the oval of midnight

Cleaning day 

Rain is washing the world

My laundry is in the washing machine

And I am fresh from the shower

When the entire universe has been made clean

Then what 

James Lee Jobe 

Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

 

Pema Chödron

See how her skin fits your lips In the oval of midnight Naked against you under warm blankets During the cold metal of winter She is arching up to meet you And outside it is the city but here in the dark It is the sweetness of her animal sounds Just before, you would not have believed That this was your life Just before, you would been staring Through the blackness of the room and wondering Why you were living the symphony of being alone And see also her brown breasts Across the pain of your face See the weak light from the hall Flash across the bareness of her lovely stomach As you rise and fall, rise and fall Rise and fall See this one being With two souls and two bodies

James Lee Jobe

The true person is

Not anyone in particular;

But, like the deep blue color

Of the limitless sky,

It is everyone, everywhere in the world.

Eihei Dōgen

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I was never much for rules. I ignored them. How could the rules apply to me? I wasn't up to anything bad. I'm a poet. Now, in my so-called  Golden Years, I have come up with a marvelous rule. It simplified my life. I never do anything that I can't explain to my granddaughter.

James Lee Jobe

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James