Best Nonviolence Poems
Nonviolent Communication is a powerful approach with a gentle voice
To communicate with empathy, understanding, a compassionate choice
It is a framework for expressing ourselves honestly
While actively listening to the needs of others openly
It encourages us to recognize our shared humanity
Our innate capacity for compassion even towards insanity
It focuses on understanding feelings, needs, and requests
Rather than blaming or judging the other when they are not at their best
Start by describing how you feel
Letting each other speak will help you heal
Identify your emotions related to what you see and say
Recognize the underlying needs or values driving your energy or the other away
Clearly express what you’d like from others
It doesn't mean that your needs will be met
but it gives them a chance to rise from under cover
When the other speaks, let your listening take hold
Be aware of your reactive mind, that wants to butt in and scold
It is a working progress to communicate this way
Without the violence, anger, and hate that pushes us away
It takes one match to burn a thousand trees
Don't be the one to strike it when you are both down on your knees
Non violent communication is a listening approach
In a mostly verbal world it can be the best coach
So the next time you find yourself in a verbal battle
Try and remember nonviolent communication and be free from a lot of the hassle.
Categories:
nonviolence, anger, community, emotions, relationship,
Form:
Rhyme
No need for violence or aggression
A passive acceptance of oppression
A powerful tool for social protest
To be peaceful and not violence many will resist
It presumes the intent of social change
Some believe not using belligerence is insane
Nonviolence is a synonym for pacifism
When you hear this word, you associate it with Civil Rights and racism
Nonviolence is not inaction it is the patience to win
You gain a lot of support, love, respect, and friends
See many people do not like change
So many have used diverse methods in their peaceful campaigns
Dr. Martin Luther King seen peace and equality to all races in his dream
Mahatma Gandhi helped India win its independence through bigotry that was extreme
I think that we should inevitably re-shape the social order in a lack of prejudice form
If we constantly use peace, we can weather many of these racial motivated storms
To listen to another's point of view is largely dependent on reciprocity
Not injustice, hate, and apathy
That is what makes me so angry
Remember what Jesus’ says, "love thine enemy”
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of
spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
Martin Luther King
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they
are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi
Categories:
nonviolence, black african american, inspirational,
Form:
Rhyme
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.
Categories:
nonviolence, desire, destiny, environment, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Love will never prevail.
Love will never lose.
For Love is not over,
not under.
Love is between, amongst.
Tendrilous, between
Hearts.
We that Love may fail.
We that Love may prevail.
But in our winless,
in our success,
we will know Love.
And this is no final victory,
it is a uniting of the you, the me.
Not in contest but in the heart
of our very breast.
Love cannot prevail.
Love cannot fail.
Let us not fail Love
by asking her to fight.
-ShhDragon
Categories:
nonviolence, love, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
But the tenants seized the servants and one of them they beat, another they killed, and third they stoned. Matthew 21:35
How violently the tenants acted
Besides beating
Stoning and killing his servants
They also killed the owner’s son
This parable prefigures the brutal death of Jesus
But long before being killed by a barbaric crucifixion
Jesus felt the effects of human violence and harsh rejection
He received a hostile threats
Sarcastic barbs
and verbal taunts from those who supposed Him
He experienced the unnerving outcome of people whose fear turned on Him
Chased Him out of town
And yet
Jesus did not respond with similar violence
He walk His talk
Not only preaching non violence
but living it
When Peter sliced off a man’s ear in order to protect him
Jesus insisted the disciple put his sword away
Jesus then healed the man’s ear
I am reminded that too
must avoid revenge
If follow Jesus
I will ease desiring harm to come to those who insist on being an enemy
Categories:
nonviolence, christian, fate, jesus, people,
Form:
Free verse
The "Trilogy of Non-Violence" advocates peacefully uplift humanity
Humanity is to behold a peaceful way of overcoming the struggle of life.
Life, where all souls are valuable and with love are diminishing hate
Hate! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. states, "Driven out by the light."
Light of the world for humanity to see shining bright, eliminating darkness
Darkness, which Attorney Nelson Mandela survived in gloomy dungeons.
Dungeon of despair, trying to rent his humility, spirit, and soul without relent
Relent, he withstood, overcame with God's grace, seeking peace, not revenge!
Revenge develops turmoil in humanity's mind and soul—"So agonizing!"
Agonizing the spirit to do ill will toward others without peace—Violence!
Violence Attorney Mahama Gandhi pronounced is inferior to non-violence
Non-violence is strength emanating from an indomitable will of humanity.
Humanity diligently erased images of the beast, displaying its ugly appearance,
Rev. Dr. King, Jr. Attorneys Mandela and Gandhi defeating such ugliness!
Categories:
nonviolence, beauty, courage, hate, humanity,
Form:
Other
I'm at the mall
waiting for my new lenses
to find their inside home
in my old outside frames,
Hopefully
not like new wine
in old
opaque skins.
I try to engage
with an anthro-war story,
"The Invisible Woman"
Feeling myself silently camouflaged
in a sedate sitting area
sparsely inhabited only by my eyes
searching
and ears
spying
Listening for what invisible witnesses
hear
and empathically feel
"In wartime,
trusting the wrong person
can prove fatal."
How much safer is trust
in peace time?
anthro-dominated
industriously capitalized.
Does living Earth
even feel like peace time?
Or Business As Usual
domestic abuse,
neglect,
silent, but not really nonviolent,
atrophy?
Degenerating entropy?
of a human child's boundless curiosity,
enthusiastic health,
win/win wellbeing
panentheistic luminosity.
"Virginia...
will do everything in her power
to avenge the brave people
she lost."
Is the only important difference
between brave patriotic people
and innocent victims of autocracy
a sacred v democratic division?
between anxious war
sacredly declared
and every shopping day
peace deal making
between secularized
competing consumer commodifying diplomats
Perpetually undeclaring
rights of conscientious
personal bodies
to remain innocent
of ballistic
nihilistic
trauma producing
and stress consuming intent.
Is hero-worship the only moral distinction
between society's righteous reactionary revenge
and personal power's need,
want,
self-righteous entitled greed
to avenge?
"Virginia knows,
now more than ever,
that failure is not an option."
A lot of pressure
stress
fear
anger
internal oppression
when mortality
and disempowering defeat
and disabling wounds
physical and mental,
natural and spiritual,
are not an option
When power is a weapon
wielded over OtherTribes
and cannot be a tool
kindly and carefully offered
without Othering.
Like seeing
with win/win restorative lenses
in old win/lose traumatized
Business As Usual
anthrosupremacist frames
For spying how exhausted I am
by silently witnessing
uncivil
anthro-war stories.
Categories:
nonviolence, caregiving, culture, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
When universal trauma lurks
with upper hand,
To know paranoid loss
is to fear unjust death
of much-loved reputation
compassion's robust integrity
and pleasure's self-respect.
When unitarian therapy
lends Her feminist sway
to feel peace
and co-invest in life
is to predict pronoia
and cherish waxing love
and self-forgiveness.
For both these reasons,
we send a significantly wrong message
of blame the victim
when we post public health messages
like "Suicide is preventable"
Which is no more
or less true
than Systemic Trauma is
and is not preventable
within one anthropocentric
LeftBrain verbally dominant
monotheistic ecocidal lifetime,
OR one mature and healthy democratic trust relationship,
one compassionate communication ReGenerative Story,
one encircling EnLightenMind/EmPowerBody
resiliently brilliant
resonantly elegant
polyamorous and possibly pantheistic
naked native Nature
sacred/organic
win/win narrative
Gaian Hypothesis prophesying,
When trauma lurks
with upper dissociative
and irreligiously patriarchal
right-hand victimizing vengeance fist,
To know mental depression
body-shaming repression
cognitive oppression
intuitive pleasure suppression
is to fear comprehensive
fight or flight
and critically frenzied frozen events
of neurological,
and now also ecological,
loss.
When therapy
lends EarthMother's feminist sway
to know resonant win/win integrity
reconnecting healthy life's
most resiliently wealthy impressions
is to predict patriotic trust
and matriotic safety,
animus penetrating truth
and anima receptive beauty,
expressive cognitive compassion
and impressive intuitive pleasure
Win/win thriving respite
from ego- and eco-distempered,
win/lose survivalist,
dissociatively irreligious,
RightWing dominant trauma history
To fully rekindle compassion's
wealth embodied laughter
health mindful listening
Gaian Muse lustery
Organic passion's sacramental
deep erotic governing
exotically orgasmic
therapeutic pleasure mystery.
Categories:
nonviolence, death, health, integrity, love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Compassion wears an overwhelming,
mountainously exterior face
Filling
and refilling outside
while emptying inside
ego flowing focus,
co-passion concavely felt
known valleys of contentment
wealth woke
health awakened
empathically safe embraced interior
Connected,
often without conditioned
encultured
articulated
verbal content
In-between integral ego/ecosystems
inducing and producing individuation,
MeWe co-relational identity
bicamerally felt communionation
bilaterally known
primordially contextual
full of mono/multi-culturing words
and empty of unmanifest feelings
NonZeroism,
like Taoism,
and Universally exterior
co-passioning Unitarian interior,
seeking
and reseeking,
deflecting
and reflecting integrity
of inside meaning
for outside purposes
co-empathically peaceful
restorative
therapeutic
healing
Viral
vital
vivaciously curious
intelligence
YangOut
and YintegrityIn,
Above
and below,
Wide compassion
and deep co-empathic
passion,
universal
and unitarian,
conserving strength
and liberal flow,
immigrant colonization
as also emigrant creolization,
convexly bold
and concavely untold,
Mountain
and valley,
transcendent monotheism
and immanent panentheism,
sacred
and secular,
mono-divine
and poly-humane,
Sun enlightenment
and Earth empowerment,
Right
and Left,
As above
so below
West
and East,
North
and South,
Spectral
and NonViolet,
healthy political spiritual culture
and wealthy economic natural climate,
Hierarchical monotheistic
dominating pole
and matriarchal panentheistic
full/empty primal [w]hole,
1
and 0,
Universal AnthroSupreme wealth
co-binding Unitarian EarthTribal health.
Categories:
nonviolence, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
LOST! LOST! LOST!
Neither the purse
Nor the pen
Not money not Jewell
It is notified to all of you
A soul is lost from the heaven
Long ago on earth he dwelt
People used to call him Bapu
Simple outfit great heart
He was fearless never frightened of getting hurt
Not only fought but also taught
Equality, forgiveness, truth & a lot
Adore the good avoid the bad
He was true caretaker of whole mankind
Neither accept torture nor choose war
Turn up to nonviolence, love & peace.. Forevermore
But now where to find him in present
I searched everywhere & asked everyone here
Some pointed to a picture hanging on office wall
Some showed him printed on rupee notes in the pocket of all
His related articles kept safe in museums
& his important messages, pressed in books.. Said librarian
His mere pictures are everywhere
But his priceless values are lost
His priceless values are lost
Our "BAPU IS LOST "
Bapu = Father (father of our nation)
NOTE; collaboration work of Sakshi Singh (me) & Simran Singh (my sister) on the occasion of "Gandhi jayanti"(birthday of the great soul Gandhi -2nd October)
Categories:
nonviolence, angel, birthday, father, forgiveness,
Form:
Where all humane souls repent
of contempt
for our EgoSelf
against our EcoOthers
And celebrate,
or at least commend,
express gratitude for,
our inner enlightened
and empowered
co-passionate communication,
dialogue,
discernment
Bilaterally
and multiculturally informed
by
of
and for
global climate health
and polycultural wealth
of resolving thought
resonant wellness-felt
restoring bipartisan prosperous peace.
Categories:
nonviolence, appreciation, culture, health, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Opportunities to rest
in unconditional self-regard
also present risks
of unmitigated narcissism.
While self-respect
is my prerequisite
for pursuing resonant win/win integrity's
full bodied potential savor
flavor
favor
MeWe co-passion
for EgoSelf
as also part of
sacred EcoOther
co-arises global
unconditional
regard for healthy life
over harmful death
and all conscious
curious creatures
in-between Alpha
and Omega
great transitions.
Ego wealth of self/other compassion
values love
above all else,
although perhaps more could be said
for an unconditionally regarded
sense of humor,
Ego/EcoSystemic joyful
resilient compassion
remains cooperatively therapeutic
powering through competitive
narcissistic trauma histories
Of win/lose closeted
micro-aggressions
miscommunicating
what was originally intended
to express warm unconditional regard
for oneself
as part of cherished Other
Dipolar
(not bipolar)
co-arising regard
co-gravitating toward
a shared sense of healthy humor
Which is a loving fruit
of the Holy Spirit
the serious narcissist lacks
in his dominating patriarchal
capitalist
anthrosupremacist
EarthView
Of unconditional
LeftBrain prominently learned
disregard
for empowering cooperatively curious
and warm
and enlightened joyful
bipartisan caring co-relationships
Loving
open
transparent
vulnerable
non-judgmental
means compassionate
unconditional Me-and-We
integrally cooperative regard
For opportunities to rest
in unconditional self-regard
despite past
and present
and future risks
of unmitigated
LeftBrain monopolizing
monoculturing
monotheistic
snarky narcissism.
Categories:
nonviolence, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Said Earth's Oceanic Therapist
to Heaven's Meditation Master,
Silent,
aparting meditation
naturally exhales
toward inhaling wet green co-passion
dipolar communions
following appositive surfing inquisitions
of courageously resilient undercurrents
turbulantly co-arising curiosity.
Wanting,
needing,
craving an orgiastic climax
bilateral
dipolar warm and welcome baptizing
Without first give and taking turns
active working,
listening and speaking
nonviolent foreplay
co-passioning cooperative intent,
Is like going to church,
singing Bach's Alleluia Chorus
before getting back into our aparting cars
and trucks,
trains and planes,
ready for another exhaustive
extractive
sexless secular week
of win/lose devolutionary
impotent weakness,
Sang Earth's sex therapist
to Heaven's green communion liturgist.
Categories:
nonviolence, environment, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
To follow our most transparent Light
To lead the most deeply vulnerable Soul
To accompany Beauty's most trusted Bright
This compassionate communication quest,
like positive psychology's best
and whole open systemic theories
about all our most synergetic rest
Resists negative
prejudicial
Retributive Judgment
of EgoSelves and EcoOthers
While positively promoting
TransParency
and VulnerAbility.
NonJudgment,
like NonViolence,
feels far weaker
than positive healing communication powers
of ComPassion.
Yet ReStorative CoPassions
do not seem to co-arise
to the enlightenment potential
of TransParency
or the empowering powers
of VulnerAbility.
This potentially positive Trinity
feels like an almost Holy
Whole
Holonic Triune Truth
Like Yellow sunlight's TransParency,
Love's Blue oceans of deep rooted
nurturing
VulnerAble panentheistic Soul,
Luscious Red flaring flames
of passionate EarthBeauty
Perhaps ComPassion
is less about humane contentment
and more about divine Beauty,
red-blooded EarthPatriotic Joy
enthusiasm
vitality
viral win/win contagion,
peak sensory-sexual experiences,
red skies of dawn's climate vulnerable warming
warning
AND dusk's multiculturally transparent delight
Invoking PolyCulturing CommunioNations
in a more tripartite egalitarian wisdom
full spectral communicating with,
and for, Beauty
Transparency
Vulnerability
And the greatest of these
is the Beauty of all three
redefining a Whole Open Communal Spectrum
Extravagant
exotic
erotic
intricate
intimate
infinite
sensuous
sensory
incendiary
incomprehensible
ecstatic
elegant
handsome
handfulls
of gorgeous nonviolet
win/win conversive
lose/lose reversive
vulnerably restorative
transparently regenerative
EarthParadise Passion.
Categories:
nonviolence, beauty, community, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Where does nonviolence begin?
Take root?
What is compassion's fertilizer?
Especially in a fast-paced
utilitarian
capital acquisition and extraction
competitive monoculture.
Does nonviolent intention,
within and without,
not arise from positive health experience?
From a sense of remembered safety,
well-being,
co-passion,
unconditional regard
for mutual peace,
for breathtaking beauty
Within a Whole Systems context
of working
and playing win/win together
for holistic health optimizing wealth
of polycultural EarthJustice.
Unlike a predisposition to mistrust
rooted in win/lose experience
And unlike an indisposition activating distrust
cemented in lose/lose
degenerative
monoculturing personal
and political
and economic history.
A thought/felt bilateral position
combined in compassionate ecopolitically enlightened
Left empowering Right co-passioning balance
begins in my own primal win/win
EarthMother health/wealth attachment,
relationship,
co-investment
In fully interdependent Trust and Beauty,
Health and safe Wealth
primal bilateral co-relationship,
experiencing sensory-neural
nutritional communing
co-passion.
What can nonviolently
and logically
right and leftbrain
integrally and licitly
be x and not-x
at the same time?
Yang and not Yang?
Space and not Place?
Timely and yet Timeless?
NonViolent Relationship.
What's inside defined
and refined
by what and who,
where and why,
how and when
is not outside.
Categories:
nonviolence, culture, health, integrity, love,
Form:
Political Verse