Best Begetting Poems
Rain Begetting LightningLittle fields have big fields
Upon their backs to bite 'em,
And big fields have bigger fields
And so ad infinitum.
(Alan Watts, 1966)
Little systems have open systems
Upon their boundaries to bite 'em,
And open systems have ecological metasystems
And so ad infinitum.
Within systems have withouting systems
Upon our boundaries to right...
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Categories:
begetting, environment, light, math, philosophy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
I, Zombie, Part 0: the BegettingA horror is born
Star of the show, The Zombie
Go and break a leg…
One, seemingly whole
Sound in mind, body and soul
Unaware the toll
The exacting price
Sins of the genetic splice
Specters claim last rights
Starts off slow and sure
Sneaking in through the back door
The Monster is born
It takes hold...
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Categories:
begetting, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form:
Haiku
Begetting ViolenceLiving in a world that has slowly gone mad
Child with a gun shot mom and dad
Life shouldn't be a bitter pill
Child shouldn't live with the urge to kill
World is shocked and reasons sought
Child's just doing what he's taught
Mom's shooting up just down the hall
Child's reaching...
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Categories:
begetting, social,
Form:
BegettingDaylight bleeds its seeds.
A nightly womb
is again inseminated.
The day was hurried
it pulled out too early.
Dawn is a dead lamb
in the snow.
Tomorrow we will seek
new ways
into those legends
wherein,
Gods birth humans....
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Categories:
begetting, poetry,
Form:
Free verse