A Flash of Newfound Zen poem


Below is a poem that was born during a walk through a snowy landscape. (Incidentally, this is the 100th post on Byteful.com. Thanks to everyone for their comments and support so far! Even after 100 posts, I still feel that I’m just getting started.)

You could say the poem below was written in the same vein as Ode to the Travelling Soul, though perhaps more future-oriented. Can anyone see the deeper meaning?

This poem is best enjoyed while listening to Gobbledigook by Sigur Rós. 😉


Around again on this blue rock
Where doors still open if you knock
Around again on this blue stone
So why do I feel far from home?

Around, again, again, again
The pattern like a curlycue
But does this orbit that I ride
Take me far away from you?

A stone, a ball, a racing sphere
A billion lives and more remain
So many want to drop their fear
And reignite their former flame

Around, again, again, again
We will look back: “see how we grew?”
Within a flash of newfound zen
Together, we shall leave this zoo



Who is worthy to Shine? poem


Am I unworthy?
then let universe spit me
out, cold, and alone

no talent in me?
then let the world ignore me
darkness and alone

does my light not shine?
let nothing at all be mine
i will be alone

prison of my mind
sitting in bleak sands of time
sitting in nothing

Yet…

Even in darkness
I remember light divine
Purpose dwells within

I release myself
From that dark prison of mine
Newness will begin

Opening my eyes
One heart begins a new shine
And we all join in