Best Chapter And Verse Poems
Chapter and Verse a Live Poetry RecitalGood evening Ladies
May I say, I am honored and privileged
As this is the first ever time
I have read in front of a woman’s only group
And a fine group of bovine beauties you are
I truly hope you have enjoyed dinner
The poetry portion of your evening...
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chapter and verse, animal, farm, humorous, poetry,
Form:
Light Verse
Chapter and VerseChapter and Verse
Borrowed words
Overdue loans
On faded words
Tears melting ink
Wisdom's die
Collection time
Bankrupt soul
With no words to share
Overdue books
Wine splashes the pages
Of my mind
Melancholy whispers to me
Here, here
The past sings me a song
Withered books
Our collective memories
Buried in the pages of history
Sad Chapters
I danced
I...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, introspection, love, passion, philosophy,
Form:
Light Verse
Book of Matthew Chapter Seventeen Verse ThirteenEveryday time awakens unto the same old scenes....
With our honey as locusts meals and camel hair dreams
Saying yes, Lord, but even the dogs eat at crumbs which fall
Aneath their Master's table: 'O woman, your faith is strong; thus
Be it as you will ? Gathering...
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chapter and verse, angel, art, autumn, love,
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Chapter 4, Verse 1Holy week,
another chance to torment
those who seek redemption.
Hang your cross of Jesus on the wall
( a double execution)
as if crucifixion was not enough....
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chapter and verse, christian, easter, god, jesus,
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Chapter and VerseA window made of small panes of glass
Each with a different view
One may be filled with a lawn of grass
Touched with the morning dew
Another of the sun shining bright
Casting shadows when shone
And bringing in the new morning light
The panes might stand alone
Yet when viewed together...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, life, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 29“There is no substance whatever which is by nature unlimited. There is no substance whatever which is of the nature of Reality. The very Self is the supreme Truth. There is neither injury nor non injury in It.”
all that is manifest, has a beginning and...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 39“Even my natural self appears to me as non-distinct from the supreme Self; it appears to be one and like space. How can there be meditator and meditation?”
beginning at the end of our understanding
globe of love and light of God is all that is
without diminishing...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 36“Some seek nonduality, others duality.
They do not know the Truth, which is the same at all times and everywhere, which is devoid of both duality and nonduality.”
everything everywhere, all at once
the pulse of life in unending renewal
spontaneity has no need to rehearse
with love and light...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1 verse 8:“I have no mental activity, good of bad;
I have no bodily function, good or bad;
I have no verbal action, good or bad.
I am the nectar of Knowledge -
beyond the senses, pure”
fragmented fickle thought relates to ego
useful of course but we now make it slow
we...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1 verse 21“Know that which has form to be false, that which is formless to be eternal.
Through the instruction of this truth there is no longer rebirth into this world.”
ephemeral is the manifest universe
held in the womb of boundless space
love in the heart has no need to...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 23If it is of the nature of the not-Self,
how can there be Samahdi?
If it is of the nature of the Self, how can there be Samahdi? If it is both "is" and "is not", how can there be Samahdi?
If all is one and of the...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, Verse 26“As the self is filled by the Self, so is all filled continuously by you. There is no meditator or meditation.
Why does your mind meditate shamelessly?”
to behold its own reflection
living light takes on myriad forms
each module though one with the whole
hypnotised by the ego,...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 1” Through the grace of God alone, the desire for nonduality arises in wise men to save them from great fear.”
{Nonduality - monistic Consciousness, in which the knower, knowledge, and knowable - soul and God - become one; the highest realization of Divinity.
Fear - The...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 58“There is no need of knowledge, reasoning, time, space, instruction from a teacher, or attainment of Samahdi.
I am naturally the perfect Consciousness, the Real, like the sky, Spontaneous and steady.”
we are as we are complete
with whom then should we compete
life flows on all by itself
what...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Jueju
Avadhuta Gita Chapter 1, verse 4“All is verily the absolute Self.
Distinction and nondistinction do not exist.
How can I say, "It exists; it does not exist"?
I am filled with wonder!”
inner light caged
by ego upstaged
whenever tested
in jest we rested
feral lower mind
choosing love kind
awake in the dream
where illusions stream
the vaporised self
dances...
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Categories:
chapter and verse, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme