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Lila Poems - Poems about Lila


Dickinson Love - Or What the Dickens
I If u loved, you may write sound poetry; If u loved & lost, words add a higher degree Of lonely beauty and crowded clarity As was true of Dickinson, POET, Lady, my EMILY II Life and breath can yield great writing Love and loss point to truth, reuniting Where all are level, Scripture doth remind Before this act, stage, LILA in Hindu mind...

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Categories: lila, for her, loss, love,
Form: Epigram
Big Bang For Your Christmas Buck
I If we humans did not exist in eternity, before this experience that begins with a birth and ends at a funeral, why the desire for immortality? whence do thoughts of "eternity" arise? II Our science, even faith traditions, since the famed German, Martin Luther's rebellion in 1517, convey we are artefacts. We are in one way...

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Categories: lila, angst, universe,
Form: Prose



If God Did Not Play Hide and Seek
If God did not play Hide & Seek with us We would see GOD, all of God, nothing else! So He hides, then gets more elaborate at hiding; To humans He seems reluctant to be found - as it were - Those who seek in earnest, will find Him Because the Game has to end ... and begin again This is...

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Categories: lila, analogy, bible, games, jesus,
Form: Didactic
Solution To the Ego Illusion
1. Avoid Manichaean Concepts and Boxing - making categories - of Human Beings 2. Watch your thoughts intensely, but kindly: judge no one, not even yourself. Enjoy the drama. We are actors anyways (Ask Shakespeare, or Hindu thinkers who flesh out the concept of Maya and "Krishna Lila.") Do STOP obvious evils. 3. ACCEPT: you are...

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Categories: lila, angst, bible, community, discrimination,
Form: Epigram
Lila
This form was made from star stuff To radiate endless love. My soul is whole, but part of land, sea, and sky above. I am whole, but only half of Creations infinite expanse. I think that you are Lila The universe’s perfect dance....

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Categories: lila, change, dance, for her,
Form: Blank verse



Lila and the Demon
I spread my toes wide in the sand, tanned feet in stark contrast, the white sand squeeked like cornstarch, saw the shadows that we cast. She sat forward, hunched, hands clasped, her shoulders round and frail, her clear blue eyes were milky now, her face seemed pinched and pale. Just last month she was terrified of the seagulls by the shore, but now her world...

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Categories: lila, caregiving, confusion, health, life
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things