Best Investment Poems
A lazy student known as Burt,
To parents and teachers was curt.
With little knowledge,
Flunked out of college;
Played stock market and lost his shirt!
12/22/18
To progress in life
I invested in learning
Knowing, my profit!
(C) Demetrios Trifiatis
13 August 2015
My son upon this Christmas Eve
I reminisce of midnight hours
Your fingers dancing over tenuous keys
And the emotions your talent empowers
I couldn't comprehend how you taught yourself to play
Or just how this symphony of one became
The songs you have inside of you like heaven on display
I revel in your poignant craft uniquely unprofaned
It's true that your propensity
Can lean toward darkened depth
A common vein for artists
To be moody and depressed
For your pain releases beauty
by your gift it's voice relates
You know your in the masters company
of Mozart, Bach, and Hemingway
So when your struggles weigh
As the sea laden oceans sand
Take your seat and breathe
Stretch out your feral hands
Creating an instrumental euphoria
For the lonely and the damned
Open the gate to moods your feigning
Though others will misunderstand
Christmas Eve and it's memories
This flashback came my way
Of your very first piano
The best investment I ever made
But one day when I'm aged and old
It will be you who cares for me
Play for me then on that Christmas Eve
With your love in every stroke
By investing in love dividends are assured even in afterlife!
(C) Demetrios Trifiatis
29 Junuary 2016
Complex 1 out/in polarity
for and of
chaotic not 0 holistic
in/out core dipolarity.
We may need to tolerate
survival of the win/lose fittest
1.
And yet want to invite
thrival of the win/win fit-in-ingest
cooperative
co-invested
perfectly balanced 0 soul
Co-arising 1 dipolar relationship
correlating round golden health
with win/win safety rules
for healthy-wombed
pregnant 0
Sentient non-0 souls
verbally dominant yang bodies
knowing 1's own yin-mind
1 knows
0-ego soul
+knows
and can not(-) yet feel
not not tipping points
Dipolar co-arising
co-investing in-between fully resilient
1/0 double-binding win/win
balancing empty entropic
x pole defines y hole
refines 1x
confines 0 not(-) yintegrity
loves fine yang 1(+)
nondual non-dueling integrity
As empty sentient minds
erupt embodied sensory feelings
Past 1 ego positive memories
evoke eco-future not-0
Earth-souled images
Complex bipolar 1's
for space and of time
1 mountainous body
and 0 bilateral valleyed mind
not empty hole
whole round spiraling 0
Looking for some compassionate
action
zone communion systems.
Smaller than a dime…
Transformations over time
Small seed in warm slime
I give you why?
Reason is there
If I ask in me
Indeed I want
Something from you
that's only for me
I can’t stay without love
I try to keep my love holy
So, I love you
I really love you
So, I give you
Without expecting any
If you get, then I get
your happiness is my reward
the fruits of investment
We have, I hear,
between each in-out breath,
only our integrity of potential wealth
for empowering health.
And so I feel compelled to ask,
What would it take
to draw us away
from our entertaining tools
and fascination with weapons?
To, instead, fall in love again,
with Gaian co-empowering outside healing places?
How will we deeply learn
HolySpirit
anima mundi romancing holonic living Nature,
health-wealthy relatedness,
ego individuation from eco-habitat
integrity and diversity
of our own sacred loving-kindness Nature?
Without an outdoor
universal-unitarian
affluent-effluent love affair,
a sultry night time flirtation
with moonlight
and stars bright.
What will you regret
as you lie dying
in a hospital room
drugged
and hooked up to communicating machines
more than communally interdependent organisms?
Perhaps having lost a bed of leaves
under long-loved oak trees,
raising your arms or branches,
as you are still able,
to kiss such ancient full moon light
still singing with our distant past and future
renewing moon starred-bright.
God Wise Investment
Each time I breath will take in whole world
And into a big tizzy I have been hurled
About what to me will matter the most
Of course Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
If together I can consume all Three
Much better life comes and will be
When I have accepted all of Them
Will be so healthy and remain trim.
Why off fat of land should I try to live?
When all of myself to God I must give
In Bible is an Old and a New Testament
Saying God will be a wise investment.
I have to get with the program and
start typing up my poems.
James Serious Mysterious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet
http://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/top_100_poets_most_poems_all_time.aspx
Our real investment is love
Is it compounding?
Or losing?
10/26/11
Dalila G Agtani
Entered in Dr Mehta's Contest
Quinzain form 7/5/3
Here
perfect palatial pitch
resonant
Now
peaceful elational power
richly resilient
Brilliant and beautiful
healthy wealth
inviting democratic Trust.
Learning bilaterally co-arising passion language
contrasting left hemisphere
egocentric elitist thinking
full of imperfectly pitched history
against right hemisphere
ecosystemic non-elite feeling
encourages each of us,
migrating toward multiculturing Trust
together
Bilaterally
binomial health/wealth better
at polycultural rejoining
ego's political LeftSoul
with economic Right EarthSoil
Reweaving sacred EgoYang Trust
with Eco Yintegrity,
ego's theological enlightenment
with ecosystemic ecologic
empowering compassionate communications
Left hemisphere wandering
again/with right hemisphere's interdependent
EarthHome feelings
of warm
safe
and beautiful sanctuary
muticulturally here
polyculturing now
Humanity power experiences
realistic capitalization of win/win Trust
also distrusting win/lose zero-sum competing around
expecting, at best,
minimizing losses of insufficient cash
In exchange for felt mistrust
and market analyzed potential resale value
with least short-term
up-front loss to sacred TrustedOther
Wandering
diffuse
exhaling left hemisphere self-esteem
diminishing social political economic cash value
to leave to anthrocentric kin,
and maybe a colonizing
missionary StraightWhiteMale entrusted
encrusted church;
Maybe, too,
an EarthCare Green CoOperative
trusting in a healthier win/win future
for Earth's recreative
young regenerators.
Left hemisphere cooperative Yang
wandering
wondering
arm in arm,
win with win,
with Right hemisphere interdependent yintegral
perfect eco-political pitched feelings
reweaving ecofeminist Trust
in green encultured journeys
back through all Left hemisphere's
privileged quantitative Space
and Right under-privileged qualitative
bicameral
secular/sacred Trust
in Tao's Great Green/Blue Transition
co-arising EarthHealth Time.
Another ending and a new beginning,
A whole different world filled with surprises.
It feels like the world is spinning,
In which a new challenge arises
A heart, wanted by many
and though the future is unknown,
I will venture into it.
Soldiers march into a battlefield of love.
Their faith tested and broken,
Until a sole victor walks out of the fog,
To claim what is rightfully his
To have love in your life
Is like being insured,
It’s a good path to true peace of mind.
It can cut like a knife
But it leaves you assured
There’s some covering for your behind!
And if love comes with debt,
You’re investing in you,
Which is always a good place to be,
And like any asset,
Best to take the long view,
For the good stuff you rarely get free.
Still crown jewel of soul,
I can’t say this enough,
Is the time you invest in God’s word,
His, the heart to console,
For when going gets rough,
All He wants is to know He’s been heard.
Though you think it’s control,
He just wants you to win,
And your happiness all He desires,
Let Him walk with you, stroll
Down a path clear of sin,
Not convinced His ride’s sweet? Kick the tires!
Long Tooth
June 25, 2016
It’s great to be a member of the global elite,
The bean poles in my garden are standing proud and neat.
Organic veg is thriving thanks to ample bags of peat.
I never hear a siren roaming down my street.
I’m fairly relaxed when an airline goes under.
Got a business proposition? Let me find you a funder.
“When will I fix their boilers?” my tenants do wonder.
I’ll soon find a scapegoat, if I should make a blunder.
A product of a public school, the pride of Shrewsbury,
Forcibly convinced that you would rather be me.
The reality is I’m at the top of the tree
So every branch manager is looking up to me!
My diary is dependent on the diligent Katrina,
She runs the show like clockwork, you’ll find nobody keener.
She cuts through all the jargon so the minutes are much leaner
And can text me at the golf club or on my yacht in the marina.
I’m awfully busy, cannot give you an appointment.
Upbeat copywriters - you can find a place in my tent.
Relatively shielded from the risks of disappointment,
You’ll never find a fly in my ointment!
If the radiators splutter, I call my handyman,
If my money’s on a racehorse, then I hope it runs to plan,
On the promenade at Paignton I’m a suave and sandy man,
To a certain travel agent, I’m her “neat and dandy man.”
My doctor comes a-running if I ever get a cough.
Your trusted friends will recognise when you’re a toff.
I flutter like a butterfly high above your moth
So the sprinklers on my lawn are rarely turned off.
Sundays see me mulling over crossword clues
While my weekend valet cleans my outdoor shoes,
Got to keep my name out of the news.
Remember buddy: heads I win and tails you lose.
Now most of my investments are quite discreet,
There’s a chalet in Antigua and a villa in Crete.
Want some carrot cake while you’re thinking on your feet?
Then you’d better not quibble with the global elite.
This poem first appeared in the P.U.W. Anthology "In the Name of Democracy - Poetic Voices" on 22nd May 2021.
Sniffed out from foul twisted undergrowth
Encouragement in limelight smile and sundress
Laurel of long advance, deserved antidote
Floral flamboyant signatures his status success
Musk gland masculine, meaty arm amble
Arrogance infuses ropes knotted through chest
Dangerous forest flux of financial gamble
Endeavours decipher chat in distant continents
Retiring sub fifty showcases his ruthless pursuit
Intrepid hunter clutches lithe coloratura
Cherry augmented tiramasu allures taste astute
Hedonist director of theatre spectacular
13th December
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