Orbits
...Orbit or forfeit but never collide
You’ll just mess it up like last time
On a beach in St. Augustine, Florida, I thought I wanted you.
Orbit or forfeit but never collide
You’ll just mess it u...
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Categories:
mantric, anxiety, beach, beauty, desire,
Form: Free verse
the crows know me
...(inspired by "Gifts of the Most High" by G Alan Johnson.)
The crows know me, and I, in their untamed glares,
and wild, accepting, onyx eyes find a solace.
No need for ID, for they’ve been watc...
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Categories:
mantric, beauty, dark, death, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
She Drew the Clouds Apart
...She drew the clouds apart
bid me: “Look beyond”
my darkness
exhale a cleansing breath
whisper: “Let it be”
wave an open hand
in silent peace
inhale the unheard cries
of scentless petals...
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Categories:
mantric, love,
Form: Free verse
Not So Precious Moments
...Not So Precious Moments
They call
these nameless voices
introduced by
insipient rings
droning on
their piercing voices
shattering the moment.
They insist
on speaking breathlessly
runnin...
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Categories:
mantric, dad, humor, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse
Brahman Nemesis
... Brahman Nemesis
22 But to those who adore me with a pure oneness of soul, to those who are ever in harmony,
I increase what they have and ...
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Categories:
mantric, betrayal, god, racism, religion,
Form: Free verse
Lull Sweeter Dreams To Me
...Each night,
As sleep eludes me,
I lie
With my feet tangled in sheets
That should be tangled around yours,
And the silence
That deafens
With the lack of your sleeping breath.
As the minute...
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Categories:
mantric, absence, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Waterfall
...WATERFALL
Spray rising
a continual mist
prism-tinged light ascending an archway
welcoming
artistic etching tool
of nature’s surging alterations.
Purity
of fluid mantric chant
echoes ...
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Categories:
mantric, beauty, nature, water,
Form: Verse
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 7
...And shake off the mantric spells ringing in your conditioned minds
but remember and preserve the great sanskrit treatises
those that refined aesthetics in dance music drama po...
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Categories:
mantric, inspirational, history, truth, ,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wake Asia Wake - Part One - 2
...Wake! and see the extent to which you’re still enslaved
enslaved by your own kind who hanker after conditioning platitudes
the clubby comfort of secretly oath-taking power cliques
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Categories:
mantric, inspirational, old, old,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Master Valluvan, the Long-Misunderstood Tamil Mentor - Part Two
...Part Two
SEVEN STARK WORDS
Seven alliterative blockbuster words struck so
they rhymed initially in juxta-positioning lineal parallels
pausing but in th...
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Categories:
mantric, on writing and words,
Form: Free verse
Krishna's Advice To Arjuna - Part One
...14: If the soul meets death when Sattva prevails, then it goes to the pure regions of those who are seeking truth.
15: If a man meets death in a state of Rajas, he is reborn amongst those who are bou...
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Categories:
mantric, religion, death, death,
Form: Free verse