David Arndt Forgotten Words Poetry

Disappearing Into Silent Spaces *** Almost completed a poem Then my phone ate it for supper Leaving only fragments It was about war The innocence of childhood It was about love And the loss of what is good It was about climbing peaks And there being no escape It was about community And being alone Like a dream it is gone But it was also a prayer For a better world So many suffering  Want to open my heart Want to shut down Want to reach out Want to isolate I call out in prayer But only hear my own voice Always waiting For the next strike There are no answers Why must I fight I love those who hurt me But I fear losing that love Words fail me Language fails me Disappearing into Silent Spaces Arising Again As Love  *** David Arndt September 30th, 2022 *** Artwork Crystallize by Mario Sanchez Nevado

His Heart Broke Further Son coeur s'est brisé *** His life broke His heart broke further  Somewhere in his dreams he soared Of her snares, he was finally free *** Son coeur s'est brisé Sa vie s'est brisée Son cœur s'est encore brisé Quelque part dans ses rêves, il s'est envolé De ses pièges, il était enfin libre *** David Arndt September 30th, 2023 *** Artwork by Coldray

Where Our Love Did Start Où notre amour a commencé *** Tore her down  Upon that mound It's there I made my mark She did not think  What could she do In Bliss divine Our love did start *** Où notre amour a commencé L'a déchirée Sur ce monticule C'est là j'ai fait ma marque Elle ne pensait pas Que pouvait-elle faire Dans le bonheur divin Notre amour a commencé **** David Arndt September 30, 2022 *** Artwork 

Wisdom Dakini प्रज्ञा डाकिनी *** I hear you breathing And know in a flash My next breath  Could be my last In the impermanence  Of each moment The truth lies waiting You are the great mother Translucent, vast space In you I recognize my true face You simply said "You know"  And my doubts vanished  About Mind's True Nature You said "Everything is connected"  And the Relative Truth Was made clear in an instant You said something I could not understand Within the silence that followed  I knew the limitations of language You said "Each snowflake is unique."  And the myriad nature of appearances  And their underlying unity Was revealed in a flash Infinite Perfection  This motherless child Has returned home to luminous space This motherless child Abides in the vast radiant Love Inherent in each passing moment *** प्रज्ञा डाकिनी अहं भवतः श्वसनं शृणोमि तथा क्षणमात्रेण ज्ञातव्यम् मम अग्रिमः निःश्वासः मम अन्तिमः भवितुम् अर्हति अनित्यत्वे प्रत्येकं क्षण...

Listening To The Moon Écouter La Lune Écouter La Lune *** Listening to the moon Finally felt in tune Just then I saw her face Disappear without a trace Knew then she had gone away Alone would I stay Felt burning sorrow deep inside From which I could not hide My heart broken like stone  All I ever wanted in life Was to find my way back home *** Écouter la Lune Écouter la lune  Enfin senti au diapason  Juste à ce moment-là, j'ai vu son visage Disparaître sans laisser de trace  Elle savait alors qu'elle était partie  Seul je resterais  Ressenti un chagrin brûlant au fond de lui  Dont je ne pouvais pas me cacher  Mon cœur brisé comme la pierre  Tout ce que j'ai toujours voulu dans la vie  C'était pour retrouver mon chemin de retour à la maison *** David Arndt September 29, 2022 *** Artwork - Black Cat in Silvery Moonlight by Laura Iverson 

Trying To Find My Way Home  Cercando di trovare la strada di cas *** Faced the darkness within   Tore me apart limb by limb Million pieces shattered  Iept asking if it mattered Then listened to the moon Only said "It is too soon"  Of what I could not say Then tasted sweet decay Of all that passes away Faced this truth alone Trying to find my way home *** Cercando di trovare la strada di casa  Affrontato l'oscurità dentro  Mi ha fatto a pezzi arto per arto  Milioni di pezzi frantumati Iept chiedendo se importava  Poi ascoltato la luna Ha solo detto "È troppo presto"  Di quello che non ho potuto dire  Poi assaggiato dolce decadimento  Di tutto ciò che passa  Affrontare questa verità da solo  Cercando di trovare la strada di casa *** David Arndt September 29, 2022 *** Artwork - David Millenheft - Finding My Way

My Father Is A Carpenter Mein Vater ist Tischler *** My father is a carpenter  A working man is he  Saves up all his shillings  For future across to sea This land is hard for living  When there's no bread  Upon the table People are mourning They spin a weary fable I'll hop on the southbound ship  My father and me Start up a new life  In a land across the sea Like Moses out of Egypt Parting the Red Sea  We'll head to the chosen land  A place where we are free  Because this land is hard for living When there's no bread upon the table The people are mourning  They spin a weary fable  I'll hop on the southbound ship  My father and me Start up a new life  In a land across the sea **" David Arndt 2022 *** Mein Vater ist Tischler  ***  Mein Vater ist Tischler  Ein arbeitender  Mann ist er Spart alle seine  Schillinge  Für die Zukunft rüber aufs  Meer Dieses  Land ist schwer zu leben...

Black Dust and Smoke  *** Bobby worked in the earth  Hands digging the coal It was the kind of work That poisons your soul The company owned him His money in their bank  His rent in their pockets His food from their store  Living out here in these hills generation upon generation  Black dust black dust and smoke It's the only way    To make a living The mines took his daddy's life He coughed out his lungs  His brother died. In the Johnstown flood  At night he's drinking  With the boys Downtown It's the only time  He feels free Living out here in these hills generation upon generation black dust  Black dust and smoke  In the mines  You're barely living  ***  Written by David Penn Trinley Arndt in 1989 in Jacksonville, a dying coal town in Western Pennsylvania. Revised 2022. ***  © David Arndt 2022 *** Artwork by Cordia Murphy - Coal Mine in Pennsylvania

The fullest Of My seasons *** Autumn  Every day  How I long to dance  Around the fire  Gaze up at a full moon  Sing sing my heart  Celebrating  The fullest  Of my seasons When I drive these autumn roads  The heart of my second life  After leaving the home of my youth  I return to Indiana, PA To remember where I came from Western pa though you've been  Raped of your coal Threatened with landfills Hauling trash from NJ I still find you fertile So life giving  I'm thankful to be  With you again  In autumn The fullest  Of my seasons ***  David Arndt 2022 ***

Black Clouds, Butterflies, and Moonbeams *** Black clouds appeared in the sky Due to ignorance no one listened Canary in the coal mine died Seas poisoned Crops didn't grow Animal species faded away No one noticed Business as usual  Game profit power Fixation on empty "selves." Life not seen as precious Lords of nihilism ruled Black clouds  Blocked the sun All was darkness No longer business as usual  Many fell sick passed away Fear filled the land People hid  plague of ignorance Nowhere to hide Forced to look inside Celestial spring  Life overflowed First tree flowered Nothing fixed All dreamed Some awoke  crossed over Some  remained asleep No one abandoned Treasure   Love  Compassion Always within . Awaiting us  Undying sun of Love Our true nature Birthright  Illusory dance of life Those whose vision was clear Saw the world as a celestial healing Pureland Those who were blind saw a wasteland Lost sheep not forgotten Good shep...

🕊️ Dream Dream Away 🕊️ *** Thou art lost Come forth Ye heathen Arise Arise Darkening Taboo Great White Light Pure Sunrise Come ye Oh arms Arise Arise Holding you We fall  Love the dream We are all dreams It's time to love  Arise Arise Arise Dream Dream  Away Dream Dream  Away *** David Arndt 2022 *** Artwork - The soul mirror - Tuco Amalfi 

We Are Killing Life Love Spirit Silent Spaces Where Love Abides *** Gate gate pāragate pārasaṃgate bodhi svāhā *** OM Worldly lies Propaganda  Theory does not allow  Silent spaces Where what matters  In life abides The sweet spot Here we find  Within ourselves  Silent spaces  Where insight  Consciousness  Wisdom Empowerment Transformation  Emerge We can't think our way  To silent spaces Materialistic Secular religion Modernism  Postmodernism Believes freedom  Can be found Reason  Critical  Theory Only way forward  Is to change ourselves  Through that Others see new open spaces  Secondary conditions necessary  For them to feel confident  They're not stepping into an abyss Or if they are They will not fall First we change ourself  The greatest task  We face in life Second  It is only through love  We accomplish this task Theory is devoid of love  Great problematic  ...

If I Had Met You In My Youth *** Gate Gate Para Gate Para Sam Gate  Bodhi Swaha *** In my life Believed I would  Meet a woman Exactly Like You  Who understood me  Peace  Fading Life Death  Gate Gate  Para Gate Para Sam  Gate Bodhi  Swaha My dreams Slipped Through my fingers Bones Ashes Of age Too old now Far closer  To the afterlife But I can be your  Friend as time passes While your pedals Unfold into Greater beauty Lotus flower Fully opening  I will never live  In your garden But I will watch  You fully  Blossom  Feeling  Unsurpassable Joy bliss For you now You must soar Like a bird I won't hold  You down In ordinary Mundane Relationship   Peace  Fading Life Death  Gate Gate  Para Gate Para Sam  Gate Bodhi  Swaha My love In life vast Heart open I can hurt Deeply But in my Weeping My loving I would  Never  Hurt you Only wish  To watch you Fully blossom ...

First Steps *** First Steps Crawling Walking Change The World? Love Yourself Awakening  Spiraling  Sunbeams  Harvest Peace Dreaming Walking Together  First Steps *** David Arndt 2022 *** Image Wallshaven

Let Me Go *** I'm falling down  I'm falling down Fallen down Let me go, Let me go  Let me go I flew too high I'm falling down below  Falling down below  Let me go, Let me go Let me go You love me More than I will ever know More than I will ever know  Let me go, Let me go Let me go I never meant to hurt you I hurt everyone everyone  Everyone I know Let me go, Let me go  Let me go I let you down More than I will ever know I will ever know  Let me go, Let me go  Let me go Who did I become Where did I go I don't know  Let me go, Let me go  Let me go I see a great light  Shining down It's calling me home Let me go, Let me Let me go  I'm ready to go home  Please let me go Please let me go  Let me go, Let me go  Let me go  Let me go, Let me Let me go  Let me go, Let me Let me go  *** © David Arndt, September 24, 2022 *** Artwork Let Me Go *** I'm falling down  I'm falling down Fallen down Let me...

We Must Live  By Nature's Limitations  *** We face an earth  On the edge of annihilation Desolation of abomination Baseless allegations Crippling alienation Targeted assassinations Rule by Corporations Economic centralization Deforestation Life resource degradation Death by dehydration Masses despair in deprivation Refugees in desperation Propaganda disinformation Cultural disorientation Military build up escalation Increasing exploitation Our truths turned to falsification Money power game  Fixation Addiction Open heart hears others suffering frustration This ripples through  Each and every nation In this time of crisis  Beyond contemplation The good and holy f Face desacralization We're living in a  Normalized mass  Hallucination Our visual sense  Is most vulnerable  To manipulation It hits is too fast  We're susceptible  To indoctrination No time for hesitation  It's time for critical self reflection For soul searching ...

New Orleans Nun  Humping Bumping  Bowel  Blues **" Naked Nun  Bumping Lucifer Licking Fingers Ladies  Yum yom Up her skirt Down river Dumping Ding dongs Diaper Doo  Doo River Blowing Humpsters Backward Crack  Smoking Crucified Cripple Blowing Bubbles Big time Uptown girls Been loving Up her skirt Pumping  Out Crippled Pickled Pig  Lips Nun  Riding  Humping  Raw Crawfish  Crapulence Crud Creeping Up her skirt Humping Bumping Bubbles Big time Baby Buying  Beer  Nuns  Spewing Vipers Humping Time Space Sap Sipping Sucking Down Soup Jackson Square  Mushrooms  Stage door Bitter  Backend Drunken man  Vaporizer Vanishing Up her skirt Sipping  Dipping Tasting Testing Toad Tidbits  Woman At bar Cigarette  Burn out Filter Ashes over Passed out Peanut Butter  Clown Blowing  Bubbles Up her skirt Crossing Time Tickles Tinkle Tinkle Jackson  Square Lying sun  Madness M...

Grieving the Dying Amazon Rainforest *** Reflections from Ecuador in 1992 on the Amazon Rainforest and the Capirona Indigenous Tribe  Whose World has Ceased to Exist *** It was a brand new day Millions of years old Creatures lurking in the rainforest Mother sunlight shines  Through the green canopy Glistening water wind river time flows Light sounds and mangroves Siblings of the tallest trees Life-giving medicinal plants Mother sanctuary forms flow Birds and butterflies  Rainforest light rays Love and destruction  Life-giving rain Earth rainbow colors New sunrise breaks Love lurking shadow spaces revealed Dream path dark under clouds storms Lost in the beauty of mother earth's trance Boa vine sings visual language sunlight filters through endless trees History and time have no meaning Plants strive to survive after millions of years  Rainforest medicine cures all sickness Ants roam on healing leaves Living in this rainforest galaxy Rainforest green beauty beyond...

A Woman, A Straight Drink, Hardship, Being Robbed Twice in Guatemala, Being Lost and Suicidal, Finding the Path that Leads to the End of Suffering, and Coming Home from the Stormy Seas of Samsara  *** Lost But Found In Guatemala *** It’s 1:45 AM what’s to be said about how the past hours have transpired in theft Robbed twice by fellow travelers No passport No money Yet I feel joy what words can do justice to this feeling of happiness?  Universal love and a woman One last kiss  Green eyes and a smile that pulls me Our morning moments seem timeless She is a photojournalist Who has covered countless war zones Her working partner had just been killed She is ten years older Much wiser in the ways of the world I feel innocent like a child She is here to renew until the next war zone She is unafraid of death I look at her in awe wanting more time But she must leave A hug is shared I will never see her again  But I caught a glimpse behind her mask Now she lives inside me We ...

She Is Where I Long To Be *** She is where I long to be In Her Arms once again Watching Over the Sea When we touched Electricity I was changed in a moment I will find you again I swear, I will I will find you again I swear, I will I will find you again I swear, I will I will find you again I swear, I will *** Written by David Arndt many many moons ago. Slightly revised on August, 31, 2022

Broken Hearted Love Torn Blues *** You took a path. I somehow missed We were at the crossroads, lost in the mist Your dark road was not for me We played stupid games, we were blind to see All I can do is show; love can set us free  I fell off our ship, found myself going under When will this end?  Scratched my head in wonder In love, no lifeboat; you sink or swim You can tear each other to pieces In that game, no one wins I'm trying to understand you, baby;  why do you speak these words  breaking my heart in two Yes, I am crazy as you say That for sure is a fact It's getting harder baby Each time you attack I want peace, gentleness To love again anew No matter what I do  Instead of loving me  you choose to endlessly argue So, do you get it now, woman Why I sing these broken-hearted love-torn blues?  So many times, babe, I question what's the point When will the end come, don't want to disappoint  Found myself, on a distant road, so far away Our tr...

Kerouac Big Sur Gulp Me Gulp Me *** Goethe Stained Teeth Blake Dead Eyes Meditating Death Nightmares Everything Useless Constipated Angel Clouds Passing Chased Ophelia Misty drunken Years Perfect Complete Metaphysical Hopelessness Surrendering Southern Madhouse BABBLING BABBLING Ophelia Gulp Me Gulp Me When Ophelia And I end Up in bed We Gulp Gulp Everywhere Our bodies generate An awful sticky mess The next morning We can't communicate "Ophelia Please Take off your clothes I want your bare feet Your Glorious Perfect Foggy peaks Drown Me in Your Sweaty Sea Sweetness Ophelia" "Ophelia You're so distant Please gulp me Yes gulp me Ophelia Yes I know it's an awful sticky mess." "Ophelia wisdom lies through excess." "Ophelia Please gulp me Your gulp Gulp my sticky Salvation You are My God I want you Please Gulp me gulp me Ophelia" "Ophelia ...