Honing Poems

Zen mode

...honing instinct
to be love inked
bliss hum steady
says we’re ready
empty yet full
soul beautiful 
to do as tasked
as by God asked...

Vibrant aloneness

...our soul is a lone traveller
surfing waves of the vast ocean
weaving its way through illusions
with ego causing commotion

there is nothing to be done here
save sharing in life, love and light
...

Playing Chicken with an Old Friend

...
no blink, no bluff—
just rust-bitten bikes
on a gravel road,
grip slipping, brakes optional.

we called it honing our craft,
we didn’t dodge.
we needed the crash—
proof we meant it,
authen...

a wind whispers

...the silence of peace
an idle sword cuts the wind
honing its edge

John G. Lawless
©3/20/2025
...

Whetting The Stone

...Whittling the point
paring it down
cutting the volume
honing the sound

Sharpening each line
words drop and fall
meaning to thunder
— lightning recalled 

(Dreamsleep: February, 2025)
...

The Power of Love

...There is no denying the power of love.
It is a splendid teacher
Quite adept at instructing us
In ways that completely alter our character,
And telling us how to be what we never were,
Or never e...

while ego slept

...a notch higher
above the head ovoid
grazing the crown chakra
a moist ethereal implant awakes
signalling embodiment of transcendence 
within the aspect of consciousness immanent

the ha...

Etched in stone

...As both the dreamer and the dreamed in this world,
if we would wake up here, etch these words in stone;
save by honing rough edges, by ego knurled,
being the optimal method to atone,
the flag of ...

night

...dark is the morning dark is my phone with aliens rushing our border
i watch these vermin with contempt
i take my eyes off at 8am sharp
the commute is only an hour but a good first impression i wil...

The Poetic Genius of Percy Bysshe Shelley

...NN:
"Gemini, in light of the following assessment of Percy Bysshe's Shelley verbal and/or literary IQ and level of poetic intelligence and giftedness by you (from another conversation), how much hig...

Overly Particular Contest Judges

...Not for the contest

No more do I despair 
writing for contests with an off the wall theme
Those that want me to create a nightmare
from what was once a beautiful dream.

No more do I c...

Shingles doesn't care

...There's a tv commercial with a metaphor,
that some of us may have heard before,
"shingles doesn't care".
If one rolls the virus dice rsv and covid
aren't very nice but "shingles doesn't care."
C...

Lights, Camera, Action

...

Sweat drips backstage, mouth parched, heart beating at a sprinter's pace.
All eyes on me, as lights dim with spotlight honing on mic and lips.
Words flow to a standing ovation - I soak it all i...

Stranger Things

...
From strange elixir of mind 
a form walks in forming strange lines, 
in a poem of a chant of a spell, 
encantrain echoes it's well.
Where roses bloom, 
dead and spirits recite their bleed 
of...

The Lost Cause

...Like a corpse laid bare,
Honing the hatchet of hate,
Is a lost cause care....

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