Selected poems from "Symbiosis":
Arrays of Consciousness
Somewhere in 1977
© C. Duvall
it’s easy to watch
the energies
patternerize
conjunct
circle
combine
defuse
and sign on to the
new show
it’s easy to bribe down
the symbol sinners
dried bread winners
of the arrays of my eternal body
the Holy Ones that seek only Infinite Love
the censors
seeking no answers
with computed knowledge
when the answers are
only in awareness
when Truth is a state
of consciousness
not a moral standard
the ones thinking ‘I’m so good---‘
condemning, judging
mental transgressions
of Everyone
the soap-opera
neighbors
of invested laborers
fall into shock
at the knock
of Nothingness
at eternity’s door
The Words to Use
Somewhere in 1977
© C. Duvall
The words to use
And all the fools
climb
the pageant trees
all the meaning
flares
across the wild breeze of the brain
to pick and pull
but not mathematically
what you want to be
but grabbed, clenched
on to
by the dying
DNA
Restless
4:30 PM 1/30/1977 ASU, Tempe, AZ
© C. Duvall
What am I looking for?
restless
with the changing faces
of my life
Going from place to place
Watching
Aware of the little graces
Your face is beautiful
for one second of my life
Watching all the faces
Wanting more
than just to know
restless—with the fleeting feelings of
my heart
And somewhere in the distance past
I glimpsed the Light around my soul
Symbiosis with the Gods
11/30/1977 Mesa, AZ # 10
© C. Duvall
I felt the touch of One
Infinity
In-between worlds
I saw them standing there
An experience is like a vivid dream
It happens then it’s gone
We sit, wait and wonder
listening
waiting silently for another one of their songs
All of our minds are ablaze
with theory
facts and legends
When all of our reality
is only a mental creation
with powers we could never comprehend
and energy’s deception
woven worlds, light fantasies
and conditioned perceptions
with subtleties between myriad worlds
I’ve seen their light plays
projected
into the world of man
still I cry at human pain
and suffering
for I do not yet understand their
plan
Symbiosis with the Gods
is all that I can dream of
because here in this world
there is nothing to hold on to
once you’ve glimpsed eternity