Light of Lights
...Light throbbing in the heart of darkness
Shakes its density and solidity
Dawn lengthening towards morning
Mops up darkness slowly
Shadows vanish
In its brightness
It rubs them off the bodie...
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Categories:
narrowness, light, prayer, uplifting,
Form: Verse
When you are gone
...When you are gone!
1. Never once believe in the idea of having my eyes set on a certain someone's heart.
It sounded ridiculous and mythical,
Like the story of Wind Breaker and the bald man f...
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Categories:
narrowness, break up, relationship, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Ethereal Lanterns
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As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servi...
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Categories:
narrowness, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
A World Without War
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Peace and unity sing in harmony, echoing worldwide,
When acts of humility replace revenge-infused pride,
When narrowness of mind, naked ambitions subside,
When nations of goodwill, stand togethe...
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Categories:
narrowness, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Spontaneity
...When, like petrified shells, rocks, bones, and skeletons
Narrow thoughts, words, and actions show their elegance
As the swan of fables bisects water from milk
Shouldn't we shred narrowness, though...
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Categories:
narrowness, freedom, life,
Form: Rhyme
Be the fragrance of a rose
...Though echo of love returns not
at times, do we yet hold steady,
untying knots that makes heart taut,
for each bout, lovingly ready?
To be always in equipoise,
though echo of love returns not,...
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Categories:
narrowness, love,
Form: Quatern
Closed-In
...This day
in the deep country, the sky it is high, blue, and vertical,
with no hand holds, nor anything for the eye to cling to.
In the city we don't get 'big sky, we get pencil thin ray...
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Categories:
narrowness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
An Embarrassing Moment
...a neighbour takes umbrage
at his own narrowness
then vents rage
on us who so witnessed
momentary flicker of flame
there is no judgment and yet
the aspect that so clings
assumes own...
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Categories:
narrowness, anger, emotions, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Hemmed In
...The sky has climbed over
its usual low cloud cover,
today it is high, blue and vertical
with no hand holds,
those places for the eye to cling to.
In the city we don't get 'big sky'
we get pen...
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Categories:
narrowness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Thought of the Day
...Let not narrowness of ego decoy ~
Every delusion, seek, search and destroy
08-May-2023...
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Categories:
narrowness, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Xenophobia
...“Let not narrowness of ego decoy ~
Every delusion, seek, search and destroy”
~ quote by poet
Defined as dislike of foreign races,
xenophobia retards growth of soul,
for we look a...
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Categories:
narrowness, judgement, prejudice, racism,
Form: Ottava rima
How To Become a Facist
...How to Become a Fascist
Clan thinking and group thinking are always dangerous
Our loyalty to the group we belong to betrays us
Waving of flags makes us think we have the right on our side
We a...
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Categories:
narrowness, books, devotion, for teens,
Form: Blank verse
Helplessness
...the king travelled incognito
mixing among the commoners
both delighted and also envious
of how they find joy in simple things
content even in poverty and shortages
and then the king discovered ...
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Categories:
narrowness, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Imagine a Lover
...The man of my dreams
Is not rich
Nor is he wealthy
Some have teeth made of gold
But he has a heart made of gold
His silence is loud
Speaking with his eyes
Always listening and thinking
Observ...
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Categories:
narrowness, beauty, crush, cute love,
Form: Free verse
If We But Cease To Cling
...If we but cease to cling
to that that comes and goes,
simply by being still,
all’s enabled if we
surrender egoic will.
If we but cease to cling
to thought forms that appear,
we offer no anch...
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Categories:
narrowness, desire, god, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
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