The Art of Solitude, The Practice of Wonder

Solitude

#SCxiamOTHER Written 25 yrs. ago and reworked last year - lyrics and sheet music available for review. A love story for straight, bi, ambi,

JustOneMan, #SCxiamOTHER

The Curse

Yes I Can

Part of my "Signature Songs" series - orig. music written for your special person or occasion.

Unknown album (4/28/2020 7:31:04 PM)

Greenbrier

A Glimpse of Nowhere

Down the quiet road
this misty morn
my eye raises to see
the eye of God
peering at me 
thru the grayness
lighted by that yellow orb
that Life-giving death ray ---
and another day
has begun.

Upon the edge of nowhere
upon the blue haze of Gaia’s shawl
I stand suddenly
transported in awesome clarity.
I see no wall, no edge,
no top, no bottom,
but an endless nothing
which is yet something
and is everything---
unnamable
unrecognizable
from my fragile perch.

I know and I am known.

And yet the noir vista
is filled with Light
that casts no shadow.
It is filled with Life
that we may never know of
the variety,
the stories---
but all are heaped 
onto the expanding
haystack of Being.

In the quiet
beyond the aural screeching
beyond the clacking prayer wheel
I see the music played
I hear the colors displayed
I touch the forms
still morphing to be.

And I am comforted…
Life will continue
beyond the pale.
And every moan,
every groan,
every scream,
every laugh,
every note and song,
every poem and Hallelujah
and every story
will blend again
and in one omnipresent chorus
an Om will sound
that no one will hear
but all will Be.
Listen,
listen.

agd 4.29.2020

A Glimpse of Nowhere

The Light In The Rain

Down the quiet road
upon the wetted carpet
of a million maplecopters
my shoes are rinsed
and upon my nylon roof
drumming, drumming
from the sky’s shedding, shedding
tears of release
as I stroll and breathe
the misted air.

And upon my ear
does fall the songs
of my neighbors,
jays
wrens
chickadees
peckers
doves
cards
chitter-chattering
filling the air
between the raindrops
with song,
with news,
with the aliveness
of the new day.

Gray is the sky,
but my heart
beams with a sparkling Light.

agd 4.30.2020

Light In The Rain

MayDays

Tune by Turlough O'Carolan, arr. for harp by allen g. dec, 2020. Composed for the "Lockdown O'Carolan Challenge."

Lockdown Owen ORourke 142 Agdec

Oct. 1, audio poem - my trip to Dollar Tree

Allen Dec