“creation is substantially nothing but a mere idea-play of Nature on the only Real Substance, God, the Eternal Father”
~ extract from ‘The Holy Science’
Ramana inquired, ‘Who am I?’
Strange it is, no one seems to know
We’re born in this form, which will die
Let’s find the truth in stillness slow
Senses look outward in the world
We assume we’re this body-mind
Lost in desires, we’re by thoughts twirled
The joy we seek, we fail to find
Watching thought spirals come and go
Dropping concepts, if we be still
Releasing cravings of ego
Voids within us on their own fill
Although thoughts cease, we yet exist
As pure awareness self-aware
No to-do list, we’re a bliss mist
Thus with heart of God, we so pair
Ego dies, space and time too fade
We then see our true form as light
At peace in God’s heavenly glade
Love’s imbibed to our heart’s delight
God alone is and we’re as He
He dwells in us and we in Him
That life is a dream we now see
Projected because of God’s whim
When thoughts cease, we metamorphose
Ego dies and we are reborn
Our Self glows in tranquil repose
Death of form is no cause to mourn
SQUIRRELS' LIVES MATTER
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With tiny paws raised, scurry of squirrels took a stand,
"Dear gardener, how dare you! This is quite unplanned!
You’ve vacuumed up our nutty feast,
Our food supply substantially decreased.
Now we’re left with just crumbs in the strand!"
With their cheeks full of nuts, they declared,
"We demand that our acorns be spared!”
With a chant and a cheer,
They made it quite clear,
“Our hunger should not be impaired!"
They marched with their tiny fists bold,
In search of their acorns, their treasures of gold.
With signs made of leaves,
They voiced their grievances,
While the gardener laughed, "Oh, do be told!"
"Dear squirrels, your acorns are safe,
In the shed, they’ve found a new place!
So rally your scurry, your crew,
And I'll bring them straight to you,
Now your anger for me you must erase!"
From need to want
From want to content
From scared to aware
From aware to circumvent
From lonely to dating
From dating to loving
From lost to found
From found to glowing
From hopeless to hope
From hope to seeing
From crying to laughing
From laughing to bonding
From empty to half-full
From half-full to overflowing
From poor to stable
From stable to substantially
No longer the past or future robs the present.
Is this a lie?
Do you believe the truth, in fact?
Is this a lie?
Substantially, you do belie
the whale of a tale is fact-packed.
The honest truth can be sidetracked.
Is this a lie?
Book pages riffle dance
Feeling its steady glance
Thoughts soaked up
Dreams turnup
Time doesn’t halt
Nostalgic vault
Somber fingers
Forehead expression lingers
Outside world nonexistent
Substantially existent
1/29/2025
Vanessa was a very vivacious
Virgin with vast amounts of
Various captivating capital.
Vanessa was still substantially
Vigorously victorious. She was
Almost always blatantly Boldly
Brilliant always at every instant
Vanessa was never a victim.
Not quite part of the vicious
System. And too she was wondrously
Very vigilant in her position to the
Point of stellar strict religion
Vanessa at times
Vehemently voicing her optimistic
Obliterating opinion in the presence
Of opposition and she was
Young only thirty one. Vanessa
Was also at times valiant and
Deserved validation and rhetorical
Respect. Played much of the time by
Her own rules until she met Val.
Then then and....
We will build our "Mars Voyager Spaceship" on our Moon.
this Spaceship can only be built on our moon, for weight, size soon,
we will power this craft not to compromise...
with Space-Based Solar Power Equipment...
technologies we now have on Earth...
Since clouds, atmosphere nighttime is absent in space,
satellite-based solar panels magnificent...
would also be able to capture while transmits substantially
more energy than terrestrial solar panels...
reflectors also a microwave or laser power transmitter, continually...
directing solar radiation onto huge solar panels, attached,
on our 'Mars Voyager Spaceship'...
these panels convert solar power, wa-la...
into either a microwave or a laser, then beam uninterrupted power
all our way to Mars Ta-Da
Poetry positively proud
Purposeful Pondering Petals
Of a softest
perpetual Persuasion poetry
Soup potion renders elation
Energy elevation? It is the
Escalation of the notion of a
Poetrysoup potion. Skipping
Stones at the liquid ledge at
The edge of tomorrow look
Through time. Is it the kind of
Time when promises are
Kept. Rhymes to eccept. Left
Right left right crept. The
Potion of devotion. Explosion
Of the heart. Is there a Cardiac
Guard. It especially exceptionally
Excellently. Artfully, awesome,
Substantially systematic just
Poetic words. That of which
Definitions never ever heard
Poetry potions poetic notions
I think the course has ended
But since I'm a versatile
Occupational better version of
Myself I'll continue in another
Rhyme at a different kind of
Communication but, I care only
For diligent conversation it
Really shouldn't matter though
I communicate in poetry I know
All the cues. Carry on my poetic
Friends this is me signing out.
Farewell, Farewell again.
Farewell.
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6/7/23
Written by James Edward Lee Sr 2o23
a Pantoum Poem
Shine on, dusk and dawn, shimmering shore, creatures explore
Ecstastically, rhythically, excitedly, substantially…playfully in harmony
Adoringly and in loathingly ways…sharks, eels, and other intriguing, but aggressive sea creatures share the ocean with humongous, gracious whales, dolphins of desire and delightfulness, and many fish and living things of that wild and free nature…
Oceans drift on, sun and moon reflected…
Freedom and chaos entwine, resurrected…
Shallow and deep…nothing in between…
Empathetic waters below low and up above
Radiance and abyss clash together and seperate the living from the dead
Emboldening the weak, feeble and unstable in heart
Nostalgic and memorable to the sea floor to the surface
Imaginative and spontaneous
Tidal waves soar — hope and happiness in store
You and I swimming together…all the more…
What prepares your usurpations?
One more juncture of this person.
An individual who is rising
Misery is not too far off.
Shaking?
No odds, elderly friend.
You withdrew quite a while in the past.
Going in reverse on the scar.
Draining from the spine to the front!
I'm wearied of my own self.
And substantially slain from despair.
I was effectively let down.
And concede my responsibility.
As yet, I befall a cruel pundit of myself.
Signally on this spot, I am at long last.
Despite the injuries
I gain the height of a lance!
What were your suspicions?
Face in hassle.
In his authentic demeanor.
Something is devouring inside of me.
Otherwise, I have no chance of diverting it off.
Written: March 15, 2022
An abecedarian Australian animal activist
Bagged bodacious big bucks
Caustically criticizing crocodiles,
Driving darling dragons
Essentially extinct. Eschewing
Fact, fabricating fanciful fiction,
Grifting gloriously,
He haughtily held hostage
Important, instructive information,
Juxtaposed jaundiced, junk
Kangaroo kills,
Leveling large lizard libel,
Manufacturing marsupial misinformation malevolently.
On other ominous occasions,
Preferring pernicious propaganda,
Quickly, querulously, quashed
Real, rational reports, rather,
Substituted several substantially
Tarnished technical travesties,
Undermining unified understanding.
Very vociferously, viciously
Wrote works without warrant,
Xenophobic xenotypic
yarns, yammering yellow-bellied yawps,
Zombie-like, zealously.
collaborate, elaborate
conductively emasculate
submissive, entanglement
collectively salivate.
redistributive contemplate
delirious encapsulate danger-
actualize, substitutive penalize.
collectively, abstractness from
radiance to darkness.
antagonistic death rate
the fallacy in dead weight.
reprehensible antithesis
conglomerate esophagus.
speckled and corroded,
constructively demoted.
perniciously solitude, destitute and longitude.
contact free cohesively elongated actuality.
substantially creative
ingeniously innovative.
crafting masterpiece from thread
contempt breeds success or death.
the effort does not translate to achievement.
Conceived and then born in accordance with God's plan,
I'm thrust into a world that I don't understand;
and introduced to pain.
As a child, fantasy forged my reality;
allowing me to feel untethered and carefree;
communing with nature.
Curiosity sparked my imagination;
marking my youth as a time of observation;
and loss of innocence.
I found the world a highly competitive place;
roughly divided by belief, gender, and race;
all conditioned to lie.
Hope provided me with something to hold on to,
a thread, from which a fundamental feeling grew;
blossoming into faith.
This mortal life seems substantially short to me
although I suspect it only appears to be;
for we're eternal souls.
To me, death's a journey, not a destination;
a spiritual extension of creation:
life's cycle; thus complete.
The one I have adored substantially
Seems to mutilated me the worst
It has made my heart rupture
The mystics of the universe
Seems to make us an alliance
And sworn adversaries
Could this be a new induction
Of a vitality without insanity
And of integrated tranquility
This time there is no need for
A ceremony or a diamond ring
Our sustained time reciprocity
Can not be mistaken
For anything but a secure foundation
And now it is time for
A jubilant celebration
Now I can pardon you
With my love and immunity
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