Enlightenment
Enlightenment, don’t know what it is…
As endless waves swell and break
On the ocean of Samsara
All the while under Nirvana’s spacious sky.
Is there such a thing
As a final goal,
Or is it instead
An endless process of becoming?
How should I know? But I do know
That once I knew with all my heart
I would eventually become enlightened
And in that moment it didn’t matter when.
Because when you know with all your heart
The goal has already been reached
And the endless process of becoming
Is known to be nothing but a dream.
(8/4/25)
I noted the stillness
in your hands, the
casual arc of your shoulders,
a deceitful ease in your voice—
as if the world melted into your anima,
your eyes spoke the nether language
(angelicus anima).
I watched your eyes oscillate,
a tidal wave of light,
gleams of individuation
propagating outward,
devastating all disguises—
quiet fissures in the
careful strata
of us.
Inside monotheistic ego aware
feeling
outside polytheistic co-empathic
These inside enlightened intuitions
outside verbal empowering cognitions
reflecting cooperative
in-between positive co-relationship
representing explicit wealth wants
and implied health needs
Win/Win co-relational regard
awareness
noticing all genetic roads lead back
back
back
To outside EarthTribe stabilization
inside
four-dimensional whole system fractals
Winters inside dormant outside
Springing active outside leading
feeding inside wealth of hunger
and healthy thirst
Summer ego/eco-climaxing systems
nurturing nutritional
identity individuation
full Yang cooperative maturation
Falling mortal outside leaves
failing freezing young root systems,
buried inside nuts
and seeds
of potential refertility
Autumn's harvest integrity
reflecting
fomenting inside naked souls
feeding outside depleted soil
Positively regarding balance
tipping winter solstice promise
of ecosystemic past inside
and future outside
regenerations
Yet to EarthTribe thrive
despite genocidal
climate warnings
Inside ego aware
encultured feelings
outside co-empathic.
Transcendence does not mean superior,
it simply means discovering
the wholeness of individuation,
realizing that each person
is unique unto themselves,
with divine life indwelling,
released to enter the eternal
when the mortal coil is shed.
For: This or That, Vol 9 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
January 05, 2022
Functions
to Form
Include economic
and communication Functions
to political ReForm
Are like Relationships
between autonomous Things
Like interactive Verbs
to otherwise isolated Nouns
Round notes
between harmonic lines
Like Waves of ecosystemic interaction
are also Atoms of unchanging egocenters
Like exterior Dynamic
to interior Static
Like Time for becoming
and Space for timeless being.
Cooperative win/win Functions
to sustainable
robust democratic Forms
Like resonant Minds
to resilient Bodies
Spirits
to Nature
Light
to Power
RightBrain Enlightenment
to LeftBrain Empowerment
Interdependent Individuation
to autonomous Identity
Unitarian
to Universal
Synergy
to Positive/Negative Energy
Unclothed Integrity Functions
to contained Ergodic Form
Flowing Systems
to strong static Sets
Yintegral Time
to Yang Place
Sacred Organisms
to secularizing Mechanisms
Becoming Revolution
to Being NonEvolution
Create Your World
Go beyond the boundaries of definition.
Swim in your cerulean seas of individuation!
Stop bowing and cow-towing to the whims of the
masses.
Only you can decide to be you. or swim with the
conforming classes.
I promise you, your individuality will not be liked.
You either follow them, or find yourself on a lonely pike.
Great poets are ignored, searching instead for their
own voice!
To them, to be real, is the only valid choice.
They are not poet clowns in a circus ring.
You will never find them in a mad search for
approval, galloping!
May 6, 2020
2:15pm PST
We have, I hear,
between each in-out breath,
only our integrity of potential wealth
for empowering health.
And so I feel compelled to ask,
What would it take
to draw us away
from our entertaining tools
and fascination with weapons?
To, instead, fall in love again,
with Gaian co-empowering outside healing places?
How will we deeply learn
HolySpirit
anima mundi romancing holonic living Nature,
health-wealthy relatedness,
ego individuation from eco-habitat
integrity and diversity
of our own sacred loving-kindness Nature?
Without an outdoor
universal-unitarian
affluent-effluent love affair,
a sultry night time flirtation
with moonlight
and stars bright.
What will you regret
as you lie dying
in a hospital room
drugged
and hooked up to communicating machines
more than communally interdependent organisms?
Perhaps having lost a bed of leaves
under long-loved oak trees,
raising your arms or branches,
as you are still able,
to kiss such ancient full moon light
still singing with our distant past and future
renewing moon starred-bright.
I have plucked the glory of the brightest star
and came close enough to touch its fingers,
searched the realms that inhabit its womb
or even felt that wildly young adult passion,
that I was inconquerable at 21,,, 30
maverick and a trail-blazer, yet present life
leaves me smaller options in this new generation...
a personal résumé now gauged by the sum
of all my human inadequacies and lost challenges
against mythical idols, godly super-heroes of a work-force,
of a pop culture that in a quest like a holy grail,
I strive to find myself in this new decade, writhing inside
my very core; hiding as a porcelain doll,
face unmoved---just following the crowd:
Fuelled by relentless doubt, I have no name
which can define my worth as a mature woman--
a mediocre artist, a reluctant lover needing to taste
the fire of life after being swallowed by cliché- roles.
Moths nibble my pores, staining my 90s graduation dress...
while the luminous star of individuation passes me by
in a flash as if to leave me naked again,
infertile among dry weeds.
Contest for Silent One
'That was Then This is Now 1/24/2019
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-921599710/raise-this-generation
Without a standard, no deviation
Accrued sin brings separation
Feeling lost individuation
Poor mistakes upon rotation
From a worldly fascination
To a godly motivation
Bring forth a realisation
Praise the Lord a proclamation
Influence a growing nation
Be their light and elevation
Changing friends of adoration
Create a right manifestation
Overcome the devastation
Intercede with mediation
Reform the civilisation
Let us raise this generation
Written by Geraldine Taylor ©
I cast my eyes deep down Inside of myself;
I stayed there for hours.
Labyrinthine corridors, I walked with apprehension;
believing my inner child might try to defend itself.
I entered; not to change her but, to help her heal.
Both of us facing the past together; I felt, was best.
Individuation is a process, not to be taken lightly;
with each successful communing; wisdom is achieved.
Moving forward, we stand strong;
moving forward, we face the past;
moving forward, we conquer fears;
moving forward, we achieve.
To the inner child, we look like the other cruel adults.
To convince otherwise;
we must perform our own soul surgery with,
psychological anesthesia.
Too little administered, she walks away;
too much, she is defensive.
Like every other yin/yang in life;
middle ground is a meal for everyone to,
eat in peace and harmony.
I went inside with my tool box;
Curious inner child and I built a bridge together;
Everyone enjoyed the reunion.
Mother and Father
as I release this bind,
I walk into individuation
and free myself of time.
I am female and male
wrapped into one.
I sew together duality
and return to the sun.
My light burns through me
and resist I will not.
Please pray with me
as I choose an open heart.
I am now peace.
Something I had forgotten.
My spirit within me
has now risen.
Married to my soul
is my devotion now.
No Thing is able to move
this choice I bestow.
My flame is so vibrant
that all whom pass through it
will warm themselves with nurture
or run with a fevered conflict.
Be in this holy light with me
or choose another path to see.
The threshold is here
and the truth resonates divinely.
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