I Am at Once Not Here or There
I am at once not here or there, but everywhere below and above, radical
and extreme at every end, and with every gradation between,
I am at once well formed for the soul, unpredictable, surprising, energies
alive and overflowing one moment, void or opposite the next,
I am at once still and growing, new and old, springing and spiraling inward
and outward, branching vibrant to and from all directions,
I am at once bound and boundless, being and non-being, everything and
nothing, a delicate efferent strand of the elusive eternal Tao,
I am at once an I as well as a we, dispersed, intricately webbed with the
gossamer threads of cosmic and earthly delights,
I am at once sensuously seduced by the thundering orbs of galaxies, peaked
by the salient vibes of Gaia's variety unleashed,
I am at once clothed and naked, dancing to the hymn of atonement in the
shallows and depths of light and dark, living as a yogic bum.
© 1997 by Gary Mennié, all rights reserved
Gary Mennié is a native folk poet of Central New Jersey. He is the author of Growing Moments, a journal of philosophical poems reflecting a unique, eclectic blend of radical, iconoclastic, and rebellious views of the modern world, woven within a deep spiritual, compassionate awareness of our wild and mystical journey with nature.
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