Long Middle way Poems

ETERNAL RECURRENCE*


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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand times after.”  GOETHE 
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1.

Once upon a time, 
The Lord...

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REINCARNATION

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“I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before and
 I hope to return a thousand times after.” GOETHE 
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1.

Each soul an ambassador was and is...

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Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties

       In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer) 
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*


Never...

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It’s evolution and for sure we’ve come some automatic way since
		
               Darwin marvelled at volcanoes in Galapagos and still
		
  ...

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III

Kept out
   kept out he was: muzzled and shut out
from mothering social approval
    and the usual conning courtesies

Kept shut
  Involuting in the hippo-lipped paranoïa
from the darling eyes of his...

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Journey Journal Page 
CHRISTMAS — BOXING DAY 2024
By Leon Enriquez


Here on this good earth
A story draws near
A tale of wise mirth
To usher good cheer
A touch of true peace
In a world of strife
Sad hurts in this...

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Journey Journal Page
ON A BAD DAY
By Leon Enriquez


To know the way
True purpose seek
As truth now plays
When vision peaks


Pique your own think
In fruitage ripe
The right verge brink
Hides in sad gripe

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When people see you
In a bad light
Unleash...

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(“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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In the quiet hum of the café, beneath the dim, flickering lights,
The Poet sat, a relic of past ambitions, his soul adrift in the sea of his thoughts.
The Muse, with gentle and understanding eyes, brought...

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III

Once a pilgrim bound for a distant land
Was standing at the parting of three ways,
He asked a crone which, the right hand,
The left or middle way led before day’s
End to the hospice lying in the...

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Ash Wednesday reminds vain man
That each must slay false pride's ascend.

This day we note a pious practice
Once learnt by rote in simple gist.

Man is mere dust that is alive
In a brief trust, by grace to...

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The story goes that the Buddha sat down under a tree

Some say he was idle and simply tired and just fell asleep

Called it meditation and could not decide where to go

		The Middle Way

In voluntary composure...

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Journey Journal Page
CHRISTMAS DAY 2023
By Leon Enriquez


Christmas Day thus grounds
Precious love most sound
A time for men here
To live epic cheer


Touch with touch sincere
Clear glimpse of good cheer
Christ the king of peace
Transforms our soul lease

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Feel the...

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Balance in Everything 

Middle Path towards serenity 
Avoid Left Right paradigm 
And live with plenty 

Through despotic laws
so humanity obeys
We do not follow these occult displays 

Balance in Everything 
so teaches people
I would say, ...

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He slowly walks the lonely crowded road

lost in love and Self and lucky destination

Has no clue where his barren  feet will lead

yet delusion is cast away from anchor’s rope


Sandy ripples where the pavement rapped...

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Siddharta worked hard for the middle way to appear in silent meditation

Above him a lotus flower shone pure radiance from an indigo moon

Ebb and flow levitated cast in nothingness and droplets of wild motion

Antecedent prologues...

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Good earth styles
Fine ample grass;
A fine raiment


Sun and rain speak
Splurge fond refrain;
Rainbows echo


Dawn flings 
Shadows drowned;
Awake to birdsong


Man-made park
Forest architecture;
In the city


Journey here
Begin within;
Greet the sea shore


Waves splashing
Jetty promenade;
Fishing trip moments


Offshore boat ride
Temple pilgrimage;
Kusu Island...

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Loin cloth draped around his anorexic body the Buddha

Searched for the Middle Way between Nothing and All

Counted his blessings and figs as his thoughts focussed

In meditation for humility compassion and lasting peace

The tree of life’s...

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since there is a saying 
“noble man walks on the thoroughfare”
Don Quixote abandoned the shortcut-side-road,
steering Rosinante, dashing into the highway 

while he was riding on the highway
something suddenly came into his mind 
a proverb “the...

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The watcher sees the two sides clash,
A certain feel of conscious thought,
Yet sets things free in either dash;
No need to will or order plot.


When all is still, and two sides rest,
Watcher feels truth in simple...

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There is a place far up above
where dreams, ambitions never die,
the place that is the stuff of dreams
though there all is not what it seems,
it is the place of love and lust,
the passions that burn...

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Alone in a Church
First time saw Alfred was in New York, 1955. He appeared on a 
Clubs ‘stage playing sweet music. I was alone and frightened lost in a strange world so my father followed...

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Disgruntled, they come to me as bit-parts
ripped from black and white movies.
Mad aunt Anastasia, who should have been a nun,
one of her hands would refrain from touching her,
the other has been long carried off
by wolfish...

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(Blessings for Our National Day, 
Singapore, Thursday, 9th August)
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Make what you will of crescent moon:
Yield to the feel of five-star boon;


Charm knows sure poise that anchors choice,
Opt then your voice to forfeit noise;


Now and here...

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Disgruntled, they come to me as bit-parts
ripped from black and white movies. 
Mad aunt Anastasia, who should have been a nun.
One of her hands will not touch her,
the other has been carried off
by wolfish priests.
The...

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