Drop Away Poems | Examples

Zen mode

noticing stupor
recognising delusion
and bondage to desire
we negate by observation
identification with body-mind
and so simply by our nonchalance 
there remain no limitations to transcend
accepting what is as is and optimal for soul
and thus in timeless time the fetters drop away
leaving presence in its pristine state as light of Self

Musings on death

what is born must die … 
this we know but do not accept
in as embrace with vibrant nonchalance ~
no, let us admit it fellow souls
we are in truth truly afraid

we have seen birds in mourning …
majestic lions tear eyed when grieving
rain drops falling when skies are weeping

one by one fangs of death have wrenched away
family and friends who made us feel complete
we too will die, who then are we, we wonder

scriptures and fables offer not the taste
direct knowing of death that erases doubt 
to imbibe truth we enter time dissolved silence 
animating attention in the bardo of formlessness 
soul’s eye then beholds dead leaf of ego drop away

reflect oh hermit, do we not die with each exhalation 
at our core we know the next breath’s not promised
sleep is death yet we look forward to it each night
is not death then just waking up from this dream
why oh why do we cling to ephemeral illusions 

shrugging off death of form ~ death yet pursues
we die when voice of conscience is subdued
when lust, rage and envy are fires we fan
or a girl child is abandoned at the orphanage 
we die whenever ego opaques the light of our soul

musings on religious conversion

the well intended but deluded soul 
took on itself to spread God’s word
the fixation soon became its mission
to rescue those deemed wayward

the vulnerable who suffer on earth
tottering on the very edge of despair 
clutch at wisps of straw so proffered
but of absolute truth remain unaware

there is no solace in words and symbols
scriptures merely point out direction
we each need to walk on the path alone
paving way for our soul’s resurrection 

the entity who seeks must drop away
God cannot be caged in conditioned belief
the light eternal is loftier than mind thinks
in vibrancy of staid stillness turn a new leaf

The Direct Path

Abandon the pastor and the preacher
Allow instead silence to be our teacher
Layer by layer, let identity drop away
Granting soul’s light within, right of way
Seeking nothing, if we be quiet and still
By God’s grace, voids in our form will fill

Praying in a mosque, temple or church
Calms mind but leaves heart in the lurch
Silence alone enables us to feel our soul
Infusing love and light to make us whole
Soft white bright light is our quintessence 
Eternal effervescence of our luminescence

Silent Thunder

Divine Mother’s grace
Holds us in tender embrace 
Being God’s energy transmission
Felt within as rapturous bliss ignition 
That all ego veils of ignorance drop away
And attention internalised, we cease to sway

What happens then is this: transfixed in bliss
Ego identity recedes; we see truth as it is 
Our true self shines as God’s living light
Reinforced by bliss by day and night
That we assimilate it within form
As the epicentre of this storm

14-May-2023

Recognition

looking back at our life led so far
engaged in needless strife and spar
we regret now the blood we spilt
wish to atone, heart laden with guilt

churches, temples, mosques hollow
for awakened not was soul’s glow
we thus discarded conditioned belief
shifting into silence to obtain relief

distanced from outer world humdrum
we heard with God’s cosmic drum
we saw the leaf of identity drop away
revealing soul’s light clear as day

sans identity, resting in our luminosity
ineffable peace heart’s porosity
renewing itself within itself, joy replete
God’s living light, feeling complete

10-May-2023

Melancholy

enveloped by darkness, from a surge of sadness
my emotions drop away to this darker realm
where I find a swirling madness of gloom
and the depth of somber is found

I become a broken twisted world
where my mind retreats
and flees from life's shattered shards
whose sharp edges cut the tendrils of illusion
leaving nothing but silence
that holds me a captive, numb to this space
so dark, so quiet

where I begin to understand
what foreboding feels like

5/7/23

It's All Right

It’s all right if I fall apart
Vases are meant to be broken
My glue fails in togetherness
See ancient plain of jars stalwart
Old, weathered, and unwoken

It’s all right if I break into pieces
The day comes with its crazy glue
Beckoning me to keep it together
So what if others look mint
I practice wholeness bruised

I’m letting go of perfecting
Even fine porcelain has its cracks
Brokenness has its rewards
Scattered see how the pieces fit
When the day comes hammering

The whole is afraid of falling
Down below nowhere to go
Perfect in imperfection is a relief
Pieces of me drop away again
My heart lurching finds a home

If only my pieces have a voice
Speak my broken objections
Help me to remember shattering
Natural as peaceful dissection
Poking anthropology for clues

Without dismemberment true
How can I know the whole?
It’s all right if there is no glue
Don’t put me together falsely
Finding perfection in pieces

Vases are fine either way

Tarn

A mountain tarn,
a mirror blackly gleaming.

I slide down some shale
to peer in. As I stare
there's a tingling apprehension
of being too close to an edge
where sky, land, and reason
drop away.

I can't quite say what I expected to see,
not the bottom of a mountain,
a man's visage maybe,
perhaps some deep mystery?

What I saw buried its reflection
into the back of my mind
where it is still surfacing.

Thought of the Day

Until the last veil does not drop away ~
In fierce winds of duality, we’ll sway

14-June-2022

Womb of Existence

Here we are, in the womb of existence,
deluded that we’re separate from source,
knowing not love’s our only true resource,
we nurture fears, on ego’s insistence.

We’re granted free will, that soul grow faster
but poor choices we make, cause needless pain,
redeemed when dark desires to rest are lain,
that love and light divine, all we foster.

In silence when we’re still, voids within fill,
enlivened by sublime bliss magnetism;
loves prismatic hues light up body prism,
simply by so letting God do His will.

When will to God bends, separation ends,
lower mind and ego, just drop away,
in time stretched stillness, to bliss beats we sway,
wondrous how our soul, to heaven ascends.

07-June-2022

Complex Made Simple

Formless soul, in body takes birth
Shaped from the elements of earth
Bestowed by grace, God’s life essence
To nurture love, in bubbling mirth

Pure heart and joyous innocence 
Agendaless exuberance 
We’re thus born complete, bliss replete
To enhance our luminescence 

In sync with pulse of the love beat
With soul surrendered at God’s feet
All we need to do, is receive
Vibrant bliss, that makes heart upbeat

Ego has it’s own script to weave
Urges us, from love to take leave 
Striving in pursuits self-serving
Temptations, that seek to deceive

Once attention begins swerving
We believe we’re not deserving 
Oft mentioned as man’s fall from grace
Dark delusion that’s unnerving

If we but slow down, earth life pace
Ceasing doing, no goals to chase
Veils drop away, soul’s light bursts forth 
There remain no puzzles to lace

16-March-2022

I'D Be Your Friend

I’d be your friend if that’s allowed
or if it’s not. I won’t get cowed
by friendship as defined by you
(restrictions placed more point of view.)
Let God address my reasons why,
but trust, I pray, I court no lie.

I’d be your friend (though friendship’s gift
might get refused.) I won’t be miffed.
But I’m your friend (if that’s my choice),
I love (I trust) my inner voice.
Sure, you’ve your way, and I’ve got mine.
Do friends give birth to Frankenstein?

If you feel scared, enjoy that space
if that serves you (you’ve got a trace,
a hint of doubt that I’m your friend.)
Oh, Chosen One! Feel free! Pretend
I’ve gone away (I’ll still be there
to thwart false fears that I don’t care.)

A friend’s a pest who won’t let go
but will not crow, “I told you so!”
when blinders drop away from eyes,
and dreamers wake to warmth’s surprise
(their friends close by.) No one’s alone
(they just refuse to lift their phone.)


Long Tooth
March 2nd in 2022

The Pathless Path

Earth life but a beauteous dance 
Wherein we opt to enter trance
To feel pangs of separation 
Until head and heart reach balance

Love God’s force, binding creation
Offers us gentle suggestion
That do not size, just vaporise
Union then births bliss ignition

Ego urges bundle of lies 
Cessation the way, spake monks wise
Thus getting out of our own way
God teleports us to new highs

Immersed in prayer, night and day
Erst fears and desires drop away
In timeless time, we merge with God
Delight in love, as our mainstay 

21-February-2022

Show Me God

Here now alive, with love we jive
Bubbling, joyous heart expansive
Our soul thrives within God’s bliss hive
The more love grows, the more we give

In time mists clear, veils drop away
Our form’s suffused by a bliss squall
To rhythm divine, gently sway
Recognising God in-dwells all

09-February-2022

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