Spiritual Awakening Poems

Shining as Self and knowing who is God,
laudable no doubt but not quite enough,
unless wisdom dawns in mind-body pod
and all cravings of ego we rebuff,
giving...

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In time stretched tranquil silence,
as awareness self-aware,
imagined boundaries blur,
paving way for a melding,
of presence with the vast sky,
wherein ego disappears,
making our soul’s eye single....

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Before thought–the heart: a struck bell's hum,
in the chest's dark chapel. No word. Only thrum
that echoes the void where meaningwill climb. 

Is this the soul's...

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In Nishapur's dust and blazing heat,
A physician walked the wealthy street—
Young hands skilled in healing's art,
Rich purse, restless, yearning heart
That craved what gold could never...

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Thought precedes action, intent comes yet before,
arising from murmurs of a restless soul,
feeling incomplete, though each pore is a door,
to imbibe agape love, that heart...

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not senses but the witness
likewise for joy and pain
unchanging screen of awareness
eternal Self free from stain

beyond waking, dreaming and deep sleep
turiya, the constant fourth state
we...

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Obedience is a spell.
But some bloodlines 
carry thunder in their sleep.
They will call it rebellion.
But it is remembering -
the heartbeat beneath the ruin,
the fire before...

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No role to play, no need to hide
The ego dissolves, the character has died.
A conscious spark, so suddenly bright
Awakens life in boundless light.

The endless universe...

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Feeling our fontanel pulsate,
enlivened by the pulse of bliss,
there then remains nothing to do,
save in childlike delight to wait,
awestruck as polarities kiss,
betwixt light strobes that...

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The sunshine illuminating
Golden honey dripping through the leafy veil
A soft, golden balm spreading across my features
A symphony of serenity envelops me
My feet wade into the...

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Caged in the thoughts supposed to release her.
The road to righteousness covered in stones.
Falling over the master of mind lures. 
Her heart an afterthought; body...

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Version #1

She stirs, and with her, the earth shakes,
lifting dust from where silence once lay—
a force long restrained, now breaking loose.

Version #2

She awakens, and the...

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Do believe the truth we tell you
Don't believe your lying eyes
Say the mocking birds now calling
Filling these dark gaslit skies

While the children all around us
Reaching...

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Awakening in a spiral, a dance of unmasking,
Consciousness flows like a turbulent river over the weary shores of the mind,
Truth—not a treasure to be found,...

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("And Dream of Sheep", 2018, original encaustic)

And Still They Dream

I turn the corner
And so arrive
Where is this place
Where is this time
Who are these people
Who fill...

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