An Exploration of Spiritually Awakened Experiences and Feelings

A 14-stanza tanka series

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Treks through the desert
From wastelands to oases
Which were mirages?
Our tree-lined watering hole
A spring I have imagined

Imagined yet real
I have been there many times
God, Guides, Sitara
Rode tesseract home with Ane
While my feet never left Earth

Terra bound am I
While oft am on an island
Shipwrecked and alone
On this nonconformist shoal
In Sea of Humanity

Hesse’s Cain’s mark me
I do belong to a tribe
Fellow wanderers
Navigating sands of time
From one lifecycle to next

Proceed cross Sinai
Like the 12 tribes of Israel
Into which Greg born
After lives of all colors
Like leaves floating off the trees