Best Grid Poems
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Four furry silhouettes, whiskers twitching, huddle around a cardboard grid~
Four acorn tokens clatter on the board.
Dew-damp grass stains the Baltic Avenue deed.
A whiskered snout nudges Community Chest~
Winter stores secured beneath oak bark.
Four paws grip the dice cup tight and shake.
Electric Avenue mortgaged for one nut.
Tail-flicks trace railroads, Park Place dreams
Shatter as a crow steals the top hat piece.
Four bushy strategists stare at Free Parking.
Rain begins its raid on Marvin Gardens.
The dice roll forgotten, they scatter skyward~
Squirrelopoly unfinished beneath gathering clouds.
Time to look
Look closely
at the backward
forward thinking me
Consumed
by my own consumption
Hybrid driving wanabe
Thinking I'm thinking of others
when it's all about me
Big house
with some solar panels
Seventy two inch plazma TV
with over Two Hundred Channels
All the latest gadgets and owners manuals
On earth day I feel good
because I light some candles
Sure I recycle
trying my best
Yet in the end I don't consume any less
Attracted to labels
I like my "Three Leaves" and "Guess"
I have the right lingo
and know how to dress
You'll see me riding my bike
just about every where I go
Five grand of carbon fibre
all part of the show
I expound on the enviroment
so you will know what I know
I talk about gardening but I don't own a hoe
It's all about the illusion
I like the idea of green
drinking ethical coffee at the bean scene
I like the attention
all the conversations
I use inuendo and insinuations
Yet travel on a big
fuel guzzling plane
to fabulous
soon to be spoiled
destinations!
1.
Whenever the truest edge doesn’t hold,
Another existence it does belie.
When causality is a broken line,
Unseen variable has cracked the mold.
Simple cause and effect gets in trouble
Abstruse patterns underlie life’s events.
Straight Euclidean angles and tangents
Reveal deep truth when they twist and bubble.
Infinite weaving of the light and dark,
That from which all matter derives its form,
That from which all shades and colors are born,
Folding, animated by unseen spark:
Zero Point made of unbound potential.
Infinity in nothing, essential.
2.
A cause contains more than it alleges.
If all you can see are random events,
Assume that it must be coincidence
Occam’s razor it seems has two edges
The surface, outer manifestation
The solid, visible three dimensions
Concentrate, more enters your attention:
Substance beyond the realm of sensation.
Bursting through material pretension,
What unimaginable things are hid
Beyond the visible Cartesian grid
To unfold from another dimension?
The depth remains unseen, passes us by
Except in dreams, when the mind’s eye can fly.
3/23/16
Hybrid Italian/Shakespearean Sonnets
Abba cddc effe gg (x2)
There; in the waterfall,
I join many tears.
My tears pour from aching knees,
burdened with hearts of solid gold
preaching equality; from voiceless
leaders.
Panhandlers, clutching symphonies
in four lines, covet
corners that prey upon my
peace- just their day job.
Every check-out has a glass jar on
the counter; seeking tithes for
lost humanity, messages carried on wings
of doves; perched upon the waste
of capitalism.
Pushcarts; fleeing swarms of drones,
fear the key-stroke, a thousand
miles away.
While twitters and tweets stare from
vacant eyes, entombed in halls
of congress.
I smile too; red dawn is upon us,
and sunrise brings the tides
of truth
that will flood
every
shore
of
tyranny.
10/19/13
Living off the grid..
I bid you ..
It's a challenge..
Living off the land..
For it's quite bland..
A taste of the great outdoors..
Mother Nature exposed..
Absolutely no power..
I cannot even take a shower..
Walk to the stream to fetch some water..
I feel like a fish out of water..
Always in my life I had it made..
Now I can't even get out of the shade..
The sun beats down..
I frown as I run for cover under a massive tree..
So I am free of sun burn..
Food is totally organic..
Which is fresh and pure..
That is for sure
Picking berries and fishing for salmon..
What a way to work up an appetite..
No technology had left it all behind..
Though I didn't think I would mind..
Life is simple living off the grid..
I rid myself of the everyday grind of urban living..
I bid it all a farewell..
Now I have learned how to survive..
So urban life can now take a nose dive..
Another one for Andrea D.
Imagine a vast vat of liquid
Covering 5 football fields
33 feet deep in manure
Think of the energy yields
When big piles are seen
Of manure all green
Most people just see piles of crap
But if truth be told
It's a pile of pure gold
When you siphon off gasses you trap
On a dairy farm in Golden State
Experts on gas sit and wait
They push poop in a hole
Cover it like a bowl
And just let the gas ruminate
With nearly 2 million cows in this far western state
You have to admit the potential is great
Just getting these cows to be hole-potty trained
Will yield a great deal of cow-poop methane
And the methane gas gathered this way
Can be sold to the grid so they say
So the smell's not quite honey
It's the smell of good money
And we've finally made gas passing pay
So that's what this company did
With some cows and a hole with a lid
With a scoop and a scrub
And this gigantic tub
Cows are now passing gas to the Grid
Mdailey
Waiting for some idea
to penetrate the fabric
of this processing system.
Nothing there, no electricity.
No current, DC, AC
limp cells fill all our channels,
Incoming, outgoing watts.
Thinking, reasoning, judging.
Beauty beyond intellect
insolated thought products
organized thought principles
individuals, groups, man.
Input, output, turbo charged
data in nano seconds.
Nothing, no power, no data.
Grid Lock Bunch of Crock
Grid lock to me is
Surely a big bunch of crock;
What else will they hock?
Jim Horn
Crosswords
they wreck our brains
with cunning cryptic clues
that we solvers seem to find so
puzzling
Angels observe our unfolding galaxy
Seemingly eternal to the human mind
Misperceptions they are superior in nature
For them like a temporary blink of a firefly
Their understanding of the prison we have created
And our ‘reality’ submerged in the limits of linear time
They whisper sweet reminders that we will transcend
Like star-blazing Easter eggs for a child to find
They navigate these unfamiliar perceptions
Like the first humans with the concept of flight
As prisoners who for a lifetime restrained
Then suddenly will themselves into the newest heights
And now I ask the assistance of our angelic brothers
Though I hope this isn’t construed as a prayer
This stirring I feel as I struggle to open my eyes
Please hasten my awakening of ‘aware’
Like a scientist observing a Petri dish
Watching with the most patient hopefulness
And when the angelic feel we are ready for more
A new idea enters our group consciousness
As an electric tidal wave surging from circuit to circuit
Dispelling our illusion like an illuminating flicker in the dark
The shackles around our minds are coming undone
As they lovingly remind us who we really are
Sometimes, somehow
i am asking.. is the right time is now
carry over
cross the river
chase your dream
scream.. make it extreme
there is nothing you cannot do
if you had the courage
get out of your cage
get into the nature
change for the future
time to break the chain
just think how to gain
encourage people
how to be as a whole
a land to eternity
everyone have integrity
no partiality
These feet and hands move with pride
While frozen minds reside in stations
The gurgle of romance catapults
Limp eyes fortunate to be blind
Setting tables, memories on the wing
Eclipsed lung of chain linked usury
Chance on the balcony flips greater pockets still
Silver rings on the oven to match electricity
Now the grid iron flashes through
Beating heat to patronize tongues
The alphabet of spacial sense
Time barricades these permanent exits
I will uncover
That which you did
Mute yourself
And go off the grid
Here’s where you keep
Your memento hid
To boost its value
Get off the grid
So you think
You can beat your taxes
Hunt the landscape
Sharpen your axes
The true survivor
Never relaxes
Nobody ever much did
You backpedalled
Slipped and slid
Turned tail and ran
Clear off the grid
To your sense of reason
I make a bid
Cut your losses
Go off the grid
Ain’t nuthin’ finer
Than that fatal skid
The truck is comin’
Move off the grid
So you thought
You could leave the picture
Conquer flaws
Consider the future
Then nighttime came
You dreamed of vultures
Screamin’ like a little kid
Melt down the ego
Raise up the id
It’s all rough lumber
Off the grid
For every pot,
There’s a lonesome lid
Live out your romance
Off the grid
I wanna get lost with you
try to find our way back
give up and just be.
I wanna loose myself in you
drop everything and forget
all the pain and the wrongs done.
I wanna lose track of time
with one another
and be late because of you.
I wanna be yours
for you to be mine
and be a better man because of it
I wanna be your rock
so you don't need to worry
because i have you.
I wanna miss you
have something to look forward to
and think about you all day
I wanna be your best friend
ill be there for you
whenever you need me or don't
I wanna be your lover
and satisfy you
the way you like
I wanna be your everything
so you don't ever have to need again
im all you need.
I wanna be your reason
to smile, be happy, and feel love
I want you
So just let me.
Coffers by alliances emptied out
By the same abandoned, security failing
Surprised by nature and by man
Falling Eagle will be caught by Bear
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