SamadhiMuse

         My hand can scarcely trace
         the feeling in this place
         where the Buddha lives.
         Bring you dreams by the truckful
         and they could not replace
         the feeling in this place
         Liquid peace and shining light
         Nothing’s changed the three years
         I’ve come here
         There’s magic in the people’s eyes
         and the smiles and the tears
         a Buddha here
         Within my years.
                        gallagher
                        1 jul 84
                        Rajneeshpuram

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

      Germany never died,
         though all of her youth perished twice
            against her fate and history.
      Their cells and forms survived,
         and their beauty and their eyes
            in the sisters and lovers they left behind.
      And it’s from the ashes again, that they’ve formed,
        and from those whose tears fell like rain
           on the soil where they laid themselves down.
      From these now rise her sons, again,
         as the grass grows in springtime
            into the sunlight of this world;
               shining and strong and beautiful.
                           gallagher
                           01 jul 84
                           Rajneeshpuram

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

   So I began the day by finding strength
     by deciding Bhagwan’s trip had crossed some line
        past which I wouldn’t go.
   I`Il pull myself back, and choose what I will
     and I will not accept
        any more Zen mumbo-jumbo.
   But, in the end, the real strength of the day
     came again from Bhagwan in an article I read
   He said that accepting playfulness
     was the only way we should approach this life
   that willfulness and pain are inseparable
     without end
   And more people came to me, easily, on this one day
     than I met in all of last year’s festival
   my smiles seemed to find some deeper source
     and the day became a realization and a meditation
        of the magic of this man
                     gallagher
                     02 july 84
                     Rajneeshpuram, OR

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —