Retrace Poems

Premium MemberZen mode

...invocations
not as desires
but as pulsations
heart silently aspires
echo as reverberations 
manifesting as spirit’s fires

surfing the very edge of space 
where linear time slows down
intent...
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Categories: retrace, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberA Letter to America

...A letter to America 
America we have been your friend
Forever now it seems
Through adversity and good times
Shared interwoven dreams

You had our back in darkest days
And likewise we’ve had yo...
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Categories: retrace, america, best friend, courage,
Form: Rhyme


Lone Wolves in The Fog

...Lone Wolves in The Fog 

Memories like lone wolves in the fog interlope my conscious mind
Pedigrees that are hierarchical that seem too cruel and unkind
Energies that are patriarchal that permeat...
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Categories: retrace, life,
Form: Rhyme

Beneath the Iron Veil

...Echoes of the holy grace, for this place,
Endless woe of devolution,
Forever entice, your grace,
The moon is your solution. 

Confined in this space, of endless grace,
Under the moonlight, it i...
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Categories: retrace, dark, gothic, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSense perception

...immediate and intimate 
is rapture felt when nodes gyrate
borne by currents of our senses
truth as felt, mind cannot truncate

why live out life in past tenses
when each moment breath commences...
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Categories: retrace, joy, senses, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat


Roots Without Soil

...I.

I fold my mother's silver spoon—crescent bright,
worn soft as secrets whispered through the night.
Her thumb's warm press, a tender, sacred trace,
curves like a prayer held close in time and...
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Categories: retrace, political, prison,
Form: Masnavi

Premium MemberThe Gate Sprung, Shut

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I turned to look back, feeling anxious as I stood
"by the squeaky old gate that tomorrow will find."
Was there someone there watching me?
The gate creaked shut, echoing the taint of guilt
That ...
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Categories: retrace, cry, grief, sound,
Form: Free verse

Fall Apart

...I lay under a tree,
With no voice yet glistening with glee,
And then I see you come along,
And I don't know what to feel,
Your voice is so pungent,
That it always feels wrong,
Even when singing...
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Categories: retrace, analogy, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberZen mode

...piercing the veil of space 
our steps we retrace
back to the source
without use of force
immanent yet transcendent 
head to toe bliss resplendent...
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Categories: retrace, space, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberIn the bardo

...Resting in our natural state,
as both feeble form and vast space,
mood and mode, release and embrace,
we watch thought forms rise and abate,
soon doomed to die, for that’s their fate,
doing noth...
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Categories: retrace, peace, self, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet

Premium Member Infinite Spirit Of Light

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Like echo attenuation the song plays on...
The flesh shall wither, but, the spirit shall live on..
A vessel burning bright soaring free in flight
To dwell in the Holy kingdom of ...
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Categories: retrace, desire, devotion, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYou Are My Love

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I trace the contours of your beautiful face
In stillness, I dream of each memory saved
As I lie by your side renewing my mind
I open a door to beauty and love

Lost in a dream in...
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Categories: retrace, beauty, desire, devotion, innocence,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberwalk the talk

...Recognising this form is dust,
an urn shaped from Mother Earth’s crust,
enlivened by the touch of God,
we feel each heartbeat as love’s thrust.

To get to the source, heart is thawed,
that thus...
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Categories: retrace, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium MemberA notch higher

...Above the crown chakra we sense,
a moist cauldron oozing with bliss
and as we breathe in love’s incense,
we’re bestowed Divine Mother’s kiss.

Though beyond boundary of skin,
as we are therein ...
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Categories: retrace, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet

Premium MemberRecognition

...Recognising we are in truth living light,
in a domain transcending both time and space,
feeling complete we enjoy unbound delight,
yet to grow in love, steps toward earth retrace,
where once our ...
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Categories: retrace, light, love, self, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima

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