(“The Particle In The Wave”, 2018, original encaustic)
Down to Zero
In the great equation of Life
Everything eventually cancels out
As it naturally balances
And leaves us down to zero.
From the perspective of static
The dynamic is the illusion
From the perspective of dynamic
The static is the illusion.
Buddhism with its notion of a final Nirvana
Takes the former
Taoism with its effortlessly flowing Wu-Wei
Takes the latter.
That is the East, while in the West
This paradoxical duality is expressed
Succinctly by quantum physics
As the wave and particle nature of light.
The reality is always, of course, different
Than what we think, when we’re at zero
And left with what it means to be alive;
In work or play, depending on our view.
(7/21/25)
Categories:
cancels, perspective, philosophy, religion, science,
Form: Narrative
If a “friend” cancels you like a stamp, they never were you
friend in the first place!
Friends give people space to be themslves! They welcomed you,
and trusted you in their heart’s space,
Moreover, not one of us wants a friend, that thinks they are a god.
A Mr.or Mrs, stuffed shirt, an inelligensia of know it all?
A friend need not be a Ph,D to us, nor flash her or hishatred in our face.
That is an inhumane, arrogant disgrace!
Just someone who truly cares about us, who and honors us as we are!
With understanding, grace andd gentleness, of and compassion beyond par!
And always remembers.. we all part of the human race,
By God’s most kind and generous holy grace.
Hatred and genocide in any, a hideous and ugly face!
1/26/2025
Categories:
cancels, feelings, friend, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Can old thoughts of hurt that we shun
Cancel life’s gifts wonder and fun?
If anger must stay
Within brain’s array
Do we run with pain in the sun?
To digest bad memory’s lunch
Chop stick therapies help us munch
And chew on old pain
So our bad chow mein
Will taste sweet like a Nestle’s crunch
Although it seems weird and so strange
If current behavior we change
Old things we found bad
No longer seem sad
As memories do rearrange
Thought patterns that left our mood scarred
That colored the present as marred
Yield to a changed script
Where wounds from the crypt
Appear like a kind greeting card
Forgiveness is really for us
It adds onto life like a plus
Anger’s not treasure
But cancels pleasure
And deports good times on a bus
Categories:
cancels, emotions, mental health,
Form: Limerick
Wind,
look how
wild it blows
across the waves;
Ancient melody;
A song of catharsis,
whitecaps wash the pain away;
The innate noise bestowed on you
it cancels out the internal drum;
Ocean breezy circadian rhythms.
Categories:
cancels, emotions, feelings, sea,
Form: Etheree
“Nothing Compares to You”
Nothing compares to you
the cancel culture cancels you
you love you lose
on repeat in the loop
you love you lose
a child lost in time
the mother calls home the child
the child calls home the mother
a child lost in time
each eventually find the other
Nothing compares to you
(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
Sinead O’Connor,
b.8.12.66 – d.26.7.23
Categories:
cancels, child, eulogy, love, mother,
Form: Elegy
My feline’s eyes reflect her ginger hues.
She follows my man everywhere she can.
Her tracking sight chases away the blues.
But when squirrels discovered her, they ran.
She travels with us, a definite plus.
She likes to go fast, so step on the gas.
She ignores all limits. Yes, cats can cuss!
She likes to fish, quietly, wait for bass.
A middle-aged cat can still be a brat.
She gnaws on my cord like something abhorred.
But a yell from the man cancels all that.
With an innocent look, she drops the cord.
A cat in the house trumps any old mouse.
All her checks done, she’s asleep on my blouse.
Categories:
cancels, animal, cat, character, pets,
Form: Sonnet
Never imagine that you may lose
Instead highly positively you muse
Doubts and worries are of no use
Only optimism, you always choose
During confusion, take no decision
Out of fear, stop not your mission
Approach life with proper for vision
Never give to pessimism permission
When you think you cannot achieve
No success at all you will receive
This may make you sadly grieve
As in yourself, you don't believe
Colossal faith alone is required
If that is by us in life acquired
Then we get easily inspired
Attaining what we have aspired
If we feel upset for ordinary matters
Our bliss, even petty thing shatters
If negative words, our mouth utters
Surely our concentration scatters
Never think bad of yourself man
Trust and proceed that you can
Better to try for a longer span
For you to succeed in your plan!
Categories:
cancels, confidence, confusion, courage, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
HEARTBREAKS:
Drowning in grief,
The ocean that tears beloveds apart.
Where promises are stolen from the eave,
By the thief who cometh busily from afar.
And it feels the end was without beginning,
Whiles the beginning ends without perceiving.
The hurt then shrinks the heart,
Causing its cells to fall flat.
The eyes throws away the beauties.
The mouth brings out the mysteries.
Disappointment then cancels the journey,
In a way seeming so funny.
Whereby love birds deserts crony.
And the disappointed individual's road becomes lonely.
Categories:
cancels, heartbroken, soulmate,
Form: Sonnet
I
Cosmos has some constant and Einstein got closest in a century
- pure gravity
II
Hawking stated loudly, If there's gravity, the cosmos will create itself
III
Gravity, in black Holes too, is Love of God: it cancels all laws by Grace-Gravity
Categories:
cancels, analogy, science,
Form: Monoku
The falling of tears,
for all the dying.
A well of feeling,
the sounds of sighing.
The ancient story,
of creation born.
The godhead of love,
from which man was torn.
Of course, the essence,
is itself the weight.
The war of morals,
where love cancels hate.
The kingdom of love,
is heaven above!
Categories:
cancels, love,
Form: Sonnet
Worrying does not take away
Tomorrow's woes of blue and gray,
It cancels today's joyous way
To let now be in disarray.
Form: Dalit
Categories:
cancels, anxiety,
Form: Quatrain
The perfect cover for romance
hiding the glow of a white hot glance ;
When the lights go down,
doesn’t matter who’s around;
The softer the sigh the slower the dance;
I am loving having this choice
free to succumb to your voice;
When the lights go down,
doesn’t matter who’s around;
Your trance cancels out all the noise;
The dark swallows every fear
I can run my hands through your hair;
When the lights go down,
doesn’t matter who’s around;
Just know I want you, I’m no longer scared.
As the sun sets in the sky
No longer a need to feel shy;
When the lights go down,
doesn’t matter who’s around;
Can you feel the pulling tide?
Categories:
cancels, crush, feelings, lust, passion,
Form: Free verse
Once a gambler, always...
... so the sceptics say...
My retort is life's a gamble
We take risks every day
I reside in a house palatial
Can justify purchases wasteful
Wise bets are luxuries paid for
Extravagant lifestyle enabled
Jewellery gathers, burgeoning
From overstuffed box, emerging
Avoid crowding, time to pawn
My value continually surging!
String of onyx required no thought
Ripped quickly, no longer sought
Capitalist bent continually urging
For exchange, gems duly brought
To seedy grimy store, 'We Sell All'
Flat rejection brought my apall
Not impressed by onyx glib faces
Declared necklace worth bugger all
In its absence necklace graces
Dazzling array, high value embraces
Dull rock considered inconsequential
Celestial head breeds striking phrases
NB: For Julia, who cancels Contests I enter
Categories:
cancels, destiny, fun, house, success,
Form: Rhyme
A significantly different day
No bread or milk
empty for toilet paper
Reduced opening hours in grocery stores
- Home insulation with
respiratory infection
Rationing on medicines
School closes -
no leisure activities
No daycare
No bus or taxi
No traveling abroad
All aboard aircraft and boat
must in quarantine
Large preventive measure
Dramatic cut in hotel beds
The church cancels all services
Closed office buildings
No cinema or theater
Today our first victim
as a result of the coronavirus
My deepest condolences to the family
~ "Normal life" is paused
Let this time bring out the best in us
12.03.2020
Coronavirus Covid-19 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Team PoetrySoup
Copyright © All Rights Reserved
Categories:
cancels, crazy, scary, world,
Form: Free verse
FRAGMENTS 11
Madness is now upon us
As disruption after disruption
Forfeit each anxious moment
Slipping into the void of change
Where even changing cancels time-out
Like time past swallowed by the present
In the descend of falling future
Yes falling into another dream
And awakening in a split dream
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
04 October 2019
Singapore
Categories:
cancels, change,
Form: Free verse
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