Long Urgings Poems

Today, the local daily papers highlighted a man of honour...
Deserving of his honorific title Datuk bestowed on men of honour...

Given his loud and strident calls for those holding the reins of power....
To better buck up...

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WordScape Triptych  #1

Coming from the Underworld as a ghost, just sauntering out of the depths like you did;
With all the rest of us just watching and wondering what you were going to say;
Tell us...

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As quiet blackness deepened
I lay awake my heart in check,
The cool night wind blew
And welcome silence grew…
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Unanticipated music exploded
Roused me from bed rest, 
I tiptoed to its source:
Dark sounds from downstairs, 
Nearer, higher, and louder...

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Hail Mary, full of grace,
               the Lord is with you.
The Lord is with me too.
He whispers in loud soothing words
 ...

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I look upon a dam today
That nature didn't build
The water wasn't gentle
As the rocks will soon reveal

The danger it is producing
From rain and melted snow
Has caused problems to others
Where the river flows below

The rocks that...

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Joseph was a young man excited about life
A maiden named Mary was pledged to be his wife
But then he received news that he could not ignore
News that hurt and the community would deplore
Though they had...

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Meditation in quietude, cognition spherical instils
Transcending  limitations of time, space, power, knowledge, will
Oh hermit, in the void of polarity interchange, be still

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Awareness gently outpours attention 
Resting all thought in void of cessation
Imbibing by soft...

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A displaced soul drifts lackadaisically on a lukewarm tide
Of drugged confusion
Eyes blind and ears plugged with her own bewildered ramblings
She does not know where she floats
Nor how she came to be there
Her mind is a...

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The words of God are working in your life.
The Holy Spirit is your constant guide.
You have abundant peace within your soul,
Where otherwise there would be a black hole.

Your life has sweetness beyond description,
Which draws in...

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Oft in the still of the dark unforgiving night
We do wake up trembling with remorse
Ego borne ferality cause of our plight
Consciousness correction the only recourse

Hardwired and left brained we make a list
Of inner urgings resulting...

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Moving more slowly than it once did
and not so fluidly
it leads or follows me
down the sidewalks and paved streets
in my well-populated little town.
Walks are most pleasurable
when the sun allows my companion to go
even if it...

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(Dedication: For Ann, the love of my life, who walks with me smiling. Thank you.)


Opt for a path that observes life's pulse and play,
Deeper and clearer as experience vivid,
Etch a present moment fragment in plain...

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restless sleep, struggle out of bed
walking like a zombie, newspaper read
thought patterns familiar rise, am in their grip
over cravings nurtured thus far, we once again trip

recognising piquant dilemma, distanced from joyfulness
we reverse attention polarity, choosing...

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as we plot our thoughts
spiralling orbits ego begot
we notice inherent emptiness 
desires rooted in consciousness 
stagnating amidst fleeting illusions
plunging awareness in dark delusion

having so recognised we choose to shift
discontent with being in this way adrift
we...

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The Hoarder

By Elton Camp

The clutter in her house grows every day
For Agnes can’t throw anything away

Cardboard boxes, plastic bags, junk mail
All of them are stored away by the bale

Stuff that Agnes picked up on the...

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Blessings inpour, of their own volition
Unseeking vibrant presence keeps no score 
Save mindfully softening attention 
Narrow ego urgings, firmly ignored

Once our childlike innocence, we restore
Tranquil spirit is in celebration 
Each pulse of life, in delight...

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If ever I should sigh, humor not my sadness,
Lavish upon me not your ready sympathy,
Nor soft urgings to slip hard work’s harness,
Banish for me woes chanted in a tired litany. 

The bitter fruit of my...

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So oft I'd heard its soul intent
the performed center, not rebound
could bury once and then compound
the years between, cycle's renown!

Now given over to the Earth
no search or wandering can contain
the final call, summized in worth
and...

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What is our inspiration
Being the question
Of this contemplation

What else but the very life pulse
Present everywhere at once
Inner urgings for divine dalliance

We have both lower & higher mind
Of which ego imposing a bind
Delusion in illusions we...

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Where am I going?
I haven't a plan.
Just the fear of knowing,
This must be the end.

Life's so unkind,
And hard to endure.
Feel I'm losing my mind,
Nothing's real, nothing's sure.

So I sat there in silence, 
My thoughts finally...

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As happenings in the external recede
Though all needed doing is yet done
Subtle blockages we still gently weed
Slowly but surely ego comes undone 

Fears & desires now faint shadows
Yet haunt urgings of noblesse oblige
Void in our...

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Head ovoid is where rests identity
Discerning, learning, being, becoming
Heart seats soul, love in continuity 

We as consciousness, seek serenity
Exhausted with ego urgings spiralling 
Head ovoid is where rests identity

Souls innate beauty, bliss tranquility 
Ceasing striving,...

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 (my mind hath looked 
upon the speaking face of earth and heaven
as her prime teacher......[Wordsworth])  

I saw two butterflies wrapped in silent passion,
Her heart-shaped wings splayed flat against the sill
Her torso throbbing in...

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Your trademark omnivorous stunts 
Glean clean what minute remnants
Menaced graces do sparingly yield;
And take back reliefs heavens field. 

Inclement rob your ravenous fangs;
Mowing to naught crumbs of bread
That divine hand her children gives,
Thieving sure bits...

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What makes us sentient
To what we call emptiness
Is it not ego sentiment 
Measuring silence & stillness 

As layer by layer
We discard ferality
We slowly uncover
Hidden reality

Yet that which manifests
As a revelation
Is yet ego that persists
As auto...

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