Best Externalised Poems
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 thunderclaps, exultant fear insurgently began
inflaming souls and lifting living spirits heaven high.
Externalised, the primal chants and streaming scarves,
the goading, cheering, praising adrenaline infusion,
the fluid rush of gameplay, of two dovetailed halves
painted on an emerald canvas with fleet of foot profusion.
In a cloud of air horn banshees and muddied leather vapour
where studded feet slap pigskin like a hated face
spins a salt and vinegar smudged result newspaper
telling tales of holy triumph or damnation and disgrace.
Abused patriotism, the easy asylum of the scoundrel cur
whose omnipresent wield of slick wet Stanley blade slashes
carves desired resurgence of the way that things once were,
for Nazi flags, stiff arm salutes and pencil black moustaches.
Yet overriding all, the team and the game, the beautiful game
and the chasm rift between each side as deep and wide as forever,
the team is all, all is the team and will always be the same
and whatever divides team from team let no man draw together.
Categories:
externalised, passion, people, philosophy, sports,
Form:
Verse
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 updates
analyse
everything
every detail
every sign
they see the signs
they panic now
but she's already dead
and the next one
is forming plans
in her head
but nobody is even noticing
yet
Categories:
externalised, angel, confusion, dark, death,
Form:
Free verse
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 ego residuum
Oh Mother! We are bemused by illusion
Senses externalised, desires beget delusion
Fallen from grace, we have forgotten our nature
Your fragrant touch alone restores our true stature
Awaken Mother, here in form, love and wisdom
May our consciousness rise to the sensorium
Dual polarities melding, illumining our soul
That bliss suffused, we again feel whole
09-November-2021
Inspired By A Translation Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudhury
Notes: Gayatri mantra is a popular, age old prayer, in Sanskrit language. For literal translation please visit - https://medium.com/imeditation/gayatri-mantra-translation-word-by-word-meaning-in-english-547431a5d464
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
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 blurs boundaries
Boundaries self-imposed
Boundaries ego delusion
Delusion that we are mind-body
Delusion that veils our soul
Soul is eternal
Soul glows in our heart
Heart our true home
Heart the abode of love
Love alone is real
Love is God’s light
Light of soul and spirit
Light that’s our very essence
Essence of presence
Essence of our aliveness
Aliveness is consciousness
Aliveness is awareness
Awareness hijacked by ego
Awareness veiled by maya
Maya is our ignorance
Maya is the darkness
Darkness but an illusion
Darkness yields to light
Light same within all
Light ours if we believe
Believe when we become
Believe when we see
See
Become
23-December-2021
''B'' Forms, 10 Plus lines Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
Categories:
externalised, i am, self, spiritual,
Form:
Blitz
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 to sensation.
Letting go of, to get to,
my soul felt bliss beats renew
within the cave of my heart,
deeming all one, none apart.
I shoulda seen it comin’,
that hopeless feeling sinkin’
but I see it clearly now,
and thus do give love a bow.
27-January-2023
Categories:
externalised, introspection, love,
Form:
Jueju
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 wonder then, God remains unrealised
The truth is simple, we need to look within
Silencing thought flow din is the way to begin
Head and heart gentled and with love in alignment
We embark in earnest upon our God search assignment
Nothing is needed dear soul, save our burning yearning
Bliss magnetism soon has nodes within us churning
Polarities meld in heart resulting in bliss ignition
We thus obtain directly our true erudition
30-March-2023
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
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 sized;
no wonder then, God’s rarely realised.
Who we are can never be negated.
Waking each morn, we find heart elated;
dwelling in silence, we reclaim soul’s bliss,
rapture unbound where nothing is amiss.
Sushumna illumined, pierces the crown ~
One with the universe, in love we drown
16-September-2022
Notes: Sushumna is an energy conduit, beginning at the root chakra and going straight up to the crown chakra. For further reading refer Wiki or any yogic text.
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
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 of boundless love and soft white light. My subtle body felt God in-dwelling all forms, breathing His life force by His sublime pranic breath, magnetically energising each being by Holy Spirit. Then sadly, as my body aged, to my dismay, the fontanel closed, thus severing the divine connection. I now feel incomplete.
dreams hold forth promise
cajoling us to let go~
for God is within
05-June-2022
Like A Child Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
Categories:
externalised, innocence, spiritual,
Form:
Haibun
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 desire cesspool.
All hope seems lost, feral lust’s our fuel,
Though conscience speaks, as God Himself disguised,
We heed Him not, behaving like a ghoul,
Senses externalised, all objects sized.
Hypnotised by thoughts, our soul’s paralysed,
Chasing rainbows, we continue to drool,
Game of shadows leaves us demoralised,
No wonder then, we behave like a fool.
Discerning cause of pain, as pulse dual,
We cease thought flow, that ego’s vaporised,
Thoughts reassigned to their role as a tool,
Truth dawns, when by Holy Spirit baptised.
In timeless time, God within’s realised,
Heart lotus blooms, revealing soul’s jewel,
In-form polarities are stabilised,
Our free will’s liberated for self-rule,
Earth life, a hard school.
05-June-2022
A RONDEAU REDOUBLE POEM Poetry Contest
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Rondeau Redouble
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, we go in, within
Sensing stirrings joyous, of bliss therein
Ego rested, as thoughts become slower
We are still, so who then is the mover
There being no mind, we cannot rehearse
As awareness melds, with the universe
At ease in void and manifestation
Flow of aliveness, our meditation
Essence of presence, unbound and unstained
Swathed in love and light, that may not be named
It will suffice to know, God alone is
Felt within, as a rapturous bliss fizz
25-April-2021
Rhyming couplets poetry contest
Sponsor: Janice Canerdy
Categories:
externalised, muse, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
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 ignition therein does start
Current innate to which we are oblivious
With narrow ego wielding baton of awareness
Thus no sooner we rest fear and desire
Love, the fire for which we aspire
We be to become the answer
Requiring no translator
As Gods essence luminous
The magic we weave fortuitous
Transcending beliefs and limitations
Co-creating manifestation by resonation
Voids within form do fill as divine bliss overspills
Hollow mind body vessel, vassal of Gods will
Readying us thus for our true life purpose
Singing our verse, with love in chorus
All that that is, enigmatic beauty
Bliss renewal in continuity
14-May-2021
Categories:
externalised, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
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 wish to recognise the truth
We must meld head with heart
Relinquishing every belief
Becoming the flame
When ego disappears
Only then does God appear
Thus not by doing but in undoing
Do we reclaim what our true essence is
Peace
30-April-2023
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
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 of exhaustion
we froze flow of thought, entering stillness
our attention internalised in the void of silence
we felt strange stirrings within of ineffable joyfulness
stretching the time continuum to deepen feeling
we melded therein by softening attention
dormant nodes within awakened
purring in blissful joy elation
we assign to our bliss no label
as the energy divine stabilised within
central funnel from root to crown radiant
cave within heart renewing throb of bliss ignition
the happening both fortuitous and miraculous
wherein our presence was but a receptor
marked not end but a new beginning
unveiling unknown bliss vectors
with lower mind vaporised
oneness recognised as vibration
sublime fragrance accompanying bliss
soft divine light white sporadic manifestation
13-February-2021
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
19.2
“Where is meditation, pleasure, prosperity
or discrimination? Where is duality?
Where even is Unity?
I abide in the glory of Self”
~~~
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, everything’s sized in thought slot
The cosmic egg, womb of existence, lies within as Hiranyagarbha
Splitting, one becomes two, the two many, in-form polarity
Separation creates a yearning for union by parity
Samadhi resolves paradox of life’s enigma
There then thus is no doer meditating
All that is, is but Spanda or vibration in motion
Truth’s here now known in the void of breath cessation
Vibrant, all encompassing, luminous consciousness, scintillating
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Notes:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiranyagarbha
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
“If you would merge with oneness, vaporise!
Be a child again, welcoming surprise!”
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Immersed in limitation
Shrouded in darkness
Feeling thus confined
We flounder about
Hither and thither
Searching for joy
Bliss in permanence
Yet our heart senses
That we are far more
Than this mind body
With senses externalised
Lower mind fragmenting
Trying to piece together
The puzzle of life
Without success
Thus in delusion
Hypnotised by illusions
We strive and struggle
Hoping for a miracle
Which instantly appears
No sooner we ask
As voice of conscience
Echoing Gods will
Which has but one vibration
Love unconditional
Here begins a struggle
Between head and heart
Between ego and the divine
Former seizing, grasping
The latter, sharing, connecting
We recognise
That the voice of truth
Is that of conscience
Yet, we fear to lose
Fleeting images garnered
Or which we yearn for
Since we are clinging
To ego mind body
Stagnating in ferality
Trapped by our own hand
Unable to escape
It is then
That God in His compassion
Extends us a hand
Showing us the clear light
Of immutable truth eternal
By posing challenges
By signalling the futility
Of chasing a mirage
Illusionary thought forms
Which is what
All manifestations are
Thus when so graced
We begin to look inwards
In silence and stillness
Thought rested awareness
Doing nothing
Simply resting
Poised in the void
Of no-thingness
Desireless
Fearless
Detached
Nonchalant
Unexpectant
In timeless time
In as ordained
Attention is softened
Thoughts are quietened
Ego cravings recede
The external fades
As we get to
Vibrant emptiness
Thus we are
Thus we remain
For as long as it takes
Toxins within cleansed
Our earth life vessel
This mind body
Is readied
To receive the elixir
The magnetic impulse
Of Gods bountiful love
In boundless measure
The paths are many
We know them not
For we are not the doer
God alone is the mover
In childlike trust
Aspect allowing
We imbibe the bliss
Scintillating
~~~~~~~
He is that who may not be named
We too are as He, oh hermit
Within heart as the turret
Our divinity unstained
05-December-2020
Contest: The light N/A
Categories:
externalised, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse