Swamplands Poems - Poems about Swamplands

The in between stage

...Having recognised we’re not body-mind,
stuporous awareness yet drags us down,
so though we know the truth, we remain blind
and in dark swamplands of fear and doubt drown.

Each offered experienc...

Child Sings a Hymn

...Why for push and pull,
akin to a bull
just raging away
by night and by day?

Illusions confound
and its dark forms hound
but our joyous soul
sways not from its goal.

Slow down now, slow do...

Storm Ali Was Here

...The prophecy came true in the swamplands 
She rose from the bowels of an alligator’s belly
Disengaging herself with the hands of a sorcerer
Those who saw were struck as if by lightning
She was co...

My Home Outside

..."The sounds of Earth is the music of my soul."

Narcissus woos a butterfly; waves strong,
Genteel stages filled pages; memoirs sound,
Earth graces life faces, pleased heaven bound,
W...

Harmony of Sticks and Stones and Gems

...circles within circles
harmony of sticks and stones and gems

his foundation flows
around my ankles
flooding ‘tween the trees
baubles of aquamarine

circles within circles
harmony of...

Fear Transcendence

...Feeling within consciousness contraction
We recognise its origin as fear
Arising from desire borne stagnation

Fearful to lose illusions we hold dear
Ghosts of our mind grips us thus in terror
...

I Am As I Am Wherever I Am

...Lotus beauteous blooms with joy in swamplands
Vibrant bliss throbs within wherever we stand

27-November-2020

(syllabic couplet)...

View From the Void

...As we look back at life journey thus far
Freezing the frames of whirring memory
Our soul within etched by many a scar
Borne of ego urge delusionary

Upon slowing down sway of attention
Ego born...

Unfettered Awareness

...Doubt
contracts
our being,
as also fears
and ego desires,
in realm of illusions,
thereby stifling aliveness,
anchoring us in stagnation,
making us captive to lower mind,
enmeshed in ...

Our Life, Our Choice

...Pull 
innate, 
to align, 
with the divine. 
The geometry,
chakras in symmetry,
draws us magnetically, 
into pathways vibrant with love.
No doing to be done save shifting, 
from head ...

Keep It Simple

...It is everywhere 
Swamplands stagnative 
The sticky substance
Binding blinding glue
Cause of resistance 

We may exit
The Maya web
By detachment
In contentment 

Vaporised 
We imbibe
Lov...

Maya

...Spiralling thoughts and specious logic repeatedly reinforce their affirmations rooted in swamplands of delusion with the singular aim of nurturing lower mind, continuing to shroud the self evident tr...

Green Sahara

...The Great Sahara desert as large as the continental United States
a deadly vast searing wasteland of sand dunes mountain high
The expansive buckle of the world's desert belt void of color
dotted b...

Reminisce

...Reminisce 

Oh, to go back to the Woodlands.
To the woods that I love so.
That sheltered my first great sorrow.
In that shadowy long ago.

Oh, to go back to the swamplands,
Where the gentle b...

Aroha Nz

...this is my song,
  my love song of you,
    my land, my heart

             love for green ferns
                      silver beneath
                               volcanic lakes so deep
    ...

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