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Watching Waves is a collection of 76 poems comprised almost entirely of deeply personal interior musings about the nature of reality. Over eighty percent of this collection has never appeared in print before. Themes of a universal God and our search for God are prevalent throughout. Diverse influences of Indian Gurus, Tibetan Lamas, Lao Tzu, Zen, Sufi and Christian mystics inform the book’s cosmology. The opening stanza of the title poem conveys the essential ontology:
“We are the observer,
seated in Self,
watching the universe
as a wave flowing
before our consciousness.”
The book concludes with a selection of Christmas poems.
Watching Waves
We are the observer
seated in Self
watching the universe
as a wave flowing
before our consciousness
There is no past.
It is dead.
Just an image
of where a wave
has gone before.
Einstein imagined
moving at the speed of light.
Riding a beam of light,
what would you see?
Now imagine creation
is a constantly expressing wave
of energy.
And imagine that energy and consciousness
are the same.
What is the experience
of observing the universe as the wave of creation?
Creation is an instantaneous process.
Every second is a new creation.
Every second, the previous state has ceased.
Master
I hear the master of my ship
when the winds howl upon
the stormy sea
and the waves beat the wooden sides
and the rudder jerks from my grip
and turns the prow
from south to north to east
I hear your stars speaking direction
in my inner mind
and the sails bend to your pole
as I leave the world behind
hoping for a land of light
where you set me upon the shore
As I look around with new found
wonder
I marvel at the sight
to discover, that the journeys’ end
is but the very land we departed
and it is I, not the world, which turned
around this journey home.
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