Saturday Surprise
...Poll Parrot belonged to little Addie, and he always lingered by her side.
People admired the well spoken companion, like the dusky skies, dyed.
Poll Parrot could talk a blue streak, and s...
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Categories:
rotated, fantasy, nursery rhyme, pets,
Form: Couplet
ROOTS
...ROOTS
A fallen seed left bare and alone
Whisked away far from home
She lives in the shadows, waiting for the day
When the warmth and light would come her way
She weathers the storms in solitud...
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Categories:
rotated, life, mother daughter, mother
Form: Rhyme
Field of forgiveness
...belied expectations
caused feeling of hurt
inability to let go
made resentment spurt
the earth rotated
and seasons changed
but the ego-mind
remained deranged
reinforced by thought
suffe...
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Categories:
rotated, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Thought of the day
...if gender polarity is rotated ~
who’s that within us who is agitated
know that roots of conditioning go in deep ~
although we are not body-mind, yet we weep...
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Categories:
rotated, gender, introspection,
Form: Couplet
turning point
...spinning on high speed mostly out of control
the washing machine failed to conclude any
of its operation according to a wished for manual
given at birth he had not much choice in the matter
due...
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Categories:
rotated, depression,
Form: Free verse
Kaleidoscope
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A simple toy mother gave me
on my sixth birthday,
the best gift I ever got.
Its gentle turn creating changing color design,
and shifting patterns, mesmerized me,
filled my transfixed chi...
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Categories:
rotated, analogy, childhood, life,
Form: Free verse
Past life regressions
...as is now fashionable
I visited a spiritual medium
it was all to satisfy my curiosity
and relive me from my life’s tedium
entering lucid trance in the vast void
instantly my soul gu...
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Categories:
rotated, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Zen mode
...discarding concepts
we swim in the ocean
of the totality of all that is
ever vibrant
always spontaneous
delighting our childlike heart
with a soothing caress of bliss
we have long since ceas...
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Categories:
rotated, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Who am I
...mind that thinks
heart that feels
senses five
reflect
thoughts vary
emotions differ
senses too can ebb
yet
we are alive
in the waking state
but what of dreamless sleep
where are ...
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Categories:
rotated, i am, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse
rooftop
...Lisa and I had a party to hit-up. I can’t stay inside all the time, not on a Friday night anyway and a rooftop is the perfect place to mull over big questions and get the freshest commentary about cu...
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Categories:
rotated, night, school, student,
Form: Free verse
A Good Morning For a Good Morning
...In the twilight of the morning I stopped and took a break
to watch the night pull back her blanket and say to the morning,
“It’s time to wake.”
This all began in total darkness…save a few stars ...
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Categories:
rotated, morning,
Form: Rhyme
Benign Bliss Burn
...As witness consciousness, we hush heart’s blush
Thoughts rested, attention animated
In time stretched calm, placid, peaceful and plush
From mundane existence, insulated
With cravings of lower min...
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Categories:
rotated, joy, spiritual,
Form: Ballade
Seattle Streets
...The traffic light
delayed us both
Me driving my car
She driving her cart.
The traffic direction changed, rotated,
making black eyes spark annoyed
as her walk signal failed to appear,
shr...
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Categories:
rotated, age, old,
Form: Free verse
Assimilating Boons of Grace
...Bliss imbibed but not assimilated,
cajoles us to enter silence tranquil,
that whence polarities are rotated,
ego recedes on surrendering will
and we see light of Self, when we are still.
The see...
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Categories:
rotated, god, joy, spiritual,
Form: Dizain
Believe This Or That Or Not
...So God created to say let there be and it was so or were so now again spoken again words he took one of man ribs from the body man while he slept So God created man in his own image, in the image of...
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Categories:
rotated, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Narrative
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