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Haiku #13

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Northern Railway Station, València (Spain), September 2023 How intense the pain of an ego prevented by its self-importance from seeing the world turns in its own way.  

Haiku #12

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Puçol (València, Spain), March 2023 A heart which broke without ever missing a beat knows about love, knows about life.

Chaos

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Sumacàrcer (València, Spain), November 2023 Winter, though like Spring, alive, though restless, colors, though mostly black and white, three-dimensional, though almost plain. Days filled with sensations, contradictory ones; mirage of reality outside of any logic: an almost obsessive pipe-dream. Absent normalcy, calm restlessness: the past is not returning, reality is just rebirthing.  

Light in La Mina

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Spring at La Mina, Castellnovo (Castellón, Spain), November 2023 Light and shadows, winter getting close. In the branches a game of light and eyes, of dark and light. Greens, yellows, browns in a dance with shining life. Moon in the evening trees showing with imposing dignity the greatness of the Planet. Nature and life, light into November.  

Haiku #11 (If only...)

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Puçol (València, Spain), November 2023 Skin on skin, hand in hand, mind on mind, love with desire.  

Course

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Puçol (València, Spain), September 2023 I ignore what will be, I do know what was, what is, I think I can guess what will be… Relying on an unsteady compass I try to fix my course while exhausting the remnants of an energy long gone. I seek light, find peace out of the anguish of being, out of the calm of my past, gazing hopeful at the future. Peace after the darkness, a pipe-dream of fleeting realities, the peace of one who lived.  

Always

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Puçol (València, Spain), October 2023 The eyes of day can see it no longer, in the darkest of nights, though, your light shines bright in every star in the sky.  

Pulse

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Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), October 2023 My mind pulses with the tireless beating of ideas, feelings, memories, projects, echoes of thoughts resound in my head cutting off reason, stopping any action. I aim… to stop the tireless noise of these pulsing thoughts to let light and clarity in to clear their path through. Realization. Calm. Perpetual motion.  

Haiku #10 (Purpose)

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Puçol (València, Spain), September 2023 Building up my next present, working off my traditions, leaving my comfort zone behind: Just living up to my dearest hopes.

Plans

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Gola del Pujol, El Saler (València, Spain), September 2023 Now you can see me taking little steps to let begin my dream for a future, the future I dream of. Just like everything stays, something always slips away, I keep on moving, I move and open doors to everything new about to come. And it will come, be, go, always leaving footprints, always bringing shadows and light, always leaving joyful happiness: just a perfect future.  

Circle

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Puçol (València, Spain), September 2023 Living in a world, dreaming in another one. Living to be my dream, dreaming to be alive. Dream, world, life constantly alternating, a compass on the move, a steadily changing course. Stubborn I persist on the way: dreams end with sunrise, life, path –world– though remain always with us, in us.

Haiku #9 (Fall)

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Puçol (València, Spain), September 2023 Lonely after brimming with life, air and earth cleanse themselves to get ready for the new harvest which will unstoppably be back.

Flavors

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Puçol (València, Spain), September 2023 Sweet like sun and calm. Salty like sea and change. Bitter like waking up from a dream. Bittersweet like ends with no beginning. Hot like a landscape you wish for. Faulty like things getting better. Perfect like things done right.  

Dawning

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Puçol (València, Spain), September 2023 Even in the darkest night, the sea never misses a beat: whispering, roaring, bustling,  vibrating, unstoppable, alive. It awaits a new dawning which, always loyal, always on time, always arrives full of light, always gifting a whole new day. It beats delighted, never resting; it breathes and gives air calmly, certain that everything was, everything is and will be all right.  

Tidal Wave

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Venice Beach, California (USA), November 2018 The tidal wave brought about by the immense pain of loss will leave in its wake the gentle touch of a calm sea.

Ximo

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L'Alcúdia (València, Spain), August 2023 Today the Mediterranean Sea is missing a smile, a look, an accomplice. The bright light of this August seems now to be pale, suddenly much colder. This icy light in a scorching August brings back memories of a beach, of travels, of music, of laughter. On this farewell day, I welcome the memories still alive in a heart which keeps on beating and hurting. Farewell, my friend, safe travels: The fire of this disrupted friendship will forever burn in my memories.

Haiku #8

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València (Spain), August 2023 Change whatever must change to lightly follow the path needed by my restless soul.

Castled In

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  Lapland (Finland), May 2009 The ice which laid siege to my heart, intent to protecting me, turned into a rock which hugged my aching heartbeat. Castled in the safety of that nest, it lit the fire of passion and, despite the stony hug, burnt to embers. No more peace in the rocky shelter, the energy of passion burns in a frenzy asking once more to stop being an island. My aim now is to slit the rocky nest open, I seek the strength to live unsheltered, to simply exist with every light I call my own.

To Let Go

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Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), August 2023   Let go stop going stop wishing back stop wishing not to have gone. Leave in the ground the pain which sprouted time ago and turned me into a stranger. Let the pain go let it not hurt stop wishing to be unhurt. Let the wound heal let instead sprout from it the hope of feeling better. Close the circle. Start a new one. It hurts no more. Heal. Evolve.

Loss

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Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), August 2021   Just when I feel some certainty about being over lived losses, something always comes up to send me barreling back to a distant starting point. I then tell myself to man up, to toughen up once more and deal with the dreadful fact of being helpless against destiny. I go get my armor, stand up and go fight just with my hands, with whatever I have or know of: I am sure I will prevail, certain to never make the same mistakes.

Afraid No More

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Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), August 2021 Don't be afraid of being who you are of feeling what you feel, of living what you live, even when you feel your life is not exactly yours, it is just Life: Nothing else matters.  

Haiku #7

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Puçol (València, Spain), August 2022   The intense heat of Summer slows down the body, although mind and soul keep going relentless.

(Ex)Past

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  Cementerio de la Salud, Córdoba (Spain), July 2023 The past, your past is back, it arrives, thou, to a different you, who is no longer easily dazzled, who knows how to gaze at the horizon with the eager curiosity of an explorer and the wisdom born from experience. The past, your past is back and you turn it into your present, you season it with what you have lived, you glaze it with knowledge and faith, you live it then just as new, you change it into future past. The past, your past is not back, it still is present, your present; no need to change new to past, no need to change past to new: it is just life happening on and on.

Off-Time

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  Platja de Puçol (València, Spain), April 2023 When the harrowing sensation sets in that your time no longer belongs to you, the only way out is just resisting indolence and keep on moving.

Summer Solstice

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Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain) August 2022 A bonfire in the shortest night consumes the wintery darkness and generous opens the gates to the light of a Summer of leisure.  

Courage

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Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), May 2023   A storm while at a party: joy turns to grief, to pain, to tears barely contained by pure will to healing. I breathe, I dry my eyes and with a clear look I smile, a sip of life and I dance again. Here and now, a party and a funeral, proud to overcome the pain and enjoy life to the fullest.

Anchors

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  Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), February 2023 Memories, images, places, anchors of times passing while leaving seeds for a future which blossoms here and now into a timeless Spring.

Haiku #6

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  Córdoba (Spain), March 2023 The certain uncertainty of change constant in life’s rollercoaster uncertain stabilizes the certainty which both stalks and enhances the unstable stability of life’s calm.

Scarred

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Puçol (València, Spain), March 2023   Undoing what was wrongly done to un-scathe the scathed: this is the love I wish to live, this love becomes my undoing. I will not be looking back, nor rekindling past flames which scarred me for life, which left me scarred, but wise. On the way to my undoing, aim on un-scathing what was scathed, to live, to love, to learn on up until beyond the Styx.

Silk

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Walt Disney Hall of Music, Los Angeles (CA, USA), January 2018   Between my fingers, swift, unstoppable light, beautiful, fleetingly slipping away I see the silky stripe Faith wove to which I yearn to hold, to keep to, but just have to let go, just have to let flow.

Maybe

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  Puçol (València, Spain), May 2023 Maybe the sound of the wheel, tirelessly spinning in the void, heralds the arrival of a timeout to think about things, to go into yourself, to get to an emotional depth sought after from the volatile surface of a day with no dawn and no dusk.

Haiku #5

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Marjal dels Moros, Puçol (València, Spain), April 2023 I let myself fall just to get to the bottom and discovered that I love to fly.  

Eight Free Verses

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Puçol (València, Spain), April 2023 To speak wordlessly, to feel painlessly. To enjoy sun, light, the fragrant air of May. To be without sorrows, to live with no future angst. To go through life with the sparkle of a soul at peace.  

Spring 2023

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Puçol (València, Spain), April 2023   Smell of salt, water, sea, fresh air of Spring, Mediterranean light. Blues in harmony, greens, radiant whites, the air filled with force, energy of new life.

Nothing Else

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Puçol (València, Spain), March 2023   A new day is dawning, your inner Sun awakens to shed light on your journey. Nothing else required, nobody else, just your energy.

Origin Destiny

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Marjal dels Moros, Puçol (València, Spain), April 2023 A sea of olive trees, a big river, a forest of columns and arches, my blood family, my roots. Mediterranean Sea, orange trees, orchards, gunpowder, music, my family on the road, my home. A sea of vineyards, a river of legends, engines, speed, nature all around, my family of choice, my shelter. Roots, home, shelter, options for my destiny in the chapter about to begin. Grounded, though out of place, aware of the here, of today, searching for the here of tomorrow.  

Sisyphus

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Serra (València, Spain), March 2022   Start do stop restart undo what was done do what was undone go on progress stop reconsider restart undo what was done do what was undone go back go on progress… Recap rock on your shoulders and up the hill you go.

Skyline

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Puçol (València, Spain), March 2023 Gazing at a never-ending blue calm returns to your heartbeat, peace returns to your breath, brightness to a sleepless look which seeks and finds, which finds and enjoys, which enjoys and assimilates. To grow up staring beyond limiting horizons. A perfect future, a conscious present.  

Presences

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  Puçol (València, Spain), March 2023 Even in contented solitude, there are always presences which, without trying at all, anchor you to the world, ground, push, cheer you on to keep the strength to go on. Even in contented solitude, in perfect harmony, in perfect company to keep on going, to keep on learning.

Antahkarana

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Puçol (València, Spain), March 2023 On the bank of river Styx big eyes so deep and bright stare at the conscious hands now unraveling a golden skein. Conscious, hard-working hands, eyes brimming of noble intent give back their yarns to passing seeds. Inner light at times so bright, so strong that any surrounding darkness turns into a geode so big, so hard, that it explodes in thousands of pieces. For this stage I keep sending you light, keep on patiently helping Charon: after this apparent end, a new life is waiting to start.  

Alone (#2)

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  Puçol (València, Spain), November 2022 Alone, but never lonely, in the sun, in the good company of art, of water, of air, surrounded by energy, by light. Alone, but sheltered by knowledge, by peace, by teachers, by friends. Alone, though going forward learning from everyone, from everything. Alone, night and stars around, alone, with my soul, though, alive and happy, a step at a time.

A Dot

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  Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), February 2023 A single dot in the apparent void of a universe with barely a trace of light, of space, of time. A single dot aware of space starting circle after circle, changing radius, height, becoming a spiral vortex. A single dot, now a full vortex, gaining depth, light, force from nothing to everything, no pause, no effort, no calm. A dot, a spiral, a vortex, energy, light, motion, life underway. Just life. Nothing else.

Sunset

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  Germersheim (Germany), September 2022 From sunset to dawn, worlds apart, though just seconds away. The chill of the Moon, the light of the stars together balancing out dark and bright. From sunset to dawn, fighting darkness, living dreams, dreaming life. From sunset to dawn, from dawn to sunset… Just from dawn to dawn maybe dreaming dreams though always living life.

Frost

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Mas La Plana, Santa Maria d'Oló (Barcelona, Spain), February 2023 Cold air this new morning, frost, pale whiteness of life at rest. Cold frost, promise of a plentiful Spring, of awakening strong just like new beginnings.  

Such...

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  Puçol (València, Spain), January 2023 Such a craving to cry that breathing becomes a chore, such a craving to stop that walking becomes impossible, such a craving to quit that going on is the only way. So, it is time now to dry your tears and see the beauty in the landscape, to take a very deep breath and air both mind and soul to keep, step by step, on your quest to conquer the whole world for everyone else and for yourself.