SamadhiMuse

            Sometimes I think moods are born of events
            and sometimes of biochemistry and genetics
            and from one theory to the other I’ve bounced
            analyzing, watching, trying to see which it is
            so I can either turn off the swings
            or know that it’s not within my power
            but I’m beginning to come to a third way…
            let them come…from where they will
            no more will I bargain, give in or resist
            I wish to just accept, hands down, unresisting
            to find the good and the bad
            equally a part of my life
            this perfection that Bhagwan describes
            and which I see so imperfectly
                                 gallagher
                                 05 oct 83 – Irvine Club

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

         So I learn to wait
            like the trees that grow and wave in the wind
         endless now, sometimes I can, sometimes not.
         I feel myself stir.
            can’t be real unless something’s happening
         a woman, people, travel…distractions all
            pleasant enough when they come for free
               but much too costly when I seek them
         So I learn to wait
            feel this moment on my skin
            without the cage of acceptable conditions.
         just this one, whatever it is.
                                    gallagher
                                    17 oct 83
                                    irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

            Great newspaper today
               A Lebanese Druse was quoted;
            “We’re not massacring anyone,
            we just surround the town
            and don’t let anyone surrender.”
            Also the EPA says the ‘greenhouse’ effect is no myth.
               temperatures and ocean levels
               up significantly by the 1990’s.
               oceans 4-7 feet higher by 2000.
            Oh yeah, and we gave a Nobel prize
               to a man for his work on theoretical economics.
                                    gallagher
                                    18 oct 83
                                    Irvine

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —