Best Inwards Poems

...Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression, Loneliness, and Hop......

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“The Dissolving Heart” 

How many keys
played for seeds 
bleeding a life

read, received 
cast out 
in the left field 

planted in the heart
of karma to become
new l......

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...Skulking between the thinning clumps 
Of tattered sedge
A balding coot despondently calls,
Scratching Blackbirds scutter deeply 
Into a Hawthorn hedge;
Whilst, creeping stealthily,
Gathering da......

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...the sea lures me
    as waves run 
         one after another

splashes over the silvery sand
    and moving shingles
          slow tide flows inwards
                holding me 
           ......

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...I don't look at stars anymore.
As a boy I would sneak out into the night
to hear the horses and barn mice
chewing over their hurts and simple hopes.

I could smell the waking dreams
of dogs and......

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The Dilettante Diaries: “Freshwater”



This is how it begins
Opposite side of the chequered board
Black and White, a game to win
The 50 Move Rul......

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...Tonight 
in the Heavens sky 
A journey inwards 
Begins unravelling out

Golden moondogs kiss 
Sweetheart sparkles 
Drawing one circle 
ring around a rose 

Warmly embracing silk feelings 
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...Life started out pretty well, of that I won’t complain,
Somehow then I lost it, god knows I can’t explain.
Melancholy has taking over, Good times have gone awry 
Life is a haze and passing, like t......

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"The Internal Garden"



Inwards ever inwards
overgrown with jungle 
my weeds bloom 
eventually into 
the most exotic flowers
colours exquisite......

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...I sit on my couch on the terrace watching the dawn.
The struggling sun is still hugging the eastern mountains.
It shines with a shy orange hue casting no shadows.
A sweet breath blows inwards from......

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...Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression, Loneliness, and Hop......

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...I looked at the horrible faces,
agnostic,
I look at the beautiful faces,
pristine,
I looked for a summer in the midst of winter,
and for repose in a gruelling duel with death and oblivion.

I ......

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...From near and far, I hear the bells
their clear tones ring an ancient hymn
from long ago, ‘oft sung by men
in pure white robes, at belfry’s end. 

I hadn’t heard the bells for years
for I had w......

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...the human entity that feels
employs body as a springboard
in bondage to gender and tendencies
looking outwards then reviewing inwards
the pulse of duality from fulcrum of oneness
celebrating eve......

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...Not a true Choka...but uses a 5,7,7,5,7,7 format 
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Chill, steaming vapour;           
Silence over pale water;           
Faded, thin wisps......

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