Best Mode Poems
Fight or flight mode always on
Can't explain to anyone
what is going on in life
Internal/External strife
"Take a breath; you'll be alright"
Set a match to dynamite
World without is going mad
World within is getting sad
Cortisol spikes all the time
Rarely am I doing fine
"Wake up! Someone's calling you!"
"Look around! There's much to do!"
Balance work and what's at home
You're fenced in, not free roam
Danger's waiting; don't go far
Bombs disfigure, leave a scar
"Caregiver" your major role
Try to keep it in control
Energy is on the wane
Losing marbles, can't stay sane
On decline is mental health
Send out feelers on the stealth
Do they know I'm on the edge?
Can't hold on to "live life" pledge
Eulogies their time to speak
During life, played hide and seek
No one came to find me here
Though they knew my life was drear
Fight or flight mode, cortisal
Will make sure I take the fall
When I'm laid there in the ground
Please, say silent! Not a sound!
Don't be sad; no, do not cry!
Don't you try to fathom why!
All is well; I am at peace
The fires in my life now cease
I'll enjoy a nice long sleep
Eyes all dry, for I'll not weep
Hope I'll hear that trumpet blast
Rise up and reach home at last
There in heaven all is well
Thankfully, I've skipped on hell
Here is only harmony
Fight or flight is history!
Eileen Manassian Ghali
OCTOBER 19, 2024
Beirut, Lebanon
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sliced
and whole
a cleaved life
in flux cast dice
state of non being
potential in between
eternity's randomness
flip a coin up into the air
unpredictability flies there
alternate reality hints upon
•>•
parallel universes going on
realistically just one path
life’s inevitable no math
untangled observation
spit out my creation
god particle sown
new baby grown
chop the cord
use sword
spliced
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By
David Kavanagh
HMS
Morning Mode of a Poet
Morning Prayer. Check
Taking a shower. Check
Brushing teeth. Check
Dressing. Check
French Coffee. Check
Feed the cat. Check
Feed the poet. Check
More coffee. Check
Breakfast. Check
Quill In Hand. Check
~Morning Mode:Now Activated~
December 28, 2019
Seeking patterns
Familiar environs
Sensory apparatus
Thus so languishing
In hypnotic stupor
Yet heart yearns for
Soul's luminescence
Governed by instinct
Fickle egoic attention
Having separated itself
From womb of God's love
Is tragically blown away
In winds of uncertainty
Of duality remorseless
We are where
We choose to be
So we may dream on
Or decide to wake up
Our life, our choice
Yet pulse of love whispers
“Oh child, please be still”
28-October-2022
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 even delusion made possible by form
thus both captive and free
03-December-2022
if you could last a day inside the body of
the lovesick-shell of a human
i turn into when i'm in love
i would applaud you
allow me to show you a preview first:
as one might think
loving someone and being in love are
two vastly different experiences
whereas
no matter how hard i try to avoid it
and no matter what outer influence tries to intervene
once my heart decides it loves a person
much to my demise and almost involuntarily
i will love you until my chest plate cracks
and shatters
and my heart is
hopelessly, yet hopefully
crawling towards you
if you were born into the hurricane
you learn to chase them
you learn to put yourself inside the eye,
because you’re strong enough to withstand it and you know it
you’re confused between boredom and peace so you opt for danger instead
because you don’t know how to love outside of the whirlwind
because what else do you know?
stuck in a loop of coming up with scenarios of what the future might hold.
coming up with an imaginary child that you love with your beating heart
thinking about how absolutely gut wrenching it would feel to watch her
feel and think and hurt
the way you are right now
baby doesn’t deserve that
you don’t deserve that
so why would you have baby in a situation with somebody that makes you feel like
you're standing in the eye of a hurricane?
because there was once sunlight
and there was once peace
and there will be again soon.
right?
I'm now in god mode
Explanation, if you will
That I have the power
To give life or take it
We all do, in our way
Aside, only one force
That transcends time
I will love you forever
Not one ... second ... more.
(This is NOT religious statement of any kind, it is about the emotional power
some people hold over others, and the ambiguities of the only thing that
refutes it).
of seeds strewn in existence
blossoming at their own pace
all we do is outpour compassion
being the only real substance
that steers souls toward light
ever aflame within all hearts
19-February-2023
Quatrain #857:
MODE
Make up your mind to seek the light,
Opt truth in kind to guide your sight;
Deed can now bind the love you share,
Etch what heart finds as craft takes flight.
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
30 August 2018
Singapore
resting mind’s need to know
vibrant yet in state of unknowing
whilst embracing, releasing, imbibing
the core essence of offered vibrations
shape shifting in the womb of space
blissful in a state of total surrender
I Am
a memory trigger
which we never knew of
in active cognition
crystallises before us
seeking our indulgence
but why would we oblige
beyond giving it a nod
of recognition
before we flow on
where the currents carry us
borne by past momentum
of our once fickle heart
which is now void centric
assigning no preference
to any vibration
other than love
12-November-2022
agendas that present themselves to us
pause at the periphery of our aura
peeping within and finding no one is here
and yet since all doings must yet be done
we enact our life role with vigour as ordained
so be it
If intent be pure,
outcomes as may be any,
oh hermit, all’s forgiven.
Nonjudgmental eye
observes waves in the ocean,
according no preference.
love calibrates not
value systems
there is no judgment
nor any hesitation
in plunging into embrace
the echo may not return
it matters not
love is an effervescence
exhuming darkness
as God is our witness
Fear should not arise
Yet it does
A strange phenomena
Of foreign origin
Let us watch it awhile
And see how deep it goes
For everywhere there is light
18-October-2022