Short Bardo Poems

surfing the bardo our presence in so being becomes the bliss flame...

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Through all of this noise
You came looking for me, and
Here we meet at last.

(2/25/24)
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flickering awareness
an in-between stage
with knowing imbibed
but not yet assimilated

we call it the bardo

26-March-2023...

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skiing along the bardo that blurs boundaries
between spontaneity and free will
as choiceless choice dances
who remains the witness
save I Am presence
which I Am...

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the light that enables
light of our senses 
and lower mind
throbs in stillness 

resting thought
animating attention 
we meld with the silence
in the vibrant bardo...

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healing proffered 
to unwilling receptors
pauses in the bardo

love employs no force
and so it waits
for eternity if needed

time yields to love

27-December-2022...

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buildup of tension illusionary 
is but a wave in the ocean
surfing the bardo we see
there’s nothing to be done
save embracing and releasing 
each impulse play of life so offer...

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chin holds erect energies
in the head ovoid
with steadfast resolve
what would we do without it

heart, third eye and crown
waste no time to score 
as soul presence looks on
vibrant in the bardo...

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thought pendulum sways
pulse of duality flows
hypnotising us
by its charm

awareness
now stuporous
slumbers in the bardo
celebrating its uniqueness 

10-December-2022...

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Buddha numerics
Time between death and rebirth
cosmic waiting room















(bardo- intermediate space of time between 
death and rebirth. Symbolically, 7 to
49 days in Buddhist time.)...

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trinity within is at play
in endless renewal
breath creation
preservation
annihilation 

void of cessation
at polarity rotation
bardo of emptiness 
balances all opposites
in the enigmatic noumena ...

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Moments before lower mind drifts into sleep, 
awareness self-aware, in the vast bardo,
sans identity, as pristine soul presence,
woos the universe to infuse magnetism
within our childlike heart, yearning for God’s touch....

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heated palms, magnetised feet
a gentle breeze arises within
polarities meet and greet
causing bliss ignition to begin

vibrant presence centred in the void 
surfs the bardo of the manifest 
pristinity of luminous Self unalloyed
treads mindfully like a gracious guest...

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She was very young when she was shot by Robert John Bardo.
She starred in 'One Life To Live' and 'My Sister Sam' over 30 years ago.
Bardo had stalked Rebecca for three years and tragically ended her life with a gun.
Fans were forced to say goodbye to this great actress who died at the age of 21....

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sexy couple shooting pool
what was that covetousness rule?
when am i going to get over this?
in the back of my mind, memories of bliss
keep me looking, well attached
until this longing body is dispatched
to the dustheap, while this mind
propelled into bardo, still looking behind
at all the ties that bind......

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I take two long seconds
to watch my breath rattle
the snow

brittle and sweet. I don't want
to leave and I am so scared
of losing. the kettle sings

and we turn the pages.
even in despair, you burn
and I can't imagine you ever

dying. we laugh through the
cold, blood pounding steps.
god, please let me keep this....

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centred presence
dissolves identity 
that that remains
sans any residue
awareness pristine
celebrates aliveness 
renews bliss pulse
in joyous innocence 
moment to moment
by hold and release
just like the breath
rotating polarities 
without resistance 
flowing unfettered
divine entwined 
in the bardo of love

28-January-2023...

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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 ceased
calibrating spiritual progress
since polarities rotated
we now are the void
pervading feeble form
and as both waves and the shore
we enjoy surfing the bardo...

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vast, boundless space opens a secret door
we enter the bardo, getting to its very core
identity drops away, all that is, is living light
renewing itself within itself, throb of bliss delight 
time too holds its breath, we can ask for no more

31-March-2023
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Bite Size Contest no.61 Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Line Gauthier ...

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Before moistened grief crystallised in eyes dries,
humming aliveness of our heart exhumes pain
and positioned thus in the bardo, we rise,
as pristine soul presence, free from ego’s chain
invokes bliss magnetism to gently baptise,
wholeness of being in Holy Spirit’s rain,
moment by moment thus, all moments entwined,
dwelling in love and light, each breath reassigned....

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I look toward the sacred symbol
Displaying my ignorance 
For where is God not

Stuporous awareness
Oblivious to warning signs
Is now consumed by fears created

Yet within each half breath cessation
When polarities interchange
We are in the bardo

I notice this lifeline 
Provided by the universe
And meld my consciousness therein

02-June-2023...

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Stirred from sleep, early this morn,
ego shorn, refreshed, reborn,
feeling within bliss humming,
as notes of rapture strumming.

I was then, the light of Self,
with no desire on the shelf,
for mind was as yet asleep,
which is how I went in deep.

Bliss froze time, that soul may climb
toward heaven like this rhyme,
frolicking about carefree,
unshackled from my mind tree....

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Acknowledging our aliveness as we stand,
that’s hemmed in by lower mind and senses five,
who we truly are, we wish to understand,
so resting thought flow, into the void we dive,
poised in stillness in an unknown bardo land,
whereupon we feel in-form nodes come alive
and we see what soul is by spherical sight,
being what else oh hermit but living light!

22-May-2023...

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Raindrops in mid flight
frolic in delight,
for in the bardo,
fears they have let go.

Aboard God's bliss bus
raindrops in dance thus,
acting as love props,
shapes in sky sun drops.

Under oneness sign
elements entwine,
kiss and say goodbyes
even as love sighs.

Life pulse continues 
in myriad hues,
displaying delight,
like raindrops in flight.

22-November-2022...

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He died and found himself in the bardo
A buffet was spread out with food and drink
A sagacious elder was distribution the coupons
But when approached he greeted him with a wink

You may drink if you have quenched a fellow souls thirst 
You may eat to the extent of the hungry you have fed
But the akashic records show you’ve done neither
And have not lived a life by love and light led...

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