Featured Poet - Rob Sienna
#940: INTO CONFLICT SEEING
Leaving behind tribulations
Sailing on a peaceful sea
Sensing understated kindness
Brewing deep inside of me
No destructive lunacy
Taking on clarity
Integrating mirthfulness
A welcome cool inside me
Anxieties caboosed
Complexities diminished
Coming to a satisfying
Groundedness I'm sure
Processing a yogic calm
Into Conflict Seeing
Thinking before doing discomboobulated things
Able to articulate
Ascertain clearly
Over dreary or unwanted misperceptions
Holding sway
Not choked off or poopy
Rising up a joyful way
To thrive and glow
In spite of blocks to positivitay
Into Conflict Seeing
Finished with wrongheaded corrosive misconceptions
Soaring to the highest height
A groove so smoove
It sparkles bright
Into Conflict Seeing
#971.5: MORE SANITY
I.
Attack the problem not the person
There below the harvest moon
Pilobolus philosophizes
Far away from doom and gloom
Porting into everyday
A goodness that mushrooms
Hopeful smarts pave the way
To a better plank
Understanding
Not demanding
Gangway no more jank
Attack the problem not the person
Transcendent soul aglow
Arriving at a healing zone
Lifted by
More Sanity
II.
Attack the problem not the person
Rise up having met
Each phantasmic enemy
Move on past that threat
Attack the problem not the person
Welcoming More Sanity
Finding inspiration
Without hesitation
Awash in newfound insights
Owing to More Sanity
Loping down a path to love
Lit by gleaming stars above
Triumphant riffing reassurance
Coolness and More Sanity
Attack the problem not the person
#959: GROUNDED WARMTH
Sensitivity is sweet &
Real in his heart
Aims for shameless understanding
Banks on equanimity
Feeling stuff inside
Touched by positivity
Trying to adjust
Aligning deepest soul
Glowingly kerchannels
Grounded Warmth
#1115: A HEALTHY SENSE OF CLARITY
Caustic Paranoia
I cling to it no more
Busting through confusion
In nowheresville no more
Going off to better spaces
Welcoming some smarts
I understand and recognize
No need to avert my eyes
No more janky jitters
No paralyzing fear
A Healthy Sense of Clarity
Hitting sweet spots here
Pushing past delusion
Hope replacing hopelessness
A Healthy Sense of Clarity
The morbidness of rank suspicion
No room for that here
Hellish chaos and confusion
Happily that's nowhere near
A Healthy Sense of Clarity
Even crystal balls appear
To show a forthright and life changing
Soulful liberation
Harmoniously busting free
A Healthy Sense of Clarity
#1356.5: AN EVEN KEELED CLARITY OF MIND
An Even Keeled Clarity
In unexpected ways I see
The undeniability of love
Compassion and forgiveness dance
Lending me a second chance
Aspirations that deliver
Balanced functions to my liver
Peristalsis cedes to me
An Even Keeled Clarity
Encountering this cozy feel
Like an otter or a seal
Bathing in some sun caked stream
Making peace with humankind
Inhabiting a space divine
Beamed right off a bridge
Between this moment and all time
An Even Keeled Clarity of Mind
#926.9: LOVING LIFE ASSIDUOUSLY HEALS A WOUNDED HEART, PART III
Busting through a golden way
No more trapped or locked away
Standing tall pushing through
An inability to see
Plunkett there with inner child
Waxing fancy free
In a sun drenched meadow
Wild flowers beckon
Not defensive
Not forlorn
Holding to no blockage
Closing in on revelations
With a distinct flair
Welcoming the biggest brightest
Bestest sparkle anywhere
Stealing through a secret door
Realizing with a start
Loving Life Assiduously
Heals a Wounded Heart
ABOUT ROB
Rob is a writer and artist who has suffered first-hand the consequences of the American society’s systemic disconnect with, and mistreatment of the natural world. Rob has studied and taught writing at several universities, and has toured North America as a solo singer-songwriter. His ethos is to investigate, discover and share meaningful, potentially rewarding revelations and spiritual insight - discoveries intended to improve the human condition, help others to manage, to better balance and grow a healthier more vibrant cultural community. His work has appeared in hundreds of literary journals, including Poetry New Zealand, The Feathertale Review, Chronogram, The Seattle Review, and The Pacific Review. Each poem is uniquely numbered, hinting at the vastness of Sienna's prolific oeuvre, which includes well over thirteen hundred stories, songs, and videos. Rob Sienna's manuscript "Into Ceaseless Headwinds" is currently looking for a publisher.
