poetry

[zin]

(from the Sufi mail group I'm a member of.. I especially liked the last part.. (taken with his permission))

BRIEFLY

Loads of lightning
Tons of thunder
Very little rain
Now you come for me
Zeroing in on nothing

The planet is warming
The ice is melting
The seas are rising
Wildcat's got my tongue
I too have grown thorns

Is this real life or a placebo?
Let us see eye to eye
First look where
the starfish is pointing
I plan on ignoring nothing

Pour out your soul
to an indifferent universe
& what do you get?
A performance of language
& a brief break in the confusion

Steve Toth

[bluey]

The Search

My love and I have travelled far
I went in search to find a star
I climbed mountains high and valleys low
To find this love my heart does know

Through distant lands and shattering fear
I battled on just to be near
I slayed the dragon I fought the war
I found the castle I climbed the wall

Heart yearning for my hearts desire
The fever burning from the inner fire
To reach my love my only goal
I faced the demon I freed my soul

A light intense a lovers call
I found the place I reached the door
Upon my knees I prayed to enter
To see my love to reach my centre

[silver]

(a no-title poem from Rsandee on SF)


Sweet dreams
High hopes
Funny jokes
Pleasant distractions
Heavy mind
Ice cold
Channeling storm

Clouds are swirling
Forecast looking grim
Lights getting darker
Fire growing dim
Year upon year
Day after day

Stubborn you pressed on
Ignored your feelings again
Only caring about results
Building only to collapse
And collapse it will

Life isn't a test
It's to be lived
You prayed for something
But received no reward
Only reaping more work

Took a leap
Just like before
Remember that time?
Yes you do
More wishful thinking
You never stop

Didn't work
You tried
What now?
Can't see
Only darkness
Fate unknown
Never stop

[bluey]

Open Space

Open space nothing there
No flashing lights
No shooting flare

No wanting for something
Nothing to share
A loneliness calling
With no tinge of despair

Smooth with no ripples
No face to recall
No joy no beauty
Nothing to install

Detached unassuming
No climbing no fall
Where am I who am I
Am I nothing at all

No not me no name to call
Just space unending
I am no thing I am all

Caught in the middle
This no mans land
Empty barren unending unplanned

An expansion a threshold
A new horizon crossed
A slight apprehension
A fear I am lost

Something within guiding me through
I am not what I was I am something new

Unclothed unburdened
The sun is now blue
This body of earth
Leaves no residue

Fluorescent uncharted
I am me I am you

I seek myself in the eyes of man
Who shall see me
And know that I am

[Deleted]

Crazy House


I was born ion a crazy house where fighting was the norm though still I had love
A later day when I was a early teen I took the money saved to leave the routine
Off I went in a bus too far, ended up in Florida outside a bar
I stayed there a while and learn from the streets hoping to find one true friend to meet
True friend never came so I joined the Air Force just the same
Two years later this wasn't for me too many orders, I just wanted to be

I got married and had a kid, I thought it's OK everyone did
Many years later marriage wasn't for me, I only wanted a place to be
Some years later once more I took to spirituality to find the score
It so happen I found a treasure that gave me much pleasure
I found my place to be was always here even closer than me

[Deleted]

You Will Be Amazed
If you could sense the spaciousness of the sky
and the dramatic beauty of shape-shifting clouds
if you could feel the dark magnificence of mountains
and the calm sentience of trees
If you could sense that the world isn’t mechanical and inert
but gloriously alive with soul-force
and if you could feel this force inside you, as the essence of your being
and so sense that you’re not separate after all
but part of this magical communion
Then your restlessness and dissatisfaction would cease.
Your sense of frustration and emptiness
your craving for success and power
your hunger for love and affirmation
your need for diversion and excitement
your desire to own and conquer –
these crazy traits would simply fall away
like the pains of a wound which has healed.
​
One day you will be amazed
at how easy it is to be alive
and how right it feels to be in the world

Steve Taylor

Attachments:

[glimmer]

just now
waiting for
evening stars

[silver]

there is only re-birth
coffee n me

[silver]

A fresh one from SF:


Emotions run wild in the barricaded ocean,
Holding you captive directing the flow of motion,
Try as you might to stand up and fight,
Pain of the past hinders the flight.

The pain of the past can't last,
When the spell of transmutation is cast.
When all seems lost there is nothing left to give,
Find your strength in pain this power is a gift.

Shine the light in the darkness don't run away and hide,
Stand in the presence of your demons and the pain will subside.
To embrace in the pain may seem to be insane,
For your strength is in pain can you see what I’m saying?

Weakness is but strength at one end of the scale,
A loss can show you that you never really fail.
Pain should inspire you to have fun with the game.
Strength is in pain they are one and the same.

-Incognitomagnito

[silver]

Couple poems posted on SF this morn


The Journey, by David Whyte

Above the mountains
the geese turn into
the light again

painting their
black silhouettes
on an open sky.

Sometimes everything
has to be
inscribed across

the heavens
so you can find
the one line

already written
inside you.
Sometimes it takes

a great sky
to find that
small, bright

and indescribable
wedge of freedom
in your own heart.

Sometimes with
the bones of the black
sticks left when the fire
has gone out

someone has written
something new
in the ashes of
your life.

You are not leaving
even as the light fades quickly now
you are arriving.

[silver]

Poem #2

Sweet Darkness

When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.

When your vision has gone,
no part of the world can find you.

Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize its own.

There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.

The dark will be your home
tonight.

The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.

You must learn one thing:
the world was made to be free in.

Give up all the other worlds
except the one to which you belong.

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn.

anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.”

David Whyte

[glimmer]

Fortune Bonsai

The house bonsai tree has been placed by my son onto the veranda railing. The coins from Hong Kong sit amongst the polished stones above the tree’s roots, placed for good fortune. The tree, not used to the rushing winds of Wellington at this height, stays so placed – for now.

cultivated so carefully
our fortunes
to the wind

[glimmer]

if the dust
ever settles
against the light
of Self
who should know
any moment
anyway

[zin]

Jan 15, 2017 5:01:43 GMT -5 glimmer said:

Fortune Bonsai

The house bonsai tree has been placed by my son onto the veranda railing. The coins from Hong Kong sit amongst the polished stones above the tree’s roots, placed for good fortune. The tree, not used to the rushing winds of Wellington at this height, stays so placed – for now.

cultivated so carefully
our fortunes
to the wind

Thank you for telling about the tree!

[Deleted]

When someone says,
"I'd know an enlightened person, if I see one,"
that's what called "dry bones in the desert."

When someone says,
"I've chanted the Heart Sutra for sixteen years,"
That's known as "moss growing on the north side of the tree."

When someone asks,
"Why does the Gita says there's is no such thing as time?"
that's what we call "a leaf falling into the creek"

When someone says, '"nothing for me to surrender, since there is no me"
That's what most say is "the breeze bending the grass"

When someone says," I no longer argue with what is, and
"I'm forever grateful for that!"
this is what is meant by "rain on a parched field"