Unperceived Poems

The Painter

Lure of mirage
in deranged dunes,
dances in
dandelion rhythm 
with oasis dream,
illusion inscribed
in sane sands of time,
sliding continuum
with desiccated travail, 
thirst unquenched,
stimulus sensuous,
perpetual.

Dormant despair
usurps harps of hope,
vibrato dissipates
unperceived,
wisdom shroud  
unfurls crafty chimera
in life of actuality,
awareness avid, 
imbibed.

Stifling shadow 
anguished onyx cloud
creeps remorseless, 
dissension darkness drips 
opaque desolateness 
on listless landscape,
mangled in 
strife maelstrom,
mind sucked within 
hope vortex, 
umbrage pervades,
unushered. 

Silver spectrum
of lines transient 
in acumen cloud,
splits into colors 
of radiant reverie
in optimistic prism,
sculpted.

Convoluted canvas,
carapace conjured
for contorted hideous faces,
turning in a trance 
into baroque frescos,
flicker of beauty
sparkles sneaky 
in conceived smile, 
beholder, 
                    the painter.

Elusive Dream

In my mind, God was but an elusive dream
Unperceived, invisible yet omnipresent
A favourite tale with a feel-good theme
Spread by religion through fear and prayer
I gave little credence to the thought of his existence
Till I found faith after years of denial
In human beings do I seek him
For serving man is serving God

Sermon on the Ark

(Dedicated to Sniffers.)

We are All animals, humans too
every One of us, me and you

God breathed life into Adam and Eve,
into each creature. Atoms unperceived

The animal kingdom is the Kingdom of God:
A harmony without heirarchy, below and above

All dogs go to heaven because all of us do,
every Soul returns to the Creator anew

Delusion

The assigned unseen lamp hidden somewhere, 
someone kindles for you when you’re made to arrive.
Unperceived, it creates reflective beam of contemplation,
illumines the pathway of your destined journey.

The free will you make as the mental mural of pride, 
the lamp makes it ostensibly self-radiant, 
enmeshing your soul within the maze of formidable ego, 
that designs the deviant road you travel undisciplined. 

On the way you pick up some flowers of wilderness,
someone graciously blossoms only for you,
but you think these are epitome of your self-made image, 
worthy of affirmative celebration of self-seeking euphoria. 

On the way you tread on the trail of anguish thorns, 
you think you would pave a new amiable track soon, 
and won’t suffer on the stinging journey for long,
but the perpetual torment lingers on. 

The disowned lamp then gets extinguished by itself,
in depth of darkness you lose awareness unrestrained.
The willful psyche clings to the sense of disarrayed self,
and gets confined within the bubble of delusion.

The Pensive Painter

The allure of mirage
         magnetic,
thirst unquenched
in hidden hope 
         unperceived,
insight intuits
crafty illusion
in life of reality, 
rational awareness 
         absorbed.

Onyx cloud clumps
         condensed,
shadow masked mind
         tenuous,
disguised dreams 
         delusive,
shaped nebulous 
by silver lines, 
foresight outlook
splits spectrum
         reflective 
into colors of trance
in prism 
of optimism.

Convoluted canvas
         capturers 
hideous faces,
makes murals 
         magnificent,
sparkle the contours 
of conceived smile
in vintage vision
of beholder, 
the pensive painter.

The Beholder

Lure of mirage
in deranged dunes,
dances in
dandelion rhythm 
with oasis dream,
illusion inscribed
in sane sands of time,
sliding continuum
with desiccated travail, 
thirst unquenched,
stimulus perpetual.

Dormant despair
usurps harps of hope,
vibrato dissipates
unperceived,
wisdom shroud  
unfurls crafty chimera
in life of actuality,
awareness imbibed.

Stifling shadow 
of ebony anguish cloud
creeps remorseless, 
dissension darkness drips 
opaque desolateness 
on listless landscape,
mangled in 
strife maelstrom,
mind sucked within 
hope vortex, 
umbrage unushered. 

Silver spectrum
of lines transient 
in acumen cloud,
splits into colors 
of radiant reverie
in optimistic prism.

Convoluted canvas,
carapace conjured
for contorted hideous faces,
turning in a trance 
into baroque frescos,
flicker of beauty
sparkles sneaky 
in conceived smile. 
…beholder, the painter.

Opposing Rising From Ashes Of Scorched Heart

The tinsel moon you gleamed in cradle of argentine night
On wings of ornate cloud I tried to embrace you
But you ambled through the silky sky I called mine
A turquoise trail you carved in my heart you knew
I could discern my love glow with touch of moondust
At the edge of the departing night thunder clouds surged.


The pale moon you faded in the abyss of dark night
With the flanges of amorphous cloud I distanced you 
But you welded with the jagged sky you called yours
You didn’t realize no crystal path you paved to my heart 
My insipid love lost unperceived the touch of moondust
As the core of the arriving night thunder clouds wrapped.

Motherly Love

Tik tok goes the clock
With each set of time
Her energetic vibrant being
turns frail
She who i'll never call by her name

In retrospect,she raged
Against this decadent diabolical world
She raged to give her bairns the best  of life,
The tenderness of her infinite love
In equal measure we give our allegiance

Albeit in absence of economic strength
We never went to sleep  with growling tummies
Neither did we walked bare and unstitched
And the coldest of the nights went by unperceived

Even in her  recurrent nostalgia phase
I still see her
The sailor who weathered the storms for me
The soldier who fought my unseen battles
The angel that brougt tranquility within in the dead of the night

In all eternal divine
Through her brisk and lethargic life
I hold her in my warm embrace
My fourth god
My begetter.

Self-Existent Light

The luminous spectrum of the omnipresent light 
envelopes my self-obsessed essence unperceived. 
I devise the free-will precepts captivating the ego 
within the confines of the conjured self-deception.

As I saunter on the slimy slush of cardinal sin,
the stigma of murky derision debases the self,
the soul is stifled by the secret corrupt clutch, 
in penance I feel the pernicious pangs of pain.

I escape liberated from the dark abyss of anguish,  
traverse through strata of solemn consciousness. 
That’s when the door of the inner sanctum opens,
where the lotus blooms suffused with divine glow.

The sensual space within shines with stellar radiance, 
and flashes with the flaring brilliance of billion suns.  
On my self-searching odyssey at the edge of eternity,
the inner galaxy makes my soul the self-existent light.

___________

May 31, 2023
Contest : Self-Existent Light
Sponsored by : Unseeking Seeker

Petals

They dance on the edge
Of nearly unperceived breezes
Into a swath of glowing light
They slowly open, as it teases! 
Each petal like little poems
So soft and ever so gentle
Untorn in the warm amber glow
Healing our sore souls indoor! 
Dewdrops moistening those petals
Making me totally sentimental
In silence you protect the core
The bee tied to this moment, I adore! 
Holding on to you to feel stable
For the nectar you offer at your round table
And when each petal withers and dies
You blow with the breeze to fly
As you wave and say your last goodbye! 

12.5.23

The Painter

The lure of mirage
thirst unquenched
hidden hope unperceived.
Wisdom unveils crafty illusion
in life of reality 
awareness imbibed.

Shadow of dark clouds
mind masked in shade
concealed dreams unseen.
Silver lining in foresight view
splits into colors of trance
in prism of optimist vision.

Convoluted canvas
deformed unsightly faces
turn into murals of beauty
sparkling with conceived smile
in the enticed sight
of the beholder, the painter.

______________ 

July 5, 2022
For A Brian Strand Premiere Choice Contest

Bubble of Illusion

An unseen lamp hidden somewhere
Someone kindles for you when you arrive
Unperceived it creates beam of contemplation
Illumines the pathway of your destined journey.

The free thoughts you create as mental fresco 
The lamp makes it ostensibly self-radiant 
Enmeshing your soul within the maze of ego
That designs the road you choose to travel alone.

On the way you pick up some flowers
Someone gracious blossoms for you
But you think these are epitome of self-image
Worthy of innate celebration in euphoria.

On the way you tread on the trail of thorns
You think you would pave a new track soon
And won’t suffer on the journey for long
But the perpetual torment lingers on. 

The disowned lamp then gets extinguished
In depth of darkness you lose your awareness
The willful psyche clings to the sense of self
Getting confined within the bubble of illusion.

____________________

May 13, 2022
Contest : Bubble Of Illusion
Sponsored by : Unseeking Seeker

Ingenious

Ingenious, sin deceives by taking right
and warping slight, its plumb no longer true,
till what seems good to man in dub’ous light
is clear maligned, askance, to be eschewed.

Subtle departure from divine decrees
occurs near unperceived through loosened bounds
on that which God ordains, by small degrees,
till far from what is written one is found.

Confusing Father's love with that which sates,
or, willful, grants the creature more accord
till our Creator it subordinates,
thus we turn gifts to that which is abhorred.

The heart, with sin infected, beyond cure,
seeks evil with each beat; detests the pure.

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for the 2022 Poetry Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest
sponsored by Mark Toney
written on 04/30/2022

Depth of Silence

The life stream swerves in undulating landscape,
the concert of murmur cascades melody 
that ripples in the whispering air,
the sound of music flies past me unheard
in the depth of silence.

Rains fall in torrent on parched psychic tree,
the rhythm of aria pulsates on dancing leaves,
I keep my succinct senses alert in the scene,
but the symphony fades away unperceived
in the depth of silence.

From the cacophony of unnerving clamor
voices go back to where they come from,
for the stark reality remains hidden shrouded
within the unreachable abyss of my mind
in the depth of silence.

As I walk on the squally path of distraught
the shards of awareness scatter on the trail, 
the buds of emotion wither away unbloomed,
the wilted petals lie in the discarded debris
in the depth of silence.

The consciousness layers I cross going inward,
and discover the divine lotus blossom inside,
I hear beguiled the primordial music within
where a speck of universal soul in me resonates
in the depth of silence.

__________________

March 3, 2022
Contest : Consciousness Fulcrum
Sponsored by : Unseeking Seeker

Embracing Silence

Silence covers all with bold embrace
Her hands and fingers dance with lissom grace

At mesmerising patterns flowing sport
Tumult begins to fade from conscious thought

Bringing a taste of peaceful solitude
That often in our hectic lives eludes

Although the world of noise goes unperceived
The loss has never given cause for grief

With joyful heart embracing life to full
All other senses deafness over-rule

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