Category: Poetry Publisher: Taiyu John Robertson
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 136
Copyright: November 4, 2007
ISBN-13: 9780615172958
A Poetic Memoir of addiction, redemption, Zen Buddhism, and the path of a lawyer, biker, Buddhist, father, poet.
We all seek nirvana. We believe if we get just the right job or lover or house or child or drug or religion, then finally suffering will end, joy will bloom, and we'll glide along forever in the sweet spot of carefree life. Its a nice fantasy and most folks just stumble about, gloriously oblivious to the truth of the world, the universe, and themselves in it.
There are exceptions.
Always Doing Being, We Live Our Lives showcases, sometimes in painful detail, what it means to wake up to the reality of mindlessness, craving, addiction, redemption, and hope for one poet author, as he clumsily tentatively staggers out from the dark corner of realization.
Excerpt
stooped shoulders
its not that this here suitcase
of pain
isn't real,
its just that
me having it
isn't necessary.
flowing, as such things do,
from the sharp edged habits
of old old mind,
coming up
out of the depths
of childhood's end times,
where you learn but can't speak
of how the big people
weren't gods,
and the weight
of history
bears down more and more
on stooped shoulders.
these delusions
don't exactly
flee the coop
just because the door's open.
not with all them wolves
still lurking nearby.
not yet at least,
which explains
why the baggage
still comes with the grown man
i have become.
i still hear the howling
and can't sleep sometimes
with my feet hanging off
the edges
of the bed.
My book of poetry is being redone by me, I have a beautiful cover designed and the book will have a few more than 200 poems in it. I am going to have it printed on demand here in Canada. When it is done I will let you know when it is done and if anyo
A further collection of poems, many from years in the Middle East, but also the California San Francisco and Central Coast areas (Santa Cruz, Carmel, Big Sur, Berkeley, etc.).
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
