The blissful babble of
this winter stream
makes for a warm heart
on a cold day,
a granny 
waving from her woodsy cottage
along a forest way.

She bends your ear
over a bowl of hot soup.

Tell her about your day.

She is river.
She is love.
There is no fear in water.
There is no hate in blood. 

"Come again" she says
as you turn and walk away.
"I'll always be right here.
You know you are welcome to stay."

                -- Kirk Merlin

cancer
school shootings
our culture is toxic

look what 
we've done with
our rational logic

monsters
created
by systems psychotic

where
do we turn to
in times so atomic?

     -- Kirk Merlin

It was my Mother 
who taught me to ski.

Where I grew up,
learning to ski 
was part of the cultural programming -- 
more fun than ice skating, 
more folly than ice fishing.

I also learned to obey authority
and that hugs are only for 
special occasions.

And why the hell did I learn 
to feel unworthy of amazing women?
For what would that be perfect?

Culture codes us with big pixels, 
makes for rough edges.

But that was then.
Initialization.
Love acts weird 
when bugged with fear.

So how do we learn to love?
Is it innate? Beaten out of us?
Is it promoted? Like profit?

More like buried, 
like treasure.

Today I am homeward,
riding a gondola 
down a mountain
full of secrets.

On the 
banquet beer shoulders
of a nearby peak
the sunset shines a 
rosy glee.
Castoff feathers of spindrift fly,
like angelic epaulets
fourteen thousand feet 
high.

Who's there?
Is that you?
A greeting from up above?

Downward I glide, 
grinning, 
digging, 
learning to love.

         -- Kirk Merlin

Thought I’d throw these goals & vision out there to the Universe…

Vision

Building a partnership with an amazing woman, so that together we may grow to become the most loving humans possible while healing & realizing oneness with God thru sacred sexual union.

Goals

• Live each moment in my highest calling for the greatest good of all beings
• Meditate regularly
• Listen
• Be creative (write poetry)
• Experiment with psychedelics
• Keep it simple

 A man's life begins when his father's ends
for new paths must be wrought
expectations cast aside
approval left unsought.

                    -- Kirk Merlin