POETRY
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POETRY ~
I AM FREE, GOD, SET ME FREE FROM MY CAGE TO FLY ME HOME
TO HIS HOLY ABODE
No QUESTIONS
No ANSWERS
ONLY NOW WILL HIS SILENCE
BE BROKEN
AMAZING GRACE
HE HAS SPOKEN, THE CAGE DOOR HAS BEEN OPENED, LET YOURSELF BE FREE
FROM SHACKLES OF YOUR MIND, NOW IS ETERNITY, GOD HAS SPOKEN WE ARE FREE
WE ARE CHOSEN
THE ONE IN THE MANY
THOUGHTS
Follow the feelings that led to the thought
Mind remains quiet and steady during intense activity
Highest love is keeping mind peaceful and calm during higher activity
CONQUERING
My power self is lower than my higher self I cannot detach from the state my mind is in
Lost in illusion
I need to loose myself to find myself
I should know better I've taken no steps forward, many back
I should know better
Is this Baba working on me?
Or, just off track
MEANDERING MIND
What to do
Hard to stay rooted, my mind wants to dissolve into space with no time
Opening my eyes
Calls me back
To the illusion of existing
In Gross
The real dream is the reality's illusion
I woke up tonight reviewing my poetry
They don’t seem like Poems at all
Just messages of things I recall
My poetry reflects my inner being
Coming to me as my pen proceeds to do the rest
My best friend is God
Residing in my innermost being
My mind,
My mind is a tape recorder
Sometimes when I lie awake
I draw with my mind like a paint by number set
Colors pop into my head and my brain
It is Baba’s pencil sketching in my mind
All that I recall
I don’t have to think at all
I am a paintbrush for the Beloved because he is not in the body
He uses ours to do his work
Especially, when we knowingly surrender ourselves
We climb into the backseat Baba loves to do it all!
Listening to my heartbeat it’s rhythm is regular in sync with my breath
I’m feeling so disconnected alone in the lagoon cabin with Baba
All I hear is my heart beating
I hardly ever listen to my heart
What is the message?
Waiting for God to appear
To hold me in his loving arms
Taking me home again
How do I dress my soul in Baba so the words don’t become meaningless ritual?
Searching for the quiet moment
When my mind stops it’s chatter
Love is all that matters
Baba take my mind away with the wind and let the cool breeze blow away all that
Is habit and not necessary in this life of mine
Nothing is mine
It all is a blessing from you
The soul never dies
We are all in the oversoul
All the selves in One
When we sleep we are with God
The day before never existed
In timeless time called illusion
Truth is opposed by Maya
Opposition is necessary
To move beyond the beyond
Don’t fall pray to illusion
Dress your soul yourself in God
God alone is real
All else is Maya
God alone exists
Die to yourself
To realize you are the GOD within
It is no accident that you are here
At this moment in time
All of us together
In God’s Oneness
The divine plan
God’s marble game
Leave behind a sad heart
Leave all your troubles to me
Your fears, your lust and your greed
All of these are meaningless in your search
You’ve returned to me
There is no you, my, or me but us
You and I are one
From the infinite ocean
We have come across time and space
From the infinite ocean
Of earth, wind and fire into the sea
You’ve arrived on the path of tranquility
Right all of your wrongs
My gift to thee
Is love setting you free
LIFE IS A NEVER ENDING STORY
Just the tiniest thought emerges
Changing your mind is a trigger for a whole bunch of negative reactions
So the first thing you do is call your mind back to your breathing and don't attach to the thoughts
Situations arise for a reason and you detach from the outcome So I am up now from my deep sleep
So call Meher Baba's name internally I never let go of his daaman
Always keep him within and he is without
Don't let go the day
Work is the reason you are here
I choose you for you to choose me
The vacation is over
I Am A Star
In your sky,
With a heart full of love impregnated with your seed growing and growing
sweeping clean the remnants of lullabies
Passed in life's dream
There is no room inside the heart for those things we have held onto
So Dear, let them go
Set them free
You only have one thought to feed
That is Love indeed
So spectacular!
It took my breath away!
Such a gift of love given to us
"Lord Meher Baba"
Avatar of the Age!
The highest of the high
Dearest beloved Source of light and love
Do nothing
Be nothing
Want nothing
Be free
Listen to me
Don’t repeat history
Do nothing
Do nothing
Want nothing
Being nothing keep’ s you free
Hold on to the moment you’re in
Let the rest go
I will take care of everything
You know
Don’t beat yourself up
Let it all go
Rest in my arms
Like the falling snow
Drift along
Live stream go
Let go
Let go
Life is a dream
Let the dream go
Go go go
Be in the now
Let things go
Do nothing that disrupts the harmony of what I have already planned
To change the plan
Gives me more work
and I work work work to keep everything in balance
So things are the way they are
So let them be
Unless I tell you to do differently
I am the door
The giver
The lover
The friend
To everyone
I give you the Thee in
Being me
People don’t belong to people
People don’t own things owning things means possession and attachment
Why am I writing this
I do not know
Yes I’m feeling blue
So I turn to you
To make you happy
I should stay true
My worry contributes to your pain
I want you to take care of worrying
I have to let you do the worry and we have fun
The expense of course will be forever
Loving you always
Staying happy no matter what situation arises
Remain calm and serene
Desire nothing
Hanging onto Gods Damann
Tame your mind to work with your heart
Don’t give advise
Remain impartial
Be happy with your situation
Do your best and then turn it over
Leave the results to God
DEAR MEHERA
On the wings of a pure white dove, I sing of your pure white love
A love so true, knowing just what to do
There was no other
He chose you
A love so pure
Like the morning dew
Teach us
As he taught you
Where time stands still
Birds sing out
In their beautiful trill
What brings me here today
I have no clue
Happy birthday Mehera
I love you
Things that occur are by no chance an accident!
How quickly we forget lessons that have been learned!
It’s truly our lack of faith that holds us back from the freedom and Love we should all be enjoying.
All of the things that have happened are not pure chance or the throw of the dice.
All was meant to be.
The experience of all these things bring me where I am today!
Which is still confusing to me!!
Is it too good to be True?
Have I been in a dream all these years?
Why is this happening now?
Seems like everything is in chaos.
Step out of the chaos and into God’s open arms.
His glorious sparkling dazzling white diamond Light will engulf you.
Give it all to HIm.
His embrace and Sweet divine Love.
Forget the past and future.
Just hang on to him….NOW
He will be there for you forever.
Today I discovered on the painted view.
Everyone is you.
Your face is everywhere.
In every nook and cranny.
Carved when the Universe manifested, the planets, the stars, the moon.
I’m rediscovering my past in this incarnation.
Answers, questions.
Once and for all.
What does any of it Matter?
So it is no concern of mine.
Asked to leave my fears behind.
A little at a time.
I can handle that in small doses.
Not more than I can take, small doses.
This was work - a lifetime of living to reclaim the pearl at the bottom of the sea.
Destiny…
Shackles of darkness
Dissolved by light
The residue of habits
Annihilate the past
The present is being here now!
Mr. pelican
we watched you die
No longer in pain you are free to fly with Thee it's wounded heart a flutter
Heart and soul United as he flew to heaven's gate he suffers no more fly away my beautiful bird sing your love song
I felt as if they amputated me
All day the tree eating machinery cut me at my heart,
An operation like that should be done in the Spring or Fall, not in the winter cold Or not at all
It's not easy to be silent!
It takes your mind from your mouth and makes you think within to listen to your inner voice,
Hopefully there is a lesson there waiting to ignite a flame
To be heard (the silent voice within)
I am no longer my self
Truth be told
Life is a mystery that unfolds
Like wine, aging in the wine keepers cellar Waiting to be drunk With love's ecstasy Truth be told
We are accountable to none but thee
God who is eternally within and without
Waiting for each of us
His children to be set free
To return home
To the garden of love, truth, beauty and ecstasy
Free
There is no today
There is no tomorrow
There is only now
Now is the beginning.
The end of all time
As we know it
The Avatar of the age
"Meher Baba"
Has broken his silence
By silencing everything
No longer do we have the luxury of deníal
All of humanity, at this moment in time is in the same boat whether we accept it or not is irrelevant
Everything and Nothing
All the same
The ship has sailed back to the ocean
We've retuned to his sea of infinite love And pray for God's Grace to set us free
Illusion, reality, and the dream Only love will prevail It this New Humanity
We are all in the oversoul
All the selves in one
When we sleep we are with God the day before never existed
In timeless time called illusion
Truth is opposed by Maya Opposition is necessary
To move beyond the beyond
Don't fall pray to illusion
Dress your soul yourself in God
God alone is real
All else is Maya God alone exist
Die to yourself
To realize you are the GOD within
It is no accident that you are here
At this moment in time
All of us together In God's oneness
The divine plan
God's marble game
Who directs the image?
A blank page in a book.
Waiting to be filled.
Images reverberate throughout my soul, "myself", waiting to explode.
My work begins with the grain of the paper. Tiny lines and subtle impressions lead me to the image within the surface of the paper.
Shapes of color design a place I've visited or where I would like to be.
I work from my imagination, images from my garden, photographs from my travels to India and my pets.
As a ceramic artist, I create sculptural and functional art.
I love to etch images into the clay and have been painting underglaze transfers.
I am now able to incorporate my paintings to the surface of my hand built pieces.
WHO AM I
IS IT TRUE THAT I AM
WHO I AM
YOU TOLD ME WHO I WAS
BUT I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT WAS TRUE
HOW COULD IT BE ME WHO IS CHOSEN BY YOU
WHY ME
HOW DO I KNOW IT'S TRUE COULD IT BE A TRICK OF MAYA
OH MY GOD
THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING
BABA'S MANIFESTING IN ALL OF HIS MAJESTY
THERE ARE NO ACCIDENTS
ALL THAT IS HAPPENED WAS DESIGNED AT THE BEGINNING OF TIME
THE TIME IS NEAR, GIVES ME A CHILL UP MY SPINE AND TEARS I WAS BURNT BY THE FLAME
IT LODGED IN MY HEART LIKE A CHUNK OF GOLD THE FIRE OF BABA'S
LOVE
IS IGNITED IN ALL
IT WILL SPREAD LIKE THE WILDFIRES
TO EVERY HEART THAT IS OPEN
FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO GET DOWN ON THEIR KNEES PRAY TO BE FORGIVEN FOR MAKING YOUR EARTH SO DIRTY UnSIS
WE REPENT FOR ALL OF OUR SINS
COMMITTED
FOR ALL THE TIMES WE DIDN'T PAY TRIBUTE TO YOU WE ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN WHO WANT TO COME BACK HOME
WE'RE TIRED OF BEING OUT IN THE WORLD WE ONLY STAY HERE TO SERVE YOU SO
TAKE US IN YOUR ARMS AGAIN
YOUR GIFTS ARE PLENTY AND NOTHING IS TOO MUCH TO BEAR UNTIL WE GET TO BE IN YOUR ARMS AGAIN OH GOD I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU MY KING
INSPIRED BY YOUR FLOWERS
THEY GROW
FROM THE SEED
SLOWLY
DAY BY DAY
INCH BY INCH LEAF BY LEAF
ONE BUD THEN TWO
THEN THREE
FLOWERS SIMPLY
THEN MORE
AND SOON THEY THICKEN
PICK ME PICK ME AND I'LL GROW SOME MORE
THE GARDEN GROWS AND SO DO WEEDS
SO PICK THEM
PICK ME, PICK ME AND I WILL GROW SOME MORE THE GARDEN GROWS AND SO DO WE
Life is the illusion
Waiting to emerge in what is really true
That there is no me or you
We are all a part of the same dream until we awaken to the truth
We never will be free
Purify your heart and soul
Divest yourself of the past which carries the weight of stone
It all keeps us from returning to the source
Which is the goal
I loved walking in the forest with Gidget
It was so magical
The path clear
Mounds of soft green moss
Hope I can hold all these beautiful images in my mind eye
Such a gift sublime
I've been viewing two views
The outside looking in And within looking out
All the details revealed And such deep sleep
Beautiful sun filled mornings
Awakened with a large leg cramp
Baba decides on how fast he wants me to move
Infinite God is within all (In me)
I am the infinite God within
And
Infinite God is within me
When you have the conviction of this truth
There is no other to answer too
The beloved Avatar Meher Baba is the answer
No questions
No need to intellectually dissect and analyze this
It
Is the call of the natural, heartfelt need to control the mad mind which tries to lead you into Maya The world of illusion desires
It tries to envelop you and keep you from realizing the truth
You have been with God alone
The seeds of love were implanted in your heart at the whole of life and when the universe was born
God's grace each drop bubble the soul is awakened
From the dream
Surrendering to God
You lose yourself to find your real self in obedience servitude love and surrender to the creator
May thy pen never run out of ink
As your words flow from your heart to mine
The symmetry of your life, mine,
Ours
Is sublime - synchronized
God bringing us together
At this time
Now is forever sublime
In outreached embrace It's a chill up the spine
This meeting was crafted
At the beginning of time
The Elusive Cardinal
The cardinal has left
No longer do I hear his lovely song one day he was here the next day he was gone why did he leave?
I know why
they cut down all of his trees he left to find a new home
I miss his chirping and his beautiful song
I had just become acquainted with him and then he was gone
A part of life is that it is always changing
Nothing stays the same
Life is like a flowing stream
A beautiful dream
It's a Steep Climb!
I always worry that I'll go back and have to start all over again
I keep making mistakes, the difference is
I now have the opportunity to choose how I react to things
God has given us the tools, while we are still on this earth, to reflect on our lives!
We are the pages in the "creators book"
We are living the "New Life" We must be open
accept change or loose ourselves to fear, anxiety, worry, envy, lust and greed!
There is no right or wrong
There is no good or bad
There is no life without love
"Only Love Will Prevail"
Be kind to one another
Be loving
Fill your hearts with joy and happiness
Leave the rest to God
Why am I up in the middle of the night?
Just read a Rumi poem and the message was, be up at night when the magic happens.
While your on this earth (BE AWAKE), you can sleep when you die!
Be awake now when the truth unfolds and you are in touch with the real self, which is your soul!
We have been given the gift of Love from God in this time when everyone and everything is so troubled, but listen my dear, that is why we are here!
We haven't chosen God, He has chosen us;
Those who are listening and surrendering themselves to the obedience of the Master - THE AVATAR OF THE AGE "MEHER BABA" THE PATH IS STEEP, BUT THE REWARD IS
BEYOND IMAGINATION AND CONCEPTION!
THE JOY IN BEING FREE!
Why Speak When - There's no one to Speak Too!
I struggle no more, I regained my sight With my loss and pain, joy and sorrow the days began with escape into sleep
No longer able to remember the ecstasy I had the day before
A simple conversation turned joy into inner turmoil
I let things bother me that were of no concern and I let myself slip into Maya's grip
You hung onto my sleeve and I onto your damaan as I struggled in a place designed by myself
With no escape
So gradually I climbed out of my shell And said all is well.
What I need to remember is to never stop saying his name
Meher Baba
Who am I? l am
Infinite God is within all (in me)
When you have the conviction of this truth
There is no other
To answer to Beloved Avatar Meher Baba is the Answer
No questions
No need to intellectually dissect or analyze this
There is the calling of the natural
The heart felt and control of the mad mind
Which tries to lead you into Maya The world of illusion and desires it tries to envelope you
To keep you from reaching the truth you have been with God all along the seeds of love were implanted in your heart as the whole of life and the universe was born through God's grace each drop bubble
Part of the whole the soul is awakened from the dream surrendering to God
Lose yourself
to find your real self
in obedience servitude love and surrendering to the creator
Power animal
To be a part of me
A reality no fantasy
To call on when in need
What may you be?
A great Turtle
or
Dove?
A Reindeer or Elk
It will come to me
The spirit is a matter of the heart, it springs to life as a well,
- Everlasting
Flowing, spewing it's life force-
To the four corners of the Earth,
Calling his children home
At last
The road home is confusing and sometimes we know not where to go
We gather information,
But we are not ready for it
But it's there
Waiting…
For us to come forth into His Light
Don't be afraid of the unknown
It really isn't unknown
You have just Forgotten
and put it on a shelf - All you have to do is ask and you will see
His reality -
Let your love for others as much as you Love yourself
Be free!
To Be Answered
Questions:
Who is my higher self?
Is there a collection of me somewhere?
Can I see my Father and other people I have Lost?
Is Gabriel my Guide?
Are you from Light?
Is this real or just my mind?
Will I have to go back to the way I felt yesterday?
When I had no hope for tomorrow
Today I felt Free and I saw life’s possibility
It felt good to be alive
Why am I here?
Not a new question
In a world
So old
Time spans history and life goes on
The same, yet different
Old - Yet new
People keep asking the same questions and answering them if they can
If it is known philosophers know the questions and the answers too
Great to know it all
But do they?
We are all connected
By the air we breathe -
By the flowers, the trees, the breeze and by need
We need one another
To nurture one another
Color - race - creed is located on the surface and causes us to forget what is beneath.
The Heart - the mind - and Liberation!
A DREAM I HAD A WHILE AGO
IT TOLD ME WHAT TO DO
IT SAID TO TAKE THE ONLY PATH
THE PATH OF LOVE AND TRUTH
I PAINTED THE PICTURES THAT I SEE
YET THEY CAM FROM SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME
THE RIVER FLOWS
THE MOUNTAIN GROWS, AND STILL WHAT REMAINS TO BE SEEN
SILVER FIELDS OF LOVE EVERLASTING AND GOLDEN BEAMS OF LIGHT
SPREADING OVER THE LAND
HEALING BODY AND SOUL
RAINBOW COLORS BEFORE ME
PURE AND WHOLE
SPEAKING OF LIGHT
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
STOP WORRYING
HAVE FUN,
LOVE
GIVE A HELPING HAND,
MEDITATE, LAUGH, THINK, SHARE, PAINT, SING, DANCE, EXERCISE, CREATE
EAT GOOD FOOD
PLAN EACH DAY
FOLLOW THE STARS
LET YOUR THOUGHTS FLOW
EXPERIENCE THEM, FEEL THEIR IMPACT AND MOVE ON
DON’’T DWELL ON THE PAST OR THE FUTURE
LET EACH DAY HAPPEN AND DO YOUR BEST
YOUR FAILURES AND SUCCESSES WILL GUIDE YOU
8/24/1946 to 08/24/2025
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE
YOU ARE NOW TRUTH BE TOLD FREE…
SHOW ME THE WAY HOME
SHOw ME THE WAY HOME
WE ARE NOT ALONE
SHOW ME THE WAY HOME
TO YOUR ABODE I MUST GO
OUT IN THE UNIVERSE I FLY
I SOAR LIKE A BIRD IN THE SKY
MY ROOTS AS STRONG AS TREES
Let your fear of Life be removed
Enjoy the gifts I have bestowed on you for 7 generations forward and 7 generations gone in the past
You are now truth be told, Free…
I am Free
To Love unfurled
To let the beams of light shine
On all of you, my children
Only Love prevails between me and you.
Jai Baba
NIGHT
My inner child is alive
We hid a long time ago
When escape was convenient
The recesses of the mind enveloped the kid
When bad dreams were frequent
I kept myself from dreaming
But I lost the best dream of all
The price I paid for hiding
Was now - no dreams at all
In my man made boat!
MORNING
When the inner child is lost
We must search and reclaim
That which is ours
The ability to respond
To the part of ourself which needs to be
To nurture the child WITHIN
Where is spontaneity?
It’s not dead
Life is alive
How you respond
Depends on who taught your child to live
The child within
Find yourself you weren’t lost you hid
