Short Stagnates Poems

mood of heart celebratory
appreciative of beauty
vibrant presence of innocence 
yet stagnates not in dalliance
life flow joy continuity 

28-July-2021...

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The soot within rots and stagnates
And all I have become 
Is a garbage of putrid avoidance,
Vague as muddy clay---a leak from sewers
Unless  cleansed by  rising heart 
Free from negative energy.


Rumi Contest  11th Nov 2016...

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the window between us
a transient barrier
of time travel
within grasp

yet the air stagnates
out of reach
beyond the realms
we've conceived

our vision blurred
by delusion's illusion



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Posted on March 30, 2023...

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mind is an instrument 
we must use it when needed
when the task is finished, rest it
throne of awareness to heart ceded

recognise mind stagnates, whilst heart flows
dwelling in heart, we are in our true home
we are aglow therein, in spatial peace
synced with the cosmic gong Om...

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Four walls bind me in time
four directions set me free from all
the eventual has yet to show its face
the countess of time married my past
and for the first time I see my future
the four elements lift me homeward bound
as the joy wells up in me to a fever pitch
the continuity of it all stalls
and the flow of life stagnates
the  pool of time congeals
and its me that has been revealed
for my home is no home at all...

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I can see that space in you that stagnates your whole
I can see that space in you that drains your soul

I can see that space in you that some would call a hole
I can see that space in you as it attempts to control

I can see that space in you and the innocence it stole
I can see that space in you, it demands such a heavy toll

I can see that space in you as I see that space in me
We are all afflicted, yet can all still be free...

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insistent emphasis
dogmatic views
make for faith
fundamentalistic

specious belief
eristic rigidity
stagnates in a cave
caging spontaneity 

seeking without surrender
clinging to scriptures
imprisons the soul
in a mind trap

repeated affirmations
manifest heart’s aspirations
as a conjured epiphany 
deepening delusion

sans thought who are we
unfettered and unbound
beyond mental concepts 
look for that oh hermit...

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What are the concepts onto which we hold,
the crutches we need in order to walk,
though mind stagnates from youth till we grow old
and as false beliefs continue to stalk,
a time comes when beholding light we balk?

As formless awareness, one with vast space,
there remains of wayward ego no trace,
whence thus bereft of both desire and fear,
poised in the vibrant void, we imbibe grace,
and then we feel God’s love and light draw near....

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Insidious pharaohs reigning death abound the kingdom, a sinister smile resonates 
of bloodlust. Commanding voraciously the tyrants consume human life, an endless 
cycle of severed souls. Utopian preaching of a destined era stagnates over this 
desolate desert. Blood Rivers converge with the Nile, an inceptual validity embraced 
in flesh. Severed limbs suspended from within the leviathan necropolis exude blood; 
such is the decor of the pharaoh...

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