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Best Centric Poems

Below are the all-time best Centric poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of centric poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Mind's Cornfield
The Mind’s Cornfield

Dreaming deeply on this dark, dank, frigid-cold night,
My spirit-body walks freely in this place of solitude—
The Mind’s Cornfield, where fantasy and reality are...

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Categories: centric, allegory, death, emotions, faith,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member Sad Seasonally Affective Disorder
SAD Seasonally Affective Disorder

Some are prone to depression in winter when days get shorter when
less light enters the brain through the eyes and thoughts become...

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Categories: centric, conflict,
Form: Light Verse
The Riders
The pre-dawn stillness was temporarily broken by the sound of crunching gravel as boots meet rock like an orchestra of timpani drums,  beating in...

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Categories: centric, adventure,
Form: Prose
River of Time
Endless Days and Centric Tales
A clock that’s frozen, its purpose failed
A change of pace and a constant flow
The Great River of Time, sluggish and slow

Stuck...

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Categories: centric, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zen Mode
a memory trigger
which we never knew of
in active cognition
crystallises before us
seeking our indulgence
but why would we oblige
beyond giving it a nod
of recognition
before we flow on
where...

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Categories: centric, love, memory, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Judgmental Eye
Egocentric, engaged in games of one-upmanship
I developed a jaundiced and judgmental eye
Over time, losing over mind-body my grip

Belied expectations oft made heart sigh
My reflex response...

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Categories: centric, judgement, love, spiritual,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Heartbroken
Our heart is where desires arise
and where they are in time resolved
but since we cling to wisps of smoke,
we remain in our dreams involved.

Seeking love...

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Categories: centric, heart, love, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Have we seen God
Is not God a concept, till we see Him?
How will memorising scriptures assist?
Conditioned beliefs make our soul’s light dim.
Love alone is real and that’s life’s...

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Categories: centric, god, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Kenosis
“Life pulse renews, radiating bliss hues ~
Bliss elixir sublime, becomes heart’s muse”
            ~ quote...

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Categories: centric, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
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: centric, 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: centric, culture, earth, humor, integrity,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Our Town
In my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses 
incarnated all the green organic dreams 
of the food righteousness brigade,

Eternal...

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Categories: centric, community, culture, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Whole Earth Patriotism
What is patriotism?

Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health care integrity?

What is nationalism?

Usually positive values about monocultural 
monotheistic
monopolistic identity,
but I guess...

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Categories: centric, beauty, culture, growth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Fire God Speaks Out
Angry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"

Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that...

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Categories: centric, culture, destiny, fire, health,
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: centric, nature, philosophy, political, psychological,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs