Poised Poems

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Poised in the void

Poised in the void, wingless we fly
Soul’s vibrancy heightens
We feel presence of God draw nigh
Bliss peaks, aura brightens

We just follow the scent
For our soul’s swift ascent
With will to God’s laws bent

Ego’s destroyed
Poised in the void

Love Poised Fraught

Arms outstretched.
Hands out thrust.
Fingers stretched out, reaching, straining, hurting,
just barely fail make contact, left hanging untouched.
Only a tiny spark zings between the fingers.
Like static electricity,
which flows when bodies
stroked with emotion
get charged up with a warm dry rub
and discharge with a tiny whip's crack.
Our love forever poised,
never had the impetus
for completion to fruition.
As we balked at

Poised In the Void

Waiting to see His face 
by divine grace, 
heart’s burning yearning 
feels here now within the bosom, 
heart lotus blossom, 
as an infallible sign 
that our soul essence is divine.

16-August-2022

For Poor Black Girls One Day Poised Believing God

Wounded by his and her absence
All we knew to do was wait
In time emptiness melted to fog, until
Tenderness brought us tranquility.

At last, we looked to You, as
Rain spoke of change, and
Skylight touched us like a friend
Loyal to the end.

Nature itself sought to wake us to wonder
Over and over, we held the hands of hope.

At last,

Poised In the Void

Poised in the void

Voids within our form,
source of joy’s bliss swarm ~
silence consumes din,
each time we begin.

Our triadic heart
is where we best start,
to hold still focus,
along love’s locus.

What’s here always was,
effect but not cause,
borne of choiceless choice,
echoes of our voice.

Plunge into the source ~
love’s our sole resource,
both self-existent 
and luminescent.

19-May-2022

Poised In the Void

Heart enlivens the void
by aliveness of soul,
no longer by fears toyed,
feeling blissful and whole.

09-May-2022

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Nonchalance Poised

Nonchalance poised in the vast void
We are self-existent
Vibrant presence, is by love buoyed
Melding with the current

We let Mother decide
Manner of our joy ride
As we so wingless glide

Heart’s overjoyed 
Nonchalance poised

22-March-2022
Quietus 

Poised In the Void

Poised in the void, in quietude
No thought interference 
Bliss throb heightens in solitude 
Beyond mind inference 

Desire and aversion
Transmutes to cessation
Time stretched meditation 

By silence buoyed
Poised in the void

10-December-2021
Quietus 

Fingertips Poised To Kiss

Well, the path lengthened out
  past any horizon
the crickets and cicadas
  firing up their sweet strings

We headed toward heaven
  that late afternoon
thin lines of sweat o'er our lips
  fingertips poised to kiss

when the rains came
  our jackets torn off 
maneuvering for advantageous position
  steam floating o'er faraway plains



 

Poised In the Night

To be poised
In the night, 
Like a serpent 
Out of sight. 

A single candle 
Dwindles low, 
For the poet
It must show. 

His muse in
All her glory, 
Inspiring him
Majestically. 

Encouraging him
To greater heights, 
She comes to him
These lonely nights. 

Together they wield
The mighty quill,
On parchment made
From pure will. 

The song of the muse
Is sung by many,

The Dance

Standing upon the stage,
Dressed all in white,
Hair an a bun spun with feathers,
Poised, graceful akin to a swan,
Starting to dance almost gliding,
Up onto your toes you spin on one,
Jumping, leaping twirling across the stage,
All to soon the movement stopped,
You drop to your knees arms outstretched,
The swan is dying,
She is no more.

Poised In Cessation

Holding with ease
The point of release
Before the sentiment 
Flowers to intent
Thought not converted
Into words not spurted

We reside therein

27-August-2020

Poised

Sitting by the edge of her sullen lake
Hands around her knees
Holding on to her worldly dreams
She dips her toes to test what was to become
Drawn like flesh to bone
The water wakened her senses
This girl-to-woman burst within her
Filled with gumption
Laughingly she tossed her curls
Behind her shoulders
Jumped wholeheartedly
Then plunged into the icy waters

She wanted to swim
To feel

Poised

Think
don't flinch
muscle poised
hold firm, steady
then release quickly jump at the ready.




for Joseph May's Teteactys contest
Picture #3 Red Squirrel focus
9/21/19

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