A Year Reflected v Basic

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A Year Reflected

By Frank Corless

Prologue

The following poems were all written in 1993. This was an eventful year for Ihad time for meditation, reading and searching. The poetry is an extension of this.

The poems are not in chronological order as I did not have sense at the time to date

them as I wrote them.. It may also be that the process of writing is so right brained

that to then think in a concrete way something as simple as placing a date just does

not enter. Please take them for what they give you; as your perception will be

different than mine.

There is a Message

By Frank Corless

There is a Message!Listen in your hearts.

You wont find it through emotions

Locked up in fear.

(chorus)

You are Gods creation

Choose unity with Him

Or choose pain

Pain is your creation

It is your dream.

It is not real. But it is your choice.

Unity or Separation?

Love or Fear?You are Gods Creation

This is the Good News!

There is a message!

Sing it out when you find it

First look in quiet

Youll find it there(chorus)

There is a message!

Be open to searching

Listen to your Spirit

Face all forms of fear

There is a message! (chorus)

There is a message!

It frees when you know it

The message is given

But only you can listen. (chorus)

There is a message!

I hope youll find it.

Im slowly hearing

And Peace it brings (chorus)

There is a Message!

Simple when you knowYou have the choice


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Hear and believe. (chorus)

Sensuality

By Frank Corless

SensualityA dream?

Perhaps

Perception? Yes

Within us all

How do I judge my perception?

Too harshly in the past,

But now it is gone.

Here, now dispel the past

(de spell)

It is not real.

Long goneOnly now.

Again my choice

Become aware

Sensuality is all around

It tingles & entices.

Do in the beauty of youth,

And in the warmth of the morning sun

Davids songs proclaim it

Wrapped in life.

Take the gift.

Enjoy its pleasureMore than physical appearance

Judge it not.

Judgement only kills.

Seek not its destruction.

Nurture it gently through the Spirit

Seek its truth as Gods gift.

Respect its energy.

Seek not power over it

Join with it as it flows

Enjoy

Emotions

By Frank Corless

Emotions

Always temporary,

Neither right nor wrong

Over take us in our Ego,

All consume the passing moment

See beyond it

Let it teach.Embrace the lesson


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Do not fear it.

So Tempting to hide and nullify the encounter

The world proclaims

Dont cry.

Control your anger.

You are too passionate and more.Spirit says listen

Seek heaven in this moment.

Go beyond the temporary

Learn

You are not alone.

Trust inner guidance.

Even fear the strongest emotion

Teaches when faced.

O Glorious Change

By Frank Corless

Only a while back

So lost

Caught up within the world

Full of fear

Hiding. Covering. Protecting

Freedom has presented itself.

The chains were choice.

Looked at from this moment

Illusion made real

Because I judged it so

O Glorious changeThe judgement is going

Each day brings change

Less judgement made

More openness to the present lessons found

Experience does teach,

Not through judgement.

Not through protection.

Through openness

Homework

By Frank Corless

Homework

Misperceived

Seen only as work

Change its name

It can be life giving

for those who see its true purpose.

Opportunity!

Lessons for growth!

See not slavery in this task

If miracle be sought

Then means to break the chainsThese tasks are truly meant.


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If seen by teacher and pupil in this light

Renew to learn for life!

Unity

By Frank Corless

UnityIt calls

Fear it not

It is intimate

What can be more intimate than Oneness.

It beckons

Softly, lightly

To receive its message,

To receive its love.

Let go of separateness

It is present this Oneness,

This unityIt is only our perception that separates it.

Reflect

By Frank Corless

Reflect a quiet voice requests

The Ego resists.

You have a choice

One brings peace.

The other is empty

Pain

By Frank Corless

Pain

Draws my attention.

Should it?

Its not real.

A Myth

Ive taught myself to believeLook fresh

Look in and seek new perception

What miracle is their to find

Pain!

It says stop

Love yourself

Stop pushing get in touch

Reaccept yourself

Forgive

Look beyond the body

There is mindThere is Spirit


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There is freedom

Pain is but a warning

Nothing more

Learn to listen

Learn its lesson

Sooner doneSooner healed

Block the lesson

Repeat the pain

Free will.

I learn at my pace

Delightful Swallow

By Frank Corless

Her Laughter filled the room

Only momentaryAnd most would miss.

So common in lifes game

Yet I heard and saw soon after

Liquid looking mussel entering ruby lips

To slither down that slender throat

Enjoyment showed upon her face

This is sensual to my mind.

Life enjoyed.

Shared separately

Like actor and audience

Each gained.

Yet different the experience

Protection

By Frank Corless

Protection

Armour do we create

Out of fear of being hurt

Build up defencesOne upon another

Put up the fences

ATTACK if necessary

Submission itself becomes a weapon

ALL

ALL to no avail

Ones protections become its weapons against the self

Breaking down and causing hurt to that which would be protected

Defencelessness based in truth and love

The only answer


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Life?

By Frank Corless

Life?

Death?My purpose in the World?

Questions we all ask in silence,

Thinking were unique

Separateness

Keeping us apart

Inward focussed on the self,

Without truly facing self in solitude.

Loneliness builds up

Reflect in this similarity

Between you and I

And all aroundWe are so different

Purpose comes in recognising this

Be drawn to unity,

To oneness

Let go the image

Let go the judgments

Accept and this will lead to love

And love is answer to all questions

Lost Opportunity

By Frank Corless

The student shrieks

Im bored.

What have we done, Society?

Imagination beckons

To some, hours become minutes.

Lost in countless worlds,

Dimensions numberless,

Ideas flow.Einstein, Edison & Newton knew.

Leonardo was a Master.

Imagination tapped

What may seem idle can bring direction.

So many seem to have lost the knack

Their left-brain sending out

Im bored

When opportunity is given

So sad!


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Past Holds

By Frank Corless

Discovering Ones truth,

Seems mixed among the rubble.Voices within me speak

Compulsively about my weaknesses

Voices from the past

Holding me back because of childhood coping decisions.

Decisions long past outgrown;

But reinforced by habits over years

Much like archaic laws

Brought out to punish one

For doing what all present commonly agree as fine

Punish it must

Because it is law.Not because it is appropriate

Re-perceive the present moment.

Are the actions motivated from

Past compulsion,

Or from the knowledge

That peace & love are given

to the heart of Self

through the action?

The Key

By Frank Corless

A key

I have searched high and low

The door is locked and bolted

So secure

I have tried to circumvent

To crash throughAnd even to run away

Always only to find myself before the door

Frustration, Madness, Despair:

So many emotions have I felt

Then I stopped and sat

Listening in quiet

A peace pervades

The KEY is Me!


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A Poets Words

By Frank Corless

A poets words

What do they mean?If written in the past

To you the reader.

Then no longer does the poets moment exist

Seek not his moment

Seek truth

Let his spirit everlasting

Join your spirit everlasting

If his words be ego

They will be ego to him

If now present before you

A choice presents itselfListen from your ego.

Or listen from your spirit

One will guide appealingly but emptily

The other will lead to love

True ecstasy

Ego then can be transformed to truth

By joining Spirit

Or remain Ego empty except for temporary emotion.

Heart Speaks

By Frank Corless

Heart speaks

Listen, learn

The beloved creator speaks

No! I have responded.

Creation goes on

Used in spite of my personal struggle

Always calling saying join

I Am creatingStruggle all you like

Eventually you Frank will see Truth

You have always been part

Your perception only has been apart


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Franciss Lesson

By Frank Corless

Is it said that Francis preached to the Animals

His oneness with nature is well knownI think

Perhaps,

The animals gathered not to hear Francis,

But to preach to him

Recognise that preaching in this regard was but sharing

Nature has 2 meanings

Gods or mans

Mans has many nuances and full of ego

Each seen from a finite point

Francis went from that to open up

His lesson was to see the infiniteGods Truth

And to join with it

It is not as complex as it seems

it is unity

As creation

Whole and parts still one

The fishs Lesson

By Frank Corless

Peaceful fish within the pond

No thought of past or future passes your mind

In tune with those around

The water flows

Each current made by each fin

Does act upon the school

Ion harmony with occasional disruption

Disruption that is gentle to those near

Adjustment made and subtle position changes happen to create interest to to creat

varietyYet through it all

Life Exists and flows


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Blame

By Frank Corless

Blame,

Pass it on.Protect oneself.

Our childhood judgments

Keep us weak

Others reflect our insecurity

It is not our true selves we see

It is only our judgments

Our perceptions

So barriers we put up

To protect us from past hurts

Long past gone

Instead of protecting thoughRecycled hurt attacks

Because we failed to listen

Failed to love

Listen to the Love we are

Accept it

Believe in it

Live it

As we accept it in ourselves

Then do we accept it in others

Sublime Peace

By Frank Corless

Sublime Peace

Available to all

No drug or aid can take one to these heights

Look within

Know thyself as Love

Free from all judgment.

It is not escapeBut facing truth

Overcoming fear

And moving from belief

To faith

A gift to self

When the struggle is let go.


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Whats On My Mind

By Frank Corless

Whats on my Mind?

My bodys full of symptomsIntellectually I know it is illusion

Why do I cling to worldly thoughts?

I am being blest.

I recognise that and give thanks

Yet the symptoms say Im still clinging

I pray o Holy Spirit teach me now

In my weaknesses there is Miracle

Open my eyes and quieten my egos voice

That my heart will hear your teaching

That my will is truly of the Fathers

Senses

By Frank Corless

Senses

Taking in the time

Brain is storing

Little lost

How to process?

How to retrieve?

Conscious mind struggles

Hypnosis, Relaxation, Meditation

Draws it out

Education trains the conscious

Little time left to discover what is hidden

So much stored away

The ear can hear a whispered conversation

Over a hundred yards

The eye sees all before it; size, shape and colour

Subtle variations all noted and stored

Left unprocessed little valuedSkin aware of subtle pressure changes wind, heat and touch

6th sense? No

5 senses picking up informing, processing

See the potential

Mostly untapped.


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How Do I See You?

By Frank Corless

How do I see you?

With my perception based upon the pastNot your true self at all

No wonder intimacy seems so far

I want to know you

My fears have gotten in the way

So too my habits put up walls

I hope I pray that I may find a way

to see through my spirit and not my body

Your truth this day

Truth will come when I stop reflecting backmy fears of loss

A fear that cannot be

A misperception

For love is what you are and so am I

The essence cannot be lost

It was

It is

It always will be

The Spirit holds the truth

Loss of love?

Impossible

Only blocked by me.

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