Short Flagship Poems

Flagship Shirley,
Her tea was always curly,
And she ran with Pedicure Pete,
Who sang a little ditty,
And wasn't very pretty,
And painted all the lips upon her feet....

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Our ugly side, anger and greed
Game of one-upmanship
Endless craving beyond our need
Gods love not our flagship

At all costs need to win
Deafened by ego din 
Delusion begets sin

Ego lust ride
Our ugly side

22-August-2021
Quietus...

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Volition steering attention
Our actions of doership
Let currents divine gain traction
Making love our flagship 

In childlike wonderment 
Each breath astonishment 
Imbibe the bliss current

Poor option
Volition

11-November-2021
Quietus ...

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Mind block, a reminder gentle 
We have no ownership
God shapes us, upon the mantle
Let’s make Him our flagship

Foiled doership does nonplus 
We go where God takes us 
Pointless is ego fuss 

Huge shock
Mind block

15-November-2021
Quietus ...

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gently steer oh heart, each emote
that there be no ripple in space
for if thought scars cause soul to bleed
heaven will record our disgrace

where lies then childlike playfulness 
if every action is measured
so let then love be our flagship
that each life moment be treasured...

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There is no distance, save in mind
God is here now, within
Exiting narrow thoughts that bind
Heart beckons, go therein

Exiting our doership 
No more one-upmanship
Love becomes our flagship

If no resistance
There is no distance 

09-January-2022
Quietus ...

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Lagging behind but we’ll make up
Light dispels all darkness
Grace overfloweth from God’s cup
Heart’s drenched in blissfulness 

Exiting all doership
With love as our flagship
Each life breath’s God worship

In ego’s bind
Lagging behind

05-March-2022
Quietus ...

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Would anybody again board a ship
In which he'd shaken hands with hardship
Luckily saved by God we worship
Nearly the sharks joined from a flag ship?
Would one for the sake of kinship
Try the riskier journey of Airship
For a life to whom goes ownership
Or might one forfeit one's clear headship?

For God's sake let's shun every vessel
That makes one with oddest life wrestle....

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Loosen up a bit,
that head and heart fit
in cauldron of love,
working hand in glove.

Immersed in worship, 
with love our flagship,
once our fist’s unclenched,
heart becomes bliss drenched.

We ascend with ease, 
on choosing release,
from patterns of old
glued in ego’s mould.

For God to appear,
relinquish each fear
and gently align
under His love sign.

08-August-2022...

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sunset orange highlights sleepy city landscape barely seen across the bay
city dwellers missing this scene, running this way and that on concrete
sky is aflame with God’s warmest colors, a glimmer of gorgeousness 
flagship sun giving up gracefully, wandering away to light other cities
showing one last streak of reflection across the water, a sweet goodbye
I marvel that I am the recipient of this marvelous glimpse of a memory...

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Rope is not the snake

It’s high time we cease,
praying to appease;
far cry from the truth,
we must seek forsooth.

When love’s our flagship,
no oneupmanship
contortions surface,
knowing all is grace.

Sunlight falls on all, 
as does the bliss squall ~
simply enable,
rather than label.

God in-dwells within,
so let’s go therein,
without any crutch,
knowing Him by touch.

27-May-2022...

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At 60 you hope for another school reunion
of your compatriots'
After all this was your first corporate flagship
(Blazers and satchels) 
Grandparents now, some retired
What is more reticent
is some of our teachers have died
but their legend lives on
such full characters
magnificent in their valour
deserving respect
Yet Facebook the great replacer
of friends reunited
cannot illicit enough responses
for a reunion or reaching out for figurines...

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Be silly, be mad, be crazy, have fun!

Above all, reality, thou must shun!

Ah, yes, the smell of a lone daisy.

The sun rising in the sky..

Don’t ever pen of the black cloud of censorship.

That dances over American skies in a secret flagship.

Write of history and its great sorrows,

But never, never about this days nor tomorrows.

Such freedoms we do have right now!

But we sell our souls to please all one and all.

And some, on on poetic knees do joyfully grovel!...

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