AN INFIDELITY TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD: Launch of first poem in new audio-video poetry reading from collection ‘Tales from the Yoni Stone’ I

For Dakini Day today, am delighted to launch the first in a series of video/audio readings of the poems from my published poetry collection ‘Tales from the Yoni Stone’ (2nd Edition). The short poetry collection can be downloaded as a .pdf for free here.

The first poem recording is ‘Infidelity to the External World’, which deals with ‘contradictions’, ‘hypocrisy’, ‘deception’  and ‘delusions’ of ‘samsaric’ worldly life, its challenges, death, birth, spirituality, sexuality, desire, love and loss. Yet, behind it all the non-dual ‘mother nature’ blinding light of AH.

Poetry, like art music, is a more direct way to connect with the heart and ‘third eye’ and not just the intellectual mind. Poems are not meant to only be read but for their music (tone, rhythm, silence) to be heard. Thus I hope you enjoy the visual and audio rendition I have put with the written words in the video, including artworks from Magritte, Bourgeois and the Hubble space telescope. The written poem is also produced here below and with the video.

Music? I’ll Be Yours by Placebo and In Praise of the 5 Elemental Dakinis by Yoko.

Adele Tomlin, 4th April 2024.

AN INFIDELITY TO THE EXTERNAL WORLD

I am the loaded question
the harmonious contradiction
the unreliable accomplice
the brave beggar.
I am the impenetrable fear
the undeniable attraction
the seething truth
the dream
like mirror.

I am the violent lover
the quiet dictator
the screaming coward
the raging heroine.
I will love and destroy you.
Create and consume you.
Eat you and spit you.
Enflame and cool you.

I am an
obvious mystery,
a cliched poem
a wanton recluse
a sick doctor.
I am the monk’s robe,
The whore’s heel
The mother’s kiss
The soldier’s gun.
I am a soul seducer
A telepathic hustler
A mind invader

An infidelity to the external world.

I drive the stars and moons,
emotions and moods
thoughts and dreams
I form the basis of all.
I am the delirious painter,
the crazy sculptor
the mad inventor
the inspired conductor.
I am poetry in motion.

I am breathing and dying
suffering and joy
desire and aversion
love and loss.
I am nothing
yet everything,
I am there when you die
and when you are born.
I am you, you are me,
to know me is to know the REAL you.
But there is no
one to KNOW.

No
ONE.

No words, no concepts
No thoughts, no struggle
no ambition, no money
no objects, no suffering
no
striving, striving, striving…

Just
Silence, silence, silence…..
The infinite blinding light of
AH

Composed by Adele Tomlin. Copyright 2021.