Best Practice Poems
The Need for Practice (Revised-Ha!)
Loving yourself is the birth of romance,
Dancing alone is still dance,
Practicing augments one’s courage to try
Failure at worst brings a sigh!
Athletes learn early the secret of gain,
Find they can work through most pain,
Who cares in time they will likely get beat,
Masters of neighborhood's street!
Victory - Good friend (of those who don’t quit),
Ludicrous (plans to outwit),
Golden ideas are flags you’ve unfurled
Practice your gifts for the world.
Digging deep, failures uncover your gold,
Teachers are rarely so bold,
No one can ever say what you should do...
Treasure's what's buried in you!
Long Tooth
August 9, 2016
Plucking guitar strings
Pruning to make good music
Growing notes of life
Before you have affixed to anything a label.
Before you even have a single thought,
practice NDA when you are able
whether you’re “aware” of
Non-Dual Awareness or not!
Relax and breathe; now SEE
an object – any object – as an ENTITY,
an entity which also is aware of YOU.
Move on to a second thing, a third, a fourth
till at last you’re noticing a bigger view.
Everything is ONE and you are now immersed
in your environment – free and unrehearsed!
July 29, 2022
for Unseeking Seeker's Non-Dual Awareness Poetry Contest
Each piano note
Played skillfully with soothe hands
No need for tension . . .
It can heal the soul
The heart that's dying to ex-
Press those precious chords
Piano Practice -
Repairing my unstable
Thoughts of distress...leading me to my ruins...
I have not achieved any success - drowning in my sins
I can't practice alone...
Teach me how to play elegantly
Help me to translate my inspiration into piano compositions...
That would be genius...that would be incredible
The world needs music to repair its broken society
Piano playing is so moving and therapeutic
Free us from solitude's captivity!
Stimulate us with mesmeric music,
We need it so desperately!
I refuse to be stuck in place without music, making me dance merrily!
Each piano note
Was played pleasurably with gentle and articulate hands
No need for tension . . .
Don't make us feel apprehension!
Don't mention the sorrows and burdens of yesterday...
I pray...I want you to ascend this sun-shining day!
I pray that I see you spread
Your velvet wings and fly today
Without a trace of dread!
Get a heads start! Play those chords of bliss!
You are a waterfall of wonderfulness....
It can heal the soul...it can mend a broken heart as well
The heart that's dying to ex-
Press those precious chords...
Is your motivation a heaven or a hell?
Piano Practice -
Repairing my unstable
Thoughts of loneliness...
I can't practice alone...
Teach me how to play elegantly
Piano Practice -
Repairing my unstable
Thoughts of woeful affliction and discouragement...leading me to my ruins...
I have not achieved any success - drowning in my sins
I can't practice alone...I must play a song with you
Teach me how to play elegantly and so true
Teach me how to be as talented as you . . . .
Embrace me with affectionate passion
You don't know how you make me feel - mere satisfaction
Let me be your page-turner and take action!
I'll take action to help you play so flawlessly and wondrously - the audience is smiling and closing their eyes with gratification! ~
When I mention my morning meditation practice,
many respond with wishes and hopes
they could
would
should discipline themselves
to also join in to this practice
practice
praxis
until fragmented uncommunicative ego/ecosystems
finally get life resiliently realistically right
more than ego-narcissistically wrong.
But this,
I ego-think and eco-feel,
reverses what is a more centrally profound point
of ZeroZone cosmic-organic view.
Everyday life is already our active meditation
which we Win/Lose unpractice,
Business As Usual LoseLose dis-practice
praxis
until we hope to get us egoWin-ecoWin
interdependently healthy right
more than pathologically diseased wrong.
There are many genuine , good and kind people in our world
Who’s kindness, empathy and good deeds are apparent
Who give and help those in need without expectation
Their authentic , selfless, humble souls transparent
There are also those who voice all the right words
Yet their words and actions do not coincide
Outwardly spouting graciousness and compassion
Yet their actions and real truth lies inside
If your heart is truly open and sincere
Your virtues are beyond reach
Show it in your actions
And practice what you preach!
When first we met, in sailor town,
the slim jim chased, and I was found.
His greedy lips did hold me down.
With me, he wed, and we were bound.
But leaves did crisp and we did fall
into set ways beneath old oak.
The charm and grace did hit a wall,
so I did wink and he awoke.
He turned, placed kiss upon my lips,
with silvered practice of Don Juan.
The shadowed moon - a great eclipse.
He’s my bright sun - curtains are drawn.
Find your Don Juan in places, close.
A smile in bed - a sizzling rose.
shooting aimless blame
careful how you love yourself ~
cupid’s boomerang
Oh the love of God so transforming
it brings such wholeness to a person
no barrier can stop it coming through
when you realise you're his special son
Give all your love to God on high
share that same love to one and all
show others what God's love is like
this is what it's like to follow his call
Love with strength slow yourself strong
love with a purpose begun in the mind
show passionate love that's emotionally full
this love shown brings many to find
Stand firm against evil's darkness
don't be weak hold still and be strong
love out of the abundant goodness
from God's stronghold forever long
Practice God's love on everyone
this is the right thing so to do
the walls of darkness will surely fall
then to return love to no matter who
I write so when i'm wrong i'm still right,
I fly words like planes the wright brothers rite?
This is nothing new you could of knew what i'd do.
After ware and tear I wonder where you could wear a new outfit.
Go to the store to get chips, fruit snacks too, not a pack maybe two.
I wish I had a rode mic to use on the road,
Or a face cam to record while I rowed.
I just yawned but we're almost there, that's their way of saying they're tired.
The letter after S is a T, in my white tee, I drink tea and sing the alphabet.
In Spanish I know Si, yes I like the sea, someday i'll see, after my A B C's.
Pare look on my face with a pair of pears being tasted.
I sent cents to the scent store cause tax for her perfume was 4 pennies more.
I turn the bass low so I don't scare the bass in the water.
The tigers prey while I pray.
Duel fighters dual.
I meddle, in the mettle, until I get the medal.
Wether they know it or not the weather might change whether they like it or not.
They're on their way over there now.
I'm sure my principal knew the principles.
I'm about to cite what I sight on the site tonight alright.
You can vote at a poll in the north pole.
I bawled when I seen I was bald.
You ever seen a bear bare naked?
Don't bark up the wrong bark of tree.
They Say practice makes perfect,
But I'm only practicing Emptiness
They say it's because of heartbreak
But really I haven't had the privilege,
The only reason for my heartache
Is I haven't played life's cribbage
The Golf Practice
By Elton Camp
Sue hit the ball with a mighty swing
Didn’t know problems it would bring
Although Ms Sue had called out “Fore,”
It crashed through a window next door
The owner yelled at her, “Stupid thing.”
Beautiful summer day. You know you're gonna die
that's why you know no joy.
Obsessed with self, there is no answer
unless religion, tv, stories, sports matter.
So what if nothing rhymes and I don't
bring my life into an expressible state
or fight purposelessness, anomie. No one writes.
Running the gauntlet alone. A good day to die, the Apaches say.
For men like us dying's easy, it's living that's hard.
And since dying's much like living, that's hard too.
There's some contentment in letting community decide
your place in it. We're not talking to you.
Really, it's a perfect day. Every leaf is out
that's coming out. The grass is high
and unidentified yet another year. Being knowledgeable
is the best defense against your insignificance.
Can't stop the quince from blossoming
or my sons from smoking, speeding.
The best that can be done or said's a blessing.
Less tv, less guessing
about the effects of your anger unless
you want to be an angry man forever.
Coming from the funeral with friends,
talking on the telephone. OK about being alone.
Alive, almost sure of it. Whether I'm a visitor
to my life or the actual owner.
Mature poets steal, most are masturbators.
This house could use a good cleaning,
dusting for ghosts. I should subscribe
to the local newspaper, do my job well,
do less until one thing's done well.
What would that be? Old, and yet so young.
There are a million poets, I'm poet #500K.
Plenty of mysteries, infinite philosophies,
prayers, laws and unwritten rules.
That's why we go to school, life's complicated.
All I do not know: ATP, probabilities,
the glorious revolution, meiosis and mitosis
and all I'll never see, the bottom of the ocean,
the palm at the end of the mind, a wolverine.
There are certain indicators, undeniable,
inexorable. Forget-me-not, is that all I want?
To get lucky, you gotta be careful first.
To be great, you gotta be willing to sound BAD.
Although we cannot make the sun stand still
yet will we make him run. Brave revelers.
Signed engagement letter attached.
Attachment to self and to things to do.
Adulthood in Practice
(For Adult Contest)
There came a time when I began to see
That this life was about more than me.
And as that view sharpened in my sight
I saw a line separating wrong from right.
If by choice I placed myself in the wrong,
I knew I could not abide that place long.
I saw my presence there hurting others—
My infinite family of sisters and brothers.
It struck me that each of my selfish acts
The well-being of others a price exacts.
But if I chose the right, hard though it be
I was giving selfless service responsibly.
Being an adult means directing one’s being
To lifting lives and in compassion believing.
Again and ever still it is the time-tried case
Of putting unconditional love in first place.
There are those who believe this is naïve.
To self alone they cleave—and misperceive.
Despite age, they are adults in name only
Numbered of humankind’s lost and lonely.
Sorting of them daily occurring problems
at our Gadgados human resources office
can be a big headache a bore or hilarious
it could be complicated or easily solvable
many an agent being apathetic to the problem
ends up internalizing a problem.. owning problem
we deal with humans beings.. we agents feel too
the pain the anguish we perceive the distress going
going through our clients minds as we try to help
the rule of solving the problem is don't own the problem
understand the problem and do your best to solve it but
don't become a part of the existing problem by internalizing
but dealing with people you cant avoid making it your own
at times it gets one... too down feeling your almost quitting
you have to remind yourself you're in the service industry
called to help the clients and customers.. its more of a calling
than its' an occupation or work where you earn a livelihood..
many a day you are tested and tested to your limits and beyond
you hold on for you are the pillar of strength at the human resources.
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