Subsistence Poems | Examples

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Premium Member " I Write From The Core"

"I write from the core-

A mythic- street voice imprinted 

From lived truth.

Shawdows and light footpaths walks with
Me;

I turn experiences into pulsation

Mental image into momentum,

Silence into something that 
Share ideas.

My lines carry fortitude and grace,
Syllabary rising  from the everyday 

Rhythm shaped by subsistence,
Imagery  born from what the

World trained me.

I am a writer of volume,
A poet of emotional transparency,

Building architecture from pain,

Alchemy from the imperfect,

And fire from the spaces I refused to fold.

This is my terrain-

Where honesty  stands towering,

Where spirit threads through the grout,

Where every poem is a step evolved

From everything I've lived and everything 

I'm becoming."

To Kill Or Not To Kill



The wild predator and the mild easy prey in fact,
Make a weird, uneasy complement of a wild act:
Only for hunger,wrath, sport, or pride in the main;
For food, power, possession or vanity is it slain ;
Yet the rage and chase yond the bound is thrust,
Where no true reason nor use seems fair and just
While one kills the other to live and breed it strain
Need finds no seizing urge to wipe out in disdain
Quests, expedition, and crusade with tall a claim
Haven't  left behind a great,noble and ideal name
Death is the be all and  end all of every existence
And in the cycle,to dust returns the subsistence !

A Promise

cloaked in a cover of kindness, my kindred conceals
conniving, colluding: their kiting of attacks

armored afar, yet still arduous against the arbiter
artful at-large he is, with his argumentative farce

mounting malice upon the mournfully mild or mundane, 
masquerading as the meek and the moral

trust in the avenging nimbus, avowing its subsistence

my turn will come


Premium Member Timeless existence

Timeless existence

Where does this come from, and what is our job in this incomprehensible subsistence?
The answer is unknown, but the reason exists and it’s anonymous, its life secret; the planner
But we are in his galactic network like axons and single cells in his endless and perfect mind

Hmm, maybe I am an electrical flow of information in his mind, in this incredible universe
I don’t know the answer, but flying in the galaxy is an amazing journey, just fly in life far
My spaceship is an ark, a fragment of Noah’s Ark, floats in three dimensions of space

A fragment of Noah’s Ark? No, it’s a lifeboat only. What means, is it? Life never stops
Never, but I am homeless in space, I must find a new planet, a new ancient living world
And live the life of existence, God will give me from my bone a lady to start a new life.

Premium Member Society and Politics

The two intrinsically interlinked aspects
of human subsistence, society and politics,
design the fundamental tenets of world order,
that regulates the dynamics of human coexistence.

The contextual norms and values of society
depict the evolving pattern of political topography
with the transforming architecture of public opinion,
fabricated by the community environment and culture.

The structure of the political system entwined 
inseparably with societal fabric of race and gender,
harmoniously connects with the collective hierarchies,
deciding the course the nations will take in the future world.

Premium Member Nature's Stern Warning

Extreme temperatures,
Melting of glaciers, 
Rising sea level,
Wildfires,
Forests' obliteration,
Droughts,
Drying up of lakes and rivers,
Desertification, 
Hurricanes,
Storms,
Flooding, and
Landslides, 
Is the vocabulary Mother Nature uses to
Pen its stern warning to Man:

" Oh, you thoughtless being, mind your ways and revere 
my eternal laws of harmonious cooperation and coexistence,
otherwise, I would not be able to provide for your subsistence."


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© Demetrios Trifiatis
        26 July 2023
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For more than two weeks, the temperatures in Greece have been around 
40 Celsius, sometimes, like today, it is 45.
During this period, wildfires are raging across the country. It comes on a day that 
Our firefighters are trying to contain more than eighty fires.
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Premium Member The Extra Mile

How difficult is it to smile,
to hold a friend’s hand for a while,
choosing to walk the extra mile?

Let’s shed our resistance.

Let’s take life slow and gently flow,
awakening our inner glow,
assisting those we meet to grow.

Love is soul’s subsistence.

Life’s a gift but we roam adrift,
so time’s now to give soul a lift,
by a simple consciousness shift.

From God there’s no distance.

God, the Source


God, the source of our existence, 
The force behind being aware, 
Can't live without His assistance 
Can't breathe without His love and care, 

He gives us strength, troubles to bear, 
He's our much needed subsistence, 
Can't survive without grace and pray'r, 
God, the source of our existence, 

Feelings rise on His insistence, 
He gives us courage in despair, 
He's the cause of our consistence, 
The force behind being aware, 

With Him, every thing we can share, 
God doesn't love us from a distance, 
He's always with us, ever there, 
Can't live without His assistance, 

Who can escape His persistence? 
On the cross, His love does declare, 
Need to give up all resistance, 
Can't breathe without His love and care, 

He has birthed us, we are His heir, 
Faith in Him helps coexistence, 
Our very breath is His affair, 
No denial, non-resistance, 
God, the source. 


19th Jan 2023


For Unseeking Seeker's "Source of our awareness" contest

Premium Member Why Are We Here

Here, in the womb of existence
We are alive but know not how
Why from God do we feel distance
As each morn, to the sun we bow

Trapped within mind-body matrix
Here, in the womb of existence
We engage in inane mind tricks
Discontent with life's subsistence

We're here on our soul's insistence
That we may learn to grow in love
Here, in the womb of existence
Is our chance to be the peace dove

We're always, at each moment free
If we choose to end resistance
Life play then is a jamboree
Here, in the womb of existence

20-January-2023

Galactic Embrace

Five hundred twenty million light-years far
from Earth a meld of galaxies has spread
its multi-arms wide open ‘midst the star
Orion cluster in its wedded thread.
With limbs outstretched, in stellar reach enmeshed,
the astral realms seem grouped in fondness spree,
by constant star formation e’er refreshed,
as if united through affinity.
Mankind’s subsistence may revolve around
embrace of nature’s procreations rife
in cosmic regions or on earthly ground
a wakened sense of reverence for life.
   That human beings be humane is key.
   Could spheres celestial teach us harmony?


~ Harley White


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The poem is in sonnet form…

Some sources of inspiration were the following…

‘The ethics of reverence for life makes no distinction between higher and lower, more precious and less precious lives. … How can we know what importance other living organisms have in themselves and in terms of the universe?’
~ Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965)

Explanation: The Hubble image shows LEDA 17532, a multi-armed galaxy merger some 520 million light-years away in the constellation of Orion.

The Market Sellers

An hour before dawn,
the market people arrive
then settle like nestling birds
beside the Ping river.

Girls squat over large straw hats,
hats brimful of dried chilies
or small freshwater fish.
They lay down bamboo mats
laden with okra, aubergines, mangosteens
and rambutan.

They are not from Chiang Mai
but are a Thai hill peoples,
villagers that have cycled through the night
to bring their produce here.
Carefully they wrap your choices
in newspaper bundles tied
with red raffia.

They offer this livelihood to us
with modest smiles.
A daily subsistence parceled with a grace
that can be felt as a currency, a simple act
of transference.

A few coins are exchanged.
The barter and haggle
of a busy city market is absent here
just the affable contact
of a hand to hand correspondence.

A mutual recognition
of the rivers that join us
and the oceans between.

Premium Member Sifting Time

always questions always apprehensions
in the process of getting through this life
begins with stunning realization
there is more to this universe than I
flows through doubt and self-examination
into a struggle to simply get by

following rules truly all that there is
why not search for something much more than this
try to find meaning within existence
beyond the needs for basic subsistence
reach for some form of common human cause
beyond doubs tears fears and need for applause

seeking that which is right which is most wise
avoiding the urge to antagonize

Premium Member Love In the Spirit Realm Ii

I reverence you here, away from fire and grime.
Where no life claim, no earth rule, no dominion
You and I are tethered within a spiritual sublime.
Wind and seas stop inside the realm of opinion

Where no life claim, no earth rule, no dominion.
When nothing prevailed before our subsistence.
Wind and seas stop inside the realm of opinion
I admire you here, in the domain of real essence.

When nothing prevailed before our subsistence.
Ringed by embers that shatter, sear, and refine.
I admire you here, in the domain of real essence.
Where orchids bloomed amid the ash and shine.

Ringed by embers that shatter, sear, and refine.
When fall breezes carry melancholy to its abode.
Where orchids bloomed amid the ash and shine.
Where subtle veils of snow through valleys strode.

When fall breezes carry melancholy to its abode.
You and I are tethered within a spiritual sublime.
Where subtle veils of snow through valleys strode.
I reverence you here, away from fire and grime.

Written: May 06, 2022

Insignificance

Is there something so unique about us
It must be studied
Rats in a maze
Trapped between testing success and error
Predictable responses to critical impetus
The same trickery carefully edited
For the next information gathering phase
Caught between a fortune and a failure

Rats in a maze
The monkey in a box 
Predictable programming for gaining essentials 
Problem solutions for subsistence
Collecting data for analysed survey's 
Finding ways to unpick the locks
And use this  predilection
Towards abusive human exploitation

The rights of rats are insignificant 
The plans of tyrants prove their competence 
THE  EYE WORLD EYE LAW
In yet another human experiment

Insignificance 

The monkey in a box

Premium Member A Mid Summers Subsistence Farm

A Mid Summers Subsistence Farm
David J Walker

The scent of the fast-coming dawns summer heat
A rush to meet the morning in a straw strewn barn

Morning chores on a subsistence farm 
of scant moisture the dry air awaits

The mid-days unbearable blaze 
Indiscriminately burning girls and boys bare feet 

Tanning both arms and cheeks of a crop-shared
Existence farm      An experience few would repeat 

And anyway
There is nothing to do in town today

At least that’s what they say
When they yell 

Get out of the Kitchen
Again

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