Best Separateness Poems
Holder of the flame of bliss awareness
Cognised by presence, in tranquil stillness
Each hue new, although generic code same
God is love; we may give Him any name
Filling voids within, with joy in fullness
Deluded is thought of separateness
Empathy births interconnectedness
We all are one, this life play but a game
Holder of the flame
God in-dwells all forms, as the That oneness
Love, light and power, endless blissfulness
Steady resolve, with God-connect our aim
Set aside ego urge, which is to blame
Transmuting to luminous Godliness
Holder of the flame
17-November-2021
Categories:
separateness, god, spiritual,
Form:
Rondeau
JUDGE US NOT
Judge us not for our sin
Look at the people we've been
Don't hold it against us that we were weak
We found a love that every human would seek
Don't look down because we both gave in
She was the most beautiful place I've ever been
We fought the feeling for a very long time
But we both knew I was hers and she was mine
You may look at us with a haughty grin
But if you've never felt true love, to know how we feel....you can't begin
You may condemn when you look at our life
She had a husband and I had a wife
Don't judge us for the secrets we hide
We shield others from pain but each day we die inside
Have you ever felt a love that brings you to your knees
But had to hide what everyone else sees
To know the agony of the silent scream that bursts from your heart
Have you been taken, but met the person you should've been with from the start
We did not ask for this feeling we fought
Neither of us was looking for this, but our souls found what they sought
If you've never had to each day put on a happy face
And just wish somebody else was in your place
Have you had to weigh the option of death or life
The bliss of together or separateness which brings so much pain and strife
So please don't judge us until you've looked at the pain in our eyes
Or seen how each of us when alone silently cries
If you could feel but a fraction of the pain we knew
Maybe then you'd not judge us but would take pity on us two
Categories:
separateness, absence, lost love, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Written: November 15, 2023
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Some seek leisure in the pristine wilderness
The solitary coast is the site of separateness
Each one is barred from harboring bitterness
The ocean thundering, roaring in its utterness
Nature fascinates me beyond my smallness
Never before impeded in the path of emptiness
From lackluster scarcity and austere emptiness
An itch for oneness in the cosmos of loneliness
We wait idly for the angel's plea for tenderness.
Categories:
separateness, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form:
Monorhyme
Wandering
Through an art gallery
I couldn’t help but wonder where
The ocean of artistic ideas may be found. Down
Deep inside our brains where cells contain the seeds
Of every memory, emotion and intelligence lying scattered
All ‘round. Later I dreamed that things were not quite as they so very
Often precisely appear. Angels danced while we romanced like we were
Making immortal love right here. Intertwined and intermingled, interconnected
Separateness turned single.
Leaving me and you somewhere reaching the outer Limits
Of space between your mind and mine and a concept we call time.
Reeling and Dealing
In the perplexities of where thought originates, I was left concluding nothing more
Or less than Consciousness as the Ultimate Intangible Underlying Everything
From soup to nuts and saints to stars leading me to believe in Thoughts
No less things than birds with wings and songs to sing
As close as you and I are near enough to
Far.
Categories:
separateness, imagination, me,
Form:
Rhyme
We fit now; we complete one another.
Our lives have melted into one
and we dissolve into the unity
which consolidates our synthesis.
We fit now; we complement one another.
Our differences unite us. Our individuality
only serves to combine our commonality;
our separateness compounds our pairing.
We fit now you and I. Sharing the same path;
Sometimes together, sometimes apart.
We deviate and divide, only to combine again
when occupational distraction is done.
We are comfortable and contented.
There is no division in description;
we are affiliated in partnership,
blended, amalgamated, in simpatico.
Our bodies merge in the conformity of belonging.
The longing dovetails our diversity and unites us.
We have emerged from the swirl of separation
as one and I love you. We fit now.
Categories:
separateness, lovelonging,
Form:
Free verse
Life's greatest heated human tragedy
the one we are likely taught not to see.
Our wide-ranging worlds are well connected,
as atoms wiggle we're all effected.
Separation is optic illusion
a fitting end to one's soul seclusion.
Gurus say I am you and you are me,
that's the way it's supposed to be.
If I am Abe, Alice, Aron, Abu;
are they really me, how can that be true?
One respects collective society,
pledges to individuality.
It's in us to foster global good will
hold high hopes for oneness not to stand still.
Compassion is the real eternal key,
the single most important reality.
In the rays of moonlight truth shines so clear
allays all our unstated oneness fear.
When face to face, touch hands to then embrace;
stand up, stand in, alone and take your place.
So don't be offput by any confusion;
you're not separate, it's an illusion.
Lots of wisdoms will surely come to pass
while we lay lulling the scent of sweetgrass.
167 words 24 lines couplets
Reference: Albert Einstein quote, "The greatest tragedy
of human existence is the illusion of separateness"
Reference: Robin Wall Kimmerer, "Braiding Sweetgrass"
author, indigenous scientist, native American
Reference: Dalai Lama, teaches the importance
of compassion practice
Reference: Thomas Merton quote, "We are already one.
But we imagine that we are not."
Pen illustration by G. Gaul
September 2022
Categories:
separateness, allusion, humanity, philosophy, science,
Form:
Couplet
This axis mundi, rotates,
within and outside the veils
I remember walking with you
and how we manifested anything we agreed upon
leaving us both slackjawed and yet
not completely surprised...
you called me “My Heart”...because yours,
you said... could no longer feel...
So I felt for both of us
I met you on the other side of the veils
where we were once enjoined.... that is a crisp trip
to release.. ... a burning ache
You were thunder and I, feral...
but we are imprisoned
in time....... and this is not our time
...yet I feel you always
within the veil....
because there
we are two hearts sharing one soul...
I remember speaking with your tongue,
Hearing your whisper within an echo
Of a voice that could shatter the sky
Of any other world;
The beauty of our resonance
Created stars as the ancients
Broke apart.
And their light swam into eyes
That told our story.
Over, and over again;
They channeled the percussion
Of a singular, and yet harmonic
Carapace.
While we danced behind the veil.
It was lifetimes,
one incarnation after another
before I found you..
the other half of Us... entwined
inextricably as One...
We are heart cells in the depth of the Creator..
In the corridors of time
flesh is the individuation
that has separated us.
Hard to believe
we chose this...
and all we have forgotten..
yet I remember always..
that I am the design upon the fingerprint
that is our essence
and you are the flesh and bone of Us
This separateness is the ache,
I can only find solace within you
and so I accept the emptiness of your absence
only assuaged in the knowing
that this hunger will be quenched
on the other side of the veils...
where there is no division
On this side, within time and space...we walk alone..,
“But with the power of epoch’s eclipse,
This flesh will rot, and the boundaries
Between us will break apart;
The stars in our eyes will meet again.”
“Our song, will be forever sung.”
-Katherine Wyatt and James Kelley 2013, All rights reserved.
Categories:
separateness, desire, fantasy, metaphor, romance,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Our rainbow body
The root chakra red ~
blood awakes earth dead,
grounded, yet flowing,
for higher knowing.
Sacral lust orange ~
animal urge strange,
fluidic expansion
by procreation.
Navel tinge yellow ~
power all aglow,
in fiery action,
enables traction.
Heart’s colour is green ~
breath inking love’s sheen;
the seat of our soul,
where we become whole.
Throat centre is blue ~
words glisten like dew,
shaping what’s to come,
bidding each welcome.
Third eye’s indigo ~
tranquil stillness slow,
one with That oneness,
no separateness.
Crown is violet ~
where keyword is ‘let’:
we let God fill us,
aboard His bliss bus.
Rainbow spectrum white ~
prismatic delight,
allows us to choose
hue as of soul’s muse.
23-May-2022
Categories:
separateness, spiritual,
Form:
Jueju
I have occupied this temporary shell
we call a "body" for quite some time.
longevity being a relative concept.
Life has not always been easy,
in fact it has more often then not been quite a challenge.
I have walked blind though most of this life.
Yes I have tasted the glories and delights
Of this world, of which I am a part.
But only very recently have I seen the truth!
i have throughout my life been tantalized
with the Oneness of all that is,
Had many guides offer to open the door
And yet, I only took a cursory look.
unwilling to take the leap
unwilling to lose myself
Whoever that is!
I chose a parallel road instead.
battling the forces of injustice
taking the side of the every man
I did good work,
my ego momentarily satisfied,
but the mind lives in a dualistic world,
is uncomfortable in a place
where all is connected, all is one!
where the heart runs the show.
My body has suffered in this lifetime
consequently, my mind as well.
this time around
I'm being taught to
SURRENDER!
My eyes are as new,
Seeing much for the first time
Seeing that only through the heart
can we open the gates of heaven.
only though LOVE
can I isolate my pain, and separateness
and know they are not me.
If we follow the path through the heart
only then can we experience God!
not as separate, but as another
Part of the WHOLE!
Categories:
separateness, blessing, body,
Form:
Free verse
15.4
“You are not the body
You do not have a body
You neither do nor enjoy
You are Awareness only--the timeless Witness
You are free
Go in happiness”
15.5
“Attachment and aversion
are attributes of the mind
You are not the mind
You are Consciousness itself--
changeless, undivided, free
Go in happiness”
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The verse is simple but its import deep
We read it again until its message does seep
Signalling that we surrender all we think we know
And begin experiencing life afresh in stillness slow
Not only this but who is the experiencer
If we be a witness then who is the doer
If we be not the body then we are also not the mind
We are not the identity going through the grind
Provisionally considering this hypothesis as a possibility
We try to find a way to determine its authenticity
The method is easy if we choose by simply rotating polarity
Of the mind body construct in easy geniality
Strange as though it may sound the truth is confirmed
In deep meditation the formlessness of our awareness is discerned
We are as one with the Universe in the boundless ocean of oneness
Although when back to duality we do feel separateness
Yes we are the witness as observing simply looking
At images upon earth wherein we too are breathing
In but not of the world we are at nonchalant ease
Allowing the Divine to unfold life as It does please
We are as such unfettered & free flowing
Unclingingly embracing-imbibing-releasing
Along with this orientation comes a continuum of bliss
We feel aligned and centred within with nothing amiss
Momentum of our past may yet bring about some oscillation
We witness that too in undiminished elation
We are indeed both happy as well as free
With childlike exuberance going about in glee
In continuity
16-December-2020
Categories:
separateness, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
*AUDIO, plus a, Video of A Clarification by YouTube.
"Let us shine and not burn," by Elle Casey
A Clarification
Conceived onsets by one's subjective state,
Clueless inceptions nebulously grow,
A mindless blind mute moves, rousing its fate,
Godsend occasion leaves the dark to glow.
Sparks the light of life mimic frames of minds,
Intricacies of distinctions arcane,
Emotions indulge past regret unwinds,
Scattered, detached, night candle burns the stain.
Shatter separateness as divisive,
Conceived borders we being inherits,
Emphases realized as decisive,
Everyone shares their respective merits.
Douse not our embers, but keep strong our flame,
Warm the blaze to a glow from whence we came.
2022 November 21
*5thPlace*
A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE CHOICE
~~Brian Strand: 2022 November 25
RZ & HMS.
Categories:
separateness, appreciation, blessing, character, growing
Form:
Sonnet
The valley holds on, to murder
of moon, behind the trees.
It is dark and clouds are meditating.
You think of a perfect horror
and a poisoned arrow flies straight
into heart of a blissful sun.
It is red, splattered on the wounded sky,
scrorched by shrill cries of crows.
It is dawn.
You feel intense penetration of separateness,
from the beauty of a drop,
reflecting the wholeness of an ocean.
The stress starts breaking you.
Can you take me to my home, into abeyance?
My wakefulness, reaching by silence?
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
separateness, life, love, peace, philosophy,
Form:
ABC
“Oh hermit! Know that there is no one here
What is, is God, as bliss throbs within spear”
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In sync with the divine dance underway
Vaporised self follows the pied piper
Mind recognising life, as but a play
Relying upon love, as its saviour
Flowing thus gently, in the stream divine
Essence of presence becomes a bliss mist
Head melds with heart in fusion to align
Joy unabating through both trough and crest
Delighting in journey without movement
As magnetic currents within do rise
Inner eye beholds self luminescent
Each bliss nuance felt, rapturous surprise
Love unifies thought of separateness
All then being, singular consciousness
25-January-2021
Categories:
separateness, love, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
Admitting need for solace from lonesomeness
My soul seeks hope propped by serene blissfulness
To overcome feeling of separateness
Imprisoning me around guilt’s awfulness
Fortified upon conceit and selfishness---
Oh, how can I escape from this woe’s grievousness???
Confessing to God Who offers forgiveness
My heart is stirred midst blest freedom’s graciousness
Toward sweet divine interconnectedness
Breaking loathsome bondage of sin-heaviness
During prayer in His altar of goodness
Welcoming me for fellowship’s bountifulness
Triumphant to share friendship along kindness---
Yes, I praise the Saviour for pardon’s greatness!!!
Grateful for the Lord’s granted belongingness
My spirit rejoices* with sheer peacefulness
Aware that in recognition of oneness
With HIM is being gripped by His love’s pureness
Redemption through grace, mercy, truth steadfastness
Reminding that without HIM is worthlessness
Since His presence satisfies life’s completeness---
Now, I journey with HIM for service-fullness.
*Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
December 4, 2022
5th place, "YOU SELECT" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 1/21/2023.
Categories:
separateness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form:
Monorhyme
shifting sands of time, highlighted by desires that chime
have manifested reincarnated forms for my delight
foiled by egos misalignment with divine sublime
myriad hypnotic illusions became my plight
as blurred horizons kept shifting out of my reach
so I took the easy path, knowing not wrong from right
finally exhausted thus in cyclic joy and pain, God I did beseech
He quickly hastened to respond, to lessen my deep grief
‘love alone real, go in, within, I Am in easy reach’
this telepathic message changed my belief
internalising attention, void of silence my meditation
blissful tranquil calm enveloped mind body, providing relief
fulcrum shift within, joyous bliss elation became my orientation
wherein as eye of the storm, I remained poised in stillness
time stretched continuum of divine vivified cessation
separateness shifting to interconnectedness
forest of my dreams became a symphony of colour
layer by layer deepening connectedness with That oneness
fear laced desires and questions ceased, as I became the answer
requiring hereinafter, now and for all eternity, save God, no translator
13-April-2021
In the forest of my dreams poetry contest
Sponsor: Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
separateness, desire, spiritual,
Form:
Terza Rima