Best Externalised Poems
A Deeper DivideDreams 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 Angelthey 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
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
See To BelieveBelieve 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
I Shoulda Seen It ComingI 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
Are We EducatedHaving 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
Pillar of LightA 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
Earth Life, a Hard SchoolEarth 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
Who Am IHeart 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
Destiny of ManSenses 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
A Child RecallsBy 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
Dissolve EgoA 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
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
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
If Thine Eye Be Singlein 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