Externalised Poems | Examples

A leap in the void

Limited by body-mind,
we are gripped in ego’s bind,
caged in fear, blurry our sight,
even though we’re living light.

Bereft of love, light and bliss,
heart tells us something’s amiss
but we’re afraid to negate,
desires that do not abate.

With senses externalised,
truth within’s not realised,
known only if we be still
and surrender egoic will.

Untethered from our mind tree, 
in the void, we’re always free,
becoming there, God’s bliss flame,
thus fulfilling our life’s aim.

Thought of the day

senses externalised, objects weighed and sized ~
little wonder then, God is not realised

Cave of our heart

Hemmed in by space-time and captive in form,
senses externalised, everything sized,
in bondage to lust, by dark fears chastised,
what choice do we then have, but to conform?
We notice thoughts are cold but heart is warm
and in staid silence, we’re bliss magnetised,
whence ego recedes and truth realised,
breath by breath, in timeless time, we transform.

Mind-body ballon, at will can expand,
if heart be pure and we choose to be still,
wherein no longer by thought spirals bound,
entwined with oneness, we then understand,
that once we relinquish to God our will,
soul’s light that was veiled, within heart is found.

Dissolve Ego

A monk ascends
Then shares wisdom
The ignoramus interpret
Thus a new religion is born

Unless our hearts become porous
We are trapped in lower mind
That is controlled by ego
Senses externalised 

Notice that no sage
Followed religious scripture
All they did was to enter silence
Allowing God’s light to permeate form

If we truly wish to recognise the truth 
We must meld head with heart 
Relinquishing every belief 
Becoming the flame 

When ego disappears
Only then does God appear
Thus not by doing but in undoing 
Do we reclaim what our true essence is

Peace 

30-April-2023

Are We Educated

Having chosen to feel contrast
Is it not strange that we feel aghast
Immersed in this dual realm of limitation
Imagining as real, our life on earth play station

Deluded, in vain we attempt to enhance the status
Of our decaying feeble organic form apparatus
With senses externalised, everything is sized
No wonder then, God remains unrealised

The truth is simple, we need to look within
Silencing thought flow din is the way to begin
Head and heart gentled and with love in alignment
We embark in earnest upon our God search assignment 

Nothing is needed dear soul, save our burning yearning
Bliss magnetism soon has nodes within us churning
Polarities meld in heart resulting in bliss ignition
We thus obtain directly our true erudition 

30-March-2023

Captive

Senses externalised, we’re held captive
by myriad forms of fear and desire
and so unless presence is adaptive,
bemused by illusions, it will soon tire
in pursuit of objects it would acquire.
This recognition for us is enough
to shift into calm, exiting seas rough,
whereupon soul’s freedom is ours to claim,
making easy challenges, that seemed tough,
drenched in love and light, in our life’s end game.

03-Feb-2023

I Shoulda Seen It Coming

I shoulda seen it comin’
but was so entrenched in sin,
that enslaved by senses five,
dark desires kept me alive.

Attention externalised,
everything I did was sized,
deadened to caress of love,
head and heart, not hand in glove.

I was a dead man walking,
enmeshed in lust forms stalking,
until I chose cessation,
nonchalant to sensation.

Letting go of, to get to,
my soul felt bliss beats renew
within the cave of my heart,
deeming all one, none apart.

I shoulda seen it comin’,
that hopeless feeling sinkin’ 
but I see it clearly now,
and thus do give love a bow.

27-January-2023

Pillar of Light

A vertical tube closed at either end,
within which is soul, wishing to ascend
but all that surrounds is organic form,
brought forth to life by a divine bliss storm.

The body has it’s need which soul does feed;
soon tail wags the dog and need becomes greed.
Senses externalised, everything sized;
no wonder then, God’s rarely realised.

Who we are can never be negated.
Waking each morn, we find heart elated;
dwelling in silence, we reclaim soul’s bliss,
rapture unbound where nothing is amiss.

Sushumna illumined, pierces the crown ~
One with the universe, in love we drown

16-September-2022

Notes: Sushumna is an energy conduit, beginning at the root chakra and going straight up to the crown chakra. For further reading refer Wiki or any yogic text.

Earth Life, a Hard School

Earth life, a hard school, dark desire cesspool,
Senses externalised, all objects sized,
No wonder then, we behave like a fool,
Truth dawns, when by Holy Spirit baptised.

Ego controls thoughts, so we’re ill-advised,
Body hormones rule, our instincts cruel,
Bemused by illusions, fleeting goals prized,
Earth life, a hard school, dark desire cesspool.

All hope seems lost, feral lust’s our fuel,
Though conscience speaks, as God Himself disguised,
We heed Him not, behaving like a ghoul,
Senses externalised, all objects sized.

Hypnotised by thoughts, our soul’s paralysed,
Chasing rainbows, we continue to drool,
Game of shadows leaves us demoralised,
No wonder then, we behave like a fool.

Discerning cause of pain, as pulse dual,
We cease thought flow, that ego’s vaporised,
Thoughts reassigned to their role as a tool,
Truth dawns, when by Holy Spirit baptised.

In timeless time, God within’s realised,
Heart lotus blooms, revealing soul’s jewel,
In-form polarities are stabilised,
Our free will’s liberated for self-rule,
Earth life, a hard school.

05-June-2022

A RONDEAU REDOUBLE POEM Poetry Contest
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins

A Child Recalls

By my enabled senses five, attention externalised, I beheld the magical world of myriad objects, reflecting their luminous auras. As I exhaled, the world disappeared and through my open fontanel correspondent to the crown chakra, I entwined with universal consciousness, melding with God’s blissful domain of boundless love and soft white light. My subtle body felt God in-dwelling all forms, breathing His life force by His sublime pranic breath, magnetically energising each being by Holy Spirit. Then sadly, as my body aged, to my dismay, the fontanel closed, thus severing the divine connection. I now feel incomplete.

dreams hold forth promise
cajoling us to let go~
for God is within

05-June-2022

Like A Child Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh

Embrace and Release

Embrace and release, each life pulse with ease,
celebrating God-bestowed offering.
Mind knows not where lies fulcrum of a sneeze;
ego spawned thoughts, cause of our suffering.

Senses externalised, all objects sized,
we limit awareness by our own hand.
Little wonder then, God’s not realised,
for who we are, we’re yet to understand.

Silence and stillness opens hidden doors,
teleporting presence to zenith height.
When ego recedes, boundless bliss in-pours,
transmuting us here now, as living light!

Our soul is free, when fears and desires cease;
embrace and release, each life pulse with ease.

02-May-2022

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Orphan Sonnet Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Emile Pinet

Ashtavakra Gita Verse 19:2

19.2
“Where is meditation, pleasure, prosperity 
or discrimination? Where is duality?
Where even is Unity?
I abide in the glory of Self”

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Verse revisited on 23-March-2022

To know what is, discern what is not
Thus neti-neti, not this, not this, ephemeral 
We look for truth, making singular, seeming plural
Yet senses externalised, everything’s sized in thought slot

The cosmic egg, womb of existence, lies within as Hiranyagarbha
Splitting, one becomes two, the two many, in-form polarity
Separation creates a yearning for union by parity
Samadhi resolves paradox of life’s enigma

There then thus is no doer meditating
All that is, is but Spanda or vibration in motion
Truth’s here now known in the void of breath cessation
Vibrant, all encompassing, luminous consciousness, scintillating

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Notes: 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neti_neti

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiranyagarbha

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samadhi

Gayatri Mantra

Salutations to The Divine Mother
Who envelopes us in a bliss shower
God’s divine essence aglow in our heart
Innate aliveness enabling each breath to start
Effulgence of a thousand suns dispelling darkness 
Entwining our mind-body to the That oneness
Moment to moment in a joy continuum 
There remaining no ego residuum 

Oh Mother! We are bemused by illusion
Senses externalised, desires beget delusion
Fallen from grace, we have forgotten our nature
Your fragrant touch alone restores our true stature
Awaken Mother, here in form, love and wisdom
May our consciousness rise to the sensorium 
Dual polarities melding, illumining our soul
That bliss suffused, we again feel whole

09-November-2021

Inspired By A Translation Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudhury 

Notes: Gayatri mantra is a popular, age old prayer, in Sanskrit language. For literal translation please visit - https://medium.com/imeditation/gayatri-mantra-translation-word-by-word-meaning-in-english-547431a5d464

Someone, Please Warn Him

Simple Simon chose to wander upon earth
to feel by touch stark contrast of vibrations
wherein darkness blends with vibrant light
polarities test and tease before their union
senses externalised veil soul presence wise
offering a ride on Ferris wheel called duality

What harm can there be, for soul is within
with voice of conscience unerring compass
space omnipresent immediate and intimate
wherefrom Gods breath sustains life form
revealing clear light in the void of cessation
that renews as a flicker, moment to moment 

17-August-2021

Journey Without Movement

“share, oh hermit, thoughts of your solitude
as measure of your souls beatitude”
____________________________

Heart
is where
our desires
arise due to
nature of our self,
in incessant motion,
seeking expansion of joy
by the path of least resistance,
which is why we tend to go astray,
since our senses five, are externalised.

Finding joys fleeting, replaced by sorrow,
we go back, within, into our heart,
wherefrom our desires did arise,
choice of soul now cessation,
in thought rested stillness,
shifting to prayer
to reconnect
lower mind
with Gods
love.

28-May-2021

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