midnight, mountains and ada limón in space

awake way past midnight

through the long night the starlight
lays soft across the window
is it any wonder that in my heart
I sometimes still feel young

-

Breaking down the mountains.

Moving water can wear down rock and so
even a mountain gives way with time.
The sun and heat can take the water
down to vapor and memory.
What, here on earth, lasts forever?
Just the wind, blowing above it all,
and the love that we create from nothing.

-

james lee jobe 

The Way It Is 

Faint Shadow, a house, and traces of rain.
In the courtyard depths, the gate's still closed 

past noon. That lazy, I gaze at moss until 
its azure-green comes eeping into robes. 

Wang Wei, 701-761 CE 

Link: NASA is sending an Ada Limón poem into space.

Link: First Morning, a poem by Joanna Klink

Link: spring again, a poem by Jesús Papoleto Meléndez

The Little Red Rooster - Willie Dixon 

When you encounter suffering that you can’t stop no matter how hard you try, you need equanimity to avoid creating additional suffering and to channel your energies to areas where you can be of help.

Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Beware of the fact that the only thing hindering an all out  revolution is your fear of losing the scraps they throw at you. 

Gore Vidal

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

Kabir

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