by Connie Marcum Wong |
Categories:
devotion, hope, inspirational, love, uplifting,
Lotus
Lotus petals soft with shadows
Drinking from your shallow pond,
Blossoms that compete with heaven,
With the twilight hour you bond.
Aquatic in your very nature,
Deemed fit to float at Buddha's feet,
Your peaceful beauty calls awareness
Where such enlightened beings meet.
Sacred plant known through the ages
Your spirit dwells within my heart
And centered there, your spark of light
Assures me that we'll never part.
11-14-18 rev.
Zen Poetry Contest~First Place~
Sponsored by: Line Gauthier
by Berteena Harmony Of The Soul |
Categories:
bereavement, cancer, grief, loss, lost love, native american, tribute,
I
knew a Tiger
who swam with dolphins
along the razor’s edge
and
meditated with a yellow bird
under his honey’s tree
in a west coast garden.
A
rare breed
from an indigenous
creed.
His
poetic wisdom
written with
zen.
He
sung his songs
in syllables:
5-7-5 and 5-7-5-7-7.
His
beloved’s last kiss
left him fragrant roses
when she crossed over.
Where
did our
Windwalker
go?
Lava
beads, sky lanterns,
and a beautiful
rainbow.
Is
he crying with Coyotes
to the moon or on
heaven’s Windswept Shore?
I
knew a Tiger
who walked
with the wind.
by Berteena
Harmony of the Soul
PoetrySoup Poem of the Day - January 29, 2019
by Line Gauthier |
Categories:
appreciation, blessing, death, introspection, life, peace, wisdom,
the peaceful soul exudes harmony with all
nonchalant as a calm waterfall
unperturbed serene wise men
use their fountain pen
moments of
zen
flawless love
pure as sings the wren
solemnly pondering when
might come the ultimate curtain call
the peaceful soul exudes harmony with all
AP: Honorable Mention 2020
Submitted on July 17, 2020 for contest ANDAREE - 11 LINES sponsored by JOSEPH MAY - RANKED 2ND
and September 5, 2018 for STANDARD CONTEST 115 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 1ST
Originally posted on August 2, 2018
by Winged Warrior |
Categories:
nature, spring, sweet love,
Let the sparrows sing and perch as they land on their birch
Let the squirrels swiftly search for their acorns as they smirch
Let the swans softly stray as they beautify their passageway
Let the trees swing and sway for their grandeur they display
Let my love be reborn again as it did before way back then
Let nature drip its poetic pen as it recreates a zestful Zen.
March.30.2019
Writing Challenge 6
Sponsored by: Dear Heart
Placed 5'th...Thank You
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
spiritual,
Seeking patterns
Familiar environs
Sensory apparatus
Thus so languishing
In hypnotic stupor
Yet heart yearns for
Soul's luminescence
Governed by instinct
Fickle egoic attention
Having separated itself
From womb of God's love
Is tragically blown away
In winds of uncertainty
Of duality remorseless
We are where
We choose to be
So we may dream on
Or decide to wake up
Our life, our choice
Yet pulse of love whispers
“Oh child, please be still”
28-October-2022
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
heart, love,
of seeds strewn in existence
blossoming at their own pace
all we do is outpour compassion
being the only real substance
that steers souls toward light
ever aflame within all hearts
19-February-2023
by Vanessa Ponce |
Categories:
love, garden, love,
In a summer's noon of night
In search of vastness height
A love affair began through the hourglass
While a shooting star shall pass
We wished for innocence again
As we breathed our inner zen
Embracing under the velvet sky
Above the garden that we lie
His sweetness upon my face
I doubt I shall erase
The rolling tide of summer breeze
In a simple kiss of please
His hands perish upon me
Opens his eyes for me to see
Entering our garden of Eden
Our sanctuary to the end
In our hand you shall find
A love affair so tightly kind
In a serenity not so far
But only in our book of stars.
by Emile Pinet |
Categories:
10th grade, 9th grade, christian, emotions, god, love, meaningful,
love and be loved
life's ultimate goal
is that not God's decree?
Questionku)
10/19/2019
Get in touch with your Zen
Sponsored by: Richard Lamoureux
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
love, memory, spiritual,
a memory trigger
which we never knew of
in active cognition
crystallises before us
seeking our indulgence
but why would we oblige
beyond giving it a nod
of recognition
before we flow on
where the currents carry us
borne by past momentum
of our once fickle heart
which is now void centric
assigning no preference
to any vibration
other than love
12-November-2022
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
love,
love calibrates not
value systems
there is no judgment
nor any hesitation
in plunging into embrace
the echo may not return
it matters not
love is an effervescence
exhuming darkness
as God is our witness
by Panagiota Romios |
Categories:
joy, romance,
Some like to cook,,others to dance.
Some love to paint, I'll take romance!
Anytime! There is no question.
This is my life's sensation.
Our feet in a brook, a sunset, reading love poetry.
Some ice cold ouzo,and just you and me.
This is my joyous reality!
A summer's sunset, loves' specialty.
July 20, 2020
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
joy, spiritual,
it has finally come to this
moment to moment, drenched in bliss
form transmuted before our eyes
awestruck beholding rapture rise
the energy loop now complete
makes us at all times love replete
effervescence of magnetism
ignites this here mind-body prism
soma nectar pierces each cell
signalling to us all is well
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
i am, joy, light,
now that we know our true Self is living light
present in the now continuum we gently flow
as moment to moment renews bliss delight
essence of pristine presence remains aglow
such are secrets divine hidden in plain sight
it matters not if others notice not our inner joy
for we remain ensconced in bliss day and night
yet we share because we care; love is never coy
by Unseeking Seeker |
Categories:
silence, spiritual,
when the pendulum swings
does not our attention sway
or are we vibrant within the storm
with love and light our mainstay
to be poised in tranquil calm
is this orientation too not grace
left to our feeble resources
we are a victim of our disgrace
silence then is our soul’s refuge
found within the cave of our heart
bending low in childlike prayer
‘tis here our meditation should start
by Justin Bordner |
Categories:
gothic, heart, nature, women, endurance,
When a woman is just a woman
the world waits not for her wishes and woes
It seeks to rape the rose of her youth and ravage her assertive reason,
she must become more than mortal meat, she must rise to where hot spirit flows
accelerating the bloodletting of her zen into a hostile zeitgist, she makes endurance a weapon,
the gestation of her gestalt confronting the civil and savage alike, sharp beauty is all she knows
becoming a love hunter with no remorse, womb driven, wasting no color of season,
learning to weep over the bones of bastards, to scream through shadows,
reaping light from simple eyes, heart uncommon
Eve believes God as she grows -
J.A.B.
by Stephen Kilmer |
Categories:
suicide,
357 Desert Eagle drive
Hollow point
A piece of the sky
Everything is Zen
Sequestered in hell
It’s the little things that kill
Stopping power
**** me
Cold against your temple
Hot in your hand
I need to comedown
IKEA and groceries
Feed the dogs
Worlds gone mad
Love and hate
I sleep all day
No one knows me
It all comes down to you
There is no blame
by Thomas Martin |
Categories:
age, growing up, moon,
upstairs window
the fields looking as
covered with snow in the night
thinking of all and nothing
but the moonlit fields
my zen books,
peter pauper press editions,
yellow with age now
showing my steadfast love
for no-mind even now
by Ryan Vandenbosch |
Categories:
beautiful, dedication, devotion, emotions, feelings, love, soulmate,
I tilt my head then close my eyes
To take the breath that leads to sighs
Sensing your heartbeat in sync with mine
I adore the love
That feels so divine
I imagine the ways that come to mind
How two hearts could beat
Harmoniously all the time
Then send those feelings
With no trace of a pen
To emotionally connect through my perfect zen
With my goddess of mystery
But who's still my friend
Whose indeed my soulmate
Through to the end
by Thama Logan |
Categories:
appreciation, loss, lost love,
Zen-A-Phobia
Bring me home,
to live with you
in gardens of blue-
light blue.
Magnify the plot
Of treasures stored
Gifts of giving
Giving, giving,
Evermore, evermore…
by Jemmy Farmer |
Categories:
faith, thanks, life, thanks,
A word of thanks for all that I receive,
Yesterday, today and tomorrow too.
Is it so hard to simply say thank you,
Or take a breath to let the heart believe?
Two easy words that never seem enough,
Surrounded by beauty in Nature’s love,
But it is harder to look to the skies above,
When life is tough and the going is rough,
Yet taking the time to reflect thanks then,
Opens the soul so life begins to change,
And our dreams take on a different range,
As we embrace a brief moment of Zen.
This is the power that awakens life
Even when surrounded by naught but strife.
Form: Canadian Sonnet
by Winged Warrior |
Categories:
love, moon, romance,
Crimson Moon
Oh starry night of crimson moon
Where air is filled with a minstrel’s tune
A lover’s den in which they woo
A magic Zen of a secret rendezvous
Where wind brings forth your ever presence
And kiss’s due are of the immediate essence
Salivating shadows of nights embrace
Undo the garments of lover’s lace
Oh moonlight of forevermore
Shine your rays that we may adore
On balconies of jubilant Juliet
Where forever Romeos ever met.
Dec.12.2016
NIGHT FANTASIES - Contest
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose
by Joel Thornton |
Categories:
for her, love,
You are my source
My Zen
My love
A binding force.
This new year
Will be Ours.
A true love union
That follows an ugly divorce
You are , to me,
The absolute ultimate
In charm and in beauty.
The warmth radiates
When your presence is close.
As it becomes frigid
Without it I am a ghost.
An apparition
A failure
A shell
But your eyes
Fill my soul with hope
Save me from this damnable hell.
12-31-14
by Sonya Ki Tomlinson |
Categories:
devotion, for him, heart, joy,
I love my little Buddha husband
sometimes I watch him as he naps
his face assuming the soft delicate
lines of a child or an angel
asleep on God's bosom
I observe him in the garden
through the glass patio door
reflective light of the noonday sun
splashing gold over his bent form
Gently he snips fragrant rose blossoms
arranging a charming feng shui bouquet
for our kitchen counter
Cuddling close and cozy on our
chocolate brown love sofa
as evening casts a starry
love spell
I Thank God for such a
blessed and sacred life and especially
for my little Buddha's delight
by Clay Young Jr. |
Categories:
devotion, love, recovery from..., romance,
The darkest lights are shining
When the brightest is away
The cold depths i'm mining
Miss the warmth of day
I felt a painful miracle
I wished upon a star
What's a ripple but a wrinkle?
I learned of time from healing scars
Recovered from the mortal wound
That she dealt me more than once
How could i ever play a fair hand,
When she stacked the deck?
Though i had to play that game so many times,
What else should i expect?
It is what it is
What it isn't
What will be, will be
We are what we are
What we aren't
Found someone who heals, to mend
Someone that's my love, and friend
Done wandering, i've found my Zen
And done wondering what could have been
by Darren Garmer |
Categories:
happiness, inspirational, peace
Savoring spiritual symposiums
Guides genius gifted giving
Relinquish requested results relying
Upon universal understanding
Willingly washes whimpering woes
Developing divine direct doing dispositions
Lighting love lamps
Zinging Zen zephyrs...