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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: aghorrorag] * 1
    #28298333 - 04/28/23 02:27 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

When trying to sleep at night, instead-
my thoughts turn to the severed head.

In cupboard dark beneath the stair,
newspaper wrapped with matted hair.

Its lifeless gaze trapped in a scream,
the pillow now, and back I dream.

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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: Lithop] * 2
    #28306672 - 05/04/23 04:20 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Modern Mystic


It’s not easy being new
When you will highlight the old
But it offers up a spectral clue
To all the brash ones and the bold

To seek out the purest Light
Foretold by the saints and sages
Is to seek scriptural might
And the wizards, warlocks, mages

The multitudes are deaf
To all forms of mystic feeling
They say it’s a waste of breath
And spend birth to death a-reeling

It comes in many colors, many hues
And truth from this agenda is no stranger
In fact, the whole explodes with many truths
And such explosions expose to danger

Modernity casts peculiar tints
But ones that are indeed compelling
It’s really all about the many hints
Nature to us is ever telling

Science alas opens up dimensions
That our progenitors did not need
Bestowing many new contentions
Or not so new, y.m.m.v. indeed

The salient yet still remains the same
Truth after all is quite immortal
Involved in a complicated game
On both sides of the dreaded portal

For one thing, you see, all is possible
Which has meaning deeper than you think
Making easy, however, is impossible
Standing so absurdly far back from the brink

Brinksmanship it’s true a human factor
In a rather abstract purple way
The human specimen an ornate actor
Invents oblivion to seal the day

If you can now perform this daring task:
Holding the Light proudly while alive
Wear not lies nor any facemasks
And God won’t know that you have died


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28307096 - 05/04/23 11:48 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Modernity is a fallacy.
Truth is found therein.
When difference is herecy.
Admitting progress is but spin.

Battleship like strategy.
Where guesses become sound play.
Luck assumes constabulary.
Confusion rules the day.

Advanced beyond understanding.
So much we think we do.
Our problems will continue compounding.
Until its time..and we see it through.


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: pineninja] * 1
    #28307917 - 05/05/23 02:55 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

The Great Work


When our destiny befalls us
Harnessed to our drear fuss
          We center to our star
None thus would this nonplus
          Heralded from afar

Like a cork on bobbing sea
Or huddled in the lee
          Most haven’t wind direction
Nor are inclined for tea
          Nor have inner perfection

But to orient one’s soul
To point it toward the goal
          The goal I mean down here
Remaining in the shoal
          One goal: abolish fear

If lightning strikes our being
And if for once we’re seeing
          The Great Work strikes apparent
And it is very freeing
          When we find our Self inherent

Indeed, each one a bright Star
Pounding on her sand-bar
        When truth arrives, it’s welcome
And really, there you are!
        Now to err quite seldom

Now incumbent upon all
To resurrect after the Fall
        Each in his perfect place
Doing one’s Work withal
        That no one can replace


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28310189 - 05/07/23 11:43 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Chaos Mysticism


Causality and Chance
Contingency and Must
The Chaos Mystic’s dance
Alway from dust to dust
Yoga being Union
A game for yellowbellies
The truest consummation
Forsaking napalm jellies
Conjuring with your magic
Invoke the varied being
Objective way of seeing
Fall out the circle, tragic
The Model isn’t shallow
Fairly feigned or fallow
Synthesis of the ages
The truth of human stages
The realm of olden’s Reaper
The taker and soul keeper
The object of this exercise
Some after-realms are steeper
No longer out of human eyes
Reaper approve, Devil despise
In the end returning to
The burning we are yearning through
The real and the apparent
The same, it’s doubtless true


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #28312751 - 05/09/23 01:20 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Freedom


No mon, no fun
The modern sages say
Punch out, work done
At the end of day

Tragic, yes it is
Everything should be free
Sadly, that’s the biz
We’re in, you all and me

Each penny a sin
And a stupid mistake
That biz we are in
Will bend and will break

I do not know how
To address this, howe’er
But almighty cash cow
Must its throat vein be sever’d

Bill Hicks once, he said:
Try going somewhere
Without cash; you’ll drop dead
Eventually—no one cares

All the world’s sin
All the world’s sickness
Derives from our chagrin
At our wallet’s thickness

This all may seem naïve
Or stupid, plainly so
But not if you believe
In Nature and her flow

Any system shy of
The egalitarian
Is one that you will die of
There’s nothing left to win

Children understand all this
Adults are too far gone
Another item on God’s list
For saving primate spawn


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #28315786 - 05/11/23 12:59 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Miserable Spirit Part II


And lo all these many years have passed
And the spirit, his forces remain amassed
Logic out the door, only chaos reigns
It should make sense, but it don’t, and it pains

There was once a harmony, normalcy, sanity
And today only irrational glum inanity
I don’t know what happened, I can’t say just why
They have such weird beings that just try and try

These try to disable, disarm, discombobulate
And about 2019 they had me at sate
Fast forward to now, and the misery’s mutual
The damn thing has grown so nauseatingly usual

If the aethyrs are like this, then I am so sorry
That all the world thinks they’ll go on bliss safari
The whole thing’s not pretty—a jungle, a mess
And there isn’t much point to your priest go confess

Holy Guardian Angel, I hope others have luck
In finding one pleasant that keeps one unstuck
‘Cause what I’ve got here is a realm cluster****
I tell you, in part to be me, it does suck

So if you ever get in a pickle like mine
Enjoy your desserts, enjoy your fine wine
It may give you respite from craziness base
With a Miserable Spirit, do not interlace!


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #28318502 - 05/13/23 04:28 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Two-One-Zero


Philosophy might be boiled down
To whether one likes the notion
(It’s no time now for emotion)
Of two-ness, one-ness, or to drown

That is to say, this essence
Deals with dualism, for one
All spectral beneath the Sun
A transcendental presence

Or, we look, on the other hand
At wholeness, oneness, truth
The swirl in your vermouth
Belies the complex grand

Lastly, the opinions of men
Fall on nihilism
Existential schism
(It ain’t exactly Zen)

Perhaps this oversimplifies
But maybe it’s a clue
To just what humans do
When one boils down to size

Dualism, monism, nihilism
Man can engage all three
In this frothy sea
Truth refracts through the prism

I have my favorite, yes, indeed
But who am I to say?
Interesting to see it this way
But in the end, we bleed


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #28319469 - 05/14/23 11:56 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Crazy


I have a little theory
I’d like to try on you
Perhaps not so flattering
To Earth’s varied crew

Indeed, and take a moment
To exercise restraint
It does apply to you, dear
So popular, it ain’t:

Everyone is crazy
That right, I said it straight
This planet is a madhouse
Full of greed and hate

This malady I see
Touches every soul
Sure, involuntary
With no thought of the goal

From time immemorial
History, all the way down
Operates from neurosis
From the peasant to the crown

Spectacular today
As the race is dying out
So many causal factors
Ourselves, you see, we rout

It could not be otherwise
We live in gilded cages
Our brains: they do not work right
And everyone just rages

So yes, we’re all insane
We ought to tear our eyes out
That we’re not doing so
Leaves little room for doubt


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28319751 - 05/14/23 05:24 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

The definition of crazy.
Includes you believing you ain't.
The understandings complacency.
Cries of technological prowess quite qauint.

When the patient's overrun the asylum.
The easiest fix is change the name.
Throw away the uniforms.
Let's pretend were all the same.

The communal delusion.
A still pictured mirror.
Surety within confusion.
Success no matter what we deliver.

It's likely always been so.
We slide down a slippery slope.
How it ends no one may know.
When will we run out of rope.


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: pineninja] * 2
    #28320026 - 05/14/23 11:35 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Golden Teacher

I Fasted for 12 hrs,

sat alone in quiet darkness

and ingested 5 dried grams. 

Had FaceTime with the good the bad and the ugly

and heard the deafening silence of the lambs. 

Childhood trauma played like motion pictures on the silver screen,

I saw the hurt and sadness of abusers

and came to understand forgiving them would make me clean. 

Forgiving and blessing my enemies can heal,

this much I know is true,

my pain and suffering
can become medicine or poison for the world

depending on what I choose to do. 

What will you do with yours?

-Gremlin-


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: pineninja] * 1
    #28320508 - 05/15/23 11:50 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Quote:

pineninja said:
The definition of crazy.
Includes you believing you ain't.






For the record, I do not exclude myself.


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #28320512 - 05/15/23 11:52 AM (1 year, 1 month ago)

The Constitution


You guided us
Straight and true
For about 200 years

But along about now
You’re starting to show cracks

Doubtless, it is a fine document
But, as with all things
Obsolescence takes its inevitable toll

With the hyperconnected
And hyper-complex
Nature of the 21st Century
You do not do as well as you did
When, say, we didn’t have electricity

And now that we have the internet
And the cyber-universe
And long-term threats
Like climate change, habitat destruction
Surging populations and their environmental impact
The advance of radical technologies
And endless complexity and uncertainty
You’re a bit less reliable
Than you were
In simpler times

Unfortunately
Everyone seems to be obsessed
About what you have to say
About this, that and t’other

Interpreting an 18th Century document
For the 21st Century
Is perhaps counterproductive

Dubious interpretations
Ought be replaced
By taking the correct action
For modern times

By doing what most of us know is the right thing

As things stand, the opinions of the Supreme Court
Are thoroughly subjective

It’s time we did something about this
But since there’s no recipe for it
In you, the Constitution itself

Paralysis seems the only course


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    #28322171 - 05/16/23 04:19 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Reaction Action


The behaviorists seem to have it right
In certain circumstances
The little will provides no light
To shine on reflex dances

But though they were indeed insistent
That it all stops there
The position, see, is truth-resistant
But is freedom anywhere?

Though it’s true primarily
That we mostly are reacting
Do not dismiss summarily
That sometimes: we are acting

The little will is little, yes
(Though it can grow four sizes)
When it seems we’re at our best
Nature doles out prizes

Act, react, it’s all the same
When one ponders the fact
That true control ain’t in the game
When we “freely” act

I suppose we can dismiss all this
When our circuits fire clean
Anyway, we’d be remiss
To say we’re all machines


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    #28323538 - 05/17/23 04:07 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Reality Overhaul


For the sake of argument
Let’s suppose there’s a God
As a hypothetical
Some feel that this is flawed
In a West where God is dead
It may seem somewhat odd

Forget all that and just suppose
Nature and God are two
This seems to be sensible
High Heaven and hot stew
It really can’t be otherwise
To a discerning few

Supposing that, it follows then
That Nature’s mostly free
She’s able to control herself
She needn’t God, you see
But sometimes Nature’s in a bind
That can harm you and me

So miracles are possible
Though clearly they are rare
Sometimes it’s merely necessary
To avoid a bad scare
Judicious use of such a power
Saves lives just everywhere

However, one step more than this
That God has endless powers
Does not quite seem to be the case
Yet further beauty flowers
He mustn’t be omnipotent
No more than Nature’s dour

So I just have to say here
That God can’t overhaul
Reality in real time
An order far too tall
Nor is he obliged to
Such thinking is too small


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    #28325073 - 05/18/23 03:51 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Our Blue Planet


Fragile azure marble
Jewel suspended in the firmament
How I wish existence could
Somehow, some way, be permanent

When seen from Lunar vantages
Your wholeness is apparent
Your beauty, inescapable
Your uniqueness inherent

All man’s paltry trifles
Are seen as ludicrous
Division, greed, all-out wars
The rest, too numerous

What we really have here
Is a precious, joyous gift
And we do not deserve it
If we can’t repair the rift

Photos of your majesty
Taken from outer space
Clinch the truth infinite
While billions are debased


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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum]
    #28326211 - 05/19/23 12:08 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

Re-Boot


Reality’s inscrutable
Too bad it’s not re-bootable
The present intersects
The future it perfects

The rolling past is so imperfect
When skyward it is truly perfect
The only character to blame
Is Man, who fights in good God’s name

Yes, Man, the constant factor
A nefarious actor
If the dom species were canine
This place would be just divine!

Siriusly now, it’s a fair point
Reality has us in dis-joint
Will we stay to see tomorrow?
Or is our morrow one of sorrow?


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    #28326738 - 05/19/23 07:57 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

People


We all know many individuals
An actor seems to know a trillion
Upon parting, happiest residuals
Relationships by the billion

And we also all know this salient fact:
People can simply be quite precious
Their look, their laughter quite infectious
(Some with remarkably bad tact)

It’s once you get on to the group level
That all those crazy issues arise
Socially at times we may freely revel
But groupthink makes everyone despise

Irrespective of individual versus group
The fact is indeed utterly plain
This species with its glands and brain
Runs this planet like poop


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    #28326893 - 05/19/23 10:22 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

The Last Raver


The stage is too far away
My friends suck
I hate this song
Why did I come here

Apathetic minds, squashed under colossal nothingness

Visions of joy, show them lights and songs, thrash wildly beneath the rising sun

Yet

They tell me my hope tastes bitter

Back to sleep for them, the last raver spins alone in bittersweet revelry


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    #28326902 - 05/19/23 10:27 PM (1 year, 1 month ago)

PS thank you to Divided for regularly contributing to this thread
Cheers


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