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joy and pain
victory and defeat
hope and despair
exist
side
by
side
and
interwoven
in to
the
same
fabric
of life,
teaching us,
building us,
and
strengthening us.
thus
launching
us
higher
and
higher
in
to
loftier
space
Categories:
polarity, conflict, life,
Form: Shape
Polarities
Are appearances of 2..
Perspective and words
Opposites and boundaries
Always accomplices..
Yet that secret: Polarities
Are not 2...
Categories:
polarity, beauty, words,
Form: Light Verse
Polarity
The polarity story
Of sameness
And difference..
On page 1
(The only page):
The difference illusion
Pops up when
Difference is known
As difference...
Categories:
polarity, beauty, peace, words,
Form: Light Verse
Melding with sunset’s fading light
Before the day turned into night
Magnetism rose, heightened delight
I drew in God’s grace, byte by byte
The happenstance was simply this
From head to toe, I felt pure bliss
Caress of Divine Mother’s kiss
Rapture leaving nothing amiss
Void of polarity exchange
Oft gives birth to soul stirrings strange
Enhancing vibrational range
Signalling it’s time for a change
Lamp of love’s lit in cave of heart
Feel therein bliss ignition start
Categories:
polarity, joy, spiritual,
Form: Quatorzain
(Dark Pool of Light, 2011 original oil)
Acid and Alkali Dreams
Two sides
Of the same coin
Through different filters
Day and night
Pure and adulterated
Sweet and sour
Slippery and sharp
Regular and extra-ordinary
Working together
To keep the balance
By keeping us always
A little off
Neither this nor that
Always some doubt
On the spectrum of possibility
Dancing with the Moonlit Knight
This bittersweet
Specter
Of day
(11/28/23)
Categories:
polarity, dream, psychological,
Form: Free verse
The polarity tree..
Another label and story
But what is there without
Labels and stories..
It is a pine tree with
Nothing atop and a
Wide flaring skirt below..
Nothing and everything..
Sameness up and down:
Nothing appears as
The branches and needles..
Enter the characters the
Individual needles
Multiplicities increasing
As Nothing seems to recede..
Yet Nothing does not recede
Only the needles seem to move
And live and die..
Sparseness and denseness
Higher and lower
That's a continuing story...
Categories:
polarity, analogy, confidence, relationship, visionary,
Form: Blank verse
Sometimes, what the mind desires
Is not what the body aspires
Sometimes, what the body wants
Is not what the mind hunts
Elements that are strong
Are not always meant to belong
For, the strong are meant for the weak
And the hopeful to the bleak
Opposite poles of the universe
Meant to function together in reverse
For, futile is positive
If there is no negative
There are those who always dream
There are those who always scream
But balance is necessary
To conquer disharmony
Categories:
polarity, world,
Form: Rhyme
Reverse Polarity
Direct, straight, and true,
to the sun the crow doth fly to you.
High above the event horizon,
on Icarus currents, his outstretched wings fly on,
and in the heat of his passion, only to suffer some fowl doom.
Alternating her course, the leviathan swam,
not nearly as ancient as the great “I Am.”
Deep beneath the bluest of blue oceans,
she glides to and fro in a sinusoidal motion,
and to her calf, she shares her devotion, to preserving the secrets of the land.
by Martin Braun
July 25, 2023
Categories:
polarity, animal, creation, farewell, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
As the fulcrum of awareness shifts, soul don't go adrift
Affirmation: We are more than body & mind connection
Let us leave all attachments behind and vaporize,
like space. Mesh with the sun, recognize that we are One.
Like a caterpillar at the beginning stages of life
the egg, the larva (caterpillar), the pupa (chrysalis or cocoon) and the adult
we are solid matter at birth,
Our souls remain in a cocoon stage until we decide
to explore its fibrous non-matter lignon.
Anima is to our souls what the cocoon is to the chrysalis.
A thick protection goes over our souls and the only way
to get it to be a viable spirit, is to use breath and
MEDITATION as our key life chi.
We may not be butterflies, but we have our very own
pupation pitfalls, we are human having a
human experience, with a spirit that wants to be free
to fly.
When we respect our souls and give them proper nourishment,
time and space, they will embrace the human body as it heals.
We are spiritual souls inside a framework made of flesh and blood.
And only when we teach ourselves how to relax, breathe
and accept all that encompasses us, can we truly find inner peace.
Categories:
polarity, appreciation, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
He said, she said
“Not this, not this”
Whereas I continually thought it was so
Eventually though the question arose
If not this, am I that?
I came to know
that ‘yes’ and ‘no’ were equally true
and so I sat
in the void between those poles.
Categories:
polarity, bible, freedom, inspirational, silence,
Form: Free verse
The mermaid is all void in her double mind
as she struggles to be in sea and shore,
caged in the paradox of fiction and real.
She climbs up in life with reasons and rules,
chasing possessions, keeping all scores,
yet someone else she finds on the throne.
a stream of consciousness now flows
clinched fists open, no longer she holds on
that necklace of diamonds , worthless stones.
In her own Garden of Eden, a new cosmos,
sip by sip millions of moments she drinks.
No boundary of self , a Non-Dual universe.
Her Grey Matter : Black and White merged.
Categories:
polarity, creation,
Form: Free verse
REVERSE POLARITY
Polarity is the relationship,
between an opposite doctrine, or belief.
Read Joshua eleven, eleven,
child can understand … so simple and brief.
(They smote all the souls—with edge of the sword,
utterly destroying them) … Souls, You!, Me!
(There were not any left to breath) … Souls breath!
Souls not invisible, can die … now see.
Think soul is invisible, cannot die?
Joshua told the truth… please don’t cite lie!
July 22, 2023
Contest: REVERSE POLARITY
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker
King James Bible quoted
Categories:
polarity, change, conflict, inspirational, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Why does my consciousness get swiftly corroded?
Why my conscience finds itself in contradiction?
Why with strange thoughts, words, and actions mind get loaded?
Why betwixt likes and dislikes there's constant friction...?
Soul soft, as a gentle tender breeze gets soon swayed,
The spirit within, by cares and worries, is hauled;
Cracks in the axle of awareness make verve jade,
My senses, like birds and beasts, in slavery, stalled...!
This is, hence, I have decided to cleanse myself,
All that is making me drown in the sea of dread,
Should be shed and the soul should become a fresh shelf,
Wherein humanness should its motherly wings spread...!
In a bodiless, celestial space now I swim,
All that entrapped me, like a hunter's net, are gone;
Desires defeated heart and mind possess no whim,
Cleansed of all pitch dark clouds I see a dazzling dawn...!
Renunciation and detachment have been born,
And have started dwelling in me, making me light;
Indifferences, like dust in the gale, are blown,
My bond with each being has become rightly tight...!!!
Categories:
polarity, body, heart, life, self,
Form: Rhyme
Reverse Polarity
Linage totally broaden,
Spun before the darkness;
Nothing be closed bantered-black,
Horizontal dismissed toggle;
Lists topsy-turvy tracks,
Vertical crevices
Lever rests supported pivots,
Supported cryptic;
Representation essential role,
Bi-polar toll;
Black darkeness reverse polarity;
Now of this is clear to me?
7/17/23
Reverse Polarity Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
polarity, allusion, analogy, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
God's gift a perfect soul,
and the freedom to change ...
I can choose all my thoughts;
oh, God is in the wind,
he helps untie life's knots !
God's gift a perfect soul,
a journey infinite ...
divine strength in my veins;
bodies wither not souls,
faith breaks all rusty chains !
God's gift a perfect soul,
I can switch direction ...
my music is earth sounds;
I let negative go,
and my soul has no bounds !
God's gift a perfect soul,
let his spirit float down ...
surround me with his love;
whisper words just for me,
till my soul is above !
Categories:
polarity, faith, spiritual,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
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