adam & eve leaving the garden

by Kawase Hasui, 1883-1957

Twenty years of war 

and the country acts like nothing happened 

where are the dead of america iraq and afghanistan 

the dead of pakistan 

do not forget those who sleep in the soil friend 

all wars are for nothing 

all wars just more injustice

and holes filled with bones 

James Lee Jobe

Think enough and you won't know anything. 

Kenneth Patchen

KING CURTIS, Whiter Shade Of Pale
Live at Fillmore West, 1971

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Adam and Eve left the garden 

and then america destroyed it 

building freeways and machines 

america stole time 

doing away with the present moment 

and replacing it with the past and the future 

which of course are just lies 

the garden is gone 

and one day we’ll be gone too

James Lee Jobe

A heavy snowfall disappears into the sea. What silence!  

Zen Proverb

WHAT THE WATER KNOWS

-Sam Hamill

What the mouth sings, the soul must learn to forgive.
A rat’s as moral as a monk in the eyes of the real world.
Still, the heart is a river
pouring from itself, a river that cannot be crossed.

It opens on a bay
and turns back upon itself as the tide come sin,
it carries the cry of the loon and the salts
of the unutterably human.

A distant eagle enters the mouth of a river
salmon no longer run and his wide wings glide
upstream until he disappears
into the nothing from which he came. Only the thought remains.

Lacking the eagle’s cunning or the wisdom of the sparrow,
where shall I turn, drowning in sorrow?
Who will know what the trees know, the spidery patience
of young maple or what the willows confess?

Let me be water. The heart pours out in waves.
Listen to what the water says.
Wind, be a friend.
There’s nothing I couldn’t forgive.

SAM HAMILL, 1943-2018

"When the mind stops striving, the world's not a problem. 

A constant heart won't waver from the truth."

They’re trying to be helpful, but aren't.

People say it gets easier,

but who has time for absurd comments?

In truth, it might get easier

and then again it might not.

And it doesn't matter anyway.

That’s the future

and no one lives in the future.

Everyone lives now,

there is only now.

Face it. Own it. Live in it.

James Lee Jobe 

I’d like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls. 

John Coltrane

Let go. You'll be making space for better things. You'll be making room to grow.

james lee jobe

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