George Krokos

George Krokos, 30 december 2011

The Wheel Of Time

The wheel of time is like a giant clock
in this circular physical world
and its spokes are the second,
minute and hour hands that
continuously seem to move within it
and propel it forward in one direction
as perceived through the hub of our awareness
which witnesses the recuring phenomenon
and flux of life in its various stages of 
birth, youth, maturity, old age and death.
What of the afterlife and rebirth then?
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George Krokos

George Krokos, 30 december 2011

The Phenomenon Of Love

It's now time to say goodbye and bid each other farewell
we may yet see one another again perhaps, who can tell?
The paths of our life often cross over familiar ground
and so in the days of our lives those memories hound.

How sweet life seems when everything goes well
but when misfortune strikes it becomes like hell.
The experience of life always has an opposite side
and things we once valued most no longer provide.

When we turn our back to love the heart inside us does shrink
and the vacuum created there will cause many to reach a brink.
In certain matters of love we're all found to be a little wanting
but then the true object of all our love is the most demanding.

If love comes our way the world seems full of joy
and each moment feels as if it's a wonderful ploy.
The grace of love is quite blissful while it does last
and the pleasure of the beloved is the main repast.

Everyone in the world has at least one tale of love to recite
regardless even of their situation and any condition despite.
Whether it be one of woe that only brings sadness to the heart
or one that's joyful relating of lovers who are no longer apart.

The phenomenon of love is the story of an ever ongoing human saga
with a broken or joyous heart many people sing about as their raga.
Its consumation lies in the fulfilment of love with lover and beloved
and the glory of this end only those brave enough have discovered.


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George Krokos

George Krokos, 27 december 2011

The Bee's Song

I’m a busy bee
can’t you see?
that whatever I do
is for the honey due.

I habitually fly all around from tree to flowers
usually during the warmth of the sunny hours,
and when I’ve gathered as much as I can carry
I fly quickly away back home and do not tarry.

I gather nectar and bring it home
and in this task I’m not ever alone.
In doing my daily work I’m so pre-occupied
I can’t really afford to just sit around inside.

I live in a hive with drones of my kind serving a sovereign queen
and together we all go about our daily business being very keen.
We’re generally praised very highly for the work that we do
as it is our unique nature to make honey from morning dew.


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George Krokos

George Krokos, 27 december 2011

Within Us

Within us is the power to create, preserve and destroy
but which is the power that we all do most employ?
We are all struggling to gain that which we know
will give all the knowledge and strength to show;
what we imagine ourselves to be perhaps or wish to express
in this world of name and form where nothing lasts I confess.

Each person has their aspirations and cherished dreams
yet very few are they who have realised them it seems.
All that is to be had is acquired a little at a time
going in the right direction we achieve our prime.
If we come across too much too soon we may get lost
and possessing it all will be a burden or unknown cost.

When we know ourselves to be what we really are
we experience our true nature like a shining star
that shines in the dark and sheds its light upon all
irrespective of their condition be they great or small.
To get to this state we must plunge deep within our being
and fetch the pearl of great price that's most worth seeing.


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George Krokos

George Krokos, 27 december 2011

Butterfly

Fly O butterfly fly in the clear and sunny day
Fly about in freedom in your haphazard way.
Fly onto colourful flowers and plants giving sustenance away
Fly as only you know how and live to see and fly another day.

Such a creature that you are and so very delicately made
A marvel of creation clothed in colours which do persuade.
What a contrast there is while you're motionless to that when you're in flight
A splendid example of nature to which all the credit is due allowing this sight.

Although you have your own season and have much with which to display
You're only here for a short time and like to make the most of it each day.
With angelic-like wings of splendour it seems you fly around effortlessly
From one area to another wherever your discretionary whim takes thee.

You are a creature of metamorphosis or the product and result of transforming change
Could this be the reason why that beauteous form of yours covers such a broad range?
For in the life-span which has been allotted to you a rare beauty you've now become
An exemplar of harmonious existence with nature that is evidently a hobby for some.

In the whole wide world there's hardly a creature that bears any resemblance to you
And it's only in your rather less noble relation the moth there's some semblance true.
You're verily also a creature that appears to revel in broad daylight
Though your cousin is mainly one who usually abounds in the night.

And you have wings that are mostly poised upright behind you when in rest
While those of your kindred are but lowly hung and only widespread at best.
It also occurs to me you're more refined and sensitive by birthright than your relation
As you're the one who avoids flying headlong into objects and get the most adulation.

Fly O butterfly fly and may you find your happy mate
Fly to where love takes you and wandering does sate.
Fly all around to every place in your naturally free and delightful state
Fly as only you know how and live to share with all that eventful fate.


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George Krokos

George Krokos, 26 december 2011

Ode To Beauty

Ah, beauty! you command so much of our love and respect
but are you in reality like that we have all come to expect?
You always stand out naturally amidst certain things we find
being made of the stuff which captivates our heart and mind.

On appearance you’re exquisite and demand our admiration
and usually have to be handled with care and consideration.
It’s because of you we all become overwhelmed with desire
but if we’re thwarted by indifference we burn in love’s fire.

The world knows where you belong and tries to keep you there
far above all the rest by acknowledging your artistry and flair.
You’re that which it most easily succumbs to without any fuss
because you possess and provide all the appropriate stimulus.

Throughout the ages you have been recognised and adored
and it’s no wonder that with you we seldom ever get bored.
In nature you share a high place besides eternity’s throne,
but to see you as you really are one has to witness it alone.

You tend to take up so much of our time we hardly realise
that you’re the only one which we’ve come to truly idolize.
In our efforts to always possess you we’re usually led astray
and undergo many sacrifices in all our life to make you stay.

What you really are though few have ever come to suspect
let alone truly know how to gain what you offer or collect.
As you come in so many forms we look for you everywhere
and if we happen to find you we’re burdened with much care.

Even in our wildest imagination we can’t forget or ever leave you be
and it seems that you’re the one thing in life we all would like to see.
The truth of the matter is that you really don’t belong to just anyone
and if anyone claims you as their own they spoil everyone else’s fun.

It’s only for a period of time though we appreciate your outward form
as it is either we or you that time gets the better of which is the norm.
If there be an Infinite and Ageless Beauty you’re the temporary expression of
please convey the highest praise and adoration that I can give - my pure love.


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George Krokos

George Krokos, 23 december 2011

Human Resposibility

When will the members of the human race
help to make this world into a better place?
Because lately it seems to be getting worse
as if it is under some kind of damned curse.

Most of what we hear these days is bad news!
It’s almost as if there’s nothing else to choose.
The good we have all known belongs to the past
and so the present or future is viewed as aghast.

The actions all people do give an indication of that
regardless of any good ideological debate or chat.
The transition of ideas and thoughts to actions or deeds
is just like the sowing of a future crop by planting seeds.

If the seeds used are of a poor quality it will matter much
even though more time is spent cultivating them by touch.
That’s why it’s better to do things properly right from the start
as time brooding over what could have been won’t help in part.
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George Krokos

George Krokos, 23 december 2011

Rock Bottom

Sometimes we hear about people reaching rock bottom
and this seems to be a place in the depths of despair.
All the paths in their life which they have most trodden
unfortunately only helped deceive and get them there.

When people say or do things on the spur of the moment
without much thought for the consequences that follow,
they are unknowingly plunging themselves into a foment
that inevitably increases to the point or feeling of sorrow.

If we all look back at those years of our life past
there’s likely to be found at some point in time there
we’ve subjected ourselves to this unpleasant blast
and so recall then vaguely we didn’t take much care.

It can be also a case of living beyond ones means
and being involved in some form of personal abuse
where we’re thinking too much of ourselves it seems
or disregarding those things we should not misuse.

Rock bottom is a place which feels hard and rough to land in
that from there we can only look up at those looking down.
No wonder it resembles in name a rocky sea or pool bottom in
which if anyone stays too long there they are likely to drown.
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George Krokos

George Krokos, 23 december 2011

Poets And Writers Unite (For The Good Of The World)

May all fellow poets and writers of the whole world unite
to show the flame of inspiration is now still burning bright.
We’re also aware of the fact that the pen is mightier than the sword
and that with inspired verses or stories people will never get bored.

The world as it is now is on the brink of collapse
and so with our literary efforts we should not lapse.
We all have the power to change the world for the better
let us unite to speak and write with one motion together.

So many times in the past humanity has been laid low
because of its negligence to conscience writings show.
There are certain things written and handed down from the past
that indicate the way we’re heading now these days are our last.

We must set the example of truth, righteousness and love
which will assure us to get much needed help from above.
There is no real limit to what we all can achieve
if we stand together and each other don’t deceive.

We are all one big family that is now struggling to survive
so in doing what we can to help one another we will thrive.
With our collective efforts we must turn the situation around
and at the same time keep both our feet firmly on the ground.

For the good of the whole world then we must move forward
and stop the current trend of mankind from plunging toward,
the depths and fires of hell it has been to many times before
as it ignores the inner voice of conscience prior to another fall.
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there's a vast world...., Quatrain 116 - There's good and bad wherever...., Simple Observation 105 - Whatever there is above can be seen......., Simple Observation 103 - There are so many things...., Universal Maintenance, Quatrain 114 - Without God as the center......, Quatrain 111 - "To be or not to be?"..., Simple Observation 101 - All life is an experience..., Simple Observation 99 - When opportunity knocks..., Australiana, Simple Observation 97 - There are so many people..., Simple Observation 94 - All throughout the course..., Quatrain 109 - Life was really meant to be easy..., Quatrain 107 - The Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ..., The Most Sought After Thing, Quatrain 106 - The Divine Essence bestows..., Quatrain 104 - Familiarity does often..., Simple Observation 92 - In the infinitude of God's..., Simple Observation 89 - Something which is quite easily gained..., We All Have To Move On, Simple Observation 87 - The old usually has to..., Simple Observation 85 - All language is a..., Quatrain 101 - When ignorance still reigns..., Quatrain 99 - In this world...., The Time Will Come, Simple Observation 83 - People who have learnt to...., Simple Observation 82 - A fisherman casts his net out in..., Quatrain 97 - The ocean waves..., Quatrain 95 - All that we do have...., Simple Observation 81 - In perspective ...., Simple Observation 80 - Remove the cause of....., Quatrain 93 - With all of the technology...., Quatrain 91 - The tongue has no bones yet..., Simple Observation 78 - Someone who comes close to our heart...., Simple Observation 76 - Some things which have...., Quatrain 89 - We are all caught up in a..., Quatrain 87 - For whatsoever reason we do...., A Creature Of Habit, Simple Observation 74 - Forever is really just..., Simple Observation 73 - Our life in the body has to..., Quatrain 85 - There are records that we keep..., Quatrain 83 - Look steadily within at..., Collecting Pebbles, Simple Observation 71 - So much of our life is wasted ....., Simple Observation 69 - If obstacles always persist ....., Quatrain 81 - What is it that's the most ...., Quatrain 79 - Isn't it better really ...., A God Of Pain, Simple Observation 66 - Whatever good there may be hidden...., Simple Observation 64 - The fruits of our life..., Quatrain 76 - When the light of Love and..., Quatrain 73 - Do not ever lose hope..., The Seed And The Tree, Simple Observation 63 - The gifts and treasures of the Spirit..., Simple Observation 61 - Only someone who knows can impart..., Quatrain 72 - Where do you look, dear friend ..., Quatrain 71 - If and whenever in life...., Only Through The Heart And Eyes Of True Love, Simple Observation 59 - From one place to another......., Simple Observation 57 - Someone who thinks a lot may..., Quatrain 67 - Aim to achieve a worthy goal........, Quatrain 65 - God is within me and...., Universal Freedom Is....., Simple Observation 55 - There are more things in heaven and earth..., Simple Observation 53 - On the road to achievement..., Quatrain 62 - The book of the heart and soul...., Quatrain 60 - The Cause of God is...., Ode To Inspiration, Simple Observation 51 - In the workings of nature..., Simple Observation 49 - Where there's a difference of opinion..., Quatrain 56 - The light of true knowledge..., Quatrain 55 - Come, tell me...,

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