Pantoum

I ran across the definition of a pantoum the other day and decided to try my hand at one:

The World Wide Web Spreads Its Net

The new leader of the revolution is a poet,
He waves the baton before schools of fish,
Like Billy Collins, he makes poetry accessible,
He reads the manifesto, shaking his fist.

He waves the baton before schools of fish
Singing the revolution song of the zillions,
He reads the manifesto, shaking his fist,
The fish form schools of the conventional.

Singing the revolution song of the zillions,
A predator moves in the shadow, entranced.
The fish form schools of the conventional
Among the mirrored water, learning tricks.

A predator moves in the shadow, entranced.
The new leader of the revolution is a poet
Among the mirrored water, learning tricks,
Like Billy Collins, he makes poetry accessible.

Kelly O'Neal Thompson

Copywrite 2008. Please do not reprint without express permission of the author.
(starrynight3@mac.com)

A Meditation on Being

Think of the parallel universe, of the many selves, of the eternal now moment that offers up
an eternally new past, a possible future,
Think of yourself as you might exist ubiquitous or only microscopically - but both at once-the particle in the wave.
Decide.
Decide to exist wherever it feels best - don't get caught in the moment when there are so many to choose from.
Climb the board of alternate states of consciousness; ride the great One you are; talk to yourself magnanimously, happily, eternally, with pleasure.
Follow the breath as it moves, with everything, in and out in the ever-widening, ever-tightening circle.
Do not take it, but let it take you into the dance of being, into the dance of I/Thou
You, into the holy of holiest instant, simply
Breathe and exit the vehicle of time and its travails, the hundred thousand million billion stories.
They are all yours. So be them.

Kelly O'Neal Thompson

photograph by journeysendphotography.com
Copywrite 2008. Please do not reprint without express permission of the author.
(starrynight3@mac.com)