dr_con Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Concrete Who will answer The Door? I had forgotten The Concrete Men were coming today despite evidence of Muscular Machines Sidewalk Symbols Weeds in Cracks lush in rebellion against Flat Other things had slipped my mind I blamed it on a Dharma talk Listening listening to correct my sitting dropping everything bit by bit but Bedeviled-Self Himself stubbornly launches Hungry Ghosts from The Pit It helped so I thought And that was a problem I could drop Sephiroth Qliphoth Orisha and Lwa Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Techniums and Ancestors Up and Down You but not damn Karma Knots of Me interrupted hearing Engine clang the elemental Stone on Metal Fire pumping through gears and other technical abstractions to produce Fluid motion echoes of which travels through Air to reach me on my cushion Damn I think interrupted again This isn’t Reality a travesty Of discipline maybe if I hid in the woods atop a mountain ancient so it moves slowly I’d get it I’d get IT Expecting a knock Arising see stairs upturned being reduced to its aggregate gravel rocks sand bound by cement each distinct pebble shining a Deep History before birth past death a congress of Elder Gods who when turned to dust will not be the memory of Wife’s icy fall or the sensation of limping carrying too many groceries or eagerness promised by overly stuffed suitcases and bags these spirits were never Stairs might as well call them Stars as Blake did seeing them for what they are Hearing knock heading for door wondering who will answer? Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoelJosol Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 The first time I read this I just went through the motion of its musicality. Looked for keywords to tie them together. I thought here is someone whose reflection/meditation was interrupted :-) The strong internal rhymes and enjambment pulled me to the next one until the end. Enjoyed this, dr_con. Quote "Words are not things, and yet they are not non-things either." - Ann Lauterbach Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abstrect-christ Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Interesting read Con. I got a contemplation piece out of it asking who laid the foundation for the narrater and which part of him/her is going to answer a call. Quote Pinhead "Unbearable, isn't it? The suffering of strangers, the agony of friends. There is a secret song at the center of the world, Joey, and its sound is like razors through flesh." Joey "I don't believe you." Pinhead "Oh come, you can hear its faint echo right now. I'm here to turn up the volume. To press the stinking face of humanity into the dark blood of its own secret heart." "There's a starving beast inside my chestplaying with me until he's boredThen, slowly burying his tusks in my fleshcrawling his way out he rips open old woundsWhen I reach for the knife placed on the bedside tableits blade reflects my determined faceto plant it in my chestand carve a hole so deep it snaps my veinsHollow me out, I want to feel empty"-- "Being Able To Feel Nothing" by Oathbreakerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBPy3xNwwL8 "Sky turns to a deeper grey the sun fades by the moon hell's come from the distant hills tortures dreams of the doomed and they pray, yet they prey and they pray, still they prey"-- "Still They Prey" by Coughhttps://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/sets/cough-still-they-pray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhymeguy Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 It is so great to see your name and have the privilege to read your verses and comments. I have been gone for a time. As to this verse- I have read it multiple times and each time I get a clearer picture. I know little to nothing about meditation and had no idea to whom or what your were referencing in V4L3,4,5.( not because you were not clear but because of what I do not know, I will however research these things). I did type in" Dharma talk" into the all famous Google. I opened a site called dharmaseed.org and listened to a talk entitled "What I can control/what I can't control" by JoAnna Harper. I did this primarily to help me understand why these talks would cause one to forget something. I wanted to better understand your verse. I think I got the gist or at least a gist. If I get IT all wrong please feel free to tell me. Meditation is a practice that is designed to put us in touch with the "universe" and help us gain inner peace and clearness of mind, which, if done correctly and consistently allows us to be "better" than we are. Reaching that ultimate place is a life long journey toward an un-arrivable destination. On the journey we experience interruptions. How they effect us can be determined by the "level" of peace and understanding we have achieved. You spoke of finding a more suitable place to help you "get it", the woods or a mountain top. While this would be a nice retreat it is not life for most of us. I would think the point is to achieve inner peace in the midst of chaos. A calmness that we take with us into the world in which we live. I take your first line both situationally and figuratively. In any given situation, when disruption invades our life, how will respond. "Who will Answer the Door?" Sorry to have been so verbose. However, it was your verse that spawned all this thinking . thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_con Posted July 8, 2016 Author Share Posted July 8, 2016 Thanks, JJ, Abstrect, RG. Much appreciate your comments and thoughts and love it when Verbose happens;-) Appreciate the feedback, and indeed I think you all 'Got it.' And thanks AC for pointing out the 'Foundations.' Indeed that was what the poem was about, but I missed the literal Metaphor of Concrete Foundation and the 'foundation' of practice. Love it when a Reader, sees past what I do;-) Much Appreciation! con/jur/d Quote thegateless.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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