Becoming
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Becoming
How did you happen?
How did you become?
bare at the shore
at the shore’s edge?
Playing
sand pebbles
in the water
quivering
teasing glares
flirting shimmering lights
ripples breaking into
laughter
at the shore’s edge
How did you happen?
How did you become
at the shore’s edge?
Africa
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Africa
Diggers are digging in my mother’s yard
Diggers, archeologists, digging my land
Tell me diggers what have you found
in my mother’s past.
That we are wanderers
all of us…
We are all children of Africa…
Are we all children of Africa?
We are all children of Africa.
The Eskimo from the Arctics
up the Caucasian mountain
Barbarians north the Rhine
Pathans or Vandals
They are all children of Africa…
Of Africa?
Of Africa
We are all children of Africa!
Chedar Cheese Car
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Chedar Cheese Car
Two tons sleep
Fell in each eye
When I was writing
To you tonight
The words of love
Gone from my pen
Bend down my neck
Hitting my head
On the foot rest
I took my pillow
And went to bed
Out in a dream
I saw amazed
raining green salsa
green salsa rain
Over a yellow
Cheddar Cheese car
Right on the street
rain made of salsa
car made of cheese
Fell from the sky
Ready to eat
Abode
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Abode
In the skies of faith
where hopes dance and play
I asked
for that point,
the place
where God dwells…
In the cluster of time
an embryo of a moment
gave a step into eternity
and in the eternal
unfathomable heavens
where my father dwells
in the isness of forever
wrapped into the now
In the abode of light
there was
Joy!
Ego
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Ego
Raw the belief
met the affliction
the hammered pain
hit the heart
and the flesh
deadly sure
deft
met the dreams
one by one