Samskara, jailer of my heart’s deepest passions
Enervating me and drowning my soul’s rapture
Karma’s imprint become love’s stealthy assassin
Lurking fiend of black depths evading capture
From my abyssal plain, a seismic accident
Atlantis resurfaces in nightmarish form
Decayed temple’s coral seaweed entanglement
Wretched thing’s agonized tentacles writhe and squirm
Fetid beast melts under gold sun’s dazzling rays
No longer, my heart ruled by this foul parasite
Spirit’s exultant victory over decay
Opened heart bounding, radiant love glowing bright
Seascape reborn, emerald flora unwinding
Into a bright mandala, my soul unbinding
6/6/16
© Thomas W. Quigley
12 syllables/line, Shakespearean Rhyme
Alternate first quatrain:
Samskara, heart fabric’s twisted bedevilment
Karmic burden, this partial soul paralysis
Kismet’s onerous imprint, my dark resident
Lurking fiend of black depths evades analysis
If you’ve a mind, let me know which you like better!
Divine love was never broken…
Misplaced temporarily from treasuring tokens…
Emancipation unfolds when wisdom is spoken…
Mount Sinai is churning…
The fire of expansion is burning…
The bush of conscious life experience is glowing…
Christ Consciousness the human knowing…
Here is my core essence...
Dancing is the presence…
Tapping together my red ruby slippers…
Sending alchemy prayers within gracious giving whispers…
I am just as the deer; wandering wondering foraging…
Memories of my past hence forth get behind thee…
I am my master; using alchemy protecting my energy...
Love from the heavens sets this being amongst the fluid flow...
Here is my growing...
See it unfolding…
This is my ending wrapped into my beginning…
Yin and Yang player upon the stage Samsara…
Cleansing and releasing past Samskara…
Upgraded; this one is a hybrid of previous understandings…
Seeing for infinity; living for eternity…
Creatively writing my story; I am the hologram of life, playing…
Be here with me…
By being here within you…
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