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Mystic Ink Plus Nov 2022
I was


I am


I will be
Genre: Minimalist
Theme: Towards the Zen
Author's Note: Who I was, I am not
Mystic Ink Plus Nov 2022
If you really
Want to listen
Listen to the silence

Silent Eyes
Silent Breathe
Silent Heart

Whatever you need
To hear
Exists there

Thanks
For your understanding
A voice of the soul
Theme: Zen Element
Zywa Sep 2022
Not using the bike

is Zen: wishing to arrive --


where you always are.
"- Wat ga je vandaag eens doen? - Niets" ("- What are you going to do today? - Nothing", 1993, Herman de Coninck)

Collection "Shortages"
Black Petal Sep 2022
Tea
Swirls of fragrant steam
Rise from its porcelain well
A cup of love, made.
Mystic Ink Plus Mar 2022
I have found the eyes
Those eyes, that see me
And nothing else matters

Said the wise man
Genre: Inspirational
Author's Note:
What is right now
Will become

What was
ZenOfferings Mar 2022
As the world crashes
To the world I wish to see
Which me should I be
I S A A C Feb 2022
zEn
lustful and untrustful
screaming matches and rebuttals
worn out muscles and tear puddles
but what did we win, cards caving in
whichever way you try to spin, swan song on the violin
whichever play you do, your eyes get under my skin
I can see the hurt, the guilt, the shame
I tried to heal, build, and begin
again and again, return to my zen listening to Gwen
escape to my four white walls and write songs
each melody washes away the pain of yesterday
each harmony bringing back the colour to the gray
lifeless self I let my body become
dancing to the beat of my own drum
ZenOfferings Nov 2021
Martyrs bear its proof:
They've already remembered
I's what they forget
Kagey Sage Nov 2021
If I wait to finish my
chores,
to finish my food
all the tiny
notifiers to my superego,
my id
would wither
music, writing, commiserating,
and commiserating
eight-fold path that could
fit in my pocket

I can play
Make children with songs
that have been inside me
half a lifetime
when I picked up an axe
14 year old me
Shyer in most ways
but bolder
in interesting ways
I walked the path
humming 4 noble truths
in between theses

erratic days
I lived a myriad of lives
I fear it’s all
swirling to be the same
Circles within samsara
used to last for
months now I’m stuck for
years
and I no longer
wish to become
unconditioned
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