No matter what we think or say
Complete enlightenment
Is inconceivable
No matter if it’s what is
Always only here and now
Simply because it is
Incompatible with our mind.
(7/17/26)
I see him calmly gliding.
My eyes follow him down the stream.
I absorb his peaceful wisdom.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
(“The Empty Mirror”, 2024, original encaustic)
Oh enlightenment
No matter what they call you
Nothing but a dream
(5/6/26)
From inspired to tired..Subtle yet literal.'
Truths heavy load, often takes us there.'
Enlightenment.. Now essential.!
An effulgent light dawns
Dispelling all darkness
Shattering veils of doubt
Illuming hidden truths
And bestowing wisdom.
Swimming in the sky
Swimming, swimming in the sky, in the time
Leave the Earth, leave my old planet, leave my life
Leave the human body, my old corpse, died
Forget the history of humanity, start a new life
A new existence, a new being, a new desire
A new ministry, a new communion, in the sky
Hmm. This is just my dream. I feel bad in my mind
Night time, from my bed, I'm just watching the sky
The always magnetic deepness, the beautiful dark
Hmm. The dark, because I love a brilliant entity’s mind
So many times we are talking, but all the time at nights
It gave me the light every night, the creativity of the far
Distance, space. I want to live there to build a life
I don’t want to be that kind of enlightenment, you know…
Life is perfect and automatically enlightening if…
The goals are positive
The goals are constructive
The goals are innovative
The goals are the solution
The well-motivated life
Always positive, active
Every time, all the time
Then enlightenment
all the proactive lives
But what is the goal?
Hmm. Yes. Understand
Together, together
Gather together
Independent together
Swimming
In The Sky
Together
Together
Enlightenment the movement upwards to unify all polarities.
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I lay to waste
Earth-centered
omnisciently questioning life,
overindulging Anthro-preoccupied
questing enlightened faith
Wasting Anthro-centered
wealthy sacred life,
overindulging Ego-preoccupied
hunting haunted organic lust
Wasting Ego-healing opportunities
for Earth-centered yielding trust,
greedily grabbing for immortal identity
Laying to waste
Earth-centering communion
omnipotently questioning mind re-imaging life
unconditionally extending
body remembered love,
overindulging Anthro-monopolized
power questing infamy
Caste abolishing
Anthro-decentering
wealthy organic EarthTribe
healthy sacred life.
You arrived at my door
I was far from inclined
You deserved so much more
I was naive and blind
I could have been your rock
Could have even been great
But my maternal clock
Was wired, far too late
To naturally nurture
It felt foreign to me
More awkward than sure
I still longed to be free
Just a child yesterday
I dwelled in my own past
I allowed you to stay
But my actions were crass
In hindsight I can see
How foolish I had been
You were sent to save me
And become my best friend
In this world we live in today
Everyone with their taste or aim
I'm not in it to impress
But to impact with balance
If you can't contact or concur
Then you're not an alliance or can't relate
So why the debate or hate, when everyone is not mate!?..
I'm here to leave a legacy
Not just properties
People achieve properties with deceit
But greatness comes with discipline
Bankruptcy takes away all properties
Even when you passed it down
But legacy can't die if passed down
Unless for a selfish pursuit for power or position.
Whatever you do take your time
Always pay the price of diligence
Be accountable and honest
Don't portray to be perfect
We all make mistakes
But the ability to make amendments
Will determine your contentment
Because nothing blooms all year long.
THE EYES OF THE SUN
Clouds frothing the sky,
Soaring waves frothing life’s shores;
Sunshine mooning all:
God’s eyes reveal all to us,
Navigating life’s sojourns:-
NIGHT’S BEAUTY
Yes, beauty does walk
In the blackness of night:-
Each day, the sun leaves behind
The night–
Reflecting all that was missed–
As it wearily walks across the sky
To slowly sit upon
The waiting horizon’s golden bed:-
The ebony essence
Of night’s beauty
Lies in the truth of the day,
And is reflected
In the purity of her blackness:
She mirrors her moonlight eye:-
Indeed, it is in the beauty of darkness,
That we are ever in assurance of enlightenment:-
Within ancient keeps where stony shadows sleep,
And ivies tower their solemn watch maintain,
My heart, a fortress, guards a love so deep,
Against the mortal world’s unyielding rain;
No novel scheme, or lack of passing whim,
But built with stone that long ago was set,
Against the siege of doubts that make love dim,
A flail of thought, a whirling, wild regret;
Yet in this strength, a tender secret lives,
A banner flown for you, my lady fair,
For whom the castle's trapdoors relent, gives
Passage to sunlight, yonder fragrant air;
Thus, built for war, this fortress of my soul,
Behold your gaze, its peace, and thus made whole.
Stand on a ledge
Call if you will on divine intervention
Wait for that ray of enlightenment
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2025
A MONK WITH NO GOD
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Line of inquiry: “a homogeneous mass of consciousness, God as the all there is, mind cannot name, being both immanent and transcendent, living light intimate in heart aflame.”
not a god of names, but
the hum holding the cosmos together
the petrichor scent after rain
the miracle of conception and birth
the hummingbird’s beating heart
the quiet between my thoughts, as close as my own heart
the vastness between planets
it does not answer prayer
it is the prayer
a homogenous mass?
only to the mind that tries to comprehend it.
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