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PRIOR TO INTENT: Dawn's First Light

DAWN'S FIRST LIGHT
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silence at daybreak.
sacred encounter with the Divine, 
a conference of heart and soul.

beyond form, beyond language
heart beats, an echo, 
a pulse vibrating through the silence.

wordless intent, 
unvoiced 
yet profoundly clear~  

a stirring, 
a flicker of grace
captures the dawn.

my soul meets God's pulse
I am led
I am unbound.  

soul ascends

Poem written for Prior to Intent Poetry Content, Unseeking Seeker, sponsor, July 30, 2025

Prior to Intent

From darkened forms of little thought
a fog of unknown dreams 
desire a feeling 
A fleeting thought begins to focus
a dream, a plan, a scheme unfolds
Did the subconscious create intent 
Or did past knowledge weave a dream
Did experience create intent
Or did the mind's unknowing dream explode

Prior To Intent

Line of inquiry:

"hearts set up a vibration 
echoing as wordless intent
mind translates in symbols
flight of our soul’s ascent
is intent then a stirring
of soul with God conferring"



My one heart as a part of humanity's great heart,
spiritually holds the indwelling God presence as sought.
A human hold shiftily slants and grows knots tied fraught
with false-held, gloomy feels that egos and fears impart.

Divine truths dawn in our souls thru imagination,
not from human workings but graces gifts in-working.
Imagination can stop fears from falsely out-working
and foil mankind's believed limits of false accreditation.

In still solitude, spiritual truths as held in our being
meet our consciousness, our divinity's hidden place
in which our indwelling Christ gives ALL with God's grace
and intellect joins intuition too seek a soul's true freeing.

Through spiritually held faith one is belief aligned
in God's power, greater than any fear episode
man may encounter or engineer to earth upload.
No one or thing can malign what our Father designed.

My faith would never crumble feeble as styrofoam 
when the worst that could happen is I'd get to go home.

Prior to Intent

Was a warm glowing field.
I remembered it by scent.
Holographic thoughts formed
Like liquid beneath me, and I drifted
Through a blizzard of desires,
Impulses, and intuitions.
I was a knave, naive every time.
I sat there and got dizzy over
Ways to make spinach
So my kids would one day eat it.

Prior to Intent

her presence at first sight
an illumination
something I didn’t understand

she stirred imagination

a current ran through my body
and whatever stirred
was beyond comprehension

an angel, perhaps

I watched
as she checked into my life
and disappeared without a word

but she lingered in my mind

a constant stirring

until the next time
when I said hello

Heart’s Intent

Heart
intents
that love flows
in the veins and
soul absorbs all pain
shadows of past dislimn
ushering to a future
of innocent naiveté
where the infinite horizons meet
as the circle of life and death completes


Placed fifth
Prior to intent Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker

Prior to Intent

hovering in limbo
ideas strewn about
lacking sense or reason

images suspended in mid air
notions and impressions
floating and colliding

vague feelings in the raw
idly drifting meet their match
simmering a stance 

before long ...
thoughts are forming notions
interpreting and framing
and a plan's laid out for action



AP: 3rd place 2025

Tremor

Before thought–the heart: a struck bell's hum,
in the chest's dark chapel. No word. Only thrum
that echoes the void where meaningwill climb. 

Is this the soul's raw conference? A draft.
of prayer–unwritten–lifting like a raft 
on some deep tide. Not speech. Not yet. But chime 

of nerve and grace. Mind fumbles, blind, to trace
this pulse–intent–before it wears time's face. 

The vibration: God's fingerprint, half-dreamed,
still tuning the harp of the unsung.

Our Soul's Intent

Our soul is the flame of intent our inner being,
Untold connection with Christ, ourselves to Him,
Resplendent from the start there til after life's end
*   An intangible  part of us to see it being nurtured.
So driven to divine heights, able to achieve so much.
Our questions to act, notions, where temptation rose.
Ulterior motives ridicule the integrity not able to sin
 Like an inkling of intentions appear to come alive
' It's the soul giving you spiritual enlightenment
So the urge to get up and try again, its intent
* It is the light  that  is  the divine  essence
As It is the love that radiates life's reason
Such is where inconsolable  belief acts	
Calmly it is inside us that inner glow
Ever your soul a testament to you 
Now raking oppressive thought
Temptation transcends obscurity
* Decisions unfurl, become intent

My intent is wordless

In the wilderness of bewilderment,
Sculpting different sorts of thoughts,
Where intent fades, needing no interment,
And truth exudes from all its rots.

There lies the stark resolve for my future,
A slender hope of life ahead,
Bound together by a catgut suture,
That time corrodes until it's shed.

All kept away from prying eyes,
Ever before my intent was conceived,
Just to keep all sane minds apprised,
And safeguard each new blessings just received.

Intent is wordless, lost in speech,
Etched as imagery – symbol of hope,
Quavering conscience stays unbreached,
Through the darkness of intense doubt it gropes.

Karma Dogma

If intent and actions
are cause and effect
and influence the future
what you give is what you get
and yet
what about children
caught in the crossfire
when very young
murdered in man's mire
they have not yet begun
to live
and love is all they have to give
so much for karma
symbolised by the lotus flower
but whereabouts is it
in their most needed hour
forsaken by fortune
they answered fate's call
tho' no reason not to do good
our own sad destiny awaits us all

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Intent On Camping

Not your ordinary, average date,
a country ramble,
a stile a gate,
and here's the pitch,
“We won't go far, or stay up late.”
Now he and she sitting silently,
beside the flickering fire,
innocently she believes, camping separately
within tent, is where they will retire.
But his fuse was lit
when first they met,
longingly he knows and yet,
that's not what's on his mind,
nor what he really meant,
hoping she'll yield in the field,
he's bent on camping with intent.

True Intent

Humble beginning

Simpler time

True intent

Clarity of mind

Trolls

Lurking behind false identities 
And faceless names 
They launch a venomous attack 
Pulling you down the road to defame
Their malicious intent to vilify your name
Is a vicious and preposterous game 
Shameless trolls are a sadistic ploy
Often media houses deploy

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