Strength to Bounce Back
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Strength to Bounce Back
Battered by the blast of a cruel storm
Incited by wild woeful wobblin...
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Categories:
upturn, heartbroken, inspirational, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
kicking the can to the curb-
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Play a little diddle
Fet me some
Play a little diddle
Fer me come on boy
Give me some of that ole raz a ma taz
Play me some beat give me jazz
Air check backbeat block chords Fus...
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Categories:
upturn, adventure, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
A Giving Tree
...A course-correction knife was plunged too late.
A smile was still, upon her lips, that date.
Clueless, for most of life, the cherries, green.
Her shoulder-bluffs and high-peak cheeks are see...
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Categories:
upturn, imagery,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Thought of the day
...benign bliss burn churning mind-body urn ~
causes conditioned beliefs to upturn
as God’s benedictions pour down like rain ~
doing nothing we ascend without strain...
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Categories:
upturn, blessing, god, joy, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Zealots
...Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.
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Categories:
upturn, angst,
Form: Haibun
Page
...To turn a new page,
mind battles we wage
must rest,
whence love centre-stage
stops fears to outrage
soul’s nest.
We thus come of age,
as we disengage
thoughts stressed.
With desires addr...
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Categories:
upturn, desire, fear, god, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Gray Horizon
...Besieged souls fight up their way
against a pile of bodies in lay.
Hearts tremble in disarray
as the horizon turns to gray.
On the ground, the children scream
as the quake shatters their ...
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Categories:
upturn, death, dedication,
Form: Quatrain
Reverse Midas Touch
...Sadim touch, I must say. Is this upturn, yet, bad?
Didn't Midas' touch become, ultimately, sad...?
Not being greedy - is the moral of Midas,
Yet, isn't the Midas episode an eidos...?
What did...
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Categories:
upturn, grief,
Form: Couplet
Happy Day of the Year
...Be the beauty that dwell to spread,
For all to share colorful moments.
Be the cheers that spring to yield,
Good laughter to birth inner peace.
Let crudeness not teach beauty's value,
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Categories:
upturn, age, appreciation, birthday, brother,
Form: Rhyme
The Truth
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Scriptures affirm truth of oneness
There being but one consciousness
High time now we solve this life quiz
Wisdom revealed in deep stillness
Knowing then that God alone is
Mean...
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Categories:
upturn, god, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rubaiyat
No One Listens
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No one listens, although ear hears
Frigid minds, so brittle
We feel not bliss, that heart endears
See how habits whittle
We don’t learn, till we burn
Stewing in pathways stern
T...
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Categories:
upturn, introspection, muse,
Form: Rhyme
Our Pulse Quickens
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Our pulse quickens in quietude
Stillness ushers rapture
Childlike wonderment attitude
That mind cannot capture
Invite joy, let bliss burn
Time’s now, to fear upturn
Erasing t...
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Categories:
upturn, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 13:2
...13.2
“The body is strained by practices
The tongue tires of scripture
The mind numbs with meditation
Detached from all this,
I live as I am”
The matrix of in-form body co...
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Categories:
upturn, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
How Aware Are We
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Dreams recollected, in state of waking
Our free will therein active, to discern
No memory of waking whilst dreaming
Our acts in waking state thus enabling
Life lessons we graduall...
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Categories:
upturn, dream, life, muse,
Form: Villanelle
Fear
...The fear is quite irksome
It foods you from within
It is lethal than death
It is inflexible to digest
Fear crushes all happiness
Fear digest all sorrow
Fear kills away all emotions
Sadness shy...
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Categories:
upturn, angst, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
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