Poetry

[We are God]

This is a collection of some of my work. I thought I had my own thread but I guess not, so I'll share here instead. Enjoy.

Have you ever considered a mirror itself instead of just peering into the reflection?

When looking into a mirror, what is seen is a distortion - it is an illusion, it is maya.

Just notice the mirror itself.

The images which appear in the mirror - the reflections - come and go but the mirror remains the same.

Just be the mirror.

Be the flame that doesn't waver in the storm.

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~Brad Karr, Unwavering (2013)

I am All.
I am everything, there is nothing else - there is only I.
You are a part of me. I am you.
I respect you because I respect myself.


~Brad Karr, Meditation (2013)

Within each moment, we are either ascending or descending, so to speak. We are either becoming more mindful or more mindless, more human or more machine-like, more radiant or more dull. The only possibility is to move; stillness is an illusion.

And yet, because there is only movement, because there is only change and no other possibility, there is ultimately no such thing as movement, because nothing ever truly changes.

The wheel simply turns with nowhere to reach.

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~Brad Karr, The Wheel Simply Turns (2013)

The flowers blossom.
Learning the art of being.
Light rains upon them.

❀

Walking through the storm.
Rain falls wherever it may.
Nothing personal.

☂

The birds sing their song.
The rivers flow like music.
Life dances with her.

♁

Green fades to yellow.
One by one all the leaves fall.
Yet the tree still lives!

☥

Snow sparkles and shines.
Only to dissolve away.
The clouds weep softly.

❅

Living is dying.
Two sides of a single coin.
No sweet, no sour.

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~Brad Karr, the Endless Knot (2013)

How many must bleed in the name of greed?
Like fire it feeds yet the light's unseen.
When will we be free from the machine?
This is my dream; a nightmare, it seems.

Lord, please, help me make way.
What has to happen for you to come today?
No matter what the price is, I'll pay. I'll lay
brick by brick, 'til your path is paved.