SamadhiMuse

         Interlocked; the seer and seen...
         no longer I and thee alone
         but we who touch
         by thinking's song.
         and by the other's presence feel
         the other's will as warmth or chill
         direct and clear the seeing thus
         is essence to essence
         by mental touch.
         the older reality
         so seen
         seems the thinner vail,
         pehaps the dream.
                        Gallagher
                        20 November 73
                        LB

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —

                        Mellower Men
         Mellower men we're becoming
         my brothers and I.
         Men now closer to thirty than twenty
         and just coming to know it.
         Now we exchange kindness
         without seeming foolish
         and reminiscing mostly
         we talk in the past tense
         as if to somehow
         retard time's passage.
         But, really, we're sharing the experience
         of knowing we're older
         and a good deal tamer
         than back when kindness
         was weakness and mellower men
         were old.
         And old was
         somehow irrelavant to us.
                        gallagher
                        26 November 1973

— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —