Best Arising Poems
Silent currents softly swirl
Around tree scented salty tears
Flowing forth from freshened forest
Awash from Summer’s seasoned years
Sunlight filtered through high branches
Causes mist to rise and glow
Gleaming in the golden fern
Drifting ghostly disappearing
Winsome weather wafted waves
Waking woods on Wednesday morning
Pauses kissed and shed of woe
Friendly forest fantasizes
As the life form warmly rises
Faerie elves and dwarfing dragons
Drift away in morning dew
Clarity of dawn is breaking
In the awesome reawakening
Another day is here anew
To spend in joy with you
Hot sun
a stirring
in scarlet hours.
Sleeping beauty rises
Red rose.
Fragrance
drifts afar
on unseen wings.
Under the golden spell
She is.
Written on March 12, 2022
For: Magical Spell Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Robert James Liguori
As autumn arrives and mornings grow dark
I struggle to get out of bed
When I hear the alarm, I press the ‘snooze’
And pull the duvet up over my head
The alarm sounds again, I switch it off
Turning over for five more mins
Until some time later I’m rushing around
Late for work, because I’ve slept in!
This never occurs in the summer
When I’m up, out of bed, with the larks
So why do I find it an arduous task
To do the same, when mornings are dark?
Horizon becomes lighter.
Sunrise becomes brighter.
Sky becomes paler.
Clouds become whiter.
If enlightening SunGod is First (+1) Universal Cause,
then EarthGoddess empowers Last -(-0) Unitarian Effect
For optimizing both polynomially robust variables
and polypathically intricate inter-religious communications
co-nurturing Original Intent
Back in faith-fulfilling time to dense Hole
Forth in hopeful light DiPolarity
1/(0) BiLateral Sacred Universal-nominative Crown Convex
over
(0)/1 BiCameral Organic Unitarian-denominative Root ConCave Unitarian
Dipolar not-not co-arising
reverse-corollary co-passions
Elder RightBrain neuro-sexsensory regenerations
win/win polyvagal wealthy polynomial minds
in healthy polypathic bodies
co-mediating Tipping Point appositionals
co-arising +1 SunGod enlightenment
-(-0) EarthGoddess empowering
ego-elegant/eco-robust
Tao-Zen-Pythagorean?
informing/exforming nonduality,
bicamerally cooperative insight/out-cited
polynomially re-nouned
polypathic re-ligioning verbalizations.
Far come nigh tidings
Rocky steeps showing the path
Dawning vapors pray
No harmful or irksome thoughts
stir this mind to absolute madness,
and away from annoying, frequent sounds:
only peacefulness soothes irritated senses;
I may fall asleep and dream
in a state of false reality,
letting the fanciest fantasy
enter the bloodstream!
The crimson sunset arising over the wind-swept moor
alleviates the mood of daily woes such as this murmur;
the torrid day, unlikely a dry desert, gives into a cool breeze:
nothing is heard above and under but the shrilling of a geese!
All the joyous smiles flashed by others were missed by me,
and the craving was stuck into my throat unable to spit it out
and feel the relief I needed to carry me through a painless night;
firebugs aren't pretty butterflies, they glow and suddenly flee!
The naturally arising
The magic of your mind
Effortlessly recognize it
Your inner peace is yours forever
None can teach it to you
Your compassion is yours forever
None can give it to you
Your spaciousness is yours forever
None can hold it
Your energy is yours forever
None can aim it
Your wisdom light is yours forever
None can show it
Your happiness is yours forever
None can take it
Your joyful love is yours forever
None can preach it
Only you recognized the space
Without conciet spread your light
No mystery was revealed
Reject all arrogance and pride
Without pomposity spread your wisdom
No guru god no judgment
Without judgment spread special bliss
Only your true being can spread love
Haughtiness shuts it down
Only your true being can spread bliss
Competition kills it
Only your true being can spread joy
Pretense renders it inane
Only your true being can spread wisdom
The enthroned is a fraud
Only your true being can spread power
Don’t sit above the rest
Only your truth is happiness
All in it together
Only your self is infinite
You can’t make someone see
Naturally recognize your qualities
The truth of love shines out so free
The space of mind is endless bliss
Your innate wisdom flows on and on
You are the eternal ground of being
Allow your divine qualities to blaze through
Your natural state is inner peace
Your natural state is humour
Your natural state is happiness
None can take it or show you another way
Allow your divine qualities to blaze everyday
No known material light can compare to your truth
Yearning for serenity of clemency
my restless heart breathed out despair sigh
due to iniquity-virus I couldn’t deny…
…I did long for pardon's healing efficacy.
Midst lurking skepticism of haughty pretense
my mind wrestled against unbelief bout
instilling confusion-angst and sure doubt...
… I then cried for truth's wondrous omnipotence.
With my soul gripped with worldliness' vanity
drifting along sin-damnation flow
sinking in depravity’s quagmire ready to swallow…
…I indeed sought for God’s rescuing security.
Anchored by Christ’s redeeming sacrifice
my faith triumphs in His love so gracious
granting me eternal life, verily precious…
…I now serve the Lord, while with radiant bliss, I arise*.
*Isaiah 60:1 Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.
April1, 2020
Honorable Mention, "STRAND POETRY PICK 1..." Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 4/5/2020.
When one is foundered in thoughts from every side,
When none seems to be on our side.
On either side when there is divide,
Surrounded by barriers of ego & pride.
Swimming in deep waters against the tide,
Is there a safe haven in this bumpy ride ?
But all clouds a silver lining hide,
All storms one day shall subside.
Can a child's innocence make our thoughts sublime ?
Can Grandma's oblivion, to God may guide ?
In those hearts God always reside,
That help others thru thought & stride.
The path is clear between the devil & deep sea,
In sorrow and joy,to His will if we abide.
Day after day & night after night.
With thankfullness & contentment all worries subside.
Here I stand with decisions before me
Poisonous thoughts infiltrate my mind
Mystic euphoria from a non-existent utopia
Stimulates my senses and taunts my soul
Intervals becoming utter abominations
Inhabitants becoming exasperations to my life
Meditating on thoughts that seize my mind
A treacherous sight arises in horror
An almost spiritual phantasmagoria
Clenching my fists as these portraits unfold
Whimsical feelings once felt in the past
A line to be crossed, limits to be pushed
Indulge in the feeling of something new
Awaken the soul of my being departed
Brush off the chains, rusted and defeated
Embrace the change transpiring within
Night falls and darkness roams about
Fear and doubt overwhelm the mind.
People from afar stand and shout
Vision is defunct and glasses are to no avail
Blood pressures are running high, hearts
begin to bail
The blessed sun has gone away
Many from the hills ask, "Has it gone to stay?"
While those few from the valley cry to the
heavens, "I see a new sun arising."
Yes! Light, love, peace, strength, and happiness
we see coming on the horizon
We behold the glorious morn arising
to brighten all the land.
for Rick Parise's "Nature Monoku" contest
arising on a poetic morning...
as the sharp rays
of sunlight
meticulously sliced
through lingering clouds
to sculpt away the web of darkness
of night
i broke off a piece of time
and used its jagged edges
to scrape away the corroded pain
of doubt
today I will
pull out words
and paint images of life
on a paper canvas---
chisel out a song of love
and feel and smell
the warm breath of God
soothing my sweet serene soul
Would if you would---arise
come journey with me
in the ecstasy of a poetic odyssey---
wandering the Odin-like caverns
of the fertile womb
of my mind’s coming
to meet the morning’s dawning.