Abounding blest compassion divinely exudes fulfillment
Toward a flourishing life with peaceful glow
Midst caring and sharing along blessings’ flow
All from the Lord we can enjoy by gracious empowerment.
Granted heavenly ... instilling justice, kindness, loving mercy
Blessings from God multiply with His magnanimous grace
As we utilize them, devoid of greediness-trace
In our gratefulness to utilize resources devoid of complacency.
Nourished optimally, providing quests’ resplendence
Gifts of the Almighty are loaded with contentment gain
Vanquishing haughtiness of covetousness-pain
For faithful stewardship yon earthly transcendence.
Satisfying triumph, upholding virtuous worth
Faith in Christ champions blissful trust-delight
Freely fueled to vanquish doubt of skeptic blight
Toward reaching-out, creating paradise on earth.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
September 7, 2025
2nd place, "Alpha Lines" Rhyme Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Joseph May; judged on 9/16/2025
If biscuit dipped in curry’s what he likes,
What use needless flurry on what he likes?
O be not so narrow-minded a man,
At least east-west marry in what he likes.
Let them say, ne’er the twain shall meet,
If they do, why worry in what he likes.
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Ghazal (tongue-in-cheek) |01.11.2024|humour, east-west
Poet’s note: Dipping a biscuit in tea seems widely accepted a practice. In west a scientific study (yes, scientific) has been done on how long a biscuit should ideally be dipped in tea. Around four seconds, it says. A little less and the biscuit is not optimally soft. A little more, and it would be too soggy, and a portion might even fall in tea. But here is this guy who dips his biscuit in daal (Indian curry)! This short Ghazal of three couplets has its own take on it.
Poet’s note: based on a Gujarati Muktak by Naaz Mangroli as under:
Daal nee saathe ae biscuit khaye chhe,
Aemaan taaraa baapnu shun jaaye chhe?
Sankuchit drishhtinu taaree shun karu?
Poorva-pashchim aektaa to thaaye chhe!
All urges arising within the heart
ever bubbling in innocence
unendingly adding joy to its cart
never ever looking askance
There being no need of discernment
if we but listen to our conscience
throb of love bestowing contentment
unless we stagnate in indulgence
Joy in permanence to our being innate
requiring immersion in the flow
ambling along in nonchalance sedate
taking each breath easy & slow
Distinguishing between heart and head
choosing to optimally balance
food for the soul vs need for daily bread
both in love aligned parlance
There then thus being no inner conflict
as head and heart align
as a mist of bliss always at the summit
being one with the divine
31-October-2020
R esolutions occasion themselves optimally at the start of a new year
E very new calendrical chart anew page in our lives of things fretted over
S ome are constant challenges interwoven with more current examples
O thers will be pondered over time and again throughout coming days
L abourious test and trials are then faced head-on painstakingly daily
T ediously we would persevere and press onward to greet with a smile
I n retrospect many were made capriciously and thus fall on the wayside
O nly a few, if any, we will be successful of going over the hurdle victoriously
N umerous would certainly fail and some met will also filter in as failures
S o that is the usual outcome of resolutions whereto we save that for next year
2020 January 24
Resolutions Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Matt Caliri
Affirmatively, we are in God's plan*, perfectly divine
Bestowed with love to bloom with amazing design...
Cherished around the Creator's compassionate caring zest
Definitely awaiting sovereign calendar for grand time's best...
Existence meant to explore and enjoy optimally life eternal
Functional around fellowship transcending the ephemeral...
Geared for glowing by Christ's light against guilt-caused gloom
Hoisted with faith, upheld by love, surmounting sin-inflicted doom...
In the LORD, we are who He wants us to be for His honour and glory
Justified by His redemption holiness, among His redeemed ones in victory...
King is the Almighty who molds us with His best by His workmanship
Loving Him must be our aim midst His offered fellowship toward triumphant worship!
*Ephesians 1:4-5 - According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.
October 1, 2019
Edited on September 16, 2022
ABC in Couplet form
1st place, "Sans mind-body who are we" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker; judged on 9/23/2022
Silence
oppressively descends
in dead depressing despair
And, impressively ascends
in tingling anticipation,
pregnant with delighting participation
Ecstasy itching with silent invitation
bicameral co-passioning revolution
Optimally resilient night through day,
day in night voices,
night to day listening
in tingling resonant silence,
music,
dance,
motion,
emotion,
intention.
I wonder
in powerful awe
If I can see
as well as hear
a timeless difference
between ill-timed ego-annihilation
and health-trained ego-fragmentation
into awed synergetic complex wonder,
chaotic eco-ecstasy.
If I can hear
as well as see
full-timed integrity
so dense
robust
resilient
I am optimally fulfilled
by cooperatively silent celebrity.
Why was Donald John
closer to his depressed Press Secretary
than his Secretary of Defense?
Because
he took his Press Secretary
as his best fake-news defensive offense
and his primary goal was to fool
all the bipolar fundamentalist monoculturing people
all our dipolar revolutionary cooperative Time.
And,
he thought
his Secretary of Defense
was his Secretary for Oppositional Offensive Defiance
against polyculturing Grace
and Positive WinWin karma of cooperations,
against love and health and multiculturing WinWin
ecotherapeutic sacred life
and secular healthy climates
of and for LeftBrain egotherapeutic
Yang downsizing
Original Intent
of Yin's WinWin optimally flowing
health defense.
And he remembered
he said he was against affordable health care
actions of predecessors,
so he must be for
pathological mismanagement.
How would I describe
my spiritual commute to a place of optimally healthy enterprise?
Am I more of a monoculturing mind
for commodifying my Business,
sometimes BadNews for more vulnerable competitors?
I hope my monochromatic elitism
gives way
to active hope
and faith
and love
for polycultural creolizing outcomes
of WinWin plays and games,
reforesting external EarthNature,
while reweaving internal EarthSpirit.
Matriotic Revolutions reweaving my nutritionally organic mind
for restoring healthy souls,
wombs,
systems,
networks,
re-creating extended organic family bodies,
democratically inclusive
liberating-conservational living dipolar constitutions,
therapeutically cooperative educational systems
for optimizing health care, nutrition, energy, life
polypathically dancing
within polyphonic democratic empowerment circles,
singing ringing love anthems
of democratic Energy
yet emerging healthier climates
for All EarthSouls.
Neurology asks
How does our bicameral brain
and bilateral neural-system work,
both positive and negative?
Meanwhile, form greets function.
Psychology asks
What can minds with bodies tell us
about who we were,
who we are,
and those whom we might become,
and prefer not to become?
Because to do so would be even more pathological;
negative psychology
is pathological psychology.
But,
both neurology and psychology
assume this same radically fundamental spectrum
of regenerative health
through degenerative pathology
of physical and metaphysical climates
for landscapes
internal and external,
positively cooperative
on through too competitively dissonant.
Ultimately,
neurological psychology
reweaves how our healthy ego-systems work
sometimes optimally,
too often minimally,
toward whom and what
and when and where
and even why
we would most regeneratively become
together.
On time saw live, sacred;
no emit was evil, desecration;
neurologically anti-healthy negative psychology.
The opposite of heat is cold
but what lies in-between?
The opposite of friction is fusion
and Earth's living systems evolve in-between.
The opposite of Capital Empire Expansion,
with military industrialized full-divestment strength,
is Earth ComPassionate Communication,
flowing fusion of fertile fulfillments.
In-between anthropocentric monopoly competitions
and eco-centered polycultural cooperation,
where either Win or Lose capital deduction
deviates from the thriving norm
of bilateral both Win and NotLose
compassionate seductions
Empowering love
informs enlightened economic healthcare
optimally retained
with actively pleasing political passion,
interdependent polyamorous governance
Polypathic LeftCrown and RightRoot
bicamerally fusing interior peace
transforming exterior EarthJustice
politically cooperative networks.
The opposite of bear
is bull
What flows heart-felt fusion
fertilely fulfilling
in-between
sustains compassionately communing
Crown and Root communication.
Billie Holiday said
The artist of soul never sings a song the same way twice,
the artist never sings the same song twice.
This sounds good and right to me,
as soul artists and lovers,
great optimally effective researchers and scientists and communicators,
never live a day,
a felt relationship,
a poem,
a dance,
a sacred ritual or tradition
the same way twice.
As we learn to stay within our zones of synergy,
we can never go quite back to yesterday again
because we live through this fluid imagination
and experiential place
where life's co-relational time
flows a bubbling nuanced inside/outside integrating stream
never organically sung as mere mechanized repeat,
each moment learning now's renewing voice
from soul's most resonant
remembering
strong-hearted
full-minded
passion-embodied space.
Soul sings inside songs
of out-streaming full-hearted
improvising
synchronizing voice.
I took time for granted,
The belief I held about it's worth was slanted.
I did not respect time,
And unknowingly treated it worth less than a dime.
There are twenty four hours in a day,
The same as every human in the play.
Some use time optimally to make hay,
While others cause it's successful slay.
It does not become difficult to guess,
That by treating time with disdain I ended up in a mess.
And accompanying it there was the deep distress,
All because I lacked the discipline to optimally use time.
Time the true treasure
and the success measure,
Waste it and repent
at your own precarious peril.
we are resting
like beautiful dogs
of sambalpoor
with empty minds
staring
at the wheels of
intuitive melancholy
third eye
rejuvinated
spinning optimally
bells chime
from the remnants of
the ruined temples
dogs are faithful
here
we are learning
now
Freedom from death
bounds freedom to fully live,
As freedom from thin-skin body competitions
reconnects freedom to deep mind cooperate,
As freedom from Win-Lose YangGame Strategy
opens ecosystemic freedom to optimally double-YinWin-Win
EcoLogistics,
born-again regeneration,
Beloved Climax Dreams incarnating
freestyle swimming flight
from dawn through night
greets eternal dawn's adventure
blinding bright
ecstatic spiral light,
within...
without...
reiterate-within/out
mind/body just right
recentering delight.
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