David Arndt Forgotten Words Poetry

Maybe It's Time For A New Path 🛣️ Rimbaud Winks Grammar ties us down We live in jail Self Created We cannot soar In chains Bound gagged Conditions life  Planet Dying Insanity Suffering Increases Maybe it is time for a new path Spacious Unfixed Free 🛣️ David Arndt November 1st, 2022 🛣️ Artwork Troy Henriksen

Let's Love Our Mistakes 🌚 Silence pases Mistakes  Trying to understand? Trying  Understanding Creates double suffering Let go Stillness All needed Naturally arises We view ourselves Utter failures feeling despair Believing hopelessness we can do nothing Blinder Love for self others Regretting your mistakes? Love mistakes Mistakes key to freedom But make more and more Interesting mistakes Zero mistakes Zero freedom We are perfectly imperfect  Let's love the mistakes We must love  Not despise  Mistakes Gateway on our path Door must be opened  Let's leave the prison of language  Let's leave the prison of reason  Let's leave behind postmodern nihilism Shadows on the cave walls not real  Only poetry can  Speak all aspects of being  Unfixed Language of life Of love Of being  Without mistakes On our journey We benefit no one Onward Into our mistakes Liberating dawn Arising as Freedom Oh Rimbaud Your laughter Echoes  🌚 David Ar...

Let Your Poetry Rip And Soar 🙏 Oh Worshiping reason Gagging on materialism  Until our world dies Left Right Has anyone benefited? Maybe we need to look  Deeper within  Decenter ourselves  Poetically reflect  In a way  Free from traps Snares Crutches Which do not  Even help us walk  Perhaps it is here  We'll recognize Life is poetry Multidimensional Not one dimensional Flat linear text Let your Poetry Rip and Soar Sing it to the stars Soar Soar Soar 🙏 David Arndt October 31st, 2022 🙏 Artwork - Arthur Rimbaut by Ernerst Pignon-Ernest

Reason Drunk On Absinthe 🥁 Needless to say  Great Gods Reason  Believing they know all Miss what matters  Most in life When we  Immerse ourselves  In reason to a fault Silent spaces  Love  Dies 🥁 It is here  With our thinking  No thinking Modernism  Postmodern Nihilism What matters Sand Slips through our hands Ashes of bones Falling through our fingers Human folly 🥁 "Forgive them For they know not  What they do" 🥁 Our attempt to theorize Even explain  Worshiping Reason or anti-reason  Lies at the root of our problem  Fallible humans beings We are blind to see  We should abide in Not denigrate Poetic spaces 🥁 Degree we can do this May be the degree  To which  We can benefit others Rimbaud Forces Absinthe Down reasons throat  Belching  Poetic Spaces Freedom 🥁 David Arndt October 31st, 2022 🥁 Artwork Redbubble

Soaring On Rimbaud's  Poetic Wings Of Victory  🌈 It matters not  If you have never Written a poem Within you Poetry soars Get out of the way Don't try to catch it It arises Magical display Rainbow Consonants  Vowels Summer breeze Weaving Unfolding Blossoming Unfolding Arising Divine  Poetry 🌈 Nothing more brave Then sharing one's poem For the first time Far greater victory For the heart Homer could sing songs for eternity And it would not match That first poem Arising Within your heart Simply making this attempt  Greatest of victories Setting you free 🌈 Fear not We are all poets It is in our failure Our mistakes  We soar On poetic wings of Love Saved From falling Into the beast Nietzsche's  Dreaded  Nihilism 🌈 David Arndt October 31st, 2022 🌈 Artwork Redbubble

Rimbaud Laughs Poetry Soars 🪁 Rimbaud's  Poetic Unfixed Awakening  Soaring  🪁 Can't think our way Poetic Freedom  🪁 Changing  External World Mammon's Foolhardy  Lie  *** Only way forward  Poetically  Change ourselves  Through that Arising  Others see new open spaces  🪁 Secondary conditions necessary  For them to feel confident  Rainfall of Love Compost of Experience 🪁 Oh my children  Your afraid Opening to poetry Fear your fluttering  Heart could burst It's ok Poetry's  Hugs Dispel Nightmares  🪁 Your not stepping into an abyss Or if you are You will not fall Poetry  Will catch you Everytime 🪁 Poetry calls upon us First we change ourself  Nothing else we can change The greatest task  We face in life Changing Ourselves  Second  It is only through love  We accomplish this task 🪁 Confused Rilke says Love your darkness Patiently Live your questions Unto Poetries Div...

Rimbaud Spanks Reason 🌠 Reason devoid of love  No Passion  Heart Great problematic  🌠 Place where poetic Spirit dies  Bound by reasons limitations  Whipped Imprisoned  By grammar  🌠 Tell me  Can reason Show us love Trapped in prisons Strangling Silent spaces Choking on nonsense Gagging Suffocating  Distant from needs Of all suffering Can reason soothe souls? 🌠 We worships delusion Like fools Believed Once   We were Progressing Through Reason  Future Utopia How has that worked out? 🌠 Our blind Attempt  Believing We can explain everything Godlike Arrogance We mortals  Big part What is killing us 🌠 Idea of future Utopia Or nihilistic Apocalypse  Seeds Ignorance Keeps us from  Present moment As we stare out of our cage Freak animal we are Failing to see our limitations 🌠 Until we see our limitations We will be unable to live  Soaring In poetic silence places Where what is needed  To benefit oth...

Rimbaud Laughs Poetry Soars 🪁 Rimbaud's  Poetic Unfixed Awakening  Soaring  🪁 Can't think our way Poetic Freedom  🪁 Changing  External World Mammon's Foolhardy  Lie  *** Only way forward  Poetically  Change ourselves  Through that Arising  Others see new open spaces  🪁 Secondary conditions necessary  For them to feel confident  Rainfall of Love Compost of Experience 🪁 Oh my children  Your afraid Opening to poetry Fear your fluttering  Heart could burst It's ok Poetry's  Hugs Dispel Nightmares  🪁 Your not stepping into an abyss Or if you are You will not fall Poetry  Will catch you Everytime 🪁 Poetry calls upon us First we change ourself  Nothing else we can change The greatest task  We face in life Changing Ourselves  Second  It is only through love  We accomplish this task 🪁 Confused Rilke says Love your darkness Patiently Live your questions Unto Poetries Div...

Rimbaud's Poetic Spaces Soaring  *** Reason attempts Strangling  Silent spaces Where what matters  In life abides Sweet spot Here we find  Within ourselves  Spaciousness  Where  Unfixed  Poetic Insight  Consciousness  Wisdom Love Poems Arise  🕊️ Rimbaud Smiles We can't think our way  To poetic spaces Materialistic Secular religion Modernism  Postmodernism Believes  Meaning Can be  Pinned down Caught Trapped Fixed Ultimately Nihilism  🕊️ Oh Human folly Poetic spaces Unfixed Spank reason Laughing Poetry  Flies free Spinning Out Vowels Consonants  Crystal Refracted Rainbow  Meanings  Soaring Everytime  🕊️ David Arndt, October 31st, 2022  Artwork - Rimbaud's Requiem by Justine ONeal

African Sky Dancer 🕊 Ah 🕊 African Sky Dancer Soaring Spiraling  Kerouac Twilight  Dazzling  African Skies Soaring Free Ah Ah Ah   🕊  Ah Ah Ah 🐘   Precious African Celestial Muse  Gift of Poetry  Heart Mother I praise Offering  Everything  My beautiful love Trust me baby Blessings  Manifesting  Self Arising  Unfixed  Primordial  Pure Poetry Listening old  Singing  Dancing  Ancestral  Fires Burning Dancing Tearing Time  Baby  Ready to Soar at Dawn With me  Precious child  Motherless  Child let me love you I will tear down the skies Praise Offerings  Gift gift gift gift gift 🕊 Ah 🕊 Soaring  Wings of 🕊s  Wings of 🕊s Baby We is soaring  Higher up up you me they Soaring Breaking through  Grammars Fixed prison Why we silly beings Holding the keys Freedom Bit we don't  Know it my child  Blind blind blind Black Out Blues...

How Many Times *** How many times can you turn them away?  How many times will you lead them astray?  How many lies will you tell till you drown in yourself? How many hearts will you break till you break yourself? It all begins with you, So shall it end You're not there for anyone You're not even your own friend Na na na na na na na na How many times can you lead them astray?  How many times will you turn them away?  How many lies will you tell till you drown in yourself? How many hearts will you break till you break yourself?  It all begins with you, so, shall it end You're not there for anyone You're not even your own friend It all begins with you, so, shall it end You're not there for anyone You're not even your own friend *** Artwork - Remembrance by Zivko Risteski

Devouring Younger Generations *** In nature Some mothers devour their babies  Rats For example They can gobble up their babies  Oh and there are many more Blenny fish, cats, dogs, hamsters, chickens, seagulls, chimpanzees, lions, parasitic wasps, polar bears, prairie dogs, rabbits, rattlesnakes, sand tiger sharks, scorpions, spiders, tiger salamanders  Nature can be cruel, can't it? Among humans Some mother's also devour their babies.  2 Kings 6:29 "So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son." Babies can be devoured in many ways One way is by depriving them  Of the nourishment of their father  Poisoning their daughters  Future relationships  Making them more susceptible  To being gobbled up by others And fathers can devour babies also. Yet it is different with the father not better or worse, yet still to carry a baby, give birth then devour the baby, i...

We All Gotta Lotta lovin To Do *** Tssss Tssss Tssss Tssss Tssss Let me hear those old bones rattle Let me hear those old bones dance Still gotta lotta living left to do Still gotta lotta living left to do Still gotta a lotta lovin left to do We all gotta lotta loving to do Still mountains to climb  Still lakes to swim Still woods to get lost in  Still blue sky to to soar Still rivers to traverse  Still lotta love to give Still sufferings  Ocean to cross Together ❤️  Let's cross on over Further shore Gonna love all End suffering too Onward forward  Loving on the move  Tssss Tssss Tssss Tssss Tssss Whole lot of loving That can be done That will be going on We can love beauty  In the world in ourselves  In all sentient beings While we're at it Gonna love all Haters too Let's love the haters too  Tssss Tssss Tssss Tssss Tssss Love is the great protection  Loves already won You can place your refuge in love babe It Takes us through narr...

Walking Alone  *** Inner spirit  Worn down  My face Open heart A rusty cage Strange woman Struck me down Road is dark Walking alone *** David Arndt many moons ago revised October 30th, 2022 *** Artwork - Alone In The Dark by Domenico Montemagno

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 *** Artwork Window To The Sea  by Paco Palazon

Wolverine  *** There's a fire  Burning creature  In that Welsh  Woman's heart She has a tongue  It'll cut you up  Tear you  Apart She has a way  Of knowing  Where your  Weaknesses lie  Before you  Know what's  Happened She's said  Goodbye Well, I met her  Down south  In the City of  New Orleans I was young  fell in love  With a Welsh  Wolverine  There was  A full moon  Kept announcing  Its presence  Under that Sky  Our meeting  Was pure No coincidence I told her  my name  She took me  To a swamp And there  In murky water  We had fun We did romp She took my heart,  Clothes, car keys  And my Sanity Cops found her  In Alabama  Convicted her  Of a felony Now she's in jail,  But I know it  Won't be  For long Give her  A bit of time The warden  Soon will be  Singing  Her song...

She's Content  🕊️ Life One Long Wait Inspiration Content She  Calls Blood Misery Sadness Plagues Cowardly  Gestures She's Content Fled Guided by Turned Lies She's Content My Bad luck  Absent  Nothing  Wrong Life  One Long Wait Inspiration She's Content  🕊️ David Arndt October 30th, 2022 🕊️ Artwork by My Inspiration 

Continually I Am A City In The Night *** Simplify Breath House of breath   Whiteness sound "De plane de plane" Airplane coming  Down downing  Choosing falling  Failing We look before Ordinary life  One way going coming Wasting away  Spouting horns  Deciding on marriage  Honey initiated love Let's have children  She completes me Until She doesn't Self deception Insecurity Emptiness Potentiality  Circling arms Sounding open Scarf buddhism  Round clay bellied clumps Women lettered elements  Jeweled golden Beads Wheels never ever ever Goddess initiatives  I am between continuity Repetition Copies Forms Unfixed structures  Continually I am a city in the Night  Nothing hollow  Not a minute performing  Full moons Winking  Worked working shopping sinking  Bed burning Incinerated Flannel pajamas Holly Hobby wallpaper  House out of breath Comfort exploding  First existence  Prometheu...

Time For Us To Go *** I remember  Remember long ago Falling down below We were letting go Leaves blowing in the wind Blowing in the wind It's time for us to go  Time for us to go Who did we become?  Where did we go?  I don't know I don't know Who did we become?  Where did we go?  I don't know I don't know We're reaching up  Reaching up for the light  We're reaching up Reaching up for the light  We're reaching up Reaching for the love We're reaching up Reaching for the love Missing in our lives Missing in our lives Where did you go?  Who did you become?  I don't know I don't know Where did we go?  Who did we become?  I don't know  I don't know  It's time for us to go Time for us to go I opened up my heart  As wide as it can go  As far as it can go We opened up our hearts As wide as we can go  As far as we can go Who did we become?  Where did we go?  We don't know We don't know Who did we b...

Cross an Ocean  *** We went to the mountains  Climbed to the top  I called out your name  Til you begged me to stop  We ran in the valley We rolled in the hay We tumbled with laughter  Like children at play I would cross an ocean If I thought it would  Bring me closer to you I would cross an oceaBecause there's no way  I could live without you They say that I'm crazy They say that I'm blind I live with your image  Embedded in my mind If it takes me forever  For the rest of my life I'll find me a way  To make you my wife I would cross an ocean If I thought it would  Bring me closer to you I would cross an ocean  Because there's no way  I could live without you Well I go to the Ocean  Build me a boat I'd pray to the Lord  That the boat Would float Captain through rainstorms  find you somehow  Cause theres no happy man Feels what I'm feeling now I would cross an ocean  If I thought it would bring...

Calling On Holy Spirit  🕊️ Called for justice Blind executioners Called for beauty Her flesh decaying  Called for plagues Sipping deaths brew Called for misery Dead drunks in dark Called for misery Selfish plotting fools Called for space Corpses to sky Called for time History upchucking  Called for charity Satan hoarding souls Called for help No one's coming Called for love Hate beat down Called for Jesus On my knees Weeping  Confessing  Forgiven Saved Epiphany Heaven My Father's  Mansion Home  Sweet Home Amen 🕊️ David Arndt October 28th, 2022 🕊️ Artwork - Welcome Home by Danny Hahlbohm

Watch Out For The Serpent Hssss 🐍 Hsssss Our relationship  Old as time  Adam and Eve Cain and Abel  Narcissus and Goldmund  Harry Haller and Steppenwolf  We act out many archetypal roles  Shiva dances  Spinning world's  Friendships  In and out of creation  Reborn into a new role Seed reaches flower  This has been   Season of harvest  Fruit ripe on the tree  The tree of knowledge  Watch out for the serpent  Telling you that knowledge  Will make you God Blood and Wine Bread and Flesh Sage of the Tao  Lowest of the low  Oceans deepest deep  Always contemplating  The return Hssssss 🐍 Written on the Island of Utila, Off Honduras in 1992 Revised October 28th, 2022 🐍 Artwork by DANIEL LEONARD

A Guy Named Joe 🚌 There was a guy named Joe  A guy I used to know  He was always on the go  Till he broke his toe  And then his heart gave out  His wife Jill she did pout  He worked far too hard  At the construction yard  He was big and sat  Drank Bud cat on his lap  Watched TV and smoked  Occasionally he toked  So this was his life  And sad with his wife  Until she met Lou  Who looked like Mr Magoo  Now she's just fine  Drinks only French wine  Goes on holiday  For the month of May  Life insurance And a boat  Front yard with a moat  Fur coats and hats  And 36 cats 🚌 Written on a Bus Somewhere in Nicaragua 1992 revised October 28th, 2022 *** Artwork by Nicaraguan Art

Nietzsche Carpet Bombing Reason *** Slaying Modernism  Tearing Up Dead Values  Shredding Nihilism  *** David Arndt October 15th 2022 *** Artwork - Nietzsche by Fabrizio Cassetta

New York City Millennium Dharma Blowing Up Time 🕊️ OM Dharma Tearing Down Time Shredding life Making Loving Loving Bliss 13th Street Sirens All Night No Money Beyond Beyond Beyond OM GATE GATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SOHA Blowing my mind Rich know nothings Addicted Money Power Sex Subways Not you and I Dharma Winds East Village 5th Street Cookies Blowing Praying in the Band Playing Sugar Magnolia Space Dark Star Wheel Our Way Brooklyn  Garchen Rinpoche Unconditional Love Tara Is A Bridge Tormas Lama Abao  Bunima Tashi Tobgye Jamyangling Translating Killing It Killing it Adeu Rinpoche Five Fold Mahamudra Khenpo Brothers Bunker Beats Eating Gingsbergs Favorite Chinese Restaurant $14 Same Meal Every Night 6th Street Bakery Cookies $3 Breakfast Every Morning Mushrooms TRIPPING Bunker Lama Dawa Dzogchen John Whitney Pettit  LONGCHENPA Gillian Love's Her Cat More Than Me Halloween Late Night Insanity ...

Supplication To Lho Ontul Rinpoche *** 🕊  AH Lho Ontul Rinpoche  Mountain Stillness Great Shepherd Leading Leading Lost Sheep  Crossing Over  Himalayas  Crossing  Samsara Union Mind  Merging  Completed  Sea Of Suffering  Crossing Over Further Shore  Further Shore Further  Shore AH 🕊  David Arndt October 28th, 2022 *** Image David Arndt

Thank You Creator *** Thank you Creator For all your love  Thank you Creator For heaven and  The stars above  Thank you Creator  For this great Earth  Thank you Creator For love's birth I come before you Creator  When I'm full of joy I come before you Creator With the heart of a little boy I come to you Creator  When there's no one  At my door I come to you Creator  When I'm feeling  Down and poor Well help me Creator To find a way To help others suffering Their days full of pain At the end of my days  May I find  Within my heart  I gave all I could  Before I did depart  Thank you Creator For heaven  And the stars above Thank you Creator For all your love Thank you Creator  For this great Earth Thank you Creator  For love's birth *** Written by David Arndt in the Black Mountains of Wales in 1991. Revised on May 28, 2022. *** Artwork by Michelangelo 

Oh Saint Augustine  May The End Come But Not Yet *** Oh Augustine  May the end come  But Not yet Those dark New York City nights Your dressed in leather Black net stockings  Eyes shining bright You took my hand Pulling me into those 4 am clubs Bluesmen playing You're touching me All I see is stars  Floating with you In your arms Oh babe First time saw you  Couldn't help myself  Keep my eyes off you Knew eventually  You'd tear my heart in two  Nothing I could do Because the truth was I loved you Even if I ended  Up in Timbuktu Didn't care Even if you Destroyed me Was gonna  See you you through Oh Augustine  May the end come  But Not yet Oh, babe I'm playing for my life Oh Saint Augustine  May The End Come But Not Yet *** Oh Saint Augustine  May the end come  But Not yet Those dark New York City nights Your dressed in leather Black net stockings  Eyes shining bright You took my hand Pulling me into those ...

Wish I Could Stop Loving You  *** Never expected To be  Holding you right now You said many times This you wouldn't allow But you called me You touched me What could I do?  Oh babe, you're  Coming on strong Breaking me up inside Nowhere to hide I'm full of fear Our love is wrong Reaching up for you You always disappear A dream What do you Expect me to do Your heart's Saying one thing But with you babe Things are never What they seem Don't care what others say That I'm being used Realize without you There's no way Gonna make it If you run I won't ever See the sun My heart  Nevers gonna Be the same  I'm praying Your love Can be tamed Come home stay My love isn't done You know it's true It's just for you If you fall Gonna catch you in my arms Swear I'll keep you from all harm But for me  Would you do the same Why can't I tell  If you're playing a game  With my heart If your gonna  Blow me away  Shooting stars  Ripping me again Ap...

POETIC CASCADES ( A collaboration between the revered Poet, DAVID ARNDT & AARON BLACKIE) Oh Poetry, Let us rest In your  Silent Spaces, Soar within your verses  Fly towards the Sun Far above earth  off to the stars  Which we will gather and scatter  Like WORDS magically  Appearing mysteriously At a banquet table eating,  Drinking together abiding There, where of life, We laughed in snatches Of her ironies, similes in the Similitudes of symphonies Of wordplays into the beauty Of the marriage of word sounds Word pictures, beyond the Symmetry of poetic consciousness! DAVID ARNDT Like the waterfall cascades Out of the orifice of unassumed  Nature's fountain, plunging  Into receptive pool, spreading  Beyond,  in spontaneous waves   Of rhythms and rhymes, Unconscious strands  Of the inwardness of the Soul in solitude, Bereft of the regimental, The conscious symmetrical Of vowels and consonants, Having the wings to fly,...

Your Love Is Fatal *** We ran through the fields,  we ran through days  Your hair blowing in the winds Of yesterday Oh, why do you lie  When your around  Something  Inside mydies Why is it This is my fate  Gotta run It's time to escape Oh life it gets crazy  When I'm with you lady Oh, lost in your eyes My defenses get lazy  All the times  I called out to you  But your never   Coming through  I'm gonna see this  Through with you  Though my heart  Will end up  Black and blue There's nothing I can do I can't help it It's fatal But I love you *** David Arndt October 27th, 2023 *** Artwork The Siren by John William Waterhouse

Blasting Off With Terence McKenna *** Oh Terence you Bard Omega Institute Rhinebeck, NY 1993 Blasting Off 15 seconds Counting Stratosphere  Blown to smithereens  Oh Terence You troublemaker Smoking Bombers Till the Cows Come Home Tripping the Light Fantastic  One way rocket ship  15 seconds 💥  Drop you off at your door No socks Crying Momma "Help me" Save me From Terence  Under fifteen minutes  Space Shuttle Clashing  Crashing No parachuting  Not necessarily  Having a clue What you've  Blown up  In your mind Forced to Integrate  What can't be integrated Spinning Out  Psych Wards Babbling  2012 Nonsense  Not joking It's your call  Educate yourself  Before countdown  Or you might Not be coming back for awhile But no fear True education  Not psychedelic  Indoctrination  Keep you From Getting unhinged Blown down Bayous  Psychedelic  Lunatic  Fringe *** David Arndt Om...

Brothers And Sisters *** Brothers and sisters Be without fear Brothers and sisters The end is near Brothers and sisters It is all ok Brothers and sisters We all must pass away Brothers and sisters There is one truth above Brothers and Sisters That truth is love Brothers and sisters Love protects all Brothers and sisters Be not afraid of the fall Brothers and sisters Abandon all worldly plans Brothers and sisters Don't try to understand Brothers and Sisters We all must part Brothers and sisters This was true at the start Brothers and sisters Our money cannot save Brothers and sisters Soon comes the grave Brothers and sisters This life is not the end Brothers and sisters To all love I send Brothers and sisters This life is short Brothers and sisters Full of suffering and hurt Brothers and sisters The prophecies are true Brothers and sisters With faith in love we never lose Brothers and sisters We reap the seeds we sow Brothers and sisters Love is all we need to know Brothers and sist...

A Dream I Must See Through  *** Storms are approaching All directions closing in I feel it tearing me Apart from within Stand up to fall down Why is it your still around? These illusions I fall for Leave me empty without ground One moment I feel alive Like a junkie chasing a high Caught up in this tragic play Why do I choose to stay? Is there anyone I can trust? When this this world such a lie? Each time my heart breaks more Making it much harder to try One moment I feel alive Like a junkie chasing a high Caught up in this drama play Why do I choose to stay? It is all within, I shape my fate But the parties over, I arrived too late Just a prop, a one night show I realize now, there is nowhere to go One moment I feel alive Like a junkie chasing a high Caught up in this tragic play Why do I choose to stay? Wish I had no need for touch Wish I had no need for love Wish I had no need for you This is a dream I must see through *** By David Arndt, written sometime in the last four years, ...

Carry A Light Load *** Here's an ode to frugality  For the humble and pious  Who know what is enough  Who reject all gluttony  This is for the soul  Who patiently waits  At St Peter's Gates  Avoids the seven pit holes  This is one  Who is wise  In all actions  And never dies  For one with too much  Will be shackled to ground  Imprisoned by vices  Bound in evil devices   No wonder Jesus said  To give up all  And follow him  Leave your warm bed  As the sages of old  One who knows  What is enough  Will carry a light load *** David Arndt written in the Los Delores Church in Tegucigalpa, Hondoras many moons ago revised on October 26, 2022 *** Artwork - Los Dolores by Luis Santos Ochoa Duron

My Sun Setting In The Sky *** Driving into the setting sun Life on automatic pilot Momentum pulling under Dark stormy seas No stars above Guiding the way There is no one Death and decay Triumphs in day I believed My blood a sacrifice Dreamed of empty streets He searched for love How I searched Missing what was key I lift the chalice Eyes black as coal The world screams I can't hear Impermanent passing dream The light inside Still shines Flesh and blood Passing on Floating by My sun setting in the sky *** David Arndt September 21, 2022 *** Photography by Robyn Walden

Roaring Lion *** I laugh at myself  Immersed in foolery  To think I could know  A way out of drudgery  At times I'm so limited  Is this my true condition  To be a prisoner  Of my volition  Muck is so high  It's fallen inside  Spirit is sick  In comes the tide  Let me shake off  Chains and irons  Finding my strength  Roaring like a lion *** David Arndt Tegucigalpa, Guatemala, many moons ago revised October 26th, 2022 *** Artwork Roaring Lion by Ben Heine

Soaring Throughout Space *** Toke of smoke  Lifts higher  Breaks down barriers  Habit and desire  Soaring throughout space  Calling question to time  Rain shower water  Taste of a lime  Here in this space  Rules they do change  Newly created  Rearranged *** David Arndt Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, many moons ago revised October 26th, 2022 *** Artwork Year of the Hummingbird by Jim Figora