Outgrowing without a goodbye
Is this what growing is?leaving everything behind over and over again,
I still wonder how many versions of myself I've outgrown without Noticing ,while sitting in the rain..
Old photos hung up in the wall ,
Staring at them quietly ,afraid if I felt too much I would fall..
The thoughts I used to carry ,the smiles I used to feel ,the dreams I used to chase,
Now ,are blatant memories I'm too afriad to erase..
I carried yesterday into today,
hoping the weight would fade away.
Strange ,how we live within ourselves,Yet never see,
The transformation-so subtle ,day by day free..
Do we ever long for the tunes of who we used to be?
No- we let them fade and decay silently..
It's only when we look back we realize,
How much of us have we shedded,
How much of us have we lived ,
We are nothing but many lives that lived under the same skin..
Schumann’s resonance rising
Magnetism impacting gravity
Pores of space begin dilating
Admitting within ethereal light
Altering reality as we know it
Incomprehensible to our mind
Outgrowing cocoon of the ego
Pristine soul spreads its wings
Resting mind, shifting to heart
Poised in time stretched calm
Wherein one with the universe
The drop becomes the ocean
Omnipresent in the vast void
Inseparable from the all that is
The individuated atom of God
Breathes in peace, exudes love
Aura emanating elixir of bliss
As boons of grace so received
Unending is ascent of our soul
Touch of God makes us whole
My suit of self-loathing no longer fits
The mirror of compassion tells me so
Years of bad-intentions held back growth
After a time, the length of my sleeves bind
I didn’t realize I’ve become over-sized
These angry pants are fit for a small child
How silly I look with cuffs choking wrists
How I’ve loved my painfully straight jacket
Like it or not, the right suit still waits
No one other than I can disrobe loathing
The best cloak is the one from the womb
It takes skill to unstitch a childish blazer
It takes care to unhem pants outgrown
It takes love to go out in my birthday suit
Let tatters of anxiety fall down the chute
Self-loathing keeps me from disrobing
But, I’m not ready to shed my suit yet
The manly scissors that cuts are too heavy
After self-loathing is bare understanding
Forgive the man unstitching childishness
Let go of short-comings without clinging
Take the macho suit off the rack with care
Try on that fitted suit made for just me
Wear it till love fills the over-sized space
Take it all off till nakedness feels nice
Matthew 24:18
"Whoever is in the field must not turn back to get his cloak."
Leave me alone
Leave me alone
I am waiting to go home
Everyone's true colors have been shown
Everyone's level, I've outgrown
Now you get paid to be a clone
White girls get paid for what she's shown
Black girl does it, she's a rat, She's a shone.
Sh*t will leave you mind-blown
My high, please don't blow mine
God says its almost showtime
Smoke profit, yea its grown time
Don't mention no sex lil boy
Baby I have no time
Cuz you losers have no spine & will switch for less than a dime
Sh*t should really be a crime
Dudes beefing for no reason and no rhyme
Why the f-boys seem to multiple?
Give em Hex, Just like ***, so alone I'll die
Alone I cry, so no one asks me why
Just cut up my arms & look up to the sky
We are the generation of the evolution
Y'all please break out your money illusion
We all moving at our value
Hearts pure- won't accept no more pollution
F**K 12, F**K School, F**K all their institutions
F**K Trump & his Russian Collusion
You "Winners" are losing --- What an illusion.
xx Gu xx 2018
Rise!
You are
outgrowing
that smaller shell;
Smash breakable glass!
It’s not fragile;
Cages were
never
real.
I could know no Self
without an Other
We could have no Child
without an EarthMother
No Ego
without an Earth-bound EcoSystem
I could understand no male
linear formation dominantly prominent
without a co-responding female circling
inflowing/outgrowing concomitance
I could not know severance bipolar
of either/or discursive logic
without feeling round wombed dipolar
environmental both/and nurturing
spiraling positive reiteration
revolving rounds of communication
seasonally developing
ecological peak nurturing communion
I could not form
positive 1
if not for informing/outgoing
co-passionate bipartisan
co-invested bilateral
binomial duo-binary
not negative co-related
half full-out/empty-in 0.
Out of the mouths of babes echoes “Car! Car!”
and points he the bended finger waving.
In my close held orbit his rising star
shines in playful hugs and smooches craving!
Wise an old head on little shoulders sit,
oh, that likeness of face, that heart of song,
the torch of wonder in a child’s mind lit -
I see it all and know that you belong.
That first smile, first kiss, first coos outgrowing
did all my past attentions rearrange -
we are now that bond which comes from knowing
how you were begotten and I was changed.
My darling boy two years a gentle soul
know that I your praises sing to the world.
Written: March 2002
Ye that have come from far
he welcomes thy air except weary dust
that still may hamper this sparkling light
turning bonds feeble
outgrowing and decaying thus dreads.
The air at times conceived
is still forlorn and pauseful
what it now entails and conspires and breeds
nobody and nobody will tell
whether ye have included love and leaves
or went on to include only a decors
for if so people fear to wash and storm tis.
changing men unknown
alas, those revolving but still wild
ruling it, alas those air lovely yet
a sighing of a doldrums.
Sealed by love’s fidelity to be forever sweethearts
Upheld as one flesh midst caring bond to the utmost
Never outgrowing honeymoon’s sweetness-nurture
Flourishing while blooming in passionate “I do” fulfilment---
Liberated hearts vanquish selfishness languishing
Optimizing warm togetherness around truth-mercy orb
Well-watered against ennui weariness and apathy-wilting
Ecstatically delighting each other sweetly with earnestness
Rejoicing* now in God's bliss, Dad and Mom’s radiance
Shines, while to me and siblings, their romance serenely stays.
*Philippians 1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.
May 25, 2021
2nd place, "Sunflower" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Malabika Ray Choudhury; judged on 5/31/2021.
Basking in mirth’s pleasure from seizure’s test
striving boy blends well with Mom’s crooning voice
outgrowing not delights of lullabies
wafting joyous bonding blest wonderment.
Around gracious love-sealed partnership-zest
so oblivious of burdensome noise
candid son shows secrets, devoid of lies
through language Mom grasps in her discernment.
By sweet kiss of innocent caress’ best
dear tot greets Mom with his jubilant poise
acting serene, though spastic-angst defies
championing steadfast care merriment.
Mom does surmount nurturing challenges' height
midst thanksgiving bliss for special child's flight.
*2Corinthians 12:15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
May 4, 2021
Modified Hybronnet (three stanzas of four lines with ABCD-ABCD-ABCD rhyme scheme then a couplet with EE rhyme)
Syllables Per Line According to PS Syllable Counter:
10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10
1st place, "ALL YOURS (May 14)" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 5/15/2021.
The Shrinking Season
by Michael R. Burch
With every wearying year
the weight of the winter grows
and while the schoolgirl outgrows
her clothes,
the widow disappears
in hers.
Originally published by Angle
Keywords/Tags: Time, Year, Years, Weight, Wait, Waiting, Weary, Wearying, Winter, Girl, Schoolgirl, Clothes, Grow, Grows, Outgrows, Outgrowing, Widow, Disappear, Disappears, Disappearing, Age, Aging, Loss, Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uqZhnqHMAg
The orchestra strains to be symphonic --- a bee in a tin box.
Cigar smoke thunders, molecules of sound wilt
only to be dialed up through brass lungs.
The combo is quaintly upholstered, a classic sports car
driven by Disney. Outmoded refrains gurgle.
We see the obsolete road ahead, feel the bumps,
the lack of shock absorbers.
The third piano concerto, the romance of the exile.
1940 is pulled from under its Perspex lid, served up
as fresh Prosciutto di Parma consumed in a diner
long derailed.
The mind warps eras, Michelangelo has gone Hollywood,
the 'Creation' sketched on a paper napkin.
Last notes.
Hands too large for tuxedoed minds, stamp
like rhapsodic elephants.
Percussive fingers slam-dunk ivory tusked themes,
Russian bells quake California.
Rolling vespers outgrowing each decade,
times now locked in a recovery CD millimeters thin.
~~~
https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2010/10/sergei-rachmaninoff-car-guy-aero-investor/
Highschool drama queens
belong back between those walls
There's a reason we grow up
leaving it all behind
Outgrowing awkward teenage years
abandoning childish wild theatrics
AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2022
In black and white, I adore framing my inner thoughts, my worries, my wants and hopes… Words! a world of abiding renewal… a space of a bountiful solitude… a state of illusive freedom… a journey to the nowhere!
once nature bestirred
a smiling heart is echoed
great rapture bestowed
words! they have a world of their own! You build them, feed them on your feelings, your viewpoints and creed… As soon as they blossom and stand on their own feet, they escape your grip… They soar high and you just have to trace their wonders, listen to their fanning wings, gape at their outstanding performances while they are outgrowing your black and white frame and outshining your very thoughts.
Pounding of musings
awake is the wonder muse
the heart resonates.
Boundless power to free be
in trance, another soul be.
How dare you, words of mine, infringe the laws of the Haibun world?! Haven’t I told you?! I’m not responsible if a Haiku has expanded into a Tanka!
Have you forever come and gone
turning on your identity trail
to face a wall of YangFlame
dissonance?
Standing
and sitting
and sleeping
and Yang/Yin in-between
insideEgo and outsideEco known
inside as outgrowing
since ZeroZone Win secular seed
Won SacredBeginning
of bilateral BigBang Yang
recovering from LoseLose Zero
YinYin BiLateral Zone Time
This double-binding flame wall
aptic ashes in-between firestorms
your Ego identity loves WinComely
and sacred EcoBeLoved
of in-between Others
winning EarthTribe positivenergy,
AnimaMundi
Holy MatriarchalSpirit.
This dueling secularLeft-sacredRight wall
of co-redemptive Fire
between myself
and our ecojoy,
EarthTribe therapeutic shafts
of flame
restoring justice sunlight days
and peaceful starlit nights,
deducting DNA supremacy
as inducting RNA flowstreams,
nutritionally green
echoing off mineralized crystal rocks
harmonic revolving windfunnels
resonant thunderstorms of revolution
polypathic songs
of ringing newborn singing childhood
Imagining square dancers
of and for seasons
with lovely healthy reasons--
permaculturing operas.
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