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Premium Member Bilateral Symmetry

There's a mole in the middle of my belly
That gives me bilateral symmetry

For a belly dancer it might prove entertaining
Though that’s not my thing, I’m not complaining

Not a “new age” mole, this one’s a lifer
And it’s purpose I’ve tried to decipher

You see, mom had one too, in the same spot
And dad used to tease her about it a lot

He called it a “beauty mark” on her shapely figure
And he boasted she made it work sensually with rigor

So when I view this mark, I sense a connection
Genetically endowed by mom from inception

And though there’s no man in my life for a workout
Its strategic placement makes me refrain from growing stout

It’s the first thing men notice when I don a bikini
So I strive to keep the surrounding tummy teeny
Categories: bilateral, funnymom, me, mom,
Form: Rhyme

Swimming - a Non Bilateral Technical Mantra

stroke, roll,
stroke, roll,
breath

climbing along the water's surface,
body turning on a skewer,
breathing bubbles,
exhaling fully,
metronomic to a viewer

stroke, roll,
stroke, roll,
breath

fingertips, wrist and elbow angled
each below the other in turn
break the surface
then pushing forward
spinning the torso in return

stroke, roll,
stroke, roll,
breath

catch before the full arm extension
pulling along the "railway track"
feel the water
hard on the forearm
and spinning the body right back

stroke, roll,
stroke, roll,
breath

continue the stroke under the 'pit
pulling the elbow high and clear
uncock the wrist
pull with the triceps
whilst pushing the hand to the rear

stroke, roll,
stroke, roll,
breath

lips breaking the top of the water
eye spying the rope of the lane  
one sharp breath in
the wrist leads the way
to start it it all over again

stroke, roll,
stroke, roll,
breath
© The Didds  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bilateral, sports,
Form: Free verse

Arm Bilateral Amputation

Sociology and Psychology

What I had majored in college was sociology,
And followed up with a minor in psychology;
Wife went ballistics;
Also took statistics;
Now am extremely interested in epidemiology.

Public health appears to be a central issue
and tendency now. What causes chaos and
terrorism is also astounding. Terrorism is
not a religious but a cult movement. What
other cults exist in America that you can
think of?

Jim Horn

Over 10 again.

Arm Bilateral Amputation

What he did was result of premeditation;
Several killed and others need sedation;
Major surgery,
With urgency;
One experienced arm bilateral amputation.

Trump has been naughty and not very nice,
And now the rest of us must pay the price;
Orange hair,
That at stare;
When you are looking will find much lice.

Jim Horn

Still over 10. Shooting for 4,600 mow
and on to 5,000 and number 3. You
must set goals.
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bilateral, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

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Premium Member One Circle

Eagles fly

Minds soar

While Eagle flies
soaring off ahead
echoing upriver cries
to where s/he became
back before

Egged on
Eagles fly

Fertile minds soar...
Categories: bilateral, confidence, flying, integrity, journey,
Form: Metrical Tale

Premium Member Therapeutic Climate

EarthMother grows impatient,
despite her curiosity driven
cooperative inviting polyculture
reconnection with SunFather's Great White
monotheistic climate
of Patriarchal-Capitalist classroom activity
RightHand saluting
salutary competitions.

Your historic move,
S/He dissonantly
defiantly intones,
from sacred polytheistic peak experiences,
inherently dipolar co-arising,
not monotheistic judgments
punishing bipolar sick people
for manic/depressive original sinning

Missing win/win marks
is also a monoculturing move
away from sacred arts and scientific
metaphysical traditions
favoring polycultural communion
fueling resiliently cooperative health care
systems
networks
creolizing organizations
synergetic incorporations

Swimming
and floating
and flowing
and flowering
Indigenous Wisdom
more accessible
and engaging
and attractively organic
than a mere secularizing staid set
of Patriarchal-Capitalist
win/lose survival of the strongest dogmas
resisting sharing wealth

Outside your monotheistic
dualistic secular v sacred dividing
bipolar nature v spirit
as body v mind dissonance

Rooting in traumatic win/lose 
zero-sum
closed entropic lose/lose despair

Degenerative despondence
loss
stress
trauma
predicting cosmic existential
climate dopesick anxiety

Wrote EarthMother's neurosensory 
bilateral systemic theology
for multiculturing
metaphysical review

Win/win re-connecting
inter-religious panentheistic 
empowering incursions
into WHoly Nature/Spirited
Enthymematically enlightening 
health is positive wealth
less frightening
physical/metaphysical  resonance
eco/theo-logical excursions
toward health/wealthing polycultural resilience

Noticing 
when we come together
toward health care giving
and receiving fair wealth share,
One organism's health religion
is another's multicultural wealth 
of co-empathic conscience.
Categories: bilateral, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Divine Integrity

Integrity
pursues a sacred polytheistic journey
conjoining interdependent life

While integrity's sacred potential
remains a still emergent re-memory
health-wealth salvific optimizing
transcendent engoddessing 
EarthTribal progressive 
nonpaternal process

Of wombs incubating 
co-passionate
eternally timeless
momentary being
becoming united 
through humble-theistic 
multi-regenerational co-relationship,

Both sacred We divine
co-passioning secular Me humane.
Categories: bilateral, education, god, health, language,
Form: Political Verse


Premium Member Why Systems Comfort

What do healthy systems,
naturally spirited,
ecologically enlightened
and ego-politically empowered swell

Wellness
anthro-economic networks
wonder,
often wander around
what do wealthy mindbody systems do
when the Body squarely says
"I'm doing all I can comfortably do"

And the unsatisfied Mind asks
"Why is my need for healthy integrity
neglected
deflected
ignored
unrestored?"
at least half
my less than thriving
time
in your embodied space

In musical pace
and game face
and systems empirical place
anticipating lyrical theory embrace,

This BodyMind feels a dissonant gap
between a comfortably expected
repetitively resonant accord
in music narrative compositions
as traditionally played
and replayed pitch perfect
military march uniformity
with RightBody empowered control

Over-riding a deeply serene 
enlightened LeftMind unity
preference becoming contenting content
of EarthTribe's sacred stereophonic
love story, life systemic

Waiting curiously,
and thereby less impatiently
win/lose pushing individual performance,
self-prophetically solo lonely

Waiting for our next cooperative 
muse amusing immersion 
peak climatic experience
designed
orchestrated
choreographed

Win/Win improvisational
in sacred
therapeutic scores
and scales
of resonant empowering harmony
enlightening multi-lateral symphony
in keys of bicameral rhapsody,
health/wealth systemic
ecstasy.

What do healthy systems,
naturally spirited,
ecologically enlightened
and ego-politically empowered smell
retell outside swell
escaping inside 
consumer retail hell.
Categories: bilateral, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Sacred Lines and Circular Spaces

Minds can draw dividing lines
in different natural spaces
sacred special uniting places
for secular powering chases.

Nature makes poles
and power polarity,
holes
and light circularity,
bright yangs
and dualdark yintegrity

Which spirited minds refine
and natural bodies define
but integrity is not image confined
by these cooperatively determined lines
back through universally wealthy loves
uniting healthy interweaving lives.

We make cognitive distinctions
between quiet emotive attractions
and loudly ejaculative extinctions,
where feelings find
finely balanced tipping points
between what whole has been
and who will yet consecutively 
consequentially become
spaciously reappointed

As we undivided are
whom we have been
and much
much potentially more

Beyond our favorite
bottom line integrity
privileged score,
healing Earth sacred weal

Wealthing wikitheistic wellness
when we stop drawing only straight
unwavering lines,
monotheistic bipolarities
to addictively adore.
Categories: bilateral, earth, environment, health, math,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Unholy Ruminations

The opposite of life
is death

The polar opposite of eternal health
is terminal disease,
with unease perhaps lying/truthing
in-between timelessness
and untimely demise

So too,
my opposite of steady compassion
may be your unsettling dispassion

Elation v deflation
of all these oppositional answers above
as clear
as unclear appositional questings
below.

What is my opposite of suicide?
Self promotion?
Ego inflation?
Having all my consuming needs
fully answered?

Or 
maybe some uneasy questing
timeless mind
and spacious body
in-between healthy Now

And death-defying
death-denying
death-defining
death-despairing
death-despoiling
AnthroLove Here

Remains part of EarthLife There
whenever tomorrow comes
Now?

As Me curiously questioning
feels like our lonelier half
of We not yet 
finally answering?

What could appositionally rebalance
death's final answering Earth-climate
and life's open questioning Anthro-culture?

What is the opposite of lively ruminations
and deadly ideations?

What lies contentious truths contenting,
In-between EarthBody's discommunication 
desecrating death
and AnthroMind's sacred communion life?
Categories: bilateral, death, grief, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium Member When Hope Sings

When I am a healthy Norwich person
I hope to feel warm and joyful gratitude
for compassionate nonviolent communicators
past and present

With cooperatively nonpartisan
bipartisan
dipolar co-arising transportive projects
programs
processes

Voiced choices
to restore local
and bioregionally cooperative EarthHealth

PrePartisan 
PreHistoric
multicultural heart-felt Care
for EarthJust restoring 
wealthy GreenPeace,
outside ego-extending family 
wealth cultures
inside eco-resiliently resonant 
health climates

ReMinding
ReWinding
ReMembering
ReConnecting
ReLigioning
indigenous EarthTribe wisdom
ReGenerating EarthCare
multiculturally mediating
inter-connected Wisdom,
metaphysically 
polyphonically inter-re-ligious

As OldSchool animated spirit-natured 
ecofeminist Algonquin native communions
appreciating EarthMother's Mashantucket
bucket of resilient Pequot empowering
politically cooperative economies
for universally unitarian health care
giving and receiving

ReSonating songs and therapeutic dances
enlightening heart-felt eco/theo-logical
healthy EarthCare
and wealthy EarthTribe economic safety
conserving our sacred/secular co-invested
Resilient Highest and Deepest TransHistoric Sorority 
of EarthSky civilizing sibilance.
Categories: bilateral, earth, health, integrity, muse,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member I Wonder Why

I wonder why
this perennial topic of death
does not interest me

Even my own
evokes cold detachment
rather than invoking warm 
heated attachment to denial
anger
disappointment
body betrayal.

Death cast in dull shadow
by my fascination with my own mortal
double-boundaried life

Which came from lives
not mine
and returns,
fades
disperses? perhaps,
explodes?
implodes?
re-unmembers
this individuated Ego

Born and reborn
from and of
Earth's eco-centered
co-gravitation with Sun and Moon
light and dual-dark
double negatives equating positives,
regenerate Energy's great democracy
ergodically dynamic
experiential math and con-science
rather than entropically stuck
stale death

From win/win beginnings,
Alpha waves
through death's atomic
whole ego-embodied system
leftbrain autonomous identity
back through brain systemic holistic individuation

Easing back into this great Climate Sea
of re-emergent win/win becoming,
sacred right mystery and profane left history,
dual-dark enlightenment,
dark images and bright win/win memory
universal-unitarian
future already past interdependent
yang-yintegrity
Energy CoPresent

So much more curious
courageous
dynamic
regenerative
healthy
and interesting
than lack thereof.
Categories: bilateral, health, history, integrity, math,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Good and Bad

"Shih" translates into Good
as "Fei" becomes Bad.

And so moral textured oppositions
continue:
Right and Wrong
Healthy and Pathological
True and False
Win and Lose
Healing peace and Punishing revenge

Yang and Yin
distinguish rational appositions,
not sufficient as Either/Or left-brain calculations
and necessary Both/And right-brain
correlative associations

Like Yes and (not) No,
Positive and (not) negative
Is and (not) Is Not
EgoCenter and (not) EcoSystem
Inside and (not) Outside
Wax and (not) Wane
Rise and (not) Fall

Each of these implied
double-binding terms of co-related contrast
includes an enthymematic hypothetical boundary
bound with both Full and Empty Zero
languaged as not numeric
or stagnantly spatial framing
but more dynamic temporal dipolarity
co-arising into consciousness

Ego's secular empowering Zeroness
is also EcoZerofilling articulation,

Healthy democratic
and not pathologically autocratic,

Trusting cooperation
is not over-capitalistic competition,

Moral value evolution
is other than merely rational avocation,

Deduction
is not precluded by induction,

Thoughts
are not absent of feeling,

Moral balance
expects more than relativistic legal shadows,

Conserving Earth's lifetime resilience
is not merely avoiding EgoCentric
cognitive/affective dissonance,

LeftBrain truthful polypaths
are not instead of RightBrain beautiful polyphonics,

Polycultural EarthTribe outcomes
are not sufficiently predicted 
by Monoculturing narcissistic incomes.
Categories: bilateral, earth, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Seductive Selections

What is the main difference
and primary points of comparison
between being inductively seductive
and becoming deductively submissive?

Between being illusive
and becoming illusioned?

Between being deluded
and becoming delusional?

Between being precluded
and becoming included?

Between being illusory
and becoming luminated?

Between being enlightened
and becoming relit?

Between being permissive
and becoming remissive?

Between being empowered
and becoming more cooperatively repowered?

Between being in survival operation mode
and becoming out thrival co-operative means?

Seductively sexual,
like inductively sensory-neural,
is in the co-empathic eyes and ears,
nose and throat,
touch and feelings
of The Bolder Win/Win v Win/Lose Beholder.

Submissive,
like ecopolitically permissive,
co-operates short- through long-term 
DominantYang/SubmissiveYintegrity
polypathic/polyphonic
verbally/non-verbally
win/win co-empathic communications.

Can a profoundly autonomous individual organism
be yintegrally submissive
without short- and long-term investments
in becoming eco-politically subservient?
Marginalized?
Enslaved?
Raped?
Imprisoned?
Punished?
Mere subjects of lose-economic benefits
and lose-ecological health Revenge?

EcoFeminist Dialogue,
more multiculturally astute
than AnthroPatriarchal Debate,
is also somehow more positively
permissively
democratically
trustingly
cooperatively deviant,
yintegrally recessive noticing
with active win/win curiosity
and hope
and passion

Recessed
yet reconnecting flow
between reductive and seductive
in-between active ecofeminist WorldView submissions

Top bicamerally polypathic/polyphonic
win/win dipolar co-arising
seductive dialogue,
more than bottomed out
reductive dismissive debate.
Categories: bilateral, health, integrity, passion, political,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member Silent Love Notes

Within soil's silent phrases
love would love to find flesh
hearing what Earth repeated
timelessly amused again
with pregnant pauses

You know how touching feels
yet can't articulate sacred Mother's mantra
resonating octaves
of radiantly colored energy
empowering pitch
scale
shape

Sighted sounds
resounding sacred calculations,
masculine 1-sums
sniffing feminist 0-souls
with erect respect

Sacred views
unvoiced full spectral choice
profound
elegant
exquisite
intimately intricate
imaginations

Wise as ancient integrity
absorbs what hypocrisy divides
from Earth's well-timed warming powers
to inhale Sun's silent,
yet full sighted, light
rediscovering sounds
for soulful silenced
power

In between
silent phases
phrases
of Earth's moon
and tidal seas
and seasons
passion needs to feel us
deeply listening

Widely learning 
what and why and when
Earth repeats Her fractal
timeless fractures
fusing sensory beats

Repeating 
musing wisdom circles,
dancing spirals
fusing echoing silence
musing one timeless rest 
not not noted
pregnantly again.
Categories: bilateral, community, culture, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium Member Beauty Speaks Out

While Truth listens in
passionate loving wonder 
on the climax edge of raw sufficiency

Growing enough passion
to accept everyone
and every relationship as we are spatially here
and deep listening now

To perpetuate healthy striving
at the wealthiest edge
of compassion
sufficient for a peaceful EarthLife,
for unconditional regard
of whole 
multiculturing
Beautiful Earth.

But, whether or not edgy
yet deep stretching BeautyTruths
fully extend compassion,
Beauty exists out in Earth-sided nature
as Truth does and does not
in Anthro-Enlightened/Indarkened spirits

Choosing me to feel this attachment
to Here/Now Beauty sufficiency
conjoining relationship with integrity,
solitude with solidarity,

As if I could not be healthier me
in some other place,
some other time

Nor as joyful,
communing with Truth's deep dark and light passions,
dispassions and compassions

For a trinity of honesty
transparency
vulnerability
emerging as a fractal
with restoring eco-just integrity

Relentless courage of curiosity
about both Beauty
and Ugly choices, ecological,
and Truth
and FakeIntegrity voices, theological.
Categories: bilateral, beauty, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
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