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Category: Poetry

oil painting, whirling dervish in white, from above

Quarantine Notes

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 30 Mar 2023 Collection Philosophy, Poetry, Spirituality aphorisms, literature, mysticism, philosophy, spirituality

A poetry of pith,

Quarantine NotesQuarantine Notes #1: Art

By
  • Yahia Lababidi
| 30 Mar 2023 Poetry Noetics (Mind/Spirit), aphorisms, culture

Art for art’s sake is a dead end; art for heart’s sake is the way out.

"only poetry isn't shit" neon sign

Prediction

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 29 Mar 2023 Microdoses Poetry AI, humanity, language, poetry, technology

Prediction—or personal pose: / In the Age of AI / Poetry will be the last refuge / Of human language.

Memory is the real name of the relation to the self, or of the affect of oneself by oneself. According to Kant, time was the form in which the spirit affected itself, as the space was the form in which the spirit was affected by something else ; time was therefore "self-affection", constituting the essential structure of the subjectivity. But time as subject, or rather subjectification, is called Memory. Not that short memory that comes after, and opposed to oblivion, but "the absolute memory" which doubles the present, which redoubles the outside, and which is one with oblivion, as it is itself and continuously forgotten to be redone ; its fold merges with the unfold, because this one remains present in this other one, as what is folded. Only oblivion (unfolding) finds again what is folded into the memory (in the fold itself). (...) What is opposed to the memory is not the oblivion, but the oblivion of oblivion, which dissolves us outside, and which constitutes the death. (Gilles Deleuze - Foucault, Les Editions de Minuit, 1986 )

in under 500 characters…

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 29 Mar 2023 Microdoses Poetry AI, Barthes, Foucault, discourse, theory, writing

Now that #ai is colonizing / #writing, my mind goes back / to studying theory in the ’90s:

Featured Image: Salvador Dali, Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man, 1943

Ars Poetica

By
  • Brian George
| 14 Feb 2023 Microdoses Poetry CIA, conspiracy, surreal, technology, weird

There is no rest for the search engine. The unquiet dead play games with the subject/ object interface. It appears that our operating system is not a friend to Jesus. Logos flash through the sky of the Sinkiang Autonomous Region. Our wet dreams run through fiberoptic cables.

To the Cleft of the Mountain We Go

By
  • Shant Alajajian
| 2 Jun 2022 Microdoses Poetry Mystical, Mythos, esoteric, gnostic, hermetic, neo-platonic

Fold up the linen and keep the receipts / Re-bury the boxes in earth. / Tight—shut the windows, hermetically seal / Let nobody see its birth! // Golden-brown bodies with Sun-kissed lips / Don silver-moon garments of old. / Hush— cool silence for raging and violence / Fire’s mouth must be closed to console. // To the cleft of the mountain we go!

Your Box Problem

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 3 Mar 2022 Features Poetry AI, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), humor, meta, singularity, tech

“Think outside the box,” they say. What if your box is doing the thinking? Where does your thinking end and your box begin? How many boxes does it take to screw in a light bulb? The answer may surprise you.

Lo fatal by Rubén Darío – performance and translation

By
  • Marco V Morelli
  • Douglas Duff
| 31 Dec 2021 Microdoses Poetry epsañol, latin america, music, performance, spanish, translation

Marco V Morelli reads Darío’s classic in original Spanish, with music by Doug Duff. There is a new English translation as well.

18 Notes on Space

By
  • Heather Fester
| 19 Nov 2021 Features Poetry poetics, space, trauma

What does Space mean to you? Do you have enough of it? Too little, too much? How do you make space… for Space? This piece was composed for an evening of Poetic Alchemy held in Boulder, Colorado, in the spring of 2019.

Jupiter Square Saturn

By
  • Selah Grenewood
| 21 Oct 2021 Microdoses Poetry Mythos, jupiter, poetry, saturn

“Jupiter crash landed into Saturn.” As above, so below. What follows is a short and bittersweet astrological allegory about the power struggles that ensue in the heavens.

Author Interview with Susan Evans

By
  • Mary Thaler
| 15 Jun 2021 Features Interviews, Poetry poetry

Susan Evans’s poem “Lucy” appeared on Metapsychosis website in Autumn 2020. During the following winter, we exchanged emails in which Susan told me about her creative process, her sources of inspiration, and what her hopes for the coming year.

A New World (Poems and Photos)

By
  • Andrea van de Loo
| 25 Nov 2020 Features Poetry Sri Aurobindo, snakes

Going inward / I see my grey sleek wolf’s belly / moving forward on long legs striding / free, clear, unassuming / my natural strength carrying me / into the clear space ahead.

Studium Spiritus Sancti

By
  • Annie Blake
| 2 Nov 2020 Features Poetry

but i often underestimate my husband / for he pointed out that i actually said schizophrigid / i had a kitchen dresser which contained crockery i never used / over- solicitude is display mothering /

Gasp

By
  • Gale Acuff
| 19 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

What happened, Miss Hooker asked–she meant my shock–so I said, Well, please turn around and take a look at Jesus there and tell me what you see.

Four Poems

By
  • Patrick DeCarlos
| 12 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

The shrunken fighters, cheeks sunken and eyes Gibbous as praying mantis, like a god kept captive By some sick forest cult That provides sacrifice seasonally…

Lucy the Nun With the Green Socks

By
  • Susan Evans
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“Lucy the nun with the green socks / saw me hugging the oak tree / that summer I / hibernated in Spartanburg.”

Anatolian Dreams

By
  • Diana Thoresen
| 5 Oct 2020 Features Poetry

“St Barbara, a poor white gloved icy ingénue, / Has long been a dusty piece of Black Forest wood // That grew out of the ashes of Sibylline books”

Soul Retrieval: Poems

By
  • Paige Frisone
| 4 May 2020 Features Poetry initiation, memory, soma, soulwork, survival, trauma

they call it soul retrieval | when your essence | core | beingness | the skeletal|hole|body|brain that lives in your gut|liver|kidney|body| self|shatters | breaks its own skull|heart|body in its crumpled raisin|brain as the result of small t | BIG T | sOmE TyPe of tRaUmA

Sutra of the Computer Body: Questions for Karina Bush

By
  • Karina Bush
  • Marco V Morelli
| 26 Jan 2020 Features Cinema, Interviews, Poetry AI, Meditation, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), communication, death, language, sex, tech, techgnosis

“I’ve found a techno relationship cuts right into the core, the soul, brings out an almost more real version of yourself, makes you see yourself differently, your own potential to be better. It can achieve a level of emotional perfection. That’s also the problem…”

Animal Encounters

By
  • Milton P. Ehrlich Ph.D.
| 26 Nov 2019 Features Poetry

Following him into the darkest places taught me to never be afraid of the dark. / It’s full of unimaginable euphoric surprises…

Testaments of a Seed: Poems by Siben Gerard

By
  • Siben Gerard
| 17 Sep 2019 Features Poetry

“I must return love and life to those who offered me death / Gestating with hundreds and thousands of babies in me: / Progeny of my intercourse with the rock.”

Visionary Voices Read Aloud: John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Organizer:
  • Geoffreyjen Edwards
| 24 Jul 2019 – 12 Aug 2020 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Poetry

Since Fall 2019, we have been reading works by “visionary poets.” While what constitutes “visionariness” is an open and dynamic question (with intense contemporary relevance) we began our quest to bring visionary voices to life by alternately reading a …

Savitri Reading Group

Organizer:
  • Mattéo Needham
| 17 Jul 2019 – 15 Feb 2023 Readers Underground Group Books, Community, Poetry

We are performing an intimate reading of Sri Aurobindo’s Savitri – A Legend and a Symbol, with a virtual meeting every 1st and 3rd Wednesday until the poem is fully read.

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, by Murtada Johnny

Reading “The Rain Song” by Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, with Dona Abbadi

By
Metapsychosis
| 3 Apr 2019 Features Poetry culture, poetry, translation

Metapsychosis #OnlyPoetry channel presents: A guided reading and discussion of Iraqi poet Badr Shakir Al-Sayyab’s poem, “The Rain Song,” with Jordan-based author Dona Abbadi. Dona guides us through a reading of one of the most belov …

quadrating a blind blotch circlature . . – by Jef Safi

Two Tastes

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 20 Mar 2019 Microdoses Poetry alt-integral, post-human, theory, tragedy

on differences that make a difference, or aesthetics

Kara Walker, “Storm Ryder (You Must Hate Black People as Much as You Hate Yourself)”

Meditations on the Slave Gospels

Explicit By
  • Siben Gerard
| 3 Mar 2019 Collection Explicit, Poetry Society (Multitudes)

“I wrote the meditations with the intention of translating the trauma of slavery to the page, and it did came out like an eco-graphic card; with no straight lines; no reservations.”

Kara Walker, Christ’s Entry into Journalism

Meditations on the Slave GospelsGospel 1

Explicit By
  • Siben Gerard
| 27 Feb 2019 Explicit, Poetry US history, african-american history, black art, slavery

In America I came across a mulatto, who told me, “Yes we can—Make America great again.” And for the first time, the doors of the white house were allowed open for the entrance of a black phallus; America gave birth to black dead…

Poems of Annie Blake (Part 2)

By
  • Annie Blake
  • Annie Blake
| 19 Feb 2019 Features Poetry

“Mothers should explain this to their daughters when they are too young…instead of folding church bulletins to make fans…”

AK Rockefeller, Discoh [via Flickr, CC BY-NC]

Shiny Happy Lizard People

By
  • Bardsley Rosenbridge
| 12 Feb 2019 Features Poetry Society (Multitudes), conspiracy, illuminati, new world order

the biggest secret: REPTILIANS! United States lizard government / help. Bloodlines). people think they know

Poems of Annie Blake (Part 1)

By
  • Annie Blake
| 18 Dec 2018 Features Poetry

blackbirds rise like a word from a hot hovel / satis house and her letter / and her first wedding gown / fires blank and face clocks / my hands / their spell / swelling the mouth of a match / the stone thrown into the sea and circulatio /

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