David Arndt Forgotten Words Poetry

Sing Me Your Song *** I heard your song Will you sing it to me Will you sing me your song  When I hear you sing It makes me smile Smile Ever since I heard your voice  For the first time The first time Couldn't get your melody  Out of my mind  Knew we were connected Connected  I never met someone like you in my life When I hear you sing My inner Love Fire Burns Bright  I can't help myself  But I got to tell you  I love you I can't help myself  But I got to tell you I love you When I hear you sing I see you shining  Shining When you shine You warm my heart You light my way You know, if you ever called I would be there Be there Follow this love with me No expectations Let's ascend in the sky I never met someone like you in my life When I hear you sing My inner Love Fire Burns Bright  I can't help myself  But I got to tell you I love you I can't help myself  But I got to tell you I love you When will I see you?  I don't k...

Tree of Life *** Tree of life Earth’s human shores To feel for grace  I love thee chimes  starry skies tender light Glow mellowed to the root No fear  No fate childhood’s faith carry it  In my heart steadfast freely Swoon mind at peace sweet unrest  childhood’s faith softly lightens true Dwelling place no world to the depth heaven moon pure ablution round in every raven tress A tree called life *** David Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Graham Gercken

Sacred Kingdom *** Rain, rain Falling down Abiding  Love within is Found Night blooming flowers Missing link Sacred spirit empowers  Take a drink Medicine of millennia  Forgotten to time Native people singing Our spirit climbs Ancient medicine  Missing link Within nature We must be In Sync We destroy our home We destroy each other Why can’t we see The earth is our mother Modern world Killing nature Why don't we Think Disaster comes  Round the bend In a wink Consciousness Needed On the brink Without  Awareness  We sink Great love  Winds Blow Blessings Our way Open Your heart Grow Humble Let us be In the sacred Kingdom We destroy Every day Nature is no “Dead language” This creation Lives We need ritual Healers Thinking/feeling Loving Spiritual Beings To Initiate The young Into a New way Of living Loving Interconnected Full Empty Appearing Love Earth warriors Get back To the Tao Be like Water Flow Strive not Yet see Action comes Spontaneously Trust “...

First Poem *** I remember on a night of love A night like no night I've known Said she would never leave me alone If I left she said she would follow I wonder where she is right now Where she's gone and why Left me here alone to cry I wonder if she ever loved me *** The first Poem I remember writing in winter 1987. *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork by Shawna Erback

Home Of The Sun *** Home of the Sun  Barren and stark these Andes  Sun beats down  Dirt dry sand Dirt dry sand  Yet people eek out a life These deep farmed Hills  Plowed by hand The sun beats down Sun beats down  Yet people eek out a life  Here in these hills These barren mountains  Lies Ingapirca  Home of the sun  Here meet the Mad preacher Preacher of the sun  His words they burn  His words they burn He makes the sacrifice  The words  Draw you toward the sun Like moths into a flame  Leaving nothing behind Leaving nothing behind But ashes  Here in these hills  These barren mountains  Lies Ingapirca  Home of the sun  *** Written many moons ago at the Inca ruins in Ingapirca, Ecuador. David Penn Arndt 2022

Spirit Will I Know *** Meeting Spirit  Face to face My ego  Disappears Without a Trace  In bright white light I'm made low Fade out of being Like melting snow As water I'll flow Fill deepest hole When finding rest Spirit will I know *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Kim Young Girl

Hard Travelin Life Blues *** In my visions  Somethings  Going down Think it's time To get out  Of town Climbed to the peak Looked out to sea Reflected on the fate Of myself  Humanity I'm heading out  Alone in the night Got no destination Made mistakes Nothing will Make right Something in my Heart  Lost Where had  It gone wrong  Tried to sing But I forgot My song Never dreamed Life would  Be this way Alone in  Streets Dreaming of Yesterday For many  Years Felt it was  Fate Tried to  Connect But I Could  Not  Relate People act  One way Who can  We trust Other's do  Things but Not what  They Promised I stay in my house  The curtains  Are drawn A sign outside  Reads Stay off the lawn  No Family No home Friends gone  Walking Through  Life All  Alone Wish I was honest Wish I was free To survive childhood Changed in ways That no longer Serve me Long long ago My hear...

Love Aspiration Prayer  *** I aspire to the following  No matter how dark it gets,  The darkness bring me down If the sky falls  If the planet explodes The joy in my heart will not be diminished Human life is so precious  I will live it to the fullest for others No matter what happens  I will do my best  To love every last sentient being. As the supreme victor Jigten Sumgon said. "May all sentient beings, especially my enemies have happiness and the causes of happiness." We put our enemies first Nothing can destroy  The love that exists  In every heart Love may be dormant  Or obscured It exists in every last sentient being Even those who do harm And Jigten Sumgon never said one word that was a lie Putting our enemies and those who cause harm first is the most profound teaching We must forgive anyone we perceive hurt us People hurt others due to ignorance  If they knew their actions would bring suffering They would not engage in thos...

Taste Our Sickness ***  For our whole life  We were told how to be  Spoon fed media  Conditioned by society  We've been well trained   Made to be stupid  Told to follow  We're so sick Can't you see why  Life makes no sense  Why we're so lost Why we're so dense We're also told  This is how it must be  By the wise men  Of practicality  Look at yourself Taste your sickness  Of your condition  Be your own witness Can't you see why  Life makes no sense  Why we're so lost  Why we're so dense The radicals will tell you  With guns in their hands  Tear down the walls  Strike up the ban  When they say kill  For ideology  Go your own way  Don't follow tyranny  Can't you see why  Life makes no sense  Why we're so lost  Why we're so dense When the priest says  I hold the key  Question anyone  Who says they  Can set you free...

We Will Walk In Truth *** Call on the planets The stars that are falling The Twilights calling Suns Dawning Bring out all living The unity A trinity  Call on the light  To come to our plight  Save the crops Save the Young  From this blight We will walk in the truth We will learn the way We will care for youth We will not run away Give us a chance  To try again Holy ones save us We're sick We're tired Let us sleep  In the Deep  Of this night *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork source unknown.

The Earth Calls Me Home *** I'm feeling kinda sick I want to let you know. It's getting hard to breathe  The smoke has made a hole You look at me and cry You tried to tell me so  Now that I'm dying You cannot let me go I breathe out ashes I watch my body decay I hold onto emptiness It will not go away I reach out for the soil As the Earth calls me home My ashes scatter in the wind One with all I cease to be alone  *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Thomas Birdwell

Springs Healing *** I’m down and I’m low You won’t let me know What you’re really feeling I opened up my heart As I did from the start Now I think you’re leaving You say it’s not the end That I am your true friend Yet I know your lying So why don’t you just go Before the winter snow I can taste this dying I don’t want your blood Or the coming flood Of the tears you’re crying Because only in our end Will our hearts mend And wake up in springs healing *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Cynthia Re Robbins

My Journey Was Brave  *** I was on a journey A wanderer and pilgrim I have kept little for myself Left my conventional life behind Did not know the goal Or purpose of my journey Thousand times I stumbled Each time steadied myself Oh, I was on my way To find the star of love Sensed it shining Down from heaven A light distant and holy Now I can see it But it's too late It's moved on  In it's soaring Heavy morning rain  Blows in my face Bright brilliant world I'd grown to love is leaving Never found a pot of gold But I know this:  My journey  Was  Brave *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Lloyd Matthew Thompson

Gone Beyond *** We explore realms Where Blake Jung Hesse The Immortals Traversed Constellated Star to star  Interconnected  Falling into living  Spiralling jungles Mountains Oceans  Subatomic particles  Particle/ wave  Continuous/ discontinuous Being /non-being Tendency to exist Probability to exist Sometimes We don't exist Merging Shredding Disolution  Burning Karma Fire Fire Fire  Pure Energy Upholding  Sustaining Pointing  Out Being  Awakening  Gone  Beyond  Gone  Beyond Freedom *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Source Unknown

Yippee We Are Free *** Taken away by a dream On a journey to places within  Time Goes off laughing  Yesterday follows tomorrow  Food is forgotten It is dark  It is light We are in  The Fisher goes off fishing  Sailing tumulus seas The waves crashing Nets are ripped We are stripped We have tripped We are out and about  All around  Upside down Yippee We are free *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Source Unknown

Built On Bone *** The city's rose  Out of man He cut the trees Raped the Earth Ancient cities  Built with slaves Built on blood Built on bone *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Jonas De Ro

Take Me Down *** Take me down Funky  Night Red  Flashing Lights  All around I prefer caves  I prefer night Take me down Take me down  Slinky cat crawling Dancing Enticing me With your eyes How you take me down Night dancer  Goddess Kali Dance your dance Take me down *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork by Pallab Baruah

No Resolution *** Miss her  Why Makes No sense She hurt Me Deeply There's no  Defense  Her words  Lies  She did  Not care About my Cries  Why would  She wish to  Be my  Enemy I was Blind  Did not See Said nothing Took the pain She kicked me  Out In the rain  Do I know her Don't think I do Her viciousness Ripped me  In two  Had faith  Love heals all  Now I doubt  My life's in  Freefall Have no idea What to say My Sufferings  Not fading  Away Of my lament  Painful realization  What I feel May have no Resolution *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork Karar Jako

Soaring to Heaven  *** Took too long waking up to see In life only love has lasting value Loving under full moon willow trees I once held her down by the bayou Took too long to see the truth in her eyes Our future would lead to different paths  Too painful to face humbled I cried Love not nurtured turns cold Grows old folds and dies  Took too long to remember my dear Her breath sweet kisses beautiful flower My love fragile hers fiery and tender Youth's folly broke us apart forever Took too long to realize  By writing Slowly faces lifetimes  I would remember  Living illusory dreaming  On times empty lifeboat  Of burning embers  Took too long to understand  Life can end in glory Love remains never ceases Even if our life ends early I should have known years ago I was too slow to understand  Don't waste a moment of life We may soon depart and go  Remember the Path of Love What was forgotten Long ago Healing nectar rivers wind Mass...

Searching for Answers *** I've been searching for  Answers  In all the wrong places I thought you could help  I see I was mistaken Your insincerity Well, now it's written  All over your face And you touch me  Like you feel  Like you feel You have to I've been searching for answers  in all the wrong places  I've been searching for answers In other people's faces Yesterday Well, now you called me By another name  If you don't want to stay You can go your own way There's no need to pretend  There's no need to play games That's a fork in the road I'm not willing to take I've been searching for answers  In all the wrong places I've been searching for answers   In other people's faces So I captain my own ship As I set sail across the sea of life Like how it will be in the end I'm alone with my own life So captain my own ship As I set sail across the sea of life Like how it will be in the end I'm alone with my own life I've been ...

Gift *** I can't accept this gift  It's far too heavy for me to carry Why of all things Is it this that you give me?  No, no, no, no.  Don't really know Do you expect me to believe In truth in truth in truth  You really loved me Why is it so hard to accept reality?  Why is it so hard to be free?  No, no, no, I don't really know Do you expect me to believe  In truth in truth in truth  You really loved me The Moon it still rises  But its face has changed The sun still dawn's  As it enters day And I move move move Toward the way Living from The inside The inside No, no. No I don't really know.  Do you expect me to believe That in truth in truth in truth You really loved me  No, no. No, I don't really know Do you expect me to believe  that truth and truth and truth You really loved me *** David Penn Arndt 2022  ***  Artwork Cynthia Christine

Begin At The Beginning *** Begin at the beginning No, other place  At your own speed  Pay no heed  Study and practice  Way of the sage See the interrelations  Light and Sound The song of the atoms One sets out  On the Great Sea of being  Arriving at the true Place of seeing *** Artwork by Jules Elbeshausen David Penn Arndt 2022 ***

Kerouac's Blues *** God is love God is Void  God is truth  ***   Beyond  Serenity  Sunday morning  Praying Souls Looking for peace  entering the Holy Realm  *** American Sin - lifeless - hopeless  *** barbed wire - atom bombs - television murders -  Bolivian starvation - Rationalists - Mongolian hordes - private limousines - buses - cars roaring traffic - trams - pulp magazines - vehicles from nowhere - Boito's Requiem - concentration camps -  gas ovens - worms - graves - police - Beechnut gum - NYC - Tangiers - Seventy Million dead indians - ten thousand cold eyed Materialistic officials - bureaucrats sucking cigarettes - Mohammed - longshoremen - silhouetted parades - dead pioneers - office thieves - nowhere paper shufflers - crazy college girls - truth - justice - hot blooded believers - Pretty neckties - explosions - dung - secret alleys - cold winter winds - North River bars - cats  *** American hordes cruelly crucified Go...

Thy Kingdom Come *** It is very clear that all of our partners cloak themselves in darkness and the floods came. How much dwelling in darkness have seen WAR? LORD open border activists, enter into the region but your shadow can never buy back your soul. But when thou people dwelling in darkness reap new breakthroughs. Thy kingdom come!  And the floods came, shadow of death, I see through your eyes, high stakes and clear choices who cloak themselves. He does not come into me to believe your eyes and I see neither do they. And we will find more reward. We have seen Jesus had ended these cruel and evil sayings. Thy kingdom come!  I think you will find . An eye for your young children, Lord in their trouble. You that build all in order those who game the system be cast out of life. Thy will be done in darkness and the shadow. You play with my world execute individuals based upon sexual orientation. I can see through your masks. The people hide dwelling in darkness. Will it buy you...

Tibetan Sadness *** Waiting  On the other side Friendship Bridge Nepal and Tibet Crossing Point Occupation  Apprehension I am a solitary traveller Borders are lonely places  Soldiers with guns and white gloves These soldiers are no Friends  The children come up to me  Everywhere in the world  Children are the same Embodying hope for the future Tragedy Grow up then crushed Where is hope? Nomads of the mountains Soldiers with guns Mishandle Tibetans Wishing to be porter's Their families starving Rain comes With it I feel deep sadness All that was is now passing Soon, it will be a memory  No more *** Written in Tibet many moons ago. *** David Penn Arndt *** Picture by David Arndt

Wanderer *** I long for the road In the midst of contentment For ever-changing ways To touch a foreign sea At heart I'm a nomad  Wanderer of time and space  Not connected to any place  Since I left the warmth of the womb I'm content now  In the bed of my lover But I know how  Everything changes This scares and excites me  With the promise  Of what may come But for now I'm here  Here's where I must be  To love in each moment  Is the challenge  That makes me me  I shall not be dragged down By the past or future I let go of history I leap into the great mystery At heart I'm a nomad  Wanderer of time and space  Not connected to any place  Since I left the warmth of the womb *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork by Casper David Friedreich

Trust Me *** I hold you in my arms Your life weary my love I hold you in my arms You can be yourself I hold you in my arms It is safe you can rest  I hold you in my arms I honor who you are  I hold you in my arms You have my love  I hold you in my arms I'm reflected in your eyes  I hold you in my arms You fall asleep dreaming  I hold you in my arms Asleep you say my name  ***  I hold you in my arms No conditions for my love  ***  I love you  As sun kisses the sky  I love you  When you're sad and cry  I love you  I have no question why  I love you  Until the day you die  *** Trust me  No need for fear  I am here  Never will I  Abandon you  Trust me  Beautiful  Love  Trust  Me *** © David Penn Trinley Arndt 2022 ***  Artwork - The Hug - Gustav Klimt

My Love Is True *** She teaches me humility Her love frees my ability She brings out my playful child She grounds me to reality She teaches me just to be  With her my religion is lived For her I long to give To soar so high with her spirit At night with her I rest By day we will share the quest I long to see her with a smile upon her face  I long to see her dressed in a dress of lace  My love is true  With her I feel a solid trust My body it knows no lust Our love making a sacred rite She feels me with so much joy Just like when I was a little boy  So let us run through rustic fields In nature may our love be sealed  Happy or sad I've found my place With her I am at home For this the little boy has grown  I long to see her with a smile upon her face I longed to see her dressed in a dress of lace My love is true *** David Penn Arndt 2022 *** Artwork James Reed