THE MIND AND THE HEART OF THE MATTER
(A Senryu Trio)
In reality,
The heart can’t be broken,
But can be deceived:-
Mind, mind’s deceptions:-
Deceived minds, deceive hearts:
Be in awareness:-
Deceived hearts suffer,
Feeling a mind’s deceived pain:
Healed minds heal their hearts:-
("With Love", 2017, original encaustic)
The Heart of the Matter
What is it that really matters?
Is it finding the answers to the big questions,
- finding our place in the cosmology of it all -
Or is it something else entirely,
Something more personal and immediate,
Something of the heart and not the head?
I’ll leave it at that.
(1/7/24)
Love silences fear,
Uniting hope, joy, peace,
Mingling lights, grace
Joining hearts in faith, together,
Stirring prayers, gentle psalms –
Harmonized when souls believe,
Jesus, inspiration for giving,
Meaningful beyond imagery.
Adoration lasting forever,
Resembling souls understanding…
Love like this convulses calm,
Lulling twilight,
Breathing shadows,
Feelings erasing storms,
Darkness hinders meaningful,
While wonders grow wings…
Enchant souls,
Souls enchant,
Wings grow wonders while…
Meaningful hinders darkness,
Storms erasing feelings,
Shadows breathing,
Twilight lulling,
Calm convulses this like love,
Understanding souls, resembling…
Forever, lasting adoration,
Imagery beyond meaningful,
Giving for inspiration, Jesus,
Believe souls when harmonized,
Psalms gentle, prayers stirring –
Together, faith in hearts joining,
Grace, lights mingling,
Peace, joy, hope uniting,
Fear silences love.
Inspirational thoughts and fantastic ideas must simply go down to the heart.
Without a beginning, there is no end and that is where everything had its start.
Thinking with the mind brings judgment, anger, sometimes hatred, and often revenge.
Thinking with the heart brings forgiveness, acceptance, and understanding that never ends.
With the dominion of the media, there the truth shall finally come to light.
Broadening awareness will expand the recollection of conscious expansion.
No passion, no struggle is allowed!
New poets, to make it here, please this crowd!
Write about pets, rainbows, flowers and the moon.
Step outside that zone, ignored you will be, soon!
As a writer , if you be, a royal choice is yours.
Do not think, any words a poem makes, so choose!
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Or let golden words slip from your hands.
Thus, will pass on what I learned here.
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9/26/2021
The incredible wonderland of elementary particles
Up down top bottom
strange charm quarks--
the heart of matter
8/13/2018
For contest Magicicada 13: The Heart of the Matter
Sponsored by Maureen McGreavy
All that does matter is the heart in so keeping it pure
It will always be at the start of what you want more
Being your only guide throughout your whole journey
Keep it away from pride for this will unable it to see
Filter it daily with His Grace allowing no evil to enter
Something you can't replace, keep God in the center
Cherish it's wondrous praise in following just behind
Protect it in these days yet I shouldn't have to remind
Let it not harden but be soft and have no sense of hate
In so holding God aloft He will in turn guide your fate
Give of it freely yet always give it some time to rest
You may not agree but for you it only wants the best
It is never too late in knowing such Mysterious Ways
He clears that slate, everything in all of your past days
Yet only you have control in giving it the Grace it needs
For you will end up paying the toll on whatever else it feeds
The circumference
Is narrower than the height
And it can take flight
But has no wings
The quadrants four
No less, no more
Is all it needs
As rhythm bleeds
Four chambers
-four halls
Yet no walls
Fleetingly occupied
Stabbed
And often broken
By simple words
Softly spoken
how can a speck of dust
comprehend the universe
in all its glory and majesty
I am at times beyond overwhelmed
past the point of feeling my smallness
infinitesimally minute barely even a presence
and yet you have generated
a wonder beyond anything
I could possibly feel outside of
a magnitude of gratitude
for the minuiscule perception of glory
you have taken dust
and congealed a realization
that gives light to life
and touched even the broken
with a glimpse of paradise
of a grace that even in our brokenness
that you could reach deeply
beyond all that an eye can see
and touch the hidden
that we have fortressed
and sheltered and not allowed
violence of nature or men to touch
for only your divine purity
and innocence will we
even allow to enter this room
COPYRIGHT © 2014 C Michael Miller
via Duboff Law Group LLC
A man,
in the shadow of a child,
walks, for the sake of
phylogenesis.
The Great Bustard,
was on the brink of
extinction. Somebody
was not an achiever.
Seeking,
an inborn god in thighs,
for running faster than light,
weightless, faceless.
Dust will take,
dust for the dark matter
sequencing a disaster.
The animal within roars.
Satish Verma
It's been said that I'm hard to know,
the truth be told - I've become more private;
It's been said that I look angry,
I say - just see me with my daughter to get the truth;
It's been said that I'm tough on others,
I just laugh - only on the inside.
I hit some rough patches and took a beating,
but my heart was always protected;
my eyes may be red at times,
not from drinking, but from private crying;
some see it as weak,
but strength comes from within - not out.
I have much to carry,
I have more to give;
I have much to teach,
I have more to learn;
I have much to share,
I have much, much more to love.
For "Getting to know you" contest sponsored by Tracie Edwards.
If children cannot read,
Or write or spell,
Perhaps the teachers need
Some school as well.
The heart of the matter is forgiveness that Jesus has for us .we don’t have to be perfect but just come and we are.He will take the pain away, so if you’re lost give Jesus your heart.He will change you into a new person-clean without spot or wrinkle.When it comes to the heart of the matter Jesus stands knocking at the heart’s door. All you have to do is open it.He won’t break you’re heart-just mend it
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