Walk this way home*

Walk this way home*

Alone in this moment as I drift away

All around in detachment no longer to stay

A deeper sense of being to walk to the abode

My heart patiently settles to release a heavy load

The closer I get, feeling the embrace with its arms

A richer feeling of acceptance as this turns warm

I can never look back in where I just came

Just like a lit candle wick with its flame

Tho there may not be nothing here but empty space

But that is OK, all of what use to be is erased

Within that I become and chaos has now ceased

I have found my home within and all of its peace

Dom*Colucci © 2016

The route (root) of fruit*

The route (root) of fruit*

So tender and wise is the seed

Before it comes for the world and its need

It knows how a vital role it plays

That in its maturity of patience for days

The moment that it begins to grow

It removes its shell, wisdom starts to show

A pattern that was learn before it came

To be on the path, be assertive and remain

Upward it grows, a poke through the ground

Making its trunk from roots to bark without sound

Leaves from limbs a fashion to be made

But of course a protection from heat with its shade

Blessed is the day when the fruit comes to be

Popping out sporadically all over the tree 

But it waits for the moment for it to release

A certain calm within its trunk and tension begins to cease

Now as the moment has come from being attached

As it knew when it was a bud that merged from its hatch

Flourish and prosper, leaves the parent alone

As now it belongs to the Universe on its own

Oh wondrous and beautiful that something to ripen sweet

And then to fall gracefully in front of its parents feet

An apple that now has become delicious fruit

But it all started from the seed within it and made it from a root

Dom*Colucci © 2016

The poem, gracefully home*

The poem, gracefully home*

Once upon a time no words were spoken

A subtle rhythm came and then silence was broken

It came from the heavens, it was a cloud 

Little drops of rain and thunder so loud

Drizzling down to find a container below

Filling up in mighty numbers, this began to flow

Fluidity makes it move rapid and fast

Hurrying up ahead of itself no time to cling onto a past

As where it was going to Source, its home

But along the journey in doing so, carefree it became a poem

Dom*Colucci © 2016

Student is the teacher*

Student is the teacher*

Let me know of these teachings within

Let me know on where I should begin

Show me this path that leaves no trace

To transcend which is here in this space

Where there is nothing that is really taught

And to have no search in what is to be sought

To understand like the flower on how it grows

And the seed on its journey in what it knows

Oh yes I know you have seen this before

Where you come from, where wisdom is more

To understand this with no trial or test

Where speech is not spoken and all is wordless

Dom*Colucci © 2016

A journey with my eyes*

A journey with my eyes*

Where darkness becomes the least

It is the sun that arises in the east

To move about in the azure sky

Pushing clouds away, that wish to cry

Oh radiant light in heaven's place

Spreading your rays of gold to embrace

But you must move onward sometime soon

To pull along a smiling moon

As quickly as the day comes to an end

You will visit in this same place once again

So now from what the day's eyes did their best

You walk away into the dream and leave with a rest

Dom*Colucci © 2015

The TAO*

The TAO*

Something happened a long time ago

It came out of nowhere in what it knows

A vision it had that heard a call

Central in its doing, minutely seeing so small

It only seen of itself as a start from what it began

This of itself shall never have an end

Though it may be right where it is as it stays

But knows perfectly where it is going for this thing is the way

Dom*Colucci © 2015

You have been here before*

You have been here before*

Waterfall, oh waterfall I feel the flow through my heart

A tear you once were as a cloud right from the start

Enjoying the ride as your freedom is in rapid flow

Something is leading you back, back where you know

When you finally reach your destination, really this is not your end

Somehow you will arise back into the cloud and do it over again

Dom*Colucci 2015

That life was once a dream*

That life was once a dream*

Something came through here a long time ago

It looked forward on its journey, as it seemed to know

It passed swiftly and did not stop to pause

It heard an inner voice give it its cause

"Just keep moving on and take this course

You are being guided home, home is your Source"

So now there was something here no longer seen

Awakened only once, the past was its dream

Dom*Colucci 2015

Beauty within*

Beauty within*

Oh seed of wisdom why doth hide?

The day of release shall be by your side

Open up wide and spread your roots

Deep within you is growing and is becoming of your truth

Take a wondrous journey and see where this will bring

Your heart will open with joy, rhythm in such love it will sing

For now the light is touched as light has no end

I can see the splendor of what God brought

For it is your beauty that I see within

Dom*Colucci © 2015

~Haiku~

A journey ahead

To acquire from the deep

Home is in sight*

Dom*Colucci © 2015

Separate but whole*

I have seem to come here with a truth

I was a product that was deep in a root

I sprawled upward and began to grow

A teaching in every moment that I know

Strength was within and I continued on

There was no end result in seeing it done

But behold that when I fell from my parent, the oak tree

They were no longer needed for who I found was me

I stayed silent for a spell and possibly journeyed a mile

Until I was comfortable to stay awhile

For now it is my turn that it is to be born

To become once again that oak tree, the acorn

Dom*Colucci 2014

A "step" within myself*

A "step" within myself*

I was so innocent when I came into this place

Freedom in not knowing moving about in this space

But ignorance sets itself against who I am

It is now doubt, this way of life is the plan

A reality that walks as a shadow next to me

I am the captive of myself and not to be free

Somehow I know of something that is so deep

To escape these clutches that it cannot keep

There is another side to this consciousness that I know

To put an end to this and let it go

Yes this was the first step and it was to suffer inside

In such letting go, to do it in stride

I since moved on as now there is joy where I be

Happiness is growing steadily, I feel love within me

Seeing that I have such contentment in being right here

The picture is more in focus, it is becoming very clear

The journey is nearly over, like I climbed to a mountain top

Awareness kicks in and now I cannot stop

Yes there is something that awaits for me to see

What is there is now here, it is me that sees me

Dom*Colucci 2014

What is the meaning of life?*

What is the meaning of life?*

A sage set out on a journey to see what to be sought

The masters told him, that really this is all for naught

So he went out anyway and this is how he starts

The masters seen him off, wished him well as he parts

He knew of many hardships along many miles

And to see of these hardships including his own trials

But he pressed onward, still sought what he needed to do

Another day that has come and gone as he went on through

Knowing of a teacher that sat on the top of a mountain

Greatness of his wisdom, flowing like a fluid fountain

Standing in front of the behemoth, beginning to make his climb

One foot over the other, exhaustion sets in on the incline

He finally sees his destiny, in his eyesight

Trembling to know of this wise man to set him right

He walks up to the master, filled with so much to be wise

Kneels and bows in front of him and looks into his eyes

The master said that "you have traveled so far"

"It is you coming here in knowing who you are"

"So what shall it be, loyal to your heart, my young sage?"

"I can put an end to your "thought" and your rage"

The sage looked up at the master and started to say

"What is the meaning of life? And then I shall be on my way"

The master gave a stern look and was very discreet

"One should not know of this because one will be complete"

"And when one is complete, they are no longer needed here"

"You will no longer exist, you know the answer crystal clear"

"As you see now that you have found out what this is with one's last breath"

"Once one finally knows of this, their life is now over and now it is death"

So there is no real meaning to life, for meanings have endings you see

Just leave well enough alone and let everything be

Life is a journey with interest to enjoy along the way

And something not to figure out making one go astray

Go in peace and never look back on what you seek

Search no longer, listen not to your "mind" but a heart that speaks

Logic did not put you here to be complete but love to be whole

That love is within you always and that love has no meanings

It is your Soul* 

Dom*Colucci 2014

Love and trust, the awakened lotus*

Love and trust, the awakened lotus*

Worldly pleasures of desires so deep

Attached to those things that the heart does not keep

A darkened world that is stuck like the mud in the pond

Illusions to tempt to excite not to make calm

But something is not with that world within

It has been awakened always to be born again

It sleeps away from that darkness it does not see

It is not of any shadow for it is truly free

When the sun comes up in the daylight

It knows when a path is made, leaving the night

Protected by love, petals look like hands folded to a prayer

Through cool murky waters, awakened to be here from there

Now it has surfaced and it shows its beauty to the world

Petals open up, received the love as it unfurls

It sees itself always as it is in a consciousness that trusts

Coming here over and over, enlightened where it is,

For it is the beauty of the awakened lotus

Dom*Colucci 2014

Even darkness lightens up*

Even darkness lightens up*

A journey came early as it shed some light

The sun walked the sky until it became night

Darkness was all around after all this

It engulfed all in the surround and nothing was missed

Light arose again as it was the moon

Alone in the window, it smiled at me and the radiance filled the room

Dom*Colucci 2014

Where have you been?*

Where have you been?*

Push me beyond your world as I am in the dark

Then this is how it goes, this sorrow I will park

My heart maybe burdened by what you have done

I will trust that is within myself and find that one

I will shed many tears but know that times go by

That it is necessary for me to open up and cry

But there is something special that when I do

It already knows where I am going and have to go through

For I rely on it with trust as it has that power

With these eyes that water, my heart becomes a flower

My shell is breaking apart and wisdom emerges with a root

This is now my journey to take on my own, it is my truth

Yes my vision that is within the heart that grows

It says press onward in knowing what it knows

Memory has gone of you and now no longer exist

It was myself that I was searching for but seemed to resist

So now all is erased from a past that is no longer there

I arrive through broken soil and feel love in the air

The sun looks down upon myself and it has a big grin

Shining so brilliantly and asks "where have you been?"

Dom*Colucci 2014

Eyes without a face*

Blindly walking though life with this heart

Knowing that such love exists that does not pull me apart

Looking, searching, moving ever so that it seems I do not see

I pray to what knows of me to see and to be set free

Please, oh please I know that you are in this place

But when I turn around to you, will I will see eyes without a face?

Dom*Colucci 2014

Homeward bound within*

Homeward bound within*

Walk through many miles, the hard way was each step

Tough was the going, many times I did wept

But I pursued onward as something pulled me through

It kept saying to me, I still have you in my view

Please do not give up as I have you in my arms

I am the one you do not see, sheltering you from each storm

Hold on a little longer, this is how the shell of a seed opens wide

I cradle you and protect you, from each and every side

I feel that you somehow know me, your heart is opening now

Yes, this is getting stronger, you accept me and I do allow

For now we both know of each other and we have each other in sight

You now can see within yourself, darkness diminishes to show the light

Dom*Colucci 2014

Let me look at you instead*

Let me look at you instead*

If you look for me, I may not be there

See around every corner, vanished in thin air

Moved about from all around

No trace of evidence, not even a sound

So then, what is a person suppose to do

It is not you looking for me but it is me looking at you

Dom*Colucci © 2014

It's your "turn" to be loved*

It's your "turn" to be loved*

Somewhere I wandered moving about in its space

A place that I have never seen before, beauty in this place

"Turn the other way" it said, in which I was heading for

There is a lot to see right here with so much more

So I took its advice and walked down its way

I could not believe my eyes, this was the place to stay

I entered it and immediately I felt so alive and  free

How could this ever be and happen to me?

For some reason or another it said "it was time to go home"

All those things that you were burden with, now they are done

When you came in here, you would never wander and be apart

That was the day you seen what loved you always, it was your heart

Dom*Colucci 2014