Duality Poems - Poems about Duality

shadows draw across the canvas with light oily strokes and dry wet soul the white pythons and black mambas conspire as their tongues slither and roll down the canvas. like honey, it marinates the mellow white bruising it with time… yet as the honey lathers and the white bathes, the paint stops with all its might leaving behind the...

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Shifting crown of thorns and a crown with the finest gold, for the most challenging but most rewarding title set on woman’s head: All Humans’ Most Honorable Role. With grandiose bouquet of roses so fresh yet, frequently withers; But once her tears flow down her eyes, her molding hands firmly flail and her dreams flow lovingly at fertile lands for...

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from the edge of the creative cosmos her star lands on her lap with billion candles their tantalizing twinkle ripple in the rhythmic rapture of the dance of angels in sync with the symphony of her heart she protects from the worldly winds the shining stellar sequins elegantly embellishing the ethereal robe...

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She taught me to pray with hands that bruised the bread and sometimes, me. The kitchen smelled of cinnamon, but the corners were quiet with grief. I was loved--loudly, then not at all. Her laugh could warm a whole December, but silence followed when I needed June. She carried me like gospel, until I questioned her scripture. Then, I became her quiet sin. Still-- I make her biscuits...

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three generations of mothers created a fourth- mine, my children's, my grandchildren's between the late fifties and April this year I have welcomed thirteen births- my three five grandchildren, five great-grandchildren generations unfold in ways of the times as...

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v2 Hiding, riding in clouds You come down from Heaven Kissing leaves and flowers, filling streams Sometimes merciless…pouring Other times gentle…misting Sporadically invited, frequently intruding Persistently presumptuous You can be cool or warm Soft or hard You may clean our wrath Soothe our soul Quench our thirst Whether you come in showers or seasons Leaving puddles of sorrow or pools of joy One thing is consistent, absolute… You are always falling…...

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(“Dragon’s Eye”, 2024, original encaustic) Waking To Duality I wake from a dream Where I’d been in nondual samadhi A vivid clarity of thoughtless meditation I tried to sustain once awake Until I realized I probably have such dreams All the time and never know. The vanity and thus duality of life Is the desire and attempt to recreate What already is Making...

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From passion's fire, both love and hate are born, Twin flames that flicker, dancing side by side. One offers warmth, while one will leave you torn, Yet both consume what’s hidden deep inside. Love crowns the dawn, but hate will greet the morn, Each holds the heart, no place for peace to hide. Though hearts may ache, the truth remains the...

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Fractals And the non duality message.. Nothing is everything Is the general formula In which nothing and Everything are the same.. Sameness iterates as Similar differences ..which might Appear in literature And science or in Those cloud patterns.. Iterated stories appearing as Fractals..chips off the Storied formula..and Not even that......

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1. Hyde/Hide ¿Who is the one? ¿The one you call me? ¿What is this image? ¿That you say you see? ¿Wearing my visage? ¿And inside my skin? ¿The one in your lies? ¿That you choose to spin? ¿The one in your eyes? ¿Yet not inside mine? ¿That’s of your creation? ¿And inside your mind? ¿Of your imagination? ¿The one you call me? ¿Who is this person, Who could they be? 2....

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head and heart in balance poised at the stillness centre pure intent invokes grace whence bliss begins to canter no doubt heart is delighted but though bliss enlivens form recognising we’re not body-mind we need to transcend this storm as vibrant formless awareness experiencing magnetism in body urn gratefully accepting boons of grace we surrender to love’s benign bliss burn the Self in singularity has no attribute this...

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Not a zebra Yet, Appears as a zebra.. That's it! Non-duality in a Nutshell......

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Why does he provoke me to anger? He stalks among us - with his song - a wolf's grin His inimicality beckons like a hawk's talons, luring prey to certain death Yet he imparts wisdom to those who bleed Beware! his insights twist like a pit of pepper x vipers; devouring souls He spins tales of survival and primal instinct Beneath the façade lies decay concealing...

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“Lord of Light, with no hostility Forge me as a sword of your tranquillity To the kingdom of war, let me give a dove Where there is hatred, let me give love Where there is pain, let me offer forgiveness Where there is depression, joyfulness Where there is despair, let me bring hope and sight In...

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My heart bleeds, my soul needs. I've loved and I've hated. My hunger, never sated. I've risen as much as I've fallen, I'm a gambling man and I'm all in. I continue to chase after wild geese. I submit to the universe on my hands and knees. No matter what the future holds, I will...

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