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Barbara-Paraprem Jul 2014
Dreamers, sleepwalkers,
in a land of shadows and chimeras,
Buddhas, who seek the Buddha,
yearners, strugglers, dying persons.
Still with the last breath
hovered around from mists,
through the woods the morning star shines,
the red blood flows out of the heart,
that there beats and will beating eternally.
Dreamers, sleepwalkers,
sparks of light from nowhere,
like lightnings flashing through the universe,
again go out in the nowhere,
which lays its blackness comforting and motherly
yet at the last sigh around us.
Life, which, forgetting itself,
sees itself in the empty mirror
and doesn’t know, that the mirror
is in every fiber of its being
- not here or there
and beyond the great gate of the here,
through which it becomes itself
on the middle of the threshold a gateless gate.
Dreamers, sleepwalkers,
- A thunderclap!
A fall from heaven to earth!
A cry from earth to heaven!
An inconceivable moment of glory!
And only peace – unpronounceable holy…


© Barbara-Paraprem, 2014
Sputter Outlaw Jan 2020
My submission to the cosmos today is this
that the minor perturbation atop my vast desire
should not admonish but allow this verse
to see the light in this form of lexical representation
as it issues from my head through my fingers
and under my breath.

That limpness and idleness be banished hereof
from these words that attempt and do not fully fail
to seize the illusive grail of
frank effability.

As such,

Take heed and fear not frail heart of mine that once was lost
for now not only are you found but you are bound
to witness on behalf of
the triumph of longing
in the dark places.
The fumbling, groping, feeling around
when hope eluded you.

Now hope has won and wins again and again.


Faith, Hope and Love.


The greatest of these is now in the fight.

The greatest of these has thrown their gloves into the ring, fit and ready to bring it.

The greatest of these has got your back.

The greatest of these lift you up.

The greatest of these is what you were made for.

The greatest of these is many and splendoured.

The greatest of these is that somebody.

The greatest of these reigns supreme.

The greatest of these is the eternal, number one champion.

The greatest of these is all you need.


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Belonging to a fold of yearners
As wide, as deep
as language itself.
Let my ambling
meta-critique
be as one more pebble
thrown
adding ripples
to the vistatic loch of contributions
on this theme
echoing, echoing
from the chaos afore time
to adjunct futures
within the Caves, Temples, Palaces
and 'Scrapers of Rhyme.
What a way to start the day
Flower Aug 8
A yearner
To yearn
How would you define?

A cry sweet for love that seems quite so benign
Or a soft spoken whisper you’ll never confine

A wave in the ocean that tumbles and churns
Or a hot summer day that continues to burn

A sunflower turning its face to the sun
Or a butterfly fluttering about on a run

All these descriptions seem vaguely discreet
Because true earnest yearning is quite obsolete

The yearners have lived and the yearners have died
And those of us left are beginning to cry
This is different than what I’ve written before and I’m not sure if I like it, but I’m experimenting
Lucien Sep 25
Does she like
A yearner?

Do girls like yearners?
Or a boy that loves dearly?
Or are bad boys preferred
Where their attitude shows clearly

I’m willing to change
But for now I am known
As the yearner lover boy
Harboring love yet to be shown.
ash 4d
another one where karma is late to arrive,
so the good one drops, becomes the fallen.

if the entirety of it is bad,
and all the ones in wrongs have been the ones in winning —
fair, the word doesn’t exist in their world.
they rule, righteous, claiming facts and sharing synergy.

carry hearts on sleeve, be called a fool.
hide them up and lock them away — what of their use?

it’s pessimism, perhaps — they shine so bright
you can never notice how the gold they sit upon
was once the armor of those they claimed they owned.
taken away, the gold mixed with the blood of their bodies
shone so bright, they seemed like the real angels —
despite in wrong.

believe the words, shared and added to.
write your own story, but having to explain? to whom?

they began their rule,
and so brought the world’s ruin,
like an ancient prescribed rune.

and imagine what of those who wore those armors,
clad in protection, having stood in the rights,
aimed at survival.

sweethearts claiming they do the thinking with hearts,
the ones using the brains win — what of the play?
unfair. brutalist.

the claims of karma proved to be theory,
like justice served when the case dropped cold.
karma took too late to arrive,
so the good ones dropped —
they’ve become the fallen.

similarities of both, striving for what they assume
they ought to stand up for.
what’s truly the right? and what truly
would classify as the wrong?

and i stand in front of the graves of ghosts
who shifted their realities,
joined forces with the wrongs.

which side do i pick?
can’t i remain myself as i was?

learn to relive, every single tale told, like rekindling —
but if all of it is a lie, who ought to try
uncover the truth in living?

if revenge is best when served in silence,
and payback is stuck, suspended in the infinite stretching —
do i let them take my spot, turn me like them?
dark, skittish, scrawny, ruthless, brutal,
an unmistakable hunger to achieve
while crushing those standing in betweens.

and who shall bring this ruin?
or find what is the reality,
not term illusionment as realism?

do i walk over them, join hands with the evil?

if kindness is serving as a punishment,
and love has claimed forces with the unforgiven;
if accepting and mistaking genuineness
has become a way of calling the wrong ones up close —

will being the unforgiven, chastised,
and falling lower, off the fallen standard —
will their faces downcast?

do you listen to them,
let them take over your story,
and narrate it from their point of views?

trying to please, to resist, and not hurt
when speaking the accord shall disagree —
is that a play of the good,
or not wanting to submit to the opposite?

or do you become one,
amongst, amidst —
and regret changing,
letting the murk seep,
just cause—

the ones falling, the ones fallen —
do they fear, or long as yearners
for who they were in the beginning?

feels like being stuck
in the purgatory of the good and the bad.
creating a new one— a circle that intersects, unites both.
we’ll call it: the unforgivers' cursing wrongdoers.

— The End —