#balance poems on Hello Poetry

Zywa Aug 2022

[ I weigh pleasures, tears ]

I weigh pleasures, tears,

blossom, and birdsong against --

the weight of the world.

"Gegengewicht" ("Counterweight", 1951-1953, Hilde Domin)

Collection "VacantVoid"

#balance #psychicbalance

Zywa Aug 2022

[ Problems. But right now ]

Problems. But right now

everything is fine again --

For the time being.

"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", January 8th, 2000, published 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"

#balance

Zywa May 2019

[ The abreaction ]

The abreaction:

enjoying dullness in bed –

without being sick.

Diary-novel "The introduction - Faxing to Ger #1" (dagboekroman "De kennismaking – Faxen aan Ger #1", 2017, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"

#illness #relaxing #disease #balance

Zywa Jul 2022

[ I'm living my life ]

I'm living my life

simple, without demanding --

to have fun all time.

"Hoog en laag springen - Faxen aan Ger #4" ("Like it or not - Faxing Ger #4", 2021, Nicolien Mizee)

Collection "Out of place"

#life #balance

Jammit Janet Jul 2022

#145

Finding the flow
The balance
The art
Of fulfillment
And letting go
Knowing when to say yes
When to say no
Self care at its best
Proof that I’ve grown.

#flow #learning #balance #release #lettinggo #fulfillment #peace #progress #growth #boundaries

Robert Ronnow Jul 2022

Life Out of Balance

Tonight I stayed at work until 7:00.
It was dark when I locked the front doors.
Winter approaches again, soon the great coat
huddled like a rug around me. The streets
were active as usual, block residents
hanging out front steps. I said goodnight
to Nydian Figueroa, after school counselor.
I bought a beer at the deli on Third Ave.
from the Arab owner. He’s a bit upset about
the bottle bill.
                          Collecting bottles from small groceries
could be a useful youth employment enterprise.
I walked down Fifth along the park in the dark
drinking my beer and looking at women. I need
a good **** badly. I tried to decide whether
to go to the movies, a Hopi film Howard recommended,
or just go home, watch tv and light a candle.
Maybe I’d meet someone at the film.
                                                                  Can I handle
the malady of going home tonight? If I die,
I die alone.
                      I turned west toward the subway
past the museum, through the park.
I can’t look at the myriad lights in buildings
large enough to hold a small town. It increases
my anxiety and anonymity to the breaking point.
I hoped to be mugged, for the human contact.
Two big guys looked me over, but I lowered
my center of gravity and they passed quietly. Survival
feels fine, proves I am alive.
                                                   The white pines
in this corner of the park hold a cool, earthy air
reminding me of coming winter, that mortality is
restful, of the black bear and swollen river I saw
500 miles away and only one day ago.

#life #balance #work #winter #school #river #bear #street #dark #movie

POSSIBLE May 2022

They Call him Ah-Wah-Keh

God is spoken
From a potent Thing
we smoking Trees

Gaia birthed the bloom
breathed the boom
in the canopies,

In the wind flew the bees
and grew the pleasantries

Prana pushing
thunder through

sQuishing lemon trees
like a hundred new

Whisps of mists
and heavy deeds
Sit with honeydew

The gist of this
the lemon breeze
(We) Going tunnel view

Fits and Shakes,
seeking remedies
digging under you

Might be
dicking under you

Might be
Torn asunder true

Pirate borne to plunder you....
Sweat means gold,

what's been found
with lemon -ease?

I've been told
What in our eyes
is what we ever see's

7 seas,
more like 7 deeds,
filled with deadly feeds

Demons like to pleade
with ready rease,

Virus, the life that
spread disease

(it alters our sense
and what we please)

~Ahem,

no te comas
la verdad
del diablo,

today to trust
Might feel bad, but
none brought low

There's an easy in
WE  Strong Standin',
N0ne brought low

and now we win
amen, a man
none start south

Its begun...

Light as
Potent as my prayers
**** the make-believe
I can't wear it, ah

Dark is
Ever reaching
What do you receive?
What you carrying hah?

Balance
(Is) an even preaching :
What we choose to be
*I can bear it ; hah

Come  and help me unweave
those who have been so deceived

Those stuck in in the mud of ...
sputtering " how can it be ?"

**** the you or me, mentality
When Neurons Fire free
and Serotonins drained in me

You Might find Saraswati
sweetly swathing me

In glowing rivers,

poured off the moon
With Omens looming soon

With Omens looming soon
I been choking on my doom.

Dreaming
with Both eyes open

and a heart awoken ,
poorly stoking gloom

Too blind to see hope
but stoked, still
mocking roving

Vroom : im off to tokin soon.
****t this blunt be totaled soon

I Might be total loon
an inverted magic man

who most often enwomb
those caught on the moon

Those stuck in the tune
For those who hear
this earworm, this tea room sloom.

This is for Those muted in zoom:

I've found traction in heaps
Breaking as hard and often

As the risen yeast
When you pass on the least

My Passion is to find
the passion of peace

its Stuck In the  grasp
Fashioned with the sap

of my last energies...

This is for the wynd

#epilepsy #smoke #trees #gaia #demon #eternal #balance #moment #hanging #passion

Zywa Apr 2022

[ My body welcomes ]

My body welcomes

many guests, it is a home --

for thoughts and feelings.

Doubled verse "A house of coming and going", part V, 3644-3645 and 3671, 13th century (Mohamed Jalal od-Dīn Balkhi Rumi)

Collection "Inmost"

#psychosoma #balance #body #thoughts #feelings

Zack Ripley Jan 2022

Find your limits

You can work until your fingers bleed,
but that won't give you a sense of pride.
You can cry til you can't see the sky,
but nothing will change
until you're ready to try again.
Sometimes, doing something too much
is worse than not doing it at all.
Like everything else, it's all about balance.
So, for your sanity's sake,
take the time to find your limits,
and listen to your body
when it tells you to take a break.

#limits #poetry #balance #takeyourtime #listen

Zywa Dec 2021

[ My mask is smiling ]

My mask is smiling

quite happily, I'm not sick --

but I'm frustrated.

Covid-19

Collection "Between where"

#balance #psychosoma