David Arndt Forgotten Words Poetry

One Last Journey 🌊 Headed out on one last journey Weary from a life of worry Ripped apart from inside From my shadow Could no longer hide Soared so high Felt so low Of my future Was no way I could know I'd broken down I'd risen above Along hardships path No going back Found my way to the ocean Free of life's commotion Pulled by the waves motion Walked out on the sea Watching the seagulls above Felt free Salt in my hair Breeze in my face Smiling Of life I'd had a taste Letting go of the past Moved on Without haste My time in this world Passed into grace Past vanishing Without a trace 🌊 David Arndt January 30th, 2023 🌊 Artwork - Bob Dylan - Train Tracks

You're Silken Words Felled Me 💔 You're silken words felled me My mouth now Full of steel wool Feeling such the fool Oh you brought me to my knees I beg of you Please stop the hurt Please please please Your games My raging storms Churning churning churn What lesson have you come To teach me From my suffering What shall I learn My heart beneath the ground Filled with worms Your voice Full of scorn I turn away To you I no longer pray I pray above To heaven please hear me I no longer wish For you to be near What you call love dear Fills me with fear  So this bag of bones Out the back door Taking back my heart For you it's no longer Your home 💔 David Arndt January 29th, 2023 💔 Artwork - Detail of Water Serpents I by Gustav Klimt

Perhaps If I Learned To Smile Smile Smile…. 😊 I've been lost lost lost Spun off on ignorance's highway highway highway Slithering sliding hiding hiding hiding Perhaps if I learned to smile smile smile I would wake up up up Living living living Loving loving loving Path of giving giving giving  Ourselves ourselves ourselves Awakening Awakening Awakening Dawn Dawn Dawn Dawning dawning dawning  It's a new day day day A brand new day day day Reborn reborn reborn Saved saved saved 😊 David Arndt January 30th, 2023 😊 Image - Peony Angel by Anne Geddes

Earth's Betrayal……. *** O dear Buddha Christ Calls the forgotten snake mother lost not return Mute pages torture Her shadowy lips Kiss green Mother earth laughing Nameless ones betray heart love vast snow sweet moon Eternal absolute sun sunset skies rosy blood Seaborn divine mother Words Appear Trembling unshelved nameless Books storm came chasing sentencing earth slowly fades Leaves Keep faith space out  “Be Now" Clear winter days Soil throbbed lonely winter skies secret River shelves hidden place deep within Her clothes Sun speaks "lift-off" *** David Arndt  January 29th, 2023. Artwork - Mother Earth by Nicklas Gustafsson

Decay…. ☠️ Beautys gray See the decay Our good looks Wrinkled Stained Vain Fading away Our foolish ways Judas betrays Impermanence Smell our decay What to say All things pass Nothing lasts Taste our decay It is the way Not afraid Bet I made Tears of Jade Feel my decay Hail storms rain Rotting hay Slow motion fade Ghosts of Time Broke down rhymes Soon Lights out Life is this way Beauty sputters Splintered decayed Ships on the rocks Wrathful love Reigns Curtain falls End of the play Nothing we can say Tasting our decay Underwater Down yonder Desolation Bay Lost at sea Night eats day Sinking Blown Away Decay  ☠️ David Arndt January 29th, 2023 ☠️ Artwork - Egon Shiele - Death and the Maiden

Drowning In Love's Cruel Sea 🌊 Oh I remember It began in November Sirens calling on strong Felt I could do no wrong Sitting out on seas calm Melodious voices singing Bells of fate ringing Could not get enough Till the seas got rough Blowing me here and there Ignored the signs saying beware Took a risk oh did I fall Listening to the sirens call Hit the rocks in a squall Now alone in debris Find myself drowning In love's cruel sea 🌊 David Arndt January 29th, 2023 🌊 Artwork - The Kiss of the Siren, 1882 by Gustav Wertheimer

We Must Move On…. 🕊️ Man walked out of light Unexpectedly Falling into darkness Collapsing Spiraling Into the abyss Madnesses kiss Oh he did regret On the wrong horse he did bet Barren trees winter skies Somewhere lonely widows cry All across the world We must face truth Devastation Plagues of mind Life ends Birth sickness old age We all will pass Of the man I see him In the distance Nothing lasts Setting sun We crash Blood red skies Something inside Points to the divine So easy to forget A cold wave washes over the man Tasting salt in his mouth Falling to the sand Feeling the ocean calling Feeling old Yet yet a candle flickers Life's not over He stands up Rejects sunset world Walking forward From desolation Towards Where are the sun will rise A brand new day Rebuilding Anew Dawn No matter how hard We must move on 🕊️ David Arndt January 26th, 2023 🕊️ Image by Treasures

Waking Up ☀️ Riverbottom  Moonlit night Grooming silence God broken-down whispering writing poems rides on reading Whitman forgotten songs drifting Children laugh All living creatures dreaming Mountain Buddha Lord of Rebirth Ecstasy Blaze of heat serenity immense milky way relaxing alright forever perfect emptiness riverbottom Waking up 🌙 David Arndt 2022 Artwork - Giant Buddha carved in mountain side Kaye Terrelonge…

Mirror Mirror On The Wall…. 🪞 You're golden chalice My broken cup You're fine wine My muddy water You're silken dress My tattered rags You're exquisite bouquet My wilted flowers Your worldly beauty My aging face Our cruel hearts Mirror mirror On the wall Oh so vain Humanity Love Broke me Now I live In poverty Ashamed Disgraced Lost In the land of Cain 💔 David Arndt January 29th, 2023 ☠️ Artwork - Mirror, Mirror...by Amy Weiss

Icarus Heartbroken On The Rocks…🌠 🪨 Intoxicated by the sirens Crashed on the rocks Icarus flew higher Then ever before Thought he saw Heaven door It was too soon To enter It's narrow gate That time would come Death would wait Recognizing his err Yet once again Fell from the sky Crashed Alone Lost Without Friends Wings melted Wings singed Hit hard Heart  Shattered Questioned Does life matter Does love matter He realized This might be The end 🪨 David Arndt January 28th, 2022 🌠 Artwork - The Fall of Icarus by Odilon Redon

The Fool 🤣 The fool Whirls Dives Twirls So blind inside Heart open wide Target so easy Drinking Mead Drinking beer Full of false cheer Doesn't see His childlike Grace Until he's torn into Then it's too late Hell awaits And terror Does he face Dissipating Decaying Without a trace Youthful folly Innocent Naivety Hopeless to educate He drank the poison Destruction Is his fate 🤣 David Arndt January 28th, 2023 🤣 Artwork by Mythos

Angels 🕊️ 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 🕊️ David Arndt January 9th, 2023 🕊️ Artwork - Saint Cecilia by John Melhuish Strudwick

You Wait For Her At The Train Station 🚂 You wait for her at the train station Will she come Will she not Is she afraid you might embrace her With worldly kiss You know in your heart Never felt that way once That was the past Thankfully it crumbled You were set free Soaring like a bird Knowing only God's love lasts Also knowing God abides in your heart What you offer to her Knowing your friendship and love Will never pass 🚂 David Arndt January 10th, 2023 🚂 Artwork by Gino Severini 1910 Moulin Rouge

All I Want Is You Baby…. 🕊️ 💕 All I want is you All I want Is you baby I want you Baby  Come live with me Across the sea Come live with me Sweet sweet Baby All I want is you baby Let me care for you In the way You were meant to be Spontaneously All I want is you baby I'm going to spoil you Endlessly Timelessly Always All I want is you baby Let me give you freedom Space to be You're solitude  I will watch over Eternity Infinity All I want is you baby I'm going to be there Always For you baby If you want me  All I want Is to be with you All I want is you baby Come live with me Cross the sea We'll have enough Materially Always Loving Painting Poetry Artistry Simplicity I want is you baby All I want is to be with you Baby  All I want is to be with you All I want is you I want you baby I Want you I want You Baby 💕 David Arndt January 10th, 2023 💕 Artwork - I want you for the Navy - Propaganda Poster by Studio Grafiikka

An Offering And Praise For Angel's  🕊️ Oh Muse, through you I'm saved...... 🕊️ Oh Muse, through you I am saved and delivered, saved and delivered…… 🕊️ Ah Ah Ah Ah Ah……🌈 You are not flesh What is flesh anyhow Nothing but dust passing through time You are nature Your not separate You're everything Interconnected Your roots in my being your leaves, blowing through my soul Your snowflake kisses, springs, dancing skies palette palate's, bliss, dancing streaks across the heavens The moon is smiling down on me I found you, my dear muse, I found you  I found you in my heart I am at your feet, though I am not worthy I know this I've made many mistakes in life But there's one thing I've always honored the best I can and now it's completely clean and pure And that's the Muse's commitment  If you keep the Muses commitment, though she's scary wild. can be messy, can blow you apart, rip you to shreds, bring you back together you arise from dawn soaring...

When The Angel Returns…. *** I looked outside  my window  I saw bird  it beckoned me  To come outside  and play its voice  was haunting  like an angel  it sang to me  to live today  I left my four walls  followed the bird as I flew off  into the deep  blue sky  with the Good Green Earth  below me  I relaxed  let out a  peaceful sigh  But then I looked down  Saw the people  They were building castles  going off to war  they were ruled by  greed and desire  they had enough  Why did they want more I heard the  song of that bird  Its message was  peace and humility  The people's ears were  deaf to its pleas  I was left  with a sense  of the futility Won't you come back, divine love  Come back today  won't you come back, divine love Come back and stay  Please don't leave us looking down Looking down from the m...

One Taste, One Kiss……💕…🕊️ 💋 Ah I've been looking outside myself For things I can only find inside Oh I'm not afraid to say Much of my life has been lost years Living in cage Tying to hide I was trying to survive It was the only way I knew I know I wasn't always honest Know I wasn't true I paid that price long ago Now I'm on the path of the bodhisattva I'm the leader of a tribe I'm your king I'm your prince Your father, brother Sister, mother, lover But we're lovers In pure space of appearances Empty potentiality Where there's no proof, nothing profane All sentient beings in union One taste, one kiss Dance union bliss vast openness Appearances are arising They're empty, Yet they appear One taste, one kiss Awakened ones of all times laugh Laughing with joy  equanimity We abide at rest Oh, one taste oh, one kiss One kiss everything in all All sentient beings kissed in spaciousness I know this kiss true In...

For Your Love I'm Phoenix Rising… 🕊️ I offer you my raw heart… What others think of me has never mattered, all that matters is that you know me in my truth And sharing the heart from one one is healed and this becomes medicine for all who are suffering, to you my queen, you have given me the gift of an inconceivable open heart, and now all my suffering has become medicine, my gift for you, I offer you my sacred wisdom, my sacred medicine, which is a beautiful flower which is a grown from the compost of my suffering… I am now as strong as a mountain, yet a supple and flowing is a stream, which overcomes any and all obstacles in its way as it reaches to the sea where to abides.and dissolves…It is within your seas that I call home, the sailor has finally found his home after many years at sea… As the captain of your ship I will dispel all obstacles in your way… My love for you is incomprehensible and inconceivable  The love in my heart is the blazing sun, yet it does not blind, it il...