Gravitating Poems

the train back home

The cold is leaving the air
And the smell of the grass is sneaking in.
The train is bringing me home,
The home where I was the reckoning.
My body shivers in the summer while remembering,
Remembering how the other me was acting.
The lowest part of my soul is gravitating
In the cafés, passages, and places,
Without fear, shame, nor guilt,
Screaming: here I am — have you thought of changing?
I respond with anger: I have, have you?
And she said: why change when you know what's coming?
The duality of my selves keep rhyming,
And the place where once was home is shifting.
Did I leave that façade in this city?
Did I come back new and with eyes of pity?
Trying to fit in the mold of desperation,
Knowing deep down my true consolation is just building a new foundation.

Perfect Love

Love is like a flower it mature as you grow
It's passionate like a fruit that tastes so wonderful.

Love is blissful it captures the imagination 
It brings happiness to your soul, which has your spirit gravitating.
 
Love is so cosmic that it will have you floating on air
While they're sexualizing your mind with just a simple stare.

Love is so organic that it doesn't seem real
To the point you love their touch and the way it makes you feel.

Love is a boundary that no one should cross
Because your love isn't expendables it has no cost.

Love is making a person feel good with ecstacy 
Love is enjoying the company of a person very sexually.

So love the one you're with and don't let them go
Go sit down with that person and let them know.

That you love them so much, until death do you apart
Because that special person will always be in your heart.

Blind Electiion

and the garbage piles up.
Nose-blind by now,
the public doesn’t even
smell the increasing stench.
Inured to the political slush,
minds grind to a halt,
gravitating to one or
another single topic,
ignoring other issues.
Women’s rights, tariffs,
Ukraine, deteriorating
and threatening climate
change, nuclear war,
presidential ability, character,
in one ear and out an eye.
It’s the price of gas, they say,
the cost of groceries,
 often controlled by world supply,
and other economies.
Real and threatening issues
 bear down on us,
but we blindly accept
the panaceas of
political sound-bites as truth.
Is this really an election,
with a divided populace 
so many of whom see nothing,
hear nothing, and know nothing
but the lies they are fed?

I do believe

Bounded by honourable hearts
Delicious dreams gravitating the mind
Gleam sunset patching life with brightness!
As autumn rain effectuates its pledge
While stars evince my inner desires,
I do believe.
Gazing at the blue sea reinventing itself
Advocating serenity in my path
To unearth calmness of life
I do believe.
With ecstasy and cheeriness painting my journey
Beauty of the earth gracing the eyes
Diluting grief to nothingness,
To stimulate me believe:
There are notable forces in life than hopelessness…
There is a rationality behind every drop of rain,
Love waiting out there,
And that I do believe.
When I perceive peace pledge – peace…
Starry sky hiking with confidence,
As I journey beyond the woods,
With adoration sanctioning the love of someone
Ancient mysteries concealing themselves,
Glowing recollections salvaging my delight,
Faith capturing the vicinity…	
Sanctioning misty rains to grace the occasion, while….
Succouring me recoup my optimistic moments,
…. I do believe….

The Cycle 5: Protected

Abusive rotations percolate
down; broken and cast away.
Warmth brightens in a moment.
Snapping heat darkens the next.
Even cooling age brings distant rage.
No escape from the Mighty God.
Hands cast out; reaching and grabbing.
Stones thrown in envious desire,
smash into hopeful façades.
Smooth faces burgeoning with life;
cast back into fiery birth.
Bright youth broken by wretched pain.
Hot, cracked, and without love.
Only shielding brother brings hope,
The Usurper; hated rival. Amassed;
gravitating influence challenging.
Absorbing spiteful stones of sterility,
a protector circling; back scarred,
power balances in the system.
Abused by their wretched God.

Wealthy Opportunities

Sacred,
unlike corrupt,
wealth

May also become
mental health,
unlike pathology

Empowering compassion,
unlike disempowering dispassion

Co-invests in win/win 
economic relationships

Which may also become
co-operative political partnerships

Rooted in courageous
deep felt listening,
bicameral breathing

Pregnant pauses
open to silent
nonviolent procreation
of health minded
and grace embodied
deep multicultural re-connected
re-ligioned holistic meaning

Integrity's warm
unconditional potential
compassion of Left green minds
and integrity of Right red-kin-kind 
organic bodies

Exploring further win/win
peak and valley 
front and back
out and in
summer and winter
paternal and maternal 
co-refining 
dipolar co-arising 
yang/yintegral peak
co-gravitating
intuitive/cognitive
nonverbally felt then verbally thought
co-empathic 

Divine monotheistic mind
humane polytheistic body
co-infested peak polyvagal experiences.

The Chemicals

Mix the chemicals correctly, mix them right
Our margin for error is infinitely slight
For our chemistry, could blow up this place
But this pantomime is meant to be in this space
Our gravitating inclination is drawing incredible power
Clear your schedule, this experiment is gonna be more than an hour
Document the findings in your memories and forever with your eyes
My love for you will be better each time once we take time to analyze

God Greatly Good

God guides greatly
Governs gaze gently
Gears Gospel-gain gloriously…

God’s goodness
Generates giving graciousness
Gathering golden grain-grandness…

Guarding getting, gluttonous
Garrisoning greed-guilt, grievous
God girds grounded going, gorgeous…

Generously granting 
Garnished growth gravitating 
God goads grateful gladness-greeting…

God’s glamor glitters
Glows, glistens, glisters
Glorifying godliness-glinters.

*Psalm 86:10For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

Rhyme with alliteration

July 11, 2022

Abstract

oscillating back and forth
head tilting from leeward and windward
an abstract puzzling my imperial gaze
a Van Gogh in waiting

      perchance a reflection illuminated
      in broad mesmerizing strokes 
      some tantalizing insightfulness 
      else a superficial escapade

do the color menageries
stray my mindfulness or hold attention
each vivid hue enlightenment
to soothe & provide enrichment

    is my inspiration desperation
    to find meaning in the simpleton
    gravitating and oscillating 
    between beauty and gargoyles

does incredulous creativity scare me 
or woo me into submissiveness
the artist plying servitude 
into mine cavernous cavities 

     Alan Scales’ exhibit of 
     Turquoise Abstract Landscape II 
     provides fodder for my mind
     to exponentially explode

 Andreas Simic©

A Tree

A tree extends itself, by branch, by breeze
To the length, to the tip, to the end of its reach
 Releases a leaf in a snap, in a second
To perform a dance, a function at last

Roots follow an underground path 
Digging deeper to a softer spot
To stop when rocks become obstructions
In a place not of their making

The leaf follows the laws of the land
Encumbered only by the anchored tree
Once freed it drifts away gladly
Floats on an ocean of air to where?
Cushioned by clouds demands
Gravitating towards a softer landing

Roots are jealous when a leaf escapes
Waiting in silence for a mistake
For time to fly when the crunching sound comes
Signaling the end of that which was in flight
Is that a bird gliding over the deceased? 

A tree reaches out to heaven with branches
Raised like hands praying for rain 
Other leaves, fallen from grace. turn brown
Swirl through the green grass at crunch time
The critical hour is at hand

Frolic

gravitating together,
       children - puffy fat in snowsuits - grasp 
                 one another's mittened hands, 
in-line unison,
        their fall backwards into a soft ridge of snow
       
kid-laughter dances on the bending wind of cold
       saturated tones of silliness
       freefall play
       repeated in fresh drifts with puckish twists
       newfound layers of warmth
with ruddy, winter-worn complexions

an untroubled time
      in the bruised abundance of snow
                               etched by imprints
winter's candy floss to children 
       life-loving voices that torch the chilling air
                                                               with joy
before heartbreak is definable
before bindings shape their toil




Poem composed February 20, 2022

Exquisite Dignity

EarthTribe honored member,
now a sacred journeyed Elder,
remembers us polyculturally richest
in our heathiest remember

Not monoculturally white privileged
and not merely elite competitors
against profoundly humbling humanity

Blithely ignorant
when choosing LeftBrain supremacist attitudes,
positive v negative incisive
political humor,
like economic faith
and ecological relationships
and theological power
and biological health
and transforming news,
come in green inclusive thrivalist
and red exclusive survivalist
for any healthy 
resonantly resilient democracy

For Earth's top linguistic
and deep listening bottomless species
dialectic polyphonic consciousness
dialogically polypathic
dipolar co-arising

Co-gravitating toward
multicultural wisdom
indigenous to all loving life

Polyculturally healthy v monoculturally pathological
thriving v barely surviving
cooperative win/win v win/lose overdrive competitions unwinding

EarthTribe health and safety 
of democratic expanding history
drives my positively regenerative
and negatively degenerative,
thoughtfully humane and beautifully divine
bicamerally therapeutic dignity.

Analogy's Integrity

My roots of humane dignity
seem truest found
in organic life integrity.

So too, roots of social liberty for all 
listening empathetically
seem most harmonically embedded
in Earth's co-gravitating ball

Of health power 
multicultural
for expanding polycultural
co-passions 
analogically integral.

Health Power's Purpose

Octaves of robustly vibrant light
we hear
and see energy's synergy
co-gravitating

Multiculturally co-arising light and power
polyculturally dipolar
insight with resonant energy sounds

PolyEarTheism
sacred integrity's healthy wealth 
enlightening octaves of potential

Fractally eco/theo-logically win/win
within

Mirroring exterior ego/eco-logical
both/and appositional 
double-binary octaves 
of symbiotic integrity

Climaxing healthy wealth
internal cultures of octave listening power
and external climates
of bilaterally speaking healthy light
shedding stressed shade
in unsafe dark disappointment

Even odd Desolation Wilderness
can burn
from overheated capitalism
supported disproportionately
by Straight White Western-Northern 
MonoTheistic Patriarchs

Our mature
adult women
internationally redeveloping indigenous wisdom
Rediscover
uncover revolutionary revelation

All giving birth
empowering
our same integral
enlightening
Whole Open Systemic
cooperative

Revisiting
sacred green minded,
red/blue-bicameral hearted 
NonViolent PeaceWay.

A Spectral Blessing

May Unitarian Universalists sustain
active faith 
in Both/And integral feelings/thoughts
co-gravitating intentions,
nuanced principles
of UniversalTruth greets UnitarianBeauty.

In these ways,
in this public health emergency 
climatic time,
may we join with good faith multiculturing
healthy democratic Others

Less invested in partisan elite-insider knowledge
and also not feeding and watering
non-elite Outsider fear
and anger of sensory-sexual sanity
necessary for building
and retaining a healthy cooperative 
wealthy democracy

And may we always listen for a resilient,
inclusive 
sustainable multicultural optimizing
green new nature/spirit Indigenous Deal
co-investing divinely-humane balance

For restoring healthy ego-sufficient peace
and eco-justice interdependence
throughout our interfaith 
ecopolitical
cooperative 
therapeutically uniting spring days 
and full moon nights.

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