Quietude

[Baut Images: Sunstained Warrior]

Quietude.

I see you sleeping.

Physically,

Yet, a traveler

In other lands;

In other realms.

Quietude.

A silence and peace surrounds you.

Angelic,

Yet, still human

With a dozen frailties;

Will a million perfections.

Quietude.

Your wisdom veiled by the ages.

Buddhic,

As you lie upon the lotus

Opening the incarnation;

Opening the kaleidoscoped eye.

Quietude.

The day awakens about you.

Light,

Filtering through gold-green leaves

Upon the warm broad meadow;

Upon the sunstained warrior.

Roger Allen Baut

Hopes and Dreams

[Baut Images: Breaking Through]

Hopes and dreams, dreams and hopes,
Bundles of hopes and dreams,
Tied together with strings of aspiration!

Roger Allen Baut

Seeds of Insanity

[Baut Images: Cain]

They say it all started

when Cain slew Abel,

and the seeds of insanity were sown.

For who of a sane mind

would kill another,

and not even think it was wrong.

Then came the long march

of death and destruction

from Babylon to Egypt, then Rome.

Mighty Rome took it further

through conquest and legions;

by burning and salting the ground.

But empires rise, and empires fall

as it seems they so often do,

and with avarice, friend, build they tombs.

Then look to religions,

saving souls with fools gold;

shadow empires amongst all the rest.

Priestly travelers call

with their banners unfurled,

and a sword hung close at the hip.

Yes, they say it all started

when Cain slew Abel,

now those seeds have all fully grown.

Roger Allen Baut

Ecolo in the Sky

[Baut Images: Ecolo in the Sky]

Ecolo, Goddess of Earth.

Bright jewel of blue in Sol's great system.

Bringer of air, and water,

and life to all your children.

I see your fractured beauty,

As you gaze upon your realm.

As you remember, dreamlike,

The flora and fauna of days gone by.

What cruel fate is it Ecolo,

That has brought your path to this?

Yet, despite all the heartache,

You still try to heal your world.

Ecolo, Goddess of Earth.

Bright Lady even in these darkened days.

Just remember it's foretold, in future days,

Your life, and world, will be renewed.

Roger Allen Baut

Within the Vessel

I Am the Spirit Being

[Image entitled: Spirit Being]

I am the Spirit being

That lives within my physical body,
And I have experienced much

During my sojourn on Planet Earth.

I revel in the senses

That my vehicle provides me,

From touch, to taste and sight,

On to hearing and smell.

The flowers and forests,

Lakes and rivers provide us all

With a wondrous opportunity

To explore and nurture our world.

I am the Spirit being

That lives within my physical body,

And I have traveled much

During my sojourn on Planet Earth.

I have seen the sun rise and set

From an old Ryokan on Sagami Bay,

And beheld the Shrine of the Black Madonna

Tucked away in an Einsieden monastery.

I have watched the seasons pass

From blossoming Spring to Summer,

then Autumn's colours to Winter's chill

And back again, on their epic journey.

So much, so much to see and experience

As we all travel in our vessels of clay.

Collectors of experiences and memories

As we travel through time and space.

I am the Spirit being

That lives within my physical body,

As you are the Spirit being

That lives within yours.

Roger Allen Baut