Best Theistic Poems
***I am reposting this poem as I think it is my finest poetic creation. I feel the imagery of the piece and its 'fabled' characters are cohesive to create a positive environment that reflects the star's light of hope; the 3rd stanza and the poem's final lines provide a natural summation of metaphysical realities that incur from human emotion and suggests that we all come from the same mold and thus we are not the cause of ourselves; 'a theistic natural priori in the belief of God through the poetic endeavour.'
I awoke to find the tall splendor of the world,
in those cosmic canyons,
shearing darkness ----
in the pallet of some ethereal night;
ancient with desire.....
to Illume the thick shadow of hades itself
Not death nor mortal doubt
couldst thou flee from me,
mighty as Aphrodite ----
Shooting thy silver smile
beautiful as heaven's promise!
In your shimmering I see hope,
for the heart which beholds thy majesty
the world could fade,
yet you remain.....
a friendly face if none should be found,
but you.....
that thou Creator dost reveal;
my soul,
ageless as thee
(am spun from the same loom)
Categories:
theistic, creation, god, hope, life,
Form:
Classicism
theistic silence
of
moonlight snow
a
stillness
spawns
& soothes
laden boughs
bent
in
silent
submission
&straining
stems
stanching
streams
silvery
sheen
on
slippery slopes
moonbeams
shinning
in
rubellite dream
&jewels
of
snow
symphony
in
surging swells
&slow
yearning whispers
wailing windsong
aches
&
sacred silence
of
snow
Written; January 10, 2023
Your Choice Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand
NOTE:THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols ,the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and responds thus making this enigmatic form a two way interplay & interpretatIon unique to the moment& changing according to mood is inherently variable.
Categories:
theistic, analogy, inspirational, meaningful,
Form:
Other
It rages still, that great dichotomy
among the puzzled ones
in search of one clear archetype
that marks reality; what is it...
every thing at all,
or nothingness?
Each opposite, a fodder
rich indeed to test for truth.
Each has its champions,
and each brings deep contempt.
So let us wallow with them;
It does not become us to demur.
Origins may be dismissed,
for thingness rides on creeds
too busily involved to narrow down
to a disinterested, non-theistic choice.
There must be higher ground
if grounds there be at all.
Of necessity, they lie
beyond our touch...or anyone's.
Blind, we are to sight and sense,
to logic, speculative formula
and even wild imagining
by ages yet to come.
Surely it is madness,
all this nothingness
that we are left to contemplate,
yet mind is unable to do that--
are we agreed?
That we are raving idiots
appears to be our single road.
It is too high a price for me.
I shall not pay, and cannot, of course.
I am devoid of reasons or their source;
happily bereft, it would appear,
even of myself.
~
Categories:
theistic, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
In this lifeskills class in political economics,
we look at politics as healthy power
and economics as wealthy flow
of cooperatively held assets
and win/win co-passionate resources,
investments in polycultural symbiosis
and disinvestments from monoculturing politics
bad relationships and nontransactions of hoarding
and competing discommunications
suffering monolithically
Anthro-centric LeftBrain dominance.
This lifeskills class
may also reconsider
where paying-it-forward economics
and democratically cooperating politics
lead to healthier and wealthier outcomes
for society
and all Earth Tribe cultures
than patriarchal capitalist
systemic RightWing trauma.
If economic flow
and co-investment balancing function
are sacred,
then politically interdependent relationships
might be divine,
designed with therapeutic intention
co-arising positive wealth-care practice.
We might conclude this lifeskills class
for medicinal doctorates in health optimization,
with some split-brain research
concluding that RightBrained politics
can only Be present
with graced ego/eco-proportional presence,
a non-languaged
embodied
root systemic
HappySpace of co-empathic confluence
with Positive Political Psychology.
Meanwhile, LeftBrained evolving economic function
flows from past to deduct-reduct-redact,
then re-language
a lexicon of future's felt win/win v. win/lose
v lose/lose mind/body
wealth/health frequencies,
stored in dialectical strings of DNA
back through transgenerations of space/time
co-revolution.
This politics of Right's timeless-present
political grace
informs Left's economic discernment
of sacred cooperative space
as primal relationship of Self+Other,
as Yang-AnthroMind with Yin-EarthBody.
We could conclude this lifeskills class
intending to elect political leaders
to deep listen to economic
nutritional wealth mentors
speaking compassionately
about how to grow healthy
co-empathically powerful
win-economic-mind/win-political-body
co-relationships
Which may require letting go
of Earth's monotheistic-capitalist
systemically traumatized clergy
Supporting God's BeLoved People
with competitive win/lose
missionary economics,
silently sustaining
AnthroPrivileged
trans-phobic
unhealthy ordained gurus
and mono-theistic
unwise
unwealthy politicized thugs.
Categories:
theistic, community, destiny, life, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Sickness and tragedy
are not punishment
but facts of life
viruses attack
wars kill
tumours grow
leukemia strikes
blood vessels clog up, burst
the innocent are killed by
drugged and drunk drivers
psychotic people act out dreams
that only make sense to them
in a parallel reality
alcohol distorts
ends in abuse
children are killed
by playing with guns
drown in pools, rivers
these are but facts of existance
there is no theistic God
directing these processes
of cause and effect
whom we can call
don't misunderstand
God is very real
but different
to the traditional
belief of old.
Categories:
theistic, care, god, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Merciful Deceased Mother - Father T'will See Thee Anon
Atheism underscores bedrock
schema Holy Toledo
encompassing mine secular humanistic credo
simultaneously tricking elusive illusion, sans
supernal radiant quintessence
blasting damn ming the torpedo
didst alight kindle linkedin skepticism,
asper this son kissed faith no more,
(nor e'er didst I believe)
with irrefutably blinding albedo.
Though both parents
predecessors theology, included prayer
purportedly distilled within
Eastern European Jewry, where
without bonafied definite
certainty doubts to square
lee dismiss, this mortal
forced to conjecture dare
ring declaratively, while
sitting in thinking chair
(bet my bottom dollar to air)
course, I take leap of faith here
me forebears most likely
modus operandi did adhere
practiced, skewed, premised
Semitic virtue and vice
towed toward theistic obeisance suffice
hath to claim parochial paradigms mice
self attests little doubt,
(no matter scant rice
sized grain genealogical details posit,
one granule pepper, or
other old World spice)
supposed speculative precepts
akin to bing as loose as lice
sen shuss behavior
precepts prevails precise
lee predicated on
(at the minimum Reformed) price
less cherished Jewish,
traditions as device
ordering existence, (perhaps Judeo Christian)
principled tenets to whit
and mention above sit
chew waited at down
chronological arc soon to quit
final chapter of life, though
near ninety year old papa will visit
death be not proud realm
after he doth exhaust limit
of his mortal tenure, I admit
he gives nary a fig,
his meager profit
will not be deeded to any church,
and this sole son
expects (dentured teeth to grit
tight and eyes teary)
to reed only commendable
comments asper his obit,
where spirit of Harriet Harris fuses
with that of Boyce Harris as one unit
Tarry yon forever!
Categories:
theistic, cinderella, forgiveness, funeral, goodbye,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
All conversations,
like harmonic music,
practice rhetoric's resonant reconnection
with communicating hope,
spirited intent,
re-ligioning faith;
panentheistic love.
All revolutionary integral spirals
practice nurturing naturally healthy trends
with spirited hope,
mindful intent,
embodied creolizing faith;
and within Great EarthSystemic climaxing devolutions,
still small voiced sad-theistic love.
All divinely humane re-creators
nurture open-loop polyculturing re-ligions,
emerging local healthy
through global wealthy hope
reweaving positive empowering intent,
economic enlightened faith;
and, inter-religiously,
nurturing nature-spirited indigenous love
of organically sentient root systems
panentheistically savoring landscape re-development networks,
both on- and off-line,
with arts and craftsy non-ZeroEgo EcoCommunion Zones.
All verbal discernment practice
LeftBrain dominant language communion
with re-ligioning mind hope
for active body climaxing love,
faith in Gandhian nonviolent communion wealth
of nondually co-arising win/win healthy outcomes.
All reiterative information strings
within communication networks
organic and/or digital
practice co-arising/co-gravitating flow
Positive synergeticMind/synapticBody
AND DoubleNegative dipolar aptic,
with hope for less felt dissonance
and pathological absence
of primal LeftVerbal-thoughts/RightNonVerbal-feelings
bipartisan synergetic re-ligioning communication.
All love-sentience practices sacred communion
re-connecting healthy multiculturing ego-faith
within wealthy polyculturing eco-religion
EgoAnthro Left spoken
inside EcoEarth's unspoken Right
to live Tao balance proportions of symmetry,
Tipping MidWay Points
gleaming sunlight's reflection off Earth's transparent skin
toward Alpha OneSun Light through (0)Mega EarthPower
neuro/eco-woke bicameral bright
displaying Ego's mind/body stage
for song/dance
re-ligious health campaign wealth events,
each interdependent aria/aura
comprising EarthTribe's ReLigioning Opera.
Categories:
theistic, allah, beauty, community, earth,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
OK, mindful class,
past time to reopen our nurturing nests,
our nutritional mouths
and good-natured ears
and fertile reverse reserves
of not Lose/Lose
EarthMother Health-Wealth Care.
First,
we define our variables,
bilaterally co-arising
recreating
bipartisan dipolarities
Depolarizing
bipolar competing aggravations
replacing Old School co-gravitations
cooperative structured spatial out-forms (x-Yang)
and compassionate temporal in-flow(y-Yintegral
Organic green growing secular BodyLeft (x)
and sacred MindRight felt (y)
x/y brilliantly resilient body/mind co-investments
Where x presents Integrity
of enlightened LeftBrain solid form,
And y represents CoInvestments
of empowering RightBrain synergetic flow.
Please respond as I call:
X also Here presents...
Universal
space without sufficient time
And Y again Now remembers...
Unitarian
wealth of time without severing
Universal health care space
Very good.
And, thereby,
resurfaces reverse appositions
between Solidarity (x)
and Synergy (y)
Of non-zero
Open Whole Living BioSystems
for x/y Gaian NeuroSynthesis
Green Tao Energy
CoPassionately coalescing
inside mindful listening classrooms
while creolizing cultures and religions
outside indigenously integral
win/win peak experience
polyculturally robust
HealthCare Communication
Wealthy EcoPolitical Systems
As Golden Rule understood
and appreciated
by AnthroPrivileged students
of LeftBrain empowering
nonviolent ecofeminist
secular (x) communicating forms
sacred (y) peak communion flows
In economic
and political conclusions,
co-invested and co-operative
Universal spatial solidarity (x)
Yang bilaterally double-binds Yintention
Unitarian temporal synergy
exponentially encircling (y)
Emergent
Mono(x)/Poli(y)-Theistic
Gaian felt panentheistic
inside RightBrain nonverbal
nonviolent win/win communication
Unconditional warm-flow
womb-formed pre-traumatic
universal/unitarian bifurcated mindfulness
Original prime matriarchal attachment
(x/y) ego/eco-systemic harmonic
EarthTribal resilient ch'i-balance
harmonic wisdom circles
for sharing resonant wealth
of resilient health.
Categories:
theistic, appreciation, education, health, humanity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
First,
and hopefully last,
organizational meeting of the Polycultural Party
tonight
in our conjoined Meeting Room,
between your bipartisan eyes.
If you
work or live in a cooperative
democratic tax-based community,
would like to live more healthy
or work more inclusively wealthy
in a more co-invested environment,
If you
garden or farm, or just feed, with organic preference,
If you
would like to live in a more nurturing political climate,
If you
write or dance or sing,
or some other variety of artistic engagement,
or your grandmother calls you "artistic"
because she just doesn't know what else to say,
or you would like to live more authentically,
gracefully,
integrally
within beauty of ego/eco-normic
win/win
resonant creativity,
If you
are bewildered by New Age spiritual
and feel old age natural,
Then you are already an uncertified member
of our Polycultural Party.
Let's continue co-mediating with each other,
speaking and listening
about how to be
and become
this Green EarthTribe Party,
more bilaterally organized,
more co-intelligently organic,
more neurosystemically co-climaxing resilience,
healthier foreplay design
and
wealthier FatherSun/MotherEarth
crown/root
mind-passion/body-pleasure
Mono/Panen-theistic
Bipartisan Left/Right
co-intelligent
health and wealth-care
co-mediating integrity's development.
Categories:
theistic, adventure, analogy, beauty, earth,
Form:
Political Verse
Listen to sterile silence
nursing homebound fans
wavering white noiselessness
of silent futile passing
Absence of passion
hope
care
happiness
or creased
and reasoned
nearing deceased sadness.
Hear this void of madness,
lack of hunger
or parched thirst
for conversation
splendid nutrition
scandalous emission
empowering immigration
enlightened emigration
or angry fear emanation
of forced solitude migration
Into mortal loss
of sensory reception
political deception
economic perception
theistic inception
septic conception.
Smell nothing.
Taste everything
becomes dust
delustered rust
lust for transcendent
disembodied consummation
omnipresent transportation
omniscient evaporation
full latitude
for fragrance-free
plastic platitudes
feckless attitudes
disdainful blows
against further fertile emanations.
Sing where nothing
settles into rounding octave rings
to never
ever want to dance
in robust spirals
forming springs
Against depressions
felt repressions
thought impressions
known suppressions
unheard deflation
worn through integration
transcultural conflation
Of pantheistic elegant circling Zeroes
absorbed by a monstrous
monopolistic silent
slick supreme One
Listening to sterile silence
nursing homebound fans,
white emptiness
of silent
restless passing.
Glare at isolation.
Rake loneliness in.
Sleep with solitude
if you dare
to care
and share
yet without an inch
or squeezed moment
to spare.
Categories:
theistic, anxiety, culture, depression, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom scriptures swell through every harmonic creed
each deed spoken across culture's regenerations,
singing multicolored psalms of Paradise
Earth rebirth again through anthro-chosen death
of stale humans only need apply
to and for heaven's ridiculously opened gate
Radically sensuous ecojustice
sung by crickets
feeding songbirds
flying on and on back toward sunrise
sweeping across EarthMother's original baptism
in SunFather's fertile rays of godlight.
Integrity's incarnate presence
without monocultural apartheid
or even anthrocentrism
Messianic light by which all have come,
by which all return,
no creature comes through Father Time
on Virgin Mother Earth
but through and with each co-empathic Other.
Bodhisattva nature mystics
learning to plant and harvest souls, Earth's seeds
of holy holonic consilience,
synergy,
authentic agape I AM
this integral erotic EarthTribe WE ARE
fathers and mothers of rich multicultural birth traditions
evolving revolving time measured light
remade in humane power's uncontrolling image
Re-creation re-imaging
re-connecting
re-syncing
re-ligioning
re-generating imagined
time's revolving warm
nutritious
nurturing
spacious light
engorging timeless night.
Puritan politics of mono-theistic unsensuality,
like cold mono-polistic economics,
is either consiliently enlightened
or tyrannically disempowering
EarthMother sacred
or monochromatic anthro-privileged hubris
uprooting polypathic unconditional trust
exploiting fear of monoculturally elite dinosaurs
devouring spiritual paths toward more complex
synergetic
polymathic win/win elegance
Political bodies engaging resonant peace
restoring economic EarthJustice outcomes
for CoMessianic depolarizing rights
to regenerative polytheistic practices
enlightening timeless past
empowering spacious futures
below/above
inside/outside
immanent/transcendent
inhaling/exhaling
en/pantheistic practice.
Categories:
theistic, baptism, christian, culture, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Bliss-filled, awesome… yet simply fantastic
Highlights my special son’s show, eclectic
To the phlegmatic, it’s too dramatic
Midst praise-songs, verily operatic
While others comment as realistic…
Heaven-bound, spiritually ecstatic
Journeying zealously, never static
Treading on holy paths though erratic…
There he is, during first scene’s act, frantic
While communing with God in the attic.
He says, he’s no religious fanatic
Proven by his Scripture-driven antic
With what he labels as divine tactic
Against load intellectually hectic
To combat boredom that’s enigmatic.
In counseling grumbling pessimistic
He can become passionately poetic;
Defending his beliefs, he’s dogmatic
Challenging every self-confessed skeptic
With Bible truths to which his soul does stick.
Striving to persuade the apathetic
He trusts the Lord’s mind, indeed majestic
So as to be wisely analytic
Prudent, being lovingly didactic
To share the Gospel*, evangelistic.
In preaching, he’s very enthusiastic
As one who’s practically theistic
With gracious zest, he’s so energetic;
Ministering, indeed altruistic
Bearing Christ’s heart… surely empathetic.
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel.
April 2, 2019
3rd place, "YOUR CHOICE(9),any form,any theme" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 6/15/2019.
Categories:
theistic, appreciation, blessing, character, christian,
Form:
Monorhyme
When rapture outcomes
spiritually hoped for,
Paradise faithed in,
loved,
justify unnaturally violent missionary means...
When only scientific and deductively logical
reductive educational goals
justify:
Anti-spiritual wide and shallow unlearning means
Monocultures must TeacherWin before we StudentLose
Mono-supreme theistic Lose/Lose terror and neglect
AND yet quiet WinWin hope
for integrative Wonder and cooperative Awe,
When cultural orthodoxy rewards
Monotonous Win/Lose colonization methods,
monochromatic disintegrating lack of co-operative meaning,
mono-maniacal mistrust means...
This becomes a healthier time to recall
deeper ecological polypathic learning.
Original intent
at our EarthTribe's DNA Beginning
justifies our healthy polypathic means,
re-adjusts our WinWin strategies,
cooperates our end game Future plans.
Teaching ecopolitical Beginnings
Justifying ecological means
toward restorative healing.
Spiritual Beginnings
justify secular/natural
deductive
LeftBrain dominant means,
just as brainstem EcoMetric patriarchal XY beginnings
equal (means no bullying allowed)
matriarchal YY integrative ends
Beginnings, with ends,
justify natural/spiritual theological WinWin
cooperative integrity means,
ZeroZone re-creational
resilient wu-wei methods,
Ego-health toward eco-wealth
optimal vocation justifying meanings
When love beginnings
justify healing means,
then WinWin endings
justify deep learned healthy meanings.
Categories:
theistic, green, integrity, motivation, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
A strong cooperative offense
is our most competitive defense.
Avoiding RightRed fascism
totalitarianism
terrorism, dark secular raptures and/or terrified jihad,
fundamental Nature is sinful, negative yin repressed,
while Spirit is health invested love, positive yang,
long-term ego/eco-centric,
bilateral co-temporal,
evenly humored humanistic divinalism.
By choosing divining higher
and humanely deeper
GreenLeft/RedRight co-regenerativity
strengthening LeftBrain's historic secular case
for more cooperative climate cleansing
by divesting of RedRight's competing disassociating divestment
away from
Divine/Humane WinWin MultiCulturing Holy Spirit
cooperative matriarchal/patriarchal outflowing natural
ZeroZone soulful
bilateral 4-Dynamic Primal Seasons
PolyNomial-GreenLeft ecology
for PolyPathic multicultural RedMountain Yang
speaks YinSquared Divine NonViolent ValleyLeft
PolyPhonic
Red light of dawning memories
co-invite Earth's Green reforesting vocation
in 4D bilateral Left/Right positive energy
democratic-trusting frame
dynamically parallel bicamerality
with resilient fractal string-structures of humane DNA
and divine RNA theological Origin
and 4-ecological ZeroZone Seasons
with 4-theological nurturing Reasons
for romantic infatuation
with Eastern outside red dawns
of post-millennial inside climate warning
and
Western indigenous Earth and tree
and Sun and moon
and Extended sanctuary family
nature/spirit worshipers,
singers,
dancers,
historians,
improv and designing artists,
designing and implementing ecologists,
creation and degeneration processors,
deep learning ecotherapeutic theologians
story-tellers of legends
sweeping cooperative neighborhoods
greeting travelers,
sojourners,
fellow walking
and flying
and swimming
and crawling eco-pilgrims
Liberally green
and conservational red night lovers
cooperatively mentored delight
avoiding tomorrow's nationalistic
ego-theistic
utterly narcissistic
BoogyMan
planting anti-historical flim/flam stories
hoping to fool all people
through all competing ZeroSum mythical time.
Categories:
theistic, culture, health, history, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Balconies From Afar
In a view from the balcony, above the aquamarine sea
All the gifts of creation are unwrapped, like bark on a birch tree
Where the strength of the soul is exposed to salt air, screaming in the sun
Look what exists from love, in each drop of water, it has begun
For the eternities stain the sacred sands of theistic time
Of viewing the celestial bodies that rupture with rhythmic rhyme
Admits shimmering stars that drip with love on a hot summers day
Thus our spirit sails to shores of heaven botanical ballet
For the splitting minutes that pass us by, in which we may forget
While the tide’s forces pull us like the spinning reel of a cassette
Our hearts pulsate with all the sparkling rivers flowing into one
What started as love is a chosen final dance, when we are done
As the moon and earth tango within the midnight ambient air
Our souls collaboratively collide through a falsetto flare
Then love shed its lucid layers amongst the empyreal abyss
The infinite skies await from balconies afar, a first kiss
Heidi Sands and Winged Warrior
6/14/18
Categories:
theistic, creation, heaven, love, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme