Long Ephemerality Poems

In the silent depths of my mind, I ponder what defines a fulfilled life,
Is it a path paved with discipline or perhaps a labyrinth of unbound pleasure?
Maybe the truth hides in the time spent with...

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And here we are, on the orbit of our illusions,
civilized madmen who have lost their compass,
the divine savage in garments of convention,
hiding the mysteries of the true soul,
living in the shadow of dreams, searching for...

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Written: January 12, 2025, For contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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Under the curtain of night, where stars murmur ancient enigmas,
Dwell the true metaphysicians, hidden among excess and hedonism,
Through the extension of senses, through the martyrdom of their desires,
They uncover our nothingness, the abyss camouflaged by...

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The path of time has slipped through the endless clock,
The trail of life has stretched and in the void, it lingers long,
Silence wraps itself in the shadow that was time's measure,
Soon, the divine edge will...

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Trapped in the labyrinth of appearances, we weave our stories like spiders of our own minds,
We uphold an incomplete wisdom, a mix of fantasy and folly, which envelops us with shadows,
Our words are echoes of...

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I AM as I AM, free & formless in a domain timeless
In, as & one with & within the sea of Oneness
Dissolved and yet in as ordained, distinct 
Pure love awareness in a boundaryless precinct

In,...

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Maybe among so many barricades I could hold,
I was born to be read once and never to be read again.
To be glanced at but never to turn heads.
To be a writer and never to be...

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As along our long life journey we sail
We all do encounter belied expectations 
Feeling of deep hurt results from betrayal 
Our shrivelled heart writhing in contractions 

The hurt needs healing so we go to a...

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In the crucible of time, where the iron of human will is melted,
Lords of armies forge their crowns from flames that build mirages.
They invoke the spirit of the earth, but their thoughts leap over windmills,
In...

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In the heart of deep time, where the threads of existence weave unseen,
the plants of dreams sprout from eternal rhizomes,
calling to life delicate leaves,
with their fleeting beauty fluttering in the summer wind.
I lose myself in...

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accepting here and now this-ness
aliveness in our mind body combine
we recognise identity as separateness 
humbly accepting we know not the divine

in silence going in seeking truth with sincerity
knowing not the path upon which we tread
we...

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Is not this the brevity of human life?
In my conciseness and exacting mentions
The proper use of words in my writing or speeches, huh
In awe, at naught-what
Is not this the brevity of human life?
While filling my...

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Carpe Diem 6-21-24
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Carpe Diem Dance

What lives today, changes faces tomorrow,
    The breath of dance conundrum,
As days of clay crumble into mortality.

Wisdom’s alliterations
  Speaks a monologue into the jealous
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The river of life flows freely, whispering ancient secrets under the starry sky,
the waves sing with joy, crashing against the shores with the longing for a new beginning,
the light of youth shines like a beacon...

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In a universe where meaning is an endless quest and a heavy burden,
Do crazy things, dance in the rain of stars as if no one is watching,
Let your laughter rise like a kite soaring freely...

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Humanity - tormentor of my dreams
I discovered the people diverse the scream
Limitlessness - limitlessness - limitlessness!
My ephemerality I could not awaken limitlessness
Take thy transcendence from out my heart aching
I crave the human, humane humanness breaking
And...

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'lasting for a very short time':

You went to a college,
graduated in flying colours.
Was drunk with the vapour 
of distinction
In the higher level's age.
Knowledge was your cage.
Even you obtained certificates.
But death pursued your breath:
Bethroted to Ephemeral.

Groomed...

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Do you know the joy of the flowing river of words?
And the waterfall of neat ephemerality?
Do you know the swiftness of intertwined thoughts?
Falling into the lake of language speciality?

I am the river of a different...

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An echo murmured back look at yourself, You see you'
Reflection – mirror image of me of my dreams
Staring all I see is me in you
Glaring and glaring with my reflection
Selfishly pointing in at my direction
The...

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Any consciousness contracting thought
Is ego begot
Having its roots in fear & desire
In the domain of transience being the ego’s lair

Our mind is in a fog
Because we allow the tail to wag the dog
Relegating the role...

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Life on the earth to all is reality.
However, it possesses ephemerality.
Living may be full of hardship or sublime.
No matter what, we are here for a short time.
Despite unpredictable events and trends,
we must share this world...

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You brought the light to my winter nights, 
You made the snow melt at last, 
You are the hope in my miserable days.

As the flower blooms, 
Our love starts to blow, 
Giving us cheer, 
For...

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DREAMING
 the edge
of dream
&ecstasy
so
genteel
 finally settled

 an exquisite
& intimate
 subtle nuance
of bright
  minimal
 space
so small
& unimposing
 acclimatising
 the setting
so
 ethereal
& exotic
 in a void

 passing beauty
an
 ephemerality
 of happiness
 the
mystery
of being
develops

composed
 sudden shafts
sun
then
 moonlight
in
rhapsodic
pictures
  pass at speed
sense of being
free &
 out of place


NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE   using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making...

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I know so well the warmth of cold moonlight,
For night is home to all keen thought, blissfully unmaligned.
Helios holds no sway with me, his journey out of sight,
Selene, my muse, guides my sweet nocturnal mind.

Supine,...

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