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"mindful" poems
The billowing sea bows down dancing, the cool one comes— with love, as if with a flute on the lips, rising from the deep. Listen to the flute. Chorus clouds sing, drifting down the blue river— so mellifluous, into the sky they soar! From the secret valley, the punter sun ambles in, carrying wonderlight, as if it knows the flutist’s art— knows the rise from the sea’s bedrock. Every planet spins— a flying bee drawn to the inner music. Nothing pauses in the solar ring. The Moon, waning and waxing, in silhouette and half-light, sways above the sea full of life. It all began on this Earth, from our sea— Him, the Sweet Creative Maestro rose from the midst, and lifted the sun, the bumblebee. All the stars in the galaxy follow still— they can't forget the ancient story. Since then, the sun, brightest in the band, leads the mindful dance enduring, homeward— still following the haunting, eternal tune, pure mighty the one command: Qun. Be.
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 1:26 PM UTC
Music in Space
To love one’s self To accept her flaws instead of thinking out why she’s helpless Know that you are amazing in you; you can find love when you treat yourself better you also treat yourself with the love and care you deserve Know that you are stronger than any storms and that we all have different battles that we are facing in our life everyday But know that we can get through this And learn to be mindful with the present And step by step begin to be grateful for yourself, for the air that you breathe, for the food that you eat, for the people that loves you, for the nature that nourish you to flourish. And be your kind of love because you do this for yourself to accept, to love, and to embrace who you are because you deserve the right treatment to be your own uniqueness.
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 11:30 AM UTC
Be Your Love
Driving up mountain miles of washboard switchbacks; jarring the dusty rearview mirror in my mind: "but don't look back in anger"   ... I heard you say stuck in the cloud of dust befogging my daydream back somewhere thereabouts the washed out bridge that tore us apart like a flash flood It was so long ago since you were running and I was hiding in plain sight, from what the storm in my eyes did tell Mindful — you were only watching the growing distance gather; finding what you didn't lose looking back to see    what you can't forget — like a hesitant child reluctantly wondering if anyone was still looking back at you ―  still running away from each passing storm Jesse Stillwater June   2018
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 1:13 PM UTC
reflection in a dusty rearview mirror
Out here in the fields of the distance whither the wind blows the silence further afield; roughhewn footprints show a windswept pathway   from whence feral feet lightly trod    Only the passing whispers chase after the gypsy wind: that the silence be in quire, placed aloft like a sigh, pealing through the gentle sway of sweet grass' hush There are no walls need echo an evanescent wind-song as each breath of earthen psalm vanishes lilting into the crystalline quietude colour; The callused patience still held in these hands is frayed and tattered, but hope heals stronger than a ream of paper wings to fly away And I'm mindful I'm not alone again, lost in a lingering silent storm — pensively listening — enraptured aneath all the big skies hold                       Jesse Stillwater
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Aug 31, 2018
Aug 31, 2018 at 12:44 PM UTC
Out here in the distance
I feel worried that there has been such a long stretch of time without reward seeking behavior that the part of my brain which handles motivation is now a cold plate of hamburger By this stage in a man's life, should he not seek another's company? I don't chill as I did during the time my mind still was soft and simple I've grown into melancholy, though many memories ago I'd desired socialization There is globalization; I feel alone, I've bathed, I'm soaked in isolation I set out two years ago to be sure that I learn before I continue to live, my reasoning suggested that this action shall produce enormous benefit and my self-esteem was gleaming hot & sensually satisfied This I learned at 21 was not just for women But for the wise whom admit they need it I shall try to smile more, perhaps my brain does not know what reward is I will fool my brain into happiness, you'll see With a new mindful world these words will be continued
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Jan 30, 2013
Jan 30, 2013 at 4:35 PM UTC
melancholy
somewhere between the fourth and fifth load of laundry, sometime after breakfast~lunch, now served in the USA at home, as an all day meal, per the edict of Mcdonalds, start fixing dinner, take a break, walk to the mailbox, retrieve the post and quick retreat back inside, ah that Texas sun, bilingual chili hot, toss the unopened on the prior weeks pile, cause everyone loves company the home-cold-brewed ice coffee needs a filling for the fridge has decided not to help by automatically refilling the pitcher even if it could I, busy folding, needing two hands and all my teeth for folding my master’s rocket ship sheets my master observes with one of his alternating demeanors, this one, super silent watching, announcing that  I need a nap: *“don't you always say, baby, take a nap when you can, baby, for when you need one, baby, you probably won’t be able, my baby”* with selected-hand-led fingers, he lays me down to sleep, bids me to slow slide to dreamland, dinner will keep, curling inside my frame, hands a-cupping my *******   telling me a drowsy tale, inherited from his mother’s womb and his granddaddy’s tongue, mindful of his family’s history there, is where, they find us, dinner fixings burnt, me and my five year old baby boy, still sleeping fast, around 5pm, bodies enwrapped, tied by blood and entwined in old nursery rhymes, Texas tall tales of Pecos Bill, me and my very own nap-ster master <•> p.s.  and they call me by my other name to wake me, momma
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Sep 17, 2018
Sep 17, 2018 at 1:14 PM UTC
Texas: My Very Own Nap-ster Master
somewhere between the fourth and fifth load of laundry, sometime after breakfast~lunch, now served in the USA at home, as an all day meal, per the edict of Mcdonalds, start fixing dinner, take a break, walk to the mailbox, retrieve the post and quick retreat back inside, ah that Texas sun, bilingual chili hot, toss the unopened on the prior weeks pile, cause everyone loves company the home-cold-brewed ice coffee needs a filling for the fridge has decided not to help by automatically refilling the pitcher even if it could I, busy folding, needing two hands and all my teeth for folding my master’s rocket ship sheets my master observes with one of his alternating demeanors, this one, super silent watching, announcing that  I need a nap: *“don't you always say, baby, take a nap when you can, baby, for when you need one, baby, you probably won’t be able, my baby”* with selected-hand-led fingers, he lays me down to sleep, bids me to slow slide to dreamland, dinner will keep, curling inside my frame, hands a-cupping my *******   telling me a drowsy tale, inherited from his mother’s womb and his granddaddy’s tongue, mindful of his family’s history there, is where, they find us, dinner fixings burnt, me and my five year old baby boy, still sleeping fast, around 5pm, bodies enwrapped, tied by blood and entwined in old nursery rhymes, Texas tall tales of Pecos Bill, me and my very own nap-ster master <•> p.s.  and they call me by my other name to wake me, momma
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My Mind the prison. My Heart and Soul prisoner. The chains, Anxiety and Depression. My Body the canvas, Mindful of my Oppression.
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Apr 2, 2019
Apr 2, 2019 at 9:46 PM UTC
Mindful
so many people talking but few things to say carefully spoken words can mean worlds mindful listened everything matters while talking to others attention is key
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Nov 19, 2014
Nov 19, 2014 at 11:15 AM UTC
attention is key
my brother-in-law’s really fit I admire him for it He spends much time in exercise, in energetic thrusts He’s a whole aerobics center; gets all the exercise he needs: He constantly jumps to conclusions runs down friends, back-stabs whenever he can side-steps responsibility and you could say, is constantly pushing his luck And pushing it too far too… and goes round and round in circles with many false arguments But one kind thing I can say of him he’s mindful of my health for he must have observed how I hardly exercise and he invites me often to his fitness program “You scratch my back, I scratch yours,” he says… But I’m just too lazy even for such effortless exercise and meanwhile, he continues with his fitness program namely, as I have said before, jumping to conclusions and constantly pushing his luck… while the only thing I can manage in response to his fitness program (darned lazy as I am, as he complains to his sis) is to lift my middle finger but frankly, my brother-in-law’s really fit I admire him for it
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Aug 15, 2013
Aug 15, 2013 at 9:08 AM UTC
fitness program
Education is currently being used as a weapon to arm the educated to defend the system. Question the system. Go out there and equip yourself for the right belief. Be a dreamer. The dream is beautiful. The problem with dreams is that you don’t know the dream has turned into a nightmare until you wake up. Are you awake? Be awake. The problem with being awake; we need to rest. Lucidly dream. Be lucid. The problem with being lucid; you’re lucid. There was a dream not long ago. The dream was beautiful. We liked the dream, the dream became ours and we slept. Slowly we all grew tired. Those that did not need to sleep, those that did not like our dream, we treated like children. We know that we need to rest and we were tired. We left our children to starve. We forced others to sleep and so, we forced our children to sleep. Even in our sleep, we forced others to sleep. And so the big dream grew. It became nightmare. We all dream. Be aware of others dreams. Be aware of others while we sleep. Be aware of those that sleep while we awaken. When you wake and see your siblings rest no longer. That their dream, once ours, has turned to terror. The problem with dreams… We force our children to sleep. Is this bad? Always question. Should we force them to wake? Force can create. Force can destroy. The problem with being awake, when we know our brothers and sisters sweat in there nightmares; we have a choice. That is not a choice to wake them or not. To hope for the best. That the nightmare will end and the dream will return. A dream that has travelled through the terrors of our minds will not return the same. Would you like the red pill or the blue pill? Is there good and bad? Force can create and destroy. Be mindful of how you wake. Be lucid of how you force others to wake. Tea or coffee; a cigarette; some breakfast; some fear? Use balance. We are all unique. I have a personal story. As I wrote this, typos occurred in the original edit. The technology, ‘swipe’ was used.  I meant to spell unique and unite was spelt. Personal became powerful and with turned to WE. Is there a reason ‘i’ should always be capitalized? ‘i’ wish to be mindful of my readers. ‘i’ want to stay true to them. We that can read are the readers. ‘i’ am the reader. When I isn’t capitalized I began to feel more comfortable with using it, if i gave it arms; ‘i’. And when I typed to explain that, I went to preferring if isn’t typing out ‘and then i and then ‘, to just type two of them; ii. We don’t want to be alone. There’s no I in teamwork but there is and I in kind. I is complicated. Be you. Find your voice. Have a voice and be aware. Others have a voice. What would happen if we all respected each other’s voice? What would happen if we all had the same voice? That was the beauty of the dream. The dream is travelling through nightmare and is slowly returning. It has changed. Unite our uniqueness’s. Do you eat fast food? I love it. It is a dream… Do I eat it all the time, I hope not. Ken Robinson is a good man to ask. Consider food for the mind. There are beliefs out there. There’s a belief out there that our world is ****** Forgive the language. Understand it. I wanted to say, ‘that our world is doomed; eternally ****** to be destroyed’ and that scared me. **** There will always be nightmares, disaster and destruction. What is an ‘aster’? Curious. When did we chose to destroy; each other? Could we create; each other? There’s a belief out there for that one too. Are you awake, yet?
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Sep 22, 2012
Sep 22, 2012 at 9:06 AM UTC
.What is an Aster?
Education is currently being used as a weapon to arm the educated to defend the system. Question the system. Go out there and equip yourself for the right belief. Be a dreamer. The dream is beautiful. The problem with dreams is that you don’t know the dream has turned into a nightmare until you wake up. Are you awake? Be awake. The problem with being awake; we need to rest. Lucidly dream. Be lucid. The problem with being lucid; you’re lucid. There was a dream not long ago. The dream was beautiful. We liked the dream, the dream became ours and we slept. Slowly we all grew tired. Those that did not need to sleep, those that did not like our dream, we treated like children. We know that we need to rest and we were tired. We left our children to starve. We forced others to sleep and so, we forced our children to sleep. Even in our sleep, we forced others to sleep. And so the big dream grew. It became nightmare. We all dream. Be aware of others dreams. Be aware of others while we sleep. Be aware of those that sleep while we awaken. When you wake and see your siblings rest no longer. That their dream, once ours, has turned to terror. The problem with dreams… We force our children to sleep. Is this bad? Always question. Should we force them to wake? Force can create. Force can destroy. The problem with being awake, when we know our brothers and sisters sweat in there nightmares; we have a choice. That is not a choice to wake them or not. To hope for the best. That the nightmare will end and the dream will return. A dream that has travelled through the terrors of our minds will not return the same. Would you like the red pill or the blue pill? Is there good and bad? Force can create and destroy. Be mindful of how you wake. Be lucid of how you force others to wake. Tea or coffee; a cigarette; some breakfast; some fear? Use balance. We are all unique. I have a personal story. As I wrote this, typos occurred in the original edit. The technology, ‘swipe’ was used.  I meant to spell unique and unite was spelt. Personal became powerful and with turned to WE. Is there a reason ‘i’ should always be capitalized? ‘i’ wish to be mindful of my readers. ‘i’ want to stay true to them. We that can read are the readers. ‘i’ am the reader. When I isn’t capitalized I began to feel more comfortable with using it, if i gave it arms; ‘i’. And when I typed to explain that, I went to preferring if isn’t typing out ‘and then i and then ‘, to just type two of them; ii. We don’t want to be alone. There’s no I in teamwork but there is and I in kind. I is complicated. Be you. Find your voice. Have a voice and be aware. Others have a voice. What would happen if we all respected each other’s voice? What would happen if we all had the same voice? That was the beauty of the dream. The dream is travelling through nightmare and is slowly returning. It has changed. Unite our uniqueness’s. Do you eat fast food? I love it. It is a dream… Do I eat it all the time, I hope not. Ken Robinson is a good man to ask. Consider food for the mind. There are beliefs out there. There’s a belief out there that our world is ****** Forgive the language. Understand it. I wanted to say, ‘that our world is doomed; eternally ****** to be destroyed’ and that scared me. **** There will always be nightmares, disaster and destruction. What is an ‘aster’? Curious. When did we chose to destroy; each other? Could we create; each other? There’s a belief out there for that one too. Are you awake, yet?
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You are a leader ship how I know this? cause I'm a leader ship too I can see the sinuous fibre of your very being take a look I bet you can see it too we are borne of the earth and the stars borne in the wind there are four cardinal directions, N E S W, do not forget about the intermediary be an intermediary ~ who wants to be a cardinal? we need our leader ships following their own true north 2D - 3D -- 4D --- 5D ---------------------------- > following the wormholes ... the aether following certain signs and symbols trust in divine feminine ... .. . .. ... masculine divine in trust trust in masculine divine ... .. . .. ... divine feminine in trust " 'It's all this!' He wrapped his finger in his fist; the car hugged the line straight and true." ~ Kerouac Ship builders choose their timber mindfully Be mindful with your archetypes, Noah!
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Sep 27, 2014
Sep 27, 2014 at 3:20 AM UTC
Leader ship
Pull the weeds, plant the seeds this is what the garden said choose what stays choose what goes be mindful when you do the silver oaks darken the sun in the mind trim the trunks, so light may you find the bindweed traps the heart clip the vine, free the art the poison oak stings your delicate hand let the goats eat these weeds right off the land the pompous grass clouds the soul in your eyes pluck these weeds before they set and rise the deadweed piles darken your spirit compost the weeds, lighten your merit plant the seeds of love, hope and color water with nourishment, fertilize with wonder and you will warm the heart of another and then, begin again, pull the weeds plant the seeds
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May 26, 2019
May 26, 2019 at 9:03 PM UTC
Pull the weeds, Plant the seeds
split the atom an we get fission mass becomes energy but can we split a second enter the essence of the present what would it mean to us to be that mindful ask your self doesn't your mind only occupy past future abjectly incapable of living in the present in the true present there could not be even a ghost of a thought theres no time to think can we enter an incalculable split second and totally take in that instant with a forgotten organic technology is it the big bang in perpetuity yet quiet as a mute a raging ever expanding sea in a connected but distinct dimension if you entered it would it not utterly erases all of history the thinkers and doers along with it the step beyond the alpha and omega the great underlining reality imagine the penetrated moment an all consuming unimaginable trans-mutational merge omnipotent yet forever imperceptible to those among us time locked an irreducible limitation like an ant in a closed paper bag a fixated reflexive machine wandering aimlessly with an unknowable mission and a relentless survival mechanism with no chance of survival time as a cosmic metabolism its medium space a vast cauldron an infinite vessel containing endless points of light everywhere myriad phenomena its terrain and the temporal creatures that inhabit it both exquisite and hideous an incalculable zoo histories victors and victims one and all vanquished by the curse consciousness of dis-juncture a merciless countenance of limitation yet could time be an illusion rooted in a narrow awareness bereft of an eternal inexhaustible self effulgent now the rapture an eternal ****** if we could only penetrate into it would it swallow us and blot out the drama of creations theater is the now conscious illimitable ecstatic a perfect meta moment ? we hear from sacred texts like the Vedas... Bhagavad Gita.... and Kabbalah that we may enter beyond the veil passed time and its ravages passed mind and its distortions not to the heaven of religion in its endless closed system precepts anthropomorphic metaphors theistic gobbledygook and sophomoric social engineering a kind of cliffs notes god for dummies we can enter the eternal abode of the divine a point between the splitting of seconds revealed through the simple act of mindful breathing pierced by the effort of a focused mind
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Mar 3, 2017
Mar 3, 2017 at 8:09 AM UTC
Splitting the Second
split the atom an we get fission mass becomes energy but can we split a second enter the essence of the present what would it mean to us to be that mindful ask your self doesn't your mind only occupy past future abjectly incapable of living in the present in the true present there could not be even a ghost of a thought theres no time to think can we enter an incalculable split second and totally take in that instant with a forgotten organic technology is it the big bang in perpetuity yet quiet as a mute a raging ever expanding sea in a connected but distinct dimension if you entered it would it not utterly erases all of history the thinkers and doers along with it the step beyond the alpha and omega the great underlining reality imagine the penetrated moment an all consuming unimaginable trans-mutational merge omnipotent yet forever imperceptible to those among us time locked an irreducible limitation like an ant in a closed paper bag a fixated reflexive machine wandering aimlessly with an unknowable mission and a relentless survival mechanism with no chance of survival time as a cosmic metabolism its medium space a vast cauldron an infinite vessel containing endless points of light everywhere myriad phenomena its terrain and the temporal creatures that inhabit it both exquisite and hideous an incalculable zoo histories victors and victims one and all vanquished by the curse consciousness of dis-juncture a merciless countenance of limitation yet could time be an illusion rooted in a narrow awareness bereft of an eternal inexhaustible self effulgent now the rapture an eternal ****** if we could only penetrate into it would it swallow us and blot out the drama of creations theater is the now conscious illimitable ecstatic a perfect meta moment ? we hear from sacred texts like the Vedas... Bhagavad Gita.... and Kabbalah that we may enter beyond the veil passed time and its ravages passed mind and its distortions not to the heaven of religion in its endless closed system precepts anthropomorphic metaphors theistic gobbledygook and sophomoric social engineering a kind of cliffs notes god for dummies we can enter the eternal abode of the divine a point between the splitting of seconds revealed through the simple act of mindful breathing pierced by the effort of a focused mind
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Be patient Wait a little Wait for a while Be calm Breathe a little Rest for a while Be mindful Think a little Think for a while Be happy Smile a little Smile for a while
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Mar 17, 2018
Mar 17, 2018 at 5:11 AM UTC
Be
Picnic by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My friends laugh elsewhere on the beach while I sit here, alone, counting the waves, writing and rewriting your name in the sand ... Confession by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Your image overwhelmed my vision. As the long nights passed, I became obsessed with your visage. Then came the moment when I quietly placed my lips to your picture ... Rain by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Why shiver alone in the rain, maiden? Embrace the one in whose warming love your body and mind would be drenched! There are no rains higher than the rains of Love, after which the bright rainbows of separation will glow with the mysteries of hues. My Body's Moods by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I long for the day when you'll be obsessed with me, when, forgetting the world, you'll miss me with a passion and stop complaining about my reticence! Then I may forget all other transactions and liabilities to realize my world in your arms, letting my body's moods guide me. In that moment beyond boundaries and limitations as we defy the conventions of veil and turban, let's try our luck and steal a taste of the forbidden fruit! Moon by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch All of us passengers, we share the same fate. And yet I'm alone here on earth, and she alone there in the sky! Vanity by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch His world is so simple, so very different from mine. So distinct—his dreams and desires. He speaks rarely. This morning he wrote: "I saw some lovely flowers and thought of you." Ha! I know my aging face is no orchid ... but how I wish I could believe whatever he says, however momentarily! Keywords/Tags: Perveen Shakir, Urdu, translation, Pakistan, love, passion, picnic, beach, vision, confession, rain, rainbow, hues, forbidden fruit, body, *** orchid, mrburdu What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~underwater~~~ watching the shoreline blur sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles ... Both worlds grow obscure. Published by ByLine, Mandrake Poetry Review, Poetically Speaking, E Mobius Pi, Underground Poets, Little Brown Poetry, Little Brown Poetry, Triplopia, Poetic Ponderings, Poem Kingdom, PW Review, Neovictorian/Cochlea, Muse Apprentice Guild, Mindful of Poetry, Poetry on Demand, Poet’s Haven, Famous Poets and Poems, and Bewildering Stories
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May 17, 2020
May 17, 2020 at 11:29 PM UTC
Parveen Shakir translations
Picnic by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch My friends laugh elsewhere on the beach while I sit here, alone, counting the waves, writing and rewriting your name in the sand ... Confession by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Your image overwhelmed my vision. As the long nights passed, I became obsessed with your visage. Then came the moment when I quietly placed my lips to your picture ... Rain by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Why shiver alone in the rain, maiden? Embrace the one in whose warming love your body and mind would be drenched! There are no rains higher than the rains of Love, after which the bright rainbows of separation will glow with the mysteries of hues. My Body's Moods by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch I long for the day when you'll be obsessed with me, when, forgetting the world, you'll miss me with a passion and stop complaining about my reticence! Then I may forget all other transactions and liabilities to realize my world in your arms, letting my body's moods guide me. In that moment beyond boundaries and limitations as we defy the conventions of veil and turban, let's try our luck and steal a taste of the forbidden fruit! Moon by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch All of us passengers, we share the same fate. And yet I'm alone here on earth, and she alone there in the sky! Vanity by Parveen Shakir loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch His world is so simple, so very different from mine. So distinct—his dreams and desires. He speaks rarely. This morning he wrote: "I saw some lovely flowers and thought of you." Ha! I know my aging face is no orchid ... but how I wish I could believe whatever he says, however momentarily! Keywords/Tags: Perveen Shakir, Urdu, translation, Pakistan, love, passion, picnic, beach, vision, confession, rain, rainbow, hues, forbidden fruit, body, *** orchid, mrburdu What the Poet Sees by Michael R. Burch What the poet sees, he sees as a swimmer ~~~underwater~~~ watching the shoreline blur sees through his breath’s weightless bubbles ... Both worlds grow obscure. Published by ByLine, Mandrake Poetry Review, Poetically Speaking, E Mobius Pi, Underground Poets, Little Brown Poetry, Little Brown Poetry, Triplopia, Poetic Ponderings, Poem Kingdom, PW Review, Neovictorian/Cochlea, Muse Apprentice Guild, Mindful of Poetry, Poetry on Demand, Poet’s Haven, Famous Poets and Poems, and Bewildering Stories
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That night, I heard the violin. Between staves of leaves, string-encrusted frills, I heard a violin, not cry, not sing, but dream. I heard a violin dream. Before long, after soon, I heard the violin. Between shifting, fleeting, mindful things, I heard a violin, fitted unmathematically within a memory.
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Jul 11, 2015
Jul 11, 2015 at 2:51 AM UTC
The Violinist
Tibetan Brimstone butterflies wave wings madly at their paradise valley In the beginning, before the beginning, and in the beginning Their shaken snow globe makes them flutter in wild exuberance As they reveal a mountain, then no mountain, then Kunlun again Peace, followed by chaos, and then by peace Mother Luna's kaleidoscope of enlightenment Protected by the hooded one Holds all worlds and shakes the four seasons Nothingness, creation, abiding, destruction The wheel of time Moves the wind as it’s blown by vast circles of water Aqua marine is washed again by golden earth And in the center, the great opal mountain song of La Nature's peace Beyond white leopard snows, icy winds, and empty husks of death Butterflies are born again Shambhala’s mindful beat opens passage for light through darkness Poets squint and ride on wings toward the hidden sunset kingdom Watching another world's Avalon alive beneath a blue moon Insulated chrysalis of love for all seasons A fisherman, a carpenter, a shepherd, a merchant, a caterpillar Discover a lush, isolated, peach grove Nosing thickly scented nectar and purple primrose honey In the jade valley of the kings, queens, and beggars They meditate under the Bodhi Tree Deep brown ****** lines are carved into their soft olive skin Smooth hands are made rough, and then smooth again Young, then old, and then young once more Wisdom setting beside Queen Spirit Mother of the West Sharing a bowl of her rice milk in harmony Being in the realm between man and nature as Kalachakra turns For six years the caterpillar eats of fig And then the wheel breaks for flight one last time Radiating light as she sheds her glorious wings Here, the snow globe explodes flying petals of wild exuberance Revealing a mountain, then no mountain, then Kunlun again Transcending all, turning tears into the suns joyful rays As they rise, then set, and then rise again Nirvana Beyond our Lost Horizon © 2019 MJL
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Apr 2, 2019
Apr 2, 2019 at 10:01 AM UTC
Valley of the Blue Moon
Tibetan Brimstone butterflies wave wings madly at their paradise valley In the beginning, before the beginning, and in the beginning Their shaken snow globe makes them flutter in wild exuberance As they reveal a mountain, then no mountain, then Kunlun again Peace, followed by chaos, and then by peace Mother Luna's kaleidoscope of enlightenment Protected by the hooded one Holds all worlds and shakes the four seasons Nothingness, creation, abiding, destruction The wheel of time Moves the wind as it’s blown by vast circles of water Aqua marine is washed again by golden earth And in the center, the great opal mountain song of La Nature's peace Beyond white leopard snows, icy winds, and empty husks of death Butterflies are born again Shambhala’s mindful beat opens passage for light through darkness Poets squint and ride on wings toward the hidden sunset kingdom Watching another world's Avalon alive beneath a blue moon Insulated chrysalis of love for all seasons A fisherman, a carpenter, a shepherd, a merchant, a caterpillar Discover a lush, isolated, peach grove Nosing thickly scented nectar and purple primrose honey In the jade valley of the kings, queens, and beggars They meditate under the Bodhi Tree Deep brown ****** lines are carved into their soft olive skin Smooth hands are made rough, and then smooth again Young, then old, and then young once more Wisdom setting beside Queen Spirit Mother of the West Sharing a bowl of her rice milk in harmony Being in the realm between man and nature as Kalachakra turns For six years the caterpillar eats of fig And then the wheel breaks for flight one last time Radiating light as she sheds her glorious wings Here, the snow globe explodes flying petals of wild exuberance Revealing a mountain, then no mountain, then Kunlun again Transcending all, turning tears into the suns joyful rays As they rise, then set, and then rise again Nirvana Beyond our Lost Horizon © 2019 MJL
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I'm head starting the challenging life 12th grade decides my future strife. Herein lies the mystery of tomorrow Destiny of the mighty ship in my carefull row. Not asking for incredible flourishing results But delivering support for my stupendous work. Not asking for imaginative unreachable marks But holding my hands to provide the best of myself. Not asking to pour elixir for hardwork devoid outcome But strolling me through the gates of earnestness. Not asking for your substitution in me But to confront me with your intrepid grace. Not asking for grade ten replica But lending me the same earnest virtue. Help me ignore the incompatible watchers, To provide the least hope of comparing Falling in despair in other's successful fruits. But to help better and improvise my solitary results And shelter me in your house of modesty. No beneficial ranks but the submissive marks that lends a hair to my cognitive efforts To grant me light in the death of night. Let me blossom as tranquily as the sunflower Yet not vanish in the glory of jubliation But gradually offer me petals And extend the reliance day by day. Mindful and heeding my compatible hardwork Finally, let me conquer the glamorous colour Of my utmost individuality. Rehabilating the small hopes intro pristine reality Aware of the hunger turning to lime light To strike a chord for my year before. Take me on your hands, float me through legitimate mistakes, rip me apart in the wave of unquenchable thirst and finally wrap me out as a champion badge of jaded grade twelve. Finally, Bless me God, provide eternal marvels Bless me God, honour the righteous path As the testimony of your judicious grace Bless me God, I'm starting life (grade twelve)
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Jul 16, 2014
Jul 16, 2014 at 2:52 AM UTC
Bless me God, I'm Starting Life
I'm head starting the challenging life 12th grade decides my future strife. Herein lies the mystery of tomorrow Destiny of the mighty ship in my carefull row. Not asking for incredible flourishing results But delivering support for my stupendous work. Not asking for imaginative unreachable marks But holding my hands to provide the best of myself. Not asking to pour elixir for hardwork devoid outcome But strolling me through the gates of earnestness. Not asking for your substitution in me But to confront me with your intrepid grace. Not asking for grade ten replica But lending me the same earnest virtue. Help me ignore the incompatible watchers, To provide the least hope of comparing Falling in despair in other's successful fruits. But to help better and improvise my solitary results And shelter me in your house of modesty. No beneficial ranks but the submissive marks that lends a hair to my cognitive efforts To grant me light in the death of night. Let me blossom as tranquily as the sunflower Yet not vanish in the glory of jubliation But gradually offer me petals And extend the reliance day by day. Mindful and heeding my compatible hardwork Finally, let me conquer the glamorous colour Of my utmost individuality. Rehabilating the small hopes intro pristine reality Aware of the hunger turning to lime light To strike a chord for my year before. Take me on your hands, float me through legitimate mistakes, rip me apart in the wave of unquenchable thirst and finally wrap me out as a champion badge of jaded grade twelve. Finally, Bless me God, provide eternal marvels Bless me God, honour the righteous path As the testimony of your judicious grace Bless me God, I'm starting life (grade twelve)
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G is for generosity, giving from a large heart to those in need. R reminds me of her radiance, running throughout her smile of insouciance... And A takes me to the earlier days of her being so animated that N then becomes, naturally, the necessity to remember her this way. Now dining with the divine, D reminds me of her dying but M marks my memories with her mindful magnificence. And for this, another A because she's just that amazing, that her absence -although now abundant- is always alight with her angelic life.
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Jul 27, 2014
Jul 27, 2014 at 4:34 PM UTC
Recalling Words to the Acronym GRANDMA
in a world where we pray to be united within the grasp of wholehearted humanity standing tall we sink in the dirt beneath our feet and holding our heads up high we sing with the utmost pride a song of which becomes a chanting notion setting the tone for revenging entities growing weary of the unwanted waste we toss our visions in the sea without daring to take the promising chance how are we to stand together in a castle built to crumble in its past? and yet we become the fools lost in the fight and lost in our grieving we walk the streets with our banners and our anger without understanding what we are feeling let me take you back to nineteen sixty three when we marched on Washington and we were lead by a King what merely started as the seed of a dream became the prelude to never ending history yet with each milestone comes adversaries and we still cry the tears of our fallen fathers we still cry to be free but remember my brothers and sisters to be mindful in your actions for blood does not wash blood away and because the tongue can be a sword be mindful of every single word you say the whole world is unjust be emotional if you must but the time is now to be reflective to be knowledgeable to be respected because the hearts of our sons and daughters still need to be protected the sun my still set orange and they moon may still shine white the day may still end at quarter to the moment everything is night and in each passing day are you going to become the change that is needed to win the fight? are you going to do what's right?
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Sep 1, 2015
Sep 1, 2015 at 6:35 PM UTC
Standing Tall
in a world where we pray to be united within the grasp of wholehearted humanity standing tall we sink in the dirt beneath our feet and holding our heads up high we sing with the utmost pride a song of which becomes a chanting notion setting the tone for revenging entities growing weary of the unwanted waste we toss our visions in the sea without daring to take the promising chance how are we to stand together in a castle built to crumble in its past? and yet we become the fools lost in the fight and lost in our grieving we walk the streets with our banners and our anger without understanding what we are feeling let me take you back to nineteen sixty three when we marched on Washington and we were lead by a King what merely started as the seed of a dream became the prelude to never ending history yet with each milestone comes adversaries and we still cry the tears of our fallen fathers we still cry to be free but remember my brothers and sisters to be mindful in your actions for blood does not wash blood away and because the tongue can be a sword be mindful of every single word you say the whole world is unjust be emotional if you must but the time is now to be reflective to be knowledgeable to be respected because the hearts of our sons and daughters still need to be protected the sun my still set orange and they moon may still shine white the day may still end at quarter to the moment everything is night and in each passing day are you going to become the change that is needed to win the fight? are you going to do what's right?
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My one on one time begins as soon as I pick up this pencil Writing to release these contemplations The lead takes me to a process of distillation Being careful not to run out from this eraser Our everyday mistakes can be related to an eraser Once you run out from your eraser you cannot wipe away any errors So you carefully choose and think wisely Being mindful of the insufficiency and blackness of the eraser No matter how many times you erase there will always be a trail of black spots left behind Live life as if you were running out from your own eraser That way you pursue perfection and not mistakes Don't be the eraser that runs out quicker than the lead Copyright© Cynthia Ulloa All rights reserved.
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 1:12 AM UTC
Eraser
Desire astounds, by glint of a smile. Always careful when find, dream wearing awhile. In gold reclaim, mindful of failings. Gift precious when dare, love among tailings.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 2:17 AM UTC
In gold, desire
Forest inquires: How do you decide, choose your design, find its guise, give it a face, surrender to the poem's own vanity,         and choose the poem's alignment?                                                   an answer forms: this alignment idea, you think it simple, everybody understands what your inquiry means alignment -  the appropriate relative position we live in relative position to each other, our poems too, for they are but written synapses of our close captioned interactions, seemingly random, but assuredly not, as we invest in ourselves, seeking the mysterious appropriate answer                                                                                         from the Theory of Poetic Relativity                                                                 i love your question;                              hold it to my nostrils,                                                                     smell the coffee aroma wake up blast inherent;                                                                         kiss its robust childlike cheeks for the simple   soulfulness essential arousal; for you see sir you have found the appropriate position that relates us, our mindful words;                                  answer no good, wholly insufficient?                                         perfect.                           as i close this quick cooked to perfection laboratory solution, take note                                                                                    the earth has moved                                 our hearts have beaten a measly thousand times                                     time and space have appropriated our prior                                            relativity when you return years hence this poem's shape will perforce have moved. for words are weathered flux constant and yet inherently unchanged except for the part of us that changes with every re-reading   and what was right before has left and the center has moved again
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Mar 12, 2017
Mar 12, 2017 at 9:25 AM UTC
alignment (The Theory of Poetic Relativity)
Forest inquires: How do you decide, choose your design, find its guise, give it a face, surrender to the poem's own vanity,         and choose the poem's alignment?                                                   an answer forms: this alignment idea, you think it simple, everybody understands what your inquiry means alignment -  the appropriate relative position we live in relative position to each other, our poems too, for they are but written synapses of our close captioned interactions, seemingly random, but assuredly not, as we invest in ourselves, seeking the mysterious appropriate answer                                                                                         from the Theory of Poetic Relativity                                                                 i love your question;                              hold it to my nostrils,                                                                     smell the coffee aroma wake up blast inherent;                                                                         kiss its robust childlike cheeks for the simple   soulfulness essential arousal; for you see sir you have found the appropriate position that relates us, our mindful words;                                  answer no good, wholly insufficient?                                         perfect.                           as i close this quick cooked to perfection laboratory solution, take note                                                                                    the earth has moved                                 our hearts have beaten a measly thousand times                                     time and space have appropriated our prior                                            relativity when you return years hence this poem's shape will perforce have moved. for words are weathered flux constant and yet inherently unchanged except for the part of us that changes with every re-reading   and what was right before has left and the center has moved again
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It was the watermelon diet, he said That's what killed me A lie as ripe as the freshest rind Listen to the man He was there at my deathbed Though he never cared for my diet It was the watermelon diet not some virus That consigned me to the Gods The watermelon diet Why now do they doubt my exotic pallet? They've turned a blind eye to everything else until now For months, I guzzled nothing but sweet watermelon Fat mounds of flesh between my greedy cheeks The sheer volume of water left me bloated Before I shed an immense amount of baggage What else could be to blame? Enough of your questions and on to the cremation We'll see whether watermelon burns immortal It began in Africa- no lie there And comes in seedless varieties I never planted mine Though I wasn't want for trying I can still taste the bitter juices as I lay here in my crypt An artful coroner smelt a rat Or a chance- to prove his mettle Never heard of any watermelon diet This is Palm Springs not Papa Nu Guinea A sample of tissue foiled our grand conspiracy Same thing that got Rock Hudson But they kept a straight face Kept to the story, mindful of my legacy I'm not just any ****** Takes something grand and elaborate to dispose of me An immigrant farmhand once told me “watermelon cure the AIDS” And I believed him At least that's what I'd have you believe End
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Oct 26, 2018
Oct 26, 2018 at 8:52 AM UTC
Watermelon Diet