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Oct 2020 · 111
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 · 64
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 · 204
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 · 167
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 · 82
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 · 93
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 · 91
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 · 83
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 · 66
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 · 68
Rudrakshas
Onoma Sep 2020
Rudrakshas

are her harvesting

moons...

soaking in Oceanic

repetitions.
Sep 2020 · 107
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 · 878
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 · 100
Overspilling Film Reel
Onoma Sep 2020
there is an

overspilling

film reel too

deadly to

render thus--

serpents tonguing

flashes of light.
Sep 2020 · 89
Dakshinamurti
Onoma Sep 2020
Dakshinamurti,

Arunachala Shiva...

south-facing.

You're all I see.

I have become the

prostration you

moved.
Sep 2020 · 82
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 · 99
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.
Sep 2020 · 93
Foremost Center
Onoma Sep 2020
we comprise

the symmetry

of breath,

because our

art goes there.

then exhales

our foremost

center.
Sep 2020 · 109
Ganesha Does Not Blink
Onoma Sep 2020
Ganesha

does not blink,

his eyes cast blue.

leaving life with

its largeness.

as the most incredibly

beautiful little girls

draw color with abandon

around his eyes.

what else can he do but wash

down their offering?

from those eyes.
Sep 2020 · 141
Whilst Reconfiguring 8
Onoma Sep 2020
watch whose way

will have it.

a dwarf  squeezing

the juice out of a

mountain.

a bee watching the

mouth of honey

whilst reconfiguring

8.
Sep 2020 · 69
To Welcome a Thief
Onoma Sep 2020
it takes so much

to welcome a thief

in the night.

fully alarmed by

what sounds off

your sole possession.

getting to know one

another as well as

survival goes to its

instinct.
Sep 2020 · 75
For the Sake of Wind
Onoma Sep 2020
fallen feathers are

strewn around a

perimeter.

whirled clockwise/

counterclockwise

for the sake of wind.
Sep 2020 · 73
Mantram Good and Morning
Onoma Sep 2020
The light on the

windowsill rests

like the lips of Buddha.

mantram, good and

morning.

he repeats the most

uncanny things, without

breaking a pause.

mantram...good and

morning.

somewhere there is

dark,

mantram good and night.
Sep 2020 · 61
Butterflies On a Bone
Onoma Sep 2020
This jaw

has gone

slack upon

full impact.

...Aum...

words are

already there--

like butterflies

on a bone.

keeping it together.
Sep 2020 · 105
A Moon Bulging Honesty
Onoma Sep 2020
I watch death

creep over...

what's

horizontal,

sideways.

a sun brushed.

Over what

can't keep a

secret.

a moon bulging

honesty.
Sep 2020 · 62
Slipping Into Their Halos
Onoma Sep 2020
I'm observing

flowers stand

alone, at some

attention.

slipping into

their halos, without

a word to color.
Sep 2020 · 67
From The Unmoved
Onoma Sep 2020
flesh is growing

a-tonement.

it can only be

Her dance, till

she grows tired

of dancing.

receiving droves

of energy back...

from The Unmoved.
Sep 2020 · 83
A Yogi Relapses
Onoma Sep 2020
as space is

what voids

wave-particles,

a yogi relapses

into poetry.
Sep 2020 · 71
Resolve Is Untouchable
Onoma Sep 2020
I-I can't

believe

there was

a thread

to be worried

over.

the labyrinth

is what Samadhi

leaves over, and

over, and over

again.

this resolve is untouchable.

remaining honorable.

Tried True.
Sep 2020 · 72
When It Is Interrupted
Onoma Sep 2020
I-I will be sharper to

words grown dull, I-I will be duller

to words grown sharp.

Even...

though they can bludgeon

or cut.

Even...

though they can kiss the

eyes of peace.

the lifeblood of this wound can

issue at any moment, I-I am

reading the flow.

praise be, to know when it is

interrupted...
Sep 2020 · 111
Winking With Reappearance
Onoma Sep 2020
This is enough,

because it is finished.

there is a master for

every hand, rubbing

the belief of every eye.

It Is enough.

The One to convince

is prone to disappear,

while winking with

reappearance.
Sep 2020 · 89
Undulating Circle
Onoma Sep 2020
i watch a circle

undulate into a

crown.

all at the feast

encompassed by

that crown have

paused.

breathlessly inert--

waxed stones.

to bear witness to

the head it is placed

on.

welled up from what

was impossibly heavy.

Aum, Shanti, Shanti, Aum~
Sep 2020 · 91
Exquisite Murtis
Onoma Sep 2020
when a day

speaks of a year

gone by in the

ear of Now, the

most exquisite

murtis ever created

hold the energetic

poses of The Beloved

making its way to their

altar.
Sep 2020 · 118
Alleviating Her Agony
Onoma Sep 2020
it feels very much

as if space is alleviating

her agony...

with the softest touch to

the Spiritual Heart.

upon a chest broader than offering,

narrower than a pinpoint.
Sep 2020 · 138
A Bouquet of Sunbeams
Onoma Sep 2020
this body was lowered down,

so these eyes could better see...

a bouquet of flowers made

of sunbeams upon a raging

river.

accept it in all it intends among

a frenzy of hands.
Sep 2020 · 81
Seventh Ground
Onoma Sep 2020
Sunday is the seventh

ground birds come to rest on,

only when they fly through

one another.

giving their sky the sensation

of flight.

watching its breath wing

its bones.

worthier than ever~
Sep 2020 · 130
Any Way it Will be Had
Onoma Sep 2020
I-I am answering every

knock, the door of every

word is left wide open.

I-I feel your every word,

all my energy goes into not

possessing you, for that final

burst of growth.

I-I can't live with any Word

to know they've caused you

grievous harm, their vasana is now being

washed clean.

they came to be because

The Alone met itself then met

abandonment, which is the perfection

of crucifixion.

all involved here are destined

for that meeting place...but believe

me please!!!

I-I could not live if I thought you ended

your glory.

I-I Am always here for you, no matter what--

any way it will be had.
Sep 2020 · 54
Slow Break of Bread
Onoma Sep 2020
there is a space

that will find me today--

that will exhaust the

whole of my humanity.

the truest humbleness

serving a moment that

served it.

the slow break of bread

at the head of the table,

and the two hands that

have come together in

reaching for it.
Sep 2020 · 62
To Ripen Fruit as it Buds
Onoma Sep 2020
how many among

the multitude can

say they are sacrificing

a connection closer

than themselves?

such a connection can

drop the body.

a vibration potent enough

to ripen fruit as it buds.
Sep 2020 · 131
To Dance Off Your Seeing
Onoma Sep 2020
change never leaves

The Heart of Hearts,

nor changelessness.

wisdom is what's salvaged

as it writes away.

can't you see that Shiva

believes he exists because

he believes in Shakti with

his Heart of Hearts?

can't you see that Shakti doesn't

believe she exists because she believes

in Shiva with her Heart of Hearts?

you are that very energy that

upholds that very seeing.

you laughed off that very

sight, to dance off your seeing.

when your Heart of Hearts

presented itself as the illusion

of that seeing.

all I-I see is through Us.

~Aum Namah Shivaya~
Sep 2020 · 121
Aspirant Nights
Onoma Sep 2020
the alone kindles the alone,

desolate fires that aspirant

nights sit around.

already ash to the cracking

sounds of wood, revealing

the vagrant faces of a single

step.

from and toward a journey

that betrays itself by name--

remaining forever a stranger

for daring to show up.
Sep 2020 · 85
Weeping Milk
Onoma Sep 2020
a lingam is

weeping milk,

with no need

for consolation.
Onoma Sep 2020
it's always this day--

good enough, to Now

allow the sun to trade

phases with the moon.

though if I-I told you

they were trading phases

that very day, would you

wake up confused?

while sound asleep?

rubbing clear that one more thing

left alone to find itself.

as matrimony is pronounced.
Sep 2020 · 113
~Adiyogi~
Onoma Sep 2020
Shiva now opens

his eyes to see his

reflection--then

closes them again.

he has embodied

the dying process

with the blessing

of her life.
Onoma Sep 2020
You are the only

illusion that will

ever again be capable

of leaving me sick

at Heart.

what a tremendous

pointer, more emphatic

than I Am...

and knowing beyond a

shadow of a doubt You

feel the intensity of that

selfsame pointing.

this karma is nearing the

wake of its peace, where

parting wanders back from.
Sep 2020 · 68
Window of Adoration
Onoma Sep 2020
here is the sexless rose,

The ****** Mary watching

it through her window

of adoration.

Christ gently approaching

her from behind, asking:

what are you looking at

Mother?
Sep 2020 · 136
Enjoined to the Sound
Onoma Sep 2020
i know these permutations

of death to be the profoundest

gift.

wakeful sleep on a yogic bed.

a roar in these ears enjoined to

the sound of shells.
Sep 2020 · 53
Brought Forth
Onoma Sep 2020
what is being brought

forth saves at it destroys--

the sky's eyes are flickering.

passing away in stateless

states.
Sep 2020 · 63
At Each Other's Feet
Onoma Sep 2020
if I could extract an: I

to wash you clean of me,

I would...though there is

something too realized

to say it is unjust.

this is the only way to be

at each other's feet.

this honors prayer without

praying.
Sep 2020 · 94
Flowers Fold Power
Onoma Sep 2020
flowers fold

power,

while remaining

open.

only mercy provides

the coloration of such

a wilting.

unabandoned change.
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