Long Aliveness Poems

“I have five friends; a Christian, a Buddhist, a Sikh, a Hindu and a Muslim. Each speaks of a different God or truth. Who should I believe?”

“Belief? Is that not a mind game? Is not...

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Don’t be fooled by me.
Don’t be fooled by the face I wear
for I wear a mask, a thousand masks,
masks that I’m afraid to take off,
and none of them is me.

Pretending is an art that’s second...

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mind that thinks
heart that feels
senses five

reflect

thoughts vary
emotions differ
senses too can ebb

yet

we are alive
in the waking state
but what of dreamless sleep

where are we then
we recall it not
yet awake from it nevertheless 

so

are we not the screen...

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feel the quiet, pouring over my thoughts
the lingering dream, filling me up
with a sense of peace and silence, flowing
erasing the day with all its shadows
all the pains of the past melt away,
gentling the ache, the...

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  I AM POETRY 

‘In the Beginning
was the Word’
light penetrated dark
sound big-banged birthed
three in One creating
~ P o e t r y ~
I am this poised superlative 
unchanging yet exotically emitting 
all that changes...

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Those practicing Tantra urge us to celebrate,
albeit in an aspect of childlike trust and surrender,
whilst Buddhists lay emphasis on emptiness,
essentially negating play of aversion and desire
and as for fundamentalists, lost in the scriptures,
lost in labyrinths...

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The stars would glisten, just a bit
More… like the whispers
Falling from hearts who know joy

The trees would blow, breathless
In the winds, through moments
Laughing hues of gentle kindness
Displayed on hopes and dreams,
Aliveness felt like never before…
Promises...

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15.8
“Have faith, my son, have faith
You are Awareness alone
the Self, the One
You are the Lord of Nature”

15.9
“The body is made of worldly stuff
It comes, it lingers, it goes
The Self neither comes nor goes, yet remains
Why...

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This life

Rituals we’re asked to follow
Seem to separate man from man
Something’s wrong, it seems so shallow
Sun shines upon all with elan

So we went to temple and mosque
Sikh gurudwara and the church
Favours from God, all in...

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Wildflowers hesitate, 
Breathing in the clear air
Inspiration so brilliant, alive
With whispers of faith
Purity in gulps of gasping, panting
Flavors of chasteness
Wholesomeness...
Transparent feelings, blessed
Healing all the past…
With clean, cool innocence

In the meadows,
Over the mountains,
Tiny petals emerge, soft
Tender...

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The rhythm, quiet and swelling
Memories, breathing
Naivete through wonders
In sapphire, azure, passions
Alive on laughing mysteries, skies
Brilliant and alive – wise
Like the sunlight’s reflections

Pulsing with notes of musky
Forest scented rainbows,
In crisp, cool echoes – glimpses
Obsessed with the...

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we are here
why would we negate
so we do accept this reality 
taking our stuporous aliveness
within decaying organic form
as the point of reference
with which we begin
Ramana’s inquiry
who am I

looking back at our life
we notice our values...

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Personal productivity measured courtesy...

Unspecified number of hours spent
many yesterdays ago since March 6th, 2021
reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette
March/April 2021 issue.

Proud papa highly regards eldest daughter,
University of Pennsylvania alum
as academic whip smart high achiever,
she did...

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Shimmering, stars silence
Winds of wonder,
Reassuring the heart
Breaking through the darkness
Penetrating the moments
With hope and joy, serenity
So alive it feels like light
Falling soft against the heart

Glittering, grace gifts and grows
Wishes, whimsical thoughts,
Abide inside the spirit
Releasing the...

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15.6
“Realize Self in All and All in Self
Be free of personal identity
and the sense of “mine.”
Be happy”


Our consciousness in all and all in us as interconnectedness
The one in all and the all in one as...

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The ancient scriptures are both boon and bane
on one hand holding out a ray of hope
yet also becoming a thought form chain
letting us not with light of truth elope.
Each breath we take anchors us deeper...

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Personal productivity measured courtesy...

Unspecified number of hours spent
yesterday March 6th, 2021
reading (cover to cover) Pennsylvania Gazette
March/April 2021 issue.

Proud papa highly regards eldest daughter,
University of Pennsylvania alum
as academic whip smart high achiever,
she did (after quite a...

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19.7
“Where is life and death?
Where is the world and worldly relations? 
Where is distraction and stillness?
I abide in the glory of Self”

Verse revisited on 06-July-2022

As a shape shifting soul
Breath and heartbeat stilled
To feel contrast, we...

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Tranquil heart, the way to eternal bliss
We abide then in our natural state
God plants on our crown, a paternal kiss
Soul breezes easily through heaven’s gate
Consciousness distanced from fear and desire
Chooses in staid stillness to vaporise...

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Dazzling moon in tangerine
Glowing scarlet like warm desire
Azure skies caress the thoughts
While cobalt dreams and crimson
Trees flame to life with lavender

Lilac thrives through a buttery sun
Like lemons laughing through the dawn
Blushing burgundy and cherry smiles
On...

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You’re a little bit like sunshine
Flooding the windowsill 
After an invigorating rain shower
Whispers prayers to heaven
Praising the One who gave us all
The buttery sun and throbbing
Patter of rain melting all the heat
Sighing with compassion 
That...

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Foremost On My Bucket List?

Yo yo ma...though your absence
doth suddenly cause me woe,
no matter parting with
many bittersweet sorrows
long since consciousness unstrung
more'n fourteen plus years ago,

the last surviving Kuritsky
grim reaper enviously eventually snatched,
outliving demise of my...

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1.19
“Just as a mirror exists
both within and without
the image reflected,
the Supreme Self exists
both within and without the body”

1.20
“Just as the same space exists 
both within and without a jar, 
the timeless, all-pervasive One 
exists as...

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be we in duality
or in singularity 
essence of aliveness
requires a vibration
renewing itself within itself
or what we call consciousness 

the screen of space-time 
is the stage set for duality 
of what is all that is manifest
as...

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She’s usually smiling, usually inspiring, usually delighting – in the moment, the quiet, the light of a spirit who brings her fulfillment. ~ quote by author

Usually, she gives – generously
With joy, offering her gifts
Her kindness,...

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