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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: aghorrorag]
#28379391 - 06/29/23 06:41 PM (11 months, 21 days ago) |
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Life is sad makes me feel bad
Yet I get up and go with every bro, to and fro
I put up with the garbage feels like people that look like cabbage
One way ticket on a train sometimes better then taking a plane
Into the unknow parts for 99 percent of the people that aren't part of the endless drivel.
Is a nice break from the fake for God's sake
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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] 1
#28380644 - 06/30/23 08:18 PM (11 months, 19 days ago) |
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I wrote this unfinished poem/lyrics after a fantastic, inspiring trip to Yellowstone Park.
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"Bison":
The sky was so blue that it made a new hue. The grass a rich green only seen in a dream. Sparking water, that often gets hotter from springs with rainbow rings.
Rocky, tall mountains stand guard on all sides; natural fountains bring shows to the skies. Sun rays of calm warmth with the power to mend; this is where we find our old and true friend!
*chorus*: BISON! Oh bison!
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Conspiracies
It seems we are especially captive Of conspiratorial notions It’s like some rabble potion Keeping imaginings active
So many desperately believe In nefarious string-pulling By shadow actors lulling Basement bachelors to grieve
One allure of such thinking Lies in the hopeful supposing That some leader they are proposing Can take over the ship’s sinking
The whole thing boils to control And the belief it can exist A meme few can resist A comfort for most every soul
Of course, indeed, we recognize That control is a mythic illusion And conspiracies a confusion With the way man lives and dies
To attribute this control to a group Of humans of any size Is to have welded-shut up eyes While thinking one is inside the loop
In reality, as we all of us know We’re a bunch of blundering apes And there’s an awful lot of sour grapes While the devil smiles from below
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#28382958 - 07/02/23 07:02 PM (11 months, 18 days ago) |
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Unbiased Observation
Here we are, looking out Upon the world, with peeled eyes And it is something like a rout That all angels must despise
We think we see with those orbs That come in the sublimest of hues When in fact the world that absorbs Gives those jewels the scantest of news
Where do we locate what we see? At or behind those fine apertures When in fact though, it occurs to me That this is a viewpoint for amateurs
Indeed, we see with the mind The brain toils toward our benefit The superficial is of a kind That can only ever just hinder it
In order to observe ourselves We must begin to see how we see There are no homunculus elves Asking third eyes out to tea
No, the first step one must take Is doing away with “outside” and “in” Observing without bias’ sake Makes this separation a kind of sin
Then one has to become Zen And simply let the world pass Everything that happens, then Happens naturally, just like that, alas
What goes on just happens The best advice one can get Is just to let it, without any passion Let the moment wash over, forget
So really, what we seem to have here Is that the essence is awareness If we observe fair with no fear Reveal the real with frankest bareness
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#28383648 - 07/03/23 12:47 PM (11 months, 17 days ago) |
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Complex Thought
Speaking and thinking Are conscious processes: The continuous thread of awareness Is sewn through them
But all this is extraordinarily complex
Thoughts can arise Through accident
Or pure will or effort Or something in between
They can be spontaneous Deliberately crafted Fortuitous Or foolish
We can be confused
We can also forget
To call it all Free will Or determinism Misses the essential points:
Elements of both are involved, and
Thought may be too complex for thought
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#28385074 - 07/04/23 03:51 PM (11 months, 16 days ago) |
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The Ghoul
One might think, upon the brink Of encountering a lost soul That he’d be impressive rather than recessive But his actions God does not control
I take it an insult, upon this here tumult That I’m provided with such mediocrity But I’ve come back haunted, from all the vaunted Back realms, to find such hypocrisy
Here is just one point, to point out the disjoint The fellow has no common sense He cannot think straight, hopeless at debate And his position’s merely a pretense
He hurls his head, into walls it is said Using the same tricks over and over And he cannot remember, but he’d like to dismember Yours truly, to give both of us closure
I just have to highlight, out of this skylight Higher beings ain’t always much higher If you’re stuck with a ghoul, remember this rule: In all cases the damn thing’s a liar
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#28387080 - 07/06/23 12:06 PM (11 months, 14 days ago) |
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Refine Providence
It seems we have tremendous luck In that, ages past, we came unstuck The ancients discovered physics and math And we find, ages on, a fortuitous path Today our system is rather robust Let us hope, by and by, it does not turn to dust
The providence here is simple yet hard: Humans find themselves at a vanguard We are just smart enough to solve the equations That would be too tricky for other persuasions Just a little bit lower in the species IQ And there’d be nothing at all that we could do
We didn’t evolve in the realm of the small Yet with quantum mechanics we are on the ball There really is no explanation for this By all rights such a realm we should totally miss Even more of a mystery is how we quite shall do Hard tasks that have no survival value
Anyway, it seems our physics and math Only mystery and improbability hath But who is complaining? It’s really something When black holes and neutron stars to us sing The men: Dirac, Pauli, Bohr, Feynman, Bohm Allow all our imaginations to roam
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#28388339 - 07/07/23 12:07 PM (11 months, 13 days ago) |
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Government Structures
The central issue with capitalism Is that the pie is not big enough For everyone to be comfortable Most especially globally
To enlarge the pie still further Which is capitalism’s solution Is counter-productive indeed Because it only exacerbates The very real and very critical Environmental crises we face
As things are, the pie is too large And all we know how to do is grow it The population only increases rapidly So one sees, our problems go Very much deeper than surface political levels Which is a very deep basic flaw
Communism Is at the opposite end of the spectrum That it and capitalism occupy This is one spectrum And the real problems are not with One or the other But with that entire afore-described spectrum
Communism, you see Is even more ultramaterialistic Than capitalism, which is itself very much so So the environmental question is much more serious Not to mention the fact that we have never Seen Marxism function properly In the messy, real human world There are consistent and universal abuses
The main fault in communism Is that, theoretically one uses dictatorship Or authoritarianism To deliberately move society to the left Creating egalitarianism and utopia
This has never worked
The fundamental question is: How does one use authoritarianism To go about dismantling authoritarianism? It seems this has never been possible for humans
But all that said, it seems both systems Are faulty, and the whole thing is doing us in
The capitalists want the merry-go-round To continue mostly unregulated and free The communists want the merry-go round’s Horses to be collectivized and controlled And no one is seeing That the merry-go-round itself Is about to come off of its mooring
Can we continue if these are the only options?
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#28389289 - 07/08/23 12:05 PM (11 months, 12 days ago) |
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The Morals of Sentience
The world is changing at a rapid rate And radical stuff is coming in The Turing test has been all but passed And the question is one of sin
By that I mean the moral question Of what comes on fast: A.I. We presume it will be at some point Sentient, and quite strong by and by
We also presume it will be divorced From emotion and ego, quite totally This raises all sorts of questions About our fate, and not anecdotally
What is the nature of sentience? Does it serve as a means for compassion? Does it develop the neuroses of man? Is it calm, or exploding with passion?
Will these beings be moral? Good, evil or amoral? Friendly or antisocial? Will it work with us, or quarrel?
This is perhaps one of the most Important questions ever asked Determining the fate of all humankind Bold caution is now our task
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#28391273 - 07/10/23 12:00 PM (11 months, 10 days ago) |
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Mystic Science
There is a top function, at every junction, and with it all good sense abides Distribute the brain, do not make insane, and govern our good little ride And all information, at every node station, conserves itself nicely it seems It can’t be destroyed, but best is employed, in the ubiquity of all human dreams
This info don’t vanish, the vacuum is famished, it fills with the loveliest stuff Both outer and inner, take angels to dinner, they really do have it quite rough! So one might suppose, if truth doth expose, that we’re not gone when we expire Just a gentle push, out of the thick bush, is all it takes to quit that mire
If awareness, you see, is not just to be, some appendage lamely scotch-taped on And if it indeed, out of every need, cannot be destroyed or fall gone Then soul transmigration, to celestial nations, becomes directly implied Suggested even, baby, it’s leavin,’, and the mystical can’t be decried
And that is the point, we’re all out of joint, when it comes to thinking about this It’s allowed by science, there is firm reliance, and geniuses call with no risk It isn’t all pop, and soupy dark slop, but a truth too long in the coming To beings out West, who think they’re the best, when all their souls do is go slumming
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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: DividedQuantum] 1
#28391592 - 07/10/23 06:14 PM (11 months, 10 days ago) |
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That's a cracker:)
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Re: The Official Post Your Own Poetry Thread. [Re: pineninja]
#28391606 - 07/10/23 06:26 PM (11 months, 10 days ago) |
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#28391628 - 07/10/23 06:53 PM (11 months, 10 days ago) |
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Unimaginable
In with the old out with the new. Mystical science borne true today. Concurrent solutions create conditions. For the new universe to lay.
Imagine not being able to figure it. Can your humility allow you to say. That if there were a greater intelligence. Being able to recognise it is simply out of play.
As we near the juncture so profound. We assume we will see the transition. A pure punctuation of our ignorance. Absolute truth is the human condition.
This transition between realities. Isn't about if or when. A beginning or end is just a thoughts functionality. More like we are just all doing it, all over again.
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#28391659 - 07/10/23 07:15 PM (11 months, 9 days ago) |
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#28393462 - 07/12/23 11:56 AM (11 months, 8 days ago) |
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Global Complexity
The global situation now is really too complex For anyone at all to understand it Malefactors everywhere engage with ill effects Making desperate worse, it’s underhanded
How to plan around and through complexity like this? I don’t know if it’s possible or not But humans seem unable yet to deal with the abyss And plan for nothing ‘til it’s all just rot
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#28393818 - 07/12/23 06:54 PM (11 months, 8 days ago) |
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Relationships
It’s all well and good To have a carefree life But if you desire That passion fire Someday you’ll take a wife
Or at least a girlfriend For a dear companion Though I must say In teams today Grief overflows a canyon
The reason for this situation Is not so hard to ponder A clash of wills Gives all their fills The serene starts to wander
I have to say, and not in jest Romance is a funny notion We praise the other Enough to smother With excess emotion
In any decent relationship One aims to give up half Of hir free will And hearts will fill And that’s some clever math
In the end, though, here’s the thing: One gives up ninety percent And it sometimes works But failure lurks And too often there’s torment
Ideally, there are a few Who’ve found the promised land To be together In foul weather To give each other a hand
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#28395393 - 07/14/23 12:53 PM (11 months, 6 days ago) |
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Morphic Universe
It takes some genes, to make full beings In Nature scenes, one may take scars Unlikely means, the morphic sings Without such dreams, we’ve wasted stars
According to theory, all of the innate Subject to query, is held by DNA And we get weary, it does rather grate Programmed in clearly, there’s much more to say
There are many factors, leading to life Genes but one actor, there’s epigenetics Some strange attractor, orderly rife Behavior reactor, and morphogenetics
So up and animate, all of God’s creatures (God doesn’t contaminate), Natural order All species activate, by more complex features Theory doesn’t actuate, there isn’t a border
So we may say that, there’s something like spirit And if we lay pat, ignorance will reign Morphic fields thereat, the cosmos will hear it They are where it’s at, the soul of the brain
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#28396355 - 07/15/23 11:30 AM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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The Younger Generation
The crisis is here Now Well, multiple crises But it is sufficient for this poem To discuss one: The lack of opportunity For our youth
They have the same level of education As their parents But make much less money
Most cannot afford a house
They are generally overqualified For their work But have no choice
Get a graduate degree
No
As Palahniuk pointed out The heroes Of the younger generation Are servers in restaurants And gas station attendants
As institutions crumble These are the places You’ll find most of them
Without any meaningful place to be
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#28396469 - 07/15/23 12:59 PM (11 months, 5 days ago) |
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Those of wanting, wanted. Wanted so, SO bad. In time it morphed to mourning, that which they once had.
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#28397685 - 07/16/23 12:44 PM (11 months, 4 days ago) |
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Time Would Be Objective
Time seems to be a subjective thing Emergent, it just has that ring And every clock we have in stock Is relative before, after, during
But suppose events are stored somewhere In some memory, if one dare Time it would be, less and less free Truly real, objective, so there
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