Best Unenlightened Poems
You fling words
with the same concern
as skimming stones
offhandedly
and
unenlightened
not once
recognizing
the escalating consequences
upon the delicate ecosystems
of the human psyche
Categories:
unenlightened, hurt, society, vanity,
Form:
Free verse
Why do you do as you do
and not do as you don't say?
asked the journalist of the leader,
asked the child of her parent.
Because I like to help
and I do not enjoy recognizing myself
as a selfish hypocrite,
responds the leader
to writers of famous and infamous history,
respond therapeutic parents
to children writing compassion stories.
How do you know you are helping
and not helping retain a flawed toxic elitist system,
maintaining poverty of margins
far below wealth piling into too much power?
asked the cynical divestor
challenging this help-as-health investor,
asked the hurt and wounded child
challenging her health-confessing
professing irreligious monoculture.
I doubt I could help
without co-investing in flawed health with pathology
in both political and economic systems,
responds this wu wei leader,
responds this co-mentoring parent,
but what have you noticed
might help more
while collaterally hurting less?
It seems to me,
writes aging journalist
and systemic trauma informed WholeEarth Tribalists,
those plans and budgets and stories cooperatively researched and written
by and with and for co-investors
in our civil passion/pleasure trusting enterprise
sustain more healthy multiculturing mind/body wealth,
with less pathological neurosystemic backwash,
as compared to Business As 0-sum Usual,
anthro-absorbed profit monocultures
elitist Publican winning
to lose further uncapitalized
democratically needy
competitors against too-exclusive empowerment.
Why do you win/win extend co-empathy as you do
and engage compassionate communication
as you would become Earth's Beloved PeaceCommunity?
asked the exhausted leader of retiring generals,
asks indigenously co-intelligent MotherTrees
of their polyculturally extending forests
Root and crown
body and mind therapeutic
politically empowering/disempowering
enlightened/unenlightened economies.
Why do you inclusively co-invest as you do
and not empower what you don't communicate?
asked the journaling child
about her favorite MotherTree's
inter-religious Golden Rule
to optimize effective
and efficient co-governance.
Categories:
unenlightened, child, culture, health, leadership,
Form:
Prose Poetry
I feel the need to share with you the beauty that I see
In this land we call America - the gift my fathers left to me.
I see the plains and rolling hills that sing of raging wars
Hiding so many bloodstained graves that our enemies abhorred.
I see the glistening canyons and creeks meandering through our land
That once were the sight of battles which raged under a General’s command.
I see majestic oceans that transported many a soldier home
With broken minds and bodies to a homecoming with so little aplomb.
I see mountains stretching longingly toward Heaven’s saintly light
While shielding a weary soldier who seeks sweet respite for the night.
I see crystal lakes and streams once tainted a scarlet red
From the sacrifice that freedom cost in a warrior’s cautious tread.
I see the faces of families grief-stricken in sorrowful pain
From the loss of a loved one far away who was patriotically slain.
I see a price paid for liberty that was precious a decade ago,
But is since taken, too, much for granted by the generations bestowed.
So, I pray for understanding and peace with foreign shores,
For an understanding of patriotism by our unenlightened scores.
For there is no country greater where millions yearn to be free
And pass through the gates of freedom so blamelessly blissfully.
Categories:
unenlightened, america, patriotic,
Form:
Rhyme
So unenlightened
A curious girl,
So much
I want to know
So much
I don't understand-
Everything's
A mystery of
Profound
Magnitude
How did I
Come to be here?
So in awe...
Such suspense,
An 'any minute'
Hell
Go hand in hand.
And, so for answers
I look up into
the vast blackness
A trillion
Crystals winking,
Blinking
Enchanting
Bewitching
Let me
Play
The piano
Pulverize my
Flesh and bones
To a pulp...gory,
Blood-soaked
Just leave
My will, my heart
And eyes
In tact
For this is
My journey
And, I'm obsessed
With living it
Let me
Play
The piano
Woman, of
Hades
I implore-
Be gentle
With my tender
anatomy
I'm way
Too young
To die
Let me
Play
The piano.
Categories:
unenlightened, childhood, passion,
Form:
Prose
Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions
of eco-politically salvific technology.
When I first read this list
of his global Three,
the one that stood out
at least for me,
to potentially
break through our tendency
to see through lenses
nationalistically
is Earth's great climate pathology.
Still,
all three are LeftBrain dominant,
StraightWhiteMale privileged,
Patriarchal-Capitalist nationalistic systems
of scientific reductive-rooted secularism
and defensive
extractive-infested
militarism.
Aside from a home habitat
in WholeEarth Crisis,
extinguishing all hope
of future peace health
is our cooperative multicultural wealth
regeneration,
our ability to distinguish
which of these three
is most transparently
exploitive and disempowering
our SunShine EcoSystem,
To dialogically determine
which is most polyculturally vulnerable
to inflaming
already repressive Patriarchal/Capitalism,
Which is most unenlightened
and monotheistically RightWing
StraightWhiteMale
LeftBrain dominant
May also be the unholy Fascist fascinated
demonizing ecowomanist healthy choice
and Earth as sacred Goddess
panentheistically denying,
Holy Nature/Spirit indigenous defying,
climatically degenerative Nationalism, yes,
but also, more fundamentally dualistic,
AnthroSupremacism
over ecofeminist healthy wealth
of fertile sacred Earth
Where monoculturing climate "change"
may become most easily defined
by Yanged out RightWing predation
fueled by a competitive economy
of hierarchical
from-above produced
and massively media marketed scarcity,
rather than from-within
ecological healthy robust wealth integrity.
Then again,
I could also see win/win opportunity
for health as wealthy polycultural activity
in co-immigrating away from global fear
of nuclear nationalistic hostility
Emigrating toward global polypathic thrival
post-secularizing revival
of sacredly uniting cooperativity
principles of Eartherapeutic Energy
as healthy integral international democracy,
NonViolent Communication fueled
by
and for
and with Whole
Holistic
Holy EarthTribal
win/win systemic
authentic
intricate
exquisite sacred global integrity.
Categories:
unenlightened, caregiving, earth, health, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
i do the dance of circumstance
my brain react to a simple Mercenaries attack
red, leaky, small vain, and poison pains
what great planing
makes me see that
there's no hope for me
and the suns of no shining
old man from the hood, stopped me
and said
"you'll, never get back your property
so, taken back by how much the
hood new about me and the people
who where sealing from me
so i gave the hell-up
and never say a word
because who would believe
me over theses whit (with) money
bigger than i can see
i am so
Synonyms: ignorant, not informed, not knowing, oblivious, unbriefed, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, uninstructed, unschooled
about the real crimes of the world
and wonder why my education didn't inform me, as to how too
get my rights...
maybe that's the way its will always be...
Categories:
unenlightened, confusion, education, war, me,
Form:
It's the Love, It's the feeling, deeply echoing from my heart!!
O'my sweet little Hazel,
Your deep naughty smile while dreaming,
Laughing damn with pretty open eyes,
Your tiny little feet cycling around,
Are making me insane!!
Gaping a deep yawn,whether its a dawn,noon,eventide or dark,
Up-hilling my emotions, bouncing back to my heart,
Taking a siesta, catching a wink,
Mounting up the chubby cheek,
Making a good day,like Whistling in the harbinger of spring!!
Playing around in the early aurora,
Enjoying the feed, With the morning raga of "pasaydan",
My heart in sync with your heart,
Resonating a divine happiness towards you,
Arousing beam of radiance against my eyes!!
This is the day The lord gave,
Insight in the unenlightened hours,
Planting of God's offspring into the mother's womb,
There by illustrating the bringing forth of new life,
Mellowing my heart,
Thanks to the God ,for making my life more happier with your presence lighting my world !! Love you ~ Mumma n Dadda!!
Categories:
unenlightened, baby, birth, blessing, happy,
Form:
Blitz
Who is in the room?
Who owns the room?
When the GreenWoke Tribe
evaluate their strategic platform
for conquering RedUnWoke DiaTribes
what politically scientific purpose
and/or psychotherapeutic intent
for healthy inclusive democracy
[and not merely more wealthy
StraightWhiteMale corporate kleptocracy]
may wake up and win/win thrive?
Not so stuck on playing win/lose
monopoly games
preferred by monotheistic
anthrosupremacists,
privileged competitions
for recreating monocultural bullies
and sacrilegious
sanctimonious
green or red politically correct
dogmatic unwoke bosses
Judiciously proclaiming discrete
separate but equally undamaged
deceit
In resonant baritones
repeat unenlightened bass base
repeat disempowering soprano space
repeat replete
unwoken
still broken
repeat...
Who is behind the broom?
When GreenWoke evaluators
reconsider healthy
co-passionately wealthy
sweeping democratic invoked potential
Integrity to grow more
bilaterally healthy
bipartisan support
for woke up wealthy.
Woke
could send out evaluation forms
to every registered UnWoke
and this might explore half our hoped for story
of how empowerment
and enlightenment have grown/groaned
through last year's sentient
yet often somnolent
competitions in stuck down government.
But, growing trust
more than mistrust,
woke truth
more than unwoke half-truths
together show and tell,
as all UnWoke know too well,
bipartisan passions
co-invest tax-payers
and health therapeutic players
preferring to synergetically swell
rather than not tell
quietly fell apart
stuck in competitive squabbling
hell.
Categories:
unenlightened, health, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Pile drivers have replaced gandy dancers
And Mayflower trucks the circus, open-cage parades
Horse drawn down Main Street U.S.A.,
But overnight canvas bosses still command
Roust abouts to raise big top sails,
Over decks of prairie dogs and tumbleweeds.
There are gaudily painted juggernaut ride machines.
Smells of grease, heated white from oozing knuckle joints,
Calliopian music and rounds of happy screams.
A carney operator offers two a Scrambler car,
Teases riders with the tip of his bitten off cigar
A flick on your nose and ash that crashes to the circus grounds.
Jukebox music by Wurlitzer gets tinny with distance
On both sides of musty tented, kid show exhibitions
Mushrooming quiet translucent, sideshow shadow lands.
One sign says:
A WOMAN’S LIVING HEAD!
And inside there is a severed head up on a tabletop.
She answers questions easily, smiles and winks.
A kid shill says she’s doubled up
Inside a box affixed with mirrors.
Our cheeks redden more for her
Than the fact that we are led astray ourselves.
We leave to let more unenlightened in.
That day, I left forever past free throws
To win erstwhile girlfriends
By shooting hoops too narrow to be made. (4/4/21)
Categories:
unenlightened, america, growing up, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
In the face of all words
The smile still
An unenlightened dog's cell!
From "Inland"
Categories:
unenlightened, dark, dog, life, lonely,
Form:
Haiku
May all sacred,
but not quite omnipotent,
fathers learn this day
as we impatiently correct
our stress-disordered sons
That respect is earned,
so maybe disrespect is too
positive and negative layered
for and against authority
for and sometimes restlessly against
repeating Business As Usual
white middle-class dadisms:
You snooze
you lose
May apply to your lethargic
chronically anxious
thuggish
couch-surfing
cannabis-fed son
And yet feels counter-intuitive
for babies
and us great grandads
who need our outside rest
away from commercial
too lit up
and loud
and relentlessly plastic
inhumane degradations
In such a rabidly anxious hurry
to wait for inevitable pandemics
and genocide,
floods
hurricanes
tsunamis
forest fires
drought
dry river beds
famine
insomnia
rabidity
insurance company bankruptcy
government balkanization
supremacist tribalism
Silent self-medicating snoozes
feels like a healthy alternative to:
capitalist narcissism
anthro-supreme monotheism
monoculturing nationalism
painful survivalist isolation
demented diseases
species extinctions
self v other criminalizations
weaponizations
May feel like hoarding safety
for defense-oriented males
on a bad day
in a depressing moment
Become
yackity yack disrespectful
feeling entitled to rightwing exclusively define
"real [unwoke narcissistic] men."
Yet quietly hiding
under these sacredly respected
and secular unrespected unsuspecting layers
of diverse manhood hues and warring cues
lie traumatizing patriarchal cultures.
Capital co-invested resilient climates
prefer cooperatively active integrity
over passive faith-based respect
and dramatically traumatic disrespect
and unenlightened
stress-triggered verbal unrespect
accelerating competitions,
dis-integrity
unhealthy desecrating excommunications.
Consecrating sacred solidarity feelings
learned today
converge synergetic need/want supportive
resonant polyvagal
resilient communication systems
searching for win/win reconnections
Even when sometimes disrespectfully correcting
my pre- and post-traumatic
stress disordered father
son.
Categories:
unenlightened, age, father son, health,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
When the State said she needed a home
and would I help her out with her meds
I said yes
though I had some grave doubts
and they never mentioned a life sentence.
When the doctor said she had fetal alcohol
our life was paused to grow grim.
I said wait,
need to check with spouse
and three boys we already claimed to love and protect,
so they never mentioned a life sentence.
When I told the State they should find a better home
that would grow with her aggressive game coming up
they said wait,
we’ll start her again
in another place not prepared for defiance,
for food thrown down,
for breaking hard glass hearts
worn out like empty fragile chairs,
still they never mentioned a life sentence.
So we eventually said yes
and her courage to test that yes
grows astronomically oppressive
while the State closes homes
and residential options
for families like ours
who never signed on for a 24/7/52 week
perennial life sentence.
Now State says no,
no other place for her to go,
so sorry you’re sore and tired and old,
too bad she has no one to talk to all day and night
now that we can hear what she means
to deliver when you signed up for hell
in your mutually dysfunctional life sentence.
So we sure try,
except for her,
who had no choice
about those exotic substances
welcoming her still warm enwombed
with empty therapeutic promises
throwing a love defiant trauma
drama party life sentence.
So I still cry,
but not only for her
who had no choice
confined to age in this echoing silo
dancing with demons
signing her up for my unenlightened
disempowering trauma sentence
after sentence
after ruminating sentence...
Like trying to live peacefully
and mindfully
with an under-medicated RightWing narcissist
searching for weapons
in my Other unfree bedroom.
Categories:
unenlightened, addiction, depression, family, grief,
Form:
Political Verse
Here we are huddling together,
not yet our collective nightmare
nor our communal wetdream.
At our best,
struggling compassionately together
in-between future and past
polyculturally climaxing health
and monoculturing deep valleys
of dark pathology
At our worst,
competing against each other
unscientifically inorganic,
resenting what our elders too liberally exhausted before us,
and what our children and grandchildren expect us
to conserve for them.
Here we are,
re-imagining what becomes theoretically possible
for power of unmerited, and unmetered, light
and not brightness of monotheistic power
Re-creating multicultural serenity
re-storying nutritional economic pursuits
re-deeming MotherNature's political passions
scientific and religious
organic and sacred
pleasures
While finding ever new positively healthy variables
to reproduce multi-regenerational soul food cooperatives,
savory economies of polyamorous healthcare
for geopolitically accessible win/win compassion
Without snapping food from each Other's future mouths
like rabid wolves
Without commodifying
plasticizing
militarizing moist indigenous values
of EarthMother's sacred living water
with rivered freedom to flow out
and rise again,
as we once valued gold
and salvation.
Here we are,
dry-humping Earth's healthy win/win
poly-empowering potential,
huddling against past traumatic win/lose
unenlightened mono-colonizing retributions
Praying SkyFather will not collapse
before we have raped
our sacredly rapturous MotherEarth
irreligiously raw.
Categories:
unenlightened, earth, health, lost, love
Form:
Political Verse
She told someone that my verse was lacking
It failed to stir her idea of inspiration and feeling
Kept her waiting for the spontaneous ending
Left her with nothing more than discontentment
She wasn’t very private with her thoughts of me
My muse, she said, was nothing but an invention
Of curiosities, leaving her with ample room to gossip
About me, with several words that deserve omission
She left me feeling so ashamed that I even posted
A poem so unenlightened and benighted that I hoped
I could simply delete the words before anyone else
Happened across my verse with sure words of warning
Finally, after much worry and wishing, I changed the title
To “a failed poem” and left it with words of choice forgiveness
For her, who had given me so much to feel discouraged for…
I simply told her, “I love you. God loves you and I forgive you”
After all was said and done, I turned the other cheek to her
Allowing her the opportunity to strike me with more words
Of dissuasion and caution, allowing me the opportunity to
Bless her in spite of my desire to feel better.. yet, I feel my best!
Matthew 5:39 -
But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Judged By A Jury Of Your Peers Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Mark Koplin
October 29, 2020
NOTE from Author: This is a totally fictional poem for the contest theme only
Categories:
unenlightened, blessing, christian, forgiveness, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
Where the Left
supports cooperative
respectful
deeply integral
yet widely multicultural health care
The Right
conserves against future changes
in hierarchical wealth structures,
thereby augmenting competitive
ineffective
unhealthy class warfare
Rather than universal classroom welfare
where everybody can Left and Right bicamerally learn
healthy cognitive/affective resonant acknowledgement
of cooperative needs
and healthy wants
While the educational systems
we shape
and democratize
relearn the primal role
of cooperatively aligned positive opportunity
and competitively maligned negative, risky feelings
Trust/mistrust
that we are/are not
a species to empower all EarthTribe's healthy gifts
and safe personal opportunity needs
and ecopolitical green-safer
unfriendly climate risk reduction
More than business as unenlightened usual
capital competitive comparative mistrusters
whose main faith is that we are
and must be
divinely ordained
StraightWhiteWesternCorporateMale monotheistic God's gift
to a sinful
unlistening
ungifted
uncaring
unhealthy
unsafe
mostly idiotic
former organic green garden
of now fallen sacrilegious AntiEden
selfishness and greed.
CoEmpathy
seeks internal absolution
from my own anthrosupremacist sins
Growing healthier polycultural experience
I want to pass through
my own monoculturing elitism,
too tolerably comfortable with natural is not spiritual
monotheistic monopolistic apartheid
means not panentheistic win/win co-passion
for great anthro-loneliness,
narcissistically elite despair
about inevitable win/lose zero-sum genocide
and Earth's Great Degenerative Transition
quickening EarthTribe mortal ecocide.
Full multicultural health care giving
receiving
conserving
preserving
remembers gifts of trust
in EarthTribe's polyculturing wealthy welfare
regenerative past through revolutionary winHealth
winWealth
future
WholeEarth supported
by sacred gifts of sunlight,
divinely breathable air,
purely potable water
fertile empowering soil
health and safety rules
for managing domesticated fire
and renewable fuel
Original CoPassionate Sky/Earth
light/power
enlightenment/empowerment
health and safety co-governing
bilateral resources
of co-empathic consciousness.
Categories:
unenlightened, earth day, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse