Short Tenets Poems

radiant tenets
promissory misnomers
deciduous lives...

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Verbal contracts…
  commerce of indemnity

Trading intention
—marketplace sublime

(Dreamsleep: February, 2020)...

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Redder kayak dewed
rotor radar rotator
madam sagas tenet
draw Ogopogo eye deified
Hannah's murdrum tenet
Madam Eve tenets...

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Rosetti forename Dante Gabriel
knew the tenets of PRB so well
His interest though was short-lived
love of his models never did...

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Science…
 bastard child
of philosophy
and reason
formulaic delinquent
of an answer
in flux
Serving itself
as it shuns
its true
master
bowing down
to its 
tenets
the truth
—undiscussed

(Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania: April, 2021)...

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Tenets from the Bible,
Themes its books convey, are
Truths irrefutable,               
Treasures so beautiful
That can’t be dismissed by
Time and mankind. We can
Trust God’s best-selling book.*

April 26, 2021
entered in Kim Merryman's Pleiades T contest     Placed 2nd

entered in Brian Strand's All Yours (May 5) contest...

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Yell not mine while in distress,
For NOBODY'S claim such that or this stress!
Destined to be great?
Be calmed at your cold and show mute kindness.

All love is not shown while the world is in fullness,
This race is ran with coldness;
In your thoughts, any with such tenets is heartless,
NOBODY'S touch not good at this caress!...

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CONVENTIONS
fastidious
  pastimes
yearnings
  for
  emotional
reactions
weaving
  apprehension
for
  pleasure
&
to encourage
freedom
 &
  frivolity
in
dreamlike
  significance
simulating
  feelings
of reality
in
a world
of
  continued
brilliance
with
possibilities
in
 breathless
tenets
naturally
  enforced...

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You can’t
embrace reality
forever

Its tenets
restrict
and constrain

By definition
it renames
itself

Once spoken
to then be
disclaimed

What comes
upon you
the moment laced

Where vacuums
exit
in time and space

Regenerates
from life’s
cocoon

In endless
cycles
—moon to moon

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024) 
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Thomas Obscured

forgotten 
by our religion
we have avoided
this channel to truth..
it is a direct channel
not impeded by tenets 
and teachings which
veil that which
is obscured..
there is a fear
perhaps
which holds the
veil in place..
a glimpse plus
some courage
and we are pushed..
recognizing Peace...

(Referring to the Gospel of Thomas..)...

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Why does your religion
have to disfavor mine
To speak to its converts
and prattle Divine

Foundations this slanted
are poised for a fall
Appeasing their zealots
who follow and maul

More killed by religion
in His holy name
Than famine and pestilence
ever can claim

The tenets left foreign
to God’s true intent
Epiphanies barren
—all grace to relent

(Villanova University: December, 2021)...

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Omnium-Gatherum
By Tom
8/9/2019

Omnium-Gatherum is merely a collection,
Of persons, or sometimes, motley things.
At times others presence causes me abjection,
And variety rarely makes me, feel like kings.

I enjoy others, but generally from a distance,
And give few invitations into my personal space.
Sometimes they’ve crept in, through insistence,
But they’re never allowed, my tenets, to debase.
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Spiritual multitasking
I think therefore I think….
I am therefore I think I am.
Free me from this curse
This divine dissatisfaction
This need to be needed
Bridled by tenets and credos
Led down lost paths
Wrestling with the doubts
Of a soul
            searching
                          for   
                              its
                                  self.



©7/30/2022

Non-dual Awareness Poetry Contest...

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This revealed apocalypse
Bringing extirpation of cherished tenets
And arguments that freezes nerves of the
Hesitant warriors
Warriors already disciplined by multiple losses,
Losses that could perhaps continue in this renewed phase
Phase whose pace of motion tortures my emotions
With this pace, tomorrow might be my death –day
While yesterday was my birthday
And honestly, 
 
What is the difference?
If the difference is not the same....

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You speak of my failing
Without knowing my heart
Your pity is mocking
This life playing its part

You scoff at such squalor
As you toss in a coin
Lest a hero or scholar
From your coven may join

Go home to your warm bed
Waste not one precious thought
From tenets left unsaid 
With that last pence you bought

Shed but just one tear, don't leave vexed with a sigh
For there but for privilege even your dreams might die

02/20/2020...

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Having Christian faith is really quite simply defined
It is accepting Jesus Christ as your savior and mine
But, faith alone does not a good Christian make
Living by the tenets of the bible is what it really takes.

You can believe with all your heart that the Christian dogma is true
But, your real measure as a Christian is in what you say and do
So I am glad you have faith in the reality of His story
But you must act as He taught us to relish in His glory....

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This revealed 
apocalypse
Bringing extirpation 
of cherished tenets
And arguments 
that freezes 
nerves of the
Hesitant warriors
Warriors already 
disciplined by 
multiple losses,
Losses that could 
perhaps continue in 
this renewed phase
Phase whose pace 
of motion tortures 
my emotions
With this pace, 
tomorrow might be 
my death –day
While yesterday 
was my birthday
And honestly, 
 
What is the 
difference?
If the difference is 
not the same....

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