The teacher gave the student a stick and asked what do you see?

The student said I see a stick.

The teacher said look closer.

The eyes of her imagination were opened and she said I see a toy, a tool, a weapon, I see art.

The teacher said look deeper.

The eyes of her understanding were opened and she saw billions of tiny spheres. She said I now see that I and the stick are one. 

The teacher smiled and walked away.

Driving down desert highways

I wrestle with complacency

.. ..

I seek to rest from the road

A place to relieve the overload

.. ..

Seeds of thought dormant lay

Waiting for such a day

.. ..

Pen bleeds my soul’s blood

A trickle becomes a flood

.. ..

Onto desert sands dry as bone

Feelings now have found a home

Painting with Words

By Bim Willow

I pick up my pen as my brush, words as my paint, and paper as my clean fresh canvas.

  I seek to create a new world where the soul of the reader can separate self from natural body to find a new world where the air is crisp and clean the sun shines brighter, flowers more fragrant and where marshmallow clouds pushed by an awkward wind bump into each other. A place where the villains are wicked, heroes courageous and where the reader can escape the ordinary to find their imagination refreshed. An Image so strong that the reader may be encouraged to laugh, to cry, provoked to think, to feel.  

  I pick up my pen so that I may find the brief pleasure in bringing brief pleasure to others, enough to once again pick up my pen and paint.   

Without passion in our lives we don't have much of a life. Lust for wanting is passion. Once we get what we thought we wanted we are often let down.
The real pleasure in life is the journey not the destination.
All too often people live their lives in the past or the future. Examples; when I graduate, when I get married, when I get promoted, when I retire, when I die and go to heaven, I will be happy. Always putting off being happy in the Now which are the only place in time you can truly live. Enjoy the journey enjoy life. Remember it is not getting what you want that is important it’s wanting what you got. Want carefully because you might just get what you ask for.

Dedicated to Rick O Shea

Staring a long time at the clock on the wall I close my eyes. In my mind’s eye I still see the roundness of the clock in a silhouette image. The second hand ticking off the seconds as a reminder that life is limited. Soon we all will be like an old black and white photograph stacked in a shoe box hidden in the closet, taken out on special occasions when children ask a parent, ‘who is this,’ pointing to images of what we once were.

We close our eyes and those who touched our lives return in our mind’s eye like black and white photos. We reminisce as the second hand ticks away.

  I wrote this after I had closed my eyes and saw an image of Rick in his wheel chair setting on his deck talking to me.

.. Rick Oshea who died  in 2008 was one of the greatest men I have ever had the chance in knowing. ..

I hate vegetables and take great pleasure in killing them.

Uprooting or plucking them and eating their reproductive organs.

I cut and slice them up into little pieces

Because they cover the planet spreading their seeds

No where for them to run that I can not see

I will hunt them down or raise them in captivity

I hate vegetables  that is why I eat them.

Fat American

More is better don't settle for less

Take the best leave the rest.

You got yourself into this mess

When you bite off more than you can chew,

So what do you do

You lose control

You swallow it whole

And you become

Just another fat American

Just another fat American

Third world countries that you abused

More in your landfills than they use

They want to kill you all over the news

Just another fat American

just another fat American.

MTVand SUV's lifestyles built by greed

while many in the world suffer in need.

Their waiting for your time to bleed.

Just another fat American

just another fat American

Don't ask why they hate us. Ask yourself why you would if you were them?

Dust 

To stop and contemplate dust

Am I any more or less significant?

Today I slowed down to watch dust dance in a sunbeam

Like an asteroid belt in the galaxy of my room

How vast my room must seem to those who live on those tiny dust worlds

My home would seem unfathomable

Oh how they shine in their moment in the sun

A cold and damp fall day

As if to rain at any time

Clouds of insecurity shadow me

Thundering echoes of my short comings

 I can not be all of what anyone wants be to be

Without loosing sight of whom I am.

I can be a source of inspiration and ingenuity   

Burning inside is a powerful sense of passion, creativity, and hope

That keeps me warm on such a

Cold and damp fall day

As if to rain at any time

by Bim Willow 10/28/04

The Moral Atheist 

By Bim Willow

            I have grown tired of hearing that as an atheist I have no morals, or ethics, that don't believe in anything, that I have no standard to live up to so I am therefore a second class citizen that is not to be trusted. Having been a Christian at one time I did not backslide into being an atheist I took a step forward. I did not lose the moral standards that I thought to be common sense and good for societal order. I did not stop in my studies with Christianity. I found more what I believe to be true within other religions and philosophies as well. I find Christians who think they own moral and ethical truth because it is "Christian" are both arrogant and ignorant.

Just because a person does not believe in Santa Clause does not make that person immoral. Why would a person who does not believe in God or Jesus be considered immoral? Because the Christian thinks his God is real and Jesus is alive? 

             Is it ok to kill? Why yes, according to these religious cults who go to war under the justification of "They are trying to destroy our American life style" or

"They are trying to destroy our Islamic culture" They are infidels and God or Allah wants us to destroy them. Ok what kind of morals are they teaching?    

Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all blood cults that all contradict themselves. They teach to be kind and cruel, forgiving and vindictive. They all believe in a God that demanded blood sacrifice.  Throughout history they are by deeds Terrorists and they say Atheists have no morals. 

             America was not founded on Christian principles. In this country we have freedom of choice; we have no King, no Lord to rule over us. In the Kingdom of God men and women are slaves and servants of the "Lord". This is not the American way. Here we are all free men and women. For those who think that we should return to our Christian heritage should study the history of the United States. We have freedom to believe or not believe as we choose in this country.

Does one religion have the moral rights to create laws that dictate what marriage is and that it should only be between a man and woman because that is what their religion says thus overriding the rights of others who want to have a "spiritual marriage union"?

This would be like one religion that does not eat pork voting into law banning the sale of pork or to force women to cover their faces or face death?

            Just because it is in your "holy book" does not make it moral.

So be good for goodness sake.

Angry stench

The globs of sculpted aluminum among the ashes reflect the light on this bitter fall day.

A fire has a certain stench when it is quenched as if angry for being put out before its time.

She couldn't afford gas so she used a space heater to keep warm.

She was just 19 when her trailer burnt. Her life extinguished before its time leaving an angry stench in the hearts of those who loved her.

In memory of Janet who died  11/22/08

I do not oppose God. God does not exist.

I do not oppose you only your concept of God.

I oppose injustice, oppression, and slavery.

I oppose the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish blood cults.

I am not an antichrist because there was no Christ or will there ever be one.

Opposition to your faith is opposition to lies that you believe and tell others.

I am opposed to your lies, manipulation and insanity.

Question your God. Question yourself. What need is there for blood sacrifice?