Best Residuum Poems
Salutations to The Divine Mother
Who envelopes us in a bliss shower
God’s divine essence aglow in our heart
Innate aliveness enabling each breath to start
Effulgence of a thousand suns dispelling darkness
Entwining our mind-body to the That oneness
Moment to moment in a joy continuum
There remaining no ego residuum
Oh Mother! We are bemused by illusion
Senses externalised, desires beget delusion
Fallen from grace, we have forgotten our nature
Your fragrant touch alone restores our true stature
Awaken Mother, here in form, love and wisdom
May our consciousness rise to the sensorium
Dual polarities melding, illumining our soul
That bliss suffused, we again feel whole
09-November-2021
Inspired By A Translation Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudhury
Notes: Gayatri mantra is a popular, age old prayer, in Sanskrit language. For literal translation please visit - https://medium.com/imeditation/gayatri-mantra-translation-word-by-word-meaning-in-english-547431a5d464
Categories:
residuum, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
what avail, awareness without freedom
why shines not, light of our luminescence
our heart yearns for more, we must overcome
we feel the rhythm within our bosom
joy experience in fleeting transience
what avail, awareness without freedom
each sensorium wishes to blossom
not part quintessence but full effulgence
our heart yearns for more, we must overcome
discontent with bliss vibration seldom
let unbroken be, dance of innocence
what avail, awareness without freedom
no fear residuum in Gods kingdom
flickers yet flame of bliss incandescence
our heart yearns for more, we must overcome
need jump quantum to imbibe full spectrum
radiance must outpour in permanence
what avail, awareness without freedom
our heart yearns for more, we must overcome
29-May-2021
Categories:
residuum, freedom, spiritual,
Form:
Villanelle
enabled now for co-creation
our free will chooses
either blissful joy or agitation
within vibrant void of stillness
ego thoughts rested
that that is is bliss in fullness
clues abound we see them not
as each breath renews
fickle attention in fears fraught
we shine bright as love and light
bewildered by shadows
delusion veiling wrong from right
looking in within what do we see
attachments fleeting
stagnation therein cause of ennui
identity dissolves in joy continuum
desire births anxiety
soul free devoid of ego residuum
life a flow not a fixed coordinate
yet we fuel passion
oblivious to bliss pulse that elates
be to become at ease as the breeze
unfettered unbound
celebrating in embrace and release
17-April-2021
‘Just stating the obvious poetry contest’ poetry contest
Sponsor: Brother Jacob
8-tercets, with 1st & 3rd line rhyming
Categories:
residuum, muse,
Form:
Rhyme
“joy or pain, neither seek nor resist
vaporise to become, a bliss mist”
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Turbid storms in realm of duality
Inevitably will bring to us pain
Fearful contractions mar serenity
Unless fickle ego, to rest is lain
Pain bemuses whilst joy hypnotises
Either way unstable is our fulcrum
Truth being life is full of surprises
Trauma we feel, ego residuum
Interim measure, hypnotic healing
Wherein one thought displaces another
With thought polarities thus rotating
Attention deflected, pain we smother
Neither suppression nor sublimation
Both propositions are inadequate
Ostrich syndrome not the solution
For how many fears can we thus placate
It is not trauma then but our response
Determining state of our consciousness
Thus, looking at identity askance
We shift into calm silence and stillness
An open heart is all that is needed
Receptive to divine love magnetism
Unbound if ego urges receded
Each node within, joyous sensorium
Awaken now oh hermit, from slumber
Enjoy this movie, with childlike wonder
06-December-2020
(syllabic rhyme)
Categories:
residuum, pain, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Flowing gently in life’s continuum ~
Let’s relinquish egoic residuum
05-September-2022
Categories:
residuum, introspection, life,
Form:
Couplet
Supreme Energy, fluid nothing, effervescent Om:
Structured universal life, matter’s unfolding cosmos;
Exhilarating evolution, expanding along the physicals.
Nirvana, fusion of the body, mind and soul in equipoise.
The body stays not, creation demolish not.
Material consciousness oscillates, Atma explores.
It is the eon of all embracing energies; a residuum.
The suffusion of energy, in flawless realisation of the Almighty.
The intelligent performs not, insentient live in freedom.
Awareness, initiating karma with inspiring exuberance.
Meditation the path to conscious, unconsciousness empathy.
Absolute truth, a vivacious re-allocation of consciousness.
Categories:
residuum, life
Form:
Free verse
A surreal, blissful calm engulfs form
Of deep peace emanating from within
Magnetism sublime, neither cool nor warm
Benign burn playing gently on our skin
Bliss mists both transcendent and immanent
Enliven by transmutation heart’s core
Ignition renewal thus permanent
Celebrates is-ness like never before
No labels may assign how love does pine
Rapturous in the time continuum
Throb of aliveness sublime and divine
Now bereft of ego residuum
This life is then a game, with one sole aim
Being all about becoming the flame
28-February-2023
Categories:
residuum, joy, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
I want gone the silence of injustice
The tarnation we insufferably carry along
I want gone the vile of ignorance
The dire ism we obstreperously preach
I want gone the cold night of boredom
The beauty of poetry it stole
I want gone YOU
The residuum of smile you left is hollow
Categories:
residuum, heartbroken,
Form:
Couplet
Hence, I plunge into imagination to encumber suffering,
Athwart are the horizons wider than my pride,
I, one but three, such a symbolic trope, the Trinity,
A gorgeous exaltation gorged into voracity, itself.
The good is near me! The evil - inside of me!
The principles of distortion underlay the phenomena
Of eternal agony, above and beyond embers of Inferno.
I command the creation of the tenth circle, beyond
Boiling rivers of blood and fire, beyond the frozen lakes,
It’s the core of gravity, the centre of an inescapable certainty,
It’s darker than darkness, blacker than blindness,
It’s dwelling at the bottom of a raven’s gut – and I call it – hope.
Have none! Do not wear livery. Do not submit to a judge,
Nor allow a bailiff to cross your path in the legacy of the flames.
On the wings of poetry far from perishing Evil, all the way to
The dawns of assorted cognizance that whirligigs the itch in me,
I exfoliate the words by setting the residuum of thoughts, in line
With the divinity of soul, that presides in my inner world, unknown
to the world.
A cipher on the head – I cannot be bought as I am not selling
The spiritual cosmology of my imagination, even when it’s ebbing,
No treatise of compromise is saccharine I crave, as I confer
A profane sense in the heathen parish of myself, for myself.
Hence, I plunge into imagination…
Categories:
residuum, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Death of a loved one
Fifty-five years! More or less! I did not know, then,
How, to your adieu, o mother, I said Amen;
Later, like the ache of an amputated limb,
Existence, like a gloom-glaring jail cell, grew grim...!
I know, from the frail earthen pitcher of physique,
Your soul, O my mother, that, for long, was homesick;
Had taken its flight far from this interim earth,
And amalgamated into the endless mirth...!
It's not due to doubts about your life eternal,
Nor the chance of being a creature infernal;
Your passing through the gateway of naked newness,
Is as clear as crystal to me, though seems clueless…!
Tingles of your touches tinged into tenderness,
Turned too into touch-me-not of tentativeness;
Your existence in me is a continuum,
It's not a cloudy chemical residuum...!
I know your death is not a dark dusk but a dawn,
Designs of resurrection are dazzlingly drawn;
Ignorance that ignites the minds with illusion,
Fails to form fundamentally free faith fusion...!!!
04 April 2023
Death of a loved one Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Rhymes Checked At: Rhyme Zone
Syllables Checked At: How Many Syllables
Categories:
residuum, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Here we are and here we begin
in silence, going in within
Images bemuse, so we be still
feeling bliss tingle on our skin
Voids within form begin to fill
Nectar divine does overspill
We imbibe bliss by magnetism
shaped gently, upon the anvil
Head and heart meld in body prism
Vibrant is our sensorium
Our heart stirs in joyous caper
cleansed of ego residuum
04-October-2021
Categories:
residuum, silence, spiritual,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Animate with joy, the continuum ~
Free from trace of ego residuum
03-August-2022
Categories:
residuum, joy, spiritual,
Form:
Couplet
20.8
“Where is the knower?
Where is knowing?
Where is the known,
or knowledge itself?
Where is anything?
Where is nothing?
I am pure Awareness”
Verse revisited on 27-November-2022
Standing in, within yet apart from the template of space-time
Beyond all phenomenal worlds, resides consciousness sublime
Positioned at a centreless fulcrum, devoid of any ego residuum
I Am presence cognises the all-ness of the manifest continuum
Holding at the Bindu point of singularity Sat-Chit-Ananda bliss
Upon which the mystic affirms all that is, is God, here now this
Categories:
residuum, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Toyed by mind
We build a script
Then hang on to it
Gluey identity bind
Discarding all belief
Simply thoughts rest
No load on our chest
Soul gets some relief
Vibrant emptiness
There is no seeking
Feel soma seeping
Rapturous blissfulness
Immediate and intimate
Cognised in stillness
Pristinity of aliveness
To bliss beats gyrate
Life like images stream
As of past momentum
Carry no ego residuum
Within this lucid dream
18-February-2022
Categories:
residuum, i am, spiritual,
Form:
Enclosed Rhyme
“Is each breath devoid of ego residuum?
Does love colour our aliveness continuum?”
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Each
moment
is poignant,
in pregnant pause,
seeking our embrace,
suffused in tenderness,
infused with childlike wonder,
to fill the void with love and light.
Oh hermit! Let our glance be gentle,
that the recipient bursts forth in dance!
Moment to moment, all moments entwined,
are marked by intent of consciousness.
Thus mindful of each vibe we feel,
outpouring, one and all heals,
with love and compassion.
Oh hermit! Live thus,
free and unbound
at all times,
spreading
love!
19-December-2020
Categories:
residuum, spiritual,
Form:
Etheree