Breathless in the void
...“Let silence teach”, the master said
“that soul may be by God’s hand fed,
whence graced by His touch, we ascend,
on choosing to be by love led.”
Inertia cajoles us to blend
with the crowd that...
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Categories:
cajoles, god, light, self, silence,
Form: Rubaiyat
I dont want to
...I used to make up excuses
I would have a funeral, a wedding, a cruise, something
Whenever I did not want to do something
I would get coaxed and cajoled, and sometimes would give in
Despising my...
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Categories:
cajoles, me,
Form: Free verse
Rat trap
...The ancient scriptures are both boon and bane
on one hand holding out a ray of hope
yet also becoming a thought form chain
letting us not with light of truth elope.
Each breath we take anchors us...
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Categories:
cajoles, faith, irony, religion, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
a blushing rose
...divine magnetism that enlivens our soul
cajoles presence to compose a bliss beat
in sublime sacred geometry that makes us whole
dancing to a rhythm radiating love’s heat
so simply by setting up ...
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Categories:
cajoles, muse, poetry, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Aftermath
...a robin chirping near the window
serves up a delicious bit of melancholy
on the living room floor an air mattress
quietly cajoles my sciatic nerve
this place, this home, this abode the resu...
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Categories:
cajoles, beauty, muse,
Form: Free verse
the direct path
...ephemeral are objects heart desires
fleeting is joy and lingering is pain
cause of suffering is seeking outcomes
ignorance is our sin, desire the chain
simply recognising that body-mind
is an ...
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Categories:
cajoles, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Recognition
...Here now we live in body-mind,
wherein our heart, loving and kind,
cajoles us to slow down life’s pace,
free from feral cravings that bind.
Be this as it may, life’s rat race,
estranges us fro...
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Categories:
cajoles, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Practicing the pause
...resting endowed functionality
as bestowed by the universe
a stirring yet arises in the heart
to emote a melodious verse
humming pulse of innate aliveness
cajoles us to dance on life’s stage
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Categories:
cajoles, peace, self, silence,
Form: Rhyme
whispers from the void
...be receptive dear soul
to the caress divine
at play within
feel the hum
of bliss magnetism
enlivening organic form
melding with vast space
a deep peace fills us
as we bilocate
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Categories:
cajoles, god, i am, joy,
Form: Didactic
The dance divine
...Bliss furrows burrow deep under our skin,
fire of sun cooled by moon’s soothing nectar,
whence soul’s light can no longer be boxed-in,
surging forth piercing each body vector.
The coo of love c...
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Categories:
cajoles, god, joy, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Enigma
...“I’m a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which” ~ James A. Owen
As
the soul
by free will,
chose to descend,
that contrast be felt,
thus be known in fullness,
no option r...
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Categories:
cajoles, mystery, self, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
Angel Muse
...Hidden from perdition
disguising me again
Final thorn of life’s florescence
trapped within her pen
Darker than the madness
eternity cajoles
The pathway to forbidden fruit
— her masquerad...
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Categories:
cajoles, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet
...There’s something about a sonnet that grips
our heart, that cajoles our mind to be still,
even as a song appears on our lips,
of its own accord, in rhythm with God’s will.
We begin not knowing ...
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Categories:
cajoles, poems, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Thought of the day
...words we pen
may seem a bit zen
but unless polarities mingle
heart will feel not the bliss tingle
at best what is pointed out to
ignition that does renew
in carefree play within
cajole...
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Categories:
cajoles, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Say It Like It Is
...a silent, blissful hum
makes us feel complete
divine entwined, we become
epitome of rapture, bliss replete
we attempt but cannot translate
how nodes within form glisten
magnetic care...
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Categories:
cajoles, joy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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