BEAUTY

There is beauty of the moment and of the moment gone.

I do not know which to prefer,

The beauty of inflections,

Or the beauty of innuendos,

The Blackbird whistling

Or just after.

-- Wallace Stevens

Ulapalakua Storm

What's Not Here

I start out on this road, call it

love or emptiness. I only know what's

not here: resentment seeds, back-

scratching greed, worrying about out-

come, fear of people. When a bird gets

free, it doesn't go back for remnants

left on the bottom of the cage! Close

by, I'm the rain. Far off, a cloud of fire.

I seem restless, but I am deeply at ease.

Branches tremble; the roots are still.

I am a universe in a handful of dirt,

whole when totally demolished. Talk

about choices does not apply to me.

While intelligence considers options,

I am somewhat lost in the wind.

by Rumi

Spring Previews

MAUI's January Contrasts

Ryoanji: An Essay

Wherever a person stands in the garden of Ryoanji, there is always a stone that cannot be seen. It is like the sliver of absence found on the face of a man who has glimpsed in himself a thing until then unknown. Inside the silence, just before he begins to weep. Not because of the thing he has learned---monstrous or saintly, it was always within him---but for the amplitude he hadn't believed was there.

- Jane Hirshfield, "After"

Now is when the universe

is taking care of things

providing you with the needs to

help you overcome self doubt.

To submerge you in love

to flow with life

without fear or concerns.

M

Boynton Canyon Blues

My soul remembers the peace that can inspire creativity

etched in timeless sculpted rock

Feeling energy surge through me

I lay dreaming

of a love lost to me

in a corresponding reality

My world is simple

painted by those loved ones

that wish me only to forge ahead

in my own evolution

I offer my hand gently in love

to release suffering

that clings in fear

unsuspecting

In these red rock hues

I feel the Blues of caring

patiently waiting

to share these same magic moments.

G.Sherman5/31/2001

Meditation is "a way of clarifying the actual nature of the mind".

It is not someone else's experience we are studying, it is our own.

-Trungpa Rinpoche

Help Wanted

Sincere human beings to give gifts and be light of world.

Perfection not required.

Must be willing to give and receive love, voice your vision, stand for truth, face fears, forgive mistakes, own your shadow, trust the universe and enjoy mystery, paradox and change.

-Scott Kalechstein

Thanksgiving!

Panca_Tattva

On this day of thankfulness I honor with gratitude the direction of my life, the very special people in it, as well as the many, many lessons that have been brought to me for my consideration.

I LOVE YOUR SOUL

Beguiling green eyes

spin worlds

laughing radiating light

revealing

unconditional love

present nullifing future

time within you

grateful peaceful haven

longing arms

pulling away

into burning flames

newly discovered...

loves nerosis

I'sana 7/07

TEXTURES

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Haiku,Haiku 1987

gentle rains

feed twisting streams

wind danced treetops

sing of peaceful oneness

Radha's Divine Appearence Day

Who will I love

Perhaps I am afraid of losing you in the void

A place where no thing exists,

Where every thing is

Who will I love if you stop being you

Only shadows dance formless

Weaving textures of life

M

First Flowers/Fence Project

HAPPY VALLEY FENCE PROJECT

This commission has truly been a labour of love for me. After eight months of finish work on this house and O'hana I was given the opportunity to create and build this giant 14 foot trellis for Jade vines to climb. This was a security and privacy addition for dividing the pool area. The multiple owners have been both patient and gracious throughout this challenging project. I will very much enjoy watching the process of growth in the coming months.

MINDFULNESS OF SOUL

Once, someone stirred me

in a direction never before spun

It felt so beautiful, so right,

to wake up to my Passion

I thought that it would last forever

Another Illusion !

Passion and love alone

don't seem to hold together

the reflecting mirrors of familiarity ~

that experience,

mindfulness and maturity,

enable us to see !

So, if the soul of a lifetime of searching

would or could

duplicate the presentation,

I would never try to pin it down or own it,

but let our love flow with the joy

of every present waking moment,

that was my good fortune to behold

with gratitude...

I'sana

10/06

MEMORY

Desolation's desert.

I'm here with shadows of your voice,

your lips as mirage, now trembling.

grass and dust of distance

have let this desert bloom

with your roses.

Near me breathes the thin air that's your kiss.

It smolders,

slowly - slowly, musk of itself.

And further, drop by drop,

beyond the horizon, shines on Time's face,

touched it...

So caressing

that although it's shadow parting's morning

it's as if night's come,

bringing you to my brave arms.

by Agha Shahid Ali

REFERAL LINK

For more gardening, art, poetry and feeling the experience of LIFE by the gifted artist BARONE, delve into http://www.wildvines.blogspot.com/

NIGHT

Intoxicating Jasmines

thick and sweet

wafting perfume

tendrils wrap

around my Dream Sleep -

kind lovers

caring tenderness

sensual distractions

harmonic rapture

loving futures

~


Traded Waking Dream -

cricket drone

drunken geckos

rustling mangoes

dense avocados

dancing with the

music of the wind

~

Shadows of the moon

remembering -

lost loves

pain body stories

wishful pasts


thinking...


time moves on

life waits patiently

for

true waking



I'sana