("A Moment of Grace aka The Empty Mirror", 2024, original encaustic)
The Clear Light
Looking within
We find what is without
Without doubt
Without compare
Without substance or thought or
Any sense of being something
That is somewhere
Either in or out.
(3/24/24)
Categories:
suchness, inspiration, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Tigers slowly prowl into extinction.
The last rare
undiscovered, unnamed bug
dies
- a million years of conscious gravity
departs for other realms.
Energy shifts, it is more volatile than fire,
more expansive than any sky,
Energy; you and I,
we may wish it,
but it can never die.
Somewhere a tiger and a bug
become a multiple reality,
alternative parallels
that renew what we deemed lost.
Suchness happens.
Categories:
suchness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Journey to Dzoku
The call of the cuckoo
rings out its simple reminder.
Clothed in its plain and ordinary form
it nonetheless with confidence proclaims;
“I am THAT!”
That which is no other than this
bliss of suchness…
In this state of perfect rapture
the cuckoo sings,
what no word can tell,
what no thought can hold,
and yet what everyone knows.
Wake up, wake up.
Rejoice, you have no choice, but to carry on.
(for Mu’ncle - 9/3/23)
Categories:
suchness, celebration, inspiration, joy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
That which is done is done,
Let it go – move on.
We let the present moments pass,
then we look for them as if they were some where else.
Be in the moment, and
mindful each and every moment of the day,
we are here right now.
Consciously connected to all there is or will be.
There is no time, no space that exists ...
There is only mind and essence of mind.
Homage to the perfection of beauty and love.
Categories:
suchness, allusion, analogy, angst, confidence,
Form: ABC
Walking alone in
the dishevelled inner space
I find peace in my failure,
an innocent patch of a silent hurt.
The futility of hollow beliefs
crawls like a spent thunder.
Truth remains unborn.
I cross a bridge where eterniry begins.
The freaks chase the shadow for a while,
the idea so excruciating
they melt in conspiracy of silence.
In oneness and suchness
the harmony drips
from infinite pores.
The seed has a history.
Lost in resonance of outer space,
now wakes the blood,
distorting the ripples.
SATISH VERMA
Categories:
suchness, faith, father, children, forgiveness,
Form: ABC