Short Distilling Poems

distilling the hidden essence -
our yesterday’s 
buried in today...

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navigating life
distilling each thought with love ~
let the dream unfold 

13-April-2022...

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serendipity makes man
all the more richer
fine wine distilling and champagne
cultivated 
curiously imbibing fortune
robes the wino...

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Satin sheen with flawless seams
Tawny curves, each silken fold careens
Ambient light emitting pallid streams
Radiant magnetic field distilling dreams...

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Distilling the
Broken words
Against the
Empty wind
Laughing at
The back of
Your whiskey smile or
When you
bruise this
Heart again
For the very
Last time...

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heart bestows power
for thoughts to exist
then ego causes
fear spirals to persist

distilling each impulse
in the cauldron of love
we invoke God’s grace
that in-pours from above...

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Tin cup of criticism
hollow and blue
Empty aspersions
poison the brew

Its venom unasked for
distilling in pain
Opinion left rancid
—acidic and vain

(The New Room: November, 2021)...

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Distilling attention
A journey
Of entity sedentary 
In meditation 

Stillness orientation 

Something remains
Unresolved
Undissolved
That form contains

Pleasure & pain

16-August-2020...

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Something so inexpressible,the challenge of everyday,sparks a chord so vivid from an uncontrolled inner drive.This message beyond  memory,the unstated void distilling the hidden essence of our yesterday’s buried in today...

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so
 inexpressible
so
 vivid 
 the uncontrolled
inner drive

this
    message 
beyond
   memory
the unstated 
void
   distilling 
the hidden 
essence of
our yesterday’s
 exhumed 
&
in today
       displayed
...

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The debt soars through the ceiling
Future generations we are billing

The politicians are not dealing
With ire there constituents distilling

The stock market is reeling
The financiers are peeling

Credit bureaus are squealing
Our good credit rating milling...

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Once chance did happen-by my dwelling
Found within it some thoughts distilling
Sat a spell
Listened well
Savoring a few it found compelling

Chance seems never to stay around long
It’s always been a mere tag-a-long
Ideas smitten
Went unwritten
More petals in the winds of poets’ song




 Written by: Debra Squyres
 01-23-13...

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EXPRESSIONIST EKPHRASIS
Something so inexpressible,the 
challenge of everyday,sparks a 
chord so vivid from an uncontrolled
inner drive.This message beyond 
memory,the unstated void
distilling the hidden essence of 
our yesterday’s buried in today

Listen to me read this ekphrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro...

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the ink sealed a people's fate,

   their land is doomed, it's too late,

      for the power-crazed minds decree:

         hail, land of the brave, home of the free;



boardrooms shake with banter,

   with insolent, venomous laughter,

      distilling all ruthlessness and rage,

         all the curses, blasphemies of this age!...

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The pensiveness of the sky
is broken by the cry of a crow,
by trees distilling intimacy
and moist, vibrant expectancy.
Violets, ferns, and birches
share life-giving vapors.
The chalk-bleak horizon
and pungent, poignant odors
whisper sonorous secrets.
The visitor is enveloped
in this pithy, soulful world,
all cells saturated
with a suggestive sustenance....

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Balancing external and internal
by awakening inner sentience,
the time continuum, Gods miracle,
as we amble along in nonchalance,
love suffused, dancing in exuberance,
recognising we are not mind-body,
nor a this or that, labelled somebody,
distilling attention, we vaporise,
distancing ourself from ego shoddy,
purity of heart, does God realise.

15-June-2021...

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My secret heart knows
How much a deeper love grows


My wholesome soul feels
A mellow fragrance that thrills


My true being sees
How love ushers joy set free


My days of grace here
Find devotion to you dear


My sensorial feelings
Find voice in your embracing


My entire becoming
Quivers at love distilling




Leon Enriquez
08 February 2019
Singapore...

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words 
seeking
distilling  life 
into lines
I'm here
I'm gone
I sure a/f
am
more 
than moments
and memories
flesh 
and blood 
I made 
flesh 
and blood
made me
the dent
that dents 
forever
your cat
your dog
the fly 
molesting you
until
the big wheel
turns 
it won't be
a house in the Keys  
with
six toed cats
but 
music
and poetry
lots of
poetry



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Like wine in storage,
The cellar of my perception ages
Buried deep in its recesses
The past and future abandoned 
  —time no longer the vintner

Fermenting in the immediacy
Of the chosen instant
And distilling in the perfection 
Of the perpetual present
  —the moment reopens
 
       Bringing with it everything
          —and nothing at all

(Garrett Hill Pennsylvania: January, 2014)...

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Nestled in the great void of no-thingness,
play underway, distilling impressions,
rhythmic dance, unifying consciousness,
vibrant in love energised cessation;
flow of life itself, our meditation.
Vaporised self, melding in the current,
to each nuance therein is sentient,
feeling blossoming, petal by petal,
nodes within coming into alignment,
as benediction of Gods miracles.

21-March-2021...

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Birth
to death,
feeling life
flowing within,
all we need to do,
is to align with love,
our awareness unbroken,
without sinking into stupor,
at any time of the day or night.

Our journey begins with mindfulness,
cognisant if each subtle pulse,
distilling our attention,
to in-pour love divine,
distanced from ego
resting desires
mirrored by
shallow
fears.

11-July-2021...

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On rain drenched mornings
words may feel too heavy
to absorb dense Truth,

May smell too bleached
to taste thin Beauty,

May sound too restrictive
to recreate revolutionary visions.

Yet, absence of words
may sound too drenched
in universal drizzle
to comfort,
to circulate lively blood
for warm interior climate cleansing

Rain water
distilling
tomorrow's more fertile
silent soil
silk skinned soul....

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detecting a subtle sense of urgency arise
we pause the upsurge, going to the source
being but the eternal aliveness of our soul
as yet playfully exploring its creative impulse
which seemingly for no reason bubbles forth
so we do nothing save distilling the life flow
in the cauldron of bliss ever humming within
neither seeking nor resisting ~ just renewing
moments conjoined in the continuum of time

24-November-2022...

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Bliss enlivened stillness, poised in the void,
holds still love animated attention,
with innate vibrancy, thus overjoyed,
cognisant of enlivened elation,
feeling and distilling each vibration,
infusing therein souls lucid intent,
to imbibe and amplify the current,
becoming thus, a beacon of pure light,
with universe conspiring in consent,
teleporting presence to zenith height.

14-September-2021...

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our vibrant presence dwells in peace 
perched atop a dreamy moonbeam
distilling lustre of the sun
that musings from pure heart may stream

before sliding into deep sleep
we choose a role in dreams we shape
contouring our soul’s creation
with the fragrance of love agape

there is no doing that we do
for as we mirror God’s heartbeat
rapture rises, each bliss hue new
in time stretched calm, we feel complete

Image prompt 1...

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