EXPERIMENTAL INSTANCES
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Aching cold in swirling grey,
damp, wet, sharp within the freeze.
The loud retort of battering winds.
But then the silence...
a soundless crystal expanse.
The timeless, endless halt
of all things storm and damage.
A pristine genisis emerges
on the knife -edge of the instant.
Meditation may be silent prayer with a motive
Behaviors that influence mood are complex
Wealth addiction never reaches its apex
As a vital insight, Oozes is notably zen-positive.
The mirror of integrity calms interior thoughts,
scary to smother, stifle, or deny consciousness
In the need for insight, thought-rested awareness
Things related to scrutiny are tying you up in knots.
It's as a careless awakening from a deep slumber,
intense bedtime twists, and spiritual closeness
Cosmos moves in a pure sign of sublime oneness
No stochastic or endless motion in a stark number.
Bestow intellect and heart into harmony for love,
Attain stolid calm, dissolving shape and space
The mind produces awareness, sharing, and grace
To be in-articulable, bereft of a void as a dove.
Written: December 06, 2022
Thought Rested Awareness Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Resilience springs from well
established perseverance
Resistance of determined energy
associated with courage adherence
Your dedicated sense of
responsibility would evaporate
Through nourishing yourself on
ancient virtue you saturate
Corridors of memories
disjointed but with purpose
Provoked images delicate
features so smooth yet nervous
Having my senses marred by
instances from my recent past
Forever dreams just don’t exist,
oceans of feelings never last
Upon breaking free from
your inspirational confines
I do not need to destroy you
to prove I exist by my design
One’s sole dignity adaptability
with staggering evidence
Spun left with a dogged revolt
against negativity and arrogance
Exposing insight into the
depths of your true meaning
Taunting words unspoken
were insulting plus demeaning
Efforts based on your assumptions
override your many lies
Only enhancing my boundaries
of perception, alas was your demise
My face I wear a mask
Both hands mine I do wash
Instances for distances
Between me and someone
Then and there my concern
Someone is one before me
He is another he’s not me
My face and my hands true
Before me isn’t another I also true
Recalling Instances, Not Days
Written: by Tom Wright
8-30-2019
Time has handicapped my retention,
And entire days can’t be recalled.
But particular instances inside those days;
Still clamor for immediate attention,
From my past where they lie sprawled.
The moment is sudden, quite and still
A place I stop and take in my fill
It hurts when I look into your eyes
"Right" it all forever cries
So much time waiting for it to surface
My lips tremble from what I long to confess
Fleeting and yet the time drags on
This instance is where I was meant to be drawn
Sometimes some time slips by unnoticed
Like fog on moonless cloudy night
But once it’s gone it’s gone for ever
Instant past an emptied moment in
frivolously flickered flight
Smoke and sand through open fingers
Here then gone the memory lingers
Dancing in time
Dreaming in rhyme
Watching the moments
Drifting away
With a hot cup of tea
at the end of the day
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