Best Aware Poems

Note the golden morning sun, red and orange, blue aeonian sky
Silver reflections of moonlight cast on dead of night still waters
Window light that shines so bright welcoming you at night
The way your smile reaches all the way up into your eyes

Smell the boulevards rain-washed and...

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As I have and I presume most of you have as well

Had at some point in our life time

Had to experience loss and death

And a Silent muse just posed the question

I am now about to ask of you to

Given that there is no good way...

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AWARE

Caught up in the pulse
Ever aware of core

Like…you’re sensing a rose –
    not image      not aroma
        but symbolically –
The revelation blossoming
        then gone
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And she thought words were beautiful even in the early morning….                                  ...

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What Should I Be Aware Of

That sure seems to be a magic question to me.
There are always comments about my poems catching my attention.
If my poem, was smooth, perfect and properly flowing it may be overlooked.
I really wonder how many times a good poet has...

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School didn’t teach me about human behaviour 
if I had known the basics it would have been my saviour. 

How could I anticipate those so different to myself 
prepared to make the lowly moves that I would not have dealt 

who don’t know honest competition...

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Death is just the taking away 
of the gross material that 
enshrouds and hides
the life essence that is you, 
setting you free from your 
temporary cocoon that has become 
your mortal prison. 
In your freedom, 
You will find there's no death. 
Live your life fully...

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Beware the tenderness of anyone’s toes
Especially that of your friends and foes,
For pain, they say, is its own reward
Can be magnified with additional woes.

Carefully measure your daily deplored
Consider exactly what you can afford,
Wise to keep in mind the old, old saying
A pen is mightier than...

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The most troubling moment
Is when we see our selves clear
We must salvage and own it
We must battle the fear

Flaws come in sight
Jaws of the night
They are even more clear
When you turn on the light

They won’t disappear 
Like our childhood fears
Irrational terrors 
From our younger years

Very...

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Irrelevant anomaly?
individual autonomy

Irreverent reality
(consumate depravity)

Continuing disparity
divisive inhumanity

Nhilist demographics
insidiously tragic......

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Defeated, hopeless, helpless. 
A slow sinking of the heart.
Overwhelmed. Drowning. 
The brain has reflexes. 
Plugging. Toning. 
Must find a balance. 
Right, wrong, whatever.
Masquerade, parade,
celebrate illusions. 
Conspiracy, hypocrites 
sewn into innate intelligence. 
Regrets, cigarettes, beer
save a life by giving a dollar. 
Useless, nonsense, crazy. 
Inspiration meets...

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"Mono No Aware"

Datsuzoku
Mono no aware
Wabi-Sabi

Yuugen Yuugen Yuugen
Seijaku

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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could be the only ones better than others ~ are those who know they’re not 


By
David Kavanagh...

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Baby, Cant we just stop and begin again
Satan has got us in a headspin
I refuse to just let him win
We are on that bumpy road of sin
Please baby, let's stop and begin 
With Gods love growing Within

For our spirit runs so deep
While we reap the...

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I have heard eternal fires burn
With notes of lessons yet to learn,
And bathed in Basho’s lyric streams
Of Summer, Winter, Fall and Spring

I have climbed the lichen cliffs unseen
And heard that tranquil rhythmic theme 
While watching herds of elk below
And never thought to draw my bow

For...

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