FLEETING EMOTIONS

Empowered by darkness

The candle flickers!

Fleeting emotions! 

DARKNESS AT DAWN

Hot summer dawn

The rain patters outside

The sun has not yet risen

Dark clouds fill the gray southern sky

I am wake!

My mind is still benumbed!

Thoughts come and go

A dark feeling sinks in

In the horizon; there is a glow

Yet! Surrounded by the darkness within

I do hope for a sunny day! 

FORMLESS FEELINGS

Thick slurry clogging and churning!

Churning within this primeval ocean!

Oh! Can this name less thing be a mere feeling?

Neither is it passion; neither is it compassion

Neither is it like any other mental formation

Neither is it self; neither is it non-self

Featureless without understanding

Oh formless feeling!

Why do you keep wringing my heart? 

Who is it who unlocked your black box in my mind?

Who will ever close it?

The tap of life has now been left open and flowing

It’s vital essence; is it poison or ambrosia?

Drinking from my own skull!

The heretic asks!  

Why does it all taste the same?

SEA OF FEELINGS

Blue skies; the water flowing!

Fleeting feelings floating!

Figuring, fighting!

Fielding, fending!

In foamy fits of frenzy!

Formless  forces failing!

Futile fusion in a frothy fugue!   

Flowing feelings; now finally fleeting! 

FIELD OF FEELINGS

In the fertile fields of the roving mind

Cultivating the delicate crop of feelings

The sun of opportunity may shine on you

And the rain of fortune may bless you

But if you don’t know your saplings well

When the time of harvest comes

 Is it not too late to discover

That the only crop you’ll get to reap

Are weeds of anger and hatred and ill will!