You should not see me

1. You should not even try

2. It will change our relationship

3. You and I

4. Meaning should not reside from where

5. The words have been spoken

6. But simply as words that are there

7. As they are and remain

8. Long after the breath that wrote them

9. Here

10. For those born after

11. With a meeting

12. Things always change

13. Doubts and pretences

14. Get between you and your friends

(first written 05.05.1996 and reworked 18.08.2009)

Covenant partner

1. Healing service, a world outreach

2. For a dollar a day

3. Already seventy million subscribers

4. To online live streaming

5. Watch for our new bilingual affiliates

6. Do you have prayers needing answers?

7. Send them to us

8. Your first month's subscription is free

9. Tune in every Sunday

10. Place your hands on the monitor

11. Receive your blessing

12. Parishioners

13. You can be stronger

14. May your demons be gone

(first drafted 24.03.1996, revised 16.08.2009)

The only day

1. The decision to make, this time

2. Unknown consequences to be

3. The directions taken

4. Destinations located

5. This moment being

6. The only time a unique

7. Happening

8. Done in this way

9. As natural progression

10. No logic or explanation

11. Simply acceptance

12. No perfection required

13. Just listening and action

14. The kind voice spoken

(first written 25.03.1996, retranslated 16.08.2009)

Whopping great big

1. Fire to keep us warm this night

2. Surrounded by a conical canvas

3. Having time described above

4. The day brought some sunshine at last

5. The size of flame increased and still

6. We enjoy the glow

7. Even though time for sleeping we are

8. Aware

9. The rest will be described above

10. Three times over the same dimension of fun

11. Enveloped by the moment

12. Unshaking the past

13. Momentarily realising they are truly alive

14. In this whopping great big smoking pipe

(Loose recollections from a night in a Inuit tipi sleeping with an open fire, Easter Day on Salt Spring Island, British Columia, Canadia - 07.04.1996)

Two seats free

1 Crowded bus and yet here are these two seats

2 Free near a blotched, gray haired old man

3 Exhibiting for the people this day

4 From his three seats in exile

5 Repeating

6 Words, smells and phrases too loudly

7 Drawing whispers and pouting disdain
8 Rearranging his hair that's not there

9 He continues to say the same words over again

10 Speaking in utter confusion

11 At how a woman can buy both stockings and shoes

12 And wear out the stockings leaving high heels looking new

13 "I just don't understand it!"

14 "Why are they different?"

(reworked from 23.03.96 poem written in Vancouver, Canada)