Tao.... "The Way"

DRAGON

The wings of a raptor. The body of a snake. The claws of a lion. How to embody the shadow in one form. I have a darkness within me. Left unnamed it grows by the minute. In the darkness within I do not know the shape it takes. My ignorance gives it volume & breadth. It coils. It slithers. It pulses. In the garden it took a voice & offered a possibility. Without that knowing I would be an innocent... a creature of the flowers & the fruit. All creation is a mirror of the possible. I hold up the mirror & I see myself in my totality. I crave ferocity. I crave the fire of courage. I crave the fecund & the formless. I am dangerous. I have power. I choose choice where the outcome is uncertain. I slay no serpents. I crave no virgins. I am the dragon. It is the urge from within that makes me become who I am to become.

FIREBALL

I am not planting a garden this year because the Cottonwood blocks the light in my inner city yard & the vegetables do not flourish. Instead I have germinated 144 random sunflower seeds in planters in my kitchen. I know they will take off in my little square of black dirt.… No carrots or zucchinis… but a dozen dozen, sky-rocketing, sun worshippers.. These are the years when the Sun asserts its dominion. I am okay with that. I sit in a room bathed in sunlight… flooded… inundated… permeated… saturated.The little lemon tree I grew from the seed given to me by me teacher is sprouting new leaves in a clay pot on the window sill. Simple… insistent…. The Sun is merely a face of the greater Light. I add light to the Light. I scatter the shadows. My doubt dissipates…. one quick glance out of the corner of my eye over my shoulder…. I know it is alright. It has always been alright.

DRAGON NUMBER NINE -TAO

A dragon & a pearl. The sun ablaze. The moon cool blue. How the layers overlay like the skins of a coiling snake. If I could only  grasp one immutable truth. It lies in the spiral. In the swirl. The still point. Doubt arises like thunderclouds. Like mist. Like a mirage. The dragon. The pearl. The Sun. The Moon. A Here. A Now. To grasp this. Maybe just to glimpse this. A glance. I am outside the circle... the circling... the circling through eons & eons. Inside the centre holds. The dream evanesces... evaporates. The clouds... the dragon... the sun... the moon... & at the centre...perfect... serene... immutable...                      the pearl.