The OSMOSIS Poems: writings from within and out of The Dream - Part 3

By Scott Vanya

The work I was doing exploring Emptiness, as the holiness that projects out through us into this space The Earth, produced many, many poems of a similar nature: The OSMOSIS Poems.
The collected books, in four parts, spans, that period and encompasses large portions of 2012 and 2013.
No attempt is made to hide anything from the reader, rather like the archeoligist uncovering long buried treasures, I channeled what I found in that place into this place. Largely I was "moved" to write and these are how the works came.
They are all tinged with a sense of human compassion and "get alongness" that i am so fond of. Without that, this world just wouldn't make any sense at all.
I think you will see what I mean, and do suggest you read all four parts, as more often than not I was turning over a jewel in my hand and at each poem, a new light was caught.
Peace.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Scott Vanya
• Release date: Apr 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310137013

Scott Vanya

I've been writing for a very long time, what seems like my whole life, taking it seriously from the time I was about 11. Now, at 46, I think I may be starting to get the hang of it: Say what you feel, as passionately as you can, but always with an ear turned to those who are listening.Most of my more serious work is done at live performances, which i do totally extemporaneously, channeling the mood of the room as my fingers play on the guitar. You can see some of that if you go to "my" website. (Open Mics Austin is a platform I created to showcase the Spoken Word scene here in Austin, TX. Only a small role in which i play.)As far as I can tell what makes good writing is LOVE. Love ,plainly simply, and with no strings attached.I put these words/books before you, not so much because I want something back from it, because I think and feel like I feel my bones and my soul, if you were to see the world, experience it like it do, for even a brief moment, you would walk away from that happier, more alive, compassionate and in tune with all those around you.Peace, good will, and harmony. Let those be your guiding light.Agape forever,Scott VanyaPublication Credits:Stepping Stones Magazine, The Main Street Rag, www.carcinogenicpoetry.com, Texas Art Initiative, Phoenix New Life Poetry, Walt’s Corner, Manna, Perigee, Chicago Literary Review, Mobius, Cosmic Trend, Pitchfork, Romantics Quarterly, Artisan, Pegasus, The Neovictorian, Red Owl, The Story Teller, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Atlantic Pacific Press

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The OSMOSIS Poems-Part-3

 

Scott Vanya

 

Copyright Scott Vanya 2016

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

On the Virtues of Selfless Love, Part 1How long...NowThis isChristmas PresentI am so happy to be aliveI'm just askin' for a little peace, LordIt didn't wait this long to be happyMy Love and I are as One on ThisOf the Sea I SingIf I were PresidentThe artist, the auto mechanic, and the cookTonightBecause I mustIf someonePositivity ISI love songs of Love and Hope the bestI just wantWhat ifFreedom, Here InSometimesIf someone had told youWhy if I have no money

On the Virtues of Selfless Love, Part 1

 

 

Preface:

 

Because no one book can contain,

in fact,

all books ever written

will not be able to contain

nor restrain it.

 

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Coming to the end of a month

when I am soon

to be charged

for the living I have done,

More money deductd from my name

which already has less than none,

I am here doing this

because at such times

I know for me

the only way to keep existing

and sane (then)

is to write about it.

 

And may be in this myriad thing

scripted in beautiful

blue and white morning sunlight

some of your own life

will be caught

in this little diffraction grating

and you, too

will find the strength

to carry on

and see The Rainbow at the end.

 

The Values and Virtues of Selfless Love

are such

that no one book, poem,

nor religion

can elucidate them.

But I will pen

the few I know

as this singularly sentient

thing, Scott Vanya.

 

In dark times,

it comes to us:

detached,

unconcerned,

oblivious to the wrongs

that we have done,

and limitlessly

praising the goods.

 

And all the would have's

and should have's

are infintesimalized

to nothing

in it's embrace.

 

If we, as a Limb or Leaf,

on The Great Tree of Life

are to be free

let us too

do the same

to all other sentient

(and even non-)

that we see,

know,

and don't see

and don't know:

radiate light

and warmth

and sense of Cosmic Joy

for all to share.

 

In that we can trust.

 

The Virtues? A virtue?

Of Limitless Love.

Is that when we are

fully cognizant

of those others

that inhabit the world

with us

And that their feelings matter

and are

more important than our own.

Then we may stop

chattering about the other

external things:

cars, houses, boats,

fuel, river of things

And let them go past

to embrace

singly (and yet nonexistent)

as an Openness

without barrier nor peak

and be at peace

with all things

and so that those others too

may be blessed

then

in the all encompassing

unattachedment

to our loves.

 

And as is the way

of the physical form

I have written so much

thus far

that my wrist

hurts too much to continue

And so for now

must end.

But, God willing, will pick

it up again

in the not