Economics Poems

Zero

Word Problem:  
What is the political
and economic
and moral difference
between a -1 communist concentration camp
and a +1 capitalist detention camp?

Hint: 
Probably the same Christian taxpayer difference
between 
-0 (emptiness):
 
SUBTRACT empowering hope
for a healthy democracy,
Red and Yellow
Black and White
they are precious
in His sight

and
+0 (fullness): 

ADD disempowering despair
of stealthy stupid kleptocracy,
pitching Red against Yellow
Black against White
liberal SkyBlue

The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life

(“Meaning of Life Merit Badge”, 2010, original oil)

The Dismal Science and the Meaning of Life

Supply and demand is as basic and Nobel a
Truth
As you can get.
If you doubt, just hold your breath a minute
And notice the urgency that quickly builds.

Somehow in man’s quest for meaning
Aka the creation of religion, or “dharma”,
The sacred and the secular
Became

Business of Poetic Economics

Words much like coins
find their value in their quality
their rarity and worth
in gold silver and every
other precious metal

Poetry may as well be
the economic activity
of juggling assets
where trading and
appraising sets
its market price



AP: 1st place 2025

Submitted on April 9, 2025 for contest YOUR CHOICE L sponsored by BRIAN STRAND  -  Honorable Mention

Integrity of Kindness

Why is it that kindness,
like integrity,
is both free
and freeing?

And meanness,
like Supremacy,
is too expensive
and frightening?

Yet
I often do not feel free
to choose healing passions
and pleasures,
Earth's sacred dancing choice

While pursued by overpowering lack
of wise wealthy light
ego singing 
bright love's cooperative rejoice

Inside curiously echoing 
compassion's pleasured voice.

A Limerick About Socio-Economics

The fear about globalization
is that Earth will devolve to stagnation; 
but with knowledge we'll prove
and definably move
away from destabilization!

Resilient Generosity

Gratitude
for grace already received
is a robust measure of generosity.

Compassion scans for generosity's fullness
felt within
as incarnated without

As dispassion predicts greed's anxious emptiness.

Giving is physical and/or verbal
while generosity is mental and nonverbal.

Giving,
like loving,
hoping for a return of grace
within your lifetime's future,
does not share
or stretch 
your gift of generosity.

Giving,
hoping to receive in equal measure,
plus interest,
plus loyalty,
plus admiration for

Circling Muses

Music
especially sacred music
feels round

Not such clear lines
prescribing desecrating marches
needing to move somewhere
noting something
speaking against someone
in StraightWhite privileged time

Right/Left balancing divas
sometimes sing in resonant rounds,
round
and round
in circling spirals
never-ending spectral ribbons
eventually blending communion,
emphatically good-spirited
and not dogmatically ill-natured.

So,
to liberated lovers
lusting Left
toward green cooperative choices

And,
to conservative clingers
leaning Right
toward red competitive voices

If you must shout
to overcome dissent

If you can't sing
and,

JUST ECONOMICS

JUST ECONOMICS

I really must away 
To go and tell the world
The word is written clear
With flags all unfurled
It is to peace we steer

I really must away 
To share important news
That now all war is done
No country can refuse
Whoever thinks they won

I really must away 
Protect our industry
Who now will buy our arms
A true calamity
I’ll set

Not Yet Time For Paradise

Mistaking side by side pluralism
for more resonant 
co-infested polyculturalism

Is like mistaking chaotic divisions
for resilient organic complexity,
integral multiplicity

Like only perceiving competitive dissonance 
and degenerative
confusion
while missing inside resonant light
regenerating
cooperative mind/body 
health/wealth consciousness

Free from win/lose
lack-of-capital-driven anxiety,
Free toward win/win
co-invested anticipation

Dipolar co-arising hope
Left/Right
UpMight/DownTight
root-budding Yang/Yintegral
bilateral balance

Resonantly resilient Way
as a round wombed ch'i
polypathic pole

Holonic joy
of sacred unscared
unscorched Earth
Tribes timeless
unboundaried
win/win paradise,
co-invested bipartisan peace

Resilient Peak Experiences

Gayla Speak Experiences
promote healing events
not intended to contribute to trauma
drama narratives.

Stories we tell
and trust
and thrust
and softly smile about
when we dare to leave
our stiff 
stiffling closets.

RedYang 
universal dominants
friendly feasting
with BlueYintegral
unitarian intent

Together praising massively thick
and deeply embedded polarities
of nearly omnipotent 
erect and hard patrimony
loving MotherEarth's holy matrimonies,
compassion

Transcending monotheistic challenging attitudes
failing to question long-term outcomes
of dubious commercial
graphic success,
LeftBrain

Dark Fruit

Strange Fruit choreography 
speaks to me of seeing 
and smelling 

this strange evil fruit 
of hatred 
and bigotry 
and fear 

and straight white man 
perpetual menace. 

Choreographing trauma 
only infrequently translates words
of DarkHole poems

Rhetoric hoping to carry carrion reek, 
shock of evil awe 
and dark timeless burdens

Terrifying wonder 
as perceived 
within this Strange Fruit DarkView

Grand Mother Eartha's Dream

My husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day

She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes

Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?

Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were maybe inspired by emotional 
and sensory neglect
from both DarkGod Judgment
and EarthGoddess Powers
exercised back when GrandMother Eartha 
was a fairly happy

Giving Way

Who am I
to give Light's sway
to Earthly kindness?

Who am I
to praise
love's bold told synergy?
sun sung soprano 
diva voiced

Through life's more challenged
LeftBrain capitalized energies
fearing dark base shunning
echoing not yet mind dead
predicting bare survival choice.

Yet choice
may here 
and there be wrongly voiced
regarding numerous sins
without apparent othered victims
preferring to expand 
win/win resilient
thriving to rejoice
is obviously more brilliant

Restoring justice
non-verbally

Bear Queen Proclamation

There's much to be said,
without diplomacy,
said the Queen
to her Bear

In favor of ancient
transparently royalist wisdom,
"Don't even look at me.
Either you got it,
or you didn't!"

Either you get it
or you don't
And I most certainly do!
rumbled Her Bear
in his Queen.

And yet,
said his Queen
to Her Bear,
who had hoped
for less chatter

I feel something
must also be said...
A proclamation!
of win/win consorts
and copassionate

Getting Stuff

For economic
and political resilience
it is better to give
AND receive 
compassion
than to give
OR receive 
enlightenment.

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