Poem 61-80

*Y.. Tree of Life*

The tree of life
It has a branch
A money making branch

The bigger the money making branch
The more comfortable our life
But if the money making branch
Is the only branch
On our tree of life
It is such an ugly and unstable tree.

A prayer and devotion branch
Will stabilize the tree of life
Let it be a real big branch
On your tree of life
But if only two branches on a tree
Imagine how ugly it would still be!

So let there be branches
Of Affability and Charity
Of Cheerfulness and Friendliness
Of Gentleness and Honesty
Of Humility and Compassion
Of Spirituality and Wisdom
Of Courage and Hard work

With these branches present,
It will carry soon the lush greenery
Of love and job satisfaction
And soon enough, the tree of life
Will bear the fruits
Of peace of mind and happiness.

A wonderful tree of life I wish you
with many fine branches
and lots of greenery and fruits.

*Aufie Zophy*

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*y.. Trolls of discontentment*

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Ignoring the marvellous blueness
of the skies, the woman inside
tries to paint on his life's canvas

Blinded by the greenness
in the meadow on the other side
He starts to graze just grass

He may never choose to cease
the trolls of discontentment's seize

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... As Long As!*

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Religious teachings can truly inspire
As long as they do not make a loving heart putrefy
Through advocacy of hatred, a true toxic waste,
that kills all flowers in the garden of the mind;
Hatred, always coming from the ego of the preacher,
Never coming from a majestic omnipotent Creator;
Hatred is trying to lure our hearts into condemnation,
Misjudgement, arrogance, false feeling of superiority.

Rituals can help us to get closer to the Divine
As long as we do not allow them to become a flood
making rusty the wires of our mind.
Rusty wires may prohibit to tune in to the music,
in to the divine melodies containing fantastic truths
in to the roaring cry of nature
to render selfless service to all humans
and to become truly humble

Holy scriptures are great guides to human life,
As long as we do not allow the books to petrify
into large rocks inside the stomach of our soul.
Large rocks may obstruct all further nurture
from the manna of divine wisdom
from the nectar of unconditional love
that is found throughout nature
in the spirit of all humanity and above.

Holy scriptures, Rituals, Religious teachings
are great tools for humanity to use
As long as they do not become tricks that are abused
to please our ego and silence our soul

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... As We Can*

Doing something pleasant
Doing something unpleasant
Let's do it as well as we can.

Talking to someone nice
Talking to someone rude
Let's talk as well as we can

Praying in glory
Praying in frustration
Let's pray as well as we can

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Calling*

A calling can be so strong
It makes us move away
A calling can be so strong

We move away for long
From our loved ones
We move away for long

We miss our loved ones
But our calling is so strong
We miss our loved ones

Our calling can be strong
Following our calling can hurt
But it can be oh so strong.

Following our calling can hurt
But isn't it our soul's desire?
It may be worth the hurt

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Close to my children*

I was dreaming
I was a magnificent tree
With my children as saplings
standing around me
sharing my roots

I was dreaming
I was a beautiful rose
With my children as buds
standing near me
on the same stalk

I was dreaming
I was a reddish apple
with my children as blossoms
standing near me
on the same branch

I woke up
and my children were near me
So many thanks, my God.


Bachok, Nov 2011




*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Elegant Violence*

After five days of gloom
and dark monsoon,
sparks of colour in the sunrise
betray an enticing pause in the season

Strong winds still stand
and sweep up white chunks of water
that jump out of the sea
in violent bouts of elegance



*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Flood*

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Can you feel the monsoon of love
Can you feel the typhoon of kindness
Can you feel the hurricane of care
that are about to make sane this world

Just open your eyes and ears
Just open your hands and heart
and be a part of the flood
of love, kindness and care...

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Flow*

It 's uncontainable
It flows
Have you seen it?
The world is flowing
Towards goodness
Goodness is flowing
Many do not see it
It just flows
It's uncontainable

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Food for the soul*

Food for the body

I know of men, who do not have enough,
Lacking food and drink, their life is rough
Day in, day out they struggle for food
There is no time for any other good

Food for the ego

I know of men who have enough food and drink
So they have time for something else to think
Their egos are hungry for money, power and fame
Getting more, being restless, an endless game

Food for the soul

I know of men who are contented with how they live
They focus on soul and never cease to give
To give love and support, perform acts randomly kind
They are the ones who have at any time peace of mind

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Garbage Man*

Become a garbage man
Every day, just for a minute
Search for some litter
Pick up some garbage
Where ever you can

Don't stoop down.
Not good for the back
Just sit on your heels
Stay squatted and look up
It gives you a special perspective

Pick up a hand full
Walk to the bin
Not the nearest
The walking is exercise
Good for your body

So, become a garbage man
It can give you perspective
It is good for your body
It is good for the world
Just a hand full per day.

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Note:

Garbage men really deserve ou full respect.

I got the idea to write this piece when I was picking up a handful of
garbage from the beach. I thought if there more people picking up
garbage than people throwing garbage, littering would no longer be a
problem.

I hope in this poem there is nothing disrespectful of garbage men. They
really do a great job en deserve our respect as much as doctors and
lawyers deserve our respect (as indicated in the comments by unwritten
soul below)

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... In the Dark of the Night (poem about hope)*

It is dark, no moon, no light
Just darkness, a starless sky
The wind blows, the waves break
A single firefly passes by

Soon the firefly is gone
Leaving me in the darkest of nights
The tiny fly made me anticipate
A sunrise with the finest of lights







Bachok, January 2012



*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Just Above The Horizon*

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Up high,
Up high in the vast sky
I searched for ultimate beauty
Ultimate beauty was what I yearned to see
But then just inches above the horizon
Right in front of my wide open eyes
I found the most amazing
The most picturesque
Of all clouds
Luxurious soft pastels
Of light purple and
Mellow orange
Almost caressing the sea

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Let's be grateful*

Let's be grateful for

Amazing Astonishing All-encompassing Altruism
Breath-taking Brightness and Beauty
Cheerful Cute Children
Delightful dazzling dreams
Elegant Extraordinary Endeavours
Fine Fantastic Fabulous Friends
Great Gentle Good Greetings
Heavenly Honest Healing Humanity
Inspiring Illuminating Innovative Ideas
Jovial Jolly Joyful Jokes
Keen Kindheartedness
Light, Love and Life
Marvellous Magnificent Magic Mornings
Nice Nature
Outstanding Opportunities
Pleasant Pastimes
Queer Qualities
Ravishing Reality
Superb Superlatives
Tangible Thrilling Thoughts
Unbelievable Utterances
Very Valuable Views
Wonderful Wishes
Xceptional Xcellence
Yummy Yoghourts
Zealous Zest

And that's just the tip of the iceberg

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Let's feel it*

We say that our Creator is the most gracious
Let us say it again and feel it
Really feel the grace and love of our God

We say that our Creator is the most forgiving
Let us say it again and feel it
Really feel the forgiveness of our God

Let's feel it. Let us be filled, feeling Love
He filled our hearts with Love and kindness at birth
So freely to share with all around us, all the world

Free refills, whenever our love reaches a soul,
when a smile adorns the face of a child
Free refills at every prayer, every thought of God

We used to say thanks to God for He created the world
Let us say it again and feel it
Feel the thanks, the gratefulness deeply in our hearts

Feel the gratefulness for our wonderful senses
Feel the gratefulness for all the things we have
But most of all for that enormous Grace and Love

Let's feel the grace, Let us feel the forgiveness
Let's thank from truly within
Let us feel it,

Let us feel it with our mind,
Feel it with our heart
Let us feel it with our soul...

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Listen*

Listen
listen carefully
listen to your soul
you may hear the melody of kindness
you may hear the melody of honesty
the melody of humbleness
the melody of caring
all melodies of truth
one by one, so nice
beautiful melodies
worth listening.
Listen

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Magical Moments of Amazing Beauty*

Walking on the beach
Children seeking shells
Running around, having fun

Evening sun setting over the land
Shining a wonderful light on the breaking waves
The sky soft and blue

Tattered clouds above the sea
Taking on a breath-taking mixture of colours
Yellow orange in front, purple gray tales

Fluffy here and solid there
Living colours reflected
in the green of the deep sea

Part of me wanted to sing
But my mind ran out of words
Magical moments of amazing beauty

After 5 minutes it was gone
The dark clouds were dark again
The green sea had turned gray

The sky was still soft
I tried to close my eyes,
Focus on the sound of the waves

But the magic of the moment was gone
The colours had vanished
Leaving nothing behind but a memory

Nothing more than a memory
Nothing less than a memory
A memory to cherish

A memory of moments
Magical moments of amazing beauty
When will the next one come?

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... Mirror Marvel*

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A long stretch of wet sand
Exquisite watercolour
Bottomless pond of delicate blue sky
Deep inside, wool of clouds floating
below the tops of fine casuarinas
A wave is flooding the lovely canvas
Ripples move slowly away
to create another mirror marvel

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... The breeze*

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A warm welcoming wind
embraces me with endless caress.
The pores of my skin inhale the healing oxygen
I open my eyes but soon shut them back

My chest balloons like a barrel, overflowing with air
The tender goodness of the breeze soaks all of my cells
My mind is penning superlatives
while my spirit is lightly afloat

*Aufie Zophy*

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*Y... The Story of Why*

There was once a one-year old boy
He was playing with a knife as a toy
He was having a real great time
How nicely did his lovely knife shine

Then came the father, got the surprise of his life.
As fast as he could, he took away the dangerous knife
The boy felt treated unfair and started to cry
His pleasure ended abruptly, he didn't know why

His tiny mind was not developed enough
to understand that it was his father's love
that was the reason why the knife was taken away
No way he'd understand what happened that day



It is also impossible for any of us to understand
the why of a tsunami or sudden death of a friend
we can go as deep as we can, we can try
but we never will reach the true answer to why.

Just our human mind's capacity is far too small
for us to understand the ultimate reason of all
I believe a supreme reason exists for everything
Sometimes we just have to accept what is happening…

*Aufie Zophy*