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The Art of Martial Arts

Martial arts come in many forms
They’d studied the animals until dawn
With style and grace they master their art
From dusk till dawn they train from the heart



Fluid and free they move like water
Practicing moves that could slaughter
A highly skilled philosophy
Moving with elegance, such as tai chi




The wind you don’t see, it’s just the effect
Using their chi, with the greatest respect
Ready for action at lightning speeds
They deliver a blow with complete accuracy




Their knowledge of every meridian point
They flexibly, challenge every joint
Toning their body’s to live their dream
Kung Fu masters these ones supreme




With speed and timing precise as can be
Their talents are raw, quick and deadly
Balanced, controlled and complete in mind
These the grand masters of ancient time





One full of wisdom, courage and hope
The fist of the dragon, one might boast
As these martial arts make one to reform
It’s an art in its self, a philosophy born



© Copyright 24 January 2014
K.C. Leake
All Rights Reserved
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To Love a Beast

She offered him a single rose to stay the night inside,
But he a prince, and she a hag, the Prince her rose denied.
He thus began to close the door, retreating to his space,
But the old hag’s repulsiveness then melted from her face.
The Prince tried to apologize, for with his eyes he saw
A beauty unsurpassed that left him standing there in awe.
A true enchantress was the hag; she’d issued him a test,
But he had failed, for he would not admit her as a guest.
A curse she placed upon him then, that changed would be his form,
And as a beast he’d live until his heart he could reform.
If his own selfishness he beat and he to love could learn,
His freedom from his beastly state the Prince could one day earn.
His curse brought him despair, and harsh it was to say the least;
He lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?
Form: Sonnet

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Form: Prose

Premium Member The Direct Path

The Direct Path

Born into bondage,
save God, who’ll assuage
fears ego does spew,
which thought forms renew?

Mind-body’s a boon,
if we so attune
in-form consciousness,
with the That Oneness.

Beliefs we follow,
very few let go.
How’ll we rise upwards,
merely chanting words?

Religion a crutch,
distanced from love’s touch.
If we’re to reform,
let us first perform.

Make mindful our eye,
sensing each heart’s sigh,
in flow of time thus,
aboard God’s bliss bus.

Each thought, word and deed,
be free from lust’s weed,
for we all are one;
each soul is God’s son.

There is but one truth ~
get to it forsooth!
May God grant clear sight,
that we’re living light!

Map’s not the terrain.
By touch, feel the rain.
Be to become bliss
effervescence fizz.

So pray by all means 
that heart in time gleans 
flame of Christ within!
Go in now, go in!

09-June-2022
Notes:

https://www.yogapedia.com/definition/5806/christ-consciousness

https://youtu.be/E6nUnmSgmqI
Form: Jueju

Premium Member Thankful For Biden

President Joseph Biden signing Juneteenth Bill
*
I
want to
wish you a
Happy Birthday
In less than two years
you ended the war in Afghanistan.
Substantial military aid for Ukraine,
Stimulus Package American Rescue Act,
Funding the Police—The Investment to Protect
and Reform Act-budget plan increases cementing
his party’s turn away from the anti-police rhetoric and policies
lawmakers and activists embraced after the murder of George Floyd
two years ago.  Biden’s first two years, among the most productive
of any president in the past half
century.
Thank 
you!
© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lanterne


Premium Member Who Am I

We oft ask ourself, the purpose of life
For desire pursuit, makes us not bliss rife

Pause awhile to ask who in truth we are
Driven by instincts, we’ve drifted afar

Deadened to conscience, how will we reform 
Blind lead the blind; in stupor we conform

We’re worldly wise but heart has contracted
From path of love and light, soul’s detracted

Who’s the stranger we see in the mirror
Cold heart allows not love to draw nearer

Why inner conflict, like Jekyll and Hyde
In our palm too, head and heart lines divide

Religion too offers us no relief 
We’re asked not to question imposed belief

Why do we fear the unknown and occult
Time’s now to exit each and every cult

Reflect, are we not reborn, with each breath
There’s no liberation at point of death 

Save fears and desires, what thoughts do we think
Trauma bonding thus, no wonder we sink

The path then seems clear, as to how to start
First things first, let us meld head with our heart

No sooner head and heart act hand in glove
Boundless grace in-pours; we’re suffused with love

Dropping thought, we become a child again
So easy it is, to break ego’s chain

Analysing not fulcrum of a sneeze 
Delight in effervescence of release 

Choosing stillness as our default fulcrum 
We hark within heart, the soundless bliss drum

Oh weary hermit, embrace the vast void
Once heart’s love drenched, we’re never by fears toyed

Seeing life in motion, what’s there to clasp
In blissful wonder,  just let out a gasp

How may we garner truth, if we resist
Know we are living light and a love mist

Questions cease as we become the answer
Transmuted as the divine bliss dancer 

14-August-2022
Form: Couplet

Another Farage barrage

Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage


No longer a skewed malicious mirage

Stronger imbued with pernicious camouflage

Wronger spewed such vicious sabotage

Doom Monger crude officious collage


Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage


Rabble rousing by ghoulishly espousing

Nige will oblige and foolishly perform

Leader and feeder of each reader 

Preach on every seedier media platform

Separate the wheat from the chaff

Oi Oi hoi polloi hate ploy to annoy

Deform is now somehow the new norm

Just naff spaff for Reform riff raff


Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage


Public school fool cruel rule at large

Faustian now Trumpian drool tool in charge

Attacking…spits dismal dimwits ransacking 

Society in bits because of these gits

The entirety cracking by fracking Farage

Abysmal Brits twits’ backing hacking

Downed & drowned in sewer spewer discharge 


Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage


The agenda to go on a racist rant rampage

Malignant belligerent immigrant bender centre stage

Scary animals lairy trapped in a rage cage

Bashing gender and any woke offender

Views shunt the news take the front page

Bespoke cloak to stoke the healthy wealthy

Choke broke folk...stealthy..slashing 

Tax to scratch that rich b***h  itch

Poleaxe..abuse the yoke but will still bewitch

Vicarious defender of the nefarious splendour 

Of this salacious mendacious joke bloke Pretender


Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage!

Life's Puzzle

All the pieces of Life’s puzzle
when emptied from their box
we will have to put together
for these are Life’s building blocks….

I like to make the pieces fit
but sometimes alter them a bit,
I break some off and some reform
to make them suit what I call norm.

Alas it isn't always so
and sometimes pieces will not go
just where we would all like them to,
so what is it we have to do?

When things don't fit the way we choose
it's then we stand to gain not lose,
for then we have to seek new skill
and sometimes take a bitter pill.

It's us that sometimes have to change,
and find a way to rearrange
the bits of us that are too tight
to let the picture turn out right….

So when we finally get our box
and life's picture is whole
some pieces of the puzzle
we will carry in our soul.

Ivor G Davies
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Precious Moments

“I don’t have to ponder my precious moments that always give me heart to carry on.
So firmly implanted in my heart, I will never let them go, never will they be gone.” The Poet


Memories of : As a child my Dad’s beautiful voice filled our home with song, and Mum so often beckoned me to get up and dance and we would waltz around the house. 
It was time to paint the house and I was given the choice of colour for my room. I chose a deep dark rose pink. 
When Dad finished it and it dried, is was quite a light pastel pink. Although I smiled, he saw the look in my eyes. He told me he was going to give it a much darker coat. He painted the whole room again in just the colour I hoped for. I was ten and Dad was sixty, and I will never forget the trouble he went to that day just to please me. 

My dear Lord heard our prayers one night as our adult son lay on an operating table with 19 fractures in his skull with pressure and splinters pushing into his brain. God gave two surgeons miraculous hands, taking nearly five hours to free his brain and reform his skull with metal plates and screws as best they could to save him. Our son came through all this with no permanent brain damage and eventually recovered. 

My wonderful Granddaughter gave me a card 14 years ago, that when it is opened, has The Platters singing ONLY YOU, and quite incredibly the battery in it hasn’t worn out yet. She told me that she chose that card because the words reminded her exactly of me. To read this certainly created another precious moment.

When I am feeling blue, I just think of my wonderful family, that I am so very lucky to have, and I open that card, which always brings tears of joy to me. I think of the young boy who I pray for every day. He saw me drop a fifty dollar note in the street and ran after me (a complete stranger) to give it back. 
To cheer me up I go to his pages and read some of Rico’s Limericks.
  
It wont mean much to the readers of this, but to me, I have just filled this page with more love and wonderful memories than I need to make me feel like the most lucky and loved person in the world.
Form: Narrative

Communities Under Attack

Maybe it won't be drugs that have the final say,
Or the gangs,
Terrorism will struggle to do it, 
It may not even be the battle of the sexes,
Or the loss of the cop on the beat,
The generation gap,
Or Corporate greed,
I doubt if even being time poor,
Or homelessness will do it,
Gambling will not do it,
Or any of the usual vices,
Corrupt politicians may give it a go,
But  it is none of these that will finish off our once proud communities,
As  money in the right hands can lessen the effect of all of these.

Something more sinister is happening daily in every community across the land,
The fate of our communities is now in the hand of individuals,
Who fight for no cause,
Have no axe to wield,
No desperate need,
Do not target any specific group,
Owe no allegiance to anyone else.

They keep pushing up insurance costs,
Can bring down banking institutions,
Don't seem to have a conscience,
As they knowingly drive some to suicide.
Making them difficult to reform.

These oh so innocent looking fraudsters,
Who are sucking the life blood out of our communities,
These parasites who siphon off money,
That is desperately needed to save lives, 
And rebuild shattered communities.
Scattering that money to the four corners of the world.

And if caught paying it back on the never-never plan,
All the while sitting at home in their trusted house, 
And laughing at us.

How can we fight this threat?
I can only see one ray of hope,
If one can, just occasionally stay in touch with family,
Visit the sick and lonely,
And limit the need for them to accept aid and false hope,
From those who seek to exploit,
Preventing them from developing, a taste for easy money,
And the thrill of the game,
The stench of which will hang over, 
Our communities for many lifetimes.
Form: Blitz

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