Best Integrating Poems
Elysian ellipses of poetry's pride...
a literary litany that draws from
sunlit and moonlit
eloquent emanations ensuing
silent shadows that follow
mystical movement,
integrating intrigue.
Passion and beauty
fuel fecund imaginations
expressed from a Bard's bucolic
and loquacious,
luscious machinations,
sharing a gem of their soul.
Wrap me in your
timeless treasures and
leave me to bask breathless
in poetry's pride!
4-26-20
Cornucopia Poetry Contest ~Second Place~Premiere contest
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann
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Categories:
integrating, poetry,
Form:
Alliteration
We slept together
We dreamt together
We saw a dream of nurturing our emotions
We saw a dream of growing our love
We saw a dream of integrating our souls
But then
You woke up and walked away
And
I was there to suffer the pain
of our unaccomplished dream.
Categories:
integrating, boyfriend, break up, cute
Form:
Free verse
W himsical wind chimes,
R hyming and reeling
I n my mused state.
T orrential downpour of
I deas, integrating with tea.
N ever give in to doubt —
G onna keep writing
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8/26/2019
Categories:
integrating, writing,
Form:
Acrostic
Everyone had a unique reason for playing the Game
as we find different means for surviving Life
until the proper seconds of Death come stomping by with insistence,
some want intellectual respect shown with agitation in the opponent's eyes,
others crave the anxiety of prognostication
like gladiators uncertain of how to strike,
people commence the battle because they have something to prove
as Bobby boldly reproved the Soviets
on their asinine assumptions of superiority,
regardless, all who touch the Board want desperately
to understand the Game,
it's rituals, it's spirits,
the possibilities alive & haunting the 64 squares,
to honestly provide a homage of mind to History and to invention,
as if the nature of Chess is a dream of God's,
a subconscious engineering of grappling wants & needs,
of fears & hopes, of bravado & caution,
32 weapons arranged handsomely for the express channeling
of the Divine creative compulsion of Providence itself,
geometry made grand & gallant,
a homicide for Honor performed in the pressure of an hour,
all skilled players realise at some point
that quality brinksmanship ascends over the voice of victory
and can be reduced to the amazing beauty
of integrating logical processes with artistic allure,
misdirection a linchpin of the Master's ancient algebra,
momentum the indispensible monarch of strategy,
without It One is dictated,
mating nets, positional play, tactical moves,
a temple devoted to timeing -
J.A.B.
Categories:
integrating, art,
Form:
Ode
Being an American in Australia isn’t easy,
but I’m trying to integrate;
I’m trying to fit in.
Just one of the boys with all the right expressions
under my belt, like:
pasty glut
cosmetic spring roll rut
five o’clock shadow cigarette butt.
I mean, I’m trying to integrate;
I’m trying to fit in.
I try to talk about the good ol’ U.S. of A.,
and I’ve never mentioned Uncle Sam once,
except to suspect he lives inside Colonel Sanders
who also gives me a big pain in the ass
with his mysterious suppository herbs & spices;
cos I’m trying to fit in, see?
I’m trying to integrate.
Okay, I can get nervous about women,
and cover it up under muscle and toughness, O.K.!
Say: “All sheilas are made fer ****in’!”
while dreaming:
leather cock thrust
beer lubrication
violet steak lips!
Say: “All poets are poofs!” and
beat my balls around fields of green
with wooden sticks so stiff and clean, screaming
semen icing power
spread on scones of breasts!
Bloody hell! Can’t ya see?
I’m trying to integrate,
trying to fit in.
Like wearing high-heeled snow-shoes
and roller-skater shirts;
doing al the expected things, even tho’
my Balinese sarong trips me up occasionally.
I’ve got a sun-tanned *******,
and I’m keeping me nose to the ground,
no bloody fear! I’m integrating, ya see?
Trying to sit in.
I’m a tough-fisted slow-sauntering grog-pissing
knife balling tit watching ***** hating self-deceiving
regular visionless mate of no matter:
Swallowed by deserts
and the fear of ******s;
Tortured by sun
and the freeze of lost passion;
Murdered in business;
resurrected in wages!
Enslaved in the cities and
imprisoned by FACTS
that stretch from my body
in steel rails of tracks I ride on,
I hide on:
I’ve lost where I’ve been.
But I’m integrating
(yeah, INTEGRATING!)
I’m just fitting in.
Categories:
integrating, culture, immigration, international, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
A mysterious chamber lies hidden deep within;
Where fire breathing beasts skirmish, wreaking chaos,
And basilisks slither in a cesspool of mass confusion.
Facing the creatures of darkness is a daunting endeavor:
Neither easy nor comfortable,
Yet must be entered freely without fear.
To conquer them, I must realize
The horrors lurking are shadows of myself.
What's worse-I'm addicted to them!
I have lived my life with them:
Collecting, integrating, twisting as I grow,
They are all I know-my hardened habits.
As I explore and expose them, I progress their putrefaction:
They wilt and rot, reduced to primal sludge.
In the cage of self deception, awareness is the key.
A crust of blooming mushrooms glows white,
Thriving on top of the black filth, feeding.
This is the sustenance of illumination and self discovery-
The transformation of darkness is the path to creation of light.
As seasons revolve-there is no spring without first winter,
So is there no enlightenment without the exposure and destruction of ignorance-
Continuous transmutation: I am my own Magnum Opus.
Until only my pure essence remains,
I choose what defines me: my choices define me.
Just as the phoenix ignites and is reborn from its own ashes:
Simultaneous self-destruction and recreation,
Proving immortality, obtaining ultimate wealth.
I shall pluck the golden snitch from Mercury's staff.
Categories:
integrating, words,
Form:
Free verse
Let's declare solidarity as power and ownership with,
and older client-service models
are power and ownership toward.
Herein lies this with and toward difference
birthed by here and not-yet Kingdom capitalizing norms
pervading our non-profit
and for-profit public/private
eco-political capital sectors,
suboptimizing mutually threatening losses
substituting for WinWin cooperative self-with-other equivalent ownership,
Golden Rule coop-owner rooting
in sacred mutually organic subsidiarity
of grace and wonder
and healthy curiosity,
holistic integrity.
Evolving current competitive LeftBrain dominance
of WinLose Either/Or thinking
rather than advocating revolutions of and for cooperative Both/And
Left/Right ecosystemic balance,
both notnot reserved
and proactively for regenerative integrating profits
shared through mutually subsidiary individual
and family
and tribal
and community
and state
and bioregional networks
cooperatively owned
originally intended
and also Self/Other Earth-centered governing.
Let's declare solidarity
mutually-held power and ownership
with regenerative WinWin integrity
including both past and future generations
reiterations
optimally resonating resolutions
primal peaceful revolutions.
Categories:
integrating, education, games, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
It's much too close in here
for loneliness,
or companionship.
Either way,
I grow too small
non-existent
non-essential
undervalued domesticity with insufficient commodity,
just another over-populating parasite
underneath Earth's glamorous backside;
Suppressed incubator within a more integrating place
of nonverbal language
and full-octaned relationship toward outside
somewhere, marginally surfing
flowing symbiotic omni-nutritional fluid
umbilical corded string
for receiving ever more formative function
energetic unction
massive combustion
rebirthing my new Elder synergetic IdEntity
through Ego-recession,
contracting unrhymed rhythm
of fear of fear of fear...
Double-Binding negative threshold
toward appositional Eco-Love prehension;
echoing across echo-developing hemispheres,
inter-wombed regenetic too slow and tight economy
creating EarthTribe's Beloved Ecology
of paradise boundaried with pain
Longing reconnected within universal agency,
being primally related through
RNA's coincidental Hollow Womb Presence,
Earth's self-optimizing cornucopian abundance
revolutioning joyful grace,
redemptive polycoloring place,
regenerate revolving Memory time
as love-drenched EarthMother's space.
Ambidextrous-ionic amniotic fluid,
Janus-faced dual destined
to internally bring forth new life
by purge erupting each metamorphic fertile sac,
draining past generations
into future's new-born hope,
to emerge a womb with sufficient empathic communication
to compassion Earth's warm-wombed community;
reconnecting humane nature's transactional economics
with sacred nature's transcendent ecologics--
Great Transition deducing permacultured functions
inducing biological forms of regenetic polyculture.
We're much too close for racing loneliness,
at loooong sloooow last,
our time to become Beloved CoElational together.
Categories:
integrating, birth, creation, desire, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
My future captures my imagination
as my past succumbs to memory.
I imagine winning this economic game
by competing with everyone
and continuing to win unsurpassed
to finally arrive at my goal
alone
no one else anywhere near my self-inflicted finish line,
behind locked doors within my own keyed-up competing mind.
Each day invites my reincarnation
of yesterday and each day before.
Each year reincarnates the prior year,
but now a year older,
and seen from diverse nuance perspectives.
Each life reincarnates prior DNA unfolding lives before,
but now a generation older,
seen from diverse sensory systems across species,
cultures,
languages,
degenerating and regenerating
decomposing and re-integrating.
Each new millennial generation invites resolving reincarnation,
as this trans-generation completes our global energy sharing network,
learning together how we each cooperate our hope for Earth,
for our children, and theirs, and theirs...
for ourselves,
regenerating this Common culture sensed and woven together
more synergetically than possible
on any pre-millennial Earth
Time gravitates toward my future images
and past rememberings
of co-arising confluent discernment,
as Earth's time flows backward
in personal memory
and orthodox
Primal ReGenerative
Original Intent and Designing
Tao Codex.
Universal Uniting Intelligence
rediscovering ourselves
within Earth's ribonucleic elliptical mirror.
Permacultured stories tell of time and place
when and where and why metaphysics and math
were children of polyculture-rooted spirit/breath
development and design,
poetry and scientific revolutions,
dynamic open system ecological evolution,
self- and other-regenerative economies,
self-reiterating bicameral identities,
and seasonal changes,
and day's light warming
over night's dark-dream warnings
of cognitive dissonance emerging
by suboptimizing speciating integrity
of ego within all-embracing supereco
of Left deductive logic and Right inductive analogic
of yang-1 with yin-0
regenerations past still unfolding in generating future
within this Presence gifting now.
Categories:
integrating, earth day, future, identity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Talk to yourself.
Think and thank about yourselves,
how you have changed into different interests/disinterests over years and decades.
Think about yourselves
at least as generously
as you might best listen and smell and taste,
both digest and nourish,
your own worst Alien Enemy.
What is it that you can see
that you cannot yet perceive
with mutually cooperative compassion?
To live in self-regenerative health,
is to notnot Evil while self-communicating,
to avoid LoseLose metaphysical and physical gaming strategies
through ego-identity self-minimalization,
Empty of FertileTime,
choosing instead to self and other communicate,
observe and be knowingly watched, and co-presently loved,
to hear
and become listened to and known and appreciated as is,
to smell
and sense health
more powerfully than pathology
as positive with negative correlations,
fragrant (0)sum bilateral binomial double-binding frequencies,
taste and become digested by decomposing composts
of fractal-fusing-integrating time,
four seasons of iconic 4DNA/4RNA
Earth-Octave Climate Health Solidarity,
touch yourself
and be touched through all your timeless histories of Elder regenerators.
Talk to yourselves
at least as generously
as you listen most robustly
to past Alien EcoPolitical Climate-Times
belonging rightfully, peacefully, regeneratively, justly
within EarthTribe's Cooperative-Integrative Spaces,
People and OrganicPlaces with names and helpful, rather than condemning, labels,
Frames and Gestalts
and MetaParadigms of Climate ReGenerativity.
Imagine inviting your sacred-secular
polypathic mindbody into this new day
to be filled to overflowing fruition
by Others
sharing your Ego EarthTribe DNA/RNA Interdependent Identity--LeftBrain
with Empty (0) Reverse RightBrain
spiral-octave multiculturally regenerating
4DNA WinWin SacredDynamics,
Primal DiPolar DoubleBinding Dialectal Dimensions;
bicameral ego/economic health v political powering-over pathology,
polypathic ecoconsciousness
talking and listening healthier ecopolitics to yourselves,
past,
co-present,
as future regenerations.
Our multicultural ecopolitical Golden Rule,
treat yourself,
meet yourself,
watch and listen and sniff yourself,
at least as well
as you would
if you were also your own worst economic and politically-overpowering enemies.
Categories:
integrating, blessing, culture, earth, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
God Almighty, God of grace and goodness
your guide is always guaranteed to those who gain wisdom to exalt your name.
Omnipotent is what you are
but we learn no signs of overbearing
or pride or abuse of power in you.
Dear to your being is all the creation you brought in the universe
that the loss of to the devil disturbs you
and change the entire pattern of nature.
Amalgamation of all the characters of goodness into one is epitome
that describes you even though our knowledge of you is always minimal.
Love that sees no difference in colour, languages and origins of people
tells us how sophisticated you are in integrating different parts into perfect one.
Marvellous beyond measure is your ability to design plans
that seem easy to understand in face value
but the deeper truth about them remains with you alone.
Impressive throughout eternity is the balance of laws
that you draw up to regulate nature in its everlasting beauty.
Grandeur of your Throne supersedes all the glitter and glamour
that totals all the inventions of men on earth.
High as we know it is short in your eyes
for there is no space in the whole universe that you cannot reach.
Transcendence is the quality not enough to describe your mighty powers
that see no limits or boundaries.
Your patience of the rebellious overflows across the borders of millennia
to give a chance of repentance to those who are far away from you
but are willing to join in the Holy community.
Categories:
integrating, prayer, universe,
Form:
Acrostic
Within tender vulnerable hearts
blossom loyal loves without,
so too
within grateful hearts
blossom honorable patriotism without
for a people of democratically cooperative integrity,
and also grace-filling sacred matriotism
for EarthTribes of domestic nutritional integration.
Both politically public sectors
and psychologically mindful
egoLeft-ecoRight conscious
private sectors,
intimate
vulnerable
and not for sale or rent
sectors of polycultural right
and monoculturing wrong
hubris,
fake patriotism
without loyalty to underlying multiculturing wombs
fostering healthy integrating
nurturing
nutritious matriotism.
LeftBrain competitive patriotism,
nationalistic,
is mere exterior hypocrisy
without also Elder Sacred RightBrain
cooperative matriotic
MotherEarth's centering,
mindful,
egoLeft-ecoRight consciousness.
Vulnerable RightBrain spirits grow global polypathic love
as grateful LeftBrain dominant nations
regenerate Earth-patriotic matriarchal anthems,
love songs,
not just flags waving
but full-color solidarity banners dancing
with threaded bonds,
umbilical chords of harmonic rapture.
Why settle for merely patriotic nationalistic anthems
when we can sing multicultural love songs
of gratitude
for cooperative health-inducing EarthMother?
And Her honorable
grateful Daughters
and nobly patriotic Sons,
from generations past
for sacred regeneration futures
of deep learning
and cooperative bicameral listening.
Why do we RightWing pretend
our problems are lack of patriotism
when we both Left with Right Brains fly
through issues more cooperative
with underlying gratitude for Earth
gracefully paid forward?
Re-investing back
through (0)Sum timeless space
of positive equals notnot negative
spiraling
fractal
thermodynamic patriot-matriot balancing
secular/sacred
ego/eco-place.
Of and for bilateral consciousness
politically empowering/psychological flow of nurturing gratitude
convex/concave
exterior Earth-climate covering integrity's interior landscapes
uncovering
discovering
recovering bilateral cultures of health.
Categories:
integrating, earth, environment, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Integrate Integrity
I am learning to lead by example, what does that mean to me?
It has to encompass integrating integrity.
For what I admire in others, I need to internalize.
I want to feel no shame when I see myself through God’s eyes.
I was raised to recognize wrong and right.
I justified my actions through lies and deceit.
At the end it was my own suffering that made me realize, I had to admit defeat.
Along my descent I lost my integrity.
I was aghast at what had become acceptable to me.
I crossed many lines and thought I did not need to have any boundaries.
My lack of integrity, helped to bring me to my knees.
I did many things I said I would never do.
The most devastating lie I told, was not the lies I told you.
It was the lies I told myself that was once what I came to believe;
Until I was granted a reprieve.
In spite of the things I did to others and to me.
I must incorporate into my spirit, the definition of integrity:
adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
Integrity has to be imbedded into the very soul of me.
I thought I could make up and live by my own set of rules.
I thought I was the captain of the ship, but realize I was just a passenger on a ship
of fools.
No longer do I choose to build spiritual or emotional prisons.
When I did not practice integrity based decisions.
I heightened and strengthened the prison walls with my own guilt and shame.
Blaming others, because I refused to take the blame.
Until all that I could see;
Was my lack of integrity.
I willingly compromised my very soul.
There is no wonder why, I could not feel whole.
Today I am setting a goal that I must practice everyday.
Integrating integrity into my life; is the only way.
That I will live a life full of joy and serenity.
It is time to live my life fueled by the integration of spiritual and moral integrity.
Written by Greg Sykes
June 20, 2011
Categories:
integrating, inspirationallife, me, spiritual, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
Wealth,
in a competing anthropogentric,
aging egocentric,
world
depends on cooperative health
of LivingEarth;
To paraphrase Johan Rockstrom,
from the Stockholm Resilience Center.
Our comparative wealth map,
is not SacredEarth's cooperative health territory;
To paraphrase Gregory Bateson
of Ecological BiLateral DoubleBound Mind Mapping.
Our wealth medium,
is not necessarily EarthMother's healthiest message;
To paraphrase Marshall McLuhan
from Northern media of WiseElders.
Our resilient wealth economy
is necessarily,
and sufficiently,
gracefully and gratefully,
Matriotic Earth's resonant health-giving
as also health-receiving,
co-arising
WiseElder deep learning
sacred local-ego
through global ecology's
restorative bifocal lenses.
To paraphrase WiseElder DNA-RNA fractal-octave Solidarity,
Win-Win
not-not (0)Sum PolyPathic,
(0)Core PolyNomial Synergy
(0)Zen PolyPhonic
(0)Tao PolyReGenerate Health-Wealth Culture,
unfolding Yang
and folding in Yin,
inhaling Sacred EarthHabitat
and exhaling notnot Ego,
consuming
and producing,
investing
and divesting,
absorbing
and re-integrating,
implicating
and re-explicating,
precessing
and recessing,
investing
and re-divesting
wealthing
and re-healthing...
Categories:
integrating, caregiving, earth, education, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Learning, sleeping
Playing, wheeping
Integrating in the whole
Like a brick into the wall
Hearing whispers all the time
His unconscious needs sublime
Singing songs or writing poems
Escape he seeks, uncommon knowledge
Seeking perfection (not to mention) he fights the infection
That tries to stop his ascension (to the far dimension)
In silence he screams
He, who has the big, bad sins
An angel seeks his long lost soul,
For him in order not to fall
With the power of the gods
He survives against the odds
A She is created
To fit the unrated
The wish to fulfill
The dream to come still
Beyond, there's nothing more
Purity has lost his soul
Seeking desire
He has fallen into fire
Intense the burning hits his soul
In his hell he's gonna fall
From the dream he shakes and wakes
To take a bath and learn for math
Categories:
integrating, adventure, death, devotion, lost
Form:
Couplet