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society comes to a halt in 2020
covid shakes every nation
stunned around the globe
the brave provide essential services
working around the clock
exhausted doing what heroes do
while the rest stay home
in a ruse to minimize
the crippling death tolls
it's best not to dwell on the devastation
but find ways to express compassion
and contribute to the network of solidarity
we've been given a unique opportunity
to sit back and consider our mortality
giving us cause to ponder the meaning of life
appreciating the fragility of it
the mysteries around us
the wonders of the cosmos
Published in my 24-page photo/anthology ~COVID 2020~ 2020
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Forgotten Souls
There are people on the streets
Sitting on cement, ignored.
Without a care from others
Why their lives were torn apart.
There are abused children
Who no-one tried to save.
Silence won over speaking up
Some went to their graves.
There are wounded animals
In cages with no friend
Waiting for a loving home.
There are strangers who are judged
By those who know nothing.
There are wrongfully convicted
Stuck misunderstood in their prison
Unable to prove their case.
We are no better than forgotten souls.
Let us not forget them
Or the meaning of life.
To give, to love, to care, just care.
For one another here.
This journey is not a race and
They are not merely spectators.
Heidi Sands
From the obscure fossilized Neanderthal time,
humans moving on evolution’s trajectory,
scaled the heights of intelligence summit,
emerged as the most creative living species.
Insecure in the unsure orbit of life,
the collective psyche falls in the self center,
sucked into the black hole of ego,
the being is controlled by the power of intellect.
In the invisible flare of the insane times,
when all the humane bridges get burnt,
mankind traverses the uncertain terrain
across the Rubicon of doomsday’s fear.
In the journey made to the realm of wisdom,
humans acquire heavenly attribute of love,
attain the sublime state of selfless awareness,
feel the divine connection with the universe.
The ego abandoned, the meaning of life measured
with essence’s quotient of mystical intelligence,
defines the transcendent qualities of existence,
harmoniously enshrined within the human spirit.
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September 17, 2022
Contest : The Human Spirit
Sponsored by : Mystic Rose Rose
I'm feeling quite pensive as I sit
Resting my back on this tree
Is there really a meaning to life?
Is there really a purpose for me?
Why am I here is the question I ask
What am I put here to do?
That is the question that really haunts me
It probably haunts you too
I once read a book called The Meaning of Life
But I found it misleading you see
The thing that I read and the things that it said
Didn't make any sense to me
It said maybe take up gardening
Which didn't help me at all
Cos I don't have garden I live in a flat
And my houseplants have died one and all
It suggested becoming a poet
But poetry isn't for me
If you saw any poem I'd written
I'm pretty sure you would agree
All of these thoughts are confusing my mind
As they run around in my head
I think I'll take action tomorrow
But for now I'm off home to bed
For 10,000 years I've pondered the meaning of life or so it seems.
Muttering to myself and listening to other human beings.
It wasn't found within any ancient book, painting or written on a cave wall.
Certainly not in the words of the religious fanatics attacking my humanity.
Not through birth or death has this meaning revealed itself.
Zen brought only peace to me that an answer may not ever be found.
My thoughts raced from beginning to end of time, across the universe I searched.
Then one Autumn evening as I lay near sleep a thought fluttered by.
Almost lost in the steady stream of imagery flashing within my mind.
I quickly dove in swimming through the swirling metaphorical eddy's of thought.
I saw it just ahead and grasped hold and saw in an instant the truth.
I didn't whither and die as I suspected I might if I found my answer.
Rather a peaceful feeling engulfed my all of being and laid me down gentle to rest.
I awoke in the morning with this revelation that had come to me.
I opened the box that contained the answer to make certain, It was empty.
I turned the box inside out, closed and opened it, only to find the same emptiness.
How could I have been such a fool to not write down what I had learned.
It had been in my hand real as these words I write, only to be lost again.
10,000 years of searching lost in slumber to dreams.
As I sat in my somber mood, The answer had been found I posed.
Indeed the answer had came and gone but,There was an answer !
There was meaning to life and purpose, perhaps it wasn't meant to be remembered.
Perhaps the answer was, "To Not Know" ?
RC.
Why am I born in this world? I ask myself.
Am I not a part of His creation? Why so to me?
They strike me hard that I’m out of self.
But I look at things as they look at, do they know?
Nothing is different to me as they think so.
I watch the world go, nothing different from others.
Whatever emotions they have I do have the same.
I do walk on stage, but they say I’m a puppet.
I do breathe the same air as they do, and no money paid,
But they doubt my breath, and stamp me as a dullard.
They don’t feed on what I don’t feed on;
Yet why they make me alien I know not why.
I too dream as they dream, and no dream may be real.
I too have my own world with new fantasies
As they wander in their own world of fancy.
Am I not in the image of God? Let them read themselves.
They say my mind can read nothing;
But they are poor to read my mind,
For my thinking is not their thinking.
Am I to be blamed? Am I to be neglected?
Who is neglected in His sight?
None dares to say that I’m neglected.
I believe that I am better than them,
For what I can do they cannot do
For my ways are innocent and child-like.
Then why am I born so, they raise their doubt.
Let me bring to light that Father’s Glory is in me
And will have its own way to outshine the creation.
Till then, my request to you, let not your words be indifferent
Against my silent world, for your words are accountable to HIM.
Try to enter my world and learn silence and meaning of life.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone -
We find it with another.
My heart become happy and prosperous.
Love makes you leave all the tensions behind,
It makes you enjoy and go crazy, if you live its each moment.
My heart becomes a Saint in feeling of my true love.
Heart asks for the goodness for all human beings,
Break down the walls, make an outcry.
In the fun-filled love, People only sleep and awake for their lovers
But in true love People have peace & Humanity for all human beings.
People decide their own destiny by themselves, they don’t care about how the world perceives them.
Don't pamper the heart everyday.
Love has a happy impact
Start loving Yourself first, Polish your personality,
If you want to change your destiny
If you want to get your right choice.
Personality has power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless.
You know everything about the world,
But You are unaware of Your own true love & your own decent personality.
Take care of yourself always.
You are air, water and fire at one time.
You are deceit, a donor and maybe a mistake as well.
Whatever you wish for,You become.
My heart has become my God,
My God is never separated from me.
My Heart start making my own personal decisions,
Of my good & bad deeds.
My heart itself doing justice with me,
so the day when I find myself, I can find my God.
Or the day when I polish or change myself
I can change my own destiny
And I will get my own choice right partner too.
Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
By Aliza Kashmala Kiran.
https://youtu.be/WG6qKDoidmg
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We’ve all heard stories of those who climb to distant mountain tops
searching for their sages
hoping to find enlightenment and the wisdom of the ages
In our homes…our shops…our libraries…many a shelf is rife
with books on how to find peace and happiness…as well as the meaning of life.
But what if the meaning of life…of enlightenment or spiritual rebirth
does not lie with the sages or between the pages?
What if the answers are already embedded in the Earth?
The Earth has been around for billions of years
She’s seen many a sunset…many a dawn…
She was here long before we were born…and she’ll be here long after we are gone…
The Earth with nature have their secrets…it is part of their appeal
Secrets they put on display and are happily to reveal…
They teach us how to feel things we cannot see as we stand amidst a breeze
They teach us about sharing…how there’s no jealousy between the trees.
They teach us about freedom as we see birds soaring with open wings
Their rains teaches us to give back and their insects…to enjoy the little things.
Their mountains teach us patience we learn of surprises from their weather
We learn about change from their moon and their butterfly
while their egrets and water buffaloes teach us how to work together.
We learn of beauty from their flowers…from their sun a morning greeting
They teach encouragement from their stars and from their clouds…how life is fleeting.
From everything below us…to everything above…
they teach us about balance…about generosity and love….
No, we don’t need to search for sages or between the pages of a book…
Nature has the answers…all we need to do…is look….
For billions of years she’s been trying to reveal her secrets.
They’re around every bend and every turn.
For billions of years she’s been trying to teach us…
all we need is the willingness to learn.
The wind bellowed from the west
This young boy joined the rest
Without realizing what they are up to?
Followed them blindly just for fun
Poor fools were out to agitate
This boy thought they were out
On a picnic with banners in hand
And shouting the slogans, they are singing a new song.
In his naivety, he kept walking
Then suddenly something happened
And started a violent battle
And stones came out from their "Jholas"
Before the boy could realize what is happening
A hand came out, giving a stone to him
And with them all, he also threw the stone
Without knowing who he is hitting
When his attempt was greeted by tear gas
He thought it was another playful act
Yet it continued for hours and hours
The boy waited for this scene to end
From nowhere came a bullet straight
Hit the boy on his head and his body
Scrunched in a corner of iron bench
A pool of blood got clot beneath
His life ended like a playful joke
Nobody came forward to claim his body
He was naïve villager who came to the city
Then suddenly the drama unfolded
Came forward a mob motioning silently
Kneeled down and began a mock crying
To me they appeared some street entertainers
They showed crying faces for a photo session
The government announced a committee to investigate
God only knows what will be the outcome
Meaning of life I learned from there
Think twice before joining anywhere.
Humankind
In an article, the question was what is the meaning of life? Many answers were about personal fulfillment and what made a person happy, but no one could answer that question. This I think is because we in the West are not religious, we do not believe in a God we are alone and that is scary and has an echo of colossal loneliness and the universe is empty
Night and day, light and dark, the fundament of
In all religions, perhaps the question of the meaning of life was asked and not answered
How the man-animal came into being is academic
But it was an animal that could think and become a human-dominating the living world
We can assume they were not friendly and had clans going around killing each other as we do today
The meaning of life is this, with a bit of love thrown for the sake of procreation, that it has no meaning, we live and die and are dead forever