Samples of my poetry / Brief snippets.

Every person has a different view on life and poets are inspired to record theirs for others. 

The purpose of imagery in poetry is to help get the message across in language that is strong, vivid, and very visual. The poet will use words to create images in our heads that help us to interpret the poem. 

Ancient yet eternal truths are to be found for those who look deep and go within to verify what is shared.

These poetic tales are a metaphor for life and living what mystics say is an illusory world created by the mind of man. Here, thought and feeling combine and are said to come into being as the experience of life. 

We are not what we think ourselves to be. We are not separate. We are all one consciousness and we make our world.

This we have forgotten and now struggle to find answers as to how we arrived here, and why?  These poems contain stories of the many adventures and experiences of manifested man. 

You may consider this a fantasy adventure from spirit to being human. 

Life as we perceive it is a result of our thoughts and beliefs. An expression of our energy being made apparently real. 

Is it possible that mind creates reality simply by imagining?

People throughout all time, Mystic, sages, saints, and those  who have had documented near-death experiences confirm it. We are far more than we appear to be.

We are all one. 

Poetry’s purpose is essentially to help us understand the world around us. It endeavors to show us things anew that we may have previously taken for granted. It offers us new perspectives on the familiar. 

These poems are a tale (a download) told by one who has come to know and identify with the spirit-self.  Take a metaphysical look at life on earth experienced through the eyes of spirit. 

Our experience in this relative reality depends on our state of consciousness. 

We must return to the higher truth or forgotten awareness that we are all eternal beings, here to co-create in this form domain. 

You are consciousness.

When you consider yourself separate, It seems your connection is severed. Through these poems we will examine the result of having a belief where everything is perceived to be separate and independent, having its own independent inherent existence. 

You cannot move toward a true unity and therefore a peaceful existence until this perceived separation is restored. That is the fundamental task that all of us now face. Not the external trappings, but the inner being. 

Through these poems we will see what it is for infinite eternal being to experience life in form from different perspectives.

It is my hope that you might examine these writings and decide for yourself if they are worthy of your interest.

About The Author

My name is Bernard Ballard and this is my story. From my earliest memory I have always had a strong desire to know about the deeper things in life. During my youth I spent many years reading and studying the religious concepts from my home religion which is Christianity. 

 
While in college I was introduced to philosophy and with that the eastern religions and spiritual traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. For years I have studied the mystics and anything I could get my hands on to get as broad a view of spiritual ideas and concepts as possible. 

In the year 2000, I was introduced to yoga as a direct way to search out truth from a totally different way of knowing. By going within. I also began a study of metaphysics which seemed to be in line with what the mystics referred to as awareness or consciousness.

 
I am fascinated by what science has to say about the nature of reality, beginning with classical Newtonian physics, what Einstein had to say about relativity, and  discoveries in quantum physics which speaks of a connectedness of all things. 

Quantum physics demonstrates that all things in the physical universe are entangled. That all is one at the most elementary level of existence, a paradox. This is the opposite of what it seems to be in ordinary life experiences. 

That is what these poems are about. 

What triggered the writing? 

As a way to improve my writing skills I began attending writer workshops and retreats that stressed meditating, and then writing immediately with the prompt of an idea, or a story which was shared by the host. The only requirement being that you could not stop and think about what you wished to write. Simply write as fast as possible, not taking time to think about what you wanted to say. A sort of automatic writing began to happen.  

I had never read the classics or studied poetry. I can’t really explain how I am able to do this. I simply wake up in the middle of the night hearing a phrase repeating in my head. I keep a pad and paper at my bedside so that I immediately get up and write what I am hearing.

This is how nearly all these poems have come into being. Some seem to be nonsense. I assure you they are not. These poems shake the foundation of my understanding of the fabric of reality. 

We truly do not know the true nature of this objective reality. Nor do we know the truth of who we really are.