Visioneering Mindscapes

My Inspiration
(An ode to my cousin Kathy)

Humanity at war is a lost cause
For humanity should be.....
.....always.....

My brother
My sister
My mother
My father
My husband
My wife
My son
My daughter
My lover
My friend.....

My Big Brother Jesus gave me an inpiration
A revalation
An epiphany
Music to my ears
A Grand Symphony

Being human is all I have left in this life

Do not ignore the Magic in the Mystery
Of it All

Let it be done
Amen Humanity

Always strive to be Happy

© 2017 Roderick Dwayne Gering

Cycles Within the Cage
Beating of the Soft Tick Tock

Strange
How we engage
The concept of time

Gaging it with our mortality
In the end
The Grim Reaper claims us all

Clock faces
In the shapes of circles

Even with the advent of alarm clocks
We rush headlong late for work
Presenting proposals
To the Power Elite
Who have no concept of time

Their demands always seem to ring
With malevolent greed
We needed this yesterday

Feelings are lost to the four winds
We stomp on our neighbor's heads
For quarterly profit gains
Not thinking twice
When one human spirit
Considers another

It becomes a slapping match
A pointing of fingers
Going round and round
When the blind did not notice
Three fingers pointing back

Irrational reaction
Leads to dead end solutions
Life fades into the dimensions of darkness

Raging storms
Seems to dictate Life
The busy torrent
Tends to wash
Good Sense
God gave a goose
Down the drain

Greed equals
The amount of prejudice
We have spread
To control the masses

Prejudice equals
The fear we have
Of our own shadows

Fear equals
The cage we hide in
When our egos have transgressed
The borders of our neighbors

Father Time lurking all around
His eyes flutter open
Apertures of blackness
Stare back at us
As we stare into the Abyss

Trembling
Shuddering cold
Enters one's being

Chained and taunted
We cower
In defeat

Fear
Is the monster
That cages us all

Hear the beating of the soft tick tock

There we sit in our own s**t
Mired in the mud

Waiting for the fires of purification to come
But purification is not for the impatient
It comes in time
To those who seek truth
That is greater than ourselves

I heard the soft tick tock
Of time slipping
A life ebbs into
The distant silence
The sound is
Oh so deafening

When we were not there
Coming to grips with our own mortality
Is the stuff of humility

Wisdom is a soft song
Passed and learned
In waking moments of cold realization
Nothing that is frigid
Just stone, cold truth

So bang your head
The world revolves around the sun
And not around one's self

We live in rabid times
A rabid age
In a world gone
So slowly wrong
So slowly mad

When bitten
No one dies
The infection only spreads

On a road to corrupted insanity
Who knows better
The fool beside you
With tears of a clown
Or the fool on Capitol Hill
Counting the kick back dollars
Gained in the drug trade
Of rogue Cartels
Or the U.S. Pharmaceuticals

Trigger happy 911'ers
A nightmare grown
Out of the wild, wild west
Where firing mechanisms
Have become the dial button

Hackers can now steal your identity
While sitting on the bench
In Smalltown, USA
Tapping the dial pad from their smart phones
Using the apps of former hackers
Now trying to steal our privacy
Hired by Homeland Security

Fads have become micro chasms
Chronological increments
Immeasurable
We have lost the sense of time

Wisdom lost to the wind
Common sense is only a comedy
In the mind of the.....
.....Me Generation

To wait means patience and diligence
But not under the influence
Of instant gratification
Should have painted those yellow streaks
Down our own backs
Maybe then again
We did!!!!!!

The Mother feels the symptoms
Powering up Immune Systems
Preparing to eradicate
The disease

Are you the Cause
Or the Cure
Clock is ticking

Hear the beating of the soft tick tock

How can we see truth
Through to the other side

For me
It is the bubbling
Of a local brook
That stimulates me most

With bumble bees at the banks
Pollinating the flowers
For another Cycle of Life

My eyes are filled with Jamaican Flair
With soft breezes in everyone's hair
It is in these moments
That I worship most

Take your time beloved
Be blessed
As you awake
To each dawning day

© 2014 Roderick Dwayne Gering

12th of Never

We used to jump up and down
Just kids carefree
In the backyard
Dancin' till dark
Earthbound
No frown
Somehow it got lost
On a polluted, hazy afternoon
Where is the laughter now
Innocent and so happy-go-lucky
I am just an old dirt bag
Headed down a dusty highway
One I have travelled so many times before
Yet when I find that cheap motel
In Long Lost America
I will rest for the night
Take a shower
Rinse the day's s**t off my bones
Then go to sleep
Dream of home
Where I can hang my hat forever
The 12th of Never
Looks so good!!!!

© 2016 Roderick Dwayne Gering

What is Next?

Lookin' for a little sunshine today
The pollution is so thick
The knife is broken
At least I have a spare

The sun seems like a rotten orange
How can we survive this
Maybe I will wish for a dream
Or maybe
I should just give up
Give in
Just let my head spin

I was never closer to home
When I heard the birds chirping
In the morning
Or when the crickets were chirping
At night

Somewhere at the crossroads
Everyting was meant to be
Together with everything

Here I sit deliberating

What is next?

© 2016 Roderick Dwayne Gering

The Hades Gates

They say
True love lasts forever
I knew true love once
One for all
I will never forget

Passion burns forever
No tinders
Or forest fires
Just a star
With unimaginable power within

It is not lust
But the most magical need
Human touch
I cannot count how much
That equlivates

It boils down to one simple thing
Are you willing to walk
Barefoot on hot coals
Are you willing to pass through unknown territories
Walk through Hades Gates

Remember the Savior
As he died upon the cross
He did not go immediately to Heaven
He visited the depths of Hell 1st
With a key.....
.....to unlock our chains

© 2015 Roderick Dwayne Gering

Poetry is always a great gift

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While on the High Way
All Rainbow Roads Lead to You
The Epilogue

The next time you are trippin’
We all are expecting the destination
Then wonder rips the soul
We are overwhelmed by awe
Not what we were anticipating
It was the journey…….
……. Filling us with wisdom for life
Making all else bearable
And..oh..so worth while

So smile all the way to tomorrow
The next time you are on the High Way

© 2015 Roderick Dwayne Gering

Listen to the Words

Why are we so engrossed in ourselves
Sit back
Relax
Soak in the wisdom of someone
Who longs to have something to say
Between the lines
Mysteries unfold
Then magnificently
Understanding can touch
A hungry soul
Solomon
Author of Chronicles
Rest in Peace
In the bosom of Abraham
May we all come by the calm
Holy Testament
To a Life that just.....
.....is

© 2014 Roderick Dwayne Gering

Love Goes Without Sacrifice

They say love is without a price
Then how can I convince you
You are a lily drifting on rapids
Raging on a torrent

There is no way I can stop you
You must find your own way

I stand aside
On the shore

I wait for you to pass by
Yet in the end want you spread wings and fly

Get high my love
Go for the heavens

I will be here waiting for you
Discover who you were meant to be

As I stand on the shore
I will be praying for safe landing
Every step that you take
May it pure and sure
I love you and all that you give
Most of all I just want you to stand alone
As unique
Unsurpassable
Insurmountable
Unimagined

Be you in all you do
Soar

© 2015 Roderick Dwayne Gering

A Remarkable Conclusion

There was a remarkable moment at the dawn of creation. Adam and Eve WERE and ARE in love. Somewhere down the mysterious river, jealousy crept into the picture. Fear, then hate gripped our souls. Cain murdered Abel. Are we able to conquer the fear and not those we do not understand. Give into the gifts that is meant for each of us. Do not let diversity frighten you. Let it enlighten you. We are different for a special reason. Otherwise Life would be a dark and desolate place. Noah knew to pray and worship under the rainbow of a new day. Humanity must learn to hold on during stormy weather. When all is said and done we can not save the world alone. I know that I need helping hands in the most crucial moments. I need help from friends with benefits.

© 2015 Roderick Dwayne Gering

Waiting for the Gates

When we were born
The world was oh so new
Because we were small
The Earth could be held in our hand

Years pass
We begin to lose our grasp
The cosmos was seeping in

Such vastness
Hard to comprehend
How then do we comprehend ourselves

I reach out now to the perimeter
That surrounds Sol

I want a new view
A new perception
I look around
We are almost there

Voyager just past Pluto
Took a snapshot
Sagen clued us in on a globe of blue

Mother Earth never looked so small to us

But here on planet terra
It seems too big
Overwhelming

With war always on our doorstep
Can we look behind the mirror
Look past a shattered self
I only hope in the end
Buttons of self destruction
Can be shedded
From a material realm

Seeking higher orders
Spiritual habitats
Very sacred indeed

Remember the child that held life so dear
As a miracle in a mid summer night dream

I am almost there

But alone I feel something is left back
At the trainstop to no where

I want to arrive only to open the gates
For everyone
Greetings of love
As we enter the Sacred Garden

Once again

Being last is not nothing

It could be the beginning
Of something quite brilliant

© 2015 Roderick Dwayne Gering

Stonehenge Stands Statuesque

As the sun sets low in the west
Stonehenge stands statuesque
The show is about to begin
As the band begins to play
Haunting us with lullabys of life
Untouched
Unedited
On a screen bigger than life
We are mesmerized by the sounds
That surrounds
We drift to the left
To the right
We party under an endless night
Filled with stars
Beyond tomorrow

© 2015 Roderick Dwayne Gering