Violence! Product of the mind, 
Short of love, void of kind,
Good compassion left behind,
Cherished adoration undermined.

What draft? What current task?
Look beneath each prevalent mask,
Seek truth, pray, fail not to ask,
Which leaf to eat? Bread and wine? Which oaken cask?

Essence! Beauty inhabits every soul,
Nature's seed is never droll,
Imagine lotus, blooming, soaring tall from sandy shoal,
Awake! Arise! Create ascending, most perfect goal.

Buddha, prostrate, deep meditation,
Seeking light, revering God's perfection,
Dharma, generously given through good selection,
Free of hate, disengaged from violent infection.

Cosmic star, enlightened spirit,
Quiet one's busy mind, can you hear it?
Forge brave ahead, don faith, never fear it,
Practice Nirvana, in time you'll near it.

Heaven's tears, cleanse, like cool rain,
All life suffers, this earthly plane,
Eightfold path, sacred seed, holy grain,
Right thought, right action, nourish life, riding this blessed train.

There hangs Guernica, covered and hid,
How many dying, wounded and dead?
So paints Picasso, shrouded fascists to rid,
How many lost, innocent names to be read?

Open thine eyes, great tribulation borne in this world,
Look to those Saints that rue man's evil and war,
Open thy mind, revealing lies, lying hidden and curled,
Look to brave artists who dare bare truth to its core.

Bullets and bombs are ne'er good for one's soul,
Brutal armies spawn death, spell destruction, where e'er they go,
Haughty Elite, Presidents and Kings, flagrant deceive us, we honestly know,
No matter the flag, no matter the anthem, no matter the goal. 

Young militant men, ignorant pawns, taught to battle and fight,
Mislead by sneering Generals, delighting o'er spilled blood,
Soldiers tutored such dark arts, ne'er bathed in the light,
Thus homeward they march, spirits dashed by death's flood.

Lost souls, all dead and buried,
Enter Rothko, behold desperate black tombs,
Manage reckless, passing frantic days, so hurried,
Alpha to Omega, conceived then spent, in God's velvet womb.

War's beastly destruction, ne'er complimenting humankind with worldly good,
Create light with thine actions, replace horrid war's sinful plight,
Peaceful love is the Way, thus all mankind should,
Living life as God planned it, cleansing Life with pure Light.

Saying, Thank you, I love you,
Wondrous words bathed in Glory,
Meditate on thoughts far above you,
Healing words, that's the true story.

Where Dreams Are Born

Slumber sweet love,
In this place where dreams are born,
Where true love lingers,
And wounded hearts are torn.

Sojourn my love,
In waves of passion,
Where soul meets self,
In heavenly fashion.

With each heart beat,
Savour every kiss,
Every passing moment,
Where true hearts seek bliss.

One look, one touch,
Your gentle nature,
I fell in love,
With your gentle stature.

Rejoice my love,
Discover heaven’s dream,
Where Saints and Angels,
Sip honeyed cream.

Dew drop reflecting,
Cool rain falling,
Two hearts beating,
Sweet love is calling.
Poem by Joe Carrot

I wrote the following poem in June 2011. This is the first time it has been published.

DREAM

Dream pure water,
Dream liquid vision,
Dream Shiva as Vishnu caught her,
Dream Goddess Ganga's earthly mission.

Dream still water,
Dream rain falling straight from heaven,
Dream River Styx as you cross her,
Dream rivers rising 'til 2027.

Dream Sacred water,
Dream Blessed Holy Cows,
Dream chanting monks as they intone Buddhist charter,
Dream reverent nuns and priests with furrowed brows.

Dream deep cold sea,
Dream spiny fish and cephalopod,
Dream splendid blooming coral tree,
Dream sea snakes, sharks, deep diving schools of cod.

Dream inert deep space,
Dream asteroid and twin-tailed comet,
Dream Moon's green cheese face,
Dream galaxies and suns that flare, then calm it.

Dream expanding Universe,
Dream fabled Andromeda and Sirius,
Dream imploding poetic verse,
Dream tragic nebula and friend Arcturus.

Dream blind cosmic dreams,
Dream rolling ocean waves and tide,
Dream reams of static idle dreams,
Then dream fantastic solar systems, far and wide.

The following poem is a reprint from my Yahoo 360 blog, July 2009 (yahoo discontinued 360 in July 2010). I wrote this poem about one year after my divorce was finalized in July 2008.

WHAT MARRIAGE WROUGHT

That single word 'marriage'!

Well, in metaphor, it was like Cinderella's carriage,

I guess I was like that pumpkin

In simile, like a country bumpkin.

Oh, at first, I thought it would be best

But those first ten years they were a test.

I know, that seems so awfully long

So many verses for such a melancholic song.

I know, but she and I were tossed

She and I were both quite lost.

I know, I said I do

But standing there beside me, she said it too.

So years went by, I watched the moon

I know she thought I was a loon.

That old moon would climb the sky

She and I, we both would vie

We tried to meet this challenge

Before it died.

But time went on

She was mostly gone

Under that hot summer sun

When life should be fun.

Well the two of us,

We weren't one.

At midnight when the clock struck twelve

She would be there, and I would delve

To hold her hand,

Or kiss her cheek

Well she would look at me like I was a freak.

Okay, that spell of marriage

Like that Cinderella pumpkin carriage

Was so much less than wedlock should've been

But when love is absent, with nothing really in between

Where one and one doesn't equal two

And loving kisses were so few.

So marriage, yes it scares me

Like that hanging tree.

Over all those vacant years, and yet

When love didn't grow

In all that rain

And all that snow

Well in the end we both just let go.

So with fairy god-mother casting her spell

With all those rats in a row, unable to tell

That they weren't footmen and they weren't horses

That unruly magick with its unseen forces

Was just a glass slipper

But it didn't fit her

So when that clock struck one

She and I were finally done.

We both sighed relief

In years gone by there'd been much grief

But when we signed those final papers

Cut those chains and dispelled those marriage vapors

We both went our way

She and I had little left to say.

But that word marriage

Like that pumpkin carriage

Still makes me sweat

And I just don't get

And I just don't see

How that word marriage

Applied to me.

Jump blind into vast chasms,
Fall backwards from precipitous heights,
Pour boiling oil on your orgasms,
Rage naked during dark dangerous nights.

Bury yourself in treacherous innocence,
Crucify your soul when you wake,
Pierce your heart with shards from a splintered fence,
Drown your spirit in a burning lake.

Oh Man! What good hast thou made?
Oh Woman! Are your breasts precious jewels?
Dost thou thirst, reposed in perfect shade?
Hast thou forged love with earthly fuels?

Kind heartedness has not forgiven me,
Eager compassion has deserted us,
Every righteous choice has abandoned me,
Desolation has wantonly visited us.

I bleed profusely from these wounded mortal bounds,
We writhe as one under crushing abstruse pain,
I lament midnight hours listening to hells baying hounds,
We grieve filled with sorrow riding that tormented train.

Where is light when sudden darkness falls?
Has God forsaken this worldly plane?
When does heaven open wide and call?
Can the lamb truly lay safe curled in the lions mane?

Come hither to this sacred pool,
Drink deep from this blood filled chalice,
Ponder not this mortal fool,
Alas the stars fall filled with malice.

Pity every human heart beat,
Let mercy accompany each child's soul,
Render holy prayers complete,
For penitence is what makes us whole.

In turn each soul shall suffer plight,
Forever lost in eternal wonder,
March forth death, abstain from light,
For with our sin, love is rent asunder.

Will all broken clouds away,
Gaze deep into unknown wells,
Tend to rampant thoughts that stay,
Trek steadfast o'er distant ancient dells.

Recharge function striking internal bent,
Alter emotion posed as quick and dead,
Sail beyond Hades fire, past fuming lava vent,
Enter Seti, wielding shocking monster head.

Stay pure my friend in word and deed,
Stand firm as heartfelt faith invests,
Drink deep this abstruse mystery, feast not on viral greed,
For fair Osirus judges life as Ra's chaos rests. 

Behold broad chasms beyond this carnal life,
Ride chariots of cosmic fire while pandemic hours circulate,
Abandon worldly ills, adieu every begotten strife,
Endure the reapers temporal call as death's demons ambulate.

Risk eternal life with earthly fame and glory,
Horde wealth and riches in secret vaults,
Test heaven's gate with pompous story,
Wresting unearned power with worldly faults.

Design is met as deserving karma wields,
Mystic potions from this dream filled chalice,
Angels poise with sword and mighty shield,
Lord knows that heaven sustains no hellish malice.

As sutra spake that holy word,
Come hither splendour in saintly fashion,
Deft Horus defeated Set in battle's armoured gird,
Sheol's ghastly paradise resolves this ghoulish passion.

Hear these words with fully opened ears,
Envision Erebus with bright unbiased eyes,
Hail this intimate dream, casting out all fears,
Let true heaven come when soul's earthly body dies.