Short Refining Poems

may refining consciousness layer by layer
be our pristine childlike heart’s, breath by breath prayer...

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May flame of awareness be held in love's sconce ~ 
Let's lighten heart's load by refining response

30-January-2023...

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Spiritual physical
preparedness circumstansual
Intellect unimaginable
Rightousness unequivocal
Ingathering aptitude
Trinity refining me..'...

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For the lack of refining called taste
Is a crack in the lining of waste
If the voice of respect
Is a choice you neglect
Then your back is defining your haste....

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refining soul sensibilities
whilst retaining spontaneity
gravity of wisdom carried lightly
holder of the flame vaporises
transformed as a bliss mist

01-December-2022...

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         From time to time aye
         Heavy glaciers crush us so
         Refining our souls


         
         February 1, 2020
         5am PST
         English Haiku

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A flower blooming so bright
It’s beauty shining
Eating up the golden light,
The warmth refining

Perfection before your face
Hidden from your sight
Beautiful and full of grace
Wrapped in endless night...

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drops of rain pelt down 
sentiments floating downstream
embrace the showers…

saturated and shattered
refinement in process



Contest: Tanka me a dream
By         : Wilma N. Neels

3rd Place...

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Listen to poem:

I know that I know.
I know less now.
I care less.
I miss less.
I want for less.
I'm satisfied with
here and now,
not what might
have been,
not with might 
be yet to become.
What I know
suffices.
I know what I know....

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Stairway to nothing

The refining way

Believed leading to liberation..

The frightening nothing

Ending the way and the

Seeker..revives separation's

Persistence..Leading to 

More refinement..

A persistent story......

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I awoke
Alone 
In a crowded field
Budding potential
Growing amidst
Disillusionment.
Tossed into the air
Stung by the edges
Of chaffs collusion
Separated
From all connection
To whatever was
Set adrift
On what is

©5/3/2023...

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Forgetting what is "right"
In favor of what's sound
Subjectivity is lost 
When objectivity is found

This may prove problematic
For people more dogmatic

So even though society
Does not necessarily agree
That will not stop me
From being me

...

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late Spring
refining
the sun,
zealous to
shine forth.

the flowers
prepping
for garden
party —

red hippy
roses,
marigolds,

soaring
hollyhocks,

Summer sprouts.

5/17/2019
Charliku New Form Poetry Contest
Sponsor - Charles Messina...

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Hanging on the equilibrium of attributes
And getting engaged to the subconscious mind
Builds blocks of self growth to maturity
Into a refining engine where character permanently molds, and
Traits combine to form a complete identity....

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By: Joyce Johnson
       7/24/11

Who
I am,
where I've been,
what I have done
seen or heard, is stored for inspiration.
It takes all of my senses to create,
combining all
refining
into
art.


Written for Michael's contest.  "Where Does Your Poetry come From"...

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separating wheat from the chaff
we laugh at our gaffe
being spirit and not mind-body
sometimes mired in thoughts shoddy
so refining consciousness bit by bit
threefold flame of Christ in heart lit
we delight beholding form transform
swept away in a benign bliss storm...

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I've never seen a silver lining
emerge from a dark cloud

All I've heard was constant whining
turn into rage in voice too loud

Your flaws need adjusting and refining
Stop acting so damned proud

A little polish will have you shining
so you'll stand out in a crowd...

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Something is wrong with the washing machine
It's supposed to save me time
The sound of it chugging and whirring away
Is simply quite divine

I'm not quite sure how it happened
The process need some refining
'Cos when the washer has finished it's job
I'm always left with the Ironing....

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refining thoughts gently
rabid desires recede
revealing inner light
resident in our heart
rekindled by His grace
resurrecting our soul
radiant soft glow white

15-April-2021

Pleiades R poetry contest
Sponsor: Kim Merryman

7 lines @ 6 syllables per line, each starting with R...

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Kindling
Cradle by wind
Morph into flames 
Crescending melody
unites both spirit and soul
Refining

Seasoned                                
Embers simmer 
Tempered cooling
Immutably alive
though silence overshadows
Quiescent
~*~

10/30/12
*For Nette's "View From A Vignette" Contest
Annalise Brigham...

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Caffeine distracts lethargy of wine
as wine attracts simplicity
refining caffeine's dark dualistic depths.

Some substitute weed for wine.

Others mix these all together,
serve over sturdy blocks of ice
refusing to unmelt choices
and hope for Time's most generous best.

Serving more than one....

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F inesse sometimes happens along                    

A nd expresses much more than

L ove in his tenderness of poetry

O ften refining true workmanship 

T hat bespeaks words not easily forgotten  

I nfringing into my thoughts 

C ausing me to ponder each line 

O nly to hear a constant drum beat...

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— Untitled —

Defining, refining, and timing the rhyming
And hours of thought to perfect the fine line-ing

Clerical, lyrical, sometimes, a miracle
To get a line right could feel a bit spiritual 

Hoping, not doping, and a lot oh “oh nope-ing!”
But when you are through, there will be no more moping 

~J.D. Cromwell...

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An epiphany dawned on us today,
refining further our void-centric view,
to anoint love on all forms every day,
that soul’s innate vibrancy may renew,
with love always claiming the right of way,
aura glistening like fresh morning dew.
Love soaked vermilion, in joy we implant 
on all who we meet, to straighten soul’s slant....

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Empty yet vibrant in silence,
bereft of thought borne violence,
presence is as it is complete,
enlivened by bliss mist’s cool heat,
transforming us from head to toe,
by refining wayward ego,
which when thus instrumentalised,
lets God within be realised,
cognised as white light, soft yet bright,
beheld by single eye’s clear sight....

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