Art by Wicks
Poetry 14

STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS VERSE
The following writings are by Dale Wicks

 

PERCEIVED ADVERSARY

If I see adversary
does this not divide and prognosticate
my perceptions eventual collapse
and my ruin along with it?
  Will then, this destruction be seen
 as an enemy or a tutor?
If the former is determined
does not the cycle of sorrow begin again?
If the latter is understood
will I not find peace in the power of one?
 

SHADOW

Whatever casts a shadow
I put no confidence there.
For matter effectively blocks out the light
and to see clear
in the dark
 is quite rare.
 

NOTHING IS LOST

When we give our affections
to the object perceived
by physical senses
We give ourselves to vapor
We give ourselves to weakness
and the sense of loss
for it is not real
Understand nothing is
 lost but what never existed.
 

WISDOM

Who looks for wisdom
to be considered wise,
never will be.
Whoever looks for wisdom
for the sake of love
becomes a light.
Who is filled with desire
will never say "enough"
Whoever becomes free of desire
can walk without interruption.
 

WHAT PROVOKES TO CONSIDER?

To the softened country
 a slight pebble cast into their
stream of consciousness will
bring a ripple.
To the hardened city
large boulders hurled
into their torrents
will divert by force
producing much foam.
 

Strength
 

Intellect
 

Idleness

ALLOW
When the waters are allowed to stream
they eventually lead to the sea
and the wonders of the deep.
 

GRACE ALONE

Who claims we stand by the virtue of strength?
   By confidence of intellect?
These boasts are flawed
In time, when strength fades and mind wearies of wrestling in the dark searching for answers
     only to find more questions
Both will point to their weakness that have
     slowly become self evident.
Then the soul will sit and know only by
grace does one stand.

 

DETERMINATION

When determined
to face the wind
Even run against it
The roar is deafening.
When allowing the wind
 to carry wherever it will
in the stillness
you can listen.
 

OCEANS WITHIN
Who sees the ocean
then scoops out a cup and claims,
"now I have it contained"?
Who sees their  intimate connection to the one omnipresent. then finds all the oceans within?
 

EXPLORER

Who is the one?
who can be true
 to themselves
and follow the way
of their joy
thru uncharted territory.
 

DYING FIRES
Where are they settled in idleness?
Wherever the fires
are dying within
and the heart is
but a smoking ember
no longer lighting the eyes
but filling them
with acrid smoke.

COMEDY and DRAMA, MASKING SYMPTOMS?   

Then the act went on and the players played
The stage overflowing with comedy and drama
and the spectators laughed and cried
The actors engaged, the audience attentive
both busy to preoccupy themselves
from the gnawing in their gut.
 

VICTORY
If we didn't have to wrestle
through darkness and plight
 would the joy of the morning
be a glory in our sight?

 

LOST
How the buzzards circle
wide gliding turns grow narrow
slowly descend to feast
on those lost in the wilderness.
 

PARADOX
We find in the spirit many paradox that when we go down we go up
that when we decrease, we increase
and when we drop all defense are protected.
 

TOMORROW

Who can see the purpose of a tomorrow?.
That is why night is set to space
and give you rest
So you can rise fresh and try again.

TO ACT OR TO ACT NOT

Who runs and performs?
I will lean on my staff.
 

ADMONISHMENT

If anyone has an ear, let them hear
Allow no one choose what is right for you
Take heed to the voice within
Reject all, that comes with fear
Have courage and face what life has to offer
or drink your tears in autumn
thinking of what might have been.
 

All writings on this page ©Dale Wicks