Best Encaustic Poems
Just Another Door
...("Portal of Souls", 2019, original encaustic)
Just Another Door
Our society is sick
Spiritually sick
Because it has lost religion
Or transferred it to hollow
Shallow faiths – such as......
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Categories:
encaustic, death, journey, society, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Animal Mind
...(“Animal Spirit”, 2018, original encaustic)
Animal Mind
Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be an animal.
Of course I am an animal,
But I wonder what it’s like
To not have the human ......
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Categories:
encaustic, animal, dream, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Nonduality
...(“Dragon’s Eye”, 2024, original encaustic)
Nonduality
Nonduality is at the heart of both physical reality
And all spirituality
The non duality of the two being its essential meaning
B......
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Categories:
encaustic, beauty, love, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
The Definition of Insanity
...("Something or Nothing", 2024, original encaustic)
The Definition of Insanity…
All so angry, all so lost
Trying to find their place in the world
Is this you, is this me
Does it matt......
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Categories:
encaustic, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
You Cant Judge a Book By Its Cover
...("Eye of God", 2018, original encaustic)
You Can't Judge a Book By Its Cover
You can’t judge a book by its cover
Or then again maybe you can
Covers show us what the authors want us to ......
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Categories:
encaustic, books, humanity, humor, prejudice,
Form:
Narrative
Waking To Duality
...(“Dragon’s Eye”, 2024, original encaustic)
Waking To Duality
I wake from a dream
Where I’d been in nondual samadhi
A vivid clarity of thoughtless meditation
I tried to sustain once a......
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Categories:
encaustic, dream, introspection, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Great Paradox of Being
...("Halves of a Whole", 2019, original encaustic)
The Great Paradox of Being
The great paradox of being
is simple really.
It’s that no matter how confident we are
in our own experience......
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Categories:
encaustic, introspection, judgement, psychological, social,
Form:
Narrative
A Dance of Opposites
...(“Evil Eye”, 2024, original encaustic)
A Dance of Opposites
What is the world today?
Good and evil in perfect balance
A dance of opposites
With none the wiser, nor more powerful.
But......
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Categories:
encaustic, evil, perspective, world,
Form:
Free verse
All That We Dream
...(“The Longest Journey”, 2020, original encaustic)
All That We Dream
When George Harrison sang,
“Yesterday, today was tomorrow
And tomorrow, today will be yesterday”
He was making a si......
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Categories:
encaustic, celebration, life, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred
...("Before And After Science", 2023, original encaustic)
The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred
There are traditions
Passed down in ear-whisper lineages
And Dead S......
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Categories:
encaustic, corruption, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Alternate Lives
...(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic)
Alternate Lives
Time appears to go in a line
From then to now
And some times it does
But at a certain point the stream
Becomes a river
Whic......
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Categories:
encaustic, appreciation, life, perspective, relationship,
Form:
Narrative
Running on Empty
...("A Moment of Grace aka The Empty Mirror", 2024, original encaustic)
Running on Empty
Within the empty mirror mind
I see an empty smile
Is no one left to judge me then
And my heart of......
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Categories:
encaustic, celebration, perspective, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Darkness
...("Winter's Edge", 2018, original encaustic)
Darkness
Darkness darkness be the pillow
That pulls me in and holds me down
When all around the light had faded
And nowhere within it can......
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Categories:
encaustic, depression, introspection, perspective, winter,
Form:
Rhyme
Speaking in Tongues
...("Still Life", 2021, original encaustic)
Speaking in Tongues
I like speaking
To the sky, to the earth
To my dogs, and wife and kids.
It’s the sound of a babbling brook
Flowing in cas......
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Categories:
encaustic, humanity, voice, water, words,
Form:
Narrative
A World of Thoughtforms
...(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic)
A World of Thoughtforms
Caught in cascade tumble
Splashing here there
Without time to collect my self
Let alone thoughts
What is up becomes d......
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Categories:
encaustic, earth, self, spiritual, sun,
Form:
Narrative