Social Poems Political Poems

wooden floor mourns the passing of countless feet one whole creature with many legs many legs coming and going this way and that for a lifetime the hollow sounds and echoing footsteps this hardwood floor listens and feels in bereavement © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

this is a mindfulness quote pay close attention to the quote part occurring between obvious dualistic pairs of vertical lines, below " " the important part is the attention paid (i.e. not the missing worlds) © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

there are frogs in the pond making their noises strange noises there are birds in the pond splashing and fluttering to clean wings and all splash, flutter splash, flutter croak, croak © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

spring is in the air we are working in the garden and mindfully sewing seeds starting from seed indoors and watching beautiful sprouts come forth and emerge the beauty of potential growing out of seed with so much to offer growing, developing not just a metaphor life life life © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

I have a best friend it is true, yes we, I believe are best friends both ways with each other he is my best friend and I am his best friend honestly, I believe he is my only real friend a real friend is way beyond acquaintance-ville or casual friendship-land a real best friend is something special and hard to describe so I am not going to even try to I will say this much mindfulness is easy when a best friend is around © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

I have a list of subjects I like to choose from in terms of poems today I picked vampires don't ask me why it is crazy all I can think of is the obsession about vampires are we somehow attracted to— eternity, curbing instincts... you tell me © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

I am not shopping for poems a good poem cannot be bought it must arise naturally out of nowhere like this one there is no living soul who knows where this poem is going to go as I write who can say what anything in this world means anyway? © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

being mindful used to mean listening well to guidance and following it "you be mindful of what your daddy told you" I just used the old meaning in this sentence we have graduated, and mindful has a new meaning our graduation was from listening well to another to listening well to ourselves in this moment I like this new meaning much more © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

I am hopeful today I'm not even sure what that means but something inside is okay with what is and I automatically extrapolate which is not mindfulness as it projects into the future still, outlook is outlook and generates from feelings and where do feelings come from? © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

conflict is an interesting subject as it brings to mind external strife however, is anything ever external? strife and conflict are born within amid the scattering of self through mind torn apart from simplicity and wonder the anxious to be loved plots to be when letting go of plotting is all love self and be without conflict love others and lose self in peace © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

this morning my wife and I delivered local quality coffee to an activist friend of ours who, due to knee surgery has been less than active we covered a number of subject in our chatting for an hour or so one of which was representational politics respectfully, this poem in no way expresses any opinion of all this but my own © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

I am sitting at this coffee shop it is my usual place to hang out while writing these things (poems) it is crowded today (quite so) out come the intimidation acts (i.e. "I deserve that booth more than you") and so this couple with noses in the air work their stuff to try to oust me pulling out the stops of entitlement so I am writing this poem about them while they focus on someone else © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean

existence is not what you see existence is the seeing how you see it is what it is © 2009-2010 Benjamin Dean