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Feb 2021 · 194
An Owl Leaves Daylight
Onoma Feb 2021
as impressions shorten their form,

an owl leaves daylight suddenly.

flattening its wings over an Ocean,

all-ways light.

alighting at your window, one

motion free from stillness.

so You can hear the sound contradicted

by the customariness of nothing fathomed.

there's something that worries over

an owl that resurrects daylight on a

crooked limb.

the speed of acceptance deemed late.

the owl was there once...

leaving out everything.

And would you know it?

an owl's downcurved beak smiled

back...reappearing.

falling down lifelessly over branches

that redrew the most vehement disappearances.
Jan 2021 · 195
Wolf Moon
Onoma Jan 2021
when the land has locked its jaw,

and starving recesses fight to get

loose, only the wind breaks free.

blowing away from what froze it

clear, watching January choose a

place to die alone.

rumbling in the pits of wolves'

stomachs, shadowing and shadowed

by the place January chose to die alone.

their darkening magic severe enough

to cast out what it casts--driven on all

fours through trackless acts of disappearance.

the trees see nothing of this, coldly burning

at their own stakes, having been stripped bare...

their congregations sway from time to time.

the fall and the spread of nothing, clear from

the throats of wolves...rising.

a sickly yellow arena, with last-leg effulgence

comes around to their howls, and hangs there

as the pithy of survival.
Jan 2021 · 213
Dimensionally Sequestered
Onoma Jan 2021
there's a cold in the

grey outside, perspectively

sectioned off.

its breathy paint keeps

running down and

across frozen surfaces.

there's a window to it,

which drifts--oddly enough

to become two dimensionally

sequestered in walls.
Jan 2021 · 175
Absent From That Company
Onoma Jan 2021
one night outside of itself--

it came to me a pitch too black.

open eyes might as well of been

closed, and vice versa.

the first thing that came to our mind

was death, which did not pass.

if it was to be survived, it would come

through the intervention of time...

slowly or speedily creeping out of its

unseen hole.

as with the boundaries of desolation

made out by a will to life, where

aloneness takes on the character of

otherness, absent from that company.

so was it night or death, or other that

filled in the blanks of aloneness as it

withdrew its thrall?

what was left there was a refuge which

had sought a refuge from what sought

it, and what came together knew it would

never be alone again--even though that's

all it was.
Jan 2021 · 168
Equidistant Recognitions
Onoma Jan 2021
the drawn parallels of birds...

their countercurrents of flow

colored, stark visibilities.

their patterns recognized against

blue seals being opened.

inherent flights always equidistant

to the distanceless, their lifelong calls...

nondifferential songs composed

by other lifelong calls.

an inmost vibration made common,

thus recognized...returned from

branches that fall and regrow.

as if pointing the way.
Dec 2020 · 120
Snowcams
Onoma Dec 2020
those

solitary poles in the axial

spin of their snow globe.

haloed convenants clustering

anonymous eyes, broadcasting

a running channel of real time

dream.

stranger than a passerby, stranger

still the lonely viewer of the screen.

exposure and nonexposure to

an interplay of elements beyond

weather, yet being driven by the force

behind it all.

were it that a passerby would stop

and look up at a snowcam, with the

feeling of being looked at by a stranger.

to the astonishment of a lonely viewer,

an intimate spell of white suspends

the snowflakes.

an untranslatable moment, with no

lapse but the seeming release of snowflakes

thereafter...

and an unbroken spell.
Dec 2020 · 126
Inelegancies
Onoma Dec 2020
time can not apportion

her inelegancies--

know which baby to

steal candy from.

until her framework

of anesthetizing voids

take numbness aback--

with the succor of the

sweetest candy left to

the devices of a baby.
Dec 2020 · 221
Centaur and Redhead Maiden
Onoma Dec 2020
the cavalry of the centaur

composes him, halved lord

of the rush made complete.

a groundswell foresting,

blowing open a canopy.

redhaired variations to the maiden

meeting the charge of her

foliage head on.

the spine of her last change

of color.

parting her fingers on that

forest ground.
Dec 2020 · 77
Trotting Away
Onoma Dec 2020
the stuffing of clouds

have popped out,

over-clung and ragged

dolls slung over space.

inanimate and sidelong

stares of stopped time,

exhibiting forgetfulness

too gone to lose.

explosions of pindrops

far off, and far into The Now.

similar to abandoning the

keenest mind like an unwanted

pet, tentatively trotting away.

looking back once and a while.
Dec 2020 · 98
A Poem of Hallways
Onoma Dec 2020
a poem has come through

all the windows, leaving

her mindspaces on the walls.

carrying sensory input to

the degree of birth.

she's so good to those walls,

that they stand up to fall...

a poem of hallways seeing

straight.

leading and led by, floodings

of light echoing feet.

waited for behind every door.

a poem of hallways let in.
Dec 2020 · 96
Solitariness Shook You
Onoma Dec 2020
Mother, I've a question

for you--as you questioned

me to talk to yourself.

my solitariness shook you

to your core, those nine

months endeavor to teach

You too.

so it was you asked yourself,

your son--why he can be alone

like a madman.

I stepped forward only to reply--

that type of question rubs me

the wrong way.

yours was a plea for company, and

a loving condemnation for he that

avoids it.
Dec 2020 · 71
Wagered of This Sitting
Onoma Dec 2020
wagered of this

sitting, meditation

sits across from me.

staring, unblinking--

through clay, at clay.

there's room to move

there somehow, splinter a

glass timetable with silence.

to timeout seeing.

to mean what you mean,

and know about being there.

something happens that way,

something always happens

that way.
Dec 2020 · 55
Grey Sheen
Onoma Dec 2020
the rain is opening

pieces of light to a

grey sheen.

its gurgle of closing

statements fasten

houses, dividing

distances.

the rain is thinking

of something beyond

wetness...I want to know.
Dec 2020 · 79
Cresting Her Horns
Onoma Dec 2020
Shiva waxes his

poetic moon, charnel

ground blue.

always coming back

with something to see.

the way the first thing

crept on the last thing

in a single moving.

cresting her horns,

reliving ash.

the way an aura

around anything  is

dispossessed.

then embraced the

way it needs to be.
Dec 2020 · 74
One That Just Keeps
Onoma Dec 2020
there's a growth

in all that aloneness

can deem itself.

a companionship

that knows how to

share your kind of

space.

one that just keeps

pouring in, one that

just keeps pouring out.

one that just keeps.
Dec 2020 · 65
Shaft of Continuation
Onoma Dec 2020
there are rays among

the shaft of continuation,

that beam the whole of the

sun when a flower blooms.

the sun's fires become fragrant,

marriage in its multicolored asking--

doing the honors of taking petaled hands.
Dec 2020 · 97
Ganga Fore-tears
Onoma Dec 2020
Himalayan projection screen,

undulant sea tones brushed by

silken zephyrs.

devoted parameters of mind,

stroked wide open by jasmine.

a yogi's hands coming together

at the chest, at the forehead, over

the crown.

Ganga fore-tears in tumults of white,

precisely when she was given to flow.

Shakti pregnant with afterglow,

lifegiving--unbroken in labor.
Nov 2020 · 107
Bloodstone
Onoma Nov 2020
an ambrosial garden

giving off remembrances...

the whole lot of seasons to

lifetimes.

scents that trip the turn of a

bloodstone to its inward sun.

the let-go of paradises Christed

to their consciousness, married

to otherness--then no other.

first the feeling of having been

there, then that feeling relieved

of having been anywhere.
Nov 2020 · 106
Recognizable Strangers
Onoma Nov 2020
emerging cowls from densifying

mists, hanging around featureless faces.

instantly recognizable strangers

of pain, walking barefoot on snow.

leaving footprints that stalk that

downy white straight to the hearth.

givers and bearers of all its variety--

shattering circulations of its lifeblood,

cold to the touch.

they come for those whom they come--

without exception, and are known for

all that they are.
Nov 2020 · 97
Venom is a Rising Chorus
Onoma Nov 2020
a desert's sapped gold, desolately

faced--struck by serpents whose

venom is a rising chorus.

vanity mirror of a sun that cannot

be imbued by secondariness.

spittle oasis' of a wanderer sinking

journey-less steps into the wending

tracks of serpents.

strung and unstrung along by dead-silent

arrays, multitudinal whispers of demons.

the slow decomposition of worship,

a promise to a promise, to a promise--

visibly lost.
Nov 2020 · 99
Roughen Their Sketches
Onoma Nov 2020
diecast leaves sheer off

their windblown sounds,

from the concreted spans

of their cycle.

as trees roughen their

sketches for night-callers

come unexpectedly earlier

by the day.

the seductive tips of their knives

flirting with menace, who turn

on a dime to the puncture wounds

of stars.

a globular aftermath for the moon

to split her shell in.
Nov 2020 · 87
Pyre of Inner Gurus
Onoma Nov 2020
the wild in going her separate

ways coveted a whisperer, secretive

as final exhalations.

breathing back, right in his face--

sent for to walk off the edges of her

unclosing wound.

suffering the terror-growths of

her inward and unanswerable calls.

every moment feeding the pyre of

inner gurus to heal the wild of

her separate ways.
Nov 2020 · 381
Spherical Ice Sculpture
Onoma Nov 2020
a void can be felt akin to

a spherical ice sculpture,

suspended by space--but

where space cannot follow.

its surface teems with fly-like

suns, where apathy melts and

falls into blackened mouths.

that utter far more torturous

things than thirst, one being:

goodnight...with no relief.

an end as sight, seeing therefrom.
Nov 2020 · 81
Spider Cracks
Onoma Nov 2020
the perceptual spider cracks

of mirrors crawl silver,

through thin cloaks of dust.

trapping and feeding on

glints of light, clarifying

distortions.

jumbled schisms, fragile points

of impact...rearranged.

held together bolts of lightning

that still reflect the whole mirror.
Nov 2020 · 176
A Break in the Thick
Onoma Nov 2020
among trees a perfect mound

of earth harmonizes deep into

their song.

a break in the thick of them, wild

with survey and anonymity--that

to a faint heart would repeat thereon:

I Am lost.

its dome is consecrated by moon-milk

midnights, reflecting leaves that shadow

a wind that fits and unfits them into

one another.

yet to the fateful one standing thereon

repeats: I Am found.
Oct 2020 · 91
Amber Intonations
Onoma Oct 2020
this mantra needs

no mouth, fixed honeycomb

cells ooze its sacred syllables.

even if the body is given up--

these amber intonations will

leave sweetness tasting of itself...

between a voiceless rise & fall.
Oct 2020 · 98
What Undoes Bend and Knee
Onoma Oct 2020
this planetary dervish, central

to its obsession, sign and seal...

in the privacy of space blackened

with the hum of orbit.

rendering hole fulfilled by that dance--

all-consuming, a Heart's only thought

in the wash of blood.

vital silhouettes of prayer, as sights set in

the mind's eye...bewildering focus.

concrescence of a crown's expansion,

its pride and joy encircling supreme

nobility.

what undoes bend and knee to grant

a repose that need not be sought after

again.
Oct 2020 · 94
Blow Through Shangri-La
Onoma Oct 2020
prayer wheels are being

spun by a herd of windhorses,

thundering on all planes.

soothsaying sounds of unbounding

lay of lands, tumult and constant

arrival.

urgency in passing, outrunning

urgency in passing.

glassy eyes wearing the kicks of

hooves and speeded ground...

the herd of wind horses due to

blow through Shangri-La.

whereat they will die down, as

their Heart receives them.
Oct 2020 · 74
Lay-limbo
Onoma Oct 2020
the better of October

throws up its eyes to leave

its body of work, as its dank

and knobby fingers *****

at pelt-pocking raindrops.

glazing the orange skin of

pumpkins, that seem livid

with night-sweats.

flanked greys and eye-sore

whites resolve into a lay-limbo

inertial enough to be stumbled

upon.
Oct 2020 · 90
Hit by the First Drop
Onoma Oct 2020
there comes an

awareness, so unto

and heavied...it alights.

slouching down on

a cross, so stark against

its white sky.

remaining at the foot

of  that hallowing

ground.

always hit by the first

drop.
Oct 2020 · 108
Tower and Eidolon
Onoma Oct 2020
Tower and eidolon, three and a half

times removed--stand still of no man's

land, coiled up in The Alone.

Parashakti...consort, companion, partaker


of Shiva laid down upon her uninhabited


hermitage, and watched as she sleeps.

the way water surrounds the brinks of land--

eating at its sides.

Shiva...tower and eidolon, emptying aloneness

into aloneness.

upon the third distillation, emptiness tears in half.

a half removed from three times.

as Shiva sinks the centers of Oceans that circumambulate

his Ajna, overhanging a crescent moon as a beacon

risen Again.
Oct 2020 · 80
Patterns That Drew
Onoma Oct 2020
these are the nights,

as if pointed to--to stand

out from the richest

obscurations.

where every square inch

is covered with the wings

of moths, beating and shedding

the patterns that drew them.

by and to flame, their exit points.
Oct 2020 · 77
Unboxed
Onoma Oct 2020
a wolf is the shape of

its howl...

belting out the

moon gingerly unboxed

by thoughtful skies.

eight directions, and scintillate

caress of her mastercraft...

windless with the breath of

refinement.

exactly when...

the howl reaches, and marks

her.
Oct 2020 · 82
Chandra's Vishuddha
Onoma Oct 2020
somehow I-I'm always under a

black bough that swells so wide

and thick, the night comes up

with it.

where branches fall into its chasmic

girth, waxen with sea changes that

put their skin to paper.

a touch too haunted not to be broken

through.

the hole in the sky the moon leaves...

even if she should stay just out of view.

she fills that hole with the deepest beds

of rest, beaming back at her.

it's when her song comes on real quiet...

the inexhaustive replay of her attentive

being captures something new.
Oct 2020 · 57
Highest Tier of Purple
Onoma Oct 2020
were that there is, there is--

a mountain

upon a mountain, upon a

mountain's back.

bowing weightlessly to the

highest tier of purple...

Mahadevi's morning sari

in the solitudes of night.

slipped on from a sleep deep

enough to lull sleep to waking.

locks flowing with arms a

long time come, holiest Mother

where everything registers as

she creates it.

all her watchful eyes prepared to

gouge themselves out, rather than

see harm come to her Heart.
Sep 2020 · 129
Sindoor
Onoma Sep 2020
as sindoor

applied throughout

a devi's body...

with one hand growing

out of another.

her fierce vivacity

out-dancing her betrothal

to arising worlds.

wearing blood-light.
Sep 2020 · 137
Reading Repition
Onoma Sep 2020
Upon reading repition

for the most blessed

memory to hold itself

while dissolving,

no mind need to

outlast your eyes.
Sep 2020 · 63
To Number Apart
Onoma Sep 2020
a Blue Jay

pecked on a

window twice

to usher in Fall.

as leaves begin

to number apart

from trees, their

endgame

returning children

to school.
Sep 2020 · 62
An Eerie Wind
Onoma Sep 2020
an eerie wind

visits the strands

of your hair, Mary

under the crushing

blows of each station.

as those wounds dividing

her Sacred Heart.

in those moments begging

an end of herself, and the

wild that hoisted the cross

calling to her hysterically.

sensing that agony--her continual

promise at birth, knowing fully

what has been given over.
Sep 2020 · 82
Tenderest Name
Onoma Sep 2020
this morning

my mother addressed

me by the tenderst

form of my name.

to ask me: where did you

go?

the person she knew...

and yet, and yet.

my response was: you

gave birth to me and you

don't recognize me?

she addressed herself as

a stranger as it's coming to be.
Sep 2020 · 72
Shaivic Pipes
Onoma Sep 2020
a clear line placed in
an ocean reeled to a shore--
pulp of sands wild with
mountains.

Kunda...the gyrating necks
of underbrush as Ma moves.

mass die off of black birds

freshly fallen into forest fires

that tear off their saffron robes--

~ROAR!!!!!!!~
*Inspired by the song: "My Body in Bloom", by the ******* band Boundaries.
Sep 2020 · 58
Li-la
Onoma Sep 2020
there's such

a lilt to:

Li-la.

it hits the

roof of the

mouth--

to reach the

roofless.
Onoma Sep 2020
Ramana Maharshi

lay upon the floor

at sixteen ageless years,

to enact the death of

all Ma's bindus when they

spontaneously connected.

only to stand up from the

floor Alone again.
Sep 2020 · 59
Rudrakshas
Onoma Sep 2020
Rudrakshas

are her harvesting

moons...

soaking in Oceanic

repetitions.
Sep 2020 · 81
Savor Their Death Wish
Onoma Sep 2020
buds unhand

to savor their

death wish,

too far into the

deliciousness

of coming to be.
Sep 2020 · 788
Durga Mata
Onoma Sep 2020
The stripes

of a tiger are

the claw marks

Durga Mata leaves

while riding it thru

the wild.
Sep 2020 · 78
Overspilling Film Reel
Onoma Sep 2020
there is an

overspilling

film reel too

deadly to

render thus--

serpents tonguing

flashes of light.
Sep 2020 · 69
Dakshinamurti
Onoma Sep 2020
Dakshinamurti,

Arunachala Shiva...

south-facing.

You're all I see.

I have become the

prostration you

moved.
Sep 2020 · 65
Unborn
Onoma Sep 2020
The temptation

was just resisted

to ask my Mother

how did it feel to

give birth to me.

I see the time she

will put it into words.

I see the time when

I will kneel down and

leave my forehead on

her feet.

this is what I-I was born

to do.
Sep 2020 · 81
Favorite Song
Onoma Sep 2020
imagine hearing

your favorite song

among inharmonious

company.

as the vibes play themselves.

on repeat, but remain

loyal to their favorite song.

when there is One.
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