Laterally Poems | Examples

The Meaning of Life

Note: The word (nexstepulate) is made from (next step calculate) and represents a leap in action, thought or feeling, such as when an answer to a question comes to you intuitively or laterally often instantly and correct.

Pieces smash and fall apart,
mosaic geometric crystal art,
an ocean of diamonds,
each contains a world,

chaos, infinite pearls,
infinite regress and progress,
nexstepulated leaps of success,
the frontier of imagination,

what a place,
the best and worst of all lifes face,

love, life and learning,
just these three,
eternally in that order,
lifes meaning be.

Peace-Right Behind Your Sight

When most think of this to be on the horizon,
It truly lies under your ignorant eyes.

Deep down in the ocean where we chase pearls and the deepest point
We are groping for peace in totality.
In that ocean of life of treasures and diversions
We, the small fish move in a hurdle with our group, struggling and popping
Some in the blindness of more food land in a shark’s mouth and some in desperation to rise up in the top layer become a treat to the fishermen’s pouch.

Perhaps, we are mistaken by a mirror’s view.
Mistaking the diversions for the treasures-- we are in a troubled hunt forever
Never realising that our view was laterally inverted.

Beware! Those pearls are in camouflage
They chase us to chase them always; in ambush to finally let us drown in our foolish heart.
The fish are all alike though vibrantly different in appearance—all in a swim for the ‘most’, not ‘decent’.

That exquisite pearl has throughout been hidden in our captive—the one to vanquish our miseries.
Alas! We could have relished all we had and remained contented, had we not been so busy delving too deep in a scurry.


Flying Delta

Elbows must be packed more carefully.

I catch the eye of a flight attendant.
Some preliminary questions…

"Miss can I be slipped into a less edgy wedge?

She frowns, resenting perhaps my ‘miss’
should have said ‘mam’…damn.

I carry on babbling –

“Could my mind be more swiftly amputated?
Is it possible to be shuffled laterally
until I intrude less and match more?”

Now she is throwing daggers of hate towards me.

Are the engines honking like killer geese?
Will dinner come as an intravenous drip?
Is that kid vomiting back there?

Her dislike of my questions
is as palpable as a cudgel to the head.

“Miss I can’t see; my eyes are too near the seatback.
Will you stamp my papers D.O.A. now
to save time?"

My voice through the triple layered mask 
sounds like a hyperactive zombie.

She smiles robotically.

"Sir, will you please stop blinking,
you're making the other cargo nervous."

Trying To Let Go

I had it all wrong
all I do is play along
nobody understands me
I'm in another galaxy
I say this literally
it's empty laterally
I haven't found my soul group
everything is out of loop
I wish I knew this a long time ago
it would have saved me from this low
We all recognize what saying proceeds with that
I must save it for a personal chat
knee slapping that is
let's all have a quiz
I'm tired of fighting internally
it needs to stop eternally
my foe
trying to let go

Premium Member Sounds of Sounding Feet -

I am adamant hi cringe at the thought of dirty feet
I am biased and subconscious of crimson vegetable beets
No longer nowhere do you find coconut treats
Chocolate covered crimson beige grasshopper leaves
While ants are scrimmaging laterally liking playing football
And bees are buzzing around making a buzzzzz sound
Fluttering butterflies fluttering flattering floating
 around above the ground the lower the sky has
Yet the parlay fleet of grasshoppers marching crickets rubbing their legs
Sounding off while they here are they there seemingly they're everywhere
Skreet Skreet Skreet the screeching sounds that come from their feet
Chirping chirping chirping where are they and do they ever sleep
I too have feet and I'm a floor runner
Twix and tween my corns and bunions 
I'm coming running on my feet for you



9/14/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020


Flying Down To Zero

Elbows need to be carefully packed.
I squeeze together organs
filling only a certain delineated area.

The flight attendant approaches,
tries to ignore me

I have some preliminary questions,

"Can I be slipped into a less edgy wedge?
Could my mind be more swiftly amputated?
Is it possible to be shuffled laterally
until I intrude less and match more?
Will my MP3 player attract killer geese, 
or interfere with heat seeking drones.
Will you stamp my papers as D.O.A. now 
to save time?"

She smiles.

"Sir, will you please stop blinking,
you're making the other cargo nervous."

Premium Member Ecological Prosperity

Growing up on God's impoverishing family farm,
he learned to hide his work
in tissues of unearthly privacy.

Regenerating in Earth's richly resonant nutrition,
she recovered her playful avocations
in ecosystemic response
to global over-grasping issues
of under-conscious
her/his-storied
positive domesticity

Over-privatized
so powers under-privileged;
personalized
so shy of compelling
retelling publicity

Earth camouflaged
democratically healthy ecopolitics,
co-empowering
co-operating
co-generating
co-laterally co-investing
co-systemic
ego/eco-analogical
co-passion.

Growing out on Earth's extending family farm,
he learned to share his playful work
with issues of unEarthly 
inhumane
left-hemispheric primacy.

Premium Member Sacred Integrity

Silent empathy,
whether majority or extremely lonely minority,
without active integrity
is unvoiced noticing
without informed feedback looping
understanding resilient communication
mentoring

Who we call each other to become
in courageous solidarity,
curious about our remaining future fertile non-uniformity

Catalyzing co-acclimating communions
of perpetual becoming
co-empathically active
and more polypathically informed.

Sung empathy,
especially if simultaneously danced
in harmonic rhythms
and causal-effective rhymes
with reason
fertile seasons,
if polypathic integrity
grows most resonantly polyphonic
effluent,

Multi-laterally rooted 
in ZeroCommon 
prime bilateral 
polynomial affluent communion,
healthy-wealth abundance
of not monoculturing disinformation.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

No Alone

emotions searching wayout

hibernation compels the stage next for deep rooted revelations

black holes gave company
when walls around were black

laterally came tinge to smile......

escape velocity taking black humour with froth of expressO

adjacent to beaming astral mates

& ready for....

yet to twinkle & much to rain.

Related Poems

Get a Premium Membership
Get more exposure for your poetry and more features with a Premium Membership.
Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Member Area

My Admin
Profile and Settings
Edit My Poems
Edit My Quotes
Edit My Short Stories
Edit My Articles
My Comments Inboxes
My Comments Outboxes
Soup Mail
Poetry Contests
Contest Results/Status
Followers
Poems of Poets I Follow
Friend Builder

Soup Social

Poetry Forum
New/Upcoming Features
The Wall
Soup Facebook Page
Who is Online
Link to Us

Member Poems

Poems - Top 100 New
Poems - Top 100 All-Time
Poems - Best
Poems - by Topic
Poems - New (All)
Poems - New (PM)
Poems - New by Poet
Poems - Read
Poems - Unread

Member Poets

Poets - Best New
Poets - New
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems
Poets - Top 100 Most Poems Recent
Poets - Top 100 Community
Poets - Top 100 Contest

Famous Poems

Famous Poems - African American
Famous Poems - Best
Famous Poems - Classical
Famous Poems - English
Famous Poems - Haiku
Famous Poems - Love
Famous Poems - Short
Famous Poems - Top 100

Famous Poets

Famous Poets - Living
Famous Poets - Most Popular
Famous Poets - Top 100
Famous Poets - Best
Famous Poets - Women
Famous Poets - African American
Famous Poets - Beat
Famous Poets - Cinquain
Famous Poets - Classical
Famous Poets - English
Famous Poets - Haiku
Famous Poets - Hindi
Famous Poets - Jewish
Famous Poets - Love
Famous Poets - Metaphysical
Famous Poets - Modern
Famous Poets - Punjabi
Famous Poets - Romantic
Famous Poets - Spanish
Famous Poets - Suicidal
Famous Poets - Urdu
Famous Poets - War

Poetry Resources

Anagrams
Bible
Book Store
Character Counter
Cliché Finder
Poetry Clichés
Common Words
Copyright Information
Grammar
Grammar Checker
Homonym
Homophones
How to Write a Poem
Lyrics
Love Poem Generator
New Poetic Forms
Plagiarism Checker
Poetry Art
Publishing
Random Word Generator
Spell Checker
What is Good Poetry?
Word Counter