Canters Poems

Monday Mandate

At his readiness, medley reduced to romance
     Pure patched with strategy, pony Rosinanthe 
     Slick sleuth rotund from a thousand tutorials 
     Ideality frisked into quixotic filly deplorable
     
     Avid lover Danton handles haggard hill driven
     Hoof throb corruption chorales sin's provision 
     Ever after mantra mashed into lurid intervals
     Putrid piebald frames racecourse, analytical

     Etching on ranch entrance, ostler is cognizant
     Required for pyxis stamina, rubies resplendent 
     Camofluer canters to sumer anonymous rural
     Damsel plans her Danton's conclusion brutal





            Mid August Triumphant Lament

My Horse

Down the gradient of meandering verdant valley
Draining down the dregs of the fading dusk
Beyond the threshold of the wild woods thick
My white stallion gallops in the emerald prairie.

Gossamer gloss sparkles on  the supple skin
Wisps of silky cloud swirl on the satin mane
Tossing on swinging waves of the south wind
The equine beauty canters out of my heart.

Bent blades of jade grass sway in sinuous ruffle
In sync with the rhythm of the bolting ivory grace 
The tilted hooves hover in the transfixed air
Panorama of motion captured in sublime silence.

Soaked in twilight glow we cross the last pasture
Floating on cascading spectrum of the setting sun
Beyond the glowing horizon of grandeur I see
The portal of heaven opens for my horse and me.

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July 16, 2022
For A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Contest

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 18:49

18.49
“The sage does whatever
appears to be done
without thinking of good or bad
His actions are those of a child”


Heart over head
Agendaless exuberance 
No talks with Ted
Childlike innocence 

(23-August-2019)

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Verse 18.49 revisited on 11-February-2022

As we pause
The cause
Of thought
Ego begot
Bliss enters
Heart canters
Going without fuss
Where God takes us
As joy currents spear 
There is no one here
Save essence of presence
Vibrancy of innocence 
Love suffused
No longer bemused
Thought and action
Employs love for traction
With pure intent
Heart luminescent 
There is no karma 
For love’s our dharma

Knock

Knock on our door, desire enters
We yield to body urge
Blissful soul no longer canters
Until with love we merge

Feeble form has it’s need
Habit patterns spawn greed
Indulgence makes fears breed

Shock
Knock

13-September-2021
Quietus

The Light Within

Hearts unfulfilled desire, the causation
Ensouling form, that we may feel contrast
Pulsations; contraction and expansion 

Memory erased, our soul here aghast
Dark dungeons of delusion veiling light
Destiny unfolding, as of die cast

Dreams seem real, offering fleeting delight
Yet we feel within, deep discontentment 
For light of day, dies in shadows of night

Disillusioned, we seek joy permanent 
Plunging headlong into our heart centre
Wherein we sense, the vibrant bliss current

Distanced now, from idle ego banter
We just be to become, with Gods love one
As innate aliveness within canters

Within cave of heart, shines the golden sun
Go there oh hermit, lower mind undone

15-May-2021

Perfume Mirage

Swirling within the Perfume of mirage
As dawn dances down moss hung lanes
Through the silky Poise of camouflage
Canters ebony steeds with Platinum manes
Returning her heart to the salt rimmed Quay
Where that final morning, her sailor stood
Softly beseeching her to come away
With him to the sea, leave her land for good
Between her Quandary of need and pride
She fled to her castle of Quaint stone
Her Quiver of doubt too urgent to hide
Though in the space of oceans, she could have grown
Now she walks the lost shores of faint duets
Her steps weighted by Penance of regrets

2/6/21

Example for my 'Mind Your P's and Q's' contest

Unending Rapture

“choosing here and now to exit stupor
in silence connecting to realms upper”

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Ceasing striving, let us rest in silence
Bringing to a halt, effort of ego
Detached from outcomes, in playful parlance 

In tranquil stillness, we feel the bliss glow
Spacial heart being the epicentre 
Devoid of resistance, we gently flow

Once door of heart is open, joy enters
Taking no time to gather momentum 
The child within, in joyfulness canters

Devoid then of ego residuum
Vibrant ecstatic bliss continuum

04-December-2020

(syllabic Terza Rima)

Love Divine

Christ consciousness
always humming within
at the heart centre

Presence in innocence
imbibes the love elixir
as bliss throb canters

Self at head ovoid
merges with the heart
thus stopping to conquer

Arms open in embrace
pining in love Christ waits
for us to enter

09-November-2020

Softened Attention

This,
right here,
mind body,
is where we are.
Not negation then,
rather embracing truth,
shift into the heart centre,
feeling therein bliss that canters,
we embrace, hold and softly release,
divine offerings with nonchalant ease.

All it takes is thought rested awareness,
wherein attentive in no-thingness,
we imbibe bliss by osmosis.
Thus one with the universe,
joyous, we sing our verse,
moment to moment,
moments entwined,
with divine,
feeling
love.

25-October-2020

Exiting Delusion - Landay

Seeking blissful joy in permanence 
The deluded yet engage in mind body parlance 

Our astonishment thus knows no bounds
As spiralling fears and desires do twirl us around

Recognition not liberation
Until suffused with love as our orientation 

Nestled in stillness we are centred
Imbibing the bliss current which within us canters

Inner and outer in alignment 
We flow on unresistant in blissful contentment 

26-September-2020

Wonderment

At the epicentre
within our heart
as love canters
ignition restarts

As the cogniser
of the current
soma we savour
to hearts content

Throb of silence
one hand clapping
yawn in innocence 
electricity vivifying

Ceasing to resist
in total surrender
we as a bliss mist
at ourself wonder

06-September-2020

The Glowing Heart

Love & wisdom
Imbibed directly
Heart sanctum
Glowing gently

Bliss intensity
Gradually rising
Pulse continuity
Soul ascending

Heart the centre
Of higher mind
As bliss canters
Ego loosens bind

When in alignment 
Within & without
Our native element 
Free of doubt

That that is
For us alone
Elixirous fizz
All home grown

04-August-2020

Dreams On Carousel

From the carnival circle race goes off the course
the vintage carousel of bobbing corralled horse,
galloping skyward from the field of fiesta fair
through the music of wind jingling everywhere.

With teen fantasy on ornate steed out of chain,
he holds the rein in the strands of ebon mane,
canters up above the spire of the castle in the air,
far from the meandering rivers on the land bare.

In sprightly strides his reverie climbs the space high
to the conclave of clouds caressing the satin sky.
Returning after merrily going round the land of fairy,
on the carousel of life all his dreams he’ll carry.

April 5, 2020
Contest : Carousel Picture Prompt
Sponsor : Eve Roper

My Horse and Me

Down the gradient of meandering verdant valley
Draining down the dregs of the fading dusk
Beyond the threshold of the wild woods thick
My white stallion gallops in the emerald prairie.

Gossamer gloss sparkles on  the supple skin
Wisps of silky cloud swirl on the satin mane
Tossing on swinging waves of the south wind
The equine beauty canters out of my heart.

Bent blades of jade grass sway in sinuous ruffle
In sync with the rhythm of the bolting ivory grace 
The tilted hooves hover in the transfixed air
Panorama of motion captured in sublime silence.

Soaked in twilight glow we cross the last pasture
Floating on cascading spectrum of the setting sun
Beyond the glowing horizon of grandeur I see
The portal of heaven opens for my horse and me.

March 30, 2020
Contest : Completely Your Choice (42) Any Form Any Theme
Sponsor : Brian Strand

When It Gets Old

I am moving in and out of these animated lies, 
Silver linings now sagging shadows
Burning desires now dimming coals
How did I ever become so fixated
On such unreliable light? 

It is the demon of doubt that reigns tonight
It’s got all the strings to the puppetry
Raising its arms to smite all joy
Condemning our souls to dull life’s shine

Where are you now,
My swelling source of hope?
Why do your eyes wander
Where danger canters?
Trotting on soils dried by the sun
My reason for living
Now my reason for moaning

Its dragging me by the hair now
Telling me to take refuge on its stage
So it can play us over and over
Succumbing to its pathetic goals
To its putrefying plans

All I ever wanted was a place I can feel
A place I can feel
At home
I don’t know how that feels
As I seek all these thrills
I still don’t know how that feels

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