Long Encaustic Poems
Long Encaustic Poems. Below are the most popular long Encaustic by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Encaustic poems by poem length and keyword.
Dreamtime in Dreamland
(“Dreaming Gaia”, 2020, original encaustic)
Dreamtime in Dreamland
Over the years I’ve logged a lot of time sleeping
With much of that time in dreamland.
I’ve had plenty of mundane dreams,
Years and years of them
Sometimes the dreams themselves
Even lasting...
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Categories:
encaustic, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form:
Narrative
Nonduality
(“Dragon’s Eye”, 2024, original encaustic)
Nonduality
Nonduality is at the heart of both physical reality
And all spirituality
The non duality of the two being its essential meaning
But still as simple and obvious as this is
It is easily misunderstood...
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Categories:
encaustic, beauty, love, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred
("Before And After Science", 2023, original encaustic)
The Corruption of Modern Times aka Colonization of the Sacred
There are traditions
Passed down in ear-whisper lineages
And Dead Sea scrolls
Dream journeys and alien visitations
These are the timeless traditions of the...
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Categories:
encaustic, corruption, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Our Changeless Nature
(“Before the Door”, 2023, original encaustic)
Our Changeless Nature
Within all the changes of this life
All the particulars of who we are
What we do and know, and don’t know,
Is something that isn’t a thing
Isn’t caused and conditioned...
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Categories:
encaustic, i am, identity, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
The Stream of Pre-Consciousness
(very early stage of "Before the Door" encaustic, 2023)
The Stream Of Pre-Consciousness
A friend recently told me,
“Write a novel “stream of pre-consciousness” and be amazed”
But like a Zen koan
this doesn’t offer much immediate help.
Stream of consciousness...
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Categories:
encaustic, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
An Unbalanced Equation
("A Question of Balance", 2019, original encaustic)
An Unbalanced Equation
My wife is in the middle of her cataract procedure,
One eye done and another to go.
Generally, it’s a remarkable thing
Which we take for granted -
Both our sight...
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Categories:
encaustic, humanity, life, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality
("Niobe's Tear", 2020, original encaustic)
The Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality
The world has always been divided
Along lines of haves and have nots
In whatever way you wish
To measure the having.
The difference today is
Inequality is no...
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Categories:
encaustic, perspective, society,
Form:
Narrative
In Praise of Mindlessness
("Zero Point of Creation", 2018, original encaustic)
In Praise of Mindlessness
I’ve sought and found mindlessness in a variety of ways
From dancing to climbing, meditating and painting,
but in retirement I find it easiest mowing the arboretum.
As I...
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Categories:
encaustic, joy, spiritual, work,
Form:
Free verse
Within Us and Without Us
(Five Buddha Mandala, 2018, original encaustic)
Notes on Religion and Faith
The superstition of religious content applies to all religions and faiths.
They are the context of faith.
But the faith itself and how it is focused on (absorbed...
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Categories:
encaustic, philosophy, psychological, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Hiding the Light
(“Still Life”, 2021, original encaustic)
Hiding the Light
A lot has been happening in my life recently
And that’s a good thing considering
How staid and stodgy I’ve become
In old age.
But it’s still a challenge
And as one unexpected hurdle...
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Categories:
encaustic, life, spiritual, truth, universe,
Form:
Narrative
Meditation Is Not
(“Original Mind”, 2017, original encaustic mixed media)
Meditation Is Not
Meditation can be many things,
But it’s really not what you think.
Yet for forty five years I’ve been doing it
In one form or another
And for much of that...
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Categories:
encaustic, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Good Night Irene, Sweet Dreams
("Dreaming Gaia", 2020, original encaustic)
Good Night Irene, Sweet Dreams
We live in a time of two competing visions;
The creation myths of sudden and gradual change,
Or monotheism’s creationism on one hand
And scientific materialism’s evolution the other.
Both...
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Categories:
encaustic, mythology, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Animal Mind
(“Animal Spirit”, 2018, original encaustic)
Animal Mind
Sometimes I wonder what it’s like to be an animal.
Of course I am an animal,
But I wonder what it’s like
To not have the human layer of mind
The one that thinks,...
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Categories:
encaustic, animal, dream, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Cantos of Love
("Red Skin", 2023, original encaustic)
Cantos of Love
Was it ever here at all…
Faces, eyes, lips, breasts and thighs
Parade through memory
Fading, fading fast
As years advance.
Maybe these closets
Need more juice to unlock
Than these old bones hold.
Funny about...
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Categories:
encaustic, love, memory, poems,
Form:
Haiku
The Truth
("A Moment of Grace" aka "The Empty Mirror", 2024, original encaustic)
The Truth
If you follow the truth,
And are foolhardy enough to try and describe it,
You end up with something
That like an algebraic equation
Cancels itself out and...
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Categories:
encaustic, appreciation, perspective, truth,
Form:
Narrative
A Recurring Dream
("Dreaming Gaia", 2020, original encaustic)
A Recurring Dream
Thirty plus years ago
After a decade and half together
My first love left me
We kept in touch by mail
But never met again
Except in dreams
Over the years in those dreams
We slowly...
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Categories:
encaustic, dream, life, loss, soulmate,
Form:
Narrative
Running on Empty
("A Moment of Grace aka The Empty Mirror", 2024, original encaustic)
Running on Empty
Within the empty mirror mind
I see an empty smile
Is no one left to judge me then
And my heart of guile?
For who am I...
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Categories:
encaustic, celebration, perspective, psychological, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
(“Something From Nothing”, 2024, original encaustic)
Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
The great questions of existence
Arise and revolve around just that; existence.
And if not for this existence
We wouldn’t wonder…
So there IS something after all
Although something...
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Categories:
encaustic, life, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
What Is It About the Jews?
(“Shadow Puppet”, 2023, original encaustic)
What Is It About the Jews?
We live in a time of irrational fear and phobias
From fear and loathing towards one’s own body
And parents (about as basic to hating life as it...
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Categories:
encaustic, fear, hate, humanity, jewish,
Form:
Narrative
Seeking Identity
(“Eye of God”, 2018, original encaustic/mirror mixed media)
Seeking Identity
Sometimes I seek an identity
Deeper than the one assigned by others
The loose and sloppy consensus
Of public opinion and perception.
Deeper still than the one I have created
For myself,...
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Categories:
encaustic, identity, perspective, psychological, self,
Form:
Narrative
Acquiring the Taste
("Reflections", 2023, original encaustic)
Acquiring the Taste
What is it that makes life meaningful?
What is it that makes us whole?
Somewhere deep within
Is the quiet place
Of peace and serenity
A secret healing garden
That has open doors for us all.
And...
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Categories:
encaustic, god, life, nature,
Form:
Narrative
Reverse Osmosis of Life
(“Corpus Callosum”, 2017, original encaustic)
Reverse Osmosis of Life
It’s a two way street
The way reality exists
Divided into truth on one side
And illusion’s delusions the other,
And yet the most fascinating aspect
Is the membrane that exists between the...
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Categories:
encaustic, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Narrative
Wind Talk
("Windhorse", 2023, original encaustic)
Wind Talk
Children talk to the wind
A skill, a talent, a desire
Most adults have lost
And forgotten they ever had.
Anyone can talk, but
Maybe what’s really lost
Is the aptitude to hear
Wind’s reply.
The wind talks
And children...
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Categories:
encaustic, allegory, children, imagination, perspective,
Form:
Narrative
The Endless River Flows
("Gravity's Rainbow", 2017, original encaustic)
The Endless River Flows
Everywhere sheep being led to slaughter
Everywhere the innocent seduced
Everywhere someone crying
While another looking up
Into open skies
As unspoken questions arise unbidden
These are the times of change and revelation
As...
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Categories:
encaustic, imagination, inspiration, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Celebrating White Supremacy
("Winter Tree", 2023, original encaustic)
Celebrating White Supremacy
As the world turns….
ever faster and more wobblier
it’s hard to go a day
without hearing some reference to ‘White Supremacy.’
Of course it’s a bad thing, right?
Sure it is, until...
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Categories:
encaustic, appreciation, humanity, humor, irony, society,
Form:
Narrative