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Best Analogical Poems

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Eggspiration Date - An Epitaph-Analogical Epigram
Sir Humpteath Dumpteath sateth on a wall
Poor Master Humpteath tooketh a great fall

Arsenic was foundeth in his coffee cup
Thus here resteths Humpteath - sunnyside UP!



For...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogical, funny
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: analogical, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Two Wrongs Worth a Right
Today, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and...

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Categories: analogical, culture, earth, humor, integrity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member New Beginnings
Today we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic 
of Synergetic Steerage.

"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need...

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Categories: analogical, nature, philosophy, political, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Why Life
Why does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings 
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of...

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Categories: analogical, adventure, earth, earth day,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Father Time's Interview
Hi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form...

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Categories: analogical, allegory, earth, environment, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightening Systems
"Overcoming misleading [economic and political] metaphors
that are physically [naturally, ecosystemically, phylogenically] in [and of] 
your [ecological-organic embodied] brain
is never easy."
     ...

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Categories: analogical, blessing, humor, math, mentor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Love of Wisdom: Philosophy
Why isn't philosophy written most wisely
also poetic verse,
both-and analogical ecology?

While classic philosophic historians
continue this great debate
about which is most important,
truth or beauty?
this same political philosophy...

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Categories: analogical, beauty, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Life Science Lessons
I said to my prodigal son
who stole from me,
it is not competitive economic strategies
that dominantly empower life;

Competitive ecologies and economies 
are dominantly decomposing monocultures,
just the...

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Categories: analogical, addiction, life, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:

In ordinary traditional thinking we...

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Categories: analogical, culture, earth, education, happiness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Practicing Positive Psychology
Today we hear Positive Psychology is hot.
To not agree is to be both negative,
and a snot;
too cognitively dissonant
arrogant
and dino-snore-a-lot.

When your loved one tells you,
for the...

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Categories: analogical, appreciation, integrity, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Melting Ice
Step out with me,
if you would be so kind,
on my melting island of ice.

Full-heated summer sun
feels good on our backs and shoulders
and faces turned down...

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Categories: analogical, culture, earth, god, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Fr Time's Ambiguous Content
Fr. Time, are you a monopolistic universalist?

Yes, but an integratively polycultural universalist.

Are you a Yangian outgoing kinda guy?

Yes, but in an internally YinYin balancing
kind of...

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Categories: analogical, destiny, earth, humor, identity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member World Wide Wisdom Web
Wisdom, 
like the World Wide Web, 
derives from decomposing endosymbiotic (internal) cooperative-dominant evolution 
of biosystems as Beloved EcoSystems,
but Enlightenment, 
diastatic nondual consciousness, 
survives only co-arising...

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Categories: analogical, beauty, math, philosophy, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resonating Rightbrain Politics
Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe...

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Categories: analogical, beauty, environment, health, political,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things