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477 · Sep 2014
Forgive Me
Kenshō Sep 2014
Sitting like every moment is the first one,
The ineffable center of the spokes of time.
The air that was of magic, that contained no chemical names-
Clothed me in childlike nature, and spoke to me in riddles and games.
The wonderful, glittery .. Cancer filled, jittery.
What is this cycle of anonymous names,
amongst what have I been born?
Cubical jobs and mechanical rich snobs.
Look: We contain something within us..
-Of it I could not speak-
But climb to the wilderness mountain like the rest of them did..
Behold my brothers and sisters the divine mountain still speaks!
I come in peace. Do not offend.
476 · Aug 2014
I Alone,
Kenshō Aug 2014
The world seems rushing,
I alone seem still.

The world seems a bank of memory,
I alone cannot think.

The world seems after something,
I alone cannot move.

The world seems to say something,
I alone cannot speak.

Who would hear?
The echoes of my soul.

Who would journey with me?
I've dream't a million dreams.

Who and what would fill my mind?
Clouds cross these skies!

I want to sit by the river,
My Goddess, Grandest of Fathers.
hi.
Kenshō Aug 2014
I've stolen a moment alone.
Sunset burning,
yet everyone's at home.

If only I could share,
My calmed mind state
and love struck stare.

So very busy:
I hear the buses and trains;
Hollow ghosts seeking salvation from pains.

But have they ever sat silent alone
On the single cloud throne?

I wish I could let them sit, forever whole.
Just to smile in heaven, sitting with no goal.
sit with me
474 · Aug 2014
For You Specifically~
Kenshō Aug 2014
I want to tell you how beautiful you are.
This isn't dependent on your clothes or car.
Not dependent on your grades or how much you were paid.
This is shown through your altruistic understanding.
That every man and woman is here standing.
No one can fly, no one can breathe underwater.

I'm done with the *******.

You are ALL beautiful, and I LOVE you all.
hi
472 · May 2015
A Passing Moment
Kenshō May 2015
T'was on the last day's length
When the Doom Guard made his final pass.

Across the span, his spirit would loom,
Trailing behind fog and forward inspiring doom.

Lead to the Blackened Land they surely were,
Showed astray and cast into a dying blur.

And today not a thing still stands,
Only black crystals glisten across the shaded barren sands.
~
464 · Aug 2014
Heavy Load
Kenshō Aug 2014
To feel the pain of the racism-
To feel the pain of the war-
To feel the pain of discrimination-
To feel the pain imprisonment-
To feel these things in our very home..

This is what I call the heavy load.
.
456 · Nov 2014
Nothing Was Found
Kenshō Nov 2014
"I wonder what kingdoms rest in the clouds?",
Said the little hopeful girl to the mother with a queer frown.
"I wonder what's at the center of the earth or beneath the ground!"
Crushed was Jimmie by reality's pressure~
Those people who ventured either suffocated or drowned!
"Listen, it's the faeries, do you hear that sound?"
Said suspicious the child to whom all was around.

To all whom searched,
gave up,
or are no longer around..
Wonder no longer..


Nothing was found.
don't take it literally =P it's just a poem that came to me
455 · Oct 2014
Passing Day Alone Pt 1
Kenshō Oct 2014
The sun went down today
with no passing thought.

Day of birth signifies nothing
when no one is around.

Humans do not wander around my home.

But the waking birds sing songs of my birth,
everyday alone.
pt 1
439 · Feb 2020
Sapphire Albatross
Kenshō Feb 2020
the sapphire albatross
winding way of will
break the hardest
and wear away until
all has measured furthest
and met down that last hill
as all the drops converge
becoming less even still
all becomes one
in the ocean of time
all is perfect
not a single spill
435 · Dec 2024
3 a.m. Visit
Kenshō Dec 2024
We met once again,
In an instance
Outside of time.

You reminded me
You hadn't gone.
And, we caught up
On moments lost.

You explained,
It was just
A misunderstanding.

You had hid away,
To make us all
Realize
How much we loved you
When you were
Here.

The solace I felt
At your return
Filled me up.
Just like old times.

Until, you needed to go
Again;
Leaving me wondering,
When I'll see you again.

For, you had many
Loved ones to visit
That night;

And you were the
Shared connection
Between us all.

As I wiped the
Sleep from my eye,
I got ready for the day
Without you.

~

Yes, my friend, my heart has enough space to carry you a thousand times, back and forth from here to there. And, I know there will be a space for me in yours when I see you then.
I love you forever!
419 · Feb 2015
लीला
Kenshō Feb 2015
Before the hours weep their sorrow across the Sky King's land,
The world has potential.
In the astral twilight of the dawn,
A silence held so soft.
Where ancient worlds speak and shine through the veils of delusion
And the Buddha sits upon a hill in the third watch of night.

And soon, the Center Star shall crest and the world will scatter
Like a million ants, searching for heaven outside of themselves.
419 · Jun 2015
Beyond Baggage
Kenshō Jun 2015
I remember what seems now like ages ago,
When teachers and distant relatives would say,
"You can do anything, just believe it and it will be so."

Then if that's the case:

I think I might like to fly over the hills with the sun on my back!
Or be able to wade downward through the ocean, with an infinite air sack.
Better yet, let me travel ten thousand light years away
To visit the worlds of distant bays!

How romantic could we make it?
Role-playing ten thousand ways,
Gods and Goddesses flaunt in play.

Meld like water and shift your display!
You are a magician of being, holding the skies at bay.
Rumble the earth and clouds, scream what you say!
The one and only, now and today.

I believe it was nice meeting but there was something I didn't say.
I must have skipped something and missed what you meant to display.
We passed so fast and were going separate ways..
Not a moment to last, did I even remember your name?

But somehow we were both aspects of the same greater force;
Traveling different paths but on the same ultimate course.
Could we free ourselves of our own baggage and recognize
Our brothers and sisters all as divine messengers of source?
-
415 · Jul 2014
Bring Me
Kenshō Jul 2014
Bring me

A time where food was for eating;
Thus, no hunger, nor over eating.
A time where clothes were for warmth;
Thus, no cold, no glamour.
A time where night did not sheath criminals;
Thus, dreams were merrily spoken.
A time where humanity was whole;
Thus, no discrimination.
A moment where time didn't exist;
Thus, no one sweated being late.

Time came and it went..
tick tock tick tock tick tock

(Wanted to make this one clear... I can't hold it in)
415 · Aug 2015
The World I Leave
Kenshō Aug 2015
Concrete
and
garbage flies.
~
399 · May 2015
Melting Snow
Kenshō May 2015
On winter's last day's length
When the leaves display like drooping curtains
Washing away the white rain for a season to pass

The calm softness would wrap me as it would melt the last
Waiting for the next season of life; Rainbow flowers and grass.
-
381 · Jan 2020
Alchemical Butterfly
Kenshō Jan 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-Khs9Rqxs
Listen while reciting - Enjoy!!
-----

Alchemical Butterfly
wing in the sky
eastern diamond bay
we were born this way
everyone will cry

Shhh It's all okay
Garden of God at play
megalithic dao
mirror of now
everyone is gay

I'm tired of the human race
But have love for god
I want to leave this earth
but float among space
And look back, from a pod

Im forgetting all name and form
And feeling as if I were never born
I cannot tell if it is after or before
All is now wet, I smile as it pours
Another barrier between my place and yours

But thats okay I like it inside
Closer to my heart for my soul to untie
Where there are no clocks
because people don't have the time
Life is a lie and the truth is everyone will die

So set me free from here
the land of the sun
where people are blind
the land of the gun
where humans **** their kind

My soul is a boat
Distant from shore
Bending the horizon
onward to nevermore
no body to tote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-Khs9Rqxs

listen while reciting
375 · May 2015
Note from the Satchel
Kenshō May 2015
How could I begin to convey my rage
Reaching pain's infinity in a single day..

Stable and stern, I watch with a downcast, I admit.
They are marching forever; follow the one in front..

Who is to say what is on the mind
Of a blind rover?

Or what winds are cast upon the back
Of a grand avian?

Let me pass without a second glance.
-
373 · Feb 2015
If I could say
Kenshō Feb 2015
You are my musical melody,
My love filled remedy.

But I sit quietly. Avoid the contemplating;
Eluding and evading, silently sedating.

Until the music breaks through.
That horrid moment of truth.

The moment where I finally say,
"I miss you."

But I could never sing a song so true.
To portray my love from me to you.
I just need to hear, feel, tell you once more.
"I miss you."

The pain has brought me to my knees.
Until something sounds and rejoice!
Could it be my musical melody of that precious voice?
One last time..

The sorrow has made me think of possibilities.
What lies beyond the process of growing from a seed
to an O so beautiful blooming tree. Could it be?
An encounter with a known and lost entity.

My hand out stretched -
Will the vibrations make it from me to you and back to me?
One last time..

The thought comes up but I am scared to face it.
Could I never think again and infinitely erase it?
Or should I embrace it?

A voice in my head tells me to push on through
and say those oh so meaningful words,
"I miss you."

Did I ever tell you that?

You are my musical melody,
My love filled remedy.

Until then I sit quietly.
Until the music breaks through
That beautiful moment of complete and utter truth.
The moment where I finally could say..

I miss you...
Written for a deceased buddy
358 · Sep 2014
Now
Kenshō Sep 2014
Now
Deciphering coded blight,
I release through this mic.

Built with mind and is always mine;
I build my palace outside of time.

Stumbled paths find their way,
To the golden palace today.

I can coo of golden angels
Fly with the fairies and dive with devils.

All of life's mountain reaches,
and all of its perils.

Reside between, a moment seen.
Of what is, could be and has been.
.
347 · Feb 2015
Open
Kenshō Feb 2015
Something isn't right and it's calling out to me.
A blinded mass crawling and craving, if only you could see.
Visions of paradise lost and possibilities came to me
Granted by Gods and swept by fallen angels.
What words could I say to gift you the openness of a single day
Where no city lights, no gas guzzling cars or gangs and street fights
Bloodied up our atmospheres like the oil and pollution we pour out every year.

But look, I know people have said it before,
And we are so small, how could damage be done by one bore?
Surely not hundreds, digging for something more.
Yet we've forgotten where yonder rests that further shore.
Where angels walk and god can be felt.
It will be found no where else, then directly in your heart and under your pelt.

To be honest, I have no companions.
I walk completely alone.
But when it's silent in the day and a tear begins to drip,
I know I've touched something miraculous and when I try to speak of it..

This is when my words begin to slip.

But it translates itself, to those who wish to hear.
That among the pain and suffering of this life, never do fear.
Because that spirit you know within yourself is a reflection mirror clear.
So let that show your heart and not your mind or body.
Those are overrated by those who are truly shoddy.
And the sad thing is, it's the most among us.
So when you feel like things have gone astray,
Remember what you know to be true,
And never, never look away.
Because within that reflection I see something so beautiful,
Covered and scared.

Buy this, buy that, cover it up, don't think about it.

This is the way they live.
-
345 · Jul 2014
Passing Day Alone Pt 2
Kenshō Jul 2014
Everyday alone, I wander woods unknown.
Herb gathering, perched on hidden cloud throne.
Constructed by ageless story filled stone.
No human to see once all is shown,
Revealing boundaries unknown,
making everywhere my home.
Pt 2
341 · Aug 2014
A Nation Asleep
Kenshō Aug 2014
My tears are so confusing.
Have you ever cried for humanity?
Hoping that the vision of heaven is still alive?
334 · Aug 2014
Nothing
Kenshō Aug 2014
What is the word out of context?
What is the mind beyond concepts?
Where are you outside of this complex?

It's nothing; you could recall.
What is behind the chalk board?
What was left under the rug?
What does the emptiness read?
Where did the wind hide?

Neither silence nor speech could satisfy a spec.
What lies within you is .. Under control like the God's over Heaven.
Who does the King of Kings bow to?
What do the fish think of it?
What did the in between hold?

Nowhere can you hide from yourself.
Where does the fluid stream head?
Why do the turtles live so long?
Can the wind hold my mind's weight?
Here we are to see-


Don't
      Forget
                Love
hope you like
330 · Nov 2019
Late Night Note
Kenshō Nov 2019
Twenty thousand steps
winding to the left.
'Cause right was wrong
and wrong was right.
At the end of the road
there was nothing left
so I bent a right.
I love you so much,
but share a night,
          alone;
Something I know so well,
Better than I know you.
But, I worry you've not known
'cause I've gone and well-
I'm worried the message
I've written won't tell.
I'm tired of 'the' shell-
So, I break boundaries and yell.
A life you didn't make
but a life you are willing to take?
Part 1 of 4 of #4Post-Cards
319 · Jul 2014
Significance of One Life
Kenshō Jul 2014
The purpose of man
is to give significance
to things.

Signify the significance
of one idle thought
that you may mean
-nothing-

Of course that is only
as relevant as the connection
You have with the family of caterpillars
that feed on your divine planted tomatoes.

Admit it, you did a great thing.
Feeding the caterpillar, you
perpetuated life.

Bugs don't bug me anymore..
319 · Jul 2014
YOU
Kenshō Jul 2014
YOU
One too less,
into two I pour,
three and we divide,

Up goes walls,
Providing insides.
What within resides..

An 'I' seeing you.
But can you see through
The illusion of divide like I do?
connect!
313 · Aug 2014
Signaling The Void
Kenshō Aug 2014
If I could steal a moment alone,
I admit, I'd want it to be a moment to share.
If I could see the whole world of light,
I'd want it to be your eyes into which I stare.
If I could warm by the hottest of hearths,
I admit, I'd want it to be your sheath I share.
If I could embody any angel or god,
I would willingly sacrifice my self facade.
How could I ever meet?
The missing half to make my puzzle complete.
.
300 · Aug 2014
The Seeing Bird
Kenshō Aug 2014
I surf the sky, above the city;
I notice the poor and addicts and their pity.
I can see the future from here-
My mind is overwhelmed with thoughts of fear.
The men in black are having a mechanical cheer..

I can walk the path of any persons feelings.
I can see way beneath the banana peeling.
I observe all these people stealing.
We must come together to start the healing.
I know, when you think about it you get that feeling..

Differences are minor in proportion to how we are alike.
It shouldn't matter how fast you ride, we all learned to ride the bike.
It shouldn't matter when you arrived, you had to take the hike..
Now is the time for peace to strike.
For violence and isolation has failed many times.
old poem
297 · Nov 2024
I Sped to the Temple
Kenshō Nov 2024
I sped to the temple.
Breaking human laws,
to align with universal ones.

I approached.
As my brow lowered,
grace entered my being.

Sunlight greeted me.
As I slowly passed
A stone Buddha.

No one was around.
Monks must be out.
Only a bird sat and sang
to all the flowers.
~
As I entered the main hall,
the wood creaked beneath me,
And my awareness became acute.

The large Buddha towered
over a myriad of empty zafus.
All in accordance and order.

I sat, emulating the statue.
Even my temporal imperfections
matched the stone carvings.
Yet, my mind was with the bird.

I stretched out my legs,
toward the wall,
after a long sit.
The flowers were still after a breeze
And that bird had flown away.
https://i0.wp.com/westvirginiaville.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/bhavana-society-meditation-hall-blanket-march2022.jpg?ssl=1
291 · Nov 2019
#4Post-Cards
Kenshō Nov 2019
I'm going under cover
where all vibration is a hum.
And where I tend to hover,
I lose track of where I'm from;
Or what direction I'm going,
But, I am indeed in contact~
With something in the sky, glowing.
Accept that as a fact.
They are speaking to me,
teaching me to attract.
It only takes a whisper
for my tongues to get flowing;
And, I start to look crisper~
Upon the world as an artifact
Of art and unknowing.
Part 4 of 4 of #4Post-Cards
287 · Nov 2019
No rules-No mistakes
Kenshō Nov 2019
no words
Just Motions
no mind
no world
Just Devotion
somewhere
somehow
Odd(Old) Notions
something
sometimes
Magick Potions
no tide
no wave
Just Ocean
nobody
no soul
Just Emotions
no face
no image
God is Remoting
Part 2 of 4 of #4Post-Cards
284 · Jul 2014
Inbetween His Seed
Kenshō Jul 2014
I say to thee
That the empty seed
Could hold the tree

All can be seen
from the emptiness
in between
oh you knowww
283 · Dec 2019
I laugh
Kenshō Dec 2019
I know why god made waterfalls
Or why birds fly

When you cast thy mind to the call
your feet will lift to the sky

And if by gone ages be deaf
And no great minds be left

Then cast my mind astray
Like an owl lost in the light of day


God poured a waterfall in my heart
Once my soul was an arrow but now 'tis a dart

Flying flying towards i know not what
But i think they call this art

I am listening and it is getting louder
Nature is giving birth we must surround her

The future is an angel in your mind
With love and compassion we must ground her

So I trek with compass and staff
Because they **** with  mind
And suffocate with number and graph

I whistle upon the dixies
As I sneak around with pixies

In the end of it all
It seems a bit chaff
Inward thinking to myself, I laugh
257 · Oct 2014
Last Words
Kenshō Oct 2014
The vapors of desperation had crawled;
Fog snakes curling his body's form.
Stood half teetering along the edge
Of an unfamiliar precipice containing
What he knew not.

He had carried his medicine pack,
Heavy, a prison held on his back.
What was the use of sending a note
Caught on the air of the winds
Bounding from that deep crevice!

Would Gods and Demons meet him
In his pathetic descent?
'Let them join me!',
Suicidal, he said.

Taking his last short step
down...down...

And maybe..

He thought of the connections with people
Hard to ever make. Hidden in his mind.
It wouldn't be fair to take someone with him.
To share what had been stolen and ripped.
Oh, what a poor, poor soul.

He jumped after few sad thoughts taunted him.
dark, suicidal, suicide, sad, depression, deep, cry
230 · Jul 2014
Waiting
Kenshō Jul 2014
See I sit here,
Waiting for you.
What ever you are, I know you are worth it.
Perhaps you are the divine.
Perhaps you are a woman who understands what I mean.
Perhaps you are a chemical reaction that occurs when I stand over the tallest mountain.
Perhaps you are the nothingness written between these lines.
I, honestly, am not sure.
I will lovingly wait to find out though.
I'll wait.
224 · Nov 2019
Ages Fear Rainbow Ideas
Kenshō Nov 2019
time   mind   man  
will   moment   day  
love   life   wind  
night   form   sky  
soul   beautiful   light  
left   heart   empty  
clouds   lost   feel  
cast   mountain   tree  
human   trees   sun  
single   divine   sit  
gods   death   find  
water   today   void  
dreams   language   eyes  
songs   king   silence  
free   heaven   pass  
souls   ground   silent  
hold   wonder   air  
god   crystal   eye  
land   hear   speak  
breathe   ancient   skies  
held   people   mountains  
truth   spirit   deep  
pain   thing   flowers  
reach   eternal   earth  
worlds   ways   directions  
bend   moon   hidden  
nature   center   passing  
golden   hills   thought  
magic   forever   true  
war   bring   city  
emptiness   matter   essence  
illusion   clearly   hill  
song   idle   caught  
sure   children   passed  
cold   full   infinite  
story   long   space  
dream   knew   forest  
felt   lies   beneath  
filled   smoke   high  
mother   feet   bound  
round   distant   meet  
chant   warm   heavy  
stories   great   told  
state   things   morning  
thee   winds   cloud  
inside   stand   sound  
remember   path   meaning  
ten   shore   lonely  
kind   unknown   bounds  
darkness   star   blind  
fire   knowledge   angels  
body   born   spoken  
seed   forgotten   rain  
days   leave   walk  
prayer   hovering   peace  
unity   grasp   ocean  
spoke   admit   brink  
surely   small   understand  
lord   reality   return  
stumble   grey   stars  
release   smile   fly  
start   holds   circle  
thoughts   natural   bounding  
separate   call   paths  
face   point   dead  
head   watch   dark  
sounds   friend   spirits  
wisdom   longer   perceived  
sat   constant   needed  
wanted   play   help  
rest   fully   clothes  
reflection   sing   black  
stone   set   open  
ages   fear   rainbow   ideas
here are the words now i just gotta figure out the order they go in

Most popular key words used through-out my poetry of the last 5 years and organized into lines of 3 words each. With the last having 4, adopting the title, because it worked.


Thanks for taking the time to experience some of the unbound imagery from my poetic pain.
Kenshō Jul 2014
Hanging Clouds of Mind

Carry me to Heavenly Heights

Speak to me the Songs

Ancient faces of You

How 'i' smile when 'i' Know

Granted a world beyond

Could I ever reach You

Through my Lullaby?
My sigh caught the wind
Kenshō 7d
Loneliness for an introvert
Is like the sun peaking through the rain.

It creates so many beautiful rainbows,
For one to view through a window.

Somebody on the other side is
looking at the same rainbow.

But only
If I had someone to share
this with.
.
172 · Jan 2020
100k in the Night
Kenshō Jan 2020
Ill walk one hundred thousand steps in the night
I made the flight with no map or light

Stumbled through brier and thorn
Upon my soul like a garment, torn

Yet my mind is like a stallion
Stampeding with my battalion

The spirit of the heard(herd)
Is trans-Luci-dating the power of the third

I'm stuck here now on earth
But the lines are getting blurred

Each letter a note to the infinite song
Channeling the word of god all along
running

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=823apjYlUt8

— The End —