Long Lateral Poems
Long Lateral Poems. Below are the most popular long Lateral by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Lateral poems by poem length and keyword.
The Fallen
“The Fallen”
Remote,
he sees himself
in the reflection of cold close
yet distant shop windows,
his final journey along the
Hard Time Road
walking alone,
unforgiven, no home
for the rest of his natural life
a million knives...
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Categories:
lateral, family, freedom, friendship, god, i am, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
Earthy EmpathyYou've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.
Not so distant from,
I...
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Categories:
lateral, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
lateral, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Mathgeek PassionsHealthy nutrition research
starts with wealth producing past searches,
individual through community co-investments
in good and fragrant meals,
or even harmonic and graceful music with dance performances.
Ingesting healthy passions
consumes PositivEnergy wealth
for future co-productive system projections.
My evidence for future...
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Categories:
lateral, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Ecotherapist ConventionsTruth is a feather
pushed off to the other side.
Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.
OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and meanings,
it’s time to regather, if you would be so kind.
Namaste.
[Silence]
[My...
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Categories:
lateral, beauty, culture, earth, health, humor, nature, truth,
Form:
Prose Poetry
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
lateral, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Bilateral Creative Thinking SequelLast half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:
In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...
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Categories:
lateral, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
lateral, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Reforesting GuidelinesGROUP VALUES
Belief in WinWin organic ability
to cooperatively manage secular
as BothAnd sacred
health development vocations.
Desire to create
open DNA-familiar GREEN systems--
Great
ReForesting
EconomicYang 3D SpaceDriven
EcologicalYin 4D TimeFlowing
Networking organic WinWin
reverse-time gaming cooperative system
especially following matriarchal-wombed
DNA and RNA strings...
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Categories:
lateral, health, integrity, love, paradise, peace, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Learning To Recreate HealthFrom Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step
Summary
The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is by [deductively analytical academic] tradition the only proper [true, good, and pretty]...
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Categories:
lateral, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Variations On a HarmonicthemeChildren are Fundamentalists
Children are literalists,
fundamentalists.
When they hear
“You’re filthy and you stink!”
the younger they are,
the less likely to hear as a mature adult might,
“You have a sour smell on you.
Please go bathe,
and use some soap and...
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Categories:
lateral, health, love, peace, philosophy, political, poverty, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fundamentals RedefinedFundamentalists compete with and through struggling evolution
as Transitionalists would further peaceful revolutions.
Fundamentalism:
A patriarchal-historical view
rooted in interpretation of sacred scripture
written by nondual co-arising NatureSpirits
dipolar appositionally rooted
of and for regenerative naturehealth = spiritwealth,
that would err on the...
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Categories:
lateral, earth day, environment, history, humanity, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Three Faces of WisdomI am reading minds and potentially wise political bodies
with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, again.
He speaks of three interdependent aspects of wisdom.
The first is rooted in ecoconscious comprehension
of how and why knowledge, deductive information, facts, beliefs
may be both...
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Categories:
lateral, earth, education, health, nature, spiritual, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Postselection ReflectionsRightWing evangelical Capitalists
competitively invested in StraightWhiteMale privilege,
And win-ego/win-ecopolitical LeftWing
multiculturally democratic
prominent LiberalLovers
of EarthRights ecofeminist solidarity
Might together stop
to polyculturally notice
Capitalist competitive debates
do not remember
or co-invest in win/win Left/Right dialogue
Seeking bilateral resolutions
also bicameral-interior solutions,
Capital-fed RightWing fundamentalism
of Either/Or reductive
secularized...
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Categories:
lateral, community, health, integrity, peace, political, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Cooperative Health ExpectationsWe might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth's limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and yet with more reclining information supporting slow-growth
of recycling resources
such as...
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Categories:
lateral, destiny, happiness, health, love, peace, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
View From a SanctuaryHe retired to his sanctuary
on the Eastern shore of the Thames River
three years ago,
an often frustrated permaculture organizer
for building cooperative social health
by creatively communicating climate wealth
growing ZeroZone positive multicultural tao-energy.
This proves reclusively frustrating
in large part...
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Categories:
lateral, age, america, change, health, integrity, longing, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Analogous DefinitionsDefining Analogies
Natural/Spiritual Religion:
Our cooperative ZeroSoul-owned green sanctuary system
for extensively restoring interdependent outcomes
to and for healthy ego co-invested lives
transubstantiating Earth's wealthiest ecocentric WinWin Peace.
Why do you qualify Religion with "natural/spiritual"?
Is there some other kind...
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Categories:
lateral, caregiving, culture, health, integrity, peace, relationship, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Climates of Despairing RaptureImagine you
and I
are rightbrain impressed
with each Other
as also integrally
spiritually shared emoting parts
of One noetically graced BicameralHeart
together,
pumping in and out,
left and right,
nutritional lifeblood.
Suddenly, or was it gradually?
we become aware,
"I have lost my leftbrain objective
to share...
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Categories:
lateral, anxiety, caregiving, depression, health, integrity, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthcare PassionsMultiCultural Teaching and Listening
All major educational challenges,
for both consumers and producers of communication,
call for best outside/inside compassion practices
rooted in cooperative awareness of nutritional flow patterns,
contrasted against toxic stagnation entropy, apathy,
and flowering as WinEgo/WinEco-health values.
For example,
racism...
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Categories:
lateral, community, education, health, integrity, love, nature, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Candle of HopeI am in my newly adopted Green Sanctuary
enjoying our communal celebration
of all things nutritionally healthy
When the ecofeminist facilitator announces
it is now our time to light three candles of hope.
She invites our Greek chorus
to speak these...
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Categories:
lateral, caregiving, celebration, earth, green, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Boundary IssuesWhy do we call lack of boundary issues,
boundary issues?
Why do we call oppositionally engrained
and deep-rooted ego-supremacist instincts,
oppositional disorder?
rather than competitive-dominant WinLose order?
Why do we call lack of WinWin ecopolitical direction,
ambivalence?
rather than equivalence?
Edgy margins of discovery
multiply...
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Categories:
lateral, earth, health, humor, math, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Cool Calm ChaosCOOL CALM CHAOS
Eager egrets hopping on mossy glossy grass of desert
Cake made of...
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Categories:
lateral, 7th grade, confusion, funny, hilarious,
Form:
Rhyme
Fundamental Compassion RootsWhat is dogmatically
unchangingly fundamental to Christianity,
and to all win/win positive faith systems,
is certainly not capitalism's ZeroSum economic assumptions
in which winner god takes all
from loser satan.
But, what is fundamental compassion's truth
is profoundly sacred
globally open-systemic theology
of HolySpirit...
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Categories:
lateral, change, christian, faith, health, hope, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Warmer ReflectionsDuring December
I have trouble remembering we are potentially orgasmic organisms
designed for healing wounds,
resiliently restoring our egos
acclimating with everyday eco-habitats
to regenerate this lifeline climax;
Virally reverse-hierarchical
deep ecstatic experiences,
revolutionary,
BigBang self-other co-empathic perpetuation,
transubstantiating,
creolizing,
co-acclimate primal relating
interdependent ZeroZones
of ambiguously...
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Categories:
lateral, green, health, love, nature, new year, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Holy WindstormThese are post-revolutionary gay '20s,
without pre-revolutionary SpeakEasies,
replaced with ListenHard
to global climates of LeftBrain dominant despair.
Margaret Meade encourages
invites
urges small winds
assembled in privatized circles,
yet still dreaming of love's great evolving liberty,
winning healthy democracy
to win wealthy economies
to win...
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Categories:
lateral, culture, health, native american, political, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse