Short Affirmed Poems

When questioned about chinese,
I affirmed my expertise.
And so I sought to learn more,
Having known nothing before....

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the absolute truth is affirmed
by hermits, again and again
love alone is real, they say
we rise when fears, are to rest lain...

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a
   minimalistic
      purposeless
        play
in
a
wake-up 
    call

chaos
   affirmed
in 
   the
        absence
of 
   sound*

...

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The scorched edges of all you wanted affirmed.
Are they now permanently scarred forever?
Brittle, kindled fringes familiar
But still strong at the queens glorious heart...

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limited knowing, affirmed with conviction 
there is of course no harm in this per say
wherefrom arises the creative urge of soul
compelling it to act this way, day after day...

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The
first of
July marks
Canada Day,
as we celebrate
the unity of three
former British colonies
to create one single nation.
July first eighteen sixty-seven
Canada affirmed its independence....

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MEMORANDA

complex
visual
riches
evaporate

expectation
unrealised
in
contrasting
symmetry
where
reciprocity
lives
to
concentrate
dominate
&
  process

where
relentlessly
insistently
eccentricity
is
affirmed...

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Truth*…

…Christ's Word, perfect…

…liberating, transforming, upholding…

…awed, amazed, affirmed, apprehended…

Wisdom!

John 1:17 …Grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 

June 5, 2019
 
Modern Cinquain...

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Seasoned daylight ascends
dominion happening 
upon the bends of merriment
for every venue she sojourns
the fruit of her existence
blooms with each slanted petal
as they settle among the squares
cleaved within the terrain
a beauteous quadrant affirmed
????...

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souls of the wayward 
we see sinking in darkness 
as an empath we are moved
recognising needless suffering
we recall the Buddha had affirmed
does not the pendulum move to the left
that it may then later swing toward the right

29-April-2023...

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In the deepest hollow of my soul,
self love waits.
To be discovered, to be affirmed, to be embraced.
I wait for the journey to begin.
Will my consciousness accept,
this love that begs to be released?
I've grown impatient,
I do so want that love,  
to fill my empty heart....

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Some things unsaid by
bamboos quiet in a pose of repose;
there are shivers in the
chords of leaves 
unseen by glances from
eyes unread.
And still,
they close and bow,
things must have been
said from the depth of 
a heart bursting not with words
but of silence understood
and affirmed....

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Has our heart confirmed, that God is
Source of our aliveness
Divine union birthing bliss fizz
Singular consciousness 

God is, love is, the all
Manifest as bliss squall 
Have we harked yet, His call

By sages affirmed
Has our heart confirmed

31-January-2022
Quietus ...

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we have sinned mortally
he affirmed on our 
tortured souls
absinth in my drying throat
forgive us we beg you on
bleeding knuckles and knees
morganatic dreams of submission
heightened voices dramatic gestures
morning trickles into summer 
crying birds of sorrow 
we slithered in
false prayers 
stop this
bloody
rain...

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vernal equinox
pollen’s proliferation
spring’s rebirth affirmed

busy bees buzzing
beautiful birds building nests
winters gloom erased

seeds take root
blossoms bloom-birdsong elates
spring nears its end






Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "Up In Smoke" via wattpad.com...

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There are no last smiles,
only raging fury...
Upon the fracture of finality
lies a commitment
Mine to resist 
for you to insist

This goodbye instated
is mine
By the instance of your 
passionate silence
Affirmed by none
The tensions of our
respective fates...
line up again unchained

This time passes,
each time it does......

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A macrocosm lucid
gem mocks trainees
and their ignorance
-jalousies-American
counseled coequals
...French innovators
to state their belief,
it ridicules directly
it was smoked o'er,
gotten the Italians
amid the scrabble,
parroting its exact 
etymology, whims
'jealousy', being a
firmed translation
missed stated but
affirmed tussle be....

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My black son
He did not belong
Unwelcome
Unannounced and subsequently
Uninvited
To attend his predominately white Honors math class online
Confirmations abounded
With increasing befuddlement
By the substitute teacher
“Are You Sure?”
By a white classmate
Affirmed
Welcomed
Invited
Permitted to remain 
After all
He did belong
My black son...

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Can we stake our life, oh dear soul
On our affirmed belief
Have we renounced each egoic goal
Giving ourself relief

Is void-centric our awareness
Nonchalant to outcomes 
Presence vibrant in blissfulness 
As the song divine hums

Are we yet trapped in lower mind
In bondage to desire
Have we left every fear behind
Free from earthy quagmire 

04-May-2022...

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From each node of form emanates divine bliss,
being of course benediction of God’s grace,
love’s heavenly caress, Divine Mother’s kiss,
rapture sublime, holding us in close embrace.
Our formless soul plunges into the abyss,
wherein of wayward ego remains no trace,
leaving pristine presence alone as the flame,
now affirmed as claim to fame, in life’s end game....

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The charlatans bankrupted
his checking account,
but his love was not overdrawn

Each check that he wrote,
each choice that he made,
trading ingots for righting a wrong

With credit denied
and spirit affirmed,
he continued to endorse what was real

Until bankers and lawyers
destroyed with one stroke,
his wishes—their power to steal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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daily updates
forecast, rehearsed
stifling soul's spontaneity
gravitates yet toward the light
pulsating within our core
as bliss beats renew
divine splendour

truths so affirmed
valid in their own right
yet err when symbolised
unable to cross the river twice
even as the void too shifts
flickering at its whim
inverting polarity

22-November-2022...

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Vibrant palms pulsate with healing power;
current of love in constancy humming,
aligning all in its blissful shower,
magnetic pulsation enlivening;
the divine energy soul uplifting.
The shift within which thus does enable,
affirmed time and again in the gospels,
being simply getting to emptiness,
core magnetised and consciousness stable,
unifying us with the That Oneness.

24-October-2020...

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Humanity bankrupted 
  his checking account,
  but his love was not overdrawn

Each check that he wrote, 
  each choice that he made,
  trading ingots for righting a wrong

With credit denied, 
  and spirit affirmed,
  he continued to endorse what was real

Until bankers and lawyers 
  destroyed with one stroke,
  his wishes—their power to steal

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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God is one indivisible being;
truth affirmed in scriptures time and again
but dark thought clouds prevents us from seeing,
so unless we break free from our mind-chain,
we will hesitate to dance in the rain.
Ego-identity does not exist
but if we think it does and so insist,
like an ostrich, our head sunk in a hole,
fear of freedom causing us to resist,
we’ll reclaim not soul’s light, sages extol....

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