Best Internalised Poems
DESERVE
Deserve- that in which we use to critique our life's ways
a way to hold back our existence
to project a negative
and cease the positive intake
Deserve - the breath we don't take
as life is critical and cruel
A risk we avoid
A praise we reject
A life unlived by definition of the term
Deserve - the animosity within that deprives us of beauty
a vast cavernous region of self loathing
unfathomable entities that we must surpass to succeed
striving for more - better
Deserve - enraptures a lustful desire to withdraw and hide
shades of veils, impenetrable walls of denial
vulnerabilities and nakedness
the exposure of truth - internalised
we hide - we die
Deserve - you deserve all that you have
you deserve the power from recognition
and you deserve forgiveness
forgiveness of self, of others; which cannot be attained
but self as best it can
Deserve - Deserve - Deserve
Angered by such a dismissal I am
so wondrous in 'sup-prose'
you ...
your inner musings,
your lexical landscape
your shy confidence
self depreciating
You DESERVE more
Deserve - embrace, reclaim, rejoice
recognise the wealth my versifying friend
the promise in the scroll of a pen
the battle within let it bleed across the page
and cleanse with deliberate introspection
stand tall...
for my friend - you DESERVE it all
Categories:
internalised, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
Self-discovery, a path beauteous
The table’s laid, everything’s ready made
When aligned with voice of conscience righteous
Bliss fills us as a consciousness upgrade
Ensconced in rapture thus, by day and night
Our attention is soon internalised
Wisdom downloads follow, clear is our sight
In timeless time, God within’s realised
Love, wisdom and power to co-create
The threefold flame of Christ within us glows
Soul presence celebrates at heaven’s gate
There’s no doubt, for we’re in the boat God rows
Oh hermit, know that we’re he, who we seek
God in-dwells within ~ let’s take a sneak peek
03-June-2022
Categories:
internalised, god, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
The Islanders
We live in an Island
Surrounded by water
Both murky and crystalline
In water we put our trust
To protect us
From the outsiders
Our lives are internalised
We become the outsiders.
We are the Islanders!
Our imagination is pixied
Our dreams not fluid
or solid but shattered.
Our faces closed.
This paradox is not what we desired.
We live in Diaspora in Dystopia!
Therefore the water lets us down
Again and again!
A bridge over it, we build
to reach out to the others
Embrace otherness
To embrace compassion
Afterall the word is the very epitome of the womb
From which we are born!
The healing begins in our core!
No longer are we Islanders.
But we are the tamers of the water
The builders of the bridges!
The healers and the healed.
Categories:
internalised, adventure, appreciation, courage, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
Within my heart of hearts there lies
a place apart, enshrined for you,
secluded away from other eyes,
a refuge out of view.
I visit each time I watch you pass,
hide there so your gaze can't see
this admiration internalised
within the very depths of me.
Herein a deeper sense of love,
a structure sunk in flower petals,
encrusted with longing diamond smiles,
constructed out of precious metals.
Its nature transcends the superficial
skin of sex and cold desire,
beyond such mere transience
there burns a different kind of fire.
Yet you may never know of this,
and I must only dwell upon
the truth of whether you deserve
the pedestal I put you on...
Categories:
internalised, love, passion, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
I’m well rested on this bed of cold cement
With passersby borrowing me their eyes for a blanket
Oblivious to the fact that I now lay victorious
Adding salt to my open wounds
inglorious
I put words into action as my compass
With passion and determination my gate pass
And challenge the barriers that came and stood before
Internalised gatekeepers that I chose to ignore
laugh at my insignificance
feed on my intolerance
But still seek residence inside me like repressive laws
To the battlefields, to epic sword fights
To fears piercing hearts
To lies testing the truth
To honour giving birth
To a purpose, I fight for
Stand for, and am willing to die for
Every weakness a potential target
With the odds against me I must erect
a strong defence
And an even better offense
Irrational and methological
Biblical and methodical
Sacrifices to the Gods and Zeus
Prayers to God and the unborn Jesus
And mast the highest sail
Strategies and plans of attack to foil
To propel my battleship with gale force winds
With canon fire passed sinking minds
An army of ten thousand strong charging against
Whatever manner of creature may metamorphose
From the deepest part of my conscience
Troy was destroyed from within
Superstition, a weak mind to begin
Arrogance
and self glorification a mental disease
The enemy will attack
Prepared, victory I will take
Categories:
internalised, emotions, feelings,
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:
internalised, i am, self, spiritual,
Form:
Blitz
19.5
“Where is sleeping, dreaming, waking,
or even the fourth state?
Where is fear?
I abide in the glory of Self”
Verse revisited on 09-June-2022
Timeless continuum of here, now, this
Peace rippleless, humming with bliss
Holds steady internalised attention
As ever present divine orientation
Wherein heart thus, void-centric
Radiates loving intent concentric
Be it in waking or dreaming state
Magnetic bliss throbs within gyrate
Each life pulse embrace and release
Flowing gently, like the morning breeze
Dreams within dreams do thus renew
Witnessing linear time flow continue
Aware that we’re breathed by God
Of cause, not effect, overawed
Witnessed from fulcrum of stillness
Be it day or night in vibrant blissfulness
Categories:
internalised, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Back Seat Driver
Up front and hidden from the rear view mirror my rational emotion takes
a back seat from suggestions of behind when looking forward and beyond
Built in a chip on the hard shoulder of the pathway calls out ‘be careful slow
speed up’ ‘break do not break’ ‘watch the police’ internalised surveillance
Highway signs and low way warnings ever so smoothly stipulate escape
from chaos lost bearings baring truths exposed and rolling forward past
The course lobbies concourse’s constrictions of wide open spaces traffic jams
congestion when all I wish is move ahead but the the rat race rat
Mental rodents on the road gnaw through the fabric of my mind where is
no want for stabbings in the back when need surpasses constant chatter
My pilot light on auto - forward seeks transmission manually and steady step by step
progression roundabout traffic islands four way stops diversions parking lots
I suppose with all that panoply of trappings I do not benefit from a back seat remote
controlling driver when all I need is lean back enjoy and contemplate the ride
24th November 2016
Categories:
internalised, race,
Form:
Free verse
"Arma virumque cano"
No more the Viking sagas
Singed by the dragon’s breath
No more the valiant charges
Into the Valley of Death.
No more the knights of chivalry
Bewitched by a maiden’s pallor.
No more the sword-drawn cavalry
Galloping with dash and valour.
Who now hears Roland’s mighty blast
As loyally he stayed
To fight on to the very last
Though he had been betrayed
Gone, the Homeric heroics
Of those who made their final stands.
Gone are the stalwart stoics
Who charted the icy lands.
Gone, are these men romanticised,
All hailed with trumpeting noises.
For poetry’s now been feminised
And speaks with softer voices
Of emotions deep, internalised,
Of relationships and choices.
Of mother’s love of a child prized,
In whom the heart rejoices.
And who am I to say it’s not
A better voice, addressing
The struggles of our daily plot
Of our hidden hearts’ undressing,
A kinder voice that speaks in verse
To the need for understanding
Our place in a godless universe,
Infinite yet expanding.
But I do so miss the surety
Of those heroes crowned with laurels
Whose valiant deeds and purity
Filled our minds with higher morals.
Of dignity and integrity
Of knowing right from wrong
That gave our lives some clarity
As we listened to their song.
Categories:
internalised, hero, poetry,
Form:
Verse
Divine Mother’s grace
Holds us in tender embrace
Being God’s energy transmission
Felt within as rapturous bliss ignition
That all ego veils of ignorance drop away
And attention internalised, we cease to sway
What happens then is this: transfixed in bliss
Ego identity recedes; we see truth as it is
Our true self shines as God’s living light
Reinforced by bliss by day and night
That we assimilate it within form
As the epicentre of this storm
14-May-2023
Categories:
internalised, blessing, i am, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce.
I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise
discipline. You get this instant feedback that you have to own and
lean hard into. The being present to adjust, the internalised mechanisms of performance—the ‘liveness’—is the most exciting thing about sports. And, of course, the one who does it best wins—there’s a simplicity to it.
Being Sunday, the course was crowded with guys. Most of the groups were college teams of five or six guys. Since there were only two of us, we were playing faster.
I don’t like going up to a group of guys and asking to play through.
They always let us but we get these appraising looks—not strictly golf related—that you can feel. So we skipped around the guys and played open holes—still playing 18—they just weren't contiguous and it took a bit longer.
It was great to get out in the sun. The course was all rolling fairways, there’s no grass greener and no sky bluer. I came in 14-under (straight brag). I’m a little competitive, my ego loves to be placed in a hierarchy, and winning seems to give form to me, it’s such a pleasant and coherent narrative.
As we were leaving our escort Charles stepped away for a minute and a couple of Yale looking guys offered us a ride back to campus—which was all very innocent and chivalrous—to save us waiting for an Uber or something—I'm sure (we were all sweaty and looked like drowned rats).
‘Sure,’ I thought, ‘let’s run off into the sunset.. not.’
But I said, “No, thanks, anyway.”
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Songs for this:
Golden Boys by Res
Fruitcake by Subsonic Eye
Categories:
internalised, golf, perspective, school, sports,
Form:
Free verse
“Truth lies within oneself and not outside.” the author.
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Embodying the Light
Truth lies within oneself and not outside,
Embodying the light that is sublime
And in one`s life ever serves as a guide,
As a particle of light that`s divine.
Eternal truth needs first to be imbibed,
Possibly under masterly guidance
Before it`s internally circumscribed
And ushers in one`s life shine of brilliance;
Resting on the inner crest of the bones,
Truth waits for stage of assimilation
In the corridors of the brainy zone
Afore it dispels glooms of illusion.
Once internalised by the inner self
The glow of truth brightens day after day
With deep meditation within oneself
And steers one`s path along the proper way;
Such truth transcends the bounds of space and time
Redounds on those who come within its view
Spreads afar the the blessings of its bright shine
And for ever and ever sounds as new;
Like a bacon light that guides ships ashore,
Truth drives men to their rightful destiny
And leads them the inner self to adore
Until the dead end of eternity.
Categories:
internalised, light, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
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:
internalised, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
attention internalised
thought flow rested
my heart was at peace
though earth life tested
I became a witness
motionless in vast space
doing nothing thus
I invoked God’s grace
fears and desires ebbed
bliss magnetism was activated
no demons then remained
needing to be placated
one night in vibrant stillness
debts of love were recalled
seeing misdeeds of my past
I was repentant and appalled
at that moment God appeared
in light soft white yet bright
He erased past transgressions
and said it is alright
God then gently held my hand
and said be joyous on this earth
live out your life span in peace
with heart bubbling in mirth
He revealed we too are as He
made in His image ~ living light
earth is a school to grow in wisdom
love taking us on a wingless flight
such was my encounter with God
He reveals Himself when it is time
however we always hear His voice
betwixt love’s bliss beat chime
Categories:
internalised, god,
Form:
Rhyme
we make these short notes
perhaps for a latter review
as a historical landscape
marking events significant
as it happened within form
in definitively felt physicality
that our affirmation reassures
others along the same path
of the validation of this truth
around the autumn of 2018
our heart asked a question
asking why we choose fear
arising out of misalignment
of mind with current of love
needlessly causing anxiety
consciousness contraction
distanced from divine source
of bountiful loving abundance
truth always is unapologetic
as also inconvenient to face
since the ego feels insecure
being a dweller of darkness
thus fears self-luminescence
innate to our soul presence
which is so until we pause
shifting into tranquil silence
abandoning all that is false
no sooner we took one step
to drop evident negativity
the divine impulse filled us
bridging illusionary chasms
beginning with tranquil calm
as we internalised attention
divine energy one day rose
from root to crown swiftly
ushering polarity balance
parallel inner developments
oneness experiences in void
culminated in divine union
of the one divided into two
within Anahata heart centre
resulting in a bliss explosion
igniting the central funnel
as benediction permanent
purring within day and night
wisdom downloads followed
signalling love alone as real
with truth of oneness known
samadhi state experienced
as invisible space flickered
palms and feet soles aglow
transmitters and receptors
in resonance with vibrations
emanating from our heart
bliss apart now sheer power
as the spinal column shakes
with million volts of electricity
reverberating within uniformly
this happen chance automatic
with no doing done on our part
save witnessing in acceptance
as thunderous benign brute force
thus makes its presence known
in stillness
01-April-2021
Categories:
internalised, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse