Short Whereupon Poems

I've only words
for wings
sometimes they're
dark laden clouds
whereupon
I'd settle for a streak of blue....

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Behold Cath'rine of Aragon
after six children whereupon
from Henry an annulment was said.
Somehow she managed to keep her head.

2-2-2012...

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softened attention
distils inner silence
enlivening the void
whereupon we hear
soundless thunder
reverberating within

soul feels complete

04-June-2023...

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love inked choices
whispered as divine voices
induce bliss mist streams
to enliven midnight dreams
whereupon a soft melody
asks us if we are ready

we say yes!...

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Marriage is a relationship between two people, whereupon one of them
is always right and never wrong until the very end.
The other individual is known as the husband....

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flow of life rolls on
in time overtaking
deluded dreams
whereupon remains
the void of silence
infinite and vibrant 
luminescent and still
defying delineation
the noumena...

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A crusty goblin cracked a crevassed grin
While chasing odd witches in a tailspin
He heisted her fat black cat
Whereupon her broom she sat
To kill all the rats in his crusty den...

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Lennie was a Hen-pecked pastry baker
Who told His wife He might forsake Her.
She nagged and was grossly obese.
He wanted it to quickly cease.
Whereupon He frosted Her Half-acre....

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Heated these shores, whereupon passion bears her grip...
A lady in love with another woman, and how can she deny this
Stirring deep inside racing through her veins the rapture, of her heart....

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It was the sixth wedding for daughter Judy
who was quite plain and hardly a beauty.
Time came to give away the bride
whereupon her Father replied
"five times I've tried--I've done my duty."...

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Tranquil eye in need of a makeover,
shifts baton of awareness to the heart,
enabling zest and zeal to takeover,
whereupon we feel bliss ignition start,
that engaged in life, soul rests in clover....

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scripts ego weaves, here manifest
in trance taken to be a test
and so it is but heart’s the cause
which our soul gently puts on pause
whereupon we dwell in pure bliss
delight of Divine Mother’s kiss...

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Through the golden moments of the stream
Was made a small refuge from the drizzle
That cast forth a beam of eternal remains
Whereupon lingers my present, past, future
In fortitude and alliance into singleness...

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When you're lonely
it can lead to further misery
whereupon escape from loneliness feels like an eternal futility.
When loneliness grasps you, there is only one remedy.
Loneliness is good to share with somebody....

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our muse was shy
so mind was caged 
and rendered impotent
so ceasing all striving
we renounced the urge 
to conjure a verse
whereupon we were graced
by a thunderous bliss surge

there’s a learning in this
which the ego missed...

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She held a secret slight fetish and, she loved to be spanked..
It made her feel alive inside; she would cry as wet the sheets
Of silk whereupon her beauty did lay; fragrant, palms fulfilling
Gushing streams in swelling dreams a need she'd plead, please....

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Caress
of love divine
manifests within heart,
when we shift attention inwards,
melding head with heart, both aligned with love,
becoming empty, so to speak,
whereupon bliss fills us,
in a gentle
caress.

13-February-2022...

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upon hearing of
bliss of the butterfly 
the sage too wished to taste
that nectar of the gods
said to never abate

the boon was denied
so the hermit surrendered
and entwined with the universe
whereupon love’s wings
fluttered as a verse...

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love follows no protocol
and cares not for etiquette 
which is the knowing that steers
continuous consciousness correction
it is a state of no-mind of course 
where ego identity disappears 
whereupon all that is, is

bliss effervescence ...

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Once to stand before our Maker, to say, "I Meant well," shouts out as the state of a mind's deeply rooted feelings toward... Whereupon, if of a veneered propriety;  just same as a promise never made, but to yourself now, one that Might hold forever yours to keep....

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making literal the metaphor
as simplification of innocence 
is quite apt because thoughts rest
releasing presence from life pulse dual
whereupon silence energises stillness 
and then in the unbroken continuum 
of object bereft animated attention 

we awaken...

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Life breath
flows night and day,
source of our aliveness,
which our ego takes for granted
until the final moment of our death,
whereupon we then see the truth,
that we are merely dust
gifted by God,
life breath.

16-February-2022...

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If music is the soul of art,
then what can writing be

Is it the eyes, perhaps the heart,
in printed reverie

Is music the stage whereupon,
all other art encores

For if it is, all words rejoice
—to sing for evermore

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017 )...

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If music is the soul of art,
  then what can writing be

Is it the eyes, perhaps the ears,
  in printed reverie

Is music the stage whereupon,
  all other art encores

For if it is, all words rejoice,
 —to sing for ever more

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Drowned
in thoughts,
our soul’s bound,
with love and light
veiled by dark shadows
and there seems no reprieve,
till we choose to pause the cause
of breath flow, shifting heart’s focus,
in mode embrace and release, with ease,
whereupon ego shorn, soul’s clear light dawns....

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