Best Conserving Poems


Premium Member Love City Of Mississauga POTD


L ove the magnificent city, our peaceful, caring abode for years!
O verlooking waterfront of Credit river flowing into Lake Ontario -
V isually appealing beaches entertain with amazing views,
E nchanting forests with tall trees protect fauna and flora around!

C ity of flourishing culture - arts, sports encouraged with equal enthusiasm
I nspiring togetherness among little children, teenagers, youth
T o try their best and thrive in academics, follow their passions,
Y ou will find Mississauga the safest place to live with no hesitation !

O pulent gorgeous parks and gardens for citizens to enjoy,
F abulous museums, art centres, libraries to appreciate!

M ississauga has cordially welcomed the world to its cradle ~
I ndigenous community left a valuable legacy,
S afety of wildlife a primary focus in this vibrant city,
S preading awareness of conserving environment earnestly. 
I ntegration highly nurtured, values of diverse communities
S incerely appreciated by residents, supported and shared, 
S ending positive vibes - unlimited energy and soaring dreams!
A city of multiculturalism wins the hearts of multitude ~
U nbelievable history of showing immense gratitude, 
G reatest appealing lifestyle surrounded by bountiful nature,
A stounding picturesque scenery invites soulful creativity!

Premium Member Dolphins

Out of all the creatures that live in the sea
There is only one that stands out for me
Cute looking and grey and on it's back a fin
You have probably guessed, it is the dolphin.

I'll describe them in detail so in your mind you can see 
I will do my best to create some imagery
They grow eight foot long; have a tail and a fin
And a flipper on each side that helps them to swim.

A pod or a school is what you would call their group
They can do backward flips and loop the loop
Their food source is found in all the world's oceans
There's squid, small fish, plankton and crustaceans.

With cute slit eyes and a skin of silky grey
You can swim with them, but you'll have to pay
There are many now living in captivity
Now surely thats wrong , they all should be free.


Half of their brain stays awake when they go to sleep
Thats to prevent them from drowning when they're in the deep
They use echolocation, scientists have found
And thats how they know how to find their way around.

Sometimes they seem to jump up vertically
Spy-hop thats called so their surroundings they see
They sometimes follow ships and swim alongside
They're conserving their energy, they call that bow-ride.

The favourite is the bottlenose but there are others as well
Some species of dolphins in big rivers do dwell
They are very intelligent and awesome to see
And very beautiful creatures, I'm sure you'll agree.

To see them swim in the ocean is a beautiful sight
So keep your eyes peeled and one day you might
The first time that I saw one, I was just a child
In a movie called 'Flipper' sadly not in the wild.

Their habitat is changing and that's a tragedy
Because man is so selfish and pollutes the sea
And with careless fishing some do not survive
So solutions must be found so that dolphins can thrive.
                
Written on 15th January 2018.
Revised 15th February 2020
Entered into the 'Dolphins' poetry contest hosted by
Julie Leigh Rodeheaver.

The Medieval Glory

The era has many glorious phases and faces
when it began on the fall of the Roman empire
Age of Darkness seized war and fire
and time stirred diverse cultures and races

Different flavors were tasted at the end of the story
Commerce and knowledge became Europe's glory
but division of Germanic tribes was Roman's fall
and many emperor’s responded to religion's call

From Clovis to Louis was Christianism
Monks lives and prays in their monasteries
Socio-political systems such as manorialism and feudalism
gave way for peace and order to avoid miseries

The knights are nobilities that needs to pass every ordeal
with passion, poise, bravery, and their will 
to fight for their king, their land, and their brothers
no matter how far or how hard the battle offers

In closing of another chapter in history
the Church plans to retrieve their Holy Land
from the Muslim Turks they'll fight hand in hand
Pope Urban II leads the Crusade that led to tragedy

Children were used to touch hearts of stones
but it was the road for them to loose their soul and bones
There were nine crusades that were executed
but none of which did the land exalted

The effects are the weakening of feudalism
and the Church was shadowed with criticism
but it paved way for the innovation of agricultural technology
from conserving water to wind energy

The rise of the trade industry
strengthen the European economy
Fares are conducted by the feudal lords
traders are selling foods, arts, and swords

Truly, the Medieval Time will leave a trace
in history and in every human race
It became the cornerstone of the eras after
A foundation for another stone to be smoother


Premium Member Tainted..Desert

Tainted Desert
__________________

A Silent drift
traveling swift
rising out 
settled among your shout
down toward your colon
through the swollen
passing you by
I am why?
close call
solid wall
undo the sail 
giving tale
love and peace
shattered tease
laugh with smile
completely vile 
magnetic strength
$h!t your length
conserving water
needs get hotter
I fill my thirst
drain your energy 
stuck in my quicksand 
spitting out dirt
My tainted desert 
                                      .      
((by;p.d.))

Dedicated to N.D.  (( Perfect Ocean ))

Premium Member The California Poppy

Orange glowing in a field of green
Or along a mountain side.
Silky petals reach toward the sun
And dance in the spring breeze.
At night they cup their faces
Conserving strength for tomorrow.

Premium Member National Narcissism

Nationalism,
like other faces of narcissism,
multicultural cynicism speaks in ways devoid of integrity,
authenticity,
global transparency,
empathy,
active power and authority of and for,
from and toward, resiliently positive energy,
compassionate wealth of health,
resonant power,
regenerative EarthPassion,
more like internationalism,
like other faces of polycultural embrace
v monoculturism's attacks


Psychological, and yet political,
neurological, and yet also macro-economic,
ecological, but holistically E-CoOperative Networked,
messianic, yet also eco-bodhisattva theocratic,
non-violent commissions 
and enthusiastically non-sectarian sacred missions,
universal Yang with unitarian Yin truth with beauty principles,
LeftBrain bipolar, except within RightBrain dipolar, co-passioned,
ZeroSum secular Energy Resilience 
winning by also winning ZeroZone Light/Power sacred Source

Healthy paradigmatic systems 
re-engaging intuitively wealthy FlowPower,
Here co-arising not not Now, again reiterating
WinWin 4D space within ZeroSum bilateral time-range

Political and economic arts of proportion,
balance,
symmetry,
ego/eco-passion
informed by LeftBrain articulating rational sciences,
deep learning authentic nutritional values
for yang's egalitarian trust-conserving system strengths
with yin's compassionate energy/power,
liberally effluent, yet deductively efficient, resilience

Across full-color living canvases
dynamically revolutionary lyrics
indigenously positive deviant choreography,

Power and energy creation paradigms
multiculturing robust evolutionary health-flow charts
mapping effectively co-operative reverse-hierarchies,
eco-art cooperative therapies for political and economic ego sanctuary,
co-passionate expression
Left with Right,
West with East,
North with South
polypathic multicultural power/energy 
feeding ego's Earth CoPassion

Communicating across resonant bilaterals
far more resiliently than mere nationalistic
ballistic narcissism's 
short-term 
anti-empathic 
survival of the not fit-iningest diverse non-violent health strategies,
integrity policies,
non-partisan procedures,
non-sectarian passions.


Eco Friendly Vehicles

ECO FRIENDLY VEHICLES

There are  problems with eco-friendly  - among others
It is friendly for us but not for our brothers.
A rich man  often secretly  stands  on a beggar  -
Gasohol is often mixed from gasoline and cane sugar:
Great for conserving oil  but oh-oh the strain 
On forests of Brazil, cleared to  grow sugar cane.
Solar panels on car-roof soak up sun : no pollution – nothing finer
But the panels are made in  smoke-belching factories in China.
Long-life rechargeable batteries  for a non-sunny day?
You guessed it, made in sweat-shops in Bangladesh by children who don’t play,
(To keep the cost low and affordable for us)
Why not sell the eco-car and take the eco-bus?
I guess the only really eco-friendly vehicles might be
Wooden wheelbarrows made from trees which died naturally;
Horse-drawn carts, with fertilizer-producing horsepower;
Hot-air balloons with sun-heat (as long as there’s no shower);
And olden-days   sailing ships, although England’s forests  green
Disappeared to  make sure that the olden seas were pristine.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Written for  Robb  A. Kopp's  Contest  "Eco-friendly  Vehicles".

Premium Member We Are All Angry

No, Speaker Ryan,
you do not speak for me
of the sacred probabilities
for growing civil kindness.

I respect your mind and your feelings, 
but we are not, as you assert, all angry.
In fact, some of us think it is a bad, sad, and mad idea
to try to develop healthy and equitable policies for Others
out of personal anger and political fear,
when we could choose motivations engaging cooperative love,
restorative justice,
compassionate communication
and internal/external peace-making.

I am sorry you are angry,
but please do not project your concerns 
about lack of viable health and safety outcomes
onto win/win-motivated me

And millions of others who believe that green
unconditional warm compassion 
is not only more resonantly kind
but also more resiliently healthy 
than red anger
and dark blue fear 
of traumatic loss.

Both political and environmental scientists
can explain why monoculturally rabid 
win/lose 
0-sum
predative environments
are unlikely to evolve therapeutically stable 
regenerative resolutions
toward healthy sustainable 
nutritionally rich
and multicultural win/win co-empowerment outcomes 
for you, 
and me, 
and we, 
and Earth

Polarizing anger
is unlikely to produce deep economic ecological healthy relationships 
and wide poli-cultural love communion
with AnthroCreator God, 
or with awesome messianic EnLightenment, 
or with EarthPower's indigenous bodhisattva wisdom,
much less all bilaterally intelligent three

Worshipped, celebrated, legislated, governed
not with militarized PTSD anger
or polarized fear-mongering stress
or unfree, costly hate speech

But eating with joyful humility
and drinking with open, trust-developing curiosity
producing Left-cognitive and consuming Right-intuitive 
compassionate neurosystemic communication

SunLight liberating messiahs
and EarthPower conserving bodhisattvas

Fruit of resilient transgenerational
sacred passion/organic pleasure,
EgoMind v EcoBody chronic trauma-informed 
AnthroCrown/EarthRoot 
BiPartisan CommunioNations.

Premium Member Like Fish In Water

Like fish
for whom water might have transparent invisibility 
of an untroubled healthy atmosphere

So too,
our prime bicameral compassionate relationship
is also
our SpiritualMind/NaturalBody Win/Win first love
and last Truth AND Beauty 
Passion AND Pleasure hope

For ever-more polyculturing climate health,
and not degenerative Win v Lose 
monoculturing 
LeftHemisphere dominant
monotheistic 
monopolistic
monolithic
monotonously predictable
caste-preserving monstrous pathology.

That being so,
if indeed I have this Left AND Right balanced accurately,
conserve/progress polypathically,
economically and politically,
ecologically,
then health optimization 
for LeftBrain ego-caste conservation
AND RightBrain eco-caste liberation

can never settle for tolerating
pluralistic InEgo v OutEco caste-preserving voices,
instead, using these emergent compromised choices
toward discerning WinEgo/WinEco 
panentheistic co-passionate pleasure.

This could be true within a humaneMind/diviningBody individual,
within sacred/organic extensive families 
living in and on EarthShelters

within natural dynamic-enspirited, 
cooperatively-owned and managed economies,
and between politically incorporated governments,
as it is true within any regeneratively trending healthy ecosystem,
explicitly thought,
and implicitly felt,
Crown conserving
and Root liberating our nondualist
ego/eco-arising journey
toward Win/Win healthy inside safe environments,
like fish in ecotherapeutic waters.

Just as "no air" environmental awareness
feels safe for a fish

Just as "no water" environmental awareness
feels safe for human lungs

Just as organic "belonging" awareness
feels Anthropocene safe
from desecrating trauma triggers.

Midnight Cats

felines
on window's perch
now drowsy in the sun
conserving their energy for
midnight.

Premium Member Tao of Healthy Wealth

On what metaphysical, natural yet spiritual, principle
might agree
an economic ecologist,
an evangelist,
and a political power analyst?

Earth's prehistoric Creation unfolded
more regeneratively compassioned
than degeneratively dispassioned,
or anthropocentric history tellers
and sacred scripture retellers
and, eventually, writers,
could not have become 
recreatively intelligent 
regenetically empowered 
neurosystemic co-investors

Enlightening SunFather
created LeftHemisphere's
AnthroCentric Logos
derived from spiritually sung 
and naturally danced
empowering EarthMother's
indigenously wise RightHemisphere Mythos

Remixing
reconnecting
re-ligioning pleasure mysteries
regenerating passion history histories.

And if we add the further premise
that on bi-hemispheric Earth,
as in neurosystemic bicameral logic 
and creolizing inter-religious language 
and cobinary polymathic listening,
positive 1-SunGod History
is equivalent to 
double negative 0-EarthMother Mystery,
then Earth's regenerative, resonant, resolving,
re-ligiously liberating
spiritually enlightened mind economic passions
balance conserving 
naturally empowered not not political body pleasures.

Or maybe this has nothing to do with indigenous endorphin wisdom;
its just the more agnostic Nyquil.

Premium Member Not All Change Is Good

Nothing is quite like it used to be
Not saying everything was better then
What happened to the live Christmas tree
Instead of this one, made from tin?

Not saying everything was better then
But we didn’t pollute everything with plastic
And, quite frankly, I can remember when
Whatever happened didn’t seem so drastic!

Back then we respected our elders, ‘tis true,
Appreciating their wisdom, no googling it
When we wondered what we should do,
Most importantly, we avoided stepping in **it.

It seems nowadays, we’ve lost commonsense
Many want to tear down instead of build up
Doing what’s morally right? We sit on the fence
Evening news is like drinking from a bitter cup.

If I sound pessimistic; no, I’m merely observing
Many changes are good, but some are not so laudable
I am concerned that we are not as conserving,
And, as to fixing our problems, largely improbable. 

Written November 25, 2022

Alternative Education

The headland bush is paradise,
especially through the week,
there's rocks to climb; a couple of caves,
and a shaded running creek.

Ron and I have found secret spots,
where we can hide our fishing poles,
and we don't need no swimming gear,
when we swim in the fishing holes.

There are no roads for cars and such,
just tracks on the forest floors,
so we seek our destinations,
on trails made by wombat paws,

And we're lucky when it's lunchtime,
for we can sit down in some glade,
then feast on oranges and apples,
after sandwiches that Mum made.

We're loving what we're doing here;
our knowledge seems to grow and grow.
We've learnt all about conserving.
We catch a fish and let it go.

We’ve been bit by angry bull-ants,
that gave us pain to send us numb.
We rub the stings with bracken fern,
because we couldn't tell no one.

We know the names of all the birds,
and the plants and pretty flowers,
or where the sun sits in the sky,
at the finish of schooling hours.

For when we're in the headland bush,
we really only break one rule;
we're learning what we want to learn -
we're just not learning in the school.

Premium Member Risky Opportunities

A liberal mind for love
seeks Earth's nurturing nest origins
astoundingly opportune for producing healthy ego-nutritional eggs.

A conservative risk taker,
faced with ego's opportunity
to fly away from mortal risk
to autonomous long-term, or at least short-term, self survival
or fight to WinEgo/LoseEco-Other pyric victory,
thereby sees ego's Win/Win in-between opportunity
to produce future cooperative eco-eggs
of self/other-perpetuating identity,

A narrower, conserving, view
of Earth's universal health opportunities
and a widening interdependent liberal love potential.

We might become both
ego and eco healthier,
more left non-insula nature embodied
and right amygdala co-passionate spirit soaring
to imagine
and support both physical/metaphysical views,
held most lovingly together
as WinWin eco/ego-centering integrity,
symbiotic nonfight/nonflight opportunity
for cooperatively mentored solidarity
in health/wealth mutual service

Negotiations BiLateral
and/or internally BiCameral;
Conscious
and/or UnConscious;
ReConscious memory
and/or PreConscious imagination.

Premium Member All About Taxes

Conservative View of taxation:
A prehensile grab
from an authoritarian patriarchal government
to steal from my short-term stockpile
of self-expansive cash.

Progressive View of taxation:
A GoldenRule government-issued invitation
to cooperatively invest in our shared short-term
and long-term health 
and self-regulating safety 
polyculturing future.

Moses challenged Conserving-Progressive FreedomPeople
to never forget 
we have escaped the bonds of patriarchal plutocratic Egyptian grabbing
from our formerly enslaved Chosen Egos.

We are now both Governor and Governed,
cooperatively incorporated,
economically progressing our ego-conservationing
of democratic health and safety 
ecopolitical outcomes.

Conservative View of health and safety:
Good for all,
but, when push comes to economic shove,
best for me to hoard
against an Egyptian militaristic day.

Progressive View of health and safety:
Of course we are always WinWin-only cooperative geopolitical players
of and for Earth's regenerativity.
So, we are happy to pay our taxes,
but we would be even happier if these would co-invest
Earth's climate health 
and co-infested safety

EarthTribe's authentic health and compassion's global safety,
as Ego's bicameral co-empathic trust
in our GoldenRule cooperative 
Exodus into our beloved Promised Land 
of eco-political integrity.

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