Long Attainment Poems

Written 12 December 2023         
Transmutation Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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If we were Earth gods and goddesses,
with powers to create anything we prefer
for our healthiest wealth attainment,
would we settle for living in a swamp
created by our own collective lack of mindfulness
about how to play longer-term...

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K373 and K374 of the THIRUKKURAL: Translated with Commentary

The poet's name, THIRUVALLUVAR [Thiru = Sacred and Valluvar = the name of the priesthood caste of the « Pariah » (whom Mahatma Gandhi prefered to call...

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Niithaar Perumai, the Fundamental Role of Ascetics, Canto 26 of the Thirukkural, the Tamil Classical Treatise on Ethics, Translation and Commentary by T. Wignesan 


[Given the scarcity of information (mostly conflicting even then) on the...

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LIFE IN ETERNITY*


1.

The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in 
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent infantile heart was provoked by
The challenging divine call, 
Started beating...

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Love

1.

I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness,
Running down your ravaged with pain
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In the manse market for a preowned spa house

Mine feeble efforts pale in comparison
to a kid scaling El Capitan
of Yosemite National Park,
nevertheless me, a dry witted husband
self emasculated milquetoast
of late ofttimes yawps imprecations
against fickle finger...

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The long and short of it is . . . forever

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Not so long ago ...
your numbers darkened the west
a noble profile of strength and pride
and the epitome of the innate, free, pioneering spirit
that your country was founded upon ...

It is said that single
groups of your...

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"Attainment Of Wisdom And Understanding"


                    "A word to wise shall be sufficient!"
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I saw the bitter tears of unhappiness
Running down your agonizing face,
Ravaged with pain,

And I became a sponge of compassion
To absorb them.


I heard the howling 
Of your starving stomach,
Echoing throughout your rebellious drained veins,

And I became...

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Mitchell: The most expensive working girls employed by this establishment are what I call shielas. Class A shielas include all specimens of female physicality who were blessed to have inherited near perfect DNA, have taken...

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Spindleshanks Ain't No Legend...

But sits here donned in his foreign
aged (not so lovely) bag of bones
barely functioning surviving, but by
skin off his teeth, (which explains
dentures) regretting, revisiting,
ruminating hellacious bout with

anorexia nervosa, approximately
five dozen (multiply) orbitz...

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As armies continue to march their sanguinary war
lifeless lay those as sinewy gore,
pinnacled soldiers atop a land possessed
making themselves feel they've been blest
	
Bittersweet is the toil of progress
especially for those unacceptable to less
the muses in...

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Sounds of morning, fluid undertones, yet cacophonous;
Rhythmic rustling of nearby trees form the baseline for tropical chaos.
Each added layer draws me further into distraction.
I hear the shadowy neighbors breaking their silence,
Attendant to their morning chores.
A...

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Hopelessness is that brief lapse, that necessary pause,
Closing the door on an existence of conflict.
It is that first gasp, that momentary stab of sadness,
Defying design and allowing no plan for escape or rescue.

It is fear...

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MY LIBERATOR
(Written upon the death of a thirteen –year –old girl as eulogy)



The ill-fated day of death came unexpectedly 
To my great surprise
As life’s iron grasp of my hand, had lost its
Strength and vigor
And that...

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Late within this certain night, 
Reflections of a friendship gone astray, 
Spiral above my thoughts as I readily ponder
What should be said if I were to speak
One last time to you my old freind

For unlike...

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Dark Ages at The Deep End  ( For Alex )



What does our society teach our children
Churn them out as fodder
For the cultural use of consumerism

The empty promises of success
And the great grand promise of...

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Not yet once more a narrative of depressive introspection
   enough is enough and who wants to read that cloudy gloom
	of times blasted by the sand of scraping of the shaving dusk

Lamentations ‘I used...

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There were ripples of the sparkling stream.
The crystalline water was mirroring the blue sky.
That befriended with the sun’s wonderful beam.
Beams of the dazzling looking golden eye.

The background was overflowing with mountains.
Mountains with snowcapped peaks,
Their attainment...

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Despite the large orange flowering flame tree
That shaded my veranda, the summer heat was intense.
No amount of ice-cold beer could quench my thirst.

A stone throw away was my lovely verdant wood.
It lured me towards a...

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February 4 Scripture Meditations Based on Numbers 28-32

Key Verses – Numbers 28:1-2 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my...

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Imagine myself.. 
      a traveller from the ancient world of history -  
             world of Buddha, Hsuen Tsang and...

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Ida
Pingala
Sushumna
Or nebula 

Cold breath
Hot breath
No breath
Know breath

Three known channels for the flow
One burns, one cools, one is mellow 
All provide a connected glow
In pristine stillness imperceptibly slow

Abandoning focus on technique
Let us take a sneak peek
At...

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