Attains Poems

Isolation

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It is dawn.
Brother, rise.
Let us give vent to the rising sun, and with claps of the
Mind, welcome its waking ecstasy.
Distances prevail — measured on the sun’s distance
From the soils.
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Categories: attains, introspection, life, time,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWho am I

...“One being freed from the grip of Ahamkara attains his unmanifest state like the spotless moon becoming full after eclipse.” ~ quote from the Adhyatma Upanishad 


thoughts seem to arise ...
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Categories: attains, self, spiritual,
Form: Italian Sonnet


As Far As It Pains; As Much As Its Gains

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             A lost sheep wanders...
          The shepherd once wonder;
           In the jungle of silent Lion,
             If not already fed upon  
              To satisfying hunger.

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Categories: attains, allegory, anxiety, betrayal, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBright Chapeau

...Life is a heavy hat,
we wear it, and we learn to bear it,
as we age the debris grows,
bright chapeau that once was trimmed with flowers
attains a brim of dirty crows, that peck and eat our dreams...
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Categories: attains, age, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberZen mode

...with head chopped off
the heart yet remains
ego exhumed
erased are soul’s stains

who attains
when there is no one here
when the snake sheds its skin
it feels no sense of fear

attention an...
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Categories: attains, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberInvoking grace

...Logging into the vibrant void,
just like a comet’s burning tail,
our awareness is still alloyed,
with egoic fears that make us ail.

Who attains when there’s no one here?
We are awareness, self...
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Categories: attains, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet

Dear global leaders keep on rockin in the free world

...Dear global leaders - keep on rockin' in the free world
after implementing long overdue criminal justice reforms,
especially affecting marginalized groups of people.

I vote for more lenient, pro...
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Categories: attains, america, atheist, destiny, dream,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChristmas Song

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Parody of Christmas song "Christmas time is here"


Christmas comes not to stray
on the snow-stacked pathway.
Comes all the way so punctual
with the blissful occasion to pray.

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Categories: attains, celebration, joy,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFrom Womb To Tomb

...Foetus sprouts in Womb taking
       birth as baby, grows to child
       and then attains vibrant youth
       meeting the challenges of life.

       Obviously comes old age
       being dest...
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Categories: attains, birth, death,
Form: Jueju

Premium MemberOur glorious destiny

...1  Where are we

The path appears as we walk upon it,
crystallising right before our soul’s eye,
enabled for those with resolve and grit,
who to attain God, are ready to die.

If the God-searc...
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Categories: attains, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberSoul Speak

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True feelings concealed craftily
beneath the sheath of surfeit psyche, 
fragile fantasy of self sanguinity fostered	
by the colors of chameleon skin,
evoke emotions surreptitious,
pretentiou...
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Categories: attains, god, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDeath Beckons

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Beneath midnight’s vexing veil, 
   insidious shadows creep.
A tormented mind weaves its tale,
   where solitude and loneliness weep.
A soul surrounded by a storm of woe, 
   death’s relentles...
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Categories: attains, angst, dark, death, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberShape Shifting Soul

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When the music of life gets silenced 
in the broken violin of the extant in an instant,
submerged in the regression of solitude,  
morphed soul hears the murmur of the ancient stream. 

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Categories: attains, analogy, god, spiritual,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Poet's Crush Collaboration

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But by grace do I shadow your form
from each darkened night to bright-lit morn.
You're silvery-white in my life's storm
hosting shivery thoughts yet unborn.

Would that my pen divine s...
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Categories: attains, crush, dedication, desire, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Poet's Crush

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A POET'S CRUSH - collaboration with Linda Alice Fowler

But by grace do I shadow your form
from each darkened night to bright-lit morn.
You're silvery-white in my life's storm
hosting s...
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Categories: attains, crush, poetess,
Form: Rhyme

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