Banishes Poems

Premium MemberThe source

...“PARAM-DHYANA (the supreme meditation) should be upon Tejo-bindu (the seed or source of spiritual light), which is the Atma of the universe, which is seated in the heart, which is of the size of ...
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Categories: banishes, god, light, self, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Premium MemberGod is love

...love is a flame that has no name
being God Himself our soul’s aim
Who dwells in all forms as a spark 
bliss magnetism too hard to tame

the truth stated simple and stark
love and light is our t...
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Categories: banishes, god, light, love,
Form: Rubaiyat


Premium MemberIf we would know

...If we would know God, know the Self,
glowing in heart, His spark.
As life flows gently by itself,
truth banishes the dark.

With love as our mainstay,
staid silence paves the way,
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Categories: banishes, god, self, silence, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

The Masnavi of Giti and Saeed - Part 24, 25 and 26

...Part Twenty-Four — The Fifth Cupbearer's Song

O Saqi, one glance—show mercy here,
And heal this wound with wine so clear.

Fill up the cup for we are dry,
Drunk with desire that makes us sigh....
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Categories: banishes, cute love,
Form: Masnavi

Premium MemberTat Tvam Asi - That Thou Art

...when identity recedes
heart lotus blooms and love leads 
bliss pheromones then mingle
making our soul’s eye single

in time we become the flame
whence we’re no longer the same
and in time the ...
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Categories: banishes, self, spiritual,
Form: Jueju


Premium MemberGood vs Pleasant

...Ego, the thought we are this body-mind,
delusion, since we’re in truth living light,
so good is that which leaves desires behind,
all transient pleasures that opaque clear sight.
To reclaim our l...
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Categories: banishes, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Premium MemberPurity

...Pulse in alignment with the absolute,
ushering peace, harmony, love and light,
with the flame of awareness resolute,
is purity birthing bliss beat’s delight,
effervescence that banishes the night...
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Categories: banishes, light, love, peace, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal

Premium MemberSacrificial fire

...ascension requires sacrifice
pure heart with resolve will suffice
that we rise higher and higher
discarding each and every vice

truth is a sacrificial fire
consigning ego to the pyre
our auri...
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Categories: banishes, fire, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium Memberfrom darkness to light

...melancholic mood of angst
sinks deep in sands of ennui
noose of loneliness tightens
we dread the looming abyss
yet a light within us brightens
 
darkness a web spun by ego
the light reflection...
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Categories: banishes, angst, dream, fear, light,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBreathless in the void

...“Let silence teach”, the master said
“that soul may be by God’s hand fed,
whence graced by His touch, we ascend,
on choosing to be by love led.”

Inertia cajoles us to blend
with the crowd that...
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Categories: banishes, god, light, self, silence,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium MemberBeyond the Gate

...On gentle currents of the air
I'll take my rest, my final rest,
my essence gliding on the waves
of time's eternal peacefulness.

I'll see the ocean of your tears
like waterfalls born deep, flow...
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Categories: banishes, death, future, grief, loss,
Form: Rhyme

In Playground of Imagination

...In the playground of imagination,  
She converses with the elements,  
They obey her commands,  
The sun opens a door for her,  
And she steps into a world filled with daylight and mystery.  
Ev...
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Categories: banishes, imagination, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Sunlight Within

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Memories woven, like threads of golden light,
Embracing warmth that banishes the night.
Laughter's soft echo, a gentle, sweet refrain,
Inner sunshine that washes away the rain.
Treasured mome...
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Categories: banishes, birthday,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberNepenthe

...Love’s the elixir that banishes grief,
an infant sucking on his mother’s breast,
two childhood friends lost in banter and jest,
an ambedo trace granting soul relief.
Joy is soul’s diamond but ego...
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Categories: banishes, love,
Form: Italian Sonnet

Premium MemberGod Is Light

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The sea grows turbulent; the lone ship veers
off-course. The night becomes the enemy
of crew and captain. Struck with worst of fears,
they peer into the void; no light they see.
		
Their hop...
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Categories: banishes, god, light,
Form: Rhyme

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