Death appeared in our relationship
The misappropriation of love was the cause
Someone I loved was drenched in solitude
We never really knew that both of us
Shoved each other away with misalignment!
Now we know that every action is important
We said things that was unnecessary
And before we knew it, it was too late!
We still don’t have the full picture
You only came to me twice
And I guess that is the reason we paid a price of misfiring
Mark Frank
Copyright 2022
Categories:
misalignment, love, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Both heaven and hell are within
Misalignment from love, our sin
Soul stains cleansed, if we be but still
Christ-flame glows in heart, go therein
As we surrender to His will
Voids within form begin to fill
We cognise the soundless thunder
As God does, love and light instil
Beyond mind, we behold wonder
Divine embrace, none asunder
All we do, is simply allow
Benign bliss burn, it’s touch tender
Bow then oh hermit, bow down low
Meld head with heart, soft and mellow
Clear light dawns and the path is clear
In stillness, scent of love follow
05-June-2022
Categories:
misalignment, heaven, love, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Mindfully observing thoughts rise and subside
For our attention they hanker
If we feed them not and in the vast void glide
Far distanced from noisy clanker
We offer no anchor for rancour
Going in deeper, we attempt to find the cause
That drew in fear and desire
To discern the truth, we put thought on pause
Consigning ego to the pyre
Revealing heart, all afire
So, ego smoke and glowing heart, soul flame
Misalignment cause of conflict
God search the aim so let us play this game
Head and heart meld, both with love inked
We roam the divine precinct
So far so good, bliss suffused, we stand erect
All nodes within form, in joy dance
Magnetic bliss currents burst forth unchecked
Joy in permanence happenchance
All because of head-heart balance
18-December-2021
Categories:
misalignment, heart, joy, love, spiritual,
Form: Quintain (English)
Within our heart, we feel I Am presence
Our hand goes there automatically
Soul enlivened by light of innocence
Joyous love pulse glowing magically
Star of David, our sacred heart symbol
Ancient wisdom; as above, so below
Soundless bliss thunder, in heart does tingle
Making erst feral consciousness mellow
All that is manifest, our heart’s desire
More oft than not, led astray by ego
Free will determines, objects we aspire
Forming habit patterns, loathe to forgo
Back to basics, let’s talk of fall from grace
There is no sin; merely misalignment
When fleeting illusions, we cease to chase
Our heart abides in tranquil contentment
We’re not mind-body and when we know this
Vibrant cessation becomes our mainstay
Our feeble form is magnetised by bliss
God search our quest, as day and night we pray
God resides deep within cave of our heart
Can we sense not yet, music of the spheres
Negating all else, let’s add love to cart
Suffused with blissful rapture, that endears
11-October-2021
With my hand on my heart poetry contest
Sponsor: Mystic Rose Rose
Categories:
misalignment, god, heart, i am,
Form: Rhyme
Heart contraction, a clear signal
Misalignment from source
Time now to make complex simple
Erasing thought forms coarse
Abide with quietude
With stoic fortitude
Vibrant in solitude
Agitation
Heart contraction
07-October-2021
Quietus
Categories:
misalignment, conflict, heart, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Going strictly by the scriptures
We are told we have sinned long ago
Thus, fallen status is this feeble caricature
Maya indeed veils the truth but our heart is aglow
Head and heart aligned, we are free from strife
Once attachments recede, life flow is mellow
Sermons of preachers cut us like a knife
Designed to burden us with superstitious guilt
For our sin, Jesus gave up his life, Buddha his wife
It seems impossible that this is the house God has built
Anchoring our attention in spasms of contraction
Delusion that we have sinned making us wilt
Our innate nature is joyous bliss elation
The only sin we see is with love misalignment
Owing to indulgence in illusion causing stagnation
Let us unshackle consciousness from feral sediment
Reclaiming by free will our childlike innocence
Flowing then through life in contentment
God is truth! God is love! He asks for no penance
We are free! We are as He! Being of self-luminescence
27-April-2021
Categories:
misalignment, sin,
Form: Terza Rima
We all seek joy, yet man for most part weeps
Cause of our suffering, misalignment
Fallen from grace, the rot has sunk in deep
Hearts love beckons but we take not the leap
Fearing to dissolve in the bliss current
We all seek joy, yet man for most part weeps
Divine embrace priceless, by mind made cheap
We strive and struggle, only to lament
Fallen from grace, the rot has sunk in deep
Bag of fears and desires, now a big heap
Burdened under the weight of attachment
We all seek joy, yet man for most part weeps
If we but pause and into our heart peep
We may imbibe bliss without abatement
Fallen from grace, the rot has sunk in deep
Simply by letting go, love within seeps
Revealing our soul, self-luminescent
We all seek joy, yet man for most part weeps
Fallen from grace, the rot has sunk in deep
12-April-2021
(syllabic villanelle)
A major world problem poetry contest
Sponsor: L Milton Hankins
Categories:
misalignment, muse, spiritual,
Form: Villanelle
Taking discord to be misalignment,
we feel no pain by ripples that arise,
ever blissful in quiet contentment,
ceasing judging, knowing we are not wise,
viewing shock as divine bestowed surprise.
Witness consciousness resting in the void,
vibrant bliss mist, pristine and unalloyed,
imbibes and releases each vibration,
empty within, thus always overjoyed,
nestled in bliss, in boundless elation.
21-March-2021
Categories:
misalignment, joy, pain, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
What will we do, when we run out of time
Knock of death on our door, the final chime
Which emotion flows through dying sinews
Knowing that the next breath may not renew
Regret or remorse or bliss throb sublime
Misalignment with love, our only crime
Devoid of love, we wallow in the grime
Dying now and yet mired in ego glue
What will we do?
Pretended emotions, which we did mime
All futile now, not even worth a dime
How we wish, we could begin life anew
Too late to undo, the poison we spewed
When through Gods eyes we review, our lifetime
What will we do?
09-February-2021
Categories:
misalignment, death, life, spiritual,
Form: Rondeau
employee stealing
became known to employer
so he told him with loving feeling
take a salary raise and correct behaviour
we are unbound spirit not ego caricature
so called sin merely misalignment
in time all souls do mature
imbibing love current
18-January-2021
Categories:
misalignment, love, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Inbuilt bias, embedded deep within
Roots in mind body association
Manifesting as our reflex response
Feral urge, we later look at askance
Mere misalignment needing correction
Head above, being ego thought station
Seeks for our identity, expansion
Dwelling in dark dungeons of decadence
Inbuilt bias
Here and now, to abide in elation
Head and heart align, in divine union
Love alone remains, our playful parlance
Resonating with voice of our conscience
Flame of truth, destroys by an explosion
Inbuilt bias
17-January-2021
Categories:
misalignment, muse, spiritual,
Form: Rondeau
Serenity; not past ferality
Non-judging eye view, geniality
Love misconstrued for lust, misalignment
Yesteryears, instinct was our sentiment
Presence smiles today in tranquility
Life flow, a flux of continuity
Images of past, consigned to memory
Here and now, free of ego sediment
Serenity
Free spirit, immune from fatality
Over time, sheds delusionality
In time reclaims, our native element
Electrified thus by the joy current
Our ascension slow but a certainty
Serenity
15-January-2021
Watered down juice poetry contest
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Categories:
misalignment, muse,
Form: Rondeau
The one
as many
manifest
with free will
bestowed
to each aspect
of Itself
to fully feel
and experience
each life throb
in freedom
slowly recognising
singularity
in plurality
all energies entwined
merely vibrating
at different octaves
of love & light
albeit veiled
momentarily
causing anxiety
arising from
misalignment
in the effort
to expand
within the bubble
of imagined self
as the ego
resident in
fleeting form
Seeing this play
the hermit
stretches & yawns
doing his bit
in as ordained
as a part
of the divine game
being enacted
moment to moment
both within
and without
then smiles
and moves on
within
in the void
of silence
07-November-2020
Categories:
misalignment, dream, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
There being in reality no limitation
Misalignment causation of distortion
Yet on an as is where is basis we do say
That ego attention oscillation yet holds sway
Recognition of truth merely indicates the horizon
Weary are our feet long laden with toxic poison
Light beyond at an unfathomable distance
We surrender therefore inner resistance
Letting go of to get to being the path
Each pulse within a holy sabbath
Awakening smoothly enabled
No ego agenda tabled
Unhurried stillness stance
Of our bubbling joyful innocence
Marks not the time it may take for ascent
Having trustingly surrendered so simply present
There thus no one resident within to measure
Identity vaporised and thereby no fissure
Each throb within deemed as optimal
Beauteous vivifying hues inimitable
20-October-2020
Categories:
misalignment, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Recognition non-judgmental accepts,
Respecting journey of each soul presence.
Arms open in embrace, love stands erect,
Gently steering other in playfulness,
Subtle fragrance of childlike innocence.
No evil in any is resident;
Aberrations we see, misalignment.
In timeless time all align as ordained,
With love sublime in joyful contentment,
Unifying with God, pure and unstained.
15-October-2020
Categories:
misalignment, judgement, love, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
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