Too Many

Too Many

There are too many books by my bedside:

How To

Where Have You Been

‘The Tale’ for Life and Loving Again

Destiny Awaits

Your Time To Win

The Encyclopedia of Understanding Sin

You See…

I have taken a fever to loving you
And swim with the best and the few
Oceans of East and rivers of west
Occasions to bring out the lone-hearted guest

Because…

This feeling’s a bit 12 speeded Osterized
Departing from normality’s brew
Hedged all my own bets and synergize where
Hearts projections are long over due

Yet…

There are too many dreams to follow

Bear Laissez-faire

Dolphin expectation

Snakes skimming the brew

Where left is left and all is right
Heart Shiva dances in Lone Tantric night

It was then…

I took to living on mountaintops
Claimed body and Soul then felt a peak
Now living my life on an overhang
Looking down on the valley I seek

And Now?...

Inside me are pure running waters,
Which carry times wisdom each day
Emotions that change like a menu in spring
Allowing a path where one can do anything.

Then Again..

There are too many lessons to digest

Patience is a virtue

Virtue is a question

A question asks the living

The living ask the dead

Turn the cards
Read the stars
Posture oracle
Deep-ended Scars

You not here, me not there

And Yet…

Your smile turns upward my world again
Sprinkles ingredients I never knew
Age Old resistance is hammer down clamor down
As the blind man remembers what’s true

You’re like cake, my darling lets face it
Too much flower dries all your intent
Soul wetness pulls your force down again
But your warm smell is all heaven sent

You see…

There are too many books by my bedside.

Linaji 2009

  • Shoaib .

    Shoaib .

    Then Again..

    There are too many lessons to digest

    Patience is a virtue

    Virtue is a question

    A question asks the living

    The living ask the dead

    wow .. just love this .. you are so wise :)
    beautiful

  • linaji replied

    for some reason I thought I answered you already… you been on my mind thats why… thanks so much for your being here cause it feels so good. xxx

  • Trenchtownrock

    Trenchtownrock

    I love this Lin….the dream continues with your words my friend..i am taken into a world of ever flowing beauty…..love the ending…sweetly done.

  • linaji replied

    Oh you sweet man… Just holy inside with all that is becoming of you and your wisdom. Tis just a sweet reminder for me to lighten up too!! lololxxxxx

  • erich biemer

    erich biemer

    shoaib is right, there is a beauty to your joyful wisdom that comes wonderfully through your verse…..

  • linaji replied

    Erich..this is wow time.. thanks for this wonderful comment.. giving myself a lighten up break
    thank you.:=}}}

  • Christie  Moses

    Christie Moses

    Your soul is like a deep silver pool of heavens light. So profound and glowing. I just find myself immersed and smiling in your wisdom and words.
    You are beautiful lady :) in so many ways xoxo

  • linaji replied

    Christie.. you have me feeling so good in both your post and comment.. thank you so. Sending you big Hugs.. I am outta here for a bit!! xxx

  • Mui-Ling Teh

    Mui-Ling Teh

    Lina, this totally reflects me! And probably many others as well. Particularly “There are too many dreams to follow.” For me anyways there are so many things I want to do! But at the same time many lessons to digest and duties which need to be done that not everything can be commited to making dreams come true. Lovely words~

  • linaji replied

    you embraced the total essence of my feelings.. much thanks to you Mui Ling! xx

  • Rachel Davison

    Rachel Davison

    your poetry sings : )

  • linaji replied

    Rachel.. I have just added you full on to a woman I simply MUST MEET!! your talent and your allowing me into your life really gives me such joy.. you need not worry about the dandylion heart of yours.. the heartseeds fly round to many and then some to me and rest in my own. xoxooxoxo

  • Sally Omar

    Sally Omar

    Oh, yes, I agree, your poetry sings, and I dance to it!!!!!! Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!
    xoxooxoxxo

  • linaji replied

    Oh Sally.. I am dancing with you hand in hand.. thanks so very much!

  • devotee1

    devotee1

    Too many beautiful lines to choose one over the other—as always, after reading your work I feel that I have journeyed with you and have been granted privilege to experience in very intimate and loving ways things that you deeply care about. An amazing being you are, with a truly giving spirit willing to share struggles and joys often keep guarded in most of us—Thank you. xox

  • linaji replied

    Oh my goodness Joe.. this was just a sweet diddy cause I am feeling so happy today.. Your piece I just commented on really makes me remember how talented you are in verse.. what a lover of life and God you are Joe.. You know you are a true mentor in mind body spirit.. and in body… I know how hard you work..and that you also work in weather degrees that are not for sissys!!lolol wow thanks so much for your comment today I am blessed!! xxxxx

  • devotee1

    devotee1

    Kept

  • Erhan OZBIYIK

    Erhan OZBIYIK

    :)
    Ex perience… :))
    Great Hugs Sister !!! You rock !! :)

  • linaji replied

    Hello Beauty Bro.. you da best!!!!! thanks so so much!

  • Elizabeth Bravo

    Elizabeth Bravo

    Devotee said it so perfectly…I don’t think I could say it better..BEAUTIFUL WORDS Lina….always taking us on a journey of emotion with you!!

  • linaji replied

    wow Elizabeth.. this was fun as the last few days in all areas of my life I feel so open and free. I hope it hangs round me as I like this feeling. You know how much it means and feels when I see your busy self taking time out for my work.. REAL REAL GOOD!!!

  • Marion Chapman

    Marion Chapman

    oh, just wonderful. full of real life and the excitement that is possible!! Who are you writing about my dear lina?????

  • Anthony R. Plastino III

    Anthony R. Pla...

    Ohh yes – I really like this! I love how it flows from one image to the next, how the alliteration plays on the tongue, how it shifts, blurs, and refocuses again – like knowing glances and whispered tones in the middle of a conversation in the hall… Most excellent!

  • cosimopiro

    cosimopiro

    It is a stream that carries our dreams and the wisdom of flowing with it is in the reading of your write. I too have too many books…..and too many lessons.

  • JenLand

    JenLand

    ............This feeling’s a bit 12 speeded Osterized…...............

    Ha ha! I love that one! Cuz that’s the way I often feel at work, totally chewed up like a blender! TGIF!!! Great writing as usual Linaji – I too have a vast assortment of books by my bed. :O)

  • JenLand

    JenLand

    hmmmm if I had a man IN my bed with me, perhaps there’d be fewer books beside it…........... hmmmmmm ! ;o)

  • linaji replied

    lololo you truly made my night Jen.. I am chuckling!!! It feels good and the books can change covers..like..instead of Tantric Origins.. becomes.. Tantric Orgasms….lololxxxxx ( I could not help myself!!)

  • Keith Reesor

    Keith Reesor

    So wonderful Linaji!! :)

  • linaji replied

    thanks so much Keith!! hearts!

  • JenLand

    JenLand

    woo hoo! Oh yeah!

  • JaneSolomon

    JaneSolomon

    Love your beautiful, open and free heart Lina. xxx

  • linaji replied

    You too my darling Jane.. seems you been sprouting wings lately!!! xxxxx

  • Vasile Stan

    Vasile Stan

    I knew it!
    Too many books,
    so little time,
    too many dreams,
    so little everything.

    And the big Nothing is
    looming at the horizon.
    Nothing stays the same.
    Only we move.

    Drawn by yet another dream
    of life together and
    dreaming apart,
    dreaming together and
    living apart.

    Apart from that,
    we are the same.

    I knew it!
    ...and then again,
    too many books,
    too many answers.

    A Dolphin expectation indeed, albeit beautiful.

  • linaji replied

    I love when you are here and using my words and making them yours..xxx

  • ArcadiaTempest

    ArcadiaTempest

    I guess we just nibble a little of what is the right flavor for us…. biting off more than we can really chew and digest seems the lament of the world. I love the feeling of you working through your emotional library …..and still we have some cake that we always can make room for..not cos we are greedy but because we can love so very very deeply….. beautiful write Lina..XXXX

  • linaji replied

    Yes KarenSue.. tis true.. sometimes I am so unaware I bite so deep.
    Your comments always help me to digest the influx of my feelings as I write.. thank you dear one..

  • Cassidy JK (Ra Or Emraeh)

    Cassidy JK (Ra...

    You don’t do this nearly often enough. Your words enlighten so many, including yourself of course. Wisdom, heart and positive energy are what make up Linaji. xoxo

  • linaji replied

    Ya Know what.. you really do remember what I spout out sometimes.. I write to hear what I need to hear.. it is Universal our thinking but ours alone to share and gain perspective sometimes when, at least for me, write it down on paper.. Loving you Cass.. xxx

  • jim marshal

    jim marshal

    This is brilliant, your verse in rhyme is tantalising, and so many lines that seem out of left field, genius in there. Too many belonged to the month you were in, like a clown with too many juggle-things in the air. Now, Saturday you beign your earth month and from the many you will find the laser beam of focus. You will be right at home now, in November. Trust me.

  • linaji replied

    hummm that is so interesting.. this view from you.. perhaps my clown self wants to learn to expand on the juggle-things cause one can if one chooses!! lol.. however Jim.. you know how much it means that you enjoyed this piece as you to me as writer.. well I think I am reaching the trillions on how I express my admiration for your work! (all said and felt with heart!)

  • Judi Taylor

    Judi Taylor

    Like all those times I thought I didn’t have enough books … by the time I picked one up I felt like I had outgrown it. So now there are too many books staring at me making me wonder when I became so smart … or so vain … or so helpless … or so needy … or so lost … or so wise. Yes, I agree bring on the oracle that will tell me true … who am I and why are all these books cluttering my mind … and yours!
    Love .. love .. love this. Were you peeking into my room? :)

  • linaji replied

    LOLOLO i love you.. period.. we need to talk again.. i am going to see my brother in December.. on xmas.. so I will not be coming back east..i LOVE HIM.. and his girlfriend and daughter are like heaven too.. I miss family sweetheart.. something i know you get.. lxoxoxo

  • wigs

    wigs

    you have the wisdom and heart of a kind and soulful person Lina…... this is just so brilliant….. so many good lines to mention…. I don’t have books by my bedside anymore, I have a notepad….. I ditched the books when I started writing…. there wasn’t room in my mind for both at bedtime….

  • linaji replied

    I know it is Feng Shui no no too.. but.. well.. there are so many things I love to peruse through!! and my bad self and laptop too!! lolol

  • funkyfacestudio

    funkyfacestudio

    I just love this Lina !

  • linaji replied

    Oh Lisa.. your the best.. thanks so much for your view.. I can’t wait to see a journal..a poem..or art from the talented YOU!

  • bill bell

    bill bell

    This is brilliant, I’d love to have just one book on everything but that would be narrow minded wouldn’t it. Great write Lina

  • linaji replied

    lolol well save some space.. if it was all on diski! xxxx Thank you Billxx

  • H M Bascom

    H M Bascom

    Wonderful writing!

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