am i alive?
what classifies something as alive?
respiration
i am breathing
but just barely
trying to capture any air i can between sobs
growth
i am growing
it becomes increasingly difficult
recognizing myself in the mirror every day
and believing the next age i'm turning
excretion
i am excreting
i sweat when i do pretty much anything
even though i'm always cold
is there something wrong with me?
or am i just overthinking again?
reproduction
i am not reproducing
i can
but i'm not sure i want to
i wouldn't be a good mom
i'm worried i'd be too much like my own
metabolism
i am metabolizing
i always claimed it to be fast but maybe
it's since it doesn't have much to work with
movement
i am moving
my body does it without me knowing
or being conscious
it just moves
response to stimuli
i am responding
i respond too much
too dramatically
too sensitively
i fit all the criteria
so i guess i am alive
i'm just not living
Categories:
reproducing, angst, cry, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Mothers are very unique
Never to be traded for anything
The love they give
Comes with no hidden intentions
A love so real and rare
Nurturing and culturing their offspring relentlessly.
Women the womb of earth
Always bestowing blessings on earth
Steadily reproducing
As they conceive
Earth receives another legend or hero.
Happy mother's Day
To all mothers out there
Praying and doing anything
To see their children win or be at the top
The love you give is priceless
Sometimes not reciprocated
But you all never seize your unconditional love
Mothers our alliance from birth until death.
Categories:
reproducing, africa, celebration, deep, education,
Form: Epic
Chiffonade
Basso Continuo Bolero.
The term "procreate"
refers to the act of reproducing,
meaning to have children or
offspring. If you are middle-aged
and wish to procreate, it means
you desire to have children later in life,
which may present some unique
challenges and considerations.
While it's possible to have children
later in life, fertility can naturally
decline, particularly in women,
as they get older.
Here's a more detailed look:
a hoax that owes their existence,
as well as their l
striking blue color
The human intellect itself has
evolved to contribute
to reproductive success.
Countertenor and.Fagotto.
Above-Board;Atwixt
conflicts sorted through
gettin ready for a Baby making
Getting the night ready for you!
Categories:
reproducing, culture, dance, music,
Form: Ballade
It has been years
Since it has been felt
The movement of the universe
An ingredient has been formulated
It has been centuries
Since it has been utilized
The movements of planets
An organ reproducing
The wetness of the ground,
The cracking of the ground
Leaves a rare mark
A sound of it
The cracking of the tombstones
Leaves emptiness in the tombstone
A movement of it
The amusement of it all,
It has been years
Since it has been seen
The movement of the shinning light
An ingredient has been created
It has been centuries
Since it has been shown
The movement of the world
The wetness of the ground
Categories:
reproducing, adventure, africa, confidence, courage,
Form: Free verse
The human heart is an amazing organ
It needs to be treated with the upmost care
It is the one most delicate features
That keeps us alive from birth and death
How could it survive for so many years
It's not magic well some say it is
It's the magic of the human condition
The amazing feat of reproducing itself
In it's own image AMAZING!
The human heart is an amazing organ
Treat it with the upmost care
Categories:
reproducing, heart,
Form: Free verse
My spiritual vulnerability
to feel persuaded
and powers to persuade
emerge curiously informed
by Others speaking suggestions
and my own inside power digestions
not yet said out loud,
uproarious
Yet co-arising
from life's multi-generational crowd
EarthDay choir
cyber cloud
singing and dancing every day
for Earth's integral potential,
sacramental organic health
reproducing GREEN capitalized wealth,
fabulously non fatuous
inside
as outside
nuturingly nutritious
above
as below
delightfully delicious
Suggestions that land
sync
resonate
with percussive persuasion,
efficiently efficacious.
Like
"Maybe you need appreciation
for who you are
already?"
non vindictively victorious
Maybe I want
more integrity,
synergy,
positive neurosystemic
organic
healthy
sacred holonic energy?
non glamorously glorious.
Categories:
reproducing, earth day, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Tapping into our neurons
where only brain cells should go
Past dreams mean nothing now
unconscious thoughts just flow
An abstract realm of reason
touchpad signals unbeknown
Fires up, post-human imagination
our intelligence genes regrown
And so it's all written in code
old commandments redrawn
Binary replaces ancient Latin
age of replicants has dawned
Interfaced with artificial reality
and engaged to usb clones
We marry terabyte processors
reproducing ten billion drones
Reprogrammed ancient scriptures
floods overwhelm our homes
Heaven and hell's using robots
I-God now accedes the throne
By
David Kavanagh
Categories:
reproducing, allusion, computer, future,
Form: Rhyme
A creature no bigger than the size of our finger
Zooms in and out and lingers
Can we comprehend the mechanics of this wonderous creation?
That sets foot on cultivated soil and breeds manifestation
Stealing things from us that we will never get back
Larger than life but tiny enough to attack
An intricate and detailed little vessel
That shoots through the sky like a missile
Can we create this creature from scratch?
Mimicking and reproducing we are definitely no match
To the infinite Creator that says “be” and it is
Who fashions us and molds us we bow down in ultimate devotion
And succumb to the flock notoriously that is amidst
To a creature no bigger than our fist
Categories:
reproducing, allegory, analogy, animal, flying,
Form: Free verse
After Yang's struggle
suffering
seismic seizures
Dawn's Yin's peace
restoration
expansion
without grasping
even life v death
Before Yang's next struggle
suffering
seizure
battling ego's timeless absence
Like Left hemisphere's
embodied dominance,
shadow subject
of objective dreams
Then Right hemisphere's energy prominence,
bilateral compassion;
Yang's ego-natural body
reincarnating Yin's primordial
eco-spirited mind
Where polynomial 1
seizes 0
to make polypathic 1,
and not not reproducing polyphonic 0,
and every revolving
spiraling
hypersuasive tipping point
in-between
HolyWinded Spirit's Earthly journeys--
Wealthiest introspection
for healthiest extraspection;
atomic images
becoming shivered waves.
Categories:
reproducing, death, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Compassionate Teachers
Left hemisphere's cognitive nature of mind
emulates Right hemisphere's inductive spirit
of creation
and destruction,
regeneration
and degeneration,
and all doubly-resonant tipping points
balancing analogous metaphors in-between.
For these disciples,
polypathic travelers,
perpetual emigrants into spirit
and immigrants from secularized
mundane
under-valued nature,
students of ecosystemic resilience,
Earth's yang nature is Master
and yin spirit is Mistress
with unflagging strength of an oak
and complex flowing grace
of a willow,
Both rooted
and further rooting
from original NonZero Sum seeds
of integrity's sacred potential
down,
And reaching
leafing
flowering
compassion climaxing
from ZeroSum DNA origins
up
Through heart and mind
and on down
round again to
and from
many regenerations of feet
for reproducing healthy DNA roots
of sacred Earth's rememory.
Categories:
reproducing, creation, health, integrity, memorial
Form: Political Verse
Which came first?
An individual ego-centered identity,
or Earth's self-governing ecosystemic awareness?
Is like asking
Which came first?
Egg
or chicken?
Each lies potentially co-arising
within the other,
chicken DNA programming
within the eggshell,
and egg-producing capacity
within the chicken
and not her rooster.
We could have no inside ego centering awareness
without Earth's ecosystemic resonant health
as resiliently wealthy
herstorically reproducing
history and herstory,
egocenters born win/win co-attached
with healthy EarthMothers
reproducing eggs
for individuating egos.
So,
when correct identity politics
is not also relationally interdependent
co-empowering economics,
then that would be
unsafe
unhealthy
supremacist
incorrect
undemocratic
negative elitist politics
Over-investing in today's wealthy chickens
by under-investing in tomorrow's healthy eggs.
Categories:
reproducing, creation, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Run, run, run from the outbreak of quaking terror,
but where can you go or hide because it's not done.
Trapped, in bitter anguish, hands cuffed behind your back,
it’s taken your pride, you'll remember forever.
The locust has been released from its amber cage,
reproducing, scatter millions, killing slowly
igniting a Molotov cocktail round beings
with its infected poison sting convulsing rage.
People are feeling pain from the quaking terror.
3/19/2020
Categories:
reproducing, sick,
Form: Free verse
Cancer
Attacks
Normal cells die
Causing mutations
Ever growing
Reproducing.
Chemotherapy
Aggressive treatment
Necessary needles
Chemicals annihilate
Excruciating
Rescue.
Cancer
Anguished pain
Negotiations with God
Courage required
Exhausting
Remission please.
Categories:
reproducing, cancer, courage, pain,
Form: Acrostic
How can mankind be so evil,
milleniums of war killing people.
We've enough intelligence to be aware,
survival means we breed so we don't care.
Is there ever meant to be peace on Earth,
when life has been warring since the birth.
Accelerating evolution, propelling our progress,
yet with all these revolutions we fight no less.
After reproducing our natural instinct is murder,
it's the only thing we produce that's occured more.
We fight to win, we fall and reduce, we conquer,
we're dim fools, it's like, mankind is full on bonkers.
Categories:
reproducing, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Hey there Avidian
who do you
think you are?
Some rara avis
eminently gifted?
a New Age prophet
with memory that learns
and yearns to grow?
Ovidian offspring
of eminent domain?
The yeuk to replicate, this
antsiness to clone— were they
preprogrammed hyper-neatly?
How did your being
and becoming
come to be?
Who gave you the right
to call yourself life?
What instilled in
your cerebral traits
an avid urge for more?
Endowed by your Creator
with neural networks
that open evolving paths
to rival what brain
I know as mind…
Characterized
as organisms
genetically coded,
to be or not to be
intelligent in form
and feature—
Though digital we
both you and I be
each in our own
artificial mannerisms—
reproducing
natural shape-shifting
permutations
procreating
mutant innovations
actuating
willful obsolescence
(ay may well
all come to pass
amen)—
Still
the thought of you
gives me the fantods.
(If you don’t see what I mean,
get thee to a glossary.)
~ Harley White
* * * * * * * * *
The inspiration came from an article in New Scientist, headed, “Artificial life forms evolve basic intelligence”…
Categories:
reproducing, allegory, allusion, angst, future,
Form: Free verse
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