Best Mythos Poems


Premium Member The Guardian At the Gate

Spawn of the arcane, glutted, she sprawls upon the sands 
of mythos. As victims, star-crossed lovers, outcasts,
we have all seen the traces of these nether lands.
Sphinx-like, besotted, she lays among the bodies dashed.

A pixie smith has cast her silver chains, retained her
inside this mystic plane, stained her hide vintage rose.
Among the cards on the table, it is plain; she purrs.
Do you know what she knows; guess, a riddle she poses.

Protection sought from life's trials is at her command.
But, few coupled or single have journey past her grasp.
Unknown, to the unschooled, their senses unused, banned,
Christendom, the sacred fecund grail has miscast.

From Hatshepsut's visage, bound to Sekhmet she's sworn
beware, beware The Chariot's card once it is drawn.

Premium Member The Wooden Flute Sings

From the mountain's peak; the wooden flutes sound
the lamas leap and the water falls-- clear,
mindful, the wind's play on the Quechua's ground. 

The majesty of the Andes astounds
for from behind the clouds, the peaks reappear.  
From the mountain's peak; the wooden flutes sound.

Like great red-clay dunes or snow capped mounds;
courts rise and fall in terrain, so austere; 
mindful, the winds play on the Quechua's ground. 

Rainbows of red, blue, and gold oft surround
distant ruins of gray stones, now severe 
from the mountain's peak; the wooden flutes sound.

Solid, earth-bound, sun-browned, lost to the hounds,
so, Quechua shepherds bound stairs cavalier--
mindful; the winds play on the Quechua's ground. 

Pachamama's love surrounds without bounds, 
long gone are the conquers; all life is here,
from the mountain's peak, the wooden flutes sound--
mindful, the winds play on the Quechua's ground. 


* Quechua is one of the native people of Peru
**The Dominican Monks set hounds trained to kill 
on the natives who refused conversion.
*** Pachamama, fertility Godess in Incas Mythos

Myth of Mother Earth

Is there really a mother of earth 
watching over us 
keeping things in line
I think there used to be 
but she got tired of getting spit on 
now she sits up on her cloud
high above and waits 
for us to tear each other apart
and seal our evil fates
she wonders why we disgrace her lands
like monkeys in a rage
she thinks we ought to be locked up
no need for lock and key trapped inside
to burn forever at an intolerable degree
never the less we shall live on 
reeking havoc upon this earth
she'll stay perched upon her cloud 
until the crushing blows we throw 
send her beloved planet into a rebirth

Myth, Mythos, & Mythical Characters Poetry Contest
by: Virginia Frayer


Premium Member Co-Redeemer Vocations Needed

Naturally regenerative
living systems,
like Earth
optimize global ecological opportunities
as co-redemptive economies
of loving solidarity relationships
expressing mutual not-negative subsidiarity,
within a web of interdependent Win-Win default networks.

If we are born passionate investments 
of past yang/yin regenerations
redeeming economic risks
weighed as ecological opportunity
for pleasuring pleasant peace 
with active love for all species,
all nature,
all Earth,
all Universal Intelligence,
then are we also,
at least potentially,
an interdependent species 
of co-redeeming economists
thinking and acting and relating and feeling
sensing and feeling and smelling and tasting
touching and respecting and appreciating ecologically balanced reasons,
seasons of time and pattern and rhythm?
Where fasting advents precede 
and roundly follow
cornucopic polycultural seasons for all cells 
and organelles.

We find and sustain co-therapeutic relationship balance
half way between Yang-ego's deductive-reductive immunity boundaries
and Yin-eco's intuitive receptive co-operativity,
co-redemptivity,
correlation-ability,
mutual empathic gratitude
polypathic trans-actional multisystemic relationships.

If co-redeemers are messiahs
then we are also mutual bodhisattvas
as we intend cooperative Win-Win eco-normative salvation 
and eco-logically therapeutic outcomes.

Perhaps mutual messiahs find it simpler to wrestle with,
rather than against death's pain and suffering,
to figure out what to divest of
by reconnecting within each moment's present opportunity
to what and whom and when and where and why we invest integratively
with each Other's health and well-being,
co-redemptive economically rational, yet passionate, logic,
as well as Right-brain's intuitive temperate sense of balance,
proportion,
enthymematic syntax 
permaculturing rooted rhythms
of mindful songs
and global dance.

Ego's Logos as co-determinate partner
with Eco's Right-brain Mythos
co-redemptive political design
re-creating economic developmental revolutions.

Premium Member Divine Co-Op

Yang: What is the difference between a theist and an atheist?

Yin: A bicamerally balancing ego/eco-teleologist.

Yang: Well, so what's that; a teleologist?

Yin: You, if you believe the Earth is your co-gravitational 
(0)-double-binding mind-spirit/body-nature center
epi-center 
of wealthy egonomic
and healthy ecopolitical values, 
each with equi-valent 
ego/ecological 
transgenerational health-care 
deep wealth meaning merit.

Yang: So, who wouldn't believe that?

Yin: Probably no one.

Yang: So, why, exactly, is this an issue I need to look at right now?

Yin: Because, if you are an ecological panentheist, 
then you are also a (0)-interest 
co-invested bodhisattva peace warrior 
poli-economist, 
presumably.

Yang: Wow, I really did not see that climax coming at all!

Yintegrity: Yes, well, I get that all mind/body bipartisan time.

YangBright: Hmmm.... I can see purpose Now i
n sort of a 4D WinWin Cooperative Here
Ego/EcoOccupyers 
Rejoining RNA Tribal Purpose 
unfolding dialectical 
exponential 
deep fractal meaning 
kinda' organic sacred WuWays.

YinPower: Don't rush, reframe our collateral flow issues,
in alpha(0)mega double-binding poli-economic 
nondual crown/rooted
mind-dawn/body-dark
respirating EarthNature's 
dipolar teleological appositions.

YangLight: You flow on too darkly rooted much
for optimally repurposed fire-power.

YinPower: Invest less in competing economic partial-trusts 
and politically disharmonic insufficiency 
of loving sacred beauty.

Instead, 
invest in repurposing
every co-engaging 
meaning-full 
experiential expedition
only where your economic health flows out
our cooperative climatic inflow
of politically multicultural wealth.

YangMind: Ah, yes, 
I see 
our MidWay Zen
mutual reflection again,
where my Tao wealth
caressingly embraces your cooperative health 
of coarising egomind/ecobody-engagement

Right purposeful proportion, 
eco-dominant meaningful balance,
light's radiant fractal frequencies 
of regenerative logos-dawn/mythos-dusk

Yang/yin
pregnant/absent
positive/double-binding negative,
appositional boundaries of co-balancing light
and prime co-relational powers.

YinPower: And you think I flow out too much feeling!

Premium Member Bleeding Curiosity

Where my love goes
your mystery cannot fade.

Yet my curiosity can wilt without your active support,
contagious nourishment,
never-ending flames of wonder
that this love
you could persist with me.

How could we possibly not share our lives,
mutually disinvest of mysteries
that could dampen
more aggressive histories?

Yet without active curiosity
mystery fails hopeless to know more,
even though love’s thirst for internal sufficiency
and self-creation stories
becomes too easily quenched
by cooperative post-climatic adjustments,
aging continental plates
earth-quaking our chronically mutual myths,
and their before logos and after mythos shocks.

Where my love goes
your history could not shade,
yet dark fading curiosity of aging eyes and ears
and minds
can blend these my well-deserved contentment
feeding flame’s remorseless desire 
to continue this co-blind mystery
of love’s deep and blissful well-fed curiosity.


Premium Member Saints and Prophets

Bodhisattvas turn airflow into flames,
water into Earth
as Jesus turned baptismal waters
into blood red rivers
of warm nutritious wine.

Bodhisattvas,
like Messiah prophets and saints,
long for
belong to
the baptismal political economy
of cooperative ecotherapeutic waters,
as yin flows air MidWay notnot pathological
through Yang's Great Transitional flames
ecstatically leaping,
empowerment "hungry"
for air's co-arising health-optimizing 
embrace

as ReGeneration
balance evolving waves
of neuro-conscious language
logos thoughts 
deeper mythos feelings
inviting ecological ethos.

When our political voices become too didactic
we listen wiser for more lyrically cooperative outputs
with denser harmonics,
singing and dancing in
bilateral resonant appositionals
polycultures
polypaths
optimally nurturing ego/eco-health perpetuation,
regenerative yang/yin dipolarity 
of deep wealth EarthTribe.

While these singers and dancers
disconcert their way
maintaining (0)-investment PlaceHolder mentations,
SpaceTime Unitarian-Integral Occupation,
unbiassed polypathic attention 
to neuro/eco-systemic ethics
and shared bipartisan norms
and co-invested political cooperative values

Natural communion economies of cooperation with Other 
v competition for sufficient compassionate time
to heal threats to politically dense wealth outcomes

These are all held in Common Symbolic Messages
as invitations to positive individual freedom development
of positive values 
with nutritionally regenerative purpose
emerging future Bodhisattva Co-ReGenerators

Composed of past,
and disposed toward future, healthy love
of neuro/eco-passionate balancing
fractal mind enlightenment
and dialectical body empowerment

Where red flame 
of dawn's Earth matriarchal warning
meets red fears 
of long dark-swept patriarchal past.

Premium Member Tao of Healthy Wealth

On what metaphysical, natural yet spiritual, principle
might agree
an economic ecologist,
an evangelist,
and a political power analyst?

Earth's prehistoric Creation unfolded
more regeneratively compassioned
than degeneratively dispassioned,
or anthropocentric history tellers
and sacred scripture retellers
and, eventually, writers,
could not have become 
recreatively intelligent 
regenetically empowered 
neurosystemic co-investors

Enlightening SunFather
created LeftHemisphere's
AnthroCentric Logos
derived from spiritually sung 
and naturally danced
empowering EarthMother's
indigenously wise RightHemisphere Mythos

Remixing
reconnecting
re-ligioning pleasure mysteries
regenerating passion history histories.

And if we add the further premise
that on bi-hemispheric Earth,
as in neurosystemic bicameral logic 
and creolizing inter-religious language 
and cobinary polymathic listening,
positive 1-SunGod History
is equivalent to 
double negative 0-EarthMother Mystery,
then Earth's regenerative, resonant, resolving,
re-ligiously liberating
spiritually enlightened mind economic passions
balance conserving 
naturally empowered not not political body pleasures.

Or maybe this has nothing to do with indigenous endorphin wisdom;
its just the more agnostic Nyquil.

Idk

Some days I wish I could step outside myself 
Be you, someone, anyone, think different thoughts 
Ain't it strange you'll never know no one but yourself?
I'm runnin' blindfolded, seeking somethin' untaught 

Suspended within language, were comprised of the past
Mythos over logos, walkin' the tight rope of sanity
Can't decide if things are ever novel or just recast
Nihilism, can't decide if it's all just vanity

I'm no cynic, the idea of "meaning" just seems absurd
We're here after 13 billion years of unguided events
Think about it, we decided the meanings of words
There's 6,500 languages, each with unique content 

What it means to you, it don't mean to someone else
Hello, Hola, Bon jour, Guten Tag, Ciao, Ni Hao
Headed nowhere fast, better wear your seat belts
Don't think I believe the truth, all I'm sure of is now

Matriarch History

We are not strangers here
Where this new landscape
Faints in its own vapid air
A mistrewn carcas, a drape
On mythos of my shape. I
Too exhausted by dilated sermons,
Would break bonds and fly,
Though a son. We cold tarpons
In in deoxygenated mud
Hang to stems of shrivelled bud
It was not their choice, this
New world of disaster, this change
That all beliefs and creeds twist
Into something new and strange.
The matrifocal world is based
On surrender, a voluntary gift
Of self to trust that never erased
Their worth. Here trust adrift
They raised their own falg and rule
The desolation's empty pool.

Premium Member Religious Arts and Science

Art follows ecology 
of inductive diametrical synergy

As science leads logos
through deductive dialectical simplicity

As religious culture accompanies mythos
seducing ancient dialogues 
in amusing sage symmetry

A Useless Thing Called Love

Remember speaks its semaphore
in passing eyes elicit stare
coquette the lip is waiting for
some smoldering shadow shall dare

Make threat to mountain with needles point
and clasp impetuous the hawthorn bush
for care not so the virtuous caught
as petulant to cause the bloods ignited rush

Such a useless thing called love
the demon of a feather sent afloat
artist of another happenstance in truth
tempered to the molten coin of a harlot

And tumescent in the trespasser of
panders to a daydreams lecherous thirst
but claims to burn the yearning of
and in mockery damns the broken heart to burst

Make threat to mountain with needles point
where so many as want the angels will dance upon
better for worse or dissonant
the parting shrift or parting gifts delusion

Beaten  down to overburdened
exultation this poets cantankerous pen
or places in mythos such heady legend
a chocolate box of promises given

Still hammers bitter nails on libations grasp
treasured name so driven to agony
'till uttered with the final gasp
this ambrosia whispered into eternity

Freedom gained repentant of sightless prison
so open embraced surrendering kiss
as to quivering hand the lover seeks expression
and relinquishes all to hubris

Love be-damned to a useless thing called love

For what love wants is naught
neither in the service of soul
nor to spirits radiance brought
nor for love, is loves portent of, loves only goal

Elephants

Elephant skin is bark-like and rough,
advanced to a crisp, leathery tough. 

The great Milky Way could not be so large, 
nor so grey as the elephant’s muscular trunk

with aged-to-stone sinew—a supple, flannel hunk.
The overcast skies toss a dullness on the day -

somber and muted like the grey in the way 
of the elephant—its color worn unconsciously,

innocuously, and steadfastly. There is a mythos 
about elephants that depicts them as ponderously, 

lumbering mammoths, hulking and bulky as a brand-
spanking, new heavy-weight, woolen sweater —yet

they are most agile and keen creatures whose 
clumsiness is widely over-stated and over rated.

For intelligence, communication skills, and memory 
they cannot be bested –  fascinating creatures, the elephants.

Sham Cum Shame

They say the virus does not exist. Why?
our leaders politicize its mortality
profiteers make it a minted and crispy business
rumour mongers carry myths of it across the Nile
and the poor are to isolate at home in the safety of hunger and taste!

Too many years of a distrustful polity from our cradle 
as always, we heard of billions of a ransom given to the political virus
‘who’ kidnap our collective survival.

We heard from Mrs. Disaster of how billions were expended 
on the vulnerable somewhere uncharted.
We heard the golly-governor said he spent billions when he shared
packs of noodles to the hungry as palliatives to survive on five months ago now. 
We heard the markets jammed and streaming with viral sweats
of frantic buyers were once fumigated with millions of liquid cash.
We heard the spike in infection cases and deaths suddenly flattened out
after huge private and federal allocations in aids
We heard the country and people are broke and more billions of dollars
are borrowed. But where does the money go to? 
We heard the rumours, theories, mythos…!

Majority of the poor and needy only hear but did not see;
for those who have more, more are given and stolen.
Those who have none, even the little they need are denied!

They mutate dead cells of social conscience patting the pauper 
to go home and stay safe without a crumb of comfort, hope or bread.
We are tired of this sham of leadership and shame of distrust!

we saw food baskets kept on the threshold of the poor 
we saw hungry people lined up for the goodies of charity and state kitchens
we saw the unemployed get insurance and compensation
we saw the government expend social funds and give subventions
we saw the leaders and businesses arouse social trust and hope
not taxes and profits when the people are already famished
we saw the hive of humanity, not the survival of the fittest 
we saw a build up of philanthropy
not the building up of many pyramids…during a pandemic.
Nevertheless, these are realities in some other climes
which we are here still dreaming on!

Premium Member Political HIStory Legends

Testosterone performance history
shows great narcissistic
straight male supremacist
empire-building

Empirically right-justified
just sacred war apartheid
RightHand verbal 
male scribe dominant
religious HIStory writers

HerStory defensive
offensive bipolar
oppositionally defiant risk

MonoTheistic colonizing missions
disassociating AnthroSupremacism
from Holy Nature/Spirit 
AngryRight/FearfulLeft
dipolar appositional

Testosterone AnthroMind v Estrogen EarthBodies
dispassionately misogynistic

Cognitive brights v Intuitive nights,
verbal logos Historian v nonverbal mythos HerStory
of systemic trauma dominant/recessive 
depressive dissonance

Failure to strong synergy survive
as if Earth's nondualistic
nonverbal energy
for short-term 
discontinuously enlightened sperm strength
could resiliently thrive
without long-term 
continuously empowering egg integrity

As if
nonviolent indigenous wisdom
could have resonantly imagined
divine SunFather light unborn
without wounding pregnant
sacred EarthMother 
empowering energetic light
and synergetic power, 
bicamerally co-intelligent
religiously co-binding 
Yang/YintegrityStories

As if testosterone alone 
could give birth to generous estrogen
as Mothers reincarnate both Yang-formed Sons
and Yin-flow Daughters

Both Osiris historic light 
producing energetic poles
and Re her-story night 
engaging synergetic holes

MonoTheistic enlightened YHWH
western dusk born 
of PolyTheistic empowering 
eastern dawn HolonicSpirit

FatherSun enlightened unilateral mind
cherishing MotherEarth empowering bilateral bodies
made of panentheistic sacred/organic communion
of TestosteronePassion/EstrogenPleasure

Wo/man wu-wei depolarizing
epic cisgender political narratives
of love lives
won humane testosterone sung 
and divinely dancing estrogen lost
religiously reweaving 
bi-partisan reconnecting 
polyamorous gain.

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