Jonathan ROBIN Poems

Spirit needs discipline to ensure
that the mind may draw, may feed
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Let signal sparkle slip between silk sheets
And message mind which finds intentions clear,
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Within man's mind momentous energy
Is stored, in transit, waiting for the day
The karmic key found, masks may melt away.
However, in the meantime, blindly we
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Place and Time no meaning may retain
As Time and space skeins melt down, disappear,
Sounds, colours, perfumes magic merge, as here
Calculations fail, all trammels vain.
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Welcome is each word, a concept new
Offered to the child as instrument,
Recalled in parrot-fashion first, then bent,
Linking thoughts to actions right on cue.
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Fresh leaves round Eve's hair proffer proof that sly snake
once tempted rash maid to partake of sweet tree,
Alas far from Paradise flesh had to flee,
sin[ce] then Man atones for mad mor[t]al mistake.
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Magic promised day is dawning
All my life I’d be adorning
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Silence is golden, guilt remains ashamed
to hold up to the spotlight’s piercing glare
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haiku should instill
seasonable sense until
the seventeenth syll
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Page, pageant, dreams veil daily quail trail tale.
Advancing age culls w[r]inkled p[r]awns, the Gods
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