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Structure, some word choices, title influenced by Mary Oliver's "Mindful"

Every newly innocent day after complexly creolizing night dreams I hear and smell and taste and see and feel some thing some co-related becoming that more and less kills me with delight and terror, that leaves and comes over me, another weedy needle in Earth's haystack celebrating integrity's light. This is what I am born and unborn for-- to taste and see to ecologically speak and theologically listen, to lose my fragmented ego inside this just-right healthy spirited world-- to instruct our virally competing RightWing dominance over and over in co-acclimating joy and Left-wealth of Right-health acclamation. Nor am I thinking and feeling about the ecstatic exceptional, the terrifying LoseLose fearful, the madly dreadful, the lavishly extravagant loves and hates-- but of the everyday. The green commons, the ordinary grey-scaled drab, the daily ego-withering practiced presentations competition principles WinLose evolutionary policies LoseLose devolutionary powers. Good bilateral intelligence of deductive thought with inductive feelings, EcoSoul reminds EgoSelf, How can we help each Other by healthing our Selves? Egos grow wise with such WinWin teachings as both these and not not those-- The untrimmable in-between Left with Right bright of Earth's co-acclimating enlightenment, Ocean's fertile shine, Prayers nutritionally offered out of strong-rooting common grass...

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Date: 3/7/2019 3:16:00 PM
I loved your poem!!
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Date: 3/7/2019 7:22:00 PM
Yeah! Have been hoping for a little mindful appreciation. Sometimes winter gets inside for too long. GD

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