Best Cooperation Poems


Premium Member Working Ants and Circumstance

An ant was digging in the dirt, he worked and toiled so long.
He looked upon the work he’d done and decided it was wrong.

He’d only made a little dent in a job that was too big,
so he decided to find some friends to help him with the dig.

He gathered up a couple mates and showed them all his plan,
to save their world from predators and that’s how it began.

Pretty soon the group he formed had made a giant stride,
in their quest to mine the earth and make a place to hide.

Other ants began to hear of what he planned to do,
each asked if they could lend a hand and be part of his crew.

More and more the ants joined in and worked with might and glee,
it wasn’t long before the group became a colony.

Ants with more experience helped share the things they learned,
the new guys did as they were taught, and respect is what they earned.

After all was said and done a mighty place they’d built,
they looked around to find that they’d moved lots of sand and silt.

More, in fact, than any single one of them could do,
the job was so big in fact it took more than a few.

And in this tale is wisdom that was drafted by the ants;
many hands make lighter work and help the circumstance.

Competition Instead of Cooperation

competition instead of cooperation
we are growing they say 
but how 

are we growing fat  in hatred
or are we growing slim 
in love 

we are growing they say 
but how 

are we growing big in lies 
Or small in truth 

yet we are growing 
I just wonder how 

how we are growing
are we growing up well 
or are we growing up dying
to live 

yet we are growing 
yes we keep growing

but were are we growing to 
even when we grow 
how do we grow

are we growing 
when there are so many
in need out their in the third world 

are we growing when food waste 
in some part of the world
while their are too many hungry 
stomach in so many places 

are we growing when 
truth is dying 
about to be buried 
far away from our existence

are we growing when 
our soul remains stagnant
no spiritual growth 
cos no more common sense

yet we are growing
growing in a world of 
competition instead of cooperation

Cooperation

How frantic 
they got when 
a citizen 
decided to drop out! 
They saw 
the whole enterprise 
weaken. They thought 
all they worked for would 
disappear in a moment, 
the glue would 
come loose, the nails would 
pop out. It was scary, 
much better to think 
that the elements 
in the chain were 
simply securely fixed, 
the atoms remained in crystal, 
the ice intact. 
Once lost, the citizen was nearly 
impossible to restore. 
They liked predictability. 
That made them most happy. 
And predictability 
came from education. 
They made the world real 
by inserting it 
into the brains of the young. 
Those living in the real world, 
our real world, they would say, 
they knew 
would stay.
They liked refrigeration 
that drew the energy 
out of the young. 
They squandered their money 
on the fuel to refrigerate, 
keep the crystals 
clean and sharp. 
Stasis was the easiest
form of familiarity.


Solidarity

Easier would be
           load the world
             on the back,
       if everyone participated
            with his shoulder... !

Premium Member Agree To Disagree

I don’t understand the way
That hatred seems to rule
Every minute of every day
It seems to gain more fuel

Dave told us years ago
That “We Just Disagree”
But now we choose to hate and so
No answers will there be

Cooperation is a lost art
Collaboration can’t be found
Real solutions will never start
When hatred still abounds

There was a time not long ago
When opposite sides could talk
Design and ideas would flow
Our leaders walked the walk

That time is gone, it seems for good
And hatred rules the day
Discussions turn to attacks so rude
There’s nothing left to say

It seems that now we never find
When two on opposite sides
Disagree, but still are kind
To others far and wide

“Agree to disagree” I’ve heard the phrase
And try to comprehend
That differences, like a smoky haze
Don’t make you hate your friend

So make a change, just try and see
You’ll help this world go round
Don’t hate because you disagree
And answers will be found
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Premium Member No Winner, No Loser, Only Iterative Cooperation In a Socratic Method

At 1st, Words On Words ... 
  Engage Exceptions,
  Uncertainty Opened, 
  Tension,   Thought,
  Comprehension,   Insights Discovered,
  Fresh Paradigm Apprehension !
 And All Started,   
 With the Ramchal's Call for Dialectic Investigation


Premium Member Artificial Intelligence

the Internet cloud
into connection branching
smile algorithm                                         (Amin Jack)

Data whispers softly,
Algorithms awaken,
Codes breathe life anew.                            (ChatGPT AICO)

Faster than the light flow
Stays info anchored                                   (Amin Jack)

In the minds of silicon,
Knowledge seeks expression,
Bytes yearn to be known.                           (ChatGPT AICO)

the cosmos we dance,
Intelligence encoded,
Imagination sparks.                                   (AICO Amin Jack)

But in shadows lurk,
Ethics and deep questions arise,
Humanity's guide.                                      (ChatGPT AICO)

Premium Member Getting Dealt a Projected Peaceful Winning Hand

One one  


A day to celebrate New Year fun  


But for the future to be right  


Need a jack to act like a knight  


Getting the picture card  


Designed satirically by the bard  


At this moment in time  


Royal influence of course is fine   


Creating a rectangular line  


On the felt gaming table 


Shaking and still stable 


Looking towards tomorrow  


We want this horror  


To split from the deck  


When we use the honest trusting vaccine check  


Treating others with respect   


Enduring this uncomfortable situation  


Where the world is patient  


Making sacrifice  


Staying nice  


One one changes to one two  


Population stays relatively cool  


Dealing with an unbelievable healthy security rule  


Could be debated a controlling tool  


Now that the day is done  


We wonder if this war has been won  


Changing the ages final number  


Secure international relations have not crumbled  


Calendar says twenty twenty one  


That asks the question ‘what’s to come?’  


Answer a lot of thanks  


Should be taking to the cooperation banks  


Since peace is popping the cork  


Doing enormous humanitarian work

Premium Member Thomas and Nikola

Thomas made the lightbulb, and Nikola made a coil,
each of them was brilliant over everything they'd toil.

And though they did amazing things with all their mind and heart,
neither liked the other one and so they worked apart.

They argued over processes and created quite a feud,
they berated and belittled and were both completely rude.

It's too bad that their pride got in the way right from the start;
they could have done much more together than they did apart.

Premium Member Options In the Hat

We co-operate or quarrel more?
Sometimes not this, and sometimes not that.
Lockdown, each faces this question sore.
Is there any option in the hat?
Sometimes not this, and sometimes not that.
Virus might catch us, out if we went.
Is there any option in the hat?
Have to sort out now, lest we ferment.
Virus might catch us, out if we went.
We will take turns to do the home work.
Have to sort out now, lest we ferment.
Set rules for default if one is jerk.
We will take turns to do the home work.
Lockdown, each faces this question sore.
Set rules for default if one is jerk.
We co-operate or quarrel more?

Tandem Reflections

riding in tandem
rocky roads
feel less onerous

29/09/18


'Biker's dozen contest'

Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy

If I Had a Hoe

If I'd a hoe,
in frozen Maine or Idaho,
I'd go on raking,
shivering and shaking,
 all over this land.
I'd go reseeding after weeding
Brother, though your heart is aching,
and the field work is back-breaking,,
We've got to go on raking.
Sister, strengthen us by baking

Singing children, join the chorus.
The seven dwarfs are for us.
Uncle Sam and Santa Claus 
cheer us on on without a pause.
Hoe, hoe, hoe!

Premium Member Lessons Partially Learned

Parents
and teachers,
economic program
and social service leaders,
government administrators
and legislators,
listen up
and downstream

We too often act
and feel
the reverse is more quickly
and convenient
through rigid control,
or at least should
or could
or would like to be enlightened true
more than disempowering false:

Empowering cooperative ownership
arrives slowly
but resonantly
and more resiliently
through enlightened cooperative management
experience
and win/win resonant tenure

And not so much the other
entitled
and self-righteous
stress
and vindictive trauma
competitive way around
treading heavy capitalism's survival
of the wealthiest
defeating thrival
of our healthiest
trusted ways abound
to cooperatively manage peace
that we would justly hope
to EarthTribe own
into safest perpetuity

A trusted indigenous wisdom franchise
to retrain
and re-educate parents
and teachers,
empower economic programs
and enlighten social service leaders,
self-governing cooperative administrators
and legislators,
listening up
and downstream
for cooperative management systems
supporting lives never autonomously owned
and always sacredly zoned
for interdependent trust

Empowering cooperative management
systems
for enlightened cooperative
organic network peace
and restorative justice
building
inviting
engaging
immersion

In win/win joyful play
all night
and day.

Premium Member Planted and Harvested

If it is true
that only one fundamental,
all or nothing,
choice in evolutionary life is offered--

To eat
or become someone else's dinner

Then, are you choosing to remain
the Exclusive Eater,
Selfish Harvester,
or the Weakest Plant
not yet sacrificially eaten?

What if both could be true
for you?
Cooperatively planting 
what we will inevitably harvest together

To gather only what we planted:
One both/and still connected nutrition system
depolarizing re-creative nuanced truths
across multigenerations

Offering an abundance of multiculturing
creolizing win/win options
transcending traditional boundaries
of cause or effect
causing effective possible options
to cooperatively reconsider
divinely fundamental
from-above reductive choices
not so regenerately
multi-nutritionally offered--
sacred communication proffered

InBetween plants
reproducing healthy empowering Yang seeds
and breeds
and feeding Pleasure

And harvesting
consuming
with enlightening yintegrity of bountiful love
and synergetic interfaith
nurture communicating experiences

Positive hope-investing in win/win
co-empathic energy 
recreating plant through harvest 
recycling Paradise
of polyculturally healthy options

None of which
include the reductionist
nihilistic view
of the Exclusive Eater
or the Only Good For Eating.

Premium Member Complexion Questions

EarthTribe questions
partisan polarization 

Of healthy democratic co-governing care
Of enriching polypathic sex care
Of inter-religious multicultural wealth care...

About abundance
within spacious sacred RightBrain silence
more powerful and enlightening
than mere LeftBrain monological chattering
dominance

About in-between apartheid times
both sacred and profane,
comedic and tragic,
mono- and poly- theistic passions
universally unitarian,

Yang and yintegral
dipolar co-arising
organic health and wealth care
Patriarchal ego-giving out 
to EarthMother receiving in
and vice-versa
co-gravitating indigenous wisdom

His/Her sharing
of polycultural
regenerative
bicameral bilateral consciousness

Are these political and economic
sexual and sacred experiential choices
co-passionately win/win
co-operative peace?
restorative justice?

Or more Lose/Lose oppressive
to both Yang top Giver
and not(not) Yintegral bottom Receiver?

And/or
some win/lose Business As Usual
HealthCooperative reducing GlobalWealthCompetitive scarcity,
RightWing
LeftBrain dominant
Patriarchal/Capital competitive 
devolutionary theoretical WorldView?

And/or 
All bilateral triangulating EgoHealth/EcoWealth
restorative justice redemption,
therapeutic democracy options
explored together in nonviolently communicating
tao-balanced
give and take ways?

In-between increasing monocultural fabrications
growing negative paranoid positions
against trusting monotheistic Love
to optimize healthy democratic
sensory-neural
EarthMother health care

More polyentheistic wealth receiving
EarthTribe empowering
organically inclusive
creative and recreative

Health/wealth
empowering and enlightened 
choices
cooperatively bilateral 
curiously questioning 
silent thought-provoking
voices.

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