Best Optimally Poems
Below are the all-time best Optimally poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of optimally poems written by PoetrySoup members
NoiseIn Chibok,
An IED finds it way
Into the mind of a savage sect
And made good use of the emptiness.
In helplessness,
Some school girls are bundled up
From...
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Categories:
optimally, angst, bereavement, betrayal, high
Form:
Blank verse
Ecotherapist ConventionsTruth is a feather
pushed off to the other side.
Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.
OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and...
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Categories:
optimally, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a...
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Categories:
optimally, anger, destiny, fear, hate,
Form:
Epic
Water's WeaknessThere is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin...
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Categories:
optimally, power, psychological, water, western,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Perfect Love, Optimal LifePerfect love is perfection,
it is rare,
if such love exists at all
it must thrive beyond boundaries of my own experience
either receiving,
or giving.
Could this perfection of synergetic...
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Categories:
optimally, culture, love, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Psychotripic Theory of EverythingCompassion co-arises nondually
internal-external.
Today I want to talk about possibilities
for integral polycultural dynamics,
which are systemic relationships,
correlations,
between LeftBrain deductive ego-mind,
RightBrain inductive eco-body,
and a boundary between these...
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Categories:
optimally, community, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Free verse
Earth RoundThere once was a messiah with crown
so heavy it caused him to frown
when he gave it away
some folks say to this day
it grew lighter while...
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Categories:
optimally, adventure, birth, blessing, humor,
Form:
Limerick
When We Need HealthInsufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, weakness, loss, decay,
anger and fearful hatred
wilting climatic change
in...
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Categories:
optimally, culture, health, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Fundamentals RedefinedFundamentalists compete with and through struggling evolution
as Transitionalists would further peaceful revolutions.
Fundamentalism:
A patriarchal-historical view
rooted in interpretation of sacred scripture
written by nondual co-arising NatureSpirits
dipolar appositionally rooted
of...
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Categories:
optimally, earth day, environment, history,
Form:
Political Verse
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for...
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Categories:
optimally, beauty, earth, growth, happiness,
Form:
Political Verse
Darwin's Double-Dark DilemmaElder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for...
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Categories:
optimally, culture, death, earth, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon Healthy TimeOnce within eternal time
of pre-LeftBrain domination,
I recall breathing in
EarthMother's richly hued nutrition,
and this Other inhaling me,
purging lungs of misperceptions
that I was Her
any more or...
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Categories:
optimally, birth, culture, history, integrity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Sun God's Original IdeaI'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing
compassionate/revenge...
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Categories:
optimally, earth, health, sun, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Answers Without QuestionsWhy do questions hope to end with answers
while answers seem to never end
without yet more questions?
As a case in point...
How are the Case Studies...
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Categories:
optimally, feelings, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Cooperative Family PoliticsI think he's talking about a cooperative bicameral political system,
with "How to talk to the other side".
And what could that possibly mean, dear Yang?
Well,
I was...
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Categories:
optimally, culture, earth, family, freedom,
Form:
Political Verse