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A Deeper Divide
Dreams herein, our progeny, still birth sometimes inside,
blind and rigor twisted, formless foetuses upon
the terrace steps where innocence bled and occasionally died
screeching for salvation when every shred of hope was gone.
Yet also soared in glorious flight, monstrous span
of righteous flapping wings in the stadium sky,
drummed...

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Categories: externalised, passion, people, philosophy, sports,
Form: Verse
Suicide Angel
they were all there 
the signs
neon
pastel
greyscale
signs
I guess they saw them at the time

but maybe she's just attention-seeking
right

they even saw her self-harm wounds
her emotional pain
externalised

and yet none of them
even
realised
or maybe they tried
but it wasn't enough

so she took her own life
and now they analyse
everything
even her Facebook status...

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Categories: externalised, angel, confusion, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gayatri Mantra
Salutations to The Divine Mother
Who envelopes us in a bliss shower
God’s divine essence aglow in our heart
Innate aliveness enabling each breath to start
Effulgence of a thousand suns dispelling darkness 
Entwining our mind-body to the That oneness
Moment to moment in a joy continuum 
There remaining no...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member See To Believe
Believe not scriptures
Believe when we see
See myriad forms
See play of desire
Desire spawns thought
Desire seeks fulfilment 
Fulfilment momentary
Fulfilment fickle
Fickle and unstable
Fickle so disable
Disable desire
Disable all knowing
Knowing but experience 
Knowing limited
Limited is our mind
Limited are our senses
Senses are externalised
Senses can be internalised
Internalised attention
Internalised stillness 
Stillness dissolves time
Stillness...

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Categories: externalised, i am, self, spiritual,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member I Shoulda Seen It Coming
I shoulda seen it comin’
but was so entrenched in sin,
that enslaved by senses five,
dark desires kept me alive.

Attention externalised,
everything I did was sized,
deadened to caress of love,
head and heart, not hand in glove.

I was a dead man walking,
enmeshed in lust forms stalking,
until I chose cessation,
nonchalant...

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Categories: externalised, introspection, love,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member Are We Educated
Having chosen to feel contrast
Is it not strange that we feel aghast
Immersed in this dual realm of limitation
Imagining as real, our life on earth play station

Deluded, in vain we attempt to enhance the status
Of our decaying feeble organic form apparatus
With senses externalised, everything is sized
No...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pillar of Light
A vertical tube closed at either end,
within which is soul, wishing to ascend
but all that surrounds is organic form,
brought forth to life by a divine bliss storm.

The body has it’s need which soul does feed;
soon tail wags the dog and need becomes greed.
Senses externalised, everything...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Earth Life, a Hard School
Earth life, a hard school, dark desire cesspool,
Senses externalised, all objects sized,
No wonder then, we behave like a fool,
Truth dawns, when by Holy Spirit baptised.

Ego controls thoughts, so we’re ill-advised,
Body hormones rule, our instincts cruel,
Bemused by illusions, fleeting goals prized,
Earth life, a hard school, dark...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Premium Member Who Am I
Heart is at ease, yet mind wishes to know
Consciousness fulcrum, that keeps us aglow

We see around, sacred geometry
As our breath flows in continuity

Senses externalised, everything sized
Mysterious love touch, not realised

Scriptures aplenty but they all confound
How may origin, of our self be found

To discern the truth,...

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Categories: externalised, muse, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Destiny of Man
Senses five externalised 
Analytical mind, objects sized
Yet power of reason, now our prison
Life whizzes by, too late at death we wisen
Recognising that we are not mind-body
We are divine, on earth for study
Learning love alone as real
Gods pulse that heals
Alive and aglow in our heart
As bliss...

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Categories: externalised, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Child Recalls
By my enabled senses five, attention externalised, I beheld the magical world of myriad objects, reflecting their luminous auras. As I exhaled, the world disappeared and through my open fontanel correspondent to the crown chakra, I entwined with universal consciousness, melding with God’s blissful domain...

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Categories: externalised, innocence, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Dissolve Ego
A monk ascends
Then shares wisdom
The ignoramus interpret
Thus a new religion is born

Unless our hearts become porous
We are trapped in lower mind
That is controlled by ego
Senses externalised 

Notice that no sage
Followed religious scripture
All they did was to enter silence
Allowing God’s light to permeate form

If we truly...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Simple Truth
“be at ease, oh hermit, in thought free awareness
you are, as you are complete, one with that oneness”

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Let us be clear
We are here
In this mind body
Endowed 
With senses five
Having polarities
Out of which 
The inner is dormant
Since our attention
Is externalised 

Likewise thought
Has two components
Of an indivisible...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ashtavakra Gita Verse 19:2
19.2
“Where is meditation, pleasure, prosperity 
or discrimination? Where is duality?
Where even is Unity?
I abide in the glory of Self”

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Verse revisited on 23-March-2022

To know what is, discern what is not
Thus neti-neti, not this, not this, ephemeral 
We look for truth, making singular, seeming plural
Yet senses externalised,...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member If Thine Eye Be Single
in the beginning, we may say
we dwelt in stupor of separation
awareness dulled, driven by desire
oblivious to the vibrancy of bliss elation

senses externalised, thoughts blocking surprise
somewhere we lost our childlike spontaneity
enmeshed thus in a web of our making
boon became bane, joy the fatality

upon reaching the point...

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Categories: externalised, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

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