Liberating Soul

Give us back our shattered peace of mind
Return skeins of joy, untangle, help unwind
Hearts are battered by strident cries maligned
Shower benediction of peace, everyone rebind

Pygmy minds perpetrate holocausts in ignorance
Forget that at birth all same, in insurgent nascence
Blood same color and content, spilled in abundance
Callously, lost in corridors of deadened conscience

We have been taught that as you sow, so you shall reap
Childhood lessons blown by scorching winds, lie in dust heap
Return sanity, clear all visions, as life is very precious, not cheap
Straw by straw nests, nations are built, destroy not in one fell sweep

Welling eyes, breaking hearts, vacant arms, plead and cry in unison
Lord let sanity return, smite hate and strife, showering benediction
We are all your children and your benign doorbell is our only talisman
Man killing man is like a jungle creature devouring its birthed creation

Save them from self, clearing visions warped by cataracts of pumped up hate
You are the giver, the taker only,  yet we see aping of you by happenings of late
Chop down all deadwood of greed, corruption and self aggrandizements’ spate
Reconvert us to our old innocent selves that you first dispatched, all else abate
Give us back our shattered peace of mind
Return skeins of joy, untangle,  help unwind
Hearts are battered by strident cries maligned
Shower benediction of peace, everyone rebind

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I hate this wretched willow soul of mine, patiently enduring, plaited or twisted by other hands .-Karin Boye Swedish, Poet
The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.
Eric Hoffer American, Writer
Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
John Desmond Bernal Irish, Scientist

Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body .-Johann Arndt German, Theologian

As for what concerns our relations with our fellow men, the anguish in our neighbor’s soul must break all precept. All that we do is a means to an end, but love is an end in itself, because God is love. - Edith Stein German, Saint
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Oscar Wilde Irish, Dramatist

My Love

It was so hard to contain it
I could hold back no more
It was brimming and spilling
I wanted to fling myself on him
Hug him close and never let go
All pent up emotions came to the fore
He was blind to my love’s outpourings
Blissfully he continued to have forty winks
Gently snoring and smiling in his sleep
Making me impatient and deprived
I wanted to feel his throbbing pulse
And his beating heart close to mine
Finally my love broke loose
I gathered him tight in my arms
Held him close and assuaged
My overflowing maternal love

My Lord looked on morose
His accusing eyes calling me traitor
I beseeched, Lord I have not thee forsaken
You are my brother, am just enjoying your
Boon and blessings that you have
Sent my way, giving me immense joy
Endearments gush from me to my baby
On gift bestowed by thee in your infinite wisdom
You reside in my every pore, in every breath
My every inhale every exhale calls YOU
Only you, my baby is a mere extension
Of me and I know all is transient, short lived
Yet I relish him so, as he has given meaning
To my meaningless roving self as now
 I have something to live for and YOU are
Already there for me to die for again and again
 

My boyfriend used to ask his mother,” How can I find the right women for me?  And she would
 answer, don’t worry about finding the right women -concentrate on becoming the right man.
UNKNOWN

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice,
 once for herself and once for her child. -Sophia Loren ,Italian, Actress

When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you
 answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. -Erma Bombeck, American, Journalist

GENESIS

A diffident germination
A flicker, a novel idea
A glimmer of light
At the end of creative
Fugue

Flickering glimmer
Gaining strength
Powering forcefully
Birthing creatively
Labor pangs

A steady stream
Chain of thoughts
A burst of color
A work of art
Genesis

Labor of love
Demands a pact between
Creativity, honesty, purity-a
Covenant- as words are sent forth in
Mass Exodus

Genesis-labor-covenant exodus

Finished product-poem-story-prose-text

A labor of Love!!

 

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I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart
 like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success…
 Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.-Nikola Tesla American, Inventor

 

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth,
 every going to rest and sleep a little death.-Arthur Schopenhauer German, Philosopher Quotes

* The birth of one brick holds the entire foundation of a beautiful piece of
 architecture that pulls a masterpiece together on canvas or paper. 
* Awake with one color in mind, one word, one idea, one point of view,
one emotion or one dream, and the creative evolution of passion carries to fruition.-  Carl Stoynoff

 

 

Carpet of Gold

Walking up the slope of my street
My eyes met with a wonderful treat
A golden carpet unfurled under my feet

The autumn leaves in a unanimous decision
Severed their veins from tree limbs in unison
Forming a golden blaze in cahoots with glowing sun

A veritable riot of generous dabs of color yellow
Gladly shedding green memories of spring mellow
And vibrant reds, shades of olive, crimson and cocoa

Actively participating in this transition of life cycle
Passively accepting fate’s decree with promises joyful
Ready to be bagged mulched churned with sighs rueful Walking up the slope of my street
My eyes met with a wonderful treat
A golden carpet unfurled under my feet

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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless  like silence, listening to silence.
Thomas Hood English, Poet Quotes

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June,
 and now when autumn yellows all the leaves… - V. Sackville-West

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions
 have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away
Zhuangzi Chinese, Philosopher Quotes

Ablution to Absolution

Creeping silently hissing, they sidled inside
Insidiously got comfortable during high tide
Evicting impossible, forced to wait for riptide
…angry thoughts, emotional upheavals…

Suffering implied transgressions of the bully
I rode the cresting waves of my anger unruly
Precariously holding out for riptide of sanity, barely
…angry thoughts, emotional upheavals…

Piling recrimination coals, slights perpetrated, real unreal
Easing bruised ego and knuckle,  ah!  revenge is so sweet
Better senses rush in, cooling emotional furor corroding
…steam escaping, bubble bursting…

true to self and form, anger dissipating, rapidly evaporating
forgiving  forgetting winning at last, overtaking all, settling
peace of mind regained, calm waters of mind flow serenely
…ablution to absolution…

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Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution.
Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
 

Forgive! How many will say, ”forgive,” and find a sort of absolution in the
 sound to hate a little longer!  -Lord Alfred Tennyson  1809-1892, British Poet

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
 -Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing,
 self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. -E.F. Schumacher

Laughter can be more satisfying than honor; more precious than money;
 more heart-cleansing than prayer. - Harriet Rochlin

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much,
 but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding  starts, the cleansing can begin. -Tori Amos  American, Musician

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. -Sai Baba

 

**(ablution: ritual washing, cleansing
absolution: forgiveness)

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