Category: poetry

THE SMALL WARS

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Existentialism, Freedom, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, peace, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

The world is increasingly divided
Don’t let that division become you

If peace and wholeness
Are your heart’s longing
You must put down all weapons that divide

Disarming ourselves is the hardest task
For it seems we are conditioned
To wage a small war on anything
That does not fit our own beliefs
And we each carry different beliefs
So there are small wars happening everywhere

To really embrace our truth as love
Those wars, those small yet insidious
Defend and attack wars
That keep the world stuck in division
Must come to an end

Therein lies the work of the warrior of the heart.

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IT IS ALRIGHT

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Ecstatic Poetry, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, peace, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

There is a point on the journey
Of awakening
When you realize
It is all alright
It always was alright
It always is alright
And it always will be alright

Despite the suffering, the hardship,
The war, the loss, the grief,
The violence, the terrible things
We do to ourselves and each other

Still…
It is all alright
It always was alright
It always is alright
And it always will be alright

There is no way of explaining this
So the mind that is divided understands
It is not an argument or a belief
And it doesn’t stop the wheel of pain

It just brings great relief

For you have fallen into your god essence
And realized that separation
Is the most beguiling of illusions
But ultimately untrue.

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LIFE IN A DAY

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Freedom, Inspiration, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

To have a vision that drives you, or pulls you
But to live each day
As though it is an entire life
Fully and without holding anything back

This is the essence of the modern warrior

The birth, the life, and the death
In the microcosm of a day
What more teaching is there.

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FLICKERS OF LIGHT

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, emptiness, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Spirituality, UncategorizedLeave a comment

Friend, why not fly through the clouds
Into the firmament
Up, beyond the pull of gravity,
The gravity that holds us here
But pins us down
Out, through the outer layers
Of whatever field of energy
Allows the multitude of life to exist
On this blue ball of uniqueness

Into the dark and empty fullness of space

The first astronauts who ventured out into the darkness
Developed such a respect and love when they looked at home,
Alone and tiny in the great scheme of things
Vulnerable and miraculous in the eternal wheel

Why do we forget so easily
And become entangled in our pettiness
In our gripes and righteous complaints
In our arguments and wars

Remembering is such sweet humility
We are but flickers of light
That pass through the dark sky
Remember, remember, remember.

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The Dancer and the Danced

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Divine, Existentialism, Freedom, metaphor, Nonduality, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

We are being danced
Played and vibrated

We have given ourselves an identity
Given a name to the nameless we are

A dancing pattern of particles
Stardust gathered from the vast
Circling an imperceptible black hole, a void
At the center of our constellation

We are a universe, each one a world unto ourselves
Billions and billions of worlds
Colliding, interacting,
Drawing towards and repelling

For one moment, cease giving a name to yourself
Rest as the nameless one
Be the dance

In truth
You are the player and the played
The vibrator and the vibration itself
Mesmerizing astonishing truth

Don’t dumb yourself down
By imagining you are just a small someone
You are all that is
Eternity gathered up as a unique expression
What more do you want?

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The Beloved Says…

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn artist, Awakening, Divine, Ecstatic Poetry, Evolution, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, Love, Non Duality, Nonduality, poetry, Spirituality1 Comment

The Beloved says…

Go forth into the realm of form
Be an emissary of the light

Seek to be unattached
Even as attachment
Wraps you in its arms
With its sweet and tempting offers

Seek to stay as love
Even as fear grabs you
By the neck
And breathing becomes labored

Seek mastery of desire
Even as the lure of comfort
And the veil of security
Draws you toward it

You will become lost in that place
And then, child of the light,
Remember to dance
Remember to laugh and sing
To grieve and cry in the devastation
To soak in the pouring rain
As it drenches your wounded heart

And let that remembering itself
Be the light that you carry
To share with others
Who have forgotten.

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TURN OFF

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn Awakening, Existentialism, Freedom, Inspiration, Non Duality, Nonduality, peace, poetry, Spirituality1 Comment

At some point
You have to turn off
The internal and external narration
And see what remains

Turn off the news
Turn off the radio
Stop reading the latest reports
Of whatever agenda is current
And cease listening
To the constant babble
From the agitated mind

And see what remains
See how the organism
Quietens and softens
And begins to live
From a deeper
And more natural intelligence

It’s not ignorance
It’s sanity.

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ENTRUSTED WITH THE SPARK

On By Kavi Jezzie HockadayIn artist, Divine, Freedom, Inspiration, metaphor, poetry, SpiritualityLeave a comment

We have each been entrusted
With the divine spark of life

Love, compassion and joy
Are encoded into our dna

Yet we forget, beguiled by
Survivalism and conditioning
Mesmerized by desire and fear

And in our amnesia
We walk the earth
Searching for something
That makes us feel whole

We are already whole
And each of us
Has been entrusted
With the divine spark of life

Remembering this
Allows the spark
To become a fire.

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