My poem: the sages say

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: the sages say
Format: Italian sonnet
Length: 111
Rating: gen
Notes: a spiritual sonnet about the nature of self-realization and the concept of original goodness. maya is the lure and distortion of the material world


the sages say beneath the ego grime
is Pure is Good is One. the mystics tell
under the crusts of rusts, below the spell
of maya, is Love, not subject to time
or place or whim, beyond reason or rhyme.
innate, essential, a Truth to dispel
the myths of separateness, the fogs of hell,
and reveal the Self, absolute and sublime

no need, they cry, to cram the goodness in
no need, they sigh, to buy a loving heart,
no need to change a wardrobe or address
just end the false, and Truths begin
just rout ill will and Good will take its part,
so, in every age, the awake confess

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Easily said, not so easily put into practice.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Very true! I think the point is (at least from the lesson discussed in my meditation group last night) was that you don't need to do anything external or add anything or change your nature, but the idea is that you just have to clear out or remove the false and allow your true nature, love, to shine forth. But as you say, that removal process is painful and slow and with a lot of pitfalls along the way.

[debriswoman]

This is lovely .

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

I tried to find an Aruban poet this morning to post but I couldn't find one that had works translated into English. I am going to try to get back into the habit of reading and writing poems.

Unrelated, I bought one of the TPL calendars. I should've paid more attention. It's just quotes. No pictures or anything. If you haven't got one (and would like one), I could send you mine. Otherwise, I'll keep it and maybe use it as a tracker for my poetic efforts. I don't know. It isn't bad, it just wasn't what I was expecting (I didn't really pay attention to the announcement, so I don't know what I was expecting).

[debriswoman]

Thank you…I do have my own…not looked at it closely yet😊