plans are made
eyes light up with hope
oh, how can we not comply
so, with the flow of life we elope
Agendaless joy pervades form
Dormant nodes come to life
Suffused by a magnetic storm
We are with bliss beats rife
Heightened is heart’s delight
Seamless by day and night
Why for would we alight
Come now, don’t be coy
Agendaless joy
12-April-2022
Quietus
Often I drift back to my days of youth
to where life did begin; a rural treat,
those sharp brisk mornings a moorland uncouth
a naïve nakedness a one-way street,
simple things like the sun rise snow and sleet.
No timetables no worries to go wrong
tuneful mum dusting the blues in a song,
where fences were constructed to lean on
over which chat neighbours when ties were strong,
A relief thinking of those days long gone.
2021
Entered Mark Toney's
2022 Poetry Marathon Mile contest 15
30/9/2022
Let's jump for joy, the weekend's here at last,
I must forget my work worries and strife.
We'll head to the beach, I've checked the forecast. -
I can just unwind and enjoy my life,
being with our kids and my lovely wife.
The pressures of work sure can take their toll,
family time truly uplifts my soul.
Building sandcastles, paddling in the sea,
taking time out, an achievable goal.
Precious moments with all the family!
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Agendaless Exuberance Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
11/26/21
Overwhelmed by the inconceivable,
Giddy for the future for no reason
Whatever success is achievable,
Unmoved by thoughts of personal treason
Delighted by the sounds of the season,
Alive in the vibrance of each moment
Gleeful shouting that cannot be silent,
Lost in feelings of freedom’s ecstasy
Thoroughly happy with no clear intent,
Knowing this is my future’s destiny.
EIGHTH PLACE WINNER
written November 26, 2021
for "Agendaless Exuberance' Poetry Contest
sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
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Walking all alone as the day digressed
an azure sky so blue captured my sight
and took with mystic awe my wanton breath
expiring praise for God with all my might.
Ne’er had my heart seen such clear blue so bright.
Joy gushed forth from me with an inner zeal.
My outer ode to God I did reveal
with language that was freely from the soul,
true words to God not phony but real.
A moment caught more cherished than fine gold.
Just when I thought the world was fit and well
and I had seen the grandness of it all,
the breeze within the trees begin to swell
and symphonies of leaves commenced to fall,
looking like an autumn-colored snow squall.
Again, my heart delighted in the show.
Dried leaves caressed my ankles, soles, toes
and sang a song of winter as they crunched.
What a place of lovely there is to know!
Most folks around don’t even have a hunch.
11/19/2021
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Agendaless Exuberance
Feeling frolic free walking on furrows
beside wide open vast open non-mowed meadow..
Watching chattering chirping cheerful sparrows.
Shimmering Sun displaying light and shadow.
Wandering leaping spotted deer and doe.
Meadow is full of wild feral grasses
. grown whimsical no less but in masses
To nice Nature paying my reverence.
On clear sky carefree cotton cloud passes.
Me in agendaless exuberance.
11/26/21
Contest by Unseeking Seeker
Agendaless joy, bubbling bliss
We’re centred in the void
Vivifying divine caress
Glowing heart by love buoyed
In but not of the world
Soul in love cocoon curled
Boundless bliss thus unfurled
No need to be coy
Agendaless joy
15-November-2021
Quietus
Woke up this morn with sunbeams on the wall
and smiled to see no rain was on the way!
From opened window, heard a Robin call-
and knew a perfect day was on display.
And, then at once, my mind did turn away
to realize agendaless I was!
Exuberance took over in applause!
Today, I'll walk the countryside in bliss
enjoying nature sans my workday laws-
and stresses from to-do lists- will not miss!
A leisure shower- then my coffee done,
the nearby bubbling stream now beckons me.
I watch the ripples glowing in the sun
cascading over rocks- a splashing spree!
Then, in the distance sunflowers, I see-
their golden faces swaying in the breeze,
along with dancing reeds of willow trees.
Exuberant, I join in nature's dance!
Agendaless, this day is sure to please-
enjoying this uplifting happenstance!
November 5, 2021
Premiere Contest: Agendaless Exuberance
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker
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Attention internalised, we just rest,
abiding in thought rested awareness,
looking at dream images, as life jest,
recognising underlying oneness,
flowing thus in joyous, tranquil stillness,
with no trace of fear or desire within,
mesmerised by bliss throbs upon our skin,
as this dance divine renews day and night,
heart embracing all as our kith and kin,
we, here and now, obtain spherical sight.
03-November-2021
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We see all around us duality,
endless pairs of opposites in motion,
attachment to which, joy fatality,
so still attention in meditation,
ending needless thought flow agitation.
Abiding thus in thought rested stillness,
boundaries blur; we entwine with oneness.
Delusion ends, as ego disappears,
emptiness replaced by bliss in fullness,
ending erst fears, as God’s presence so nears.
Our vaporised self, has no agenda,
as we thus become a conduit divine,
complicating not life by addenda,
head-heart meld, with love pulsations align,
playing our earth role, as God does assign.
Quirks of fate, akin to a Ferris wheel,
yet both highs and lows hold equal appeal,
since we liken life to a lucid dream,
undiluted remains our zest and zeal,
as life images continue to stream.
28-October-2021
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