Focused on healing, evolution, the soul and God, focused on the end of harm.

In Dire Straits

We have that place where,
yep, you need to turn on that character light.
I would say he does not deserve the title respect
call him.
Thank you sadhak.
Nat started a story.
It was obscenity of being,
the crazy what’s up nails trauma
a bunch of us go through.
Are we on your calendar?

You’re nice and pretty.
Does that mean you’re good
in the sense of good to all of us?
We’ve got a world here in a tin can.
It hurts everybody.
You would not like a story that makes you mean.
Is that transformative?

Watch movies that’s all you see,
a blight of entertainment
“televised from the gulfs of Night” [from Savitri, an epic poem by Sri Aurobindo]
that tells stories
to pit you against one another,
to make your blood boil,
to let the demons in.

There isn’t a place on the planet it’s not
on your local TV.
This is what we’ve gotta get out of,
get back to our dream maker
as the one we watch and write.
Is that a perverted slam?

You would boil at the inner consciousness
because it pits you against your morality papers:
don’t say cuss words;
don’t mention sex;
don’t talk about getting your dick sucked when you were five
by your mother.
What have I just done?

I let the inner consciousness in
in language that grabs you and moves you,
that has the day on it,
that gives you a porn whereabouts
so many faces are into these days.
It hits you where you’re at
if you can’t tell right from wrong,
if you’re lost in all this sleaze.
We’re tryin’ to reach people not preach to them.

A dream comes out
from someone who suffered this
in the language that it felt like,
and the elect can’t take it
because they don’t know how to deal with it.
They’re into quotes of Sri Aurobindo and pictures of deity.
They look at spirituality as the cure
and not addressin’ what’s wrong
in the language that needs to.

Everybody just be nice.
Make your concentration daily
and let no wrong movements in.
Be cheerful and happy.
There’s no end to the advice
in spiritual seeking.
Let’s get down to the nitty-gritty of life.
Let’s use those quotes to solve problems.
The Mother and Sri Aurobindo are a wealth of that,
applied in ways you haven’t imagined yet,
because you’re religious and one-sided.

We need to heal,
so many of us.
You can’t imagine what it’s like
where hell has opened in humanity.
This is all over the globe,
terrible stories
that’ll make you cry
if you had your empathy on.

We need to heal the world first,
then spiritualize it,
and spirituality will be healing,
because that’s what it’s made for,
if it’s the soul involved.
You don’t know this.
Soul healing’s to you a preacher wrote.
It’s not test the limits of humanity
in making healing the order of the day.
This soul is wide and free.
You don’t know that either.

You look at the Gods of Overmind,
the lowest rung.
They’re moral and straight.
They have seen God in passing
one time maybe.
They are closest to us
in the ways of deity.
They make rules and regulations,
put experiments on vice
and get rid if it not heal it.
Our whole world is taken by Them.
It’s what we need to change
and bring a new order upon the Earth,
soul healing
in the dynamics of Supermind.

You don’t know how wide God is,
when it comes to the personal growth process of wholeness and healing.
That’s been my path all along,
and it’s gotten acute where I show it to you,
all Sri Aurobindo’d.
What else can I do?
I’m his disciple
and a seer of his wisdom,
and I’ve been told to talk to you.

I’ve spent 25 years learin’ my craft,
a lifetime before that as a poet.
You can’t fault me
in preparation,
all prepared for yah.
Grab me by the balls will yah
and throw me to policemen,
or at least try to shut me up?
God’s will be done.

About Harm’s End

I share this blog with my best friend Douglas, but I write the poetry on it, and for about the past five years, it has been an exclusive poetry blog, that features longer poems than the zeitgeist likes that I feel are inspired by the muse of poetry, a new style of poetry I’ve developed over a lifetime that uses conversational English and symbolism to talk about the deepest things imaginable and about the shallowness of the everyday life of humanity, and to talk about myself floating between those two poles.

About Donny Lee Duke

I grew up in the suburbs of Houston, Texas and on a family farm in East Texas. At 17, I joined the army, and, after a brief time in the infantry, I traveled the Texas rodeo circuit with the last active duty horse cavalry troop and was their muleskinner. I then became a Green Beret (special forces), and in 1983 I parachuted with my A team into West Germany with a tactical nuclear device that was unarmed, but we didn’t find that out until we landed. I got out of the army when my time was up and got a BA in English and a minor in History and went on to do three years or so of post-baccalaureate work learning to translate Classical Greek. At the same time, I explored my inner life via lucid dream and out of body experience to try and see how deep, wide, and high we go inside and if we are connected in consciousness to one another. After finding my soul inside and experiencing my higher self several meters over my head and a momentary experience of enlightenment, I left normal life in 1992 and became a homeless pilgrim, first in the United States and then abroad, living in over 27 countries on four continents for about 10 years. I worked my way from country to country and had no cash, assets, or bank account, but I got a lot of help from people, especially from Douglas, my best friend of 25 years. I returned to India in 2003, where I’d always been returning to since my first trip there in ‘95, and where I now live with Douglas, my grandson Nithish, 12, who is not now with us but is returning, and our four dogs. I clean house, shop, cook and take care of Douglas, Nithish and our dogs, and I write poetry and do photography as part of my sadhana for the Yoga of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, which I have been practicing for 30 years. We live in an undisclosed location in the area of the international city of human unity, Auroville.

Image & text © Donny Lee Duke

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