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Taoli-Ambika Talwar & Ron Starbuck  - Poets - Authors - Artists

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Voices
Two Poets – Two Souls – Two Spirits

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Does Chaos Rule?

Ron’s – Voice Returns

 

Does chaos rule, or order,
are the stars fixed or moving?
It is a dance, constellations

spinning in motion, as the soul
travels from one self
to another.

We are joined together in this
dance, moving in unity, as one.
We breathe the same air in

one single breath, as creation
sighs in sighs too deep for words
or voices to describe.

Listen, here is the silence of
the Mockingbird between each note.
Listen, here is the silence of the sea

between each wave breaking
upon the shore. Listen, here is the
silence of each tree growing within

a forest. Listen, here is the self calling
out to the world as it sits in silence,
in deepest meditation. Listen, here

is the self composing the song of life.
Life calls to life, it has always been so. All
creation groans in childbirth within each

moment of enlightenment, of unity.
Our awareness cuts like a sword
through each thread of illusion

woven from a dark veil. We see
only in part, until we are fully known.
Each relationship a treasure,

parting the veil. We make this journey
together, we dance as one, we breathe
together as one with all creation.

 

 

Listening

Ambika’s – Voice Responds

 

Ah I am listening: So hum

hum of words of trees

where breezes arrive depart

leaving a chaos of dancing

I am listening: sing to

 

through me — I am listening

gaps between lattices

 

shot with light agape

I am listening: birds dancing

in morning air fluttering

 

into being questing longing

So I am listening: my heart

is still receiving waking up

 

I am listening: car drives by

 

on cosmic street then silence

I am listening: waking my arms

fingers skin to this world

 

Hum through me my hair

my eyes filling with waters

 

from those rivers I am listening

someone weeps far away

longing whose flutes weave

 

between snowy mountains

rivers curve through destinies

 

towards that singular

coordinate of infinite possibilities

 

I am listening: what did you say?

 

I am listening for that

one grand conjunction

that shall shatter me

into wholeness

 

Sing through my feet

dance me in your heart

 

I am listening: this breath

of the cosmos so fragrant

this breath

 

I am listening to the tones

of my bones my blood

singing through me

 

whose song is this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright 2012 – All Rights Reserved

Taoli-Ambika Talwar

Ron Starbuck

 

 

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Introduction and Biographies
                                                                     Voices I
                                                                     Voices II
                                                                     Voices III
                                                                     Voices IV
                                                                     Voices V
                                                                     Voices VI
                                                                     Voices VII
                                                                     Voices VIII