Best Alignment Poems
When I tried, I’d grab your hand
Pull you close and hurt you inside
When I lived, I’d bring you down
There’s nothing left to live for this time
Funny faces, painful places
Tempting lies and metaphoric races
Spiteful smiles, selfish trials
Losing friends within my denial
When I gave, I’d take the land
Sell it off and then demand
If you give, I’ll share the wealth
But now I’m done and I see sand
Trading thoughts, selling pain
Despising trust unless I gain
Unheard sounds, silent voices
Expressing nothing and no more choices
I got lost in fear but now I’m fine
I fell so far and lost all time
Landed on my feet and heard a rhyme
I heard my breath and took in this sign
Waking, feinting, coloured paintings
Shivering and understating
Take my mind, take my soul
Circulate it all as I’m creating
Words that breathe, words that show
Wisdom as my eyesight grows
I’ve seen the fall, I’ve felt the breeze
Swam through space and shadowed trees
Another death and I’ll be fine
My soul has finally aligned
Though my body still a cage in time
My spirit travels and I find
I got lost in fear but now I’m fine
I fell so far and lost all time
Landed on my feet and heard a rhyme
I heard my breath and took in this sign
The world is round and so I spin
I’ll close my eyes and I’ll begin
Circadian Wobble
Circadian tripped through a trap door
Into amended reality of light and time
Where confusion missteps through the waltz of the hours,
And intervals of minutes
Glare at each other suddenly plucked out of place
Leaping into a space reserved for colleagues,
Renamed without their permission,
Here circadian wobbles in an new identity assumed
Where dawn rises in darkness -
Dusk becomes twilight –
When the morning star collides
With alpenglow
And sleep eludes the routine of dreamers
Rhythm disrupted –
Gone the orderly synchronized ballet of hours,
In their birth space,
Minutes running early
Gazing into prophetic confusion
Back to days to come
Déjà vu unpacked
Staggering in crunchy seconds of DLSD
Sunlight confused by second hands
Not knowing their place
In the Circadian scheme or on the face of eternity’s timepiece
A standoff in the litany of changing light
That lingers just a little longer in the cycle of day and night
Surrealist creation longing to hold onto light
Until the globe turns its face into the season
When time and light re-align.
DLSD – Daylight Savings Time Disorder
3-17-21
Contest: Inner Alignment
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker
Where can I go to buy some real excitement
Is there a shop where I can get a new alignment
Would pay big money
In fact dollars by the tunny
To experience the joy of a little refinement
© Jack Ellison 2015
It's the essence of what we're made of.
It's right beneath us as we walk.
It's what the Creator used from up above---
to make "the walking colours that talk".
The essence of movement that kisses your face.
It can push the sea and move the trees.
Sweat on a hot day can be erased.
Breeze that's felt with grace and ease.
The burning flames put out heat.
The colours are brilliant and bright.
It's used outside when you need something to eat.
It also brings dark things to light.
It's the only thing that can quench your thirst.
It's the one thing that connects all life.
If you don't receive this you might just burst.
A lack of this clear liquid can even create strife.
We need all these elements to make the world go round.
They are the essence of creation and what makes the world sound.
a planetary alignment
parallel worlds
Midst “incongruence” inevitable
between dictates of mind and beats of heart
personhood’s wholeness from the very start---
that’s my plea through the Saviour Who’s able.
When visited by worries bringing doubt
letting me leave blest path of redeemed soul
swerving from divine light for faith-propped goal---
I seek the Lord’s direction to right route.
Struggling against my own carnal nature
tempting flesh to yield for cravings’ greed
drawing me far from grace that had me freed---
to Christ I cling for spiritual nurture.
Due to sins, I fell short of God’s glory
yet He offered love’s pardon with peace-reign
now, I own eternal life with bliss’ gain---
since ransomed toward heaven’s victory.
To have inner alignment with joy’s aim
I trust* HIM; conscience cleanser, so perfect
leading me to truth’s best of no defect---
grateful, I serve while His goodness proclaim.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
March 16, 2021
2nd place, "Inner alignment" Premier Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker; judged on 3/20/2021.
Pothole on highway
Knocked my front end out of line
Should the city pay?
© Sam, 4/14/08
all she ever wanted to be was one with herself
and yet here she was disunited and fragmented
seeking what seemed out of harmonious reach
heart choked in a stranglehold of noosed reason
razor wire punctured her emotions and feelings
rational distortion shackled a delusion of truth
I just want to hold you safe and keep you insane
better the bevel you know than a slope you do not
a few abrasions won’t ache but passion will hurt
the mind banned foreign intrusion by sentiments
dangled a carrot of undefeated logic and thoughts
undermined every effort to feel emote and sense
it took great supremacy battles and mental afflictions
for her to raise a heart shaped brain from the dead
but her new union with Self defeated all loneliness
01rd March 2021
As I’m bowed, in cares distraught
Lightness unbends, thru an arbor caught
In the rigid coils of tight binds
Gladness interlaces with vines that unwind
Netted in a shadow of grasping night
Moonlit petals glow their reflective sight
Entrenched in weight of concrete inveighs
Nectarine wings point the scented airy way…
This entry is just the beginning of sanctuary
Gardens small grow and call the wisdom of trees…
Utopian dreams realign where nature breathes
Inviting serenity in wraps of soothing wreathes
Deep as the roots and high as a sun-ride
Elevation is granted where greenery’s the guide.
(8/18/2020: '87 Skipjack 28; Fresno. Sanctuary contest)
it’s the mission of our lifetime
to learn to balance heart and mind
to recognize and be grateful
for our numerous blessings
as we covet lofty dreams
in our heart we want to nurture gratitude
and be satisfied with our lot in life
yet aim to stretch beyond our aspirations
we seek to be happy with what we have
but in our mind give utmost efforts
to surpass our limitations
whatever our struggles
cultivate harmony
as we aim to live in the moment
be joyful in the now
come what may tomorrow
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~MINDFULLY~ 2021
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Submitted on March 12, 2021 for contest INNER ALIGNMENT sponsored by UNSEEKING SEEKER - RANKED 6TH
First
things first.
Put not cart,
before the horse.
Resolve discord here,
within this mind body;
get head and heart in rhythm,
entwined as one, in sync with love,
attaining thus, tranquil staid stillness,
blurring boundaries between form and space.
Nestled thus, in thought rested awareness,
essence of presence, alone remains,
becoming what may not be named,
where silence therein is stretched,
in void of no-thingness,
vibrant and alive,
as a bliss mist,
here and now
present
thus.
26-January-2021
We witness the rise
of fears in disguise
as thought
but if we are wise,
we may so apprise
the plot
of ego’s dark lies
promising a prize
that’s naught.
Currents cold and hot
in which we are caught,
confine,
so let’s be self-taught,
doing as we ought,
align
with God we forgot,
recognising not
love’s sign.
As of Gods design,
let love for love pine
that eyes
His laws which assign
joy as our cuisine.
Bliss beats in time spline,
heart that does define
new highs.
05-May-2023
Virelai
within the cave of our heart
where silence abounds
we are touched
by bliss
ego
is absent
for the orifice
admits pure of heart alone
ego being thought driven
wishing to survive
melds in heart
to thrive
inner
alignment
saves the gift of life
bursting forth in bubbling bliss
13-February-2021
When Will is aligned beyond free will
Will Humans Be On A One Will Drive
That is One perfected ideal condition
Not to be confused with bequeathing
Will is motivational inherent strength
Is told will is a power at the very core
Is will motivation, is it thought or else
Is will impulse, particle, light or wave
Will is not intuition or instinct is a guide
Focus One pointedness eye of the bird
Ways to explain why stay with just One
The One is expressing ‘Self in every cell
Quest remains how to find that one One
Many a techniques yoga tantra devotion
All the above and more all in accordance
The one common resource is Connection
Drink from the source connect allow flow
Allow it to seep into every pore saturating
Every cell is alive in awareness has A Will
Recall train every microabode our tiny tot
Cells filled pulsating vibrating alive Being
Operates at best when on One Will Drive
All will aligned to One Lone Cosmic Will
When Willl is aligned beyond free will
Will Humans Be On A One Will Drive
Life going by for most
In vacuity like a ghost
Unable to vitalise
The divine within to rise
The oft felt inner stirring
Needing tender attending
Yet our wilful neglect
Inability to stand erect
In mind-heart alignment
Blocks bliss contentment
Whilst by simply being still
Our cup of joy overspills
Automatically
Enigmatically
As layer by layer
Discarding fear we uncover
Magnetic electricity
Elixir of divine connectivity
As this nectar we imbibe
Bliss words cannot describe
Pulsates within in renewal
Rapture in ignition continual
Consciousness bliss shift
Leaves all else save love adrift
Mind-body thus in resonation
With pulse of the Ohm vibration
Ohm the quietus
Leaving no hiatus
Within