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 May 2020 roumen
Dr Peter Lim
We, even the most circumspect
       and perceptive, somehow
       have found ourselves skirting
       on the periphery of our life
       and fail so often in grasping
       the true nature and essence of things
       and, in between,  are left dangling
       in doubt, uncertainty, claptrap
       that saps away the life-blood of our being

       like a top in perennial spinning
       in full knowledge it will be stopping
       and fall away after the final turning
       there is but senseless motion with no growing

       if I must love,  the core
      of your heart I should be seeking
       to enter and not be standing
       outside the circle which would
       but be futile waiting and empty desiring
 May 2020 roumen
Grace E
Crashing
 May 2020 roumen
Grace E
Your voice was a furious ocean
Your words were sound waves
Reaching my listening shoreline
Crashing on my ears
 May 2020 roumen
Anri Atreides
i am still awake
as i have been this late
for nearly a month
thoughts swarm in my head
like flies on a carcass

i think about the ex that i hate
her lips as sweet
as her heart was vile
i think about the abuse
the belittlement, the taunts

i think about the last time i went on a date
how long ago it was
how much fun i had
how much i wish i could change
how much i wish i could go back to

i think about love
about ***, and romance
how im not sure i can tell
what love actual is, or if I've ever really felt it

i think about myself
how im scared of coming out
how i sometimes wish i could go back and forget
how every time i get better
i get sad about something different
 May 2020 roumen
Yenson
Vacuous things in empty gales dripping
shamed impotent poltroon cackling witlessly
take odious face away and lose thy name to a letter
even kidadult coward begs anonymity for inadequacy

Old lout in fanciful fare seeks Zen knowledge
oh see the mask and pretensions in the arena of harlequins
where acts and deeds unmask to confirm and disgrace the uber clod
our nonentity bully who ascribe Enlightenment whilst a dullard dark

The Narcissist mentalist presents tosh prolifically
in mindless puffs praised by acolytes and him in other guises
childish taunts and deluded piffle showcasing stunted academia
standing that peculiar trait of ignoramus incapable of introspection

Nichiren says though its impervious to bullies
That which you give to another will become your own
sustenance; if you light a lamp for another, your own way will be lit.
our faker zen knows this, methinks not as he's still in the play-ground

Lest it not to mock the afflicted or crippled mind
but to remind that, "Cowardice and Hypocrisy are brothers
Born from Self-Interest, Insecurity and Fear " this a sanguine fact
Our under-endowed zenist (sic) knows hence the facelessness  and abbreviated identity




Do not do shameful things to make yourself hide in shame.....
Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.
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