A Religion based on love,
Is following a book full of,
Slavery, murder, fear and hate.
Centuries full of debate,
Continuing to be mistranslated,
Sects continue to separate,
Congregating in their own group.
A soup of different mandates,
Hinder self navigating,
Dictating the way to be.
It's never too late to see,
The one you create for free,
Love is the one true way.
Activate your intention,
Self educate your ascension,
Concentration is the key.
Elevate all you see,
Emanate awesome energy,
Help every one you see,
That needs something you can be.
Spread seeds of positivity,
Pluck weeds of depravity,
The gravity of a loving deed,
Could suffocate the greed.
No creed would have agreed,
It would leave them obsolete,
Discretely keeping you at their feet,
Eating from what they speak of.
Rise above all religions,
With a vision based on love.
I see a problem with religion,
It's like a competition,
You can't just slip in.
They want you to fit in.
To help heal your sin.
"You can stay, on One Condition."
Tything an imposition,
Sects creating division,
Trying to see who will win.
What if GOD has a different mission?
Just listen to your intuition,
Not their newest edition,
Or blindly follow tradition.
Have the ambition,
Become a new addition,
A true Magician.
An end to all suspicion.
Put fear in remission.
God's the physician,
In the perfect position,
To bring dreams to fruition.
Come join the Coalition,
Life is the auditon,
Your the Musician.
Love is the ammunition,
To defeat opposition.
This is Your rendition,
You give it definition,
And GOD gets the recognition.
The one and only condition.
rogue nation
modern slavery
vicious circle
coldwar
caste divisions up in arm,occupy regime
is it religious sects regaining regime?
is it erstwhile princely estate regaining regime?
is it foreign hand shaking regime?
the thin chicken neck chopped
india is now black hole india
inside amoeba like shapeless india
outside shapeless india
Bears
A baby cute dear effectively fabulous gorgeous hilariously
Idiot
Jello kajoling
Lemon maniquin naughty
Opposed passionately quickly racist sects
Time use vision wastes xerox your zephyrs
Bears
A baby cute dear effectively fabulous gorgeous hilariously
Idiot
Jello kajoling
Lemon maniquin naughty
Opposed passionately quickly racist sects
Time use vision wastes xerox your zephyrs
Languages, currencies, religions and flags
Capitals, origins and sorts of tags
Seas, rivers, landmarks and sites of history
Symbols, letters, colors of memory
Pictures of every nation as family
Orders and sects of homily
Cultures and traditions of pride and simplicity
Nurtures and inspires longer than mortality
Your world is not round but flat
Sleeping with peace and honor on the mat
Shapes and sizes of countries so fascinating
Your world on a map, your life in a story not stat
-- stirring and oscillating
Looking out for the wicked,
I found no one so crooked,
When probed my deep within,
Me, that meanest of mean!
____________________________
Bura jo dekhan main chala, bura na milya koye,
Jo munh khoja apna, to mujhse bura na koye.
We always look far and wide for evil leaving out ourselves as innocent. But if we were to put a mirror in front of us we would soon find the truth that we are no less evil. Alas we won’t see what we wish not to see.
Poet’s Note:
Kabeer was a revolutionary poet saint. He wrote some 800 couplets called dohe in his mother tongue prevailing then. They dealt with many aspects of life that he observed during his lifetime, and whereby he challenged the prevailing practices of religions, sects, castes, and human behaviour. His couplets reflect true vision of spirituality (rather than religion). Even after centuries, his couplets are read by the seekers from across the globe. Here is a poetic translation of some selected couplets. The couplet number seen here is the serial number from a compilation of some 550 of them translated by me.
First conservative People who do not tolerate criticism against religion.
Second liberal People who support the freedom of expression.
Third hypocrite People who can't tolerate criticism against them but criticize
and mock others.
Mothers, fathers, and their children,
seldom share the exact same beliefs
No matter what their religion might be,
proving a child's relationship with their god
is no different than with a parent, odd
A youth’s peace of mind, his longing
for his place, a sense of belonging
The road is long, painful, and circuitous
A troubled childhood, school bullies, plague us
Dubious religious sects, false, he is their prey
Unscrupulous mental health professionals,
make the journey seem futile and tear him apart
Finding wisdom, purpose, and sense of belonging
are finally attained from lessons learned and taken to heart.
HEAD TO HEAD
tête-à-tête, Rita and I
two heads are better than one
in praise’n prayer
melodic lips of kin
our moms in heaven
lift
their lullaby assist
our hopes in cradled arms
we worship in different sects
but today we’re linked—
part of the extended army
no chinks in God’s armor
my people pray
carry me on my way
no demonic-dinosaur
no rattling dragon
nor human-pittance
comes in our way
they’d be destroyed
with just one thought
of hate
we love—
one heart, one Lord,
our neighbors
our differences deposited at the door
we share a smile
our gospel feet
smell rather sweet
2/10/2022
As a lovely lotus, holding her head high, dooms to fade…
So is the fate of which damn degradation does invade!
When the angel of democracy murdered and muted,
Could politics provide people protection well suited?
When disruption of home and strife for living grow thriving,
Doesn't, like corroding steel, society go riving?
When caste, color, creed, and sects, like Rock walls, true growth obstruct,
Could we, midst so solid strife, succeed culture to construct?
Aren't riches, fading flowers, if fail to face poverty?
Could when hunger sky-scrapes, humans dream of joys plenty?
Who can save religions from fermenting fatality,
When, they shift from soul-strengthening spirituality?
When the air, water, soil, hills, vales... get wholly polluted,
Could the environment escape getting foully afflicted?
When inner harmony, easily, by changes challenged,
Could capture of pride by shame be so easily balanced?
Every sphere needs to move in so sequential symphony,
If not, could all live in life-casting cosmic harmony?
03 October 2021
This or That, Vol 7 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
The two major forms of Judaism in Jesus' day were Pharisees and Sadducees.
All of heaven and The Lord knew priorly that many of them would not believe.
Pharisees believed in angels, like those appearing to shepherds one dark eve.
Both sects had problems especially along the lines of 'JOY' and 'LOVE'.
They had no experience with The Holy Spirit descending like a dove.
Mortals could live a HOLY LIFE on earth without any HOPE from above?
Christ arrived with GRACE and an invitation for any who would, to have FAITH.
Jesus spoke with authority, not with arguments, discussions, or a Great debate.
Essentially, Jesus said to thief on the cross, come with me now; it's not too late.
070121PSCtest, Jesus, Regina McIntosh
7-word requirement, Capitalized
Last word rhymes in each 3-lined stanza
LIGHT UP AUSTRALIA
Born with beauty and natures grace,
gifted with treasures and pleasures.
A blessed paradise for dreamtime eyes.
Such is a land so grand,
once a kingdom of Godly freedom.
Then darkening, sprayed shadowing clouds crept,
blanketing the bright blue skies with natures death,
over evil webs and nests protected by lies.
Poisonous, sickening spiders began to spread,
syphoning, seizing, strangling with suffering this land's spirituality.
Tyrannical tactics, masking madness, and soul seduction,
corruptly creating secret society sediments called governments.
Such is a spellbound stench of their activity,
paedophilia, national robbery, and dis-illusions,
Demolay Free Masonry, and satanic sects.
Australia's humanity surviving in controlled insanity,
a curse that grows deadly darker and worse.
Problem, reaction, solution is the New World game name.
C'mon, Aussies, C'mon,
No more secret sects nor Masonry mania,
time to fight and shine the light Australia
If you care please share
sassy smirk scrunched
spanking salient sucks
smog smithereen scorched
sorting saucy sauce
savvy strengths spent
savaging sumptuous sects
dark dribbles drooled
damping dainty doom
dense dug douche
moaning mist melted
meager mends masticated
merging mushy murky
felon fate features
feigning fabulous fractures.
'20:03:31:18:29
Note: Dedicated to poets all over the world.
On this road of life
When being glow in thought.
Deep.
Breath in breath
That all is gone without fault.
Deep.
Deeper is life that we all go down the hell
In ignorance of the war against us.
Despite our activist in religious sects.
That we in most essence
Stand prey of the end time priests.
Not even of special life
As we merry also
In this way our leaders are grooming us.
Hate speech and freedom of speech.
Are the Goliaths dominant in our nation.
Deep.
Deeper do we go in all things
Even when tables are shaken
To unveiled the hidden in all holiness.
Oh saviour!
Help us out lest we go down the deep innocently.
© olorode olorunleke.
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