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Ode To Mankind

Prologue:
	
	To the majority of people who seem to have lost touch
	this is presented as a declaration to be treated as such.
	And just for the world's deteriorating natural environment
	of which we're all a contributing cause by our embodiment.
	We hardly ever stop and consider how wasteful a life we lead
	but continue on for the sake of progress despite our real need.
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	O mankind of this planet called Earth!
	What is the purpose of Human birth?
	You are here only for just a short time,
	why not make the most of your prime?
	You turn hither and thither all over the place
	away from yourselves and thus fall from grace.
	You're always looking for treasure out there
	yet, most of the time, you end up in despair.
	You usually hold on to the things that pass away
	and short lasting values are the order of the day.
	You create and get involved in all sorts of strife,
	complicating an otherwise beautiful simple life.
	You want easily to know all of life's secrets
	and go about seemingly without any regrets.
	You crowd your own heart with many selfish desires
	and go vying for the things the other person acquires.
	You do seldom ever stop and reflect on your past
	nor consider how much longer the present will last.
	You deem everything to be unchanging and real
	and think that life is a mysterious one way deal.
	You're always the one who either gains or loses
	one thing or another depending on who chooses.
	You esteem progress of the economical and material
	and go hankering madly after the status of the imperial.
	You generally prefer to receive than to give or share
	and take delight in sense pleasures without much care.
	You are very skeptical about the worth of any spiritual ideals
	and often reject or ignore what another person sees and feels.
	You kill your own kind with or without much reason
	and the weather you unknowingly put out of season.
	You tend to think there's nothing more than what can be seen
	and rely much on the senses for most of that which you glean.
	You find it hard to acknowledge a power higher than your own
	and in the entire universe somehow believe that you are alone.
	You have desecrated and laid waste vast areas of land
	and made extinct many of the creatures by your hand.
	You have carelessly polluted a lot of the water, land and air
	and now wonder why it's no longer the same place out there.
	You have strangled the earth; strapped it down with cement and mortar
	cut down and burnt most of the trees that were giving food and shelter.
	You celebrate your own birth or death with much pomp and show
	yet beyond this present life very little are you ever willing to know.
	You know well the term "from dust we came and to dust we return"
	but what you are really, or can become, will apparently never learn.
	You think only that you are made of bones, flesh and blood,
	wondering how on earth you could get wiped out by a flood.
	You do not fathom the effects or results of your actions
	assuming what you get away with has no repercussions. 
                  					
Epilogue:

	You must realize that you live in a huge world of duality
	and don't have to endure the pairs of opposites infinitely;
	pleasure and pain, joy and sorrow, love and hate, good and bad,
	friend and foe, day and night, heat and cold, rich and poor it's sad
	the list does go on and on indefinitely it seems
	even beyond that we experience in our dreams.
	We should avoid going to the extremes of these
	then we can get to rise above them and so please
	our True Self which is the inner witness of our existence
	remaining forever unchanging not showing any resistance.
	But usually coming through as the voice of conscience sometimes
	like the law of justice towards the severity of small or great crimes.
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Haiku - Senryu 2: Rainbow


The rainbow appears
sometimes as a light rain falls
by its colors seen.
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A Way of Looking


Looking back at what's happened is hindsight
looking into the present moment is insight
looking ahead into the future is foresight
but looking in all three ways at once 
is all-seeing; OMNISCIENT and
the way that God would see.
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Glory and praise to You
Oh Lord. Please bless,
guide and protect
us all now and
forever more
Amen.
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Haiku - Senryu 1: Full Moon


Full moon is so bright
almost turns night into day
a wonderful sight.
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Quatrain 7 - Whatever happened to those days


Whatever happened to those days of wine and roses?
when the fragrance of love wafted through our noses.
And each moment was filled with so much joy,
like our childhood days playing with a new toy.
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Simple Observation 1 - Roses aren't all red


Roses aren't all red and violets all blue
the grass is green most of nature is too.
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To Whom It May Concern

O those ignorant of the path to God
don't carry on about less than a dog.
There’s so much to be gained in youth
so get yourself interested in the truth.

If some stranger were to say to you
certain words that proved to be true
would you hold onto them and pray,
regardless of whether it was today?

You brood over too many things it seems
which are of little value even in dreams.
This situation sometimes gets out of hand
but you do manage bravely and withstand.

You're so caught up in the ways of the flesh
that you hardly know how to escape the mesh.
You keep on repeating the same mistakes over again
and wonder how on earth you have come to this end.

In this world you will always reap what you sow
take heed therefore and make an effort to know:
the actions performed will cause one to rise or fall
whatever is held in the mind opens or closes a door.

We should never take this world to be real and lasting
because everything and everyone is part of the casting,
on the world's stage depicting various dramatic scenes
and whether we like it or not make impressions it seems.

Everything we see and touch has a beginning and ending
yet we persist in hoarding as much as we can for tending.
Our inner desires are never really all fulfilled to the extent
that we don't want or crave something else for our content.

The affairs of this world have become so complex and binding
where is that situation or condition which is not demanding?
For the average person who doesn't consider any alternative
their attachment’s complete; hands, feet and head affirmative.

With everything we say and do we reveal or give something away
how much therefore can we hide from one seeing through the array.
When we find or realize our ideal in life then we'll surely know
all we have gained outside of ourselves is only a passing show.

The world we all see around us is made up of light and shadow
for everything that there is an opposite exists my dear fellow.
Most of the people in the world go from one extreme to the other
they spend most of their lives seeking additional ground to cover.

The mystery of life and death still remains to be resolved
praise be to that person who this ignorance has dissolved.
That person is immersed in knowledge and has also reached The Goal
radiating to all the divine light of wisdom, bliss and love of The Soul.
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A God of Pain


Oh Lord, it seems to me, You are a God of pain
without which some people say there is no gain.
There is only so much that we creatures can bear
and it’s sometimes I wonder if You really do care.

Throughout the world You’re generally loved, hated or feared
and there are certain times when You are very strongly jeered. 
Most people have a hard time making up their mind about You
because of the trials and tribulations that You put them through.

It seems strange and true to say that with Your almighty nature
You somewhat force people to bend to Your imposing stature.
To impress on them that You’re the Only One they should please
You have to prepare and teach them all how Your Will to appease.

Is it because of You’re being Immortal and All-knowing and we are Your heirs
that You subject us all to such rigorous training to overcome illusion’s snares?
One only has to reflect on the lives of Your so-called True Sons of the past
to realize the suffering and attainment their example on humanity has cast.

If I sound to be a little cynical towards You and seem to complain
how could You be so insensitive and not help me get rid of my pain?
Though ignorant as I am to One Who is great as You’re made out to be
please show a little more compassion to those who are helpless like me.

As life in this world demands so much of our time
is it forgetfulness of Thee that You consider a crime?!
This whole world is a cruel proving ground to one higher above
and yet it has been spoken or written that You are a God of love!

If I don’t seem to see the bigger picture now of what really goes on
then You’re held responsible for allowing this situation to drag on.
And even though You have given Teachers to show people the way
the illusion is still so strong that most get caught and lost in the fray.

Remaining a while here where they play out either minor or major roles
being only a matter of time before they too become aware of their souls.
When after much disappointment and suffering that You seem to mete out
they gradually realize by pain that this world is not what life is only about.

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Worlds Within Worlds

There are worlds within worlds in this world of ours
as there are seconds in minutes and minutes in hours.
Take for example the world of the artists and their creations
how they represent aspects of nature and physical situations.
Or the world of writers whether it be that of drama, prose or poetry
how they express themselves in words of ever increasing ambiguity.

Then there’s the world of music and of a musician’s composition
in which are combined sounds of harmonic and varied precision.
And we have the world of nature and the life of all living things
of their instinct for survival and of what man’s place in it brings.
We must therefore consider the world of science and its discoveries
where in that pursuit for knowledge our future gives no guarantees.

There’s also a world of despair and that of faith and hope
how in the midst of pain or difficulties we’re able to cope.
We must also mention the world of love and its opposite hate
where we care for each other or go about in a destructive state.
There are worlds within worlds in this world of ours here
and in every one of them we try to achieve something dear.

There’s a world within each one’s mind or body and that of the heart
through which we experience this life of ours before we have to depart.
And so there’s the world of the beyond of which we know very little
where our soul is said to go being for a while its place of transmittal.
Which brings us to the world of religion and in what people believe
whether they are certain of their notions or what they may perceive.

There’s the world of memories that bears for many joy and sorrow
in which we remember our past and carry it with us into tomorrow.
We must mention the world of crime which is against the social good
and the laws of the state that it competes with mocking where it would.
And next is the world of justice which metes out punishment or reward
for things that people do in respect of ethics; what is or isn’t in accord.

There’s a world of communication and the various devices it uses to inform
of the complex and sophisticated means created by which it has to perform.
Then there’s the world of medicine or the prevention, treatment and cure of disease
where the doctor in his practice tries in various ways the patient to help or appease.
Yes, there are virtual worlds within worlds in this world of ours almost without end
and so therefore it’s with each other against time and space they all have to contend.
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The Wonder of It All


In the time it takes for us to blink our eyes
somebody is born and someone else dies.
The way of the world is through life and death
all that exists is nourished by food and breath.

In just a fleeting moment so much goes on
it’s a wonder for our mind to reflect upon.
Yet all that ever happens has a beginning and end
in the vastness of time and space it has to contend.

What is life about and our purpose on this world here?
Is it not to grow and expand, to realize something dear?
We all have basic desires to achieve one thing or another
a sort of instinct or legacy through our father and mother.

In self knowledge and expression we all reveal the way forward
one step at a time or in leaps and bounds we come closer toward
where this impulse of life leads us or directs each one to go
while the emphasis is always to learn, live, love and to grow.

In life we all have to face situations by which we gain or lose
yet it depends so much on our ability and freedom to choose.
If we see beyond our present circumstances it’s a positive sign
and experience may prove that there was only an imaginary line.

In relationships there are certain things that we all come to know
whatever doesn’t appear on the surface, otherwise hard to show.
To cultivate or develop the best in ourselves and others is a worthy ideal
though many people have a tendency for the false instead of what is real.

There are so many aspects of life we take for granted or even miss their point
in our daily struggle for survival whoever we are or find ourselves at this joint.
It takes much discriminative knowledge based on experience to come out ahead
and at the end of each day be able to relax, rest or even sleep soundly in our bed.

We’re all prone to the malady of living wherever we may happen to be
as long as we don’t make it harder for ourselves or others in being free.
And in seeking the right solutions to those problems or dilemmas that we face
we should realize them to be relative not just to one particular time and place.
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