Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Wounds

Some wounds never heal
Unless we pour love on them
Beholding the light.

Love

An oasis of peace
In a desert of unknown
Mirrors souls akin.

Danube Delta

Where the wild feels free
On the mirroring waters
Parts of me feel home.

Simplicity

A terraced cottage
Two souls nourishing their love
A heart one calls home.

Green

The green of the trees
Under the summerly breeze
Music for the mind.

Perfect Morning

A perfect blue sky
The wind can be hardly felt
The mind settles down.

Monday, June 29, 2015

Cooking

A warm bowl of soup
Smell and taste bound together
Simple art of love.

Sunday, June 28, 2015

Insanity

Dancing in the rain
Feeling the touch of heavens
Timeless happiness.

Flight

Trespassing
Birds of the sun
Fluid nectar








Comments:
   Usually I use a 5-7-5 structure, though for a little contest I had to choose a simplified form of maximum 12-13 syllables. Not sure how many looked over the surface of it, or how many understood what I'm trying here to say. At least in this case I felt I have to give more information about the intended meaning.

   I used an imagine from nature to refer to something else. Here "fluid nectar" was supposed to make the reader question the apparent meaning of nectar. It's not the nectar of flowers that I'm referring to. Here fluid means continuity of action, observation, involving the one who observes.
As somebody pointed out, its use is maybe redundant, though also "sweet nectar" is used in some contexts.

   Birds of the sun or sunbirds are little red birds feeding on nectar. And again it's not about sunbirds but of thoughts of light, thoughts that change the way we think, maybe thoughts of enlightenment, thoughts that go beyond the rigid way of thinking, against the rules imposed by us or by others - and that's the meaning of trespassing.

   Why would somebody use "bird" to refer to "thoughts" (ideas)?! Sure, there are better "labels" than the birds, though thoughts like birds are just a transient appearance, we see just a small part of their flight through life, and that only when we are aware of their flight. Additionally they are free, in various colours, they jump a lot, many are attractive, others are not, they have different meanings, many rooted in our culture/beliefs. So are our thoughts.

   Why birds of the sun? The sun is the most powerful source of light we behold, it's the spiritual light. In spiritual imagistic (actually alchemy), the sun is esoterical symbol of the mind or intellect.

Apparent meaning: sunbirds trespassing our view while sitting in meditation, feeding on nectar while we derive repeatedly nectar from what we see, the haiku.

Intended meaning: thoughts trespassing our mental view (while sitting in meditation or meditating in movement), and us or our mind feeding on each chain of thoughts, extracting nectar in one way or another.

Haiku

A pearl of wisdom
From heart to mind unites all
Soul of rising sun.

Revival

Love revives in spring
From ashes reaches its peak
Bridal dress in June

Grasps

Mind’s threads of meanings
Swings between unknown and known
To grasp life’s nature.

Midlight

Light of red candles
Random movement in stillness
Beings and shadows.

Fuzziness

Fuzzy my verses
Blank is each page in my mind
The pen wants writing.

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Beauty

Your soul’s bare beauty
Mere wonder within this world
Key to happiness.

Magic

Her touch like magic
Stirs dominos of feelings
Roaming back and forth.

Fickleness

In love with this world
The traveler moves between lands
In search for his place.

Colors

After storm the sun
Mesmerized by a rainbow
The universe stopped.

Raindrops

In every raindrop
An universe bares wonder
From heights to your skin

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Immersion

The deeper we dive
Knowledge unveils its faces
Bare uncertainty

Known

The landscape of known
A painted picture in oil
Slippery its roads.

Unknown

It’s not what we know
The unknown is the wild card
That needs to be played.

Correspondence

Between shores the sea
Waves her story to the sands
Lost in translation…

Romance

Under the lime trees
The wind whispers his story
Tears fall from the sky.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Summertime

Lime’s smell in evenings
The early morning sunrise
It's summer’s show off.

Journey

Down memory lane
Shadows in light of candles
At peace with the past.

Monday, June 22, 2015

Side Effects

I longed for heavens
Then stopped searching for something
Nothingness not found.

Lightness

We find in the dark
Hope to shatter the senses
Then something changes…

Reaching out

Trying to reach you
Above the wall of feelings
Conflict lies within.

Heart's Fever

In the midst of love
Hearts mistakenly may choose
No matter how pure.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Oneness

In duality
We embrace life’s dissonance
One is harmony

Art

One’s falling in love
A marvel stands before him
His own creation.

Meanings

Aren’t the verses
Meanings shatter minds open
New vistas emerge.

Perfection

It's hard to believe
That a broken soul may hide
The keys to heavens.

Misdirection

One wanted to be
More pure than angels’ glamor
Thus one found the hell.

Openness

One opens his heart
Where a candid rose should grow
Weed makes itself home.

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Unexpectedness

An old wine bottle
Splattered while hitting the ground
Picking up the shards…

Corruption

Pure beauty corrupts
Desires burn inside us
Corrupting beauty

Proximity

I feel you so close
As if you were never gone
I feel your footsteps.

Splendor

An unknown candle
Brought more light than thousand suns
I hold it with me...

Insensitive

Many lights burned out
Until one slowly becomes
Light insensitive.

One Flame

Flames perish in fight
Wind's blows sweeps them one by one
One survived the storm.

Friday, June 19, 2015

Change

Change governs people
Growing together apart
Unless we drive change.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Seeing

We can’t see a heart
Unless we grasp its spirit
And that takes patience.

Forms

World takes forms we see
Once we’re free of illusions
Appears naked.

Silver Wings

When wings get broken
Each day is full of wonder
No matter how hard.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Magic

From seen to unseen
There’s magic everywhere
Just open your eyes…

Walls

Each has his drama
Real or not it builds fences
That grow into walls.

Dreaming

All a dreamer holds
Is an imagine of his dreams
Until worlds collide.

Dancing

The dance moves people
Between worlds full of music
An art brings freedom.

Lost

Lost between three worlds
One tries to find a way through
Choosing one we must.

Fusion

Yang moves deeply in
Embracing with love its seed
Yin moves slowly out.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Recoil

Punishing others
By missing our presence
We hurt ourselves.

Timeline

The past pulls us back
The present is a wild card
The future’s open.

Hide-and-Seek

For every big rule
The universe hides from us
A small exception.

Hurt

Deeper than a knife
Words can hurt the soul of man
And one needs healing.

Monday, June 15, 2015

The Stalker

Moving his spirit
The stalker shifts between worlds
To find life’s essence.


Disclaimer: here stalking has a positive meaning, for a definition of stalker/stalking see Carlos Castaneda’s The Teachings of Don Juan

Companionship

We travel alone
Roads oft need to be enjoyed
Together as one.

Journeys

Rambling through this world
Important is not where we head
But where we arrive.

Mastery

Dive into unknown
Full aware of your being
Make diving an art

Perception

Good or bad are things
When we regard them as such
Their nature hasn't changed.

Existence

I am a mortal
Maybe my thoughts will survive
In the arch of time.

Stillness

Watching its wanders
My mind jumps from thought to thought
And then silence comes.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Danubian

In every river
I see the Danube flowing
Then I feel like home

Quest

Behind each shadow
Lies a treasure to be found
All comes with patience.

Promenade

Sitting on a bench
The river flows before me
Change flows in moments.

Trapped

I wonder your charm
Attracted but insecure
Of my illusions.

Sailing

As the days pass by
The stranger this world seems to be
You are my anchor.

Freedom

Sometimes the time stops
Hung in space between moments
Lies total freedom.

Healing

Words heal more than pain
Silence feels oft comforting
In between life heals

Rambling

When rambling in dark
More important than a goal -
The next step taken.

Perfection

Following tree’s bough
The mind marvels with each bent
Ultimate beauty.

Duality

A movement inward
Mind arches into itself
An action outward.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Far away

One of those nights
I woke up knowing I am
Far away from you...

Classics

The sounds of classics
The mighty wind, sky's teardrops
Sea's nervous rhythm.

Poem

Caressing your skin
Thoughts flood my heart drop by drop
Sensing a poem.

Surfing

Feeling the night sky
The universe is an ocean
We surf on time's waves

Serenade

Late summer evening
A cricket tries a new tune
I play on your skin.

Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Sameness

Within same pattern
One morning follows other
Though are not the same…

Monday, June 08, 2015

No Soul

Half of soul has lost
The hermit steps on old ground
To be whole anew.

No Mind

From thought to no thought
A gap needs to be broken
Loosing my mind there

Sunday, June 07, 2015

Blossoms

The green of summer
Hope in the flower's blossoms
Never appealed more.

Separation

Why hearts feel lonely
When in an ocean of souls
Each drop longs for love?

Home

I follow the waves
Wherever they take my heart
I'll be myself home.

Summer

The smell of summer
Time melts into the breeze
Hearts follow the heat.

Tamers

Taming illusions
A quest we're bound for life
One bares the other.

Saturday, June 06, 2015

Fragility

A rose in winter
Took its chance against the odds
Time froze its beauty.

Small Things

Watching the sunrise
A random girl’s happy smile
Simple things make life.

Muddy Roads

The mud keeps people
Away from unexpected
Dare to be surprised!

Friday, June 05, 2015

Naked

Into your blue eyes
I can find myself naked
Ego disappears.

Acceptance

A poet’s writing
Is nothing but a form of
Accepting himself.

Perspective

Wrong and right spin life
One molds into the other
We choose what we see.

Convergence

Moments flow through time
Each piece ads to the puzzle
And then we see life.

Shells

Aren’t you tired
Of waiting life to happen
Get out of the shell!

Thursday, June 04, 2015

History

History repeats
From spring to winter cycles
Uncover choices.

Growth

Love growths in people
With every feeling they cast
A seed was planted

Letting Go

Letting go to love
For the sake of the beloved
Worth the sacrifice?

Heavens

Imagine heavens
Lying down before your steps
An angel’s passing.

Frozen

Without you time stopped
I step between memories
Frozen in my mind.

Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Ordinary

Ordinary souls
Can rise above conditions
With a spark of light.

Humbleness

Humble minds bend down
Like willows on stormy times
Rejoicing in light.

Subdual

Love conquers fear
Like the beast subdued by grace
Of a gentle face.

Fantasmas

Shadows catch power
Rebelled against night's kingdom
A red candle burns.

Summer Night

Summer’s cold whispers
Follow my heart’s rhythmic sounds
Stopping the chaos.

Sleepless

Too tired to dream
I listen for night’s whispers
Hoping for the dawns.

Monday, June 01, 2015

Poetry

Idealistic
The poet embraces sorrow
Priceless happiness…

Formation

A world of shadows
Reveals beauty’s force through life
One forms the other.

Heartbeats

A heart stopped today
Hearing for just a moment
The heavens' calling.