Short Sabi Poems

- poem taken for other purpose-...

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tattered barn along expressway
bearing another storm
lives in shadows of its time...

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When heart shrieks with joy or with pain ~
Life inks a wabi-sabi stain

14-October-2022...

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"Mono No Aware"

Datsuzoku
Mono no aware
Wabi-Sabi

Yuugen Yuugen Yuugen
Seijaku

(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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~words reflect ripples
~across a pond of dreaming
~syllables falter

 ~ ukiyo wabi-sabi
~ a thought feather floating down
~ haiku writes itself...

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desire begets pain
birthing again and again
wabi sabi stain

bliss in permanence 
upon desire transcendence
face of innocence 

10-November-2020...

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our body signals
flickers of life’s flow
mindfully feel the waves 
that leave wabi-sabi stains
as we are thus uniquely shaped
in the womb of the universe
entwined with existence 
adding to it a flavour
accentuating love

14-January-2023...

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I
create,
contemplate
in my lonely
mood,
there
I find
atmosphere,
feeling,colour
tone
but
never
pleasure of
being on my
own


Note:Sabi -Early Japanese words that alludes to the solitary contemplative condition in which poetry is written...

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I
create,
contemplate
in my lonely
mood,
there
I find
atmosphere,
feeling,colour
tone
but
never
pleasure of
being on my
own


Note:Sabi -Early Japanese words that alludes to the solitary contemplative condition in which
poetry is written...

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I
contemplate
in my lonely
mood
there
to find atmosphere
feeling colour
&tone
fills the mind with
       imagined scenes

        fills the empty heart
   where  loneliness 
..lives apart

when the clock ticks slow
   restlessness
 ebbs to 
    then fro...

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ETHEREALITY

I
contemplate
&
there
  find
    an  atmosphere

 colour
&
    emotion
fill my mind 
with
       imagined scenes
&
thereby
        the empty heart

   where  loneliness 
once lived 
  apart

arrested
  moments
    fly
   free
     once more...

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Wabi-sabi stain beautiful 
Scars our soul did endure
Mind-body vessel, with love full
We shine! Our heart is pure

We fall, to rise erect
Bliss suffused stance perfect
Deeds, as God does direct

Let’s transmute erst pain
Wabi-sabi stain

10-October-2021
Quietus ...

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we opted for a want
to create a slight slant
in as an imbalance
although with nonchalance
that energies kinetic
pulse of love aesthetic
induces polarities to converge
manifesting a bliss surge

within

desires to rest lain
our wabi-sabi stain
shaped in line of duty
enhances our soul’s beauty...

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Nothing can dim the light that shines from within. ~Maya Angelou

You are perfect 
in all of your imperfections.

What imperfections? 
I ask.

Exactly!
He responds.

it was not true love
the only true love is God
and Christ on the cross
bearing the imperfections
so light can shine out from me
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Wabi-Sabi stain

Wabi-Sabi stain, our soul wears
We review in wonder
We are healed when love with love pairs
Birthing soundless thunder

We feel magnetic heat
Benign burn, head to feet
In sync with God’s bliss beat

Heart’s now free from pain
Wabi-Sabi stain

23-July-2022
Quietus ...

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Minichu On Inspiration

I center on beauty 
the arts and aesthetic pleasure inspire me
destiny
                                             
stunning landscapes
sunset scenes, the Joshua tree!
moonscapes

thank Sen
wabi-sabi                                            
Zen

I center on beauty
sunset scenes, the Joshua tree!
Zen

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that that is held dear
believed as eternal
blown away in a flash
causing anguish
yet dispelling delusion

how fragile is life
and relationships
we are truly hypnotised
attempting to hold onto
wisps of smoke

after the hug and makeup
with all well again
we see a sabi sabi stain
as a reminder of destruction
and by grace resurrection

although in some cases
there is no sequel...

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Kind, gentle and mindful, the way to be,
imbibing God’s light through the pores of space,
benedictions of grace that lets us see,
how our Father holds us in close embrace,
as steps to heaven we slowly retrace.
Benign bliss burns bestowed etched on our soul,
are wabi-sabi stains that make us whole,
of a life fully lived, divine entwined,
in vibrant nonchalance playing our role,
our softened heart, with love and light aligned....

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Inglish no be ma papa langwage
No be ma mama own self
God self sabi say de wahala tu mush
‘Leksicosemantis’ today
‘Intonashon’ tomoro. Hand hallmaity
‘Sintax’ nko? No be rice hand dodo! Abeg
Help ó Kwin Fiktora.
Na Small by small I go take learn how
To dey use nose dey talk
Under the sun wey dey mama person
For dis Naija wey we dey so;
Insted make my own blooder to dey
Henkorage me, na so so fail fail he dey
Fail me. He tire me oooo....

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The cut unkind, magnified by our mind
became a thought spiral, contracting soul
until caress divine, released it’s bind,
healing our wounded heart, making us whole,
that presence continues its earth life goal.
Pain borne wabi-sabi stains beautify
essence of presence here before we die, 
signalling our ascent, as we consent 
to pulsations of love as heart does sigh,
nestled in bliss, our native element.

18-August-2021...

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stuporous
guard down
past tendencies
rise within instinctively
manifesting as rage
condoned by ego
as being fleeting
thus leaving residue 
of past animal nature
within our radiant soul

the faint traces
of identity nurtured
enables us to bilocate
between the immanent
and the transcendent

unique wabi-sabi stains
like the spots on the moon
diminish not soul’s beauty
but rather accentuate
innate luminosity

we forgive ourself

21-March-2023...

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In this world, 
we are all transients, 
traveling to the beat 
of a mortal drum,
on a latent path
that only the souls 
can see, 
waiting for that moment
when we give back 
our borrowed light. 

Like a star,
we can shed our light 
in the night 
and lose our radiance 
in the day, 
to depend on the sun, 
because, it is through this 
that we realize, 
we are not perfect 
and we are interdependent.

When we get broken,
we need someone to repair us....

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Shattered I, in countless pieces,
	Abandoned in the wake of that which me befell.
	Dust settles, and I retrieve the debris of who I was,
	Not knowing yet what I will become.
Broken me…but can be mended
	Fragments mine, in time, reshaping,
	Finding form and beauty in the chaos –
	A murmuration of those shards that were, are, and will be me.
Of destruction myself reborn,
	Ever to be fractured and remade,
	Never static nor complete…
	For even in death, I will be changed.
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WABI-SABI

The vase lay broken on the floor
Pieces scattered, whole no more
Collected, to try and make again
Yet its beauty may forever wane
Glue and gold wire used to repair
Never to be perfect as I’m aware
Yet still is worthy of my attention
And ongoing healing intervention
Cracks now mended, yet still seen
A sad reflection of what it’s been
No longer stood in pride of place
Almost ashamed to show its face
A hint of the beauty gone before
One missing piece is its tiny flaw
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“Your daughter stares,” 
       my mother whispered;
as she lay naked on the bed. 
       A smile of pleasure crossed her face
        while the nurse
  gently caressed her frail body
with a soft, warm sponge.
      “Don’t you turn away,”
  sensing my discomfort.
I look
     at the scars
of birth, of falls from trees  
        of old repairs, 
  and new.
“She is young,” I say
     “Scared”
“Poppycock; see, she’s smiling at me,”
my mother whispered; 
   “she looks in a mirror.”...

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