Category: Poems
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Hidden Fruits
Often, even a prolonged search appears fruitless But look among the discards For the unsought fruit So often sweeter, more fulfilling Than the one intended. Seeking is an act of desire, Discovery, an act of vision. Disentangled from objectives, Seeking always bears fruit.
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The Crucible of Suffering: Pain
If you feel hatred, feel the anger that powers it. If you feel anger, feel the fear that motivates it. If you feel fear, feel the pain that underlies it. If you feel pain, heal the part of you that feels it. Pain is the crucible in which all suffering is smelted Extinguish the…
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Choose Love
When I choose to live in my fear, my anger, my hate I see the world through eyes that fear I hear the song of anger in every note I taste hatred as if all sustenance were the bitterest root In my mind I place the world of power, control and duplicity Above the world…
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One and All
It is through our perception of this realm of manifestation And our will to reason about all we perceive That we learn to believe in opposites. Beauty & Ugliness Love & Hatred Good & Evil Only words. Only names for the unnameable. The concepts they speak of, Only manifestations of the eternally real. By believing…
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The Path of Becoming
We are always changing, But only to become ourselves. What we leave behind was not ours. What we carry forward is, if only for the moment. Sometimes a backward glance clarifies what was, what remains, what will be.
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Burden and Forgiving
Forgive Forgiving lifts two burdens One carried by the forgiven One carried by the forgiver
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The Road to Now
Regret not the past. Rather, be grateful for how it shaped your present. For the past was the road to now. There is now no other way than the road taken, And any other path may well have led astray. If you must look back, Look not for failures and wrong turns. Rather, look for…
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First a smile ~ Then a laugh
When our heart is broken Or our soul walled off First a smile Then a laugh These are the steps Through which we rediscover The step that is love The healing step The step which walks through walls First a smile Then a laugh These steps are the healer’s first business (for…
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The supple vulnerability of love.
The supple vulnerability of love The pen is mightier than the sword While love is mightier than the pen Love is A fortress without walls A sword without edge A pen without ink No army can defeat it No blade cut it from you No word undo it Master the strength of suppleness; Discover the…
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Helpless in our anger
Helpless in our anger Courage borne of anger Delivers none from sorrow. Anger begets violence Upon body, mind and spirit. Violence begets harm. Harm begets sorrow. On victim and Instigator alike. Ever so, this cycle of suffering, Helpless in our anger.