Idealism Poems

The Age of Abstract

(“The Mothership”, 2024, computer graphic encaustic collage)

The Age of Abstract

We live in a time defined by ideas and ideals
When concepts and abstracts rule
But what’s needed as a balance and antidote
Is grounding in real life
Relationships with others, real people and animals
The real world, of rock and water, tree and sky
And not an artificial world of AI

The Purity Test

Are you pure enough?
Do those you support in religion, politics, 
Media and entertainment pass
The purity test?
What about your friends, lovers,
Children and parents
Do they pass the test?
What about your pets?
Where does it end 
This desire for consistency and purity
Of purpose and effect?
Or perhaps a better question,
Where does it begin?

(11/24/24)

Gee, Why Can’t We All Just Get Along

This basic wish
Is the wish of every mother and child
The wish for things to be safe and fun
For everyone to smile
And not push and shove, yell and fight.
It’s the wish that drives them like sheep
Into the beautiful green pastures over there
Just beyond the bounds, always
Just out of reach.
It’s the wish to unite 
Form a one

quixotic idealism

quixotic idealism
face of positivity
not easy to extinguish

I can imagine

beyond what's happening
and far beyond imagining
there is a world of imagery
a boundless sea of fantasy

though some may call it heresy
kindness is the only currency
pure hearts give their song in prayer
it's open season for poets there

beyond hopes forgotten on a shelf
this is a universe onto itself
where laws of physics don't apply
and lofty dreams there never die


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Idealism on Standby

Welcome to our generation,
We hope you enjoy this fantastic nation,
Kids here stand on a quicksand foundation,
And fear their schools are a gunned down station.

When they watch the news near and far,
The horrors they witness leave a scar.
When they’re in school, their fears on par,
They remember their bleeding peers, free and barred.

How many wars are being

A Poet Needs Compatriots

There is magic in life, but you must let go of anyone,out to destroy your soul.
Of these there are a plethora. 
Are they descendants of Sodom and Gemmorah ?

These poets…simply cannot let you joyfully be!
Unless, your ideas match theirs in tandem, in modern poetry, do you see?
Dare you be different, they turn against you, indeed,

Idealism Or Someone

What do you see in my emaciated emerald eyes?
Idealism or someone lost in love and hatred
Birds eat my meat thrown on the clean floor
  A death sentence has passed on my sick neck
Don't grind your teeth as you walk on my rotting body
My blood has become fertilizer for the roads of the raging seas
The

The Search For Idealism

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                                  The Search for Idealism

     

A Search For Idealism

Without solid footing, idealism is a dream
From a position of strong sociopolitical reality
Words kill idealism without a scheme
Idealists deem the short-term triviality.

The ideal balance between man and nature
A serene scene of transcendence unfolds
Driftless area, spawning a densely green layer
An unusual utopia that captivates nave's goals!

It was alike sitting in a sumptuous Xanadu
This is the demagogue

A Search For Idealism

Going within the shrine of my heart's hidden mind,
In things without, the truth I often do not find; 
I dream of greatness. This I expect in others. 
As each, in life, have individual druthers...!

The facts of my universe are truly well-known,
I should meditate on my true forms clearly shown;
'Cogito Ergo Sum' - Descartes so proudly

Yellowed Pages

I came across an ancient manuscript
Long languishing in a cluttered drawer
Where hidden memories lay among
The flotsam and jetsam of my life,
And reading it I realized a forgotten time
When idealism was a guiding principle
In my way of life, when in my naivete
I was convinced I could change the world.
I had taken many bits of my life

Idealism

IDEALISM

        Liberal, Modest, Noble, Open Personality
        deserves reverence and adoration,
         simultaneous admiration
         to be followed by every soul.

       

Disillusion and Idealism

The fluffy snow melts slowly,
its whiteness is stunning... 
and turning into torrents of rain,
it sets grief on people's faces!

Passing sails are a delight to see,
but the anchored gondolas grieve,
they miss lovers who sang arias;
can sunset change the air of sobriety
and offer dreamers some real hope?
No, gladness is not found here!

Smiles are not influenced by emotions,

Bigger Bowl

.... Human desire for adaptation, I foresee .... 

               - A solemn ongoing enthusiasm for - 


Becoming parallel with those who dedicate themselves 
    to food provision, - farmers
    My central aim would be to

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