Integrating Poems | Examples

Dong Zhongshu, 179-104 BC

If you've a yen
(it's not zen)
you may bet your bottom dollar
while integrating yin yang cosmology
Chinese philosopher and scholar
Dong Zhongshu
(good old you know who)
favoured heaven worship results
over and above traditional cults
altho' a man well-read
he often wrote instead
yet to avoid confusion
knowingly said, 'Jump to assumption,
arrive wrong conclusion.'

Becoming Who I Am

Every challenge,
Every heartbreak,
Every struggle I've endured,
Shaped me the person I become
I let pain defines me,
I allow pain to refines me, 
I learned healing isn't about
Erasing the past but integrating lessons,
Reclaiming power and using my story
To uplift others to know life's purpose.

In a realm of shadows and fears, footsteps tread unceasingly

In a realm of shadows and fears, footsteps tread unceasingly,
Small fears like dried leaves gather beneath the steps of autumn,
I am not a person, but a lost dream, among desires and shivers,
I fear small, ordinary, human things, like a wandering stranger.
I love adventures, transformations flow like a river to the unknown,
Yet I resist when opportunity appears as a door ajar,
In vain I flee, for fear finds me, an echo of steps on a deserted road,
I have no choice but to look into its deep eyes, to find courage.
Fear is not the monster I believed, but an old friend, unrecognized,
It is the key that opens doors to freedom, to light,
I realize the irony in the question: where has fear been all my life?
What do I still avoid that could be of help, that could bring solace?
With each step, integrating fear, I become more myself,
I embrace the shadows like old acquaintances on my path,
They make my heart beat fast, I live each moment intensely,
I weave my destiny from thin threads of courage and acceptance.

Why Be a Poet

I’m asked if my literary work is fiction or reality
Do I compose to inspire those to read with affection
Expressing my thoughts and feelings through poetry
Weaving my spiritual, cultural, or historical reflections

Applying humor and sadness or simple common folklore
Acceptance of my gift to write in free verse or rhyme
Often integrating images, creativity, and metaphors
I hope reading my poetry never wastes anyone’s time

A cluster of thoughts akin to an array of butterflies
Flutters in my head like a mass of balanced accounts
A helium-filled balloon, and at its end is a string tied 
Trees bid farewell to leaves cascading to the ground

Bring to life the mind’s imagination for what it is worth
Travailing and pushing the words out is how we express
Just as a soon-to-be mother, in due season, brings birth
A subtle way to connect, we, poets, unashamedly confess

On plain parchment that influenced us in every walk of life
Leaving an everlasting mark of our poetic pleasure or pain
Like footprints on the beach or a scar from a serrated knife
We are poets because we love leaving an indelible ink stain

Zen Mode

having been, seen and so known
now within form focused on Self
awareness self-aware is as is
in a peacefulness continuum 
transcendent in singularity 
immanent in earth duality 
integrating reality herein 
within the body vessel

01-March-2023

Fearless

Hidden under the last sliver before the new moon
Was the path of the fiery sun
Walking through many dark nights under the stars
Wondering, wishing, knowing as a natural mystic would
How each step forward in this moment leads to a new peace
The sun will one day shine through
Integrating the alchemy of light from darkness

Admiration of Antiquities

ADMIRATION OF ANTIQUITIES
fragments
advanced
as enhancements
 unravel
   incorporated
in original frames
 partially pseudo
  a near profile
enlivened by figures
so  elegant
  in elevated status

an
 artistic
tradition
  integrating& enduring
 notions
  from a
feathered
   consciousness

 efforts in the venerated
 tradition
with predilections
so
renowned
in traces
of a particular
    treatment
 achieved&
envisioned


THIS IS AN OPEN(organic) FORM VERSE without grammatical symbols the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' & so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making the form a two way interplay and often a unique interpretation by the enigma so derived

Ardhnarishwar

A fine capillary 
Loops our form
Over front and back
Integrating polarities
Of the two halves
Of Hirayangarbha 
Left female, right male
Ardhnarishwar 

This cognition 
Known when soma flows
Energised by magnetism 
Unhindered by blockages
In our pure energy body
Held erect by the Sushumna 
Staff of power, root to crown
Revealing within heart - God

26-January-2022

Nutritional Digestion

It feels sadly ironic,
and unwise,
to focus healthcare 
on digestive system deliveries
to feed and water our bodies

And underinvest,
too rarely applaud
and enrich
nurturing nutrition communications
made through our neural-sensory systems
natural/spiritual health care deliveries
and wealth care receptions
from abundantly compassionate
panentheistic worldviews

In contrast
too nihilistically narcissistic
survivalist 
monotheistically supremacist
supporting monoculturing 
monopolizing LeftBrain verbal dominance

Of Me v We ZeroSum
closed degenerating
segregating 
without also integrating
views

Of Earth's health-fading
feeding bilateral watering systems,

Absorbing, then expunging
inhaled then inhaled
informing then exflowing
living then dying
YangTruth in Yintegral co-arising Beauty

Universal/Unitarian
bicameral
Health/EarthSystemic Wealth
integral TaoBalancing
inside sacred womb thru tomb companionship
secular indigenously panentheistic
resiliently hospitable wisdom

To focus health/wealth care 
on digest to co-invest system deliveries
to feed and water 
our mindbody
spirit/natured EarthTribe
bilateral identities.

Greatness

What made Catherine the Great
The Great
instead of merely The Terrible
aristocrat?

Great is not her messianic
multiculturally inclusive
democratic therapeutic intent

Which is a surprisingly ubiquitous delusion
of win/lose
all or nothing LeftBrain
Either deductive persuasive Truth
Or inductive synergetic trust
and lust for Beauty

Rather than win/win
RightBrain co-operative
intuitive BothTruth/AndBeauty
Yang/Yintegral 
bilateral Great Climaxes
bicamerally integrating
dialectical InEgo/OutOther
co-empathic consciousness

Actively
curiously
courageously listening
for cooperative
co-passionate
co-governing Greatness

Not quite so
Business As Usual
patriarchal
hierarchical
capital-commodity invested
in StraightWhiteMale privilege

Kinda Terrible
terrifying
aristocratic entitlement.

Disappointing Dirt

Defiant are shards of dirt which particle apart
Never to know their neighbouring flakes,
Not integrating, no squish of accompanyment
Forlorn separates which support not life, nothing


Beneath rangy weeds, breeze blows loose granules
Shifted without resistance, 
foreign adjacent land is theirs temporarily 
Only for necessity, proximity is parallel, merge free


Neediness discarded, only Heaven can help dead dirt 
Because the moments spent observing a scrappy tree
Beside withering leaves has hard expanding pears
Held by delving stem, fed, assisted, nutrient found 


Show me expired soil needs nourishment 
Requires deeply dug roots, intrusion, rooster boost
Sand blown syndrome suppresses realisation
Instinct drives attempt to be cleansed and extend




              23rd January
             This dirt hurts

What Wellbeing Exists

What resiliently exists
has synergetically become together
more than win/lose competitive apart

Win/Win reframed
as future integrity's healing potential
existence,
sustainable experience,
potency for positive resonance,
multicultural cross-creating
and re-creating narratives

Historical regenerative
cultural responsive
co-invested fore-gifted plots
to co-invest
in co-redeeming
cooperative ecopolitical systems.

What cannot exist,
viably persist
prefacing entropic
static
unchanging enthymematic
pre-emptive being
without past integral reweaving
systemic and ecological potential
to produce empowering gifts

To induce grace
to seed
breed regenerative health creation,

Wealth of multicultural creolization,
positive resonant inter-nations
complexly co-invested
nested cooperative fore-gifted sets
of interdependent resilience

Throughout WholeEarth Systems
re-creating
ego/eco-feminists
more rightbrain prominent
re-educators
recycling 
reweaving co-redeeming narratives

Repurposing
re-ligioning
re-integrating secular and sacred
re-storied Meaning

CoMediating political bicameral ways
and economic bilateral means.

Whistle

I learned to whistle when I was very young
It was difficult integrating my lips and tongue
I never became good at making the smooth sounds
But I cannot forget the sheer thrill and joy I had found
It's a beautiful way to communicate in another language
Not the best whistling sound but I felt rather accomplished
It is an art form that can be utilized for so many reasons
It's a music form to be exercised at any time or season                           

Whistle while you walk
Whistle before you talk
Whistle while you work
Whistle while you hurt
Whistle when you are happy
Whistle also when snappy
Whistle when you have no say
Whistle all through the day,

When there's plenty of light
Whistle in the middle of the night,
When everything is really really dark
Whistle when the sun is high and bright
Whistle when life has you really low and tight
Whistle when you have bread but there's no gravy
Whistle when the heart is cloudy, grey, and heavy
Whistle when you cry to help dry away the tears
Whistle to keep you brave as you cast away your fears

071820PS

Poetry's Pride

Elysian ellipses of poetry's pride...
     a literary litany that draws from
sunlit and moonlit 
     eloquent emanations ensuing 
silent shadows that follow 
     mystical movement, 
integrating intrigue. 

Passion and beauty 
     fuel fecund imaginations
expressed from a Bard's bucolic 
     and loquacious, 
luscious machinations, 
     sharing a gem of their soul.
Wrap me in your 
     timeless treasures and
leave me to bask breathless 
     in poetry's pride!

 4-26-20

Cornucopia Poetry Contest ~Second Place~Premiere contest
Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann 


April is Poetry Month. Celebrate Poetry!

Dream

We slept together
We dreamt together
We saw a dream of nurturing our emotions
We saw a dream of growing our love
We saw a dream of integrating our souls
But then
You woke up and walked away
And 
I was there to suffer the pain
of our unaccomplished dream.

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