Karmic Days
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My name is Mark Laurence. Whether or not you believe in things Spiritual, life seems full of Karmic events. My life has been, and is, hence the name. Find poems and musings on life...
Karmic Days
4y ago
When I came to you, willow tree that last clear summer’s evening, when I told you that I loved you, you whispered secrets to me of the many things you’d seen. Oh willow! Standing there so long, great limbs outstretched as if to reach infinity-sky. The caress of your rough bark to me felt as good as making love, almost. So long you have grown by the path by the water meadows Where often I have gone to think. And at your feet lies a stream whose sweet depths I would stare. Still waters run deep! For you carry my soul with you flowing and gone, yet forever here. The gr ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
I stand.
Cold wind blows through my hair Hard rain stings my cheek Clouds roll dark above me. Vitality.
The pain of awareness intensifies. Lightening stabs in sharp relief. Trees bend & crack. Mortality.
LIFE. So harsh, majestic It takes a razor’s edge To slice through to Reality.
The sting of blood From a thorn driven deep reaches my consciousness, Awakens my
Vitality.
March 1987 ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
What end do life’s errands run
What guides my feet upon what way?
Wither do great friends go when
Darkness comes between & paths divide?
What makes the keening of great friendship
Is peril & fear the only true way?
When other can the quality of life
Shine through this dull monotony.
True Souls! Where are you in this world
keen heart! So will I ever know you?
No pang of bitterness nor pain, or of
Joyfulness is there in all my days.
Where now the warrior, arms shining bright,
Where so, Aragorn, Eomer or Elrond?
Where is the man, true of purpose
Deep meaning to his ev ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
Freedom Bound Today my heart is freedom bound Yesterday’s darkness is gone, but not forgotten. No! Never to forget such pain.
Today I laugh Yesterday I wept as if forever. So now I sing and give thanks for the weeping. For the Understanding it has given.
My sorrow-joy Is all one in the keening of life. I walk the path forever alone, yet chance to meet other travelers upon this dusty road.
God’s all pervading Love is within; the Wonder of Life is all about. I share it here and there, But feel it strongest when on my own.
I look out Under vast open skies, walk down into Valleys stee ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
Each person’s Soul shines, shines
brightly, like a star
And there are countless millions in the sky.
It should make this world so bright, clear, yet
Between each lies vast chasms like
Unplumbed depths of night.
Oblivious of warmth, comfort,
Who knows how to bridge this gap?
Ride, riding hurled and dazed upon Intergalactic
Winds, sweeping the Cosmos
Moving from point to point, light to light,
Trying, try to fill the gap
If only briefly, moving on,
On, even if you want to,
Need to, stay; feeling close to one
Whose Soul sings sweetly, swe ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
In the wilds of a violent night
When keen winds draw my mind away
And the stars scream at me, strongly
From my bedside I smell Africa!
In the desolation of my Soul
From the haunted streets and pavements
As polluted rain falls on me, tainting
I remember my far-seeing eye.
By a lamp in the dark
At a desk, with pencil scrawling
I try to find my sanity and
Throw doors open wide!
From a rift within my forehead
I can feel the power pushing
Erupting out and reaching up to know
That dark, wild, scented solitude.
Awake from slumber, my Spirit ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
Today, under a clear harvest sky
Where late afternoon Sun turned high
clouds into gold
At Figsbury Ring I looked to God
And gave to Him a love that had
Burned so deep inside.
I looked out over clear, warm, lands
Sucked in the vastness of the sky
And cried for you;
My Soul rejoiced life’s bitter-sweetness,
The keening stir of sadness at losing that
Which I had never had.
Through flames to ashes and dust I released
My hopes and fears to His safekeeping,
To do with as He would;
For the ways of the World are wide,
And many paths and err ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
Destiny calls me
I hear her voice,
Softly whispering
In endless caress.
Into those gaps that occur
In daily life,
Those moments when activity lulls
Into silence
And the whole world stands listening –
Then I hear her alluring song:
Come, come!
The wilds are drawing me
Into their deadly arms,
From whose crooning lullaby I
May never reawaken.
Oblivion and wild sunsets
Haunt me,
Following silently wherever I go.
I turn about, quickly
As if to find revealed
This fallen Angel taunting me;
But She is never there ..read more
Karmic Days
4y ago
My left foot is numb
My right arm disconnected
Little of my brain functions any more
Perhaps it never did.
Can I still write? Can I still think
And feel?
Is there rebirth and a new awakening again,
After awakening again, after again…
So many times I have
Fallen asleep
Sleep-walked thru most of my life.
I feel the need for Blood to stir, I shake the chains
That shackle me. Impotent…
Only in the deepest recess of my
Mind do I find a hint of Freedom
Like a chink in the clouds, a brief ray of sun,
Shut out again. Gone.
So long I hav ..read more