Today the moon is charming,
Rising from the hill yonder,
Where no electric lamps shine.
There I long to go ,
To see in the moonlit night
The beauty of nature.
And through the night to sleep there
In a small hut while outside,
The moon casts its silvery light.
There, when no lamp is shining.
Charming the moon in the sky ,
And enchanting the moonlit nature.
For interdependent,
Their beauties are in the solitude
of the quiet night.
Categories:
interdependent, nature,
Form: Free verse
I never really minded the species that inhabited me.
I had especially taken a liking to man, however.
"I'll take care of you.", they promised.
I believed it--
We became interdependent, inseparable.
He relied on me, and I relied on Him.
I gave Him food, water, and air, He gave me towering buildings that grasped at my atmosphere.
It was perfect;
Until it wasn't.
As time went on, man began cutting down my trees for the pages to write their own stories with.
Their tales will be woven between my pages, ink stains the skin I shed for Him.
And with my help, their stories will thrive.
Remain utterly, completely,
timeless.
Categories:
interdependent, 9th grade, earth,
Form: Free verse
light …
and dark -
shadow and bright
are diametrically opposed
and intricately interdependent
we must learn to not fear the dark
for it holds the same delight, the same color
the same purpose and excitement
the same realizations … unseen
and it harbors something very precious that
we depend on each dazzled day
something as priceless as
air and food … and love
it is the warm blanket of peaceful repose
that we all close our weighty, weary lids to
and most often take for granted
a dark, deep world of slumber that is
of inestimable value
without which we would cease
to draw breath …
so …
next time the somber darkness closes in
remember its value in your life
and how all that we see and treasure in
the radiance of day
is given it’s worth by night’s dark umbra
and that the rest and peace and rejuvenation of
sleep that we so dearly depend on
is found in the warm,
soothing black …
of its embrace.
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden, May 2, 2024
Categories:
interdependent, analogy, dark, life, light,
Form: Free verse
In this world,
we are all transients,
traveling to the beat
of a mortal drum,
on a latent path
that only the souls
can see,
waiting for that moment
when we give back
our borrowed light.
Like a star,
we can shed our light
in the night
and lose our radiance
in the day,
to depend on the sun,
because, it is through this
that we realize,
we are not perfect
and we are interdependent.
When we get broken,
we need someone to repair us.
Categories:
interdependent, wisdom,
Form: Verse
beauteous are colours of the rainbow
as prismatic reflections ~
provided they’re entwined
head-heart stand apart
although interdependent ~
sorrowful soul weeps
ego dissolve
for evolving
love solves all ills
__________
Kimo 10-7-6
Haiku 5-7-5
Than Bauk 4-4-4
Categories:
interdependent, spiritual,
Form: Other
Worship.
Fully natural
Fully spiritual
Naturally spiritual
Spiritually natural.
Two places at once:
On the earth
In the throne room.
Two places at once:
With brother and sisters
With saints and angels…
One hundred trillion of them.
Past, present, future,
Prolyptic…the future becomes the present.
From the ground comes songs, music, prayers, cries, thankfulness, tears, joy, aggression, humility, silence, shouts, kneeling, standing, head held high, hearts bowed low.
From the throne comes thunders, voices, lightening, instruction, encouragement, judgement, assurance, correction. Seven flaming torches: One God, one throne, seven operations: Glory, honour, power, wisdom, riches, blessing, might.
Energy, matter, spirit; entangled, correlated, dependant, interdependent.
In two places at once.
Categories:
interdependent, god, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Tzimtzum
In the beginning, all was but self-existent living light
Beyond space and time
Then to feel in contrast delight
The omnipresent all-that-is sounded a polarity chime
Manifesting a differentiated reflected reality sublime
The universe as we know it thus held by God's power
He alone is, the all-that-is
Existence-consciousness-bliss
Created in His image, each breath He does empower
Aligned with source, we're drenched in love's shower
Like the universe, our body is a magnet with two poles
Immanent and transcendent
Through vibrations we shift roles
Exiting delusion on recognising we’re all interdependent
When false identity drops, we become bliss resplendent
Deep within the cave of our heart sounds the cosmic hum
Pause in the void, oh worthy hermit
Know therein truth of Tzimtzum
Simply vaporising lower mind, judging neither fault nor merit
God who in-dwells mind-body takes our soul to the summit
08-January-2023
Categories:
interdependent, spiritual,
Form: Quintain (English)
These people I safely know
who like to healthy grow
fail to distinguish
between cooperative housing
and cooperative households,
cooperative countries
and communities
Which
as we all seem to know
although textbooks often fail to show
include cooperative gardening
and cooperative farming
and possibly cooperative
organic management
of a polytheistic living planet
without monotheistic competitive
monopolistic cultural intent.
In each interdependent case
we explore something together,
some primal trinitarian relationship
between healthy resilience
and safe transitions
and beautifully balanced
resonant energy
Synergy produces
co-arising fruits of sexual
sensual
and sacred exotic
erotic regenerate sensations
Further witchy wonder which,
like resonantly tasty
and fragrant,
richly brown and black
white and green
orange and yellow
red textured
robust stews
Cooperatively touch
and feel
and show
and thereby know
a primally sublime
healthy
safe
and beautiful homebrew.
Categories:
interdependent, beautiful, community, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Are we less superior to ourselves than realization?
Our temporary shell, our salt, our generation.
Our streamers flutter like snow in Antarctica.
longing and valid expansion, made of mica.
Striving to liberate us, it rips apart its body.
Once again, envisaging us embody.
Systole, diastole, adventure indiscriminately.
The wide open oozes a scent of love imminently.
Shimmering between each of the drumbeats.
Summer, you are the windlessness of such feats.
We ate, kissed, cuddled, and then supped food.
A day's total is a unit of measure for what you lewd.
Need and desire exist in an interdependent reality.
We bury our bodies as a sign of our mortality.
The fate of our remains while wearing the shell
The land utters us the title of a spare body smell.
Synapses are memories, and we are waiting.
In order to cross its boundary, there is no gating.
Written: August 09, 2022
Categories:
interdependent, analogy, appreciation, confusion, death,
Form: Rhyme
Integrity
pursues a sacred polytheistic journey
conjoining interdependent life
While integrity's sacred potential
remains a still emergent re-memory
health-wealth salvific optimizing
transcendent engoddessing
EarthTribal progressive
nonpaternal process
Of wombs incubating
co-passionate
eternally timeless
momentary being
becoming united
through humble-theistic
multi-regenerational co-relationship,
Both sacred We divine
co-passioning secular Me humane.
Categories:
interdependent, education, god, health, language,
Form: Political Verse
I
We recall rulers like Nero, Pol Pot, Donald Trump
Take sides, revise history, a recent election
While among voids lie shocking Light Years
40 billion more suns at cosmic center, Plain -
That halves the universe, "Galactic Plain" -
As science gives theories: Bang, Cycles, Inflation
Poor planet earth is lost in THERE, indistinct
No landmark, the Universe, interdependent
Only the telescope is 100b LY to cosmic heart
II
Earth is inconsequential - but for God and Incarnation
In the Milky Way Galaxy (among trillions?)
Just nearest us in Cosmos, 300 million planets
Likely to have Life as we know it, our Milky Way!
And yet I did find Trump burning like a meteorite
Interfering with the atmospheric pressure & light
Amazed by the microcosm, so fake & real, until
The Macrocosm speaks ... I am a worm but for Christ
Categories:
interdependent, christian, creation, discrimination, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Patterns
reveal natural Space redundancy
Voiced
an internal muse
appositioning
Pattern/Space Choice
As Rhythms
unveil Time's spirited
enculturing
multi-regenerational
interdependent
synergetic
annual EarthTribe
reviving bi-hemispheric repetition
Of Light Spirited Patterns
rooted in Natural In/OutSide Dark
NonDualistic Space.
Categories:
interdependent, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form: Didactic
"I believe through any trial
there is always a way"
Such profound belief
in powers of love
is hard for my hands
to honestly sing
and not shyly wave away
With integrity of my final
truthful say
But, still
I do silently believe
as polyvagal Health Theorists
systematically play
Through any win/lose
or lose/lose trauma trial
we always do our best
in a more resonant
win/win therapeutic
co-arising way
To both sing and standing dance
our most resiliently harmonic day
To withstand a more resistant
wounded child's lack of nurtured
healthy nature spirited way
to robustly pray
In this
our cooperative
co-invested circle
of soulful gospel
sacred spacetime stay
I believe through alarming
Othering trauma
of disabling marginalization,
criminalization,
commodification,
AnthroSupremacist colonization
Nonviolent multicultural compassion
is always our healthiest
act of win/win co-invested action
loving our wealthiest resonation
Drumming indigenously wise
thrumming interdependent nations
restoring our humming
resilient
EarthJustice folkway.
Categories:
interdependent, earth, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse
We expect to find
and ecologically pursue
performing possessive behaviors,
speaking with LeftBrain dominant purpose
in our individualized ego lives.
We invite,
theologically hope for,
and faithfully search out
and in to fulfill,
nonviolently provide
peaceful purpose
to protect interdependent
intersectional
meaningful relationships
in Earth's web
of sacred compassion.
Categories:
interdependent, earth, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
As ecologists expand our awareness of ecosystems
as win/win cooperative health networks
With co-arising dipolar
interior and exterior
sensory intelligence,
Health optimization
adds deeper meaning
to an old proverb,
"Bloom where you are planted"
In animate
contextual
interdependent
intersectional
multicultural
contextual attachment
rooted intelligence
Experience
relationship
dipolar co-arising communion.
When Ego is inexorably planted
within Self's largest ecosystemic
interdependent metabolic
homeopathic multicultural
resonant musing relationships,
Then Ego is most free
to search
and find
Ego/LargeSelf-Systemic
voices with choices
cooperatively co-invested eco-political
lifetime rooted
Passion WIN/WIN Plays
Wealthy Ecological
Stealthy Analogical
Meldy Musicolyrical
Indigenously Theological
Multiculturally Mythological
EcoWomanist Political
Democratic HealthLogical
Categories:
interdependent, green, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse
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