Whereupon Poems

God is love

...love is a flame that has no name
being God Himself our soul’s aim
Who dwells in all forms as a spark 
bliss magnetism too hard to tame

the truth stated simple and stark
love and light is our t...

here now reborn

...ignorance the cause, delusion the result
with ego in control, spewing imaginary fears
we fell down a bottomless abyss of dread
suffering pangs of slow strangulation
we had nothing to show for lif...

Power of knowledge

...Animals may live in bliss,
yet as such it is remiss
on our part not to explore,
the way to God through heart’s door.

Since mind has limitation,
peace as our meditation,
positions us in the vo...

A personal God

...From the unmanifest all worlds arose,
with control delegated to a god,
who whilst shape shifting, can strike any pose,
to which heart feels drawn in mind-body pod,
that pure wisdom and power in u...

Cage of duality

...Destiny any, there’s a common thread
in the unique journey of every soul,
going through life, playing their ordained role,
attachments gripping fickle heart in dread.
False is the narrative which...

Light that lights all lights

...By whose command do thoughts arise in mind?
Wherefrom arises the breeze of intent?
Who lights the lamp of love, to make heart kind?
What’s the source of the force for soul’s ascent?

Mind of min...

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...

Sacrificial fire

...In the sacred sacrificial fire we burn,
first and foremost all the objects we desire,
purifying thoughts flowing in body urn,
consigning doership to the funeral pyre,
that thus in silence watchin...

Confronting shadows

...Attached to outcomes, ego opaques light,
radiance of our true Self, veiled by mind,
demons of darkness, shrouding heart’s delight,
thought tentacles gripping us in their bind.

As both tormentor...

Zen mode

...we employ not will to be still
since there is no one here within 
and yet we do ascend uphill
by resting stuporous thought din

ego clutches at wisps of straw
but now since it’s been vaporised ...

Zen mode

...melding with the now continuum
neither seeking nor negating
with mind instrumentalised
memory imagery too rests
whereupon dreams disappear 
whence void-centric awareness
stands erect without an...

Zen mode

...softening attention
unfocused awareness
by cessation of volition
rests in its natural state
whereupon without seeking
heart’s hidden intent stirs
in playful spontaneity 
and childlike simplici...

Tomorrow will be too late

...Employing absolute freedom innate,
as the subject, the object and the means
the triad of energies shapes our fate,
with the light of Self veiled behind five screens,
the densest being our organic...

Betwixt bliss beats

...Body consciousness, once bliss energised,
entwines toroidal heart with the head shell,
whereupon truth of Self is realised,
after stark fears and dark desires we bell,
freed at last from ego’s hy...

Separation and union

...the waters divide
lovers are marooned
one at head, other at heart
between them looms
desert of desire

magnetism connects
all scattered coordinates
whispered in strobes of silence
reassuring...

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