THE CHALLENGE

The Challenge of the Spirit

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While humanity grows more and more intelligent
there seems to be more distress, less happiness,
when we indulge in a thorough extensive inquiry
we suddenly realize that in the absence of wisdom
cleverness will strengthen the arrogance of vanity,
such is the outcome of blatant misuse of capacity.
All desires, cravings, tendency of self indulgence
enslave the native to the yearning lust of the flesh
accordingly the impulse of corruption supersedes.
Glory goes to the master of honesty and integrity
who can bring the whole self into righteous unity.

SUBORIGINAL INSIGHT

Between abstraction and psychic expression
evoking inner visions by tapping into the unconscious
Conjuring up subliminal expressions as faces within faces.

WHO OR WHAT

An argument is to find out who is right
A discussion is to find out what is right.

ADVOCATOR

If you really care, evade the despair
rise from the depth, breathe fresh air
the burden you bare is not even there
spare the angst, you are not being fair
to yourself you owe a wonderful affair.

TESTING

The more I am pressed to do my best
the more I feel I am being put to a test.
Applied pressure makes me depressed
submitting to a test is the thing I detest.
Since my feelings are being suppressed
what I honestly need is a long, deep rest.

LUCID TIME TRAVEL

I jumped out of a crazy dream

my heart beating way too fast

I have arrived here going past

what is present was seen last.

A snowball rolling down a slope

picking up speed, accelerating

gaining size, growing and glowing

swallowing everything on the path.

Suddenly an amazing thing happened

since I had been running out of time

I automatically stretched that moment

as it was accelerating, gathering speed.

A latent potent patent burst into action

I was traveling in time through suction

back and forth in a vibrating friction

what I saw was future, not just fiction.

Recalling instantly my eyes opened

the dream I had been just witnessing

was protruding over a soft landing

ahead of me in projected standing.

I caught up with an envisioned future

unfolding underneath this lucid dream

a reversal of a 'de ja vu' manifesting

while suspended in the here and now.

The place I shall be arriving in due course

I have accordingly realized as a resource

since I took a peek into this future source

detecting the presence of an erratic force..

I have been there and back I reckon

as I look at a future already gone

since I previously saw what is on

I also know what needs to be done.

FOOL'S PLAY

The string that connects 
and separates the mask
to and from the puppet, 
that social power line 
that dispenses favour 
distinguishing the king 
from the peasant,
the line that separates 
master from slave
is simply ridiculous.
To cross it is heroic
but to define it
is to play the fool.

OLIGARCHIC

Alarming wake up call  

promptly intercepted

sophisticated methods 

used by spying oglers

in removing messages

like thread from butter.

Blinders briskly fluttered

blinkers rapidly adjusted

orders promptly released 

to locate loose roosters

with distinguished beaks

inside draconian quarters.

Fractured are relations 

amongst differing nations

what is being demanded

is unconditional patience

as rare oligarchic vestiges 

are facing dire extinction. 

Gingerly inflicted pain

will be applied again 

sabers rattle in vain

as war is in the cards

a tyrant stands to gain

in conflict gone insane.

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YOU BET

On a table of roulette a fast feast has been laid
the famished are being offered an enticing bait
by means of the wheel spin a spurious promise
losers who eat with eyes are a subject of tease
until they are wiped out as the oracle could tell
predicting just about all that is about to prevail
when bettors push their luck they end up in jail
compulsive gamblers only have their soul to sell.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Some worshippers have their faith well polished
as they tend to prayers to wash away their sins
with hands raised up, whisper through tight lips 
not comprehending the gist of what this means.

Most believers are waning, wanting & begging
only few are humbly thankful, simply affirming
there is the odd vindicator ranting and cursing
demanding satisfaction, grudgingly grumbling.

I am not a worshipper, neither a set believer
the only faith I have is in seeking an answer
my quest is sharp focused, I'll not be fooled
I plea ignorance, unless otherwise assured.

BEYOND MAGIC

When hands scribble and doodle often, casually
without any conscious direction, unintentionally
like chewing one's fingernails, blinking the eyes
a compulsive habit, automatic, instincts alerted.
Streaming visions pour out of the subconscious
cellular memory in endorsing the genetic print
is illuminating hidden aspects, conjuring a hint.

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FAREWELL

Like a black hole at the heart of an atom
your paradise is a slippery slope to hell
I can tell because I more than once fell
but was rescued in the nick of the bell
what life has in store, I can never tell
I desire no more but wish you well.

THE SURVIVAL OF THE MISFIT

An old friend had a massive heart attack

they called me from the hospital, I rushed

he was a heavy smoker, they had to bypass

he looked pale and exhausted, worried I was

'Is there anything I can do for you''.…. I asked

'get me a cigarette' he pleaded, 'I am dying for one'

the following poem was inspired by such a remark.

The contrast between

high thinking and low living

measured in cigarette butts,

meanwhile time is running in

and running out…

In & out, in & out 

In ironic opposition

things are evolving

after all he's still breathing

and smoking and kicking

the king of the time being

will soon be choking!.

As we sit and stare

at time running out

one more cigarette

is what this is all about,

we do not have to

rave and shout

but on this issue

we have no doubt

that if he quits

he is in

or else

he is out!.

FATEFUL

Ardor is subtle when taken alertly
with purity,virtuously, full heartedly
alongside passion come vulnerability
should it crumble there will be no pity
romance in bloom, such is pure delight
must cherish beloved, hold on to it tight
faith is delicate can be obstructed by fate
so intense yet fragile, should treat it right.

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QUANTUM

A point of view can be a serious liability 

while one is approaching the hereafter.

The coalescing of the inner and the outer 

changes the nature of perception further.

An objective view might have to consider 

all possibilities concurrently in the making

when a first hand experience is occurring.

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SLEEPWALK

Tread gently, I'm only a lucid dreamer
half asleep, half awake, easy to wake
but not so easy to take, for your sake
If you break into this sleeper's thoughts
should you find a dream of such a kind
it might drive you right out of your mind.

THE ART OF THE MATTER

When I look at material bodies 
I see the shapes of solid things
not an illusion in the real sense
variations in structure of space 
appearance of physical aspects.
Particles aren't what they seem to be
the World is given to me as a whole
not one here and another one there.
Subject and object are simply one
that is my experience at this time.
The barrier has not been broken down
such an obstacle never ever existed.
I keep on sinking while I am thinking
as I vigorously scratch my temple
to get to the bottom of this thing.
I need to have blind faith in myself
to be able to generate the will power
dormant at the bottom of my heart,
since I know, that is what it takes
to turn my intense visions into art.

INSIGHT

Consciousness is everywhere like the air we breathe
assuming the heart is a pumping generator of motion
constantly prompting a life force empowering emotion
an abundance of love, like the waves of a vast ocean.

The brain through which intelligence can enter the mind
a place where awareness can be obtained of some kind
beneath the surface, beyond boundaries one could find
an invisible presence, presiding over the spiritually blind.

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HOLE IN THE WHOLE

While humanity grows more and more powerful

There seem to be more distress, less happiness

Such is the outcome of reckless use of capacity.

Should we indulge in a thorough extensive inquiry

We shall encounter that in the absence of modesty

Cleverness will bring about the vanity of arrogance.

The ego, where all desires and cravings are seated

Enslaves the native to the yearning lust of the self

Consequently confusion could supersede adversity

What appears highly evolved is subject to apathy.

Glory goes to the master of honesty and integrity

Who can bring the whole self into righteous unity.

ON ART & POETRY

Art and poetry are ways we turn the inner into the outer
in so doing we are able to create and explore further
there is something about spontaneous online sharing
which gives the World wide web live virtual interaction
we are at the tip of a potential cyberspace expansion.

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