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Hexagram Poems - Poems about Hexagram

ANIMA MUNDI

...we walk alone as the time commends
as the need arises as the love fulfills
mother of each day’s world

I have engaged in intimacies before
holding a cat as he died
a child with a sore throat
s...
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Categories: hexagram, animal, growth, self,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Ching Hexagram

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Three coins tossed at once; each coin is given a value of 2 or 3, depending upon whether it is tails or heads, respectively. Six such tosses make the hexagram. Some fortune-tellers use an...
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Categories: hexagram, analogy,
Form: Sonnet



The Book of Changes

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"The Book of Changes"

Thoughts arrived before words,
1000s of years before
the crossing of curves

always seen to be 
swimming upstream 
against the current

thou...
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Categories: hexagram, muse, mystery, spiritual, symbolism,
Form: Narrative

I Can'T Breathe I Am

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"I Can't Breathe I Am"



I can’t breathe
when you 
paint the words 
“Flow” 
on my throat
when the words 
are trapped 
and I am gagged

I c...
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Categories: hexagram, color, freedom, i am,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVillanelle: Five Yin Lines On November 6th Overcome the Top Yang Line

...Villanelle : Five Yin lines on November 6th overcome the top Yang line

(Bo, Hexagram 23 (November 6 to December 6): The mountain falls down on the earth and crushes it.
Result : neither side w...
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Categories: hexagram, allegory, america, autumn, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Consent of the Governed

...Tone of Judith emperor of resolution stand high

hexagram of faith engage truth of day

Congregation salah of hymn

Voice of heaven above

What is it to listen....
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Categories: hexagram, art, love,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads - Xxxvii Part Two

...Unquotable quotes: Gals, Dolls, Bitches and Broads – XXXVII

An adulterous couple soon make lying, cheating and downright treachery (not to mention their role as carriers of germs within the orb...
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Categories: hexagram, girl, mother, mother daughter,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men - Xxviii

...Unquotable quotes: Outsiders and Odd Men – XXVIII

                 for Colin Wilson (1931-1913) 
                    regrets for the “provoked” faux pas

To each his own: to Colin Wilson his...
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Categories: hexagram, anti bullying, black african
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberGrowing Up Too Soon

...growing up too soon

	you said: is there anything more excruciating than lagging behind
						being passed by
	a hasbeen
				still knocking on portals
twitching toes twirling thumbs
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Categories: hexagram, age, growing up, lonely,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberTimed Out

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                                                Timed out
	

          …with what do you buy time
							in stockmarket time
where would you store time
		who guards the stored stock time
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Categories: hexagram, absence, destiny, dream, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberVillanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 62

...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 62

Everything’s encased in square 8 by 8*
Each family member plays with 7
Now this now that the future turns out late

This villanelle’s 6 + 2 =...
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Categories: hexagram, nature, new year, violence,
Form: Villanelle

Free Cee This Game Is a Shame

...THIS GAME IS A SHAME

I don't like this game
it's like hunting only for fame
so it's hunting for fame or game be it rabbit, squirrel or bird
and this game isn't as much phun as I'd heard

the rules v...
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Categories: hexagram, angst,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberLessons of Change - X - Part One

...Part One

GOU - Hexagram 44: One powerful Yin encounters or comes to meet the Yang in the Sixth month of the Gregorian Calendar, on the Sixth of June onwards – having associated with five (meaning an...
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Categories: hexagram, natural disasters, june, may,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPrologue To Lessons of Change

...for King Wen, circa 1151-1143 B.C.E. – with seven mind-bending kowtows

There where you had no occasion for play
There in your confined Ming I space
Where change wrought no change
In your fate
But fo...
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Categories: hexagram, life, may,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book of Changes

...I consult the I Ching with a question
Only I myself will ask.
Giving Taoism my full attention
Three pennies I will cast.
Six casts in all will yield a hexagram
Chance determines each line.
The ...
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Categories: hexagram, introspection
Form: Haiku

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