Best Mindful Poems

Mindful  

Startled out of nonchalant light,
Wakefulness stands at attention
Ignited flame from the eternal candle,
Energized vigil of the watchman
At the soul’s dawning daybreak
Tingling in the presence
Of every dappled infinite breath.

Rotating eye of illumination
Watchful, like a lighthouse beacon hovering,
Charts rocks and shoals through clear oceans insight,
Every...

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I can offer you sympathy,
try to feel you through empathy.
But if you take it for granted,
silence will be your remedy.

Remember the seeds you planted,
when unnourished will bloom slanted.
Hearts yearn for balanced devotion,
like birds sharing what they chanted.

When there is too much commotion,
tears seem to fall...

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My desk is all of a shamble
My garden is full of bramble
Does this show me to be
High in ability
Or just a bad example 


So, if I tidy up the mess
Would my intelligence be less
Would I be a social turd
Misunderstanding each word
Just like a politician ......

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I've always showered 
care on ungrateful trees, 
the ones that bloomed 
and the ones that withered. 
I watered them anyway. 
In this chaotic world, 
compassion is made slavery, 
chained with entitlement 
and false lovebites, 
yet my tender heart 
endures through the raid 
and self-inflicted questions...

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Me
and my
mindfulness.
My present thoughts,
the sounds and feelings;
a sort of deep meditation,
whether standing or sitting down
I am aware of the moment and sounds.
Right now a wild wind is blowing outside,
it is howling and screaming through the trees.

But when it takes a rest there is deep silence,
and...

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When you pick a pen and paper to write 
A line or two, or poem you feel just right 
In your heart you feel, in your mind you think 
The best you will give, your heart and soul’s link. 

So you let the feelings flow...

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MINDFUL OF SOLAR ECLIPSE

He’s coming with his dark glasses
and dizzying smile

He’s stopping by for a minute or two
a minuet of manic joy

He covers the sun with his steady hand
she tingles with trepidation

Will she be blotted out from his employ
she wipes off sweat as he passes...

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Always keep space within your heart, 
for life's unexpected brand new starts.
Quote - Poet’s own 

In my dream I saw an angel
Hovering o’er my bed
Light was gleaming from her halo
Here are the words she said.

“I found out your heart is troubled
That you’re wishing for deathly
I...

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Mindful Music – for contest


She sits
somewhere in her mind

accompanied
by music only she can hear

smiling
at those only she can see

rocking slowly
to the rhythm of memory

dancing
to music only she can hear.


John G. Lawless
10/3/2015

submitted to – So I thought of this line – Poetry contest
sponsor – Francine Roberts...

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Mindfulness shows us the way,
self-aware through night and day.
Ego urges deflect thought,
thus its best, to be self-taught.

Exiting game of shadows,
we graze in heaven’s meadows.
Erst fears and desires renounced,
lower mind is here now trounced.

Knowing love alone real,
fickle cravings lose appeal.
That that does not come and go,
recognised...

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"A gentle heart is wrapped with silken threads, 
let your eyes and mind dance in each moment,
to untie each one of those silken beautiful threads."

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It's a lingering mystery 
What people are going through.
Everyday, we meet wounded, fragile souls 
Who conceal sadness with smiles.
They've wrapped barricades around their glass hearts,
Stamped with a "No Tresspass" sign.
If we're patient enough, 
They'll let us through with time.
With gentle hearts 
And mindful eyes,
We watch...

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thoughtless multitude
	Great Pacific Garbage Patch ~
		thoughtful attitude...

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M-indful
H-eart
E-xpresses
L-ove
D-ivine
Z-ealously

D-oing
E-very
L-owly
F-orm
I-n
N-ice
O-rder

Topic: Birthday of Mheldz Delfino (March 30) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Desperation, draw me not like magnets pull
But once again let saneness possess me in full
Do not ravage me like a lion upon its prey
Block not the seeds of thoughts that come to save the day

Like limbs of a tree in the presence of a gale...

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