Best Imaginal Poems

9.1
“Opposing forces,
duties done and left undone—
when does it end
and for whom?
Considering this, be ever desireless,
let go of all things,
and to the world turn an indifferent eye”

9.3
“Seeing all things as threefold suffering, 
the sage becomes still
Insubstantial, transient, contemptible-- 
the world is fit only for rejection”


Sacrilege but...

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"Do you know the legend of the cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to" - John Berger

tinnitus for the masses ring
an audible in summer sway -...

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15.7
“You are That in which the universe appears 
like waves appearing in the ocean
You are Consciousness itself
No need to worry”


The concept being that the world is nothing but thought
Transient and therefore necessarily unreal like a dream
Yet in truth of being resident therein what may be...

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Ok, this is not PG
Babe
I am so BURSTING

I don't want to be illegal
but I want to break the rules

Love, I am tiring of being your best friend
I know this would upset you
but won't you please, PLEASE
upset me

If I pick a fight with you
will you have...

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The has been manifests results
In as imaginal
Each time he so dreams, he exults
Thinks he’s infallible 

Like a dead man walking
Sees not ego stalking
Unendingly talking

We have seen
The has been

24-December-2021
Quietus ...

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It’s 2023 and the world wants to know
‘What is a woman?’

Apparently now all it takes is call yourself one
and, poof, you are.

Which means we have finally arrived
in the post-modern nightmare of objectiveless fantasy.

In this fantasy definitions and identities 
are as fluid as genders.

Fee, I want...

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(“Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic)

Right Brain, Left Brain

Two halves of a whole
Complimentary opposites
Passive/active, imaginal/verbal
Figurative/literal, depressive/manic
Outside and within time
A master and his emissary
Inside us all.

Yet each of us have our own balance
Our own comfort zones
And range of tolerance.
Like a finger print 
Within our brain
Leaving its subtle...

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Before we get to the practice number three
A few words to reside in clarity 

The triad or trika 
Para, para-para & apara 
Lowest the apara - we as in-form consciousness 
Aligning with (para-para) Shakti to get to (Para) Shiva Oneness

Or we may say our journey...

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(Pema, 2018)

OCD

Working on compiling and editing my latest project
even my dreams become an obsessive loop
of cutting and pasting words and images
mostly just the same few over and over
placeholder symbols for other symbols
that must have some meaning,
or at least the potential for it.

And I see how...

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views are thoughts imaginal
construed, conjured
and as such
of no use

by touch
direct experience 
organic form transmutes
then we know since we become...

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