Author: Nik

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Nik

“But how shall we bury you?” “Any way you like,” said Socrates, “that is if you can catch me and I don’t slip through your fingers.” –PHAEDO, The Last Days of Socrates

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Nik

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise. All the rain of heaven may fall into the sea — without love, not one drop could become a pearl.

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Nik

The Pomegranate

Once when I was living in the heart of a pomegranate, I heard a seed saying, “Someday I shall become a tree, and the wind will sing in my branches, and the sun will dance on my leaves, and I shall be strong and beautiful through all the seasons.” Then another seed spoke and said,

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Nik

The Madman

You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen — the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives — I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting,

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Nik

I said to my soul

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you Read More

Posted on October 10, 2006 by Nik

From A Thousand Chinese Dinners

From a thousand Chinese dinners, one cookie: Good fortune in love, also a better position. So much for both. Too many humorless people Who can’t believe that God could have made the cunt. Maybe he didn’t make it. Maybe hydrogen Made nitrogen and one thing led to another. Some hold that early man stumbled upon Read More

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Nik

Where Everything is Music

Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music. The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere, and even if the whole worlds harp should burn up, there will still be hidden instruments playing. So the Read More

Posted on April 28, 2006 by Nik

Blossom -Mary Oliver

In April the ponds open like black blossoms, the moon swims in every one; there’s fire everywhere: frogs shouting their desire, their satisfaction. What we know: that time chops at us all like an iron hoe, that death is a state of paralysis. What we long for: joy before death, nights in the swale – Read More

Posted on March 2, 2006 by Nik

Letters from a fool

Feb 06: Baja California Sur: El Pescadero: Pacific: Desert: Brief ramblings of a fool: I wake just before dawn, waves crashing in the distance. Lilting cricket’s chirrup near by, slowing to a mesmerizing rhythm, beckoning the day. Meditation. Unzippa de tent and hop out into the ecstatic morning. Atlanta comes to say hello, rub rubadee Read More

Posted on March 1, 2006 by Nik

an echoe from the shore

Pescadero. Baja California Sur. All she wants is for me to give her my love and she will give me the Moon. How could she not become the Radiant Goddess. Aphrodite. The Ocean and tides. How could any woman not bloom, in Love like a cactus flower, under the desert moon their beauty born the Read More

Posted on March 1, 2006 by Nik

Letters from a fool: Part 2: Baja Blues and Poems, or: How migration fucks with your seasons

March 2006. Pescadero BCS: Well fuck it. How long have I been here? 3 months? and every single mother fucker is still gonna show up mañana. And like an idiot (read ‘cunt’ if you’re English), I’ve been holding my breath. I’m sick as a parrot, ate something I shouldn’a, and they stole all my stuff Read More

Posted on September 1, 2004 by Nik

into the dialectic

. . . A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me. ~ The Prophet. Khalil Gibran Drifting through the formless void, darkness all around. there is a shimmer of sound like the siren’s song reaching through space and time. And in an instant in an ocean of Read More

Posted on March 13, 2004 by Nik

The Maze – W.H. Auden

Anthropos apteros for days Walked whistling round and round the maze, Relying happily upon His temperament for getting on. The hundredth time he sighted, though, A bush he left an hour ago, He halted where four alleys crossed And recognised that he was lost. ‘Where am I? Metaphysics says No question can be asked unless Read More

Posted on January 28, 2004 by Nik

bitchin horoscopes

Aquarius (Jan 23 – Feb 22) You have an inventive mind and are inclined to be progressive. You lie a great deal. You make the same mistakes repeatedly because you are stupid. Everyone thinks you are a fucking jerk. Pisces (Feb 23 – Mar 22) You are a pioneer type and think most people are Read More

Posted on October 7, 2003 by Nik

The Mango

The Mango is anything but innocent it beckons with it’s fullness it’s soft golden belly, glowing from within, it says… sink your teeth into my plump curvaceous skin, suckle on my gorgeous ripe flesh and let the sweet juices trickle down your chin. Revel in the rapture of my glowing roundness and feel the warmth Read More

Posted on March 1, 2002 by Nik

for Judith, Medecine Woman, 2002

wise sand dune primrose bud flowers innocent of this fools search, speaks of youth and eternal light this does not age or fade, it just keeps moving through like star songs resonant beyond the Earth Vega in the Lyre, we remain ancient and always new what they say about age is gravity’s conspiracy there are Read More

Posted on April 1, 1994 by Nik

for Keren, Koh Panghan, 1994

Velvet soft, Fading petal, Gently … … Falls. Lotus blossom’s Golden heart Gives, voluptuous petals To the Air. And sensuous stream sings Its round song. And autumn turns to spring My love

Posted on January 1, 1993 by Nik

I was about to say

And I was about to say – the trouble With intellectuals… Is they skirt around emotion. Then he gave me a hug And stole my heart From its retreat Into the notion Dare must we Dare must I DARE TO BE TRUE!

Posted on February 1, 1986 by Nik

The Wild spirit of Lakeview

Percussive rain, drives hard and fast Against the cold, window glass, As hostile winds, howl through The deserted buildings, at Lakeview. So desolate, this place, in the night Bearing under winter’s blight And through the day, such animation As Ilka and Karina, in confrontation. Conflict of ego in angry conceit… Oh, a peaceable place this Read More

Posted on January 1, 1986 by Nik

Animal Farm

Time seems suspended as I go to pass Midst gray shadows, diffuse moonlight doth cast Damp air hangs heavy in a haze As still horses, from their boxes gaze Then around the corner I am silently met By Bolero’s, stony silhouette Between his and Dallas’ box I tread Toward my… waiting lover’s bed When dawn Read More

Posted on August 1, 1985 by Nik

Dusk over Valle del Sol

[My 1st poem. San Pedro de Alcantara, Spain.] Peace pervades the clear evening air As moonlight shadows lucidate there Dark silhouettes of the trees new form And faint stars call the night newborn Sitting now, to meditate on, this Tranquil scene of peace beyond… my mind all the while perfused By the …c a l Read More

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