1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ONE for all individuals Two's companionship Three in friendship Four forging bonds Five flames flicker together Six speaks to solidarity Seven suggests a party of warmth Eight inclusions, each essential Nine for Unity
Petals 9
Variety generates united beauty
Hidden in Plain Sight
In unity is beauty.
Blue is beautiful, brightening bold
– even more lovely are different shades of blue.
Orange and red are most pleasing too
but mixed hues of reds and oranges
together beside blues, yellows and pinks becomes a gorgeous feast
for the eyes.
From the prism of nature beams greens,
broadcasting vibrancy… dazzling, piercing palette.
Arranged variously in shapes and sizes, the scene
then reaches an unsurpassed visual delight.
By form and colour, beauty is found in variety.
Riverine Buddhism
On route to the Botanics
summery joy – walk along the riverside
Pleasantly refreshed by vital nature.
Invigoration, energy from essences seen and invisible.
There fell then a single propeller seed
corkscrewing down to the tarmacadam…
Just before I came upon a tiny stupa
living in relief upon a wall.
Like a cave dwelling carved into a mountain
it drew all focus and the greater surrounding stone
became irrelevant.
Curious and beautiful, but tiny as a human hand
Had it not been for a glance, its grace unseen would’ve fleeted
… wee stupa on the Kelvin.
Truth-seeker
Light weaves together feathered, lettered branches
Leaves inter-trace wings upon ancient trees
Ancestral spirals speak identity, intricacy
of patterned belonging. Cosmic listening…
Universal veins of silent history signal vitalism.
Assembly of echoes
Journeying within to a discovery – oneness
Individually ingathering the human tribe
Needled under-skin, metaphysical tattoo in spirit.
Truth, divine identity.
Non-audio reception
He speaks to me by
chilling vibrations
and warm radiance.
A distilled communication
with intuitive listening…
Received loud and clear
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Super-saturated seeds: nutriment eco-echo
Compelled directly
Saplings compete for the canopy
Light, the ultimate goal draws
An obsession with the Sun
Grasping onto the cord of gravity
Strengthened by the path upwards.
Biosphere
Rain synchronising with earthly fertility
the natural solution upon all the lands.
Soil with water and atmosphere… their essence
cleansing one another by a symbiotic embrace.
Flora enact
Nature, every so often, crafts a scheme
to manifest harmony, attract radiant expression,
unfold something both material and etherial
break the monotony by some joyous distillation.
We are much the same,
enacting into a blossom for distraction.
“Filho do Ser (Son of Being)” by Sonia Gomes
Nexus
Where a tree arises, beautifying
God only knows…
the algorithm of it’s maturity timing
only He can access.
From within those wild unknowns can we reach out
to cosmic algebra to balance our soul’s equation.
Progressive insight into order of nature.
with an approximation made for gravity
Mindfulness of spirit.
Hyperventilation
In a world of pain man can choose
to understand why he should walk
towards light
and know some good contained in
that mystery.
Who has the power?
An orchard of colours entering the eye –
Be We minded of love?
Revealing light clothed in truth
Each ray carries a consistency of spectrum
Fruiting Unity by a continuum
intricate, diverse mystery.
A majestic mural rendered from the heavens
through sky to petalled perfection.
Palettes of energising vibrations, blossoming within hearts.
All Power is wielded by only One
Who knows full beauty of created consciousness, perfectly unique mystery.
Should all be minded of love.
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Something a wee bit different
Randomised geometric images illustrating the innate and intricate beauty within 23 mathematical arrangements – it works best if you watch two slideshows together (you might need a large screen) to see the contrast of diversity. Or you can speed the patterns on as you like by pressing the L/R arrows. Occasionally the images will match and separate on their divergent journeys only to combine together again. Simple… enjoy.
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Ensemble
Comprehend
Diffused through the Tree canopy
… law
agriculture
and teaching.
Brought together,
stood rod-straight
Unity.
Flawed
Although so imperfect
our heart and soul need not reside
in this world, while
our spirit may flutter between the two…
flit across both realms.
Trust of togetherness
Family is home
Home filled with unity
Unity needs humanity
Belonging trusting
Oneness of all peoples
Humanity is family
Sense of place in belonging
Sense of Being beginning…
Connecting all to home
Together united
Family is humanity
Non-audio reception
He speaks to me by
chilling vibrations
or warm radiance.
A distilled communication
unmistakably clear
stood out with intuitive listening…
Received loud to me sensorily.
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Our state in reflection; Matterless pyre of Spirit; Empyrean;
Our state in reflection
We reflect our environment
Ecological soul – core of environmental spirit
become naturalised
Flourishing sustaining
Our reflection in state.
Tender circulation
Exchange the currency of hearts to
love. Raise the rate of kindness
Circulate all affectionate notes.
Legalise compassion as tender.
In Awe of the Day
Light brilliant Rays
Speed toward its Splendour
Sun-gain goodness absorbed from its
All-encompassing Radiance.
Our common sustaining Star
Origin of material Munificence.
Universally, humanity is bound to its magnificent Bounties.
Matterless pyre of Spirit
Worthless and priceless… occult value of matter,
sourceless origin of matterless material – veils obscuring divine expression
Hidden creation, from works of mystery.
That which is exhausted, expended efficiently
to the fullest, those resources may be readily reformed
into every earthly ecological loop,
utilised in the Celestial cycle of Consciousness and
sequestration for spiritual betterment.
Fuel that combusts to completion
reduced to its simplest, most basic atoms
can be most easily re-embodied within the
living universal mystery.
Scared stations
Religion is anti
demonic.
Faith is dead
to those who lust after self interests.
God is nowhere
within people voraciously promoting ego.
Religion is extinct
for those seeking gains from others’ crises.
Inequality is perfectly acceptable
for society relying entirely on materialism.
Progress for global welfare is impossible
by living only through scientific understanding.
Justice is never reliable
in a world unrecognising individual sacrifice and
obligatory Truthfulness for universal good.
Essential Sight
Light is given to us
so that we can see and know.
The truth, the beauty of all
things necessary.
Taking us united out of the darkness, essential beams.
Empyrean
Hark, the supernal spark
of celestial melody.
Abnormal germination
Random breaks
Non-routine thoughts
Percolate to the surface
Intentions turn uncompassionate
Sociopathic seeds are planted.
Purposeful attention
Sleight of motive
Slight inattention
Conscious intent
Purposeful is powerful
Requirement of a kind
Worst primeval element; restricts compassion
Fouling the kind of good
cooperation necessitates.
Smirches and mires, tainting
the canvas of a loving life.
Ego holds treacherous seeds of evil; fertile fetidness disabling spiritual qualities,
blinding celestial insight.
Diseasing hearts… egoism is the root of all evil.
All too-quickly forgotten, history records monuments, legacies to its wicked dangers.
Humility lifts the soul higher, raises it unto heavenly proximity.
Psychological PATH
Hope is strength that lifts us beyond our shortcomings
It is the banner of striving in positive endeavours.
A gift that we’re given by our Maker,
embedded in our minds, imprinted on our souls
to grasp onto… not overlook that light that
beacons us onto the safe course.
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Twofold invitation
Companioned rich hue
Azure firmament
made all the more lush
perfectly beautiful by
the snow cloud contrast passing through.
Flora enact
Nature, every so often, crafts a scheme
to manifest harmony, attract radiant expression
to unfold something both material and etherial
break the monotony by some joyous distillation.
We are much the same,
enacting into a blossom for distraction.
Realm Cosmic
Be you…
Be astonished with life’s abundant offerings.
Feel one hundred percent alive, vital.
Open your mind to mystery
Be a lover of truth and trustworthiness.
Approach and advance unity of all people.
Be an enthusiast of synergy, cooperation.
Create and be at peace with others…
Stay attuned to the spiritual life,
attentive to your soul…
Live as an avid listener and active doer of selfless deeds.
Be charitable as deeply as you can.
Remain joyful for living
and forgiving
– be you.
Fragile firm foundation
A most seemingly delicate wing
must possess strong roots
to sustain and withstand.
If it’s purpose to ascend – raise its load
is to succeed, fulfilling it’s airborne destiny
lightness and litheness mustn’t
be compromised by frailty.
Twofold invitation
Light throws down quivering
Rings upon and down through
The billabong’s surface
Giving the appearance of some phenomenon
That excites and entices life, reflectively.
REP
The cycle is completed by
Biodegrading, dispersing, saturating
animating, germinating, hydrating,
irradiating, sustaining, growing.
Out of branches
Every tree sings
Emoting connection
The truth of re-establishing
Remembering groupings of foundations
Is a sudden sting off tears.
Those witnesses of joy and regret wept.
Confession anonymously through art
Evil switches in the dark, amplifying
then feeding back, gross distortion.
Insufficient, so weak… failing to cherish challenges
of pain – bestowed to further growth.
Ask
The feather’s flight is the bird’s dawn.
Lifted by the light orb’s morn.
Them & Us
(Otherness within a Oneness)
Illusion of division
Competition stoked by greed and fear.
Them & us is thus nonexistent.
Belongingness oneness no divisiveness otherness
Completeness relatedness seamlessness of race
Disunity is meaningless falseness
damaging, erroneous.
Togetherness is universally best
Connectedness is how we are blessed.
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Generosity
Giving within balance cannot harm
– doesn’t damage or strip away self-esteem
of the detached benefactor.
It enriches.
Embrace
Dayspring awaken
Star of proven truth – He is the Staff
that supports one’s climb to the Mount of Unity.
With each increment of altitude gained,
His loving kindness swathes all in life-sustaining warmth.
Metaphysical Abidance
Liberator, clarifier of truth – Disperser of gloomy cloud.
Remover of stubborn soul-impurities, Remedy of metastases of prejudice, the Lifter of veils.
Most generous, ultimate Lover of human spirit.
Father-mother of embryonic ancient parentage. Perfect noble, unknowable.
To be lovingly worshiped – always minded.
Beyond all, above everything.
Within us all He invested a crucible of cooperativeness
a shield against malice; an infallible fortress from bitterness.
His Loving Essence repels extreme competitiveness, annihilates selfish rivalry.
One’s fortune is loyalty enacted within all His worlds
Our bounty is obedience to heaven’s kingdom.
Repairing the wounds of prejudice
The Ancient of Days untangles the abasements of vanities
picks out the toxic shards of vulgar thoughts and acts…
If man would but surrender to the moulding of the Lord of Hosts’ wishes,
heavenly chariots of infinite love shall transport both hearts and minds.
Hands across borders, oceans, mountains, towns, families… healing fracture and fissure.
Epic Transmission
The covenant was spoken
its promise messaged to us.
Womankind and the globe of humanity have been tasked to arise in unity – in equality,
intent in living love by example.
Toxicity tears
Excess acts as a poison,
infecting by compromised judgement.
Each further indulgence adds toxins to body and spirit ; flesh of the soul’s aura and the
spirit-vessel of body tissue.
Consumption, acquisition, ingestion… superfluous, avaricious
doses deviating beyond all senses of moderation.
Minds unfastened, steering awry
the immoderate lose.
Heaven’s Kingdom
The Greatest One’s compass reads true
whilst the All-worlds transcending chart is aligned with faithful traversing.
Humble servants pray permission to plot a selfless course… in praise of Him.
All must make way for His chosen destination, steer passed perils
re-route around the rocks and shallows of weakness.
One port only to trust, a single safe harbour.
‘Grant us but clemency during journeys’ weathers, Lord
and see fit that celestial sailcloth sustains us through the seamless fabric of time.’
Strength added for everyone emboldened – when absorbed
into His plan’s purpose.
Gravitated into our Lord’s fields of attraction.
As hearts meteorically become increasingly sincere.
Every personal objective expresses our deepest glory.
Worded salve
His Words nourish all understanding
Mellifluous celestial poetry
– melodious His phrasing artistry resonates.
Upon gentle breezes does Holy fragrance sweeten the air –
wafting over those tired, the dispirited, far-fallen sullen-hearted
wretched and joyless…
passing a torrential wash of inedible love through every heart.
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Embodiment by Spirit
The Lord of Hosts enriches
with energies enigmatic.
He instills, fashions and is the crucible
of each human soul.
Every intimate form is lovingly shown.
That which is separate contribute united
Strip away comfort and we have struggle
Individually we are but separate beads of water
seeking to coalesce
… and in so doing, form rivulets
join together incrementally building a wee stream –
many of merge, build into a powerful river
onward these flow to the great collective ocean.
Strip away struggle… and we have comfort.
Awake
Most sovereign, supreme Ordainer
causing all souls to tremble,
through the crucible of His Universal Spirit.
Highest Lord, praise.
Gifting the bounty of life, His promise of Justice
of all His loving abundance…
consciously we are shaken into awareness.
Every radiance set opportune
to experience…
Lord of highest claim to greatest loftiness, praise.
In answer to prayers, He will favour His servants by destroying their vanity,
those warped imaginings.
Seekers orient their focus upon His sublime countenance –
to bathe within His ethereal majesty.
Devoutly loving Him, each eternal essence does clarify
– humanity flourishes into pristine gems… unlimited in purity
infinite in possibility.
Inscrutable reality
Only God can devise a gift and
a chastisement within one deliverance.
Such an imponderable mix,
this duality is His favour.
Acquisitive State
Culture
Identity by culture
Subculture
Illegitimate culture
Corruption
Sickly manifestations of power addiction
serving greed
Desire with self at centre
Culture of death.
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Dispensing with essentials; Beckoned gatherings; Concert of blossom; Hues
Dispensing with essentials
Violently, earth’s being injured –
its mouth and nose are being hacked away, cut
and stabbed.
Alarmingly near, this soon-coming emergency
earth will be unable to breathe, take nourishment
… as living lands become devoid of trees.
Overrun and overwhelmed
dispensing with essentials, ruinous ecocide.
Beckoned gatherings
Discernment develops balance, harmony…
Faith prompts us on a journey to love.
Concert of blossom
Flora singing through hues
listening to the notes of aroma.
Hues
Subtlety of cloud colour
bone white, sooty milk and spattered oatmeal
bruised flesh, ivory with a charcoal-wash
wind-mingling… ever-shifting.
Photo credit (at top – Shrine of the Báb): Baha’i International Community (Baha’i Media Bank) and Baha’i World Centre.
