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Best Axial Poems

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Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: axial, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member What Goes Around Comes Around, Ya All
Let me be clear with no fear 
an atigent of disagreement of any future tense pretense configuration that needlessly resends a sociomatic sick sentiment catalyst...

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Categories: axial, conflict, divorce, freedom, new
Form: Free verse
Ode To the Sun
Sunrise, Oh aural hymn of spirituality,
Vibrant in it’s splendour and magnificence,
Sending nocturnes to daytime slumber,
Bathing life to a yawning earth.
 
Piercing the day’s birth with...

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Categories: axial, uplifting, visionarylife, life,
Form:




Premium Member Topsy-Turvy Love
Topsy-Turvy Love

Love turns the world upside down
slows the axial rotation
draws out passion’s sunset
compresses the hours together
shrinks the horizon to one face
cresting pillowed mountains.



5/2/2016

submitted to –...

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Categories: axial, confusion, love, lust, passion,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Wheel of Revolution
A wheel of revolution is set and rolled
The historian studies the track of the wheel
Its total journey and any incidental events
The philosopher studies the structure...

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Categories: axial, history, life, people, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aging In and Out
As I age 
I hope to become increasingly difficult 

to extract from flow of Presence
apprehending EarthMother focus 
through holistic reflections
within Now

Without targeting Others 
over There
lacking...

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Categories: axial, age, future, hope, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ecopolitical Zerozen
Radicals of PostMillennial Zeroism,
like Fundamental-Basic PreMillennial Taoism:

Yang presents unmitigated monopolistic political omnipotence.

Yin hides totally purged (recessed)
economic flat-line absence of positive nutritional flow trend,
omni-polypathic nonpresent exformed.

Just...

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Categories: axial, culture, earth, health, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
All About Nothing
ALL ABOUT NOTHING

Long before modern nihilism
Plato spoke of khora, 
the receptacle of nothingness 
as the existential foundation
of all things shown and known.

Nonsense, the men of...

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© Jim Hanson  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: axial, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Into the Dark Dreaded Dynasty
Creeping behind the shadows 
Awed by its extravagant architecture
Nighttime has arrived
I peered into the dark historical ages

Ornamental columns carved with exquisite designs
Soured into the sky
The...

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Categories: axial, art, history, imagination, places
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Story of Health Theory
They say society's heart
is changed by story
and not by theory.

But what is history
if not also a theory about evidence
for healthy and pathological stories?
Experiences,
narratives,
parables,
analogies,
ecologies,
theologies
with active Yang...

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Categories: axial, earth, education, environment, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member More Resilient Dancing Days
Shared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more

May also become felt 
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our way
through emotionally deserted
dessert

Curiously...

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Categories: axial, extended metaphor, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Amaze
Ask blessings
Craft dreaming


Etch frenzy
Glimpse happy


Ink jumpy
Keep lofty


Meet notions
Opt potions


Quest rapture
Stream treasure


Urge visual
Word aXial


Yield zesty
Zoom aptly




Leon Enriquez
21 March 2017
Singapore...

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Categories: axial, allusion,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fulcrum-Astic
I saw a slipprey pole before me,
Coated by the sweat of those 
That went before me.'
I eyed it's form, and gauged it's
Length, I flexed my...

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Categories: axial, analogy, angst, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Rhyme
The Time Paradox
Moving forth and backwards
In our own know three dimensions 
Is understood and simple
It’s our basic comprehension. 

Yet adding in an axial fourth
We become confused
Time just...

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Categories: axial, science, time, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Variational Basis
A complex domain
Of subatomic particles
And the dynamics of
Physics which works
predicts the existence
Of a novel tetraquark
Compositions of beauty

Charm quarks and two-light
antiquarks schematic predi-
tions might one remind...

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Categories: axial, adventure, business, creation, music,
Form: Bio

Book: Reflection on the Important Things