Fear Nirvana Poems

nirvana in reverse 
My mind is filled with doubt
Guess I chose a different route
Found a cure to the ache
I'm about to break for your sake
Alone

My...

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This unconscious mind
my holiest of weapons
the sharpest of blades
piercing through this veiled illusion

Thrust into this spiritual plane
unabated by this draining longing
to satisfy these primal desires

Boundless...

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Nirvana, the enlightenment, 
  Nirvana, the understanding of the true nature of universe, 
          ...

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I have not written poems, lived a life, nor shed a tear,
that half-contained within it’s touch restraint 
that I might fear erase my soul; 
enmeshed...

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I awaken, alarmed by contagion’s dread,
by the advancing bubonic omen. 
My  muscular spasms unleash, involuntarily.
My astonished malediction yawns, cavernous.
I gawk vacantly in my remaining...

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Abide
by Michael R. Burch

after Philip Larkin's "Aubade"

It is hard to understand or accept mortality—
such an alien concept: not to be.
Perhaps unsettling enough to spawn religion,
or...

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Nirvana: a place of peace and happiness like here
Where a supreme state of enlightenment is achieved, no more fear
All suffering goes away
It's like riding a...

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