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Arlene Corwin Feb 2017
The Pleasant Difference ‘Tween The Spiritual & Religious

How to say this briefly:
Firstly, find words for the inexpressible.
They do exist.
Here is the gist:
Each has components -
Churches, sects and cults, their creeds:
The claim of being chosen.
Pure spirit's -ality doesn’t seem to need
A system woven
Into scripture which professes knowing
What is best for all,
Where if you’re good you rise
And if you’re bad you fall.

The spiritual as an approach to life,
Seems to place the emphases
On unity within the mixture of beliefs;
On peace and joy, and getting these;
Transcendent over time and space
And, most of all,
A sense that you are face to face
With truth about reality,
Its indescribability.
Yet not impossible to give a voice to;
Love that comes, fear that goes!
******, no.   A loving kindness big & small,
Universal, – if you will,
That permeates, recalibrates,
Connecting to an All that’s spirit: All in all.
Practices to help along:
Meditation, psilocybin, prayer and song:
The mystical both caused or opened.
That said, non- theistic preference
Needs to be demystified, a road for genius, dunce.
Not piety, religion, magic, paganism, or god-based,
Not theological nor physical,
But meta-, deeply meaningful,  
Yes mystical!
The core of all.

The Pleasant Difference ‘Tween The Spiritual & Religious 2.9.2017
To The Child Mystic II; The Processes: Creative, Thinking, Meditative II; Nature Of & In Reality;
Arlene Corwin
And just what are you expecting to see?

Two eyes just like mine, hands that ache to feel flesh, there is something to fabricating  love,

Adequate to say that these threats will go unheard, and through the years I'll get to say I told you so, yet I still feel like a failure,

Cross check the references, comb the referrals, you've got the experience for every job but the one you want,

I find security in preserving the real me,

Over thinking on what should be said next, when just their presence will suffice, trying to explain to yourself how to not sound crazy, all the while talking to yourself.

We all do it,

Some things are better left in that awkward silence, the longer it holds the more said than words could ever entertain, no pure thought is safe,

An invasion that's become obsession,

Even if I tell you all my secrets, there is still apart of me I'm missing, not even I can find it alone

My ego tends to show through,

I get it confused with my personality, which in turn doesn't show much as my skin, cursed to oblivious stares,

Then again I've been talking to myself,

Usually just saying hello, possibly singing some tune, or my favorite describing exactly what I'm doing in confusion,

"What am I writing?"

A taste of reality from the insomniac ramblers program, a show free to watch, and real physical participating with the whole gang,

Hold on tight to this thread,

Your future with me will not be what we expect, I recommend strict regimes for personal viewing times, our minds are hesitant to believing what's in the mirror

I see me, and I see you
Poetry has really helped with the talking to ones self, ha ha ha ha
You're Always the nowhere
in every location.
An Umbra unspoken:
Pure carbon black.
K Balachandran Dec 2016
In the paddy field,
I hear a lonely crane cry;
could be ecstasy?
David P Carroll Dec 2016
Other Than Her
As I take her
Hand I hold
Her truly
Loving her
Deeply
We kiss
As the bright
Sun shines
Down on us
I run my hands
Against her
Smiling together
Loving each other
Forever
Our hearts embraced
In passionate love
Knowing I could
Never love a better
Women inside
My heart other
Than her.
David P Carroll
Copyright
David P Carroll
Other Than Her
Àŧùl Nov 2016
There is no other Er. Atul Kaushal,
Yes, I am the only one.
I do not need Creepy,
Though Atul was for her,
Atul is not for the unfaithful.
Atul is one in more than 8 billion.
I am Atul: the uniquely incomparable.
Just as unique as every other person on Earth.

HP Poem #1247
©Atul Kaushal
J Valle Nov 2016
Let's all raise our glass,
A small toast for those poor souls,
Let's drink for our lost friends,
Lost in the idea of loving a fool.

A second for the Second,
Stolen stares for the Second,
Empty promises for the Second,
Rapid kisses for the Second.

We all know now,
Being the Second Lover,
Will bring nothing but despair

Let's all not forget their sacrifice,
We all need a cautionary tale.
David P Carroll Nov 2016
I'm in love with you
I truly am o I'm truly in love
With you I could never
Find a better love
Other than you.
David P Carroll
Other than you
In distance
He caressed her face
Sang her lullabies
That rocked her to sleep
he smiled so brightly
you would’ve thought
it was her all this time
soon
he would come home
disguising his love for her
as his hatred for me
David P Carroll Oct 2016
Times with her I smile I fill my heart up with love happiness with her my love is pure
Knowing that she is loved by me
No other could love her the way I love her I life love so special we hold each other's hands smiling joking
I love her like no other a certain person inside my heart she is my true love and I'll always love her like no other.
David P Carroll
Love Het Like No Other
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