Poetry by Steve Ridley

11-19-85

Light flakes stack and join
Sparkling white sculptures
Contour familiar gardens, asleep

Silently T’ai Chi abounds

In the tenderness of inner solitude
Each new breath is birth.

12-12-85

The division of interests
Between heaven and earth
Is man

Worshiping yang and yin
Change and discontent
Conceal joy

In the face of the One Life
Gratitude breathes joy!

12-25-85

Through countless faces
Tao knows Wholeness …

Bestowing, transforming,
Integrating, awakening …

Who awakens?

Within Tao
Lights and shadows dance.

2-14-86

Impermanence
Is the beauty of passing clouds

Forever
Is the joy of that witnessing One!