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Phoenix Rising Dec 2014
I hope you know what love really is

and if you don't, I hope you learn one day
That love isn't a possessive way
and if you let your ego lead
You are sure to feel jealousy, pain, and greed

Love takes maturity

because it doesn't always work out they way you'd like
You need to be able to understand so you won't have spite
Love goes deeper than skin
and it touches within

You want them to be happy and even if that means letting go*

A smile on your face will still exist
You are genuinely happy for them and love has taught you to subsist
They are still around breathing the air you breathe
and that alone will always keep you relieved


Love teaches lessons that stick with you till the end
How I have felt once in my life and am blessed to say I have experienced such. I still love him to this day and always will.
Danielle Rose Dec 2012
Compound eyes
Astonishing spectacles
Clairvoyant views from above
Wings glistening in the light of the sun

Buzzing long bodied mystical stories
Dragon's breath of spiritual eloquence
Releasing the bugs eating away at conscience
Skeletal spine of an egoless monk
whispering harmoniously the simple remedies
of cleansing thought

My snake doctor
Quick witted unmasker
your view 360 degrees
Focusing on the movement
and pesky mosquitos that feast
That leave us scratching our heads

I look on so enviously
at Lady Dragonfly
as she hovers angelically
In an eternal sky

It saddens me that the great one's lives are
always cut too short
but her legend lives on timelessly
Dating way back to Permian    period
Miguel Diaz May 2016
I am jiggling on that stage.
The egoless strut.
The humorous tap.
The spectacular trip.
Fall over,
over. and
Over
again.

Get up,
find a ballroom
Dancer.
Find a hand holding
Partner.
Play "Spice Up Your Life".
Spice Girls,
listen to the bridge.
tells you to Salsa.

Watch that scene.
Billy Elliot,
With the pianist.
Dancing Billy.
He loves it.
Just do it,
you love it too.

Cheesy pop,
You don't need to
embellish yourself.
No grace notes.
No flat 7th.
You don't need
to sugarcoat,
the truth.

Let loose to riddims.
live on the dancefloor.
Feel the *****,
and the reggae.
Feel the triplets.
Rocksteady your way.
Dancehall to sounds.
Bounce and echo.
Side to side.
Left to right.

And we'll slow it
right
down.
The ballad starts.

Your beautiful structure on the left of your head,
the one called the ear.
The that ear controls aural empathy.
Let love be the choreographer to your moves,
Play the concept album, your heart.
Place it onto the record player and watch it spin
Start the track track with an International groove.
End. Replay.
There are a lot of pop culture and music reference here.
Flat 7: A musical interval, this can make melodies or chords bluesy or "****" depending on how it is used.
Grace note: Passing notes used in music to add flavor, its like a musical sprinkling of pepper or parsley.
Riddim:
Triplets: Very commonly used in carribean jamaican music, dancehall, reggae, swing, gypsy jazz.
*****: The backbeat in reggae music.
Joanna Oz Jan 2015
if I am to love you,
I will love without expectation
of return
or reciprocation-
neither acknowledgement
nor honey sweet affection.
I will love despite
brutal response
or dismal absence,
regardless of wounds and abscess,
and with no regret.
I will love every part
radiant and rotten alike,
leaving no portion of you out in the cold of night.

if I am to love you,
I will love with conscious intent,
not based in fleeting emotion,
but grounded
in purposeful action
and ever-evolving
spiritual awareness
of the pure metaphysical essence
of you-
and I-
as One.
I will remember that love is a garden,
and not an avalanche.
I will love in understanding
and trust that
there is nothing that separates us,
transcendent soul
immanent in each bone.

if I am to love you,
I will love in tranquil tracing,
in tender waves -
ascending and
receding.
candid caressing
peacefully pulsing pace of peeling
back layers
of my self-skin
to return to
the egoless origin.

if I am to love you,
I will love in humble gestures,
sacrificing all before me
not for moral glory,
but to recognize
shared sacredness.
surrendering desire and attachment,
equalizing all extensions
of the
you-me matrix.
I will love stepping over
self-interest
and dancing into harmony in singularity,
entire generosity
sharing all the puzzle pieces of me.

and,
if I am to love you,
I will love wild
true
and free.
letting the universe
continuously
wash my eyes in new clarity.
opening further
each golden morning
to share the light it has gifted me.
I wrote this after reading an amazing passage on charity, or pure spiritual love, from The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley. I am finding that I have so much to learn about interpersonal love through the concept of divine love: what it is, how to live in it, share it, embody it, and accept it.
Onoma Apr 2020
sleep broke her intervals

disproportionately this morning--

so i held her hand as this body tired.

it was when i came across my mother,

and thought from her truly.

kicking inside that belly, breaking our

heart--my egoless globe.

i part so many ways with my daring to

say...i realized her this morning.
n 8 Apr 2015
If I truly loved this poem
I would stay up all night
weeping over it

I would dig it a good grave
build it a tomb

I wouldn't give it to fire
or set a pitiful cairn over it

I would send it off with all
the honors it deserves

not nothing,
which is what I planed

for maybe dreams will
be better than this poem

(that's probably true
I wouldn't want to waste

more time than necessary)
what it needs is violence

or knights or faery
but plenty of blood

sacrifice egoless
epic story of gods and men

not another one about me
or my father or mother or wife

or death (well maybe that)
or the doom of the world

here is what I want from you, poem
something to make me respect you

I want a dozen good men
to take over the the country

with wit and sword, blood and smoke
guitar and song, gun and blade

new heros for a new age
and new poems to pronounce them

maybe that's to much to ask
it probably is

I guess i'll just go to bed
and dream
Dr Sudhansu Dash Sep 2016
That day in an unbecoming morning
You told me
You will be broken
If left you half way
I kept you carefully in me
With a fear
Least you will be broken
I could not understand you then
You broke all my innocent present
Sometimes you come in a stormy night
Or in a merciless sun
In my aloneness.
I have tried in so many ways
To understand your presence
But failed
Now everywhere there is lighted darkness
You cannot hide in me anywhere
Still my unattached waiting for your
Egoless smile
Hanging in your broken lips

Copyright@ Dr Sudhansu Dash
M Feb 2014
Om
I must be clear.
My mind, heart, soul, must align
with that of truth, and that of God
and it must come out my mouth
perceptible, so that all may know of what I speak,
and I must go there, and speak to you, because
it is my calling, and
today I opened my Bible to a random page
and, a highlight, left there from a long time ago
like I am prefiguring my own future,
"Here I am, Lord."
And I think, I've known the whole time.
Ever since that day,
when I saw those trees and the mountains and started crying
And the second day, when I felt the ground beneath me and the stars above
and I was whole, and humble, a full servant of the universe
And the third day, today, when the class was silent and I said,
'Prophet.'
And that's why I'm tall and my voice carries,
because there is something I must do.
I have walked in that path and I'm ready, because
having been aligned with the universe's purpose for me,
I have created and allowed for the bigger purpose to begin:
to perpetuate that egoless love,
and spread the word,
because agape, and only that, is how we can live in harmony.
You can feel it within you, can't you?
It's the human compassion that drives us and creates a straight line
from my heart to yours- if you are tugged, I will follow,
The strings of the loom are woven, not tangled;
how can we make each other happy?
That's the question.
Humans exist with one goal in mind: happiness.
The Buddhists believe something, as do the Hindus
and the Christians teach about it too.
They all seem to say something about love,
and something about suffering,
but there is one truth-
throughout all religions,
one message.
Give fully.
Give wholly.
Forget yourself.
Value your brother as much as that which you are-
We are one.
It's time we started acting like it.
We all have different ways of achieving and believing what it is that is true, but deep inside us, we know the way to harmony and happiness. Be it through meditation, theism, atheism, wicca. Whether you call it God or nature or the universe, you know what it is, don't you? We have to acknowledge the validity of others' ways to find the truth. We are all called home and we perceive what home looks like differently, but it is the same house. We can all feel deep inside us the world spinning and cycling and creating a beautiful harmonious chaos. We are all connected. We are one.
Ego
If I were free of ego
what would that make me?

Would I be pure?
Would I be at peace?
Would I be an inspiration?
Wouldn't I be my best self?

Yes... to be egoless.

The biggest ego trip of them all.
Sorry Harry if you read this. My next poem will have to be about you.
Prabhu Iyer Feb 2018
Who smote the barriers at the gates of dawn
that the worlds roll out from the firmament of time
Who pierced the sky releasing the waters
that bring life to matter dead, egoless,
the simpleton who concedes all in love,
artist who fashions the arrow that rends
the delusion of separation, blue-
necked, the Yogi drunk of poison
darknesses that emerge in enquiry,
auspicious Lord, the terror to death
Third in the 5-part poem on Shiva, the great God of Hinduism: again set to blank verse in pentameter
My mind,
My thoughts,
My paradise lost;
Only you
dearest
reader
dare I let glance in here,
The corridors of my psyché echo
with the voices of friends and family.

My voice resounds in its chamber,
My thought reverberates on these planes,

I tell myself, the only reason I live is for others
because whatever would they think if I died.
Sometimes I wish I didn't exist, which is futile
because I know I am privileged.
Oftentimes I feel I died long ago.

Now I bask in the shower, its stimulus, the hot water
pelting down my back, I feel selfless, egoless, empty,
Questioning existence, bliss, I enjoy it before I turn
down for what, to the coldest setting,  step into it
unflinching, before shutting it off.
Mark Wanless Jan 2018
"The Empty Universe"


The empty universe gapes
We tremble and rush
To fill the egoless void
Art the glorious wonderful incredible
Creator of mind
Satisfies
Seautahi Feb 2018
a day of fake honesty a moment exposed as spirituality words were exchanged accompanied by fake egoless *******, i want to tell you because in all my spiritual enlightenment you will accept me as truth and not see otherwise. society is under the illussion of self gratification so I'll fit right in because I'm more or less an instrument of Devine nothingness. nothing the key to everything the lie I told my self following the meaning to life, the meaning to life that benefits otherside than it does you because being a spiritual seeker is what life is, I'm return I'll live happily and pain and suffering free because of the notion which is free your self from the self gratification and ego. I'll learn how to be a more desirable person that way as being egoless is what spiritual seekers seek. the motion of I AM and no role attached to it is like discovering what scientists fail to see. because science is the evil that created hell to people like me. me who no longer sees the spiritual path I walked me who is no longer enlightened or was even in the first place. me who would go everydau repeating a mantra that says benefit others for whatever you do is the true meaning to life therefore I will be gsrenteed a place above ego orientated people those who suffer. because i bought the idea of a human perspective that says clear the mind and you Will live with the same oneness as the universe itself. i believed this would bring universal harmony for my self. how stupid am I to believe a notion that negates the faculties of ego itself for the alienating of ego as if I can claim an idea that is built from what it denies. and that idea is the hidden face of spiritual fallacy. the search for spiritual enlightenment is being in denial about the exact thing thing it claims I can not. i was never in pain or suffering before. i was never not beneficial to mankind I was never unenlightened. i was never controlled by ego. i was all but perfect a creation not an experiment. the books and teachings that defined me as I walked this path of denial only shows the denial was believing a hearsay a false prophet a religious belief. it was me who suffered.
Mystic Ink Plus Feb 2018
Stay breathing, stay blessed
Practicing a presence
Try living without air,
Universe within,
All we are, connected
Expressions with variables
When thoughts oscillate heart
Need of metaphors
A egoless humanity
A silent vows,
Search of a new horizon
Hinge of hope
Led by the dreams
Extra miles
Genre: Antigravity experimental
Note: Those lines makes sense only if read upside down.
K May 2017
IN PRINCIPLE, all is thinkable,
From stop go; to literal mythical,

So, Move Motionless,
Close Openness,

Vainly Crowd,
Then Quietly Howl,

Enjoy Morning Twilight,
And Unlike Likes,

Take Ascending Descents,
/with Elderly Tykes,

Of Idol Realities; and Active Rest,
Make Footing Summit; and Loving Detest,

Living Lifeless, I Must Now Go,
And Search In Vain, For My Egoless Soul...
Kawa Oct 2021
Have no identity, this is the highest form of wisdom, not becoming.
Because becoming or being is a crystallization, and all types of labeling is connected to the ego.
So become not, die every moment, this is what theses so called “wise” people mean, to change, move, or you rot.
The moment you give yourself an identity is the moment you die, one has to become so egoless that you almost become invisible, unnoticed, because the ego is seeking visibility, form, become unnoticed and so you become part of everything else in existence. I’m sorry to say this but there is no focus point, life is peripheral, the idea of being special is wrong, you’re not special, there’s no standing out, everything in life is equal, you’re no different from an insect, an ant, a spec of dust or a grain of sand, or anything.
JP Oct 2017
"I don't know"
If you hear
Someone say this
It means he was not there
he disappeared
I the ego was not there
We know
The ego belong to present
and vice versa
he means it Coz
He disappeared for that portion
of the moment and
He was in bliss..
So
If anyone says, "I don't know.."
means
He had experienced
the egoless state...
Dr Peter Lim Feb 2018
The Zen Master said to the students:
'If you are here to judge or impress
you are at the wrong place
all that I teach is egoless-ness'.
J Vital Sep 2023
I’m sometimes seeing,
as a neurotic and chaotic
mess.  An untidy chest of
nothing and nonentity.  
Oppressed by its egoless,  
thoughts, where the
mind bound by thoughts, unkind.
Yearning for freedom, year after year, to unwind–In
silent sorrow and solitude, I will wait,
eagerly, with fearful tears, for a
life without screaming echoes. Where,
Freedom will know no bounds-- In
These dreadful doubts
of distant shouts,
dreams within do dwell.
And like an entropy’s order within, I will
yearn and yield to embrace clarity and break free.
KV Srikanth Jun 2021
Empty your Cup
Free of thoughts past
Choiceless awareness
Non judgmental in the present
Be flexible
Fixated and Opinionated is easily breakable
There is no opponent
Self knowledge clears the confusion
Not tense but ready
Complete focus on the fray
Not thinking not Dreaming
Outcome not in the Reckoning
Keep Practicing
Integrity on doing
One with the opponent
Fluidity in motion
Dont think feel
Heartfelt effort on the deed
Express yourself
Truth from within not suppressed
Have no technique
Learn practice forget
Self Actualization
Knowledge of self without imitation
Self Image Actualization
Projection a false sense of who we are without inhibition
Be Water
Be soft and you cant be hurt
No way as way
Using all methods available
Having no limitations as limitations
Get past barriers and projections
Emptiness
Egoless equations
Hear me shatter and dissolve
like a pane of ice dropped on a warm floor.
Barefoot, I stumble home
and wonder whether sensation is egoless

and why cognition is not; but of course
serius est quam cogitas.
I find myself in memories so distant
they are like past lives,
I am so changed, mutation, smoldering;
I remind myself
it is later than you think.
KV Srikanth Jun 2021
Question of existence
Most asked question
Questioning the existence
Mans favorite past time

An in between position
A matter if convenience
Prescience or abscence of reverence
Neither present in the person

Different religions add to the confusion
Each having their own interpretation
Give a well packaged presentation
Accepted without asking any questions

If there is a creation
There has to be a Creator
Created and creation are the same
Teaches another contradictory to the former

Good deeds and bad deeds
Form the balance sheet
Does not require any analysis
Place in heaven or hell decided after you've become posthumous

The mind and body
Wrongly identified
Self enquiry needed
To realize otherwise

Karma theory
Enforced fully
Soul finding another body
Capacity decided by the karma theory

Routes to attain
The great lords grace
Cut past to the chase
Paraphrase from texts the easiest way

There is a god in heaven
God is everywhere not in any location
God is in everything
You are god possessing everything

None of this is real
Its fictional fuel
Refusal and ready for a duel
Following of any completely futile

Neutral without angle
Riddle and a puzzle
Answers to these multiple
Not to delve deep keep it simple

Different in ideology
Each a different philosophy
In conjunction apart from morality
Faith and hope only commonality

Messiahs and Saints
For every religion
There for every generation
Spreading their existence the only reason
Showing the path to Realization

Waiting for a miracle
Lifes biggest debacle
Miracle only a minisclue
Part of faith's multitude

Destiny a step brother of theology
Used as a cushion in times of complexity
God in his capacity has already
Decided the path of the journey

Law of Nature or the Order
Terms used to describe the maker
A force superior
Creates and removes the barriers

Spiritual Atheist Deist & Ietsist
More branches straddling between the theist and atheist
Leftist and Communist form another list
Religion every generations zeitgeist

State of Zen
There for every human
Practiced in succession
Contradictory to Zen

Zen is being
Eating while hungry
Drinking while thirsty
Answer for zen remains locked in Silence

Spiritual insight required
For any progress
Egoless state of being
Helps understanding
That when the time comes  it will hitself
supposition:
derivative external beings
characterized by the tension of being selfless
that is,
people who mainly give
they don't ask for much
they don't often take.

THAT IS,
those who sit opposite the narcissists
those who are tight to ego-lessness

What these words might put them through

strung along on the same series
INCLUDED in the same TOTALITY

they never pride themselves on their egoless state

this poem is meant to drive them insane

I was also a baby who died

Included in my last breath was an innocent child
The last breath of everything, yes
We are all narcissists

And the narcissist who is suffering because of a selfish state
Is more humble than you are
When you feel good about being selfless.
Ryan O'Leary Aug 21
.       Poet to Artist
         (disclaimer)

Re, ‘’I Met Banksy’’ poem.
Permit me to apologize for
what could be a character
assassination/déformation.

Besides, using Alcoholics
Anonymous as a venue for
for this fictitious encounter,
was, in itself, opportunistic.

Therefore, I, The Proscribed
Poet, pseudonym or aliased,
as Ryan O’Leary, do hereby
retract meeting Banksy at AA.

                    <>


        Artist to Poet
          ( response)

Re: I Met Banksy, poem.
Dear Ryan, or whatever
you wish to be known as,
I appreciate your amend.

But try to be conscious
of the fact, that there can
be no creativity, without an
egoless devotion to secrecy.

Black sheep are the only
ones that don’t get lost
when it snows, yet, they
are never the bellwethers!

— The End —