THOU ART BEAUTY

My Love, Thou Art Beauty!
born beyond being...
rare and simple purity
fragile power -- timeless immortality.

Complex simplicity, perfectly sublime:
undying yet reborn.
Serenity in action, uncompromised by time:
wrinkled though unworn.

No dance can sway Thee
No psalm can say Thee
No sight can see Thee
No sense can be Thee

You Are that You Are
as ever You will be.
Thou Art Beauty,
My Love.
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 MY LOVE

A Sane and Safe and Certain Being,
My Life with You I'm Sharing
I Want to Show How Much You Mean
Our Strength is in Our Caring

Painful Losses of the Past:
Sensation Ends in Misery.
Aesthetic Sadness need not Last
There is No Need for Mystery

Live Your Life
Say What You See
This Is Your Integrity
You Make Your Dreams Reality

Treetops Sway in Mountains Cold
Against the Azure Autumn Sky
Rustling Leaves Turn Red and Gold
I see their Beauty through Your Eyes

My Love for you is ever Growing
I Cherish You and Share your Life
I'm Reaching, Touching, Feeling, Knowing
I am Yours and You Are Mine.

Heavens Stars Surround Thee
Darkness Draws Away from Me
I Shine More Brightly Next to Thee
You Light My Life and Make Me Free !

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 LET'S PRETEND

When we're young we run
and play "let's pretend" to be
anything and everything - just for fun.
Our imagination is the key.

As we grow up we are told
by others who are very serious
That reality is time and space and gold;
that games and visions are delirious.

Life goes on and we agree
what other people think is best:
to play our part in reality
just like them and all the rest.

Every game has a start,
a middle and conclusion.
When the time comes to depart
just make a new illusion!

You are Spirit ! Life Eternal !
You'll make a future and new friends !
Through your dreams you are immortal;
like children playing "let's pretend".

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 HYMN TO HINDU

Jewel within the Lotus
Phallus and the Womb,
United we are both of us
The Source of Life Anew.

We are really No-Things
Beings joined with Form:
Animating Matter
The Cause of all that grows.

All creation springs from Love,
Heaven joins the Earth:
We are Souls united with the Flesh,
Death is joined with Life.

I am like Air.
You are like Fire.
A hearth is made in Our embrace.
Our loins the fuel, our kiss the spark,
We fan the Flame with Our desire.

Rising smoke from each caress,
Our Love the heat, Our Joy reflects
That through Our Seed, Our Souls are met:
through Our Own Cause we are Effect.

One reaches,
One withdraws.
Positive flows to negative,
In and out and ebb and flow
Are rythms of the Universe.

One is born
One grows old
Life and Death are a single thread -
Binding Souls within the flesh

You can escape this slavish strife:
Awake! Rise up from your mortal bed!
You can transcend the Game of Life -
Be three feet behind your head !

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 LAO-TZU, IS THAT YOU ?

Without seeking, one may know all under heaven;
Without finding, one may know the way of heaven.
The wise man knows without searching,
Understands without thinking, accomplishes without acting.

To know when one does not understand is a virtue;
Failing to know that one does not understand is an error.
One becomes more perfect each time an error is corrected.
But One who knows but does not act accordingly, does not know

Be honest with those who are honest. Also be honest
With those who are dishonest; thus is honesty attained.
All beings as basically good. However, prevent those who
do evil from harming others for even they are basically good.

What seperates goodness and badness ?
What difference is there between yes and no ?
What distinquishes beauty and ugliness ?
Front and rear join in the center.
Being and non-being are a circle of decision.

The way of heaven conquers without war,
Speaks little but answers well, is always present
Without being summoned, is not rushed but is well planned.
The wise man is skilled in all of his undertakings.

He who is skilled at counting needs no counting devices.
He who is fluid in speech needs no script to guide him.
A man of skill practices skill and conquers reality.
A man who fails practices failure and is conquered.

Walls form and support a room, yet the space between them is most important.
A pot is formed of clay, yet the space formed thereby is most useful.
Action is caused by the force of nothing on something,
just as the nothing of spirit animates the flesh.

One suffers great afflictions because one has a body.
Without a body what afflictions could one suffer?
When one cares more for the body than for the spirit
One becomes the body and looses the way of heaven.

He who looks will not see it; he who listens will not hear it;
He who gropes will not grasp it.
The formless nonentity, the motionless source of motion.
Spirit is the source of life;

Spirit is Self. Self creates illusion.
The delusion of Man is that reality is not agreed upon illusion.
One who walks the Way of Heaven needs no agreement.
Reality is his own illusion.
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 THE NEWSPAPER

"Murder! Rape! Blood! War!
delivered daily to your door.
Death! Mayhem! Film at 4:00..."
The Press will keep us well informed.

Good news is never fit to print;
just the bad news - it's worth a mint!
The Press make sure you'll get upset
each time you watch you tv set.

"It isn't safe to walk the streets"
"Stay at home beneath your sheets!"
"Your next door neighbors are all crooks". "There are criminals everywhere you look"

"We need more guns and thought police".
"The world will never be at peace".
"Drugs and crime are everywhere".
The Press makes sure that we're aware.

Shocking love-life exposes!
Who will they prosecute today?
"The public has the right to truth".
The Press will judge and execute.

Free speech is still an equal right
for those who have commercial might
to pay the advertising fees -
The Press will say whatever they please.

Lies and rumors, the "news" abounds -
they'll make some up if there's none around.
"The truth be damned! I'm a reporter!
It's my job to cause disorder".

Just like lobsters in a pot
we all claw to reach the top -
free from pain and despair,
The Press is boiling us in fear.

Every day we all begin
a bright new hopeful day.
Life's a game we all can win.
It's lots of fun to llive and play.

Wise up. Don' get sucked in
by reporters wearing pearly grins
while telling us that life's all bad;
The Press are all completely mad!

Just turn them off. Enjoy you day.
In spite of what "the experts" say.
Don't be afraid. Life can be good.
Just trust yourself and brotherhood.

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 FREEDOM !

Look back at our history
Five thousand years of slavery
The wars we've fought to set men free -
The price we've paid for liberty !

Millions of our men have died
defending home and nations pride
from being trampled into dust
by a foriegn tyrant's bloody lust

Democracy is really great
but Freedom is a fragile state
Historically it's proven true
that madmen have most often ruled

Thank god that we're not slaves today!
But slaves aren't born, they're made...
by psychiatric lies and tricks
bought and paid by politics

The cops, police, the fuzz, the heat:
they're in the air and on the streets!
City, county, state and federal -
there are cops at every level

They're on TV in every show
Movies all have cop heroes !
They're in papers all the time
They want us to think we're overrun with crime

Like Germany before the war
it's just like "1984" !
Big Brother's here right now...today !
If we don't wise up, he's here to stay.

Lawyers, judges, legal suits:
Politicians everywhere you look
Too many legal magistrates
make society a police state

Political fear campaigns rage on
They say, "You're not safe outside your home!"
Congress says theyl'll handle crime
They want more cops, but you and me pay every dime !

A bigger budget every year !
Cops need cars, electronic gear
Recruit more cops for higher pay?
Has this kept crime rates at bay?

Think of this and you'll turn pale:
the US has more inmates in jails
and more police per capita,
but the crime rates just keep going up!

In America crime is BIG business -
Courts and lawyers, law enforcement:
Congress keeps crime on a roll
and keep themselves all on the dole !

Schools could stop recidivism
with education instead of prisons
It costs less to send a man to Yale
than it costs to keep a man in jail !

A judge throws druggies in the hole
but do nothing to help them save their souls,
while big-time drug lords live and play
protected by the CIA !

From Southeast Aisa and Pakistan

the heroin comes to our land
The poppies grow in record yields
while the CIA protect the fields !

Here at home we all feel blue
Our country's going down the tubes
We pay our taxes - every dime -
while our legislators legalize crime!

Congress spends more than we make
wasting cash at record rates
If private business ran like that we'd all go broke in nothing flat !

We've got to get up off our rears!
Let's get this country back in gear!
We've got the chance to cast a vote -
Demand some leaders that aren't crooks !

Let's salvage our prospertiy
We owe it to posterity !
Freedom's not a natural right -
to keep it we may have to fight !