1001 Tiny Truths - Complete Edition

By C.B. Neath

This book of 1001 short poems is for all of those that look outward into the world of humanity and nature, but strive inward for answers to the many questions that arise.

 

It is an exploration of and comment on the many facets of the experience of what it means to be human expressed in simple verse. It is a collection of brief thought-provoking poetic musings upon the conditions of the individual in the world loosely arranged under discrete topics; sometimes cryptic, at times contrary, occasionally provocative, but ofttimes reflective. Hopefully there is much to stimulate the honest soul with eyes that see.

 

From the esoteric to the existential, themes such as love, death, spirituality, yearning, fallibility, isolation, hope and prayer are among some of the many topics addressed, sometimes approached from differing or even opposing perspectives, all the while earnestly searching for elusive truth and commonality.

 

Dear reader, make of it what you will.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Poemagram Press
• Release date: Jan 26, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215205624

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1001 Tiny Truths

1001 Tiny Truths

Small Verities in Verse

C. B. Neath

Poemagram Press

Copyright © 2023

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POEMAGRAM PRESS

I wish to recognise my uncompromisingly loyal and long-time loving partner who has supported me in more ways than words can convey …

‘The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth’.

Lao Tzu

Contents

Preface

Tiny Truths

Acceptance, Hope and Unity

1. Time is Short

2. Come to Terms

3. More Than the Last

4. In Each and Every Breath

5. One Unity

6. Healing Art

7. Soon to Come …

8. A Worthy Sacrifice

9. When We Knew Not

10. Doolally

11. Me and We

12. To Make of What You May

13. Will of Heaven

14. Most Marvellous

15. Where, When, Now-and-Then

16. It Waits

17. As One We Are

18. A Rising

19. Some Live Light

20. Through Mind's Release

21. Repeatedly Renewed

22. Silent Unity

23. Is Just Is

24. Challenge, Chance and Hope

25. Let it Be

26. The Better For

27. Inclement Skies

28. Essentially

Action and Deed

29. Best to Fail

30. Affirmation Practical

31. Consequential Woe

32. Would Could Should

33. A Done Deed

34. At Your Peril

35. Gain Eventually

36. To the Good

37. Outsmarted

38. A Freeing From

39. In Honest Openness

40. Talk and Do

41. The Oft Returned

42. Consequence Thus So

43. That of Worth

44. Make it So

45. Definitive By Deed

46. Drawn and Hewn

47. Truths Unfaced

48. Deeds Past Spun

49. All ‘Wait and See’

50. Joy and Hindrance

51. True Giving

52. Headless

53. Afore Well Understood

54. Neither Hid Nor Shown

55. Demonstrably No Need

Ambition

56. A Certain Kind of Fool

57. Fame So Fleet

58. Self-Excess

59. Time Reveals Their worth

60. Ladder

61. Those Made So

62. Ambition’s Wrath

63. Woe Betide

64. Natural Fame

Beauty and Heart

65. Hymn to Heart and Hope

66. Boundless Heart

67. In Hesitancy’s Grip

68. Whispers

69. A Heart’s Dismay

70. Spirit’s Spark

71. Piece By Piece

72. Bereft of Heart

73. And All the world Stood Still

74. Bit By Bit

75. Heart's Concern

76. Divine Intent

77. Heart of Reason

78. Follow it Exact

79. Sense the Tide

80. Where Answers Lie

81. To Ways Secure

Change and Impermanence

82. Disarranged

83. To Everything in Time

84. Nothing

85. Indwelt Impermanence

86. This Evanescent All

87. In Living Doubt

88. An Error Made

89. Unaltered Change

90. Same Old Same Old

91. Causal Wait

92. Nothing is For Sure

93. Trashed

94. Self’s Mindful Eye

95. In Ever-changing Guise

96. Nothing Stays the Same

97. Not Set in Stone

Creativity

98. Invite the Moon

99. Not Unique

100. From Out Nowhere

101. Interface

102. Skill

103. Holy Root

Cycles and Balance

104. Welcomed Graciously

105. More is Less

106. Through Opposites

107. Pendulum

108. Crux

109. Spin ‘n Stitch

110. Lost Equipoise

111. A Circle Squared

112. Slay Both

113. Of Settled Will

114. With Eyes to See

115. To Ever Overcome

116. No Repeat

117. Peace and Poise

118. Concession’s Ground

119. Balanced Well

Dark Matters and Places

120. Not, Nor For …

121. A Further Place to Fall

122. Stricken Souls

123. Least Fooled

124. Futile Fuss

125. A Devil’s Kiss

126. Pandemonium

127. Came Darkly Sown

128. Fascination’s Mire

129. Jackals

130. Divine By Right

131. Lived Undisguised

132. Fear and Claim

133. Black of Soul

134. Shadow Force

Death and Endings

135. All But Brief

136. No Forever Life

137. Who Could Know

138. The Urge to Be

139. Of Endings Sweet Or No

140. Ways Concealed

141. Where Few May Go

142. No Going Back

143. They Are No More

144. Willed to Live

145. Assured Release

146. An End the Same

147. From Who Knows Where

148. Annihilation’s Night

149. Natural Return

150. Mortal Prize

151. Rhapsody

Delusion and Deceit

152. Forthright

153. Silent Lie

154. Deluded Bliss

155. Mind in Mortal Mire

156. For Zealous Care

157. Still a Lie

158. In Finery

159. Nothing to Believe

160. Every Flaw

161. Root and Branch

162. Evasion’s Tool

163. Wall to Wall

164. All is Well

165. An End That Ends the Same

166. A Feckless Thrall

167. The Exalted Importune

168. Latterly and Long

169. Delusion’s Noose

170. Falsehood’s Fate

171. Deftly Duped

172. Theirs to Play

173. A Perfect Lie

174. Bait and Charm

175. By Us For Us

176. ‘Maybe’

177. Forfeit

178. Wile So Made

179. Peace and Poise

180. Once a Fool

181. This Or That?

182. Self in Self-defeat

183. Surprise Surprise

184. The Liar’s Kiss

Desire and Attraction

185. Poisoned Cure

186. Something Else

187. A Sensual Knot

188. Union of Fire

189. Until the Day

190. It Really Could

191. A Drift Amiss

192. Self’s Mire

193. Fierce to Tame

194. Less and Less

195. Desire’s License

196. Conclusions Inexact

197. Game of Souls

198. Even Though

199. Not Too Much

200. No Slave

201. Infatuations Addle

Dreams and Fantasy

202. If Dreamer Deems

203. Wild Psychic Sea

204. Let’s Pretend

205. Fantasies Untold

206. Unadorned

207. A Rueful Plight

208. The Least to Be

209. Made For You

210. Hollow Dreams

211. Never to Remain

212. A Cynic’s Song

213. Even When

214. Dream-Free

215. Unmeasured Craving

216. Raw Reality

217. The Root Pooh-Poohed

218. Hold Fast

219. Original and Free

220. Dream Another

Faith, Belief and Certainty

221. Moon of Certain Self

222. Errant Act

223. Heaven's Fools

224. As Sure As Sure

225. Never Ever?

226. Cry For Life

227. Precious Little

228. Fall Then Rise

229. Guff and Lies

230. Penitentiary

231. Not One Jot

232. Half of It

233. Alliance

234. Suffocation’s Snare

235. We Think We Know

236. Misbegotten

237. Every Bit As

238. They Lie Within

239. Elixir of Conceit

240. Instinctual Law

241. One Peerless Loss

242. No Sense

243. Hook and Snare

244. No Remiss

245. Believe Then Don’t

246. A Mortal Must

247. Shrine to Fear

248. Predictive Fare

249. Rhetorical Diarrhoea

250. Rescue Me

251. Of One Seed

252. A Torrid Lair

253. Not Knowing

254. Stuff and Lies

255. Grasp the Joke

256. Safe and Sound?

257. They Just Are

258. Struck Dumb

Fear and Worry

259. Overthought

260. Inaction’s Noose

261. Already Whole

262. All to Blame

263. Far and Near

264. Unpalatable Still

265. Impotency Exact

266. Alone Adrift

267. Feel the Fear

Fortune and Fate

268. Throw the Dice

269. An Unseen Fate

270. Unquestionably Fair

271. What Goes Soon Comes Around

272. Rendered Just So

273. Beneficence Aflow

274. Its Enigmatic Ways

275. Unascertained

276. That Came Upon

277. Life's Lessons

278. Random Seed

279. As This Nulls That

280. Narrowed Odds

281. Beneficence of Will

282. Folly Sure

283. Same Difference

284. God Laughs

285. Fate’s Disentanglement

286. Destiny Decides

287. Inseparably Bound

288. Karmageddon

289. Regardless

290. So Charmed

291. Chance Sacred

292. Trick of Mind

293. Inimitable Chance

294. Held Inert

295. As We Will

296. None May Know

297. To Greater Better Times

298. Do No Harm

299. Fair Fortune’s Rise

300. Scuppered

301. Impenetrable Play

302. Fortune’s Hostage

303. Mystic Will

304. Unnamed and Overlooked

305. Each Moment’s Choice

Freedom and Adventure

306. As If …

307. Fly Loosed Free

308. But Name

309. An Angel’s Promise

310. Crimson Path

311. A Mirror Cracked

312. Prime Potency

313. In Wisdom More

314. Can Never Be

315. Until Both Lost

Friendship

316. Friendships Fade

317. Those Most Dear

318. Friends Bemoaned

319. No Longer Useful

320. No Warrant Sure

321. Friendship’s Fall

Grace and Blessing

322. Song of Grace

323. Unfathomably So

324. Garner Grace

325. If Only

326. Lantern

327. Living Grace

328. Earnest

329. A Fading Trait

330. Self First

331. Stay

332. Awake or Not

333. By One’s Own Grace

334. Inspiration’s Sign

335. No Death to Die

336. Without Remorse

Greed, Jealousy and Expectation

337. Strangled at Birth

338. The Worse