After the Silence of Spring Labour

moved venue to a rural setting.

a decade in the struggle to do such a simple thing.

a home for the Whimsical Garden,

a place for shields and eagle feathers,

to sit in the edge of the woods

and talk to the grandmothers who were our window into this dimension.

home after 53 years.
left to live with a foster family in a large city.

1956.

Much has happened here in the decades that I wandered the earth.
tutored in many sweat lodges,

many "jobs", many lands

the Stonespeaker" and DreamsStonesMoving .

two Mongrel Puppies,

to garden, a place for seniors.

to be of use in our retirement

until the Mother Ship hauls us out of here.

suspended moments, a war

a political education.

Vietnam in 1965-66.

the original play

"We were Soldier's Once"

Carlos Castaneda

Yaqui Don Juan,

("A Yaqui Way of Knowledge")

two points.
The first "Seek a path with heart."
The second "find place"

where unchallenged, invincible, comfortable, strong.

temporal dislocation occurs in war,

or traumatic experience,

some searchers

some lost.

The searcher restlessly walking razor’s edge

until that spot, that path, that purpose.

a generation of searchers.

the answers we seek are for the planet, for tribe,

for a generation of earthlings at peril.
***
Commuter estates collapsing investment reality:

debenture financial structures unstable,
equity systems alternative venue for asset

while currency of the new empires sort it out.
***
"The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…"
—Winston Churchill, November 1936
***

many dysfunctional and disenfranchised senior citizens
many elders of the European and Haudenaushaunee stripe

elitist and arrogant mongrel confusions.
rusty, scarred, tired and retired Knights of the realm,

in liege to pharoahs,

duty bound to a disparate tribe.
***
called upon to rise above distracting physical discomfort

and growing distaste for the insensitive pathologies

of political and corporate bullies.
We are duty bound to remain humble,

give honest opinion with conscience,

gently but firmly with empathy

for the defenseless hordes

who bear the brunt of the agony

inflicted by the irresponsible,

indiscriminate and senseless behaviour

of political and corporate realms
***
unpredictable tropical depressions

and socio-economic hurricanes

predictably paralleled with seasonal political depressions.

the mad scramble,

flocks of flighty investors

flitting about financial realms

dithering as to the safest place to land.
***
citizens, of disparate, dysfunctional but hopeful democracy

bear the privilege and the imperative of embarrassment

for having tolerated, supported and even elected this .

The "11thHour" indeed.

simple but hard truths of the moment, the self evident facts

***
"..the first generation in the history of civilization to bear the responsibility of saving Mankind from himself." Albert Camus, 1946(?)
***
A silver bullet: a self evident truth shines ,

slices through the Disney-esque fantasies of "economic growth"
***
Apocalyptic events,

evolutionary tsunamis unfold

politics dreams through mainstream media

carbon energy based "sustainable" consumer capitalism

"growth" in resource based economies

destroying the environment which enabled these brief dreams.
***
we face a challenge and large unknowns of evolutionary proportions.
***
A growing nervousness underlies the cautious questioning ,

the murmurs and polite protest,

politics and the corporate ethic continues as usual

has cause to be ashamed.
***
Perhaps this is an archetypal purgatory,

the payment for sins committed in another dimension.
led by the self indulgent and culturally introverted

arrogant bastard Sons of God and Daughters of Men

rapturously captured by the Sirens of physical gratification.

events unfolding a self induced apocalypse to rid the planet of an attitude.
***
Inner sanctum decisions

purple haze of glitter

fancy contrived beauty,

tempered handmaidens,

eunuchs and sychophants.

"rich man/poor man"

corporate and political chatter,

the planet is ours,

the mass of organic life,

including human beings,

is stuff to play with.
***
hypnotized and dysfunctional.

"virus" in the biodegradable computer genome.
***
The Omega seeds, the StarSeeds,

T'Salagi grandmother suggests: Hang on.
May your canoe find quiet waters.
Mongrel Puppy.
June 11-2009