Who am I“One being freed from the grip of Ahamkara attains his unmanifest state like the spotless moon becoming full after eclipse.” ~ quote from the Adhyatma Upanishad
thoughts seem to arise without volition
but mindful eye traces heart as the source
wherefrom vibrations emoted in morse
seek from mind as symbols, their rendition
desires of heart cause intent’s emission
but is...
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Categories:
self, spiritual,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Spiritual Gem Inside Me“The magic of a gem lies not in its beauty, but in the spark it brings to the eye.” Unknown
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Categories:
appreciation, life, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
God demystifiedHeart is the Self
The Self is truth
Truth is Self is living light
God’s light lights all lights
God is the absolute Self...
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Categories:
self, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Devoid Of Fear
I feel safe and whole here
Devoid of fear
Alone listening to the rain
Devoid of worry or pain
Cocooned by green paddocks and trees
Devoid of thoughts of death or disease
No humans for miles around
Devoid of white noise sound
Completely at one with mother nature
Devoid of chaos, destruction, haters
I feel happy here as my soul is at rest
Devoid of negativity...
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Categories:
life, nature, peace, self,
Form: Rhyme
The sourceGod, the Absolute is unknown to mind,
yet since He alone is, the all there is,
in staid silence, leaving concepts behind,
feel the joy in our heart, as His bliss fizz.
God is the all, so He must be within,
so with thoughts rested, let’s shift to the heart,
prayerfully merging, melding therein,
led by love, sensing bliss ignition start.
We see...
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Categories:
self, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Without Regrets What Have I LeftThe end of days is a term
Dark enough
To make men squirm
And real enough
In a way
To make one consider
His final day…
Without regrets…who’s to say
And doing so I must look back
On what I wrought
And what I wrecked
What I built
And what I broke
What I gave
And what I took
Then the book that tallies sums
Finds me wanting
And then some
For...
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Categories:
self, death, humanity, life, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Her journey to self loveShe sat in front of her vanity mirror
Her reflection felt unfamiliar
The girl in it didn't look how she pictured
She felt like a visitor
In a body that should be familiar
Yet somehow she felt like a prisoner
Not knowing how to feel about the person in the mirror who reflected her
She wasn't...
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Categories:
self, appreciation, beautiful, beauty, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Trained Professional After 63 years of smiling
You might say I’m a professional
I don’t know when I smiled for the first time
After all I was a baby for a while
My parents didn’t take many photos of me
I was the second child
so I guess the novelty had worn off.
Sometimes a full toothed grin
Followed by uncontrollable laughter
Isn’t...
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Categories:
self, abuse, angst, betrayal, identity,
Form: Narrative
Point Blank Range
No distance left between my soul
and what I ran from all my years—
a voice that thundered soft and whole,
yet pierced me deeper than my fears.
Not wrath, but mercy took its aim,
not fire, but light unmasked my shame;
no bullet came, and yet I fell—
undone before the silent flame.
The mirror shattered into grace,
each shard reflecting who I...
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Categories:
self,
Form: Rhyme
Musings on dreams“Self observes waking, dreaming and deep sleep ~
In stillness taking a consciousness leap”
~ quote by poet
Relying on instincts in the dream state,
there remains neither logic nor free will,
as we accept therein, our ordained fate,
with no knowledge of our inherent skill.
Perhaps the waking state...
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Categories:
dream, self, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Zen modestupor the reason why we sink
trance signals bondage to ego
liberated souls do not blink
since truth of Self they clearly know
that we’re living light we have seen
but heart lotus is yet to bloom
through the mists we see our soul’s sheen
rapture within then starts to zoom...
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Categories:
heart, self, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Deluded wants?Deluded wants?, by Daisy kabiu
Was it stupid to want something you never had?
Something that can't be touched.
Possessing it was impossible.
Finding it in all its glory
Raw, unfiltered, and all-consuming, impossible.
Something that can only be given.
Sweet and soft.
Shared, but not owned.
You crave it, thirst for it.
But
Do you really want it?
You see what it does to...
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Categories:
self, appreciation, courage, deep, love,
Form: Free verse
Upon enlightenmentTempests of fear and desire tamed ~
Ego dropped, light of Self is claimed...
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Categories:
desire, fear, self, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Undifferentiated perceptionWhen space and time vanish, what then remains,
save the light of awareness self-aware
and in that pristine state, there are no chains,
for we shine as Self, delusion stripped bare,
with no agenda we wish to declare.
As one without a second, we’re the all,
pulsating with delight, in a bliss squall....
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Categories:
self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
LorettaShe might have painted the sea—
or a golden field of wheat
beneath a hazy summer sky—
but he took her brushes,
left the bristles splayed,
the paints dried out,
and the turpentine cloudy.
And though she said nothing,
her easel disappeared one day
like a wispy cloud no one missed.
After that,
she painted nothing but dinner.
They had imagined themselves
sharing a studio but
he needed all...
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Categories:
self, art, devotion, family, father,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Self Poems
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