Sand dunes like jewels
Frost underfoot
Sun climbs the sky
My searching eyes
Scan the grass
For Psilocybes
To help me find
Reasons why 
I've been living in the dark
Breathing only darkness
Heart and mind
Seeking a guide

I went walking in the autumn sunshine
Sacred fruit I was hoping to find
Blessed me there's some over there!
I eat them and we coalesce

I went walking in the autumn sunshine
Ancient wisdom whispered to my mind
I made peace with my own impermanence
As time turned in terrific pirouettes
I saw us all in the autumn sunshine...

Maybe we'll change for the better
Maybe it's now or never
I guess anything is possible
No matter how improbable

When we die...
Where do we go?
I am certain
I don't know
Searching nature for a sign
I observe the wheel of life
Wheel turns
Where it rolls
Don't care for me
Or my ego
All that lives
Will surely die
Feed the lurking jaws of time
Wheel turns
Life won't wait
Energy condensed
To a new state
When we die
Where do we go?
I am certain
I don't know

We're all made from stars

Every atom
Made from stars
Child of supernova
Racing wave
Conspires with fate
Shapes a life
With familiar face
Sacred storey
Cosmic art
Energised eternal parts
Shine in time
Life parade
Ignite midnight
Light the way

Sacred story
Cosmic art
Energised eternal parts
Made from stars
That's what you are

Autumn Sunshine

Grain fed meat farm
Pattern of consumption
Package in a plastic pest
Synthesize a tragic mess
Pesticides for perfect fruit
Dead bees at the root
Suck the sap of Nature’s soul
It’s natural control

Fishing net gargantuan
Feed a fortune
Fish are gone
Long line
Shark on hook
Ocean desert
Empty book
Fell the timber
Sell it well
Palm oil
Food to sell
Supermarket stock is sold
It’s natural control

Disconnect and deny
Convenience helps me survive
Internet to socialize
Choose ignorance for better lives
Pick a product money buys
Consumption
Seller smiles
Responsible
Species decline
Force of nature
Humankind

Equilibrium does reside
Buy the ticket and take the ride
Swings to the left
To the right
Shapes survival
Makes things right
See you on the other side
Know the game
It’s change or die
Extinction is your birthright
It’s natural control


Urban expansion
Crawls until the space is gone
Me/mine
A goldmine
Working hard chasing dimes
Pick a product
Make it mine
Feeling good
Multiply
Don’t need a mother
Synthesize
Its natural control

What’s under there?
Oil to refine
Handshakes operate
“We’ll dig to find”
Cash greasy grip to those so inclined
Powerful with pockets lined
Take death/decay
Squeeze it hard
To make good fuel for running cars
We got the dope
Just send more cash
Keep pushing oil
Until we’ve burned our stash

Equilibrium does reside
Buy the ticket and take the ride
Swings to the left
To the right
Shapes survival
Makes things right
See you on the other side
Know the game
It’s change or die
Extinction is your birthright
It’s natural control

A new extinction appears to be ravaging the planet, with unusual virulence. Destroying species at a speed hundreds of times greater, than that of the five previous ones. We are the cause. Agents of the sixth mass extinction. 

We’ve become an agent of extinction, just as devastating as the drift of continents or the impact of meteorites.

Species are becoming extinct at a speed never before known in the history of the earth. Killing without need; one of our distinguishing traits.

The Earth has already survived changes similar to those we are bringing about. Massive extinctions, which led to the disappearance of 95% of all species. It therefore will survive all this alarming damage, and life will return to the Earth.

Perhaps our own activity will lead us down the road to extinction? 

Unless we are capable of avoiding it, our species, like the dinosaurs, will be merely a memory. An insignificant instant. Then, life will return to the Earth.

The Sixth Mass Extinction

Dawn horizon
Shake off silver cold
Autumn's robe
River mist rising
Pine Tree Colony
Home
Stirring souls

Preening oily feathers
Waking wings
Fly the river
Mouth is wide open
Silver signs
Attract attention
Salty surface wave
Dive below
Hunt satisfaction
Darting fish
Away!
Better swim for your life
Or be the cormorant's breakfast!

Sun is climbing
Warm your wings
Now go!
Dawn patrol
Tide is rising
River mouth
Teeming shoals
Stirring souls

Scanning icy water
Aquatic birds
Fish the river
Mouth is wide open
Silver signs
Attract attention
Salty surface wave
Dive below
Hunt satisfaction
Darting fish
Away!
Better swim for your life
Or be the cormorant's breakfast!

Sun is climbing
Warm your wings
Now go!
Dawn patrol
Tide is rising
River mouth
Teeming shoals
Stirring souls

Salty surface wave
Dive below
Hunt satisfaction
Darting fish
Away!
Better swim for your life
Or be the cormorant's breakfast!

The Cormorant's Breakfast

I see you coming
Circling like a shark
Eye to eye
I know what you really are
I feel the pressure
Pull tight inside my chest
Tunnel vision
Fear of the imminent test

Red sonnet
Blood the bite wanted
Red sonnet
Hunt or be hunted
Red sonnet
Blood the bite wanted
Red sonnet
Fear pulses through the brain
Red sonnet
Blood the bite wanted
Red sonnet
Predator makes you pray
Please God
Don’t write a red sonnet
With blood the bite wanted
Don’t want to die today

Depths of your fear
I live there
I’m chasing
Your heart racing
Adrenaline
I sink my teeth in

Fear is all you see
Fear is all I need
On fear
I feed

Circles
Drawing tighter
Sudden movement
Enticing
Sharpens focus
Life and Death
Dancing

Please God don’t write a red sonnet
With blood the bite wanted
Predator makes you pray
Please God don’t write a red sonnet
With blood the bite wanted
Predator makes you prey
I don’t want to die today!

Hiroshima Sunset