Quester Poems | Examples

Surface living;
Delving with thought
Shallow inclined; no further
A beetle's truth-quester
One inch, mould-wrought!

The infinite
And what, behind
Its night-hung veil, bespangled
For souls of men have wrangled
Light's, dark's winged grind

A mystery
Left. With relief!
Which strain, high, deep prying mind's
But exceeded by those finds;
Mail's o'ercharged grief!

Angelic, Axial, Animalistic, Anonymous 
Balanced, Bullish, Brave, Boorish
Caring, Cynical, Charismatic, Contradicting 
Daring, Doodling, Detached, Deep
Eccentric, Excavator, Engaged, Exorcising 
Fatherly,  Frantic, Fiendish, Faithful
Gamer, Gothic,  Gibberish,  Gentle
Heretic, Hippy, Horizontal, Hermit
Inspirational, Inquisitive, Impulsive, Interpreter
Jolly, Just, Jumper, Jack in the Beanstalk
Kindling, Kudosocial, Kinky, Karate zen
Loving, Lexical, Lavish, Lunar
Mysterious, Motherly, Musical, Mnemonic
Nurturing, Nibbling, Natural, Neanderthal 
Outgoing, Outsider, Onlooker, Orthopaedic 
Pious, Pepperish, Plastered, Porcelain
Quiet, Quixotic, Quester, Quicky
Repairman, Rider, Realistic, Remnant
Sweet, Sour, Single, Stamped
Truthful, Thinker, Tinker, Tumbler 
Undecided, Untitled, Universal, Unknown 
Vertical, Virgin, Vandal, Varsitarian 
Whimsical, Waiter, Worldly, Wordy
Xenophobic, X-men, Xylophonic, X-rated
Yuppy, Yummy, Y era, Yoyo
Zany, Zealous, Zippy, Zapped

A Wisdom Download 

One Sunday morning
When walls in pale hues of sage
Coaxed me into a womb of praise
Hard pews reminded me to listen
Rather than slip back into sleepy malaise
As wisdom tapped me on the shoulder
Then tied a hallowed string around my finger
 Reminder!
  Remember!
  Throw off que sera sera into ditches of blind fate!
Embrace
 This sparkling celestial a-ha
Where wisdom drips like honeyed dewdrops
 From tangled spider webs
In the holy chalice of choice
 Sacred silence births wisdom
From a question now poised and posing
To change the direction of my pilgrim tides –
 A river flowing in not out –
Cross waters for my soul
 Choose the burden of my insatiable ego
	Or
 Amazing grace that soars casting off millstones
WAM or WAY
What About Me?
	Or
What About You?
Inferno of never burning divine fire
 To purify my mindless, untamed intentions
  Into grace of gold for my quester spirit
Me - first
	Or
You - first
What about this divine way!
To walk in sunrise or choose midnight?
What about….

4-11-23
Contest: Wisdom Download
Sponsor: Unseeking Seeker

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