Notes About The Poem

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

Cooperative Mindfulness

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...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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Grace Avatar
March 7, 2019 at 3:16 PM
I loved your poem!!
Dillenbeck Avatar
March 7, 2019 at 7:22 PM
Yeah! Have been hoping for a little mindful appreciation. Sometimes winter gets inside for too long. GD
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