Ode to Tapuy
...Come! Bring forth the jar that for months had stood
Patiently undisturbed in the shadow!
Lift its lid, remove the leaves that serve as hood
And help age the wine that’s about to flow.
Cat...
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Categories:
unstained, celebration, culture, drink, wine,
Form: Ode
Our journey thus far
...1 Intent
Assigning no meaning to grace imbibed,
we watch how we are breath by breath transformed,
drenched in bliss mists that cannot be described,
trouncing ego, last bastions of mind s...
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Categories:
unstained, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Zen mode
...the aspect of us in this form contained
knows very well it is God’s interface
so mindfully keeps heart pure and unstained
free from fears and desires, no goals to chase
that thus doing nothing, i...
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Categories:
unstained, heart, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme Royal
As God’s light
...As the light of God held in space,
both immanent and transcendent,
having invoked His boundless grace,
we are fully bliss resplendent.
Playing our life role as ordained,
as the light of God he...
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Categories:
unstained, god, heart, joy, light,
Form: Quatern
Of Crimson Of Rose Of Fire Of Love
...Of Crimson of Rose of Fire of Love
Each delicate thought
Untouched and untamed
Flickering a light
Of beauty ingrained
Of Crimson...Of Rose...Of Fire...Of Love
For in a moment
Minuet and...
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Categories:
unstained, color, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Woman
...Shes a woman, a mother, a sheroine, a phenomenal view to life, based in the deepest marshes and swamps of Africa. One unescappable piece of Gods artifact, a being soo difinite and adorrable...
He...
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Categories:
unstained, africa, character, family, hero,
Form: Free verse
In the ethereal dance of destiny, where shadows whisper secrets
...In the ethereal dance of destiny, where shadows whisper secrets,
the critics stand on their lofty peaks, unseen sentinels of judgment.
They gaze upon the battlefield below, where souls tread the fi...
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Categories:
unstained, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Lotus and the Bird
...In Chambers Grand, where silks and laughter played,
A voice within, a question soft and low,
"Tell me, dear Yashodhara, what ails your heart?
Your eyes, once radiant, now seem weighted by sorro...
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Categories:
unstained, absence, betrayal, conflict, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Below the veil of twilight, memories sway in the moon's oaring
...Below the veil of twilight, memories sway in the moon's oaring,
Effigies of the departed rise like incense smoke amongst ruins.
They have sprinkled us with pale dreams, and now, flowers of forgetfu...
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Categories:
unstained, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
That was THEN, this is NOW
...1987 then
with changed mind
to turn back
from
trespasses
&
consequences of the past-
unstained
set free
to be-
with Jesus
my
saviour
&
f...
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Categories:
unstained, art, christian, poetry,
Form: Bio
Memories of a Childhood Home
...My dad built a house on a hill. How exciting to climb to the tippy-top then look down upon the roof, and dog home, the bean garden, and to sled the slope in Winter white.
eyes delirious
dazzled, ...
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Categories:
unstained, home, house, memory,
Form: Haibun
HERITAGE
...HERITAGE
Like a last puff of dust from an empty room
Almost a cough, as the last sign of life calls
From times when it was a bustling residence
Now deserted, with nothing left in evidence
No t...
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Categories:
unstained, home, lost,
Form: Rhyme
A moth burns
...Suffused by ethereal mists divine,
graced upon us when we choose to be still,
doing nothing, with bliss beats we align,
celebrating as voids within us fill.
The entity that sought has disappear...
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Categories:
unstained, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
...I emerged / born with a silver pen in hand
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil
…tightening their grip
A soul adrift in a sea of
…self-made iniquity.
I buried my dadd...
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Categories:
unstained, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Ascent
...Finally unshackled from our mind tree,
living mindfully, thoughts, words and deeds just,
we attained freedom to such a degree,
that transfixed in rapture of bliss beat thrust,
with love pulsation...
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Categories:
unstained, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
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