Visual Poetry

I made this thing a while ago and posted it on flickr.

Moral Decline

Moral Decline, originally uploaded by _william.

The cryptic engram burst the seams.
If only unforgotten dreams would pass.
Encircled by your compound disarray,
You fall through endless eons into flesh.

Sonnet for the Son I Never Had

A trickle of sweat ran behind my ear
While i hit rocks with an old baseball bat.
I did that in the corn fields every year,
When I was young, but now i'm done with that.

Now baseball is a game, my children play.
Before my eyes, my son hit a home run;
We took the team to celebrate the day;
Root beer and Pizza for all: it was fun.

He doesn't share the Anger that I had
He does his best in front of all his friends.
When the team fails, he knows he wasn't bad.
To win, is a begining, not an end

In his young social life, I see no fear.
No trace of that which haunted me these years

The Writer’s Response

Unwritten rules abound in Poetry.
This thing is only what we make of it.
While every writer struggles to break free
From Rules,  we also try to make thoughts fit
Conventions of language for others sake
So they can understand what we have said
Since we all know that rules were made to break
And some rules, broken leave us dead,
We gently step around the past poets
Forms and fancies to forge our own language.
In our efforts to do this we forget
Our duty: to the readers thoughts engage.
While off rhyme or weak  meter, we can ignore…
Our job is certainly never to bore.

Lies Between Us

Between Us, originally uploaded by _william.

[_:|:_]

Seven-Line Prayer to Padma Sambhava

Seven-Line Prayer to Padma Sambhava, the Lotus
Born Guru

HUNG. OR GYEN YUL GYI NUB JANG TSAM

PEY MA GEY SAR DONG PO LA

YAM TSEN CHOG GI NGÖ DRUB NYEY

PEY MA JUNG NEY ZHEY SU DRAG

KHOR DU KHAN DRO MANG PÖ KOR

KYEY KYI JEY SU DAG DRUB KYI

JIN GYI LAB CHIR SHEG SU SOL

GURU PEY MA SIDDHI HUNG

from Lama Surya Das' website.

Sogyal Rinpoche

• Rigpa
• Lerab Ling
• Dzogchen Beara
• The Center for Wisdom and Compassion in America
• The Spiritual Care Programme
• The Rigpa Shedra

Specter's Surveillance Bill

There is a Post on EFF: DeepLinks about NSA's illegal spying program and The WhiteHouse efforts to keep any legal challenges to government surveillance programs out of the court system. They are  urging readers to Take Action and write to their Congressional representatives. The bill in question has been presented by Arlen Spectre as a plan monitor the spying program, however that is not exactly how it works. The bill would make it more difficult for anyone trying to use the courts to stop illegal surveillence programs.
Read more at Reuters

Performancing.

Performancing.
on Del.Icio.Us
Still Trying to get a feel for this tool.
I'm not sure i need track backs for all the things I post, But this would be useful for the Health Related Blog, and even Sunlight.
It Has been a while since I had a tool that made posting easier.
I'm also starting to think about redesigning this page with a three column format.
I still want to use the same backgrounds though.

Performancing

This Post Is a test of a new Weblog editor from Performancing.
This tool integrates with the FireFox browser.
I am considering Upgrading my "Blogs," and investing in a USB 'keychain' memory device.
I woulld like to put FF T-bird Sunbird And NVU on this unit, along with a few other things such as the TiddlyWikki page clones that I use.
This way I could have a set of tools to work on web material from any location.

"Those who see this script will not experience the three lower realms and will be liberated from the fear of falling into the lower realms; will be purified of the five poisons and will be freed from the results of one's karma; will be freed from the fear of remaining in samsara."

It was given to Kunzang Palyul Chöling by His Holiness Penor Rinpoche, to be affixed to the Migyur Dorje Stupa at KPC in Poolesville, Maryland, and to be distributed as widely as possible for the benefit of all.

Livingston

I'd love to hear from some one in Livingston NJ

I dont know who [you are,] but please write!
william (dot) wheeler (at) Gmail (dot) com

just leave a comment if you will

thur's templates

thur's templates: This blog from Rotterdam offers losts of useful three column templates for free, and theres a regular running commentary on how to implement them on Blogger. Most have Blogger's Tags already included.
It's worth looking around if you tire of the same old look on your blog.
Now it's time to Tinker!