Lotus Spins
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A sitting takes me to an attic of raw light
bestowing quiet glow for travelers
unyielding to a precise compass
of direction, a spaceless space nourished as it
were, losing the self to Bodhi-...
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Categories:
airiness, silence, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse
Ode to a Dove
...Blight the clouds lowly dispirited feigns,
Despite these regards there belies the shrouds,
In height uncovers the misplaced reclaims,
Ignite, blameless drives of a dove in clouds.
I...
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Categories:
airiness, appreciation, bird, death, heaven,
Form: Lento
Champagne Lady Ii
...Conflicting waves ruffle the smooth blue static
hindering the ethereal progression of her path
Airiness sinks heavily to lean into leaden aqua
mistiness lingering, a foggy dolorous requiem
Pract...
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Categories:
airiness, allusion,
Form: Acrostic
Gazing Off
...I have often gazed
up at the sky, and
off at the sea – sensing
a certain innate airiness
about me; told of relationship
between fishes and me –
the firm of land perhaps
only relative to my ...
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Categories:
airiness, science, senses, spiritual, technology,
Form: Free verse
Miss Behavin'
...Mind meanders the off-beat, sultry stream
In his irises beam dreamy-colored confetti
Satin seeds spark growing sensorial needs
Smiling silken caresses of petal-rich kisses
Breezy boldness makes...
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Categories:
airiness, allusion,
Form: Acrostic
I Am a Twinkling Star
...I twinkle in the eyes of a crazy beholder,
Concealing bouquet of flaring smoulder.
I flicker sailing in the pitch-dark sky, being bright:
Fusing atoms in cores to create heat and light.
I am ...
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Categories:
airiness, feelings, i am, imagery,
Form: Personification
Nonchalant Is My Middle Name
...frivolous nonchalance
easy carelessness
ridiculous calmness
in the face of equanimity
heedless casualness
notoriously relaxed
indifferent airiness
way beyond easygoing
deadly carefee
frivolo...
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Categories:
airiness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Separate State
...Of a dawning in a brilliant twilight hoverance,
Skipping along an unmarked trail so unexpectedly,
Dared naught say out mumbled words offered without pure malice,
None receptive to my thoughts for ...
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Categories:
airiness, adventure, allegory, dream, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
My Dad In Quotes
...When playtime was over my tiny hands tediously picked up Tyco toys, a fistful of three at a time. "Atta girl," my dad would encourage. This daunting task was heroically spared when his master hands l...
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Categories:
airiness, appreciation, bereavement, blessing, childhood,
Form: Prose
Path of Meditation
...somewhere,
along an intersection of a mystical dance,
I have climbed, levitated and roamed
into a pathway of seasonless space,
where my fluid, heightened breath
circles along veils...
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Categories:
airiness, peace, solitude,
Form: Light Verse
Peace Slips Lightly
...Peace slips lightly
Over my shoulders
Downy in its softness
Its netting of gossamer
Floats downward
As a willow's branches
Might brush fate
And touch the unknown
I stand with beauty
I hug ai...
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Categories:
airiness, autumn, beauty, change, peace,
Form: Free verse
Meditation On Light
...Ethereal, fleeting, incandescent
I grasp loosely at the airiness
So vibrant on the escarpment
X-rays pass through bone and flesh
Leaving no mark
I hold emptiness
Where are the diamonds?
Fill...
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Categories:
airiness, beauty, body, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
Balancing the Senses
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My being rises beyond hills or feathers gliding
deepened by silence immense,
where in peak of light anointed
through soul union--
the grail of non- resistance widens
Beyong boundless pa...
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Categories:
airiness, encouraging, peace, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse
The Scent of Water- a Tercet
...One leaf left on tree
No undue unhappiness
Always in great spree
One leaf left on tree
All by itself in the airiness
Feels never lonely or retiree
One leaf left on tree
It spends itself as it sways...
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Categories:
airiness, hope, life,
Form: Tercet