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Category: Poetry

Your Box Problem

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 3 Mar 2022 Filed Under:
Featured, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“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.

18 Notes on Space

By
  • Heather Fester
| 19 Nov 2021 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

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 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Mythos, Poetry

“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 Filed Under:
Featured, Interviews, 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 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

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 Filed Under:
Featured, 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 Filed Under:
Featured, 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 Filed Under:
Featured, 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 Filed Under:
Featured, 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 Filed Under:
Featured, 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 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetry

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 Filed Under:
Featured, Film/Music, Interviews, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Technology (Concrescence)

“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 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), 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 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), 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.”

Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, by Murtada Johnny

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

By
Metapsychosis
| 3 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

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 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

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 Filed Under:
Explicit, Featured, 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 Filed Under:
Meditations on the Slave Gospels:
Explicit, Poetry

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 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), 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 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Society (Multitudes)

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 Filed Under:
Featured, 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 /

Consuelos de Cocina

By
  • Maía
| 10 Oct 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Microdoses, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

Hands of the dead here in my living hands / as I split stony squash with a crack of the blade, / scoop seeds, oil flesh for the fire—hands / of women and men in my hands, generations / repeating these gestures, the old pleasure…

grammatological monster

By
  • Marco V Morelli
| 14 Aug 2018 Filed Under:
Audio, Microdoses, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

I noted that since the time of Gebser, our ‘grammatical mirror’ has exploded (while remaining mostly mentally fixated) but that we might ‘update’ Gebser by finding evidence of the post-postmodern (integral) now. This text (and accompanying audio) is meant to illustrate that point.

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Story

We are always living in a story, always present in a myth. The key is to possess mindfulness towards worldviews and their presence in the awakened self—they are analytical frameworks of the mind that first allow the universe to be experienced in a specific manner and then formulated into pure, specific “understandings” about the nature of that universe.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts V & VI)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

From the first creation event of Timaeus that heralds a universe (the one and only) into the perceptible in giving a reality, this perfection persists into Plato’s Republic, a world of its own that deals with society and its paradigms in the social creature called humanity and its just longings.

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato: The Kingdom-Sage’s Muthos in Timaeus, The Republic, and The Symposium (Parts III & IV)

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Hide from home page, Longform/Essays, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

From [this] indivisible awareness, the mystic sage is fully able to tap into the eternal mind of god, something that would smooth out a translation in terms of human consciousness—and that would give the creative impetus to imagine a text like Timaeus.

Emma Tooth, Breaking Art XIX

Poems of Degeneration

By
  • John David Ebert
| 24 May 2017 Filed Under:
Hide from home page, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

A selection of poems from John David Ebert’s new collection, These Things We No Longer Are, including Descent of the Angel, Peter, Dead Men, Five Skulls, and The Angel of Death

Taking the Waters

By
  • Natalie Bantz
| 24 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Microdoses, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“We are lost and strangers to this place, this mother of terrors and wonders.”

Mary Church, Untitled (detail)

Poems of Genesis

By
  • John David Ebert
| 11 Oct 2016 Filed Under:
Hide from home page, Noetics (Mind/Spirit), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetry

There was a time once when poets Sitting on cracked marble urns Invoked the muses; Or when the angel whispered Into Matthew’s ear The tale of a man Who came to earth as a god….

There is a Hydrogen Bomb on Your Raspberry Eyelid

By
  • Jenn Zahrt
| 19 Sep 2016 Filed Under:
Featured, Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry

“On rooftops and deserted roadways, she would, in times of chemical storms, spread her legs across the sky to take in the pieces….”

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