Best Campuses Poems

I
The word, when said
Makes some go dead
The sound of dog (she)

II
Most beaches lead somewhere
Some beaches lead nowhere
Truth or dare (campuses
Have grassy, waterless beaches)

III
Dickinson: words begin living
"when it is said" (not dead)
Emily knew of flight
In Fight to write...

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I first ran across this term
Sacred Ecology
while reading Gregory Bateson
sharing a phylogenic
and holonic 
creolization
of ecosystemic language
with others speaking of and with integrity
as more primal and powerful
than competing WinLose psychic separations
of ecosystemic feelings-Right Sacred (0)Soul
and egocentric developing language facts-Left Secular (0)Sum,
balanced together 
also captured by WinWin...

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Life sucks
And guess what
It only gets worse
Years of hard work
And bosses you hate
No pension plan

Now Social security check is always late
No medicare 
Or decent housing
Nursing homes when you’re too much to handle
Children doctors straight from college campuses

Brittle bones 
And lose of mind
Uncontrollable bodily functions
Limbs that...

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EPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox

ORIGIN: First detected in Orwellian hippies, Leninist/Marxist think tanks, insane asylums, secret societies, bourgeois anti-intellectual elites, social order anarchists, neo-liberal groupthink cults, and faculty and student lounges across America.  

TRANSMISSION: Pathogen mostly attacks highly sensitive unhinged white cells and is transmitted...

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Deadly chemicals
parked in the cargo hold
of an American military plane
Destination: the jungles of Vietnam
Guerillas in the mist ...
communism with an Asian face
is on the uptick
It's the 60's, man
Free love don't like none of that 
paid warring
Progressive rock-n-roll got a hippie soul,
but seeing flags burning make...

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Johnny got his gun that May day
sent by Nixon's cronies to betray unarmed souls
to Kent State with rifles, bayonets,
and thirteen students were gunned down on the grass knoll.

With cries against Dick's bloody war
young civilians burned and swore, "bring the warriors home."
They had enough of gore...

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Get Your Voice Heard

A long time ago
Fifty plus years to be exact
We knew how to protest
It wasn’t on Facebook or Twitter
It wasn’t by just writing letters
We took our place in the world
With a voice that could not be ignored
We took over college campuses
We marched in...

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So many people always scream
that word ‘diversity,’
as if it’s the only idea
that we should ever see.
Yet more and more the shouting
comes off as childish,
more and more I think they
have a harmful fetish.

To start with they only will care
about external stuff,
meaningless pigment in the skin,
cried about...

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For them:
	TGIF! It’s weekend;
	The ATM vomits its cods,
	Unwinding at the bars,
	The cinema’s got a blockbuster!
	Yes,…pizza… barbeque… red wine…chicken…
	…come on, keep the change girl, it’s weekend!

	Campuses empty for “World-Trade-Centers”;
	Hey, Two nights, Sunday’s off…your bill
	…turn on the gen. set boy! It’s weekend!

For us:
	We wake to trader’s knock,
	Farmers...

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Centuries be philosophy and many people say that life is merely 
What one makes of it ? Averting chance as circumstance; songbirds
Their most chirping this piping atop golden branches a myoptic melody
Until truth's rain forest drenches these notes gray, piercing showers ?
Time never fails while...

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When I was 19 I saw a dream of Jesus healing two women with Leprosy and since then I’ve seen impossible things made possible,
I’ve seen blind men climbing mount Everest,
I’ve seen men who had been paralyzed running around college campuses,
In 2001 they diagnosed me with...

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Ideals

Ideals 

High ideals?  
We all had them 
In the forties, in college, 
those long, all-night
heated arguments,  
sitting cross-legged 
on the floor,
debating how
to change the world.
Words – ideas,
what we could do
some day.

Twenty years 
before the sixties, 
waves of political injustices 
student revolutions
on campuses
across the...

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New semester.
Did my courses run?
Oh yeah, but too many. 
Work on my syllabi.
I promise I won’t cry.

The night before class.
I pace the kitchen.
Sending prayers up.
Are you listening;
Please make my students be nice.
Calling my friends for advice.

First day of class.
Please impress them.
Some activity.
Get to know them.
At...

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...My last day at work I got him alone,
and I let loose in a brutal tirade,
said that he’d betrayed ‘serious writing,’
which has trouble enough in our day and age.

I told him his gifts were not just his own,
that one who can see deeper truths in...

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What I have noticed here
and there
on campuses
in medical service centers
within hospitality sanctuaries
in sane asylums

Most of the language
in exterior marketing
and interior messaging cultures

Has gently moved from internment
and imprisonment
and confinement
and isolation
and punishment,

Whether voluntarily elected
selected
invited
or imposed
sentenced
medicinal
sterile
purgative,

Whether mental
or physical,
spiritual
or natural,

Has moved on to a more engaging
empowering
enlightening reconnection
of multiculturally intelligent...

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