Zen Nihilism-POTD
...Written: September 05, 2023
This or That, Vol 20 Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
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In the Zen kingdom, ...
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Categories:
minuteness, analogy, appreciation, beauty, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
The Seeker, Otherwise the No God God
...With Minuteness' you lived within me
Sustaining infinite thoughts, desires
I bestowed upon you all my experiences and
You knew many more from ages and species
Still to expand and further expand
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Categories:
minuteness, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Cushions Can Canter
...Disentomb of a diseconomy is a discourse with or without a hat. To lick at a whip is to wave a wavelength overboard. Fifty nine fields and a jet cake then? Oh really must one epitomise the general po...
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Categories:
minuteness, aubade, baptism, bible,
Form: I do not know?
Captivated
...What is it in knowing you that makes my awareness
come alive . My thoughts of you are ever present . You
lead me to consider , good and evil , life and death to
see more clearly our own minuteness...
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Categories:
minuteness, bible, blessing, devotion, love,
Form: Prose
Ascent Into Love, Translation of Carlos Bousono's Poem: Subida Al Amor
...Ascent into love, Translation of Carlos Bousono’s poem : Subida al amor
(The first poem in Bousono’s first collection of the same name, written before he was 22,
sounds very much like being his d...
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Categories:
minuteness, god, life, light,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Nothing Remains
...My fingers grasp at the void, empty-handed...
My heart lingers at hollowness, emptied out...
reminiscent when time got wrinkled, worn
when night and day left,
and only nothing remained.
The embers o...
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Categories:
minuteness, introspection, life, me, heart,
Form: Free verse