(Mandala created by Joseph Polansky)

Two women of the street - Behind them we read:

LOVE IS FREE  

Another sign reads, "Freedom is not free."

Blood flows out of that one, behind a marching band.

But freedom is love and love is freedom.

Do YOU set YOURSELF free to love?

Truth is beauty and beauty is complete

Are YOU free yet to get that?

Are you free to greet the night

With empty pockets full of delight?

Do you worry that the end of the world is at hand,

Because no one can find one single spot of pure land?

Have you considered that the cause of global warming

Just might be the earth descending closer to hell

Dragged down by evil leaders?  

Do you see your land is leased land,

And therefore lost land?

When you figure out the cost,
Do you count the drops of slave-blood on your manufactured "goods"?

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“Whoever offers his prayer to the Holy King must put forward his petition and pray from the depth of his heart..." - Zohar

In unbound brokenness I appealed to Thee

And now I understand how and why to adore Thee:

Because you ARE the fulfillment of my deepest prayer to Thee...

The Power you bequeathed unto me

Is to BE with Thee

Love is my Saving Grace

YOUR worthiness for love my wisest focus

Disgusted by a society of little, puny men

And their paid blonds

And their junk bonds

And …

Every aspect of creation conceals Your Perfect Love for me  

Like the prayed out man with his played out hand

Who's stoney face does not smile as he freezes in death's threat

Whose young daughter with him looks already a good deal dead

Gray with the palor

Of his getting-found-out dread

When I leave that to return to You

I fulfill the point and

Am set free

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May I share the poetic axis

That exits nowhere

But where Truth triumphs in the night,

Uniting the beginning with the end,

Where infinity encircles itself

At its center.