Best Fundamentally Poems


Living In Between

The world comes knocking on your door.
And changes nothing from before.
For who we are is from within.
When we learn that, that's when we win.

There's always some who think they're right.
They just disturb the peace in night.
They only see their own disdain.
With no regard for causing pain.

The world keeps moving right along.
Rearranging right and wrong.
Fundamentally refraining.
The truth of what some find so straining.

They look to find peace in their view.
But some, just rhetoric they spew.
Today's world that lives on the net.
Can make us wish we could forget.

There are many walking 'round.
Who live in silence, don't make a sound.
They're hoping for their lives to change.
But live in between just feeling strange.


Note: I'll leave it here for those who know me to interpret. The rest of you, I wish you peace.

Poa-Tetry Soup (The Name Inspired)

Thoughts melt and distil under a green/blue flame,
Swirling down, separated out and mixed.
If you’ve seen it, it’s broken;
If you’ve heard it, it’s shredded;
If you’ve read it, it’s rewritten.
It's really quite unlikely to be fixed.

You’re cutting up holiday snaps
and pasting them onto card.
And you’re scrambling madly
to hide the mess on the floor
As your mum yells for cleanliness
From behind your bedroom door.
3001 puzzle pieces and you’re jamming them together,
No wonder your imagination is at the end of its tether.
You’ve got two pieces that are sun-kissed clouds
“What comes… what comes next?”
You’ve got two roots in the soil
“What comes… what comes next?”
Your mother is sitting in the hall
With a scarf tied round her neck,
Her back pressed up against the wall
As she deals the jigsaw deck.
3001 pieces in her hands,
Mixed with childhood drawings
And grains of sand.
She lays out seven in a line,
Which you place between the two and two.
“Oh, but that and that won’t rhyme!”
“Don’t you think that this one will just do?”
And your father’s disapproving in the kitchen,
“You don’t need no occult nonsense,
Or a system to order out your brain”
He just stands there “focussed”
Over a pot on a blue/green flame,
Subconsciously mumbling while stooped,
“Look here Son, look, I’m making poa-tery soup.”
But you would never tell him that,
Just like you’ll never be finished, ever.
No-one ever is
Even if they know they’re doing it or not.

My grandfather died last week,
The sourest stuck-in-a-rut-of-a-man
That you’re ever going to meet.
The diagnosing doctors were in for a treat.
They said that there was something wrong there,
Something wrong with his brain,
That there was something strange there
Fundamentally, main.
They said that he died - after scans - in a cubicle stall,
When his brain haemorrhaged and cracked open,
And jigsaw pieces piled up against the wall.

Premium Member Creative Conformity

There comes a time
We ask ourselves
The why of what we do

What is the use of writing poetry
Do I write to express myself or to be read
If I have to conform to someone’s rules
Am I writing for me or am I writing for them
Afterall do they want to read my deepest feelings 
Do they want to read everything I have to say
Will they appreciate the way I want to write it
Am I writing for me or am I writing to be read

Am I still creating if I am overthinking 
Isn’t creativity being fundamentally original
Expressing what comes from within
Totally unrelated to outside demands
Does everything really need a purpose
Isn’t the purest form of creation
Basically the urge of needing an outlet
Be it as an explosion or pure mountain spring

Aren’t creativity and conformity
The epitome of polarities and paradoxes
Contradictory by their very nature



Read on air by invitation  ~  August 21, 2022  'POETS HARBOUR'

AP: 3rd place 2022, 3rd place 2021, Honorable Mention 2026

Submitted on May 23, 2020 for contest BRIAN'S CHOICE S sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  HONORABLE MENTION


Why Do I Write

Out of all the questions I have been asked in life
None of them stump me more like this:

Why do I write?

It does not stump me because it’s tricky
It stumps me because it’s a stupid question to ask

Why do I write?

Because there’s nothing more relaxing than it.

Sure sometimes it’s frustrating
Difficult, fundamentally challenging
But that’s part of the beauty of it

Letting you emotions spill out across the page
And knowing that people read it
That people expect who you are
It’s brilliant

When you live a life of not speaking up
Of being that quite person in the background
Expressing yourself is… magnificent

I’m not me when I write
Something takes over me, controls me
So much so that I don’t really know what I am writing consciously
But it works so well 

I guess some people will never understand 
The joy in it all

When you're my age and you develop some characteristic
That doesn’t suit the normal criteria you get picked on

It happens, you can’t stop it
But I feel sorry for them

Expressing yourself through writing is one of my greatest joys
And I’m not going to stop
Not now
Not ever

Premium Member Earth Soul

And yet we are one inside/outside communion,
one ego/eco-integrity potential sanctuary

Polypathically capable of nesting
eager for re-creating
healthy commitments with family
and toward more extended communal memberships
beyond our egocentric self-limitations.

Love
experienced,
our necessary shared foundation
for co-passion growing outward,
optimistically upward,
fundamentally downward,
seminally inward,
across Earth's reveling space
and across all time past
and imagined healthy futures
for co-investing eco-souls.

Communion is who we become,
community is where I live,
while cooperatively designing
future GreenSanctuary searches
researches for all local Souls of this Judea

Zero JudeaZone
with holy/unholy River running through

Historic English
and Native American,
and multiculturally privileged/unprivileged daughters and sons
of African and Caribbean slaves
and their owners
and their past owners' allies,
economically and politically and personally experienced
with creolizing space for nutritional ego-freedom
wherever
and whenever
and however we could cooperatively
internally plant
and hope to harvest
and digest
and share living river water
and then re-digest that happily extended WinWin sharing,
caring for cooperative GreenSanctuary future investments,
investors

While reflecting
and story-telling
in more LeftBrain academic graduate communions
what we are deep learning together
about pan-sectarian sanctuary development
of good faith communions

GreenSanctuary communions
with democratically cooperative government networks
working and playing WinWin
within Mother Earth's great WinLose risky ZeroSum history
still with Win-ego/theo-nomial and Win-ecological opportunities
within each healthy moment's positive integrity potential
for GreenSanctuary positive-deviant revolutions
restoring Left with Right peace
among all nature/spirit soulful inter-relationships

Revolutions in Left-secular with Right-sacred peace
restoring all North/South interdependencies
reweaving all West/East historic ElitePatriarchal/NonEliteMatriarchal
creolizing power centers,
Yang/Yin timeless nutritional communions

Witnessed by outside ultra-nonviolet voices
still celebrating this trans-cultural healthing Sanctuary.

A Life of Love and Light

Approaching life with love

Lived with an open heart,

Irrespective of others differences

Fundamentally shining light,

Everyone welcome to join me,

Oneness and unity on mass

Favouring love over hate,

Lighting a path and a way to

Omniscient love in this world,

Vehemently embracing unity

Everything equal as it ought to be,

Attaching ourselves more to peace,

Negating hate, war and jealousy

Dedicating our time to betterment,

Lifting up the whole of humanity

Irresistibly the light is drawing me

Great fully exposing the love in me

Highlighting just how life can be

Trusting in the love and the light.


Premium Member Cultural Absence

White is fundamental absence of color,
as is evangelical black.
But, white is colorless
due to emptiness
while black
because of good news fullness.

Transparency is presence of visibility
as is not darkness
but transparency is void
where opaque is dense.

Life is absence of death
as death is absence of life.
But, death is empty and void
while life is full and robust

Promising evangelical integrity 
of all motions and emotions
actions and reactions
ratios and reasonables,
presence and co-presence
in-between radically sacred
and fundamentally secular
cultures of dualistic meaning
evolve courageously purposed bright
with loads of curious light.

Eccentricism

Eccentricism

Dick has a problem I don’t have.
He is a man.
As that I am female, Dick infringes through ignoring what is right.
He relates to homosexuality whims when I stand as a mist from the Garden of Eden.
Do you know that dick stated a psychological tenet that he was powerful because of *****?
That is when I had to relate because I had presumed that dick was *****.
However, he ventilates that dick is not the same as *****.

In this world, men are going through metamorphosis.
Their psychiatric preference is a man’s best friend.
In this place, women are suppressed.
Their psychological performance is best with a straight man.
Therein, many tendency is to become a lesbian.

This fundamentally means this world is twisted.
So insane that structured is trembling.
Through idiosyncrasies and sexual desires of man, minds are being manipulated.
But never mind all that, I is the person that wins against mammoths.
Insofar as none has, eccentricities are real.

Aerate the ideas of humankind.
Let loose the knowledge of origin since the time of God, if it is known.
Tell no lies.
Propaganda falsehoods until we acknowledge the truth.
This is what we do.
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Penned on January 22, 2015!

Premium Member A School Question

“What are we ever going to use this for?” 
Students ask every single school day.
So sit back, grab a coffee, get comfortable, 
And all the reasons, to you, I will say.

Fundamentally it’s about allowing people to 
Fully realize the value of their own mentality.
To make them know ethics and empathy, 
Solve problems, be social, owning morality.

Education develops language and literacy, 
Listening and comprehension sufficiently.
It develops an ability to solve small and large problems,
Solving them efficiently.

Students will learn, first hand, how to explore 
An active community with a rich diversity.
And how to repair self-esteem, cooperatively respecting others,
Whenever they face adversity.

They will refine gross and fine motor skills,
Learn how to set targets and achieve their goals.
And whenever things seem to become too much,
They learn how to jump over potholes.

Education is not about capitalism which produces too much,
Sharing nothing, at too high a price.
And it’s not about communism failing as an ascetic morality, 
Essentially a fool’s paradise.

Education creates peacemakers, healers, restorers, 
Storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form.
It creates people with moral courage to make this world a habitable, 
Happy, humane thunderstorm.

Building Human Nature

The diversity of beliefs have collectively demoralized 
the sanctity of attaining wisdom and respectfully sharing
the exchange of knowledgeability by compartmentalizing creativity. 
This makes us..............................
willingly grasp onto the idea of fighting and murdering to
expressively uphold what is fundamentally a moralizing of humanity. 
Instead of communicating uncertainty to keep things simply
as beautiful as they were to start with. 
When you do your own research and hold no preference, 
think freely and critically, that's enough for the world. 
The ones who want to work hard, provide, and allow others
to decide how to live their lives. The ones that do not judge and
are only inspired by the weaving of individuality that creates this
painting of adversity within a natural environment will succeed. 
We are smart enough to know that these men in ties telling lies
making us believe the TV has the answers or you need to earn
and spend monies that are impractically fabricated and blind us
from working like slaves for their manipulated, corrupt economy 
that concedes in an illusory connectedness called consumerism. 
Or, social issues that brainwash you into thinking that their fear
mongering gives you a sense of identity. Without identifying 
their symbols of devilry they saturate in every necessity they 
presumably provide for you that came free from the earth. 
If everyone would live like they knew they were going to die,
the one and only certainty in life, then the intangibles in life become 
clear, it's sitting right upon your nose, the rose colored lens' are
cleansed and the colors, the beauty, the smells, the smiles, 
the kindness and caring, the recognition of a resolution to suffering, 
and our purpose to help ourselves is through helping others,
THAT is enough to make a change.
© Mindy Clay  Create an image from this poem.

Alliteration Allegorically

TO PONDER POSSIBILITIES
AND POSTULATE PROBABILITIES
SOCIALLY SIMMERED SO SARCASTICALLY
TO SANCTIMONIOUS UNCERTAINTIES

THEN RENDERING A RECIPE RANDOMLY
INTO IRRATIONAL IMPOSSIBILITY
MIXED TO THE MAXIMUM MALICIOUSLY
MORONIC MINDS OF MINIMUM MORALITY

ABANDONED ABRUPTLY WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY
FALSELY FIGURED AND FORGOTTEN  FUNDAMENTALLY
REPUGNANTLY REMEMBERED RESPONSIBILITY
HOPELESSLY HELPLESS HOMOGENEALOGY 

WITHOUT SHAME OR SENSIBILITY
NO HONOR NOR HUMILITY
PRIDE OR PERSONALITY
ISSUE OR INTEGRITY


NO UNDERSTANDABILITY 
READING RELUCTANTLY
WRITTEN WOEFULLY
DISCARD DIRECTLY

Mao's Last Danseur ~ Cunxin Li

I became the audience,
and witnessed a dance 
of freedom, lights dimmed 
the Pasa Doble lead out


I found in this masterpiece 
the unfolding in Air, en l’ 
the union, transposed over 
Swan’s in open Arabesque


a single leap
brushed the firmament
a country lost sight
of his gift to fly


Cunxin Li, 
now Brisè drifts 
in Red Dust 
and the Dreamtime 
writhes, in Cambré 
offering a salute


To our new Master 

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Explanations of some words I used, all movements in Ballet 


Air, en l’: In the air. Indicates that the movement is to be made in the air versus on 
the ground such as rond de jamb en l’air.


Arabesque: [“Arabic”]. A position with one leg stretched straight out to the back while 
turned out and keeping the upper body straight and lifted. One arm usually is stretched 
out to the front in fourth, fifth or an open position.


Brisè: [“broken, breaking”]. A small beating step in which the movement is broken. 
It starts on one or two feet and ends on one or two feet. Fundamentally, a brisè is an 
assemble beaten and traveled. The working leg brushes from the fifth position to the 
second so that the point of the foot is a few inches off the ground and beats in front of 
or behind the other leg which has come to meet it; then both feet return to the ground 
at the same time in demi-pliè fifth position.


Cambré: [“bent”]. A bend from the waist in any direction, but especially forward or back.


Pasa doble: (literal meaning in Spanish: double-step) is a typical Spanish march-like musical 
style as well as the corresponding dance style danced by a couple

Object Reality...?

Have you asked yourself...

How do I percieve the world,
what is object reality?

What are these sources
of abject identity,
alienating values which
further seperate sensible unity...
significant to whom and what,
obligatory to how and when,
the free spirit of autonomy versus,
past bondage and expectation...

What is the subject matter,
of objectifying principles...
differing as such,in regards to
ethical and moral sentiments,
obviously,the same rules
don't neccesarily apply equally,
schema's presentation of schisms...
what it is,or what it isn't?

So...what is object reality,
but also,why does it differentiate and alienate ?

If one has free access to well being,and
another is deprived of similar opportunity,
is the one whom benefits,made impervious
to the slow decay of others...or,
do we all share equally,the natural balance...
as one concerns itself with progress,yet
impedes the progress of others,
what sort of real progress is being made...
wouldn't that be then,the creation of abject identity?
...and for what purpose,
a ready made low wage labor market?

So,again...what is object reality,and
what does it mean to you...fundamentally,
what do you identify with...and why ?

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

" 'till now man has been up against nature,
   from now on he will be up against his own nature..." Dennis Gabor

Premium Member Breaking Through Nationalism

Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions 
of eco-politically salvific technology.

When I first read this list
of his global Three,
the one that stood out
at least for me,
to potentially
break through our tendency
to see through lenses
nationalistically
is Earth's great climate pathology.

Still,
all three are LeftBrain dominant,
StraightWhiteMale privileged,
Patriarchal-Capitalist nationalistic systems
of scientific reductive-rooted secularism
and defensive 
extractive-infested 
militarism.

Aside from a home habitat 
in WholeEarth Crisis,
extinguishing all hope
of future peace health 
is our cooperative multicultural wealth
regeneration,
our ability to distinguish
which of these three
is most transparently
exploitive and disempowering
our SunShine EcoSystem,

To dialogically determine
which is most polyculturally vulnerable 
to inflaming
already repressive Patriarchal/Capitalism,

Which is most unenlightened
and monotheistically RightWing
StraightWhiteMale 
LeftBrain dominant

May also be the unholy Fascist fascinated
demonizing ecowomanist healthy choice
and Earth as sacred Goddess 
panentheistically denying,
Holy Nature/Spirit indigenous defying,
climatically degenerative Nationalism, yes,
but also, more fundamentally dualistic,
AnthroSupremacism
over ecofeminist healthy wealth
of fertile sacred Earth

Where monoculturing climate "change"
may become most easily defined
by Yanged out RightWing predation
fueled by a competitive economy
of hierarchical
from-above produced
and massively media marketed scarcity,
rather than from-within
ecological healthy robust wealth integrity.

Then again,
I could also see win/win opportunity
for health as wealthy polycultural activity
in co-immigrating away from global fear 
of nuclear nationalistic hostility

Emigrating toward global polypathic thrival
post-secularizing revival 
of sacredly uniting cooperativity
principles of Eartherapeutic Energy
as healthy integral international democracy,

NonViolent Communication fueled
by
and for
and with Whole
Holistic
Holy EarthTribal
win/win systemic
authentic 
intricate
exquisite sacred global integrity.

City of All Shoulders

im in the train station

of the city that i love

my city

they call it the second city

but it is second to none

it is the city of big shoulders indeed

big shoulders

fat shoulders

skinny shoulders

white shoulders

black shoulders

hispanic shoulders

asian shoulders

middle eastern shoulders

all kinds of shoulders

but above all

strong shoulders

shoulders strong enough to carry the heart of america

shoulders strong enough to carry the message of working class america

to the rest of the world

destiny

its where babe ruth pointed

its who sinatra sang about

its fundamentally blue collar

and down to earth

it is from the heart

because it is the heart

i love you 

chicago.

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