Refolding Poems | Examples


Makhorka

Eyes drifting
In waiting, 
Silently,
              Gazing
In vain,
Despite it,
He enlarged them 
Widely opened, as if
Searched for something interesting,
Very 
Carefully, 
                  Silently, 

Like a lazy bear, he put it on the old wooden table.
Carefully,
             refolding
his courage
lifting up
ferrous arms
stripping 
Carefully,
a tinny piece,
rolling himself,
In still noise
a cigarette of 
Powerful
low-graded 
rustika,
a variety of
great purge
hunger
killing 
good reason, 
One pack a day
It helped, like hell
Helped.

It helped survive 
the cold, 
and everyday
toil when 
soldiers and ants
starved,
Makhorka,
insecticide 
of freedom. 

Silently,
           Looking in vain,
Despite it,
He kept them 
widely opened, 
Carefully,
                   Silently.
Categories: refolding, allegory, childhood, destiny, loss,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNonViolent Musicians

When he speaks
transparently
he feels co-passionate
as long as s/he appears
to vulnerably listen

Without Me v We risks
of retributive judgment,
body shaming
and mind blaming,
when he aims
to restore healthy cultures
and wealthy climates of peace
through win/win reassessment

Which may be why
music feels safer to sing
resonantly
when compassionate audiences dance
engaging pleasure's peak resilience

Co-empathic brilliance
of CommonSensed communion rituals

Wealth-enlightened minds
empowering health-embodied love stories

NaturalRoot/SpiritualCrown 
wisdom recirculations
as old as
universal salvation
Anthro-passion cultures
unfolding/refolding
unitarian co-redemptive 
Earth-pleasured body climates,
wealthy mindful singing 
performance Now
within healthy bodies dancing
co-engagement Here

Receiving in 
light's notations
while thrusting out
power's most sacred 
invocations.
Categories: refolding, anger, body, fear, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum


Premium MemberStripped Naked

"Stripped of a physical body,
[individualistic] mind stands naked,
revealed startlingly
for what it has always been;
the architect of our [shared] reality."
Sogyal Rinpoche

Stripped of a spiritual mind,
bodies lie nakedly dis-potentiated,
undominated,
indomitable,
undomesticatable,
de-commodified,
startlingly unveiled
for why we have always evolved here
in regenerative Earth's life-giving environment,

Historically revolved 
and culturally regenerated
through DNA bicameral dynamic reiterating spirals,
bilateral nature/spirit animation,
humane/divine co-inspirations

Unfolding
refolding
prefolding
dipolar co-arising folds
strings
frames
paradigmatic fields

Composing
recomposing
discomposing
disposing
uncomposing
precomposing
this fractal-binomial structure
for systemic ecological restructuring
of each moment's regenerative/degenerative
empowering/disempowering
enlightening/dissociating potential

Ego/Eco-systemic rebecoming,
becoming
unbecoming
precoming,
coming

Autonomously stripped 
atomic synergy, 
embodied longing
within multiculturing waves 
of co-arising integrity,
naked mind belonging
Categories: refolding, death, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberDoubledged Prophets

In prophecy
we often fixate 
on time's unprofitable passage,
on degenerative change
on long-neglected reform
on our need to redeem our time
now past.

Yet this notice of opportunities and risks
for future climates of pathology and health
is surrounded by an implicit right-hemisphere awareness,
a felt prophecy
pre-verbal
erupting from compassionate tenacity
of resilient health-wealth Time re-membered,

Matriarchal womb nurtured,
this prophetic nutrition of communal circles
and resonant spirals,
waxing and waning waves
of emotively implied pre-formation,
primal ZeroZone re-attachment
back through
and to
All Souls Yang-unfolding and Yin-refolding
universal and unitarian
strong-flowing
prophetic TaoTime;

Time tenaciously prophetic,
compassionately redeveloping integrity of health re-connected with wealth
left rationality with right synergy
polypathic thought with polyphonic feeling;

Courageous Either/Or with curious Both/And 
ego/eco-logic;
Vulnerable with Transparent 
prophetic polyculturing communication.
Categories: refolding, health, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form: Political Verse

Refolding the Paper Crane

I tried folding a paper crane again the other day
  and  it didn't turn out right

tracing back my folds,
I knew I missed somewhere

unfolding, re-creasing, refolding
just tracing my fingers back

fingers 
    feeling the paper
and beyond

A three-minute fold
times 10 now

Even if I needed to do other things,
I paid no mind, determined to fold that crane

I had to get this right.
I had to.

Almost there...

As it turns out, 
I only missed one step,
--something to do with its wings, I believe...

Amazing how a single step
could be so important.

Stretching its wings now,
the paper crane 
soars proudly on my palm...
So beautiful.

In refolding this paper crane,
I hope I never forget...

Amazing how easily things slip from our minds, 
but more amazing
is when our hearts Do remember.

We remember, 
   and then we Do something...

...I have hundreds of paper cranes yet to fold,
it may be taking me far longer 
than what I had initially planned...

but yes, you are in my thoughts,
   you are in my prayers...

and I shall continue folding these cranes.

...I revel in the thought, for that moment,
when I can send them flying towards the Sun...








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Categories: refolding, dedication, life, recovery from...,
Form: Free verse


Bumpy Roads

Peering into my rear mirror,
Galvanic glitter diminishes into
The blind side. No longer tantalizing,
Runic tunes can't tickle my tongue.

Over crystal clear aquamarine under
Robin egg sky, mighty eagles fly high.
I hear nested birds - Chirp!

As skewered wind twirls leaves,
Cosmic rays shoot shadow bands.

Slumberous new worlds rub an eye.
The night sky shyly twinks at dusk.
The wonderous peace heaves a
Breath into a black blanket of night.

I hear naked light whispering that
Universalisms are ever evolving as
God's guidance is refolding my maps.
Categories: refolding, nature
Form: Narrative
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