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Poems of the

Second Coming

by

Ian Robert Crawford


Published by Finite Publishing at Smashwords

Copyright 2010 Ian Robert Crawford


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I dedicate this book to

The Spiritual Aspect of Life


POET’S RECIPE

I would like to lovingly thank Alison, my muse, whose essence inspired me to access the literary libraries of poetic potential available from within the annals of the Great Unconscious, and so meld these words together in

the matrimonial metre of spiritually positive verse which ushers forth in this anthology. Then, with the tentacles of Karma removing this Divinely convened connection, my fellow spiritual siblings have assisted me in

continuing on to the completion of ‘Poems Of The Second Coming’.


Dorothy, Vicki, Heather and numerous others have been paramount in my journey’s application, and then Mandy and Renae have kneaded the final layer to this consciousness cake, whilst Marion has added the icing by

arranging these words precisely in format for presentation for publishing.


I also wish to qualify that the God to whom I refer in my words, is the Creator, the All That Is, the Source, and not the contrived to control God of those who wish to manipulate, and so steer humanity into the materialistic mire of possession via the ‘third dimensional family religions’ encrusted in political dogma.

And then to my family, great gratitude and love, for without whom I would not be. To my sister Jodie, for completing this final arrangement. As well, my many thanks to Kim Aitken for her inspired art work which has

embraced the essence of what these words entail, thereby appropriately portraying picture to paper and enhancing the spiritual theme of my work. Also, I would like to thank my sister Julianne for co-ordinating all.

~Ian


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Who Are You

A Cycle to be Born

One (Beyond Illusion)

Unconditional

Choice: Abyss or Bliss

Deliverance

God's Plan

Phoenix Rising

Karma: You Can't Hide From Yourself

The Final Answer

By Choice, The Final Curtain

Please God, I Am Blinded

Life's Journey

The Road to Everywhere

The Shelf of Understanding

The Question to be Answered

Oneniqueness

The Mirrors of Life

All That is Love

Soul Surrender

From Tempest to Heaven

Aspire to Know, The Story of Life

Connecting to the Garden of Eden

Journey Through Illusion to Truth

Life's Higher Education

Know Who You Are (All is as it is Meant to Be)

Controlling Life's Choices

A Call from Heaven

For Humanity, A Brand New Start

One Us

To Remember Who We Are ( A Parable of Life's Flow)

To Climb on the Ladder of Existence

The Chessboard of Life

Understanding the Journey

The Ultimate Entertainment

One Infinite Eternal Soul

The Game That is the Tree Of Life

Floating Down the River Inside

Soul Dance

Staying Afloat

Earthly Angels Return

Strive for Bestowing Bliss

The Focus ( Beyond the Physical )

The Irony Horse

Seeking To Read Your Menu

The Time Is Now

The Way ( Unlocking Our Measure of Divine Destiny )

One's Journey Through Illusion

The Chords of Attachment

To Live All That Is: The Energy of the Festive Season

Should One Ascend Together

Satisfying The Hunger with TLC

To Allow: The Duty Divine Wisdom Duly Dictates

Life

What Will Be Will Be


WHO ARE YOU

One’s lives on this Earth are many and varied

As we climb toward our highest knowing

While time flows by in eternal existence

Are we always unconsciously ever growing.

To rise above the plane of material wealth

Washed with emotions of avarice and yearning

Must surely be this journey we have entered upon

Unconditional Love born of sharing and caring.

In each little universe within Nature’s realm

May we see if we open our eyes

All that we are here truly striving for

Divine Oneness under ever expanding skies.

The answers are written in Earthly faces

For us to read beyond the facade we blindly see

And finally connect with that ultimate wisdom

Of just who we are and what we are meant to be.


A CYCLE TO BE BORN

Why do human words echo hollow meaning

To a lifetime of persistence, left alone,

‘Cause karmic control duly leads to the edge

Of infatuation stricken emotions, unbeknown.

In a world yet obscured by the arms of a Lover

From incarnations where one’s been hurt to the core

Just sail on carefully amidst these rapids of life

Allow Divine Hands to guide you safely to your shore.

Could a muse once alluded to, be the soul’s connection

With reality, and existence one’s reserved

Though seem’ly hidden by desire in this physical age

Remove the shades to reveal the purpose you serve.

Come cradle your craft and prepare for explosion

As abundance Divinely showers the Earth

Now by giving one’s away to help those in need

Shall we cycle through Gardens of Eden and birth.


ONE (BEYOND ILLUSION)

Though the road may be rough and the journey ever long

Just listen and you’ll know your path to take

‘Cause on this chosen trek to remembering

Shall we climb, and duly find our Pearly Gate.

The carousel keeps on spinning in this fantasy parade

As time again we are born to learn

While illusion keeps its’ hold on our daily existence

Are we steered from making that enlightened turn.

Yet still caught in the glamour of fame and fortune

Supreme tests that we may, or perhaps not, accept

Now down this road might we discover the remains

Of ourselves, from time’s past, we forget.

So unite my brothers, unite my sisters

For we are each kindred spirits at heart

In the ultimate, universal scheme of being

Are we all born of that One Divine Spark.


UNCONDITIONAL

When the world falls down all around you

And your being feels hollow inside

Just listening to your heart with its’ letters

Will the sacred self know where to reside.

If one sings in duet on this journey

But the words to the tune are not there

Then heed your wisest intuition

To find the rhyme that allows your harmony, repair.

Now search your soul ever deeply

For it’s the map that shows you your way

When the ups and downs all join together

Will the choice become clear where to stay.

The answers, with wisdom, are waiting

In berths along the endless wall

Once you realise this feeling is unconditional

The knowing is in the heart, to call.


CHOICE: ABYSS OR BLISS

Understand, if you will, your life’s destiny

‘Cause it’s written in the pages of time

For the Divine Creator has duly delivered to us

All the answers, on our sacred journey, to unwind.

Now the lessons, by design, will unfold for you

And with wisdom you’ll be shown the way

So listen to the messages that by chance seem sent

Then hear what your inner knowing has to say.

Each energy, incarnate, in our God’s creation

Has the knowledge of who they are meant to be

But while caught and taught by material reins

Will we struggle, unfulfilled, to be free.

Must we choose it all again like we’ve done before

Since here, many simply nurture the abyss

Though others, more enlightened by the road revealed

Walk their path, Divinely bathed, in bliss.


DELIVERANCE

In our growth to salvation on Life’s journey

And to be blessed with sacred meaning inside

Must we rise above our mortal undertakings

To live as the Godself resides.

Now we draw to us trials and tribulations

For this pathway is no other’s but our own

All the joys and grief that we ask for

Are the tests which enable us to return home.

The Garden of Eden awaits in silence

Amidst mortal frenzies to question but endure

Now if one looks within the answers will be shown to us

If they flow from a heart that is pure.

Only Divine Wisdom applied to Life’s situations met

Shall stand firm against karmic retribution

As this facade to which the physical is bound

Is nought but a world of illusion.

So listen to the words which speak to you

Universal truth is born of the Sun

Once we’re aware, in our knowing, Love enfolds us

Will we finally come together as one.


GOD’S PLAN

From out of the past and in the present we know

Have we been drawn together to enhance our healing flow

Over many lifetimes have our spirits combined

Giving souls, so closely tuned, a special glow

As we feel this Divine connection mould the focus to within

Then arrive at the gateway God has given to us all

For the answers are the fruit of a fertile knowing

From each seed, Divinely planted, to recall

Now reap the reward as the harvest is presented

To the mind yet unconditioned by mortal man

So to reach our primal goal of prophetic understanding

Must we gather and release each burden as we can

And then to freely share together in a peace-found Paradise

Is to finally know that we are One in God’s plan.


PHOENIX RISING

From out of the ashes of complete decimation

Is the phoenix now rising for you

Though the one road’s been less travelled since the recording of time

Shall illusion now make way for what is true.

In lower realms have th’ tests been applied for many

To move beyond where we need not have been

Now as the Phoenix clears the screen of Life’s misperceptions

Might we experience what we may have already seen.

So Divine direction is the Phoenix in mortal clothing

Just take heed when your path to you is shown

For all the Earthly lures of self majesty

Are but reminders we’ve forgotten what we’ve always known.

Then rise with the Phoenix, the world is waiting

Yet the answers have been hidden, from birth

Just tear down this facade we’ve been lingering through

And open the door to higher dimensions of Earth.


KARMA: YOU CAN’T HIDE FROM YOURSELF

Know your actions on this journey cannot escape you

For all lifetimes will you be held to recount

All the deeds you have shown no care to own

But the Divine still holds your soul to account

As the Universe will always wield the wisdom

That makes you aware of the ultimate price

Of action ‘n’ reaction you cannot hide from

‘Til the time when you finally realise

This life holds your all to ransom

There is no escape from the deals you have dealt

Just wear all the words you have spoken

And kneel beside where your emotions have been felt

Then the Creator

Shall always see you through eyes which are of the Sun

So no more can you hide from the knowing inside,

that All is eternally One.


THE FINAL ANSWER

Oh Lord clear this debris from around me

Then sever all the lingering ties

From this facade the ego has so lovingly built

To keep me prisoner in my own demise.

Please awaken me God and trigger your knowledge

That I might understand what I am meant to know

After these hardships in Paradise is there truly a way


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