Friday Night Poetry Slam

Welcome to the Friday Night Poetry Slam!

THEME: The context and the person; Lin-chi's 4 Procedures

SLAM RULES: Share your zen poetry below! The theme is only a suggestion. The best poem will not be determined by upvotes nor any other metric of mass approval. The winner of the slam will not be announced nor notified. By entering, you agree to judge your own work. The winning poets will be privately awarded with the intrinsic reward of their own art. Now, show us what you got!

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Taking away the person, but not the environment:

Galactic planets swinging on gravitational tethers

Gas nebulae glimmer out a ghostly visage

All this poetry is just words and letters

Scrawled out on a blank empty page

No man with a country,

No country without a place

Just blazing stars swallowed in the vastness of space

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Taking away the environment, but not the person:

Swimming inside the heart of the ocean

Yet rejecting the pumping of the waves

This strange cardiology and reflexive emotion

Bobbing around from birth to grave

Endlessly dreaming of a dependable denouement

Bumbling bureaucrats adore the beauty of Babylon

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Taking away both the person and the environment:

Every tautology keeps to itself,

tautologizing in its own way.

Water is wet. Fire is hot.

Never meeting; this is how it stays.

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Taking away neither the person nor the environment:

Speaking in silence like the eyes of a panther

The howling jungle roars to life

In the question one finds the answer

A teacup carefully poured amidst the strife

The mountain draws open the cloud gates

Raining down the seeds of seeing

Pressing up from tectonic plates

Awaken to the humble work of being a human being.

Submitted February 12, 2022 at 02:09AM by jungle_toad https://ift.tt/1Z7jyTu