Long Distil Poems

Written 16 August 2023:
Placed First in  "Why Are We Here Poetry contest",
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker

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Each cock that crows in the morning
mourns the death of dusk.
The silent sunrise reminds sages of the 
reality of human mortality.
Thirsty, mother-earth drinks the teardrops 
from the soiled skies;
ever hungry, the garden feasts on ...

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Thoughts melt and distil under a green/blue flame,
Swirling down, separated out and mixed.
If you’ve seen it, it’s broken;
If you’ve heard it, it’s shredded;
If you’ve read it, it’s rewritten.
It's really quite unlikely to be fixed.

You’re cutting...

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(Bal-e-Jibril-151) Javed Iqbal Ke Naam:
(On receiving  first letter of Javed Iqbal(Late Son of Dr Allama Iqbal) in London)
https://youtu.be/jGv1lCDjHEk
Senior Justice Javed Iqbal (5 October 1924 – 3 October 2015) was a Pakistani philosopher and senior...

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"As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner"
Rumi

I can get as close as I like
You wouldn't, couldn't back away
Though I'll become hazy 
Air from my lungs capable of obscuration 
But...

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It takes a long time 
To figure out if things went right
To find out if you did what was best
If you passed all those unknown test

An perfect life doesn't exist
Parenthood involves to many variables
Of which...

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Good poetry is like an Old Master
Crafted with expert skill imbued with soul
No abstracted throwaway disaster
Or a bland undistinguished casserole
Of poor ingredients cooked up faster
And deposited in the toilet bowl
No, it should stimulate the appetite
And...

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I wished to ascend,
so I called a friend,
who knew of such things
and how to grow wings.

‘God’s abode’s within’,
he said, ‘so begin,
by simply choosing,
head and heart, fusing’.

‘Each impulse distil,
aligned with His will’.
So I set out thus,
aboard...

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“may refining consciousness layer by layer
be our pristine childlike heart’s, breath by breath prayer”
            ~ quote by poet 


Caged in feeble form, our odyssey...

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Earth life struggle, soul choice made by free will
Facing turbid winds, inhospitable 
Challenges shapen us, upon the anvil
Until love enabled, consciousness stable

With clear light veiled, in this form we stumble 
Weary from suffering, that makes...

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Beyond midnight her tears distil,
burnishing the valley between
her height of hope and depth of pain;
till dusky waves awash her dawn.
From whence comes these soldiers? 
pure grapes trodden under the feet of fate...
before her eyes the...

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He sits with his head upon his hands
His eyes are red
And water that glued the sands
Sun sucked, slithered from the sandy bed
His thoughts are the hourglass
Grains of meaning mincing away
His castle was the sheltered pass
Tomorrow...

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Wedding Bells
By Kalyani Rajalingham

My suitor’s lips spoke a thousand times,
Of flowery praises and the honoured name of wife,
Of lifelong joy and his tender love so true,
As happy tidings chanted in the eyes of all,
Families gathered...

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Listen carefully: those are bells ringing.
To whom are they calling?
From where come the peals?
Here in the wild countryside
the pale-yellow cowslips
dance a lonely jig
to the tune of the wayward breeze,
dispersing their melliferous fragrance,
gracing us with their...

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The stream.

Sunlight Flicks through branch and falls
On shady copse and tree lined halls.
To scatter bright on dreaming stream,
Which flows amongst the woodland scene.
Then on to twist through leafy glade
And out into the light - Parade.


It...

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Refined smells of life ripening sunlight
Distil the dawn with sharp visions to reinvigorate
I’m seen through eyes in the tall grass
Drinking life from fresh air's revitalising glass

Crops rippling in the breeze like buoyant spirits 
Rise like...

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COMMONPLACE VI
Off beam,along the circles rim then
a creative impulse on the spur of
the moment drops of poetic essence
spontaneous and prolific from the
workings of the heart to distil into
another’s mind.A painting with
words uttered one by one...

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Letter me with lines that I may distil
The sovereign sweetness of your flaming will
Teach me to sing of dusty flowers pure
And maiden's savaged innocence no more
To scorn, for you in all emotions soar
Though self-exiled from...

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Discontent with the way things are
We look for blissful shores afar
A haven where joy does not end
With no need to struggle and spar

No sooner we choose to ascend
To voice of God, our ear we lend
Trusting...

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Give me five minutes of your time.

I have this knack, 
a gift, really.

I can instantly confirm all 
your fears about me, 
distil your deepest, darkest 
nightmares; 
absorb them, embody them, 
wrap them up as a...

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Sans ego, who are we

“All that is, is God-consciousness ~
Dance divine, in sheer playfulness “

____________________________

Presupposing separation from God,
we thus eclipse the light by our own hand,
playing mind games until heart’s lust has thawed,
whereupon soul’s freed,...

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She, as from a silent dream, strayed
Down from the mind of night;
Enchanting and with cerulean gaze
Engulfed my adoring sight;
So that I, in altered frames of thought,
Integrated with her light.

Serene, cool beauty undisturbed, brushed
All the dusk...

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Cracked lips and dead deserted eyes
The gait of my walk will not decide
One way or several shattered minds
I carry these creatures due to their designs

Absence of water keeps me still
The passion I am will not...

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Oh not so distant past
I wish to walk your way again and see
But you are lost 
But for in my memory

Oh not so distant past
The people and their faces
The very normal days
That churning time replaces

Oh...

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POETIC ESSENCE

a creative
impulse
on the spur
of the moment
in drops
 of poetic essence

spontaneous
& prolific
from the workings
of the heart
 to distil
into
another’s mind

A painting
with words
uttered
one by one
to another
an experience
of the wind &rain
of ordinary life
An
intimate invitation
to stroll within
 & behind...

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