Best Tensions Poems
Let everyone love his neighbor as he loves himself
And folks once more turn to God, to each other for help
Then tensions will ease, with a reduction in stress
Yet when that will be ~ I wouldn't dare guess
January 16, 2020
WHEN and THEN Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Jenish Somadas
Covered Emotions of Growing Tensions
Growing tensions, Oh!
So sadden by the feelings
Covered emotions
10/14/17
by James Edward Lee Sr.
pour enough shoe polish into a river ~ stepping stones may appear
optical illusions yes ~ scratch at the surface find man’s true veneer
By
David Kavanagh
Billowy storm clouds turn to skies of azure blue
Agonizing pain fades when its days are through
The trek of life has its many ups and downs
Its seasons of smiles, its times of frowns
We hope more joy and gladness are recorded
Than all the heartache and sadness that’s reported
Yet troubles and trials are given that we might know
That adversities strengthen; crises help us grow
If all the joys were placed in a basket of cane
And all the pains put in another of the same
Then both are put on a balance scale at life’s end
Would they equalize or which one would ascend
Perhaps, it is just a matter of how one views life
Joys are difficult to evaluate amid strife
And pain often accompanies times of celebration
These tensions are oft together whatever the occasion
Daresay, it is not whether these tensions exist or not
Inner feelings of ecstasy or agony play their part
It’s how we handle and ascertain life’s various scripts
Life’s many ups and downs, its differential treatments
Surface Tensions
© Ben Burton 6-11-2015
Surrounding yourself with court jesters
Will not elevate your IQ
Engaging no one but supporters
Does little to broaden your view
Stay leery the lib'ral dimension
Which seeps like an incessant tide
Unconquered, though captured red-handed
Insouciance their constant disguise
As sycophants silhouette secrets
From verity's solar-hot gaze
The moral facades of the wicked
Have stingers submerged in bouquets
Your hearth begs a vigilant watchman
To foil any plot to invade
But sentries are naught without power
Of armaments meant to dissuade
A surface of elegant beauty
May yield but a squid, quid pro quo
So hitch not your raft to a bauble
But anchor it deep in the soul
A life engulfed in tensions,
Someone kicking at the iinfra of our mansions,
Such a juncture is horrible indeed,
To suffer and pass out is'nt a feasible deed!
Someone hammering at your sensitive senses,
Progression of confidence losing its hopeful
chances,
Piercing needles at unexpected places,
Are very common the melancholy faces!
Tears, Tears, Tears, tear off the yearned nears,
Here, Here, Here, are reared the worst fears,
Fate, Fate, Fate, why did you turn so brutal?
Life, Life, Life, show some soothing miracle!
Every night has a sparkling morning,
Each celebration has its succeeding mourning,
Diamonds after urchin are here we yearning,
Hats off to ones succeeding after an internal
burning!
Shots are fired
between the north and the south
Reconnaisant planes
prepare to detect the upcoming 'shroom
Allies out there
Detonation becoming clear
Dogs from the West
Puppies of the North
Ready to be surely skinned
In the Afternoon of Atomic Parade
IS IT CLEAN OR IS IT DIRTY?
We'll soon learn around 12:30
'fraid to look at the plasma
Knowing what's to unfold
A scene of Cataclysmic drama
don't bother putting your PETS to bed
Mean mr.Ling will just say:OFF WITH THEIR HEAD
A topsy-turvy World of imminent Missile
To wipe away this populace
At least for a little while
Watch THE DAY AFTER(on DVD)before you go to sleep
Images to scream for
Desolation to make one go BLEEP!!
You might believe competitive evolution
also shows potential for cooperative co-creation
because it takes at least two reiterative trends to tangle
and tango.
And your contentment could include polypathic tensions
and intentions
and extensions
seeking further refinement
and smoother flowing
undulating
co-resonant resolutions.
Perhaps all you have implied is a reverse of focus,
from competition as LeftBrain dominant
to invite cooperation as RightBrain co-dominant.
And
you might argue
and I might agree
to adjust our zero-sum core center
is to change almost nothing significant at all
and yet also profoundly reverse everything
within cultures of regenerate-degenerate health
recovering from pathology.
IMPLIED TENSIONS
interlaced
celebrations
in beguiling settings
anticipation
consumated& fulfilled
in a textured
tapestry
a variegated nuance
in convulsed
gestures
of conscious
sensibility
THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived
despair&anxiety
pathos&mercy
pity&desire
divisions&
imbalances
beyond
solution
A FP
The Earth's rapid climate degeneration,
now rolling out faster with private transport
and industrialized meat and poultry farming,
and longer with artificial light
and factories birthing plastic products
all night,
moves into a revolutionary height
of global anxiety,
democratically felt
But kleptocratically denied
by win v lose monocultural caste leaders
not familiar with win+win revolutionary
polycultural outcomes,
caste abolishing incomes
for all sentient beings
Multigenerational regenerators
meta-morphic appositional
(not win v lose oppositional)
dipolar
(not bipolarized)
thinkers because feelers
meditative contemplators
integrity's permaculture designers
restoring down to top co-arising
AND, therefore, co-gravitating top through down,
all around,
non-violent communicating peaceful mediators,
All healers of toxic subclimate
and monocultural win v lose
either/or left-brain dominant thinking,
are also, at our best,
bicameral ego/eco-systemic equivalent anticipators
of win+win global green peace
New through indigenously experienced co-passionate raptures,
sacred Heaven anticipations
as Earthly organic garden
expectations
28/10/11(home)
By Sashi.Prabhu(ZEAUOXIAN)
Behold! unto me it will ever so cling,
Often wonder why it lingers on with me,
Untold, it is to make the church bell ring,
Akin to a dark shadow it owns the locked key.
Reflect I practiced every morn for sure,
Pondered much I for every need,
Pure Thought, me knew was the only cure,
For now all that is put forward is pure deed.
Content am I with my present self,
Away has travelled the devlish reign,
Calm is my mind content in itself,
Dark thoughts they say I must abstain.
Every morn ,now it awaits for me,
To a cool breeze and a warm smile,
And when I look out so green is the tree,
My life I feel has just begun to be worthwhile.
Chained between church&cloister she chose to be
A picture of the Christian walk,for all to see;
A mystic life was her remit
Visions of Divine love,was her writ-
In the world..but not of it !
Tribute to Julian of Norwich(note Julian was both a man's& woman's name in the
1300's)
So many packages, for no reason, I carry,
And walk burdened, my body and soul seem scary...
Tensions, I call them; nothing if I look within,
Just like an onion when I remove the whole skin...!
Any little word of my friends or neighbors, odd,
Any act for which I do not get their applaud,
Is enough for me to brood within long like fowls,
And lose my sleep and wake up many nights like owls...!
So many foes, thus, in my life I had soon earned!
Full of pits in each step, thus, my life had upturned;
None, like eyes before staring sun, I could not face,
Betwixt us, I could feel, forming an unknown space...!
Enemies and only enemies everywhere,
Shades of foes did shadow my soul and rudely glare;
Anger, fear, guilt, doubt, loneliness, and helplessness,
All, in their toughest chains, bound me in callousness...!
Having suffered, as though throat-choked, I decided,
These pessimisms, like sun shades, are one-sided;
Optimism, with rainbow colors, when, fills the soul,
The world, with diversities, will turn single whole...!
I unlocked my closed heart with keys of faith and hope,
Though coping with all seemed to tread on a tightrope;
I did not give up; a bit bloom of smile; a hug;
And felt, at last, each tension is a mere humbug...!!!
13 January 2023
Revealing Your Soul And Other Tension Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Sotto Poet
Why roam around with tension in head,
Why not live in the moment instead.
Why entertain negative premonition,
When thoughts are based on supposition.
Tensions take away our present,
in misery moments are spent.
Tension filled moments are hard to forget,
life long sadness at very thought they beget.
So many thoughts mind does brew,
most of it doesn't come true.
We end up looking like a fool,
for all the thoughts we did pool.
When mind is filled with tension,
their is no room for concentration.
Brain's working does cease,
we fall prey to many disease.
If we live in present we are ever thoughtless,
life becomes joyous and effortless.
Blitheness, faith and positive disposition,
go a long way in ending all tension.