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Encaustic Poems - Poems about Encaustic

Premium Member Spinning Stories
...("Lonesome Day Blues", 2025, original encaustic) Spinning Stories Waking or sleeping Continuously we spin believable stories Ideal or terrible Or just simply boring or strange. Obvi......

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Categories: encaustic, dream, perspective, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Programmed Mind
...("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustic photo collage) The Programmed Mind Riding our brain waves What we do and say and think Finds a lasting home At whatever level Those vibrat......

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Categories: encaustic, health, introspection, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Late Bloomer
...(“Tapestry”, 2025, original encaustic) Late Bloomer It wasn’t until I was half my age That I came into my own And finally felt whole. Now at sixty six I’m not sure what you’d call ......

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Categories: encaustic, growing up, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Swastika Moon
...("Swastika Moon", 2025, original encaustic) Swastika Moon Luna with her light of darkness Reflecting Sol on Gaia’s face Dancing with restrained abandon Swirls within this holy place ......

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Categories: encaustic, allegory, celebration, creation, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alternate Lives
...(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic) Alternate Lives Time appears to go in a line From then to now And some times it does But at a certain point the stream Becomes a river Whic......

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Categories: encaustic, appreciation, life, perspective, relationship,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Waking To Duality
...(“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 a......

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Categories: encaustic, dream, introspection, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member ART APPRAISAL U twinku
... JOHN encaustic emblems PIPER painterly prints MUNNINGS exquisite equines TWINKU a double word distich with integral title......

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Categories: encaustic, art,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Right Brain, Left Brain
...(“Corpus Callosum", 2018, original encaustic) Right Brain, Left Brain Two halves of a whole Complimentary opposites Passive/active, imaginal/verbal Figurative/literal, depressive/mani......

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Categories: encaustic, humanity, life, mystery, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Meditation Is Not
...(“Original Mind”, 2017, original encaustic mixed media) Meditation Is Not Meditation can be many things, But it’s really not what you think. Yet for forty five years I’ve been doing ......

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Categories: encaustic, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Carbon Footprint
...(“Something From Nothing”, 2024, original encaustic) My Carbon Footprint As the rest of the world hurls into the future Some of us are just left behind. This year, this season, this......

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Categories: encaustic, computer, future, irony, perspective,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A World of Thoughtforms
...(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic) A World of Thoughtforms Caught in cascade tumble Splashing here there Without time to collect my self Let alone thoughts What is up becomes d......

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Categories: encaustic, earth, self, spiritual, sun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Being In Context
...(“Before the Door”, 2023, original encaustic) Being In Context Open awareness Conditioned mind Two halves of a whole Like a container and its contents A sky and its clouds A hear......

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Categories: encaustic, perspective, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Moment of Perfection
...(“The Longest Journey”, 2020, original encaustic) A Moment of Perfection Winter afternoon gently Settling into evening Cold and clear outside Warm and still within Art Pepper blowin......

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Categories: encaustic, music, peace, winter,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Age of Abstract
...(“The Mothership”, 2024, computer graphic encaustic collage) The Age of Abstract We live in a time defined by ideas and ideals When concepts and abstracts rule But what’s needed as a b......

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Categories: encaustic, humanity, mental health, nature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Mayday, Mayday!
...(“The Big Wave”, 2023, original encaustic) Mayday, Mayday! Mayday, mayday, Captain, The ship is sinking The ship has capsized While everyone was sleeping. As governments around th......

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Categories: encaustic, allegory, america, corruption, world,
Form: Free verse

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