Roadside Cafe'

Love these lines especially:
”I held you
against the broad breadth of time;
as a child holds a flower
if not for fate begotten wonder”

Very nice. Very original.

This Playful Ease of Being

It only works if you let go completely. Like this, now.

For what you seek is the intensity of nothingness,

perfect inattention, perfect openness to what will come:

The Receptive yielding to the Creative,

Earth yielding to Heaven, Prince yielding to King,

Woman yielding to Man. An intense waiting.

This letting go is a discipline, an essential yoga of the spirit,

a practice to which you must return, again and again.

For if you stubbornly hold the vain illusion

that you yourself, out of your own cleverness,

are writing the script, you will tangle yourself in dreams

and never attain the calm Center which you seek.

You will tangle yourself in dreams and nonsense,

for what you seek is not constructs of the imagination,

but the inner illumination that binds you to the Universe.

This illumination is the still, small voice,

speaking to you from your truest, most authentic self.

Once you have heard it, you will not be fooled

by the arrogant and meaningless chatter of lesser gods.

See with your inner eye! Hear with your inner ear!

Using these senses, and many others, the world around you

will shine with meaning, and you will learn, one step at a time,

the exquisite connectedness of all things, grain of sand to star.

 Your ultimate goal here is to achieve this playful ease of Being:

the simplicity of the Saint, the boundless wonder of the Child.

Alex Noble

An Excerpt From the Twenty Third Century Novel

From “The Book of Forbidden Poems”

Copyright C 2007 by Alex Noble. All rights reserved in all media.