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Ultimate Destiny

Tree studded forests beckoned us enticingly
Upright stalwarts pointing upwards thoughtfully
Dozing cozy in sleeping bags in forest clearing
My eyes beheld inky midnight skies unfolding
Stars huddled in colonies or self starters, shining
Winking bright and naughty, saucily twinkling
I wondered at this great vastness calmly stretching
The miracle of the master artist constantly etching

Numerous constellations and galaxies, drawing
Breathing life in miniscule to the greatest being
All with a purpose in this great scheme of existing
Caring nurturing dispensing justice to all, protecting
Things in true perspective had me realizing, wondering
I was a mere speck in this mammoth tree of life flowering
What is the great plan and purpose of all creatures living?
Journey it is, a progression with attrition and surviving
Elevating into the higher echelons of the food chain
Is this my only goal or is there another spiritual gain
Improving, improvising constructively progressing surviving
Inexorably moving towards the ultimate goal of achieving
The one grand prize we all are created for in the first place
Oneness with the One who sent us forth to purify with grace
Man’s ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures.-Alfred A. Montapert American Author
It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Anthony Robbins 1960-, US Author, Speaker, Peak Performance Expert / Consultant
The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne , American, Celebrity Quotes
The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.- Mohandas Gandhi ,Indian, Leader
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.-Pablo Picasso
Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men.
Albert Einstein
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. -       Alfred North Whitehead English, Mathematician Quotes
Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof — that’s a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work. -Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God’s mind?- Freeman Dyson ,US Physicist
Our actions throughout the day seek to imitate nature by having a purpose. Kindness is like the rising of the sun that sheds new light on matters and compassion is like the rain that washes a way the old and nurtures new life. -Michael Heninger Social Services

Towers Of Silence

(”Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise
 that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”)
E. M. Forster, Howard’s End, 1910

Towers Of Silence

 

Cacophony all over
Has me gasping for air
Noisy din everywhere
Soothing solace nowhere
Running for cover hither and thither
Sans relieving respite, teetering tottering
Gasping pathetically in throes of despair

Every pore in body beseeching succor
Onslaught of high decibels beating galore
My soul cringing, crying no more no more
Begging for salve of peace from noisy gore
Stuffing ears, saving drums is need of hour
Recalling times of pin drop silences of yore

Calmly I collect and curl self, escaping at once
Internally, seeking refuge in the towers of silence
Tranquil, rejuvenating, engaging moments of penance
Reliving olden golden times replete with substance
Living was real not virtual n life was in perfect balance
Nature, relationships, country were held in reverence
Sanctity of boundaries, freedom had real credence

The towers of silence reverberate with a life force
A soundless rhythmic throbbing, vibrating resource
Warming cockles of heart, resuscitating perforce
Curing compulsively young old hurting workhorse
Suffusing radiance, soothing calming great resource
The towers of silence, imparting mute discourse
Rejuvenating sanctuary, away from life’s frenetic racecourse

 

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature — trees, flowers, grass — grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls.
Mother Teresa 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar Greek, Poet Quotes

 I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini Italian, Director Quotes
  The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
Robert B. Laughlin American, Physicist Quotes

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Silence is more eloquent than words.
Thomas Carlyle ,Scottish, Philosopher Quotes
One of the best things about paintings is their silence - which prompts reflection and random reverie.
Mark Stevens Author Nationalities, Actor Quotes

One of my all time fav.songs  by Simon And Garfunkel
 
 The Sound Of Silence

Hello darkness, my old friend,
Ive come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of
A neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools said i,you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon God they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the signs said, the words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.
And whisperd in the sounds of silence.

Succor

Give me succor
Quell this furor
My lord heed hear
I am full of fear

Arms outstretched
Beseeching pleading
Eyes piercing pleading
Lips aquiver weeping

My heart is breaking
Need arms loving
Cozy sheltering
Alarm bells coursing

Up down running
Blood flowing running
Heartbeat fluctuating
Breath punctuating

Feet tottering tapping
Words spilling stopping
Spirit hoping drooping
Head heavy hanging

Shoulders straightening
Then rounding curving
Stomach heaving aching
Anxiety growing gnawing

Give me succor
Quell this furor
My lord heed hear
I am full of fear

Suddenly my third eye
Opened n took me within
All fear dissolved
All knots unraveled
Joy burst through
Happiness coursed
You gave me succor
Absorbing all fear

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.
Studs Terkel
American, Journalist Quotes

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.
Lorraine Anderson
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank
1929-1945, German Jewish Refugee, Diarist

Angel of Death

(Bird of Prey Snowy Owl and The Rat- Quarry)

Come my little one, come into my embrace
I have come to fetch you n give you solace Our appointment was made when you were born
I have come to keep my promise, made that morn

There is no time to dither and run helter skelter
This will be the fate of all, so what does it matter
The kind snowy owl has come for you at my bidding
You will be his savior rat by sacrifice, sans any chiding
There is no need to look for food now,  here and there
Your time has come finally my little pal, so be aware
Life and death follow each other cyclically n inexorably
I am the angel of death and my job is taxing emotionally
So my darling little one do not tire yourself running around
The snowy owl is all ready to pounce without making a sound
Let your tired self rest in my arms blissfully with grace
Your job is done in this world and it is time to retrace
Come my little one, come into my embrace
I have come to fetch you and give you solace
Our appointment was made when you were born
I have come to keep my promise, made that morn
I am the angel of death, angel of life and myself are twins
And the world knows that inevitably it is I who always wins
Come my little one, come into my embrace
I have come to fetch you and give you solace

Death is inevitable, but Life - that’s the tricky bit where things happen.
Simon Travaglia
Author Nationalities, Author Quotes

Life is just standing in line for death.
Jeremy A , me
For death begins with life’s first breath And life begins at touch of death
John Oxenham
British, Journalist Quotes

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny,
 for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American PoetORIGINALLY PUBLISHED @
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Florescent

banked fires
You are lit
I am lit
both are lit
From within

Often watching
Flitting fireflies
Within reach
They were also
lit from within

morning star shining,fading
at daybreak, evening star
winking glowing bright
reaffirm faith
lit from within

glow or fade
shine or dim
hope and happiness
permeates those
lit from within

despair is unacceptable
defeat is unacceptable
weakness is unacceptable
pretense is unacceptable
We are florescent
 
And affirm
We are both
lit from within

 touched by love
nurtured by affection
sustained by trust
we are both
lit from within

affirm
we are
luminous
florescent
glowing
from
within

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the
 wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset
Crowfoot

 
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm
WinstonChurchill
English, Statesman Quotes

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
SinclairLewis
American, Novelist Quotes

Love is the only bow of life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon
 the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art,
 inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder
 of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, It was the first dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless
 things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay.
Robert Green Ingersoll
1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer

The Mask & The Ego

Masking

Born pure as driven snow
Body and soul were all aglow
THEN
Day one brought forth layers
Ignoring my innocent waivers
Parents dressed my body with one peel
Conditioned my persona with another
Friends, environment and school
All conspired, heaping layered spools
I am now dressed and trussed to the gills
A mere shadow of self, a dummy to other wills
Life’s circumstantial mask of false airs,
Pretences and pseudo trappings is firmly in place
Finding self in this thick maze puts me in a daze

Unmasking

In pensive state, dwelled on self fate
Realized on life’s endless journey
Egged on by bravado and supreme ego
Had donned many layers over true self
Mercifully, Inner flame was still lit blue
Unmasking, purging, of all layers’ glue
Burning ego and  letting real self through 
Organic n inorganic matter  peeled off
In preparing to embark on discovery of self
To satisfy craving to touch base with Me
life had implanted chips of many concepts
weeding them out and spamming precepts
Skeptically peeling away onion layers
Arriving at the core within for life’s real feel
Herculean task it is, not for the fainthearted
The sages of yonder had no pretensions or ego
They lived and enjoyed life simply on the go
Sans clothes n belongings, no bindings
Thus free in spirit n mind, were in commune
With the almighty always in sync and tune
Now I too have burned my boats and
Offer myself as is
I am unmasked
Without pretences,
no oblique glances
I am what I am
Nothing more nothing less
Just am
no sham
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces,
 for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

Although I know it’s unfair I reveal myself one mask at a time.
Stephen Dunn
American, Poet Quotes

You have to hope that you don’t have to wear a mask and you don’t
have to put prosthetics on your face to make yourself look believable.
Lucy Liu
American, Actress Quotes

 Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask.
Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
Rodney Dangerfield
American, Comedian Quotes

 It’s a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don’t lower
 your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible
 as you like - but a mask.
Katherine Mansfield
New Zealander, Author Quotes

The ego is not master in its own house.
Sigmund Freud
Austrian, Psychologist Quotes

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.
Ernst Mach
Austrian, Physicist Quotes

You are hypocritically pious in your egotistical defense of ID! Wherefore,
 what fuels your ‘needs’? Is it not greed and instant gratificaion?
Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher
 

Crisis and Serenity

Today my state of serenity

Had enemies beating at the walls
A brewing crisis and rising palls
Tried hard to make inroad calls
Equanimity beat all these squalls
My serenity stayed unmauled

Alarm bells rang and trilled
Emergency shook strong willed
Grace and acceptance seesawed
Hope hung tight on wing and prayer
My serenity fought off all these dares

Faith, hope and charity were taught in school
Forgiveness and acceptance are also great tools,
Those who advocate these are no fools
They help in centering mind, body and spirit
My serenity was achieved by this tenet

Today my state of serenity

Had enemies beating at the walls
A brewing crisis and rising palls
Tried hard to make inroad calls
Equanimity beat all these squalls
My serenity stayed un-mauled

Prayers, acceptance, grace,
Focused presence of mind
Timely action unrelenting vigil
All created magic and miracle
My state of serenity stayed put

Thus crisis was weathered and conquered!!!

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Susan Taylor
Author Nationalities, Actress Quotes

When you face a crisis, you know who your true friends are
Earvin ”Magic” Johnson
1959-, American Basketball Player

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles De Gaulle
1890-1970, French President during World War II

Shadow Stays Put

The Inseparables
Tangible and intangible

Joined at the hip,
Implacable Siamese twins

The body and its shadow
Life pursued by death

Betwixt yesterday n tomorrow
Present is ever moving shadow

Embarked on life’s journey
Only shadow stays put

Daring to be alone, fly solo
I try to cut my shadow loose,

I stamp on it, fight it, rail against it
Physically resist it, emotionally banish it

All goes to naught, doesn’t quit
Inexorably, shadow stays put

Sun begets shadow and to banish it
Need total darkness or total light

Rising sun and setting sun elongates shadows
Midday’s sun at its zenith, makes it disappear

Total light, is quite intolerable
Hence, shadow stays put

Lobotomy is drastic, life with
Shadows is the ultimate truth

Only shadows stay put

The body and its shadow
Life pursued by death

The Inseparables
Tangible and intangible

Only shadows stay put
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour
 upon the stage And then is heard no more; it is a tale Told by an idiot,
 full of sound and fury, Signifying Nothing.
William Shakespeare

Death is a shadow that always follows the body.
English Proverb
Sayings of British Origin
 

Duality In Unity

Like a coconut shell
I shelter you within

Like a banyan tree
I cool you beneath

I am your buffer
Betwixt earth and sky

I am the soothing emollient
On your tender scab

I am the soft Pashmina
warming your shivers 

I am the nurturer
As you suckle me

I am the eternal lover
As you beguile me

I am the eternal yin
To your constant yang

I am the beginning
You are the end

We are two sumo wrestlers
Pleasuring others

We are two heavenly bodies
Ever circling

You are the pea
In the pod of life

You are dynamic
I am passive

We are two atoms
Energizing all

We are two faces of creation
Saint and Satan ever fencing

We represent the duality
Of the universal truth of one

There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances,
 one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality,
 is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.
Charles Baudelaire
1821-1867, French Poet

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor
Alexander Pope
1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator

 

 

I Am A Cannibal

I am A Cannibal
In life I have found the proverbial Horn of Plenty to nibble
A mixed bag of creative voices that are both equisite and banal
I relish ones giving me a high, reprieving others that I do not gobble
I am a cannibal

I am a vampire
I need to suck that blood which brings red tears out of the eyes
my creative juices thrive on those blood cells that are not banzais
I need full blooded wines,not stunted platelets to fight ignorance
I am a vampire

I am a ghostbuster
ethereal  mumbo jumbo leaves me cold
For I am a ghostbuster born to be bold and I have
A bagful of myth-busting stories that need to be told
I am a ghostbuster

 I am an amputee
Have chopped off that societal arm that allows rape and then
sweeps it under the rug, have also chopped
off another which preys upon innocent  children, then looks smug
I have amutated all those ’cos these societal parts are  humbug
I am an amputee

I am an iconoclast
animal/human sacrifices offered in name of religion leave me cold
god is in us,around us, why accept a society where this is condoned
Pull up your bootstraps,so that chains of useless mores can be disowned
I am an iconoclast

I am a Poet
I write from the heart
I use brain to jumpstart this heart
I love all and see beauty everywhere in this worldly mart
I am a Poet

 

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt
 against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
James Joyce
1882-1941, Irish Author

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
1792-1822, British Poet

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night,
 lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private
 world public, that’s what the poet does.
Allen Ginsberg
1926-, American Poet

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