poetic bliss

And Love says, “I will, I will take care of you,” to everything that is near.
~Hafiz

love
ah, we mistrust love
too soft, too vague, cannot measure it, cannot trust it

look, most of us have learned to love out of fear, out of duty, out of servitude disguised as service, as care
we naturally cannot trust that, our instinct warns us

yet,
hafiz here, is not referring to that kind of cultured love
that love is actually a hunger, a yearning
unfulfilled, craving you
it's not love

no, hafiz here is pointing at Love with a capital L
coming from being already full
satiated
complete
satisfied, inexhaustible, brimming over

this Love comes from Bliss
your highest, unleashed intelligence

today, we gather key poetry, key pieces of written word that point at pure bliss within each and one of us
why poetry?
well, poets extract the essential, it's their precision I trust

So here are some powerful pieces, on BLISS, in poetry

bliss is the compass

love is the land

- rensen

Stupefied with bliss, I become without thought. There is no grief in that loss. I gladly surrender my intelligence in favour of this mindlessness. It is ecstacy, rapture.

- alana fairchild

I have lost myself

So I am without myself

What bliss!

رفتم ز دست خود من در بیخودی فتادم

- rumi

Relish respite in temple serene,
Cherish in the shadow of a tree,
Squat or lie on a flat ground,
Renounce worldly comforts,
Peace prevails in plenty.
Believe in boundless bliss beyond

- bhupathi prabhakara rao

i want to do with you
what spring does with the cherry trees

- pablo neruda

burst a thousand fragrant petals
from my every desirous follicle
bloom me
open
wide
do anything you want with me
measure my telomeres if you have to
chromosome
by
chromosome

- rensen

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge,

for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

- khalil gibran

my bliss
is quiet morning
gentle waking
creamy sweet coffee

my bliss
is arms spread
rain drenched hair, mouth open
seeking communion with the sky

- devon

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle.

It is the extinguishing of the flame

because day is come.

- rabindranath tagore

Bliss has no counterpart

Pleasure has pain

Happiness has unhappiness

Bliss, once experienced, is irreversible

- osho

No More Leaving

At

Some point

Your relationship

With God

Will

Become like this:

Next time you meet Him in the forest

Or on a crowded city street

There won't be anymore

"Leaving."

That is,

God will climb into

Your pocket.

You will simply just take

Yourself

Along!

- hafiz

Let’s gather more!

So much more poetry out there, pointing at pure bliss within us.

bliss — ananda, blessedness, beatitude

non-ordinary state of consciousness, the flow state infused with blessedness,

the yin of flow, existential inhalation

"receiving life"