Insightfulness by Mahtab Bangalee
Burn the earthy light
Wake up the insight
Inside clean
See unseen
© Mahtab Bangalee
Chattogram
18/01/2023
NB: - MB STANZA KEEPS FOUR LINES WITH RHYMING AND 5+5+3+3 TOTAL 16 SYLLABLES
Are all these eyes imbued
With a magic of
Soft awed insightfulness
Under Autumn's spell.
To note, in both apple
And what thereabouts
Old carted, rusty leaved
Alike fair does swell.
The first gift is of love and empathy.
The second gift is of hate and hostility.
The third gift is of fate and destiny.
The fourth gift is of endurance and stability.
The fifth gift is intelligence and awareness.
The sixth gift is of creativity and insightfulness.
The seventh gift is of persistence and courage.
The eighth gift is of capability and reliability.
The ninth gift is of passion and ambition.
The tenth gift is of stubbornness and curiosity.
Due to the fairness of god, he gave some of these gifts to a person in excess and other gifts in less.
Each gift carries the potential to be a disaster or a portal to other dimension.
It's up to you whether to call the gifts a curse or a blessing.
oscillating back and forth
head tilting from leeward and windward
an abstract puzzling my imperial gaze
a Van Gogh in waiting
perchance a reflection illuminated
in broad mesmerizing strokes
some tantalizing insightfulness
else a superficial escapade
do the color menageries
stray my mindfulness or hold attention
each vivid hue enlightenment
to soothe & provide enrichment
is my inspiration desperation
to find meaning in the simpleton
gravitating and oscillating
between beauty and gargoyles
does incredulous creativity scare me
or woo me into submissiveness
the artist plying servitude
into mine cavernous cavities
Alan Scales’ exhibit of
Turquoise Abstract Landscape II
provides fodder for my mind
to exponentially explode
Andreas Simic©
Does a poet also suffer from depression?
Lives in perplexity, exhaustion!
And groans in the pain of mental death!
To me-
Poetry is a spontaneous life partner,
An indicator of purity, a prophet of insightfulness
To me-
Poetry is the panacea for forgetting sorrow,
The happiness of earthly sympathy
Intuition and wisdom are the forerunners of poetry
In the midst of which self-realization is complete
He is complete in himself.
And that's complete in own-self
Does he ever suffer from depression?
Chattogram © Mahtab Bangalee
A butterfly, fluttering
Calipiller feet walking
God’s Quieting’s
A sleeping baby a-coo’s
A grandma’s hug oohs!
A puppy’s lick on your cheek (O' so sweet)
God’s Quieting’s
A flagrant smell
God awesomeness
Natures view insightfulness
All these blessings are just…
Parts of…
God’s Quieting’s
3/7/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2021©
Spiritual Awakening
There are these echoes of sound, in each waking hour
Within the stillness, your intuitive mind may empower
Giving you thoughts to ponder, questioning reality
Where in the schemes of life, lies your mortality
Cast off the burdens of the queries in your mind
Transformation, leaving your former self behind
Transcending you towards an enlightenment anew
An insightfulness of all the wonderments of you
From whence all of time and space once began
There is an alignment within this universe and man
To the spiritually awakened, those who understand
This connection evokes the human mind to expand
Star
Twinkling
Insightfulness.
Shines
Down
Heavenly
Delightfulness.
Shooting
Through
Moonlights
Rightfulness.
Falling
On
Twilight's
Frightfulness.
The art of giving without expectations
Of putting yourself forward without obligations
To hold forth with empathy and humanity
Without martyrdom or conceited vanity
To judge not those that are forlorn
With pretentious airs or snidest scorn
Or patronize with subtle condemnation
Or make light of another’s desperation
Encourage with compassion and open mind
And look for clues that may lie behind
The anguish or the reasons for the pain
Insightfulness that could easily explain
Listen always with your heart and soul
And never try to badger or control
Empower others with their own esteem
Allow them to vent and let off pent up steam
Always be the giver, not the taker
And never be the liar or the faker
Be humble and forever truly real
Sincerity and truth will surely heal