Stinging Nettles and Table of Bread (New Poem)

 

Stinging Nettles and Table of Bread (New Poem)
by Tim Kavi

stinging nettles

thorny places

betray the beauty

of our gardened places

there is in the stillness

a planting

a dancing collapse

of earthy relations

the Earth moves

contracts labors

and gives birth

the pleasant

is mixed in

with the plowing

and the planting

of Our watered beings

we begin small

and like all plantings

of love

we hope to grow tall

it is a true glory

a ready-made fashion

of the journey

of Nature's story

it is as natural 

as friend-to-friend

man to woman

lover to lover

bowing before

the table of hallowed bread

in the Holy Place

we see what

God has prepared.

Only What We Know (new poem)

 

Only What We Know

by Tim Kavi 

there is only

what we know

what we try to know

and what

we strive to know

in the end

it may be only

what we want

to know

but acceptance

of what one is

where one is

and how to move forward

in circling ramparts

we hide and do battle

with ghosts and regrets

yet one never forgets

the lessons of the past

while trying to escape them

where only such tortured souls

can finally sing

of resistance

the path of the mystic I reckon

longed for meaning

that leads to meeting

that which was unknown

and is totally 

responding to freedom's beckon

made new

I am the poet undone

and finding himself again

breathing of my existence

I vow not to run

but to climb the mountain

of radical acceptance

I am finally made whole again

singing songs to you

and loving you again.