi Keim
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