Best Cooperative Poems
Two Taurus husbands
intending to nurture shared truths
of Win/Win
organic mind/bodies
engaging Earth's interdependent communion
To discover our conflicting
and often unshared
half-baked thoughts
intentions
anticipations
in articulate and marvelously punctuated language,
rhythm,
lexicon of meta-confluent function
and integrally warm
co-gravitating flow
like butta'
To uncover,
recover,
rediscover
our therapeutic seeds
and traumatic weeds,
cooperative hopes
and conflicting transracial despairs,
repeatedly,
co-passionately,
authentically,
resonantly
and, at last, co-arising
Yummy regenerative treats,
communication strings of ecstatic recreation,
spectral sights
and savory sounds
and bouncy muscular rebounds
of potential co-redemption
Healing,
anticipating rom-com therapeutic curiosity,
resiliently co-engaging discovery
re-connecting beloved EarthTribe communities
re-developing health-wealthy outcomes
Slowly replacing
traumatic stress disorders,
binging on hate crime dramas,
and RightWing atrocities
against sacred EarthMothers
and green innocence
While wintering and withering
deep seated desperation
in life's last retiring
isolated
lonely recliner.
Toby Hemenway,
in The Permaculture City,
defines four prime health development principles,
adapted as follows:
Highest Use
orders health maintenance tasks,
ecological activities,
and growth/decomposition processes
in time and space
so the first activity in a spiraling sequence
leaves as many possible health yields
and subsequent reiterative uses
as harmonically possible.
Highest and deepest use
creates balanced wu-wei relationships
among health design elements
and wealth building processes
in and through ecologically rhythmic time
and place.
Needs As Potential Resources Analysis
identifies necessary health inputs
and wealth outputs
of many nutritional kinds,
products,
behaviors,
characteristics
spatial quantities and temporal qualities
of each subsystem in an eco/bio-system,
including humane-natural/spiritual systems,
and connects needs of one element
with outputs of another.
We thereby design harmonic relationships
of WinWin balance
among design elements themselves,
ourselves.
Zones
organize design systems
by how often they are used and need cooperative maintenance.
The most used systems
are placed most vulnerably nearest in spacetime
to the ZeroZone user
or center of identified activity.
Zones build health and organize wealth relationships
between a system
and the user of identified zero-center.
Sectors and Species
are influences from outside;
influences that cannot be altered from within the spacetime system in question.
They can be Yang competing physical influences,
such as wind and fire,
or Yin-cooperative intangible influences,
enculturing,
creolizing,
such as zoning,
care giving and receiving customs,
LeftBrain polypathic power,
and RightBrain emotional polyphonic triggers.
We place design elements
in relation to species and sectors to feed or bleed energies,
or let them pass through
with no decompositional effect.
Sectors and Species
create regenerative relationships
between parts of an eco-bio system
and Yang forces
and Yin-influences
shaping enculturation,
acclimation outside toward inside
each ZeroZone system.
Where the Left
supports cooperative
respectful
deeply integral
yet widely multicultural health care
The Right
conserves against future changes
in hierarchical wealth structures,
thereby augmenting competitive
ineffective
unhealthy class warfare
Rather than universal classroom welfare
where everybody can Left and Right bicamerally learn
healthy cognitive/affective resonant acknowledgement
of cooperative needs
and healthy wants
While the educational systems
we shape
and democratize
relearn the primal role
of cooperatively aligned positive opportunity
and competitively maligned negative, risky feelings
Trust/mistrust
that we are/are not
a species to empower all EarthTribe's healthy gifts
and safe personal opportunity needs
and ecopolitical green-safer
unfriendly climate risk reduction
More than business as unenlightened usual
capital competitive comparative mistrusters
whose main faith is that we are
and must be
divinely ordained
StraightWhiteWesternCorporateMale monotheistic God's gift
to a sinful
unlistening
ungifted
uncaring
unhealthy
unsafe
mostly idiotic
former organic green garden
of now fallen sacrilegious AntiEden
selfishness and greed.
CoEmpathy
seeks internal absolution
from my own anthrosupremacist sins
Growing healthier polycultural experience
I want to pass through
my own monoculturing elitism,
too tolerably comfortable with natural is not spiritual
monotheistic monopolistic apartheid
means not panentheistic win/win co-passion
for great anthro-loneliness,
narcissistically elite despair
about inevitable win/lose zero-sum genocide
and Earth's Great Degenerative Transition
quickening EarthTribe mortal ecocide.
Full multicultural health care giving
receiving
conserving
preserving
remembers gifts of trust
in EarthTribe's polyculturing wealthy welfare
regenerative past through revolutionary winHealth
winWealth
future
WholeEarth supported
by sacred gifts of sunlight,
divinely breathable air,
purely potable water
fertile empowering soil
health and safety rules
for managing domesticated fire
and renewable fuel
Original CoPassionate Sky/Earth
light/power
enlightenment/empowerment
health and safety co-governing
bilateral resources
of co-empathic consciousness.
When I see and hear,
touch and feel,
something
Somewhere unwanted
someplace uncherished
egocentrism
Making alienating choices
that follow group win/lose competitive norms,
this constellation of nationalistic patriotism's
monoculturing beliefs
and unbeliefs,
anthroprivileged values
and disvalues,
provoke out-raging
hypocritical anger.
It is only in epic transition times
when climatic health and safety social issues
emerge and re-emerge,
evolve and revolve,
inhale and exhale,
inside and outside,
that these same unwanted
uncherished competitive choices
by Other Capitalist
USA Supremacist
Evangelically Straight baby-maker
Fundamentally White is not sinful Black
Male DeathCulturists
provoke fear
Inside acute anxiety
that my own ecologically cooperative values
are merely BusinessAsUsual competing theological disvalues
against StraightWhiteMale
lack of divinely esteemed
Multi-LifeBearing Culture experience
And deeper chronic negative anticipation
that my ecosystemic beliefs
about fundamentally nondualistic
LeftBrain healthy regenerativity
are also DeathCulture Other's
RightBrain unsafe degenerativity;
These angers and fears
live and breathe outside
and inside
my win/win optimizing hopes
and bilateral faith
in curious research
and courageous design
for cooperative ego/eco-therapies
with Other's Lose/Lose dismay at heart
and in despairing mind
un-pairing unicameral uncaring
Shadows of co-empathic experiential nihilism,
xenophobia
anthroprivileged claustrophobia
rabidity
mortal carnal sin
terror
depression
inhumane ecofeminist suppression,
zealous RightBrain repression,
instinctively negative
affective-cognitive
dualdark DeathCulture
violently uncommunicating
nonverbalizeable
acutely dispassioned impressions
Of angering or fearful sin
as lose/lose ego/eco-systemic
multilateral communion absence
of healthy and safe wealth
Experience of cooperative
co-invested bicameral
win/win recentering
Earth Patriotic/Matriotic
Yang/Yintegral
tipping climatic points
of multiculturing climax
co-arising dipolar health/wealth balance,
yes,
but also beauty's sensual co-passion.
Everyday games we play
grow productive successes
and over consuming failures.
Every day and night
we try to reduce
RightWing dominant overproduction
LeftSoul underconsumption,
Gap growing devolution
of bilateral failing anti-invitation.
Every mutual distrusting day
quick fix addiction
fuels competitive co-dependency.
Every cooperative night
constrains rabid Lose to Lose competitions
spiraling monstrously inhumane growth
of toxic tumors,
rumors of mutually whispered mendacity.
Every day
amplifies chronic stress
in between successful productions
and all-consuming capitalized failure
to play this insane Win to Lose competition game.
Every day and night
life and death of ego-consciousness
wants to play Win to Win together cooperation,
but Left and Right,
like Ego and EcoEnvironment,
see SacredOther healthy wealth communion
immune from suboptimizing Win to eventually Lose.
Every night
descriptive and prescriptive WinWin performance
gradually fails to focus light,
like Full Moon dwindling down
to New Moon's absent bright.
Every day
we each try to react successfully
to satisfy responsibilities
to achieve one hundred percent
of each competitive opportunity
and thereby consume our capitalized lives
while producing no ultimate
single-minded healthy wealth
of multiculturing outcomes.
Every day and night
the harder he pushes production
the harder nature
pushes back to consume her soul.
Every day
every person
every government
every monoculture
consumes every healthy resource
belonging to Win to Win cooperativity
to every time
and every living ecotherapeutic Soul.
Every growing day
and underinvested night
we push to produce healthy success
more than loss of growth
under-skirting cooperative Win to Win
all-consuming democratic passion
to health-wealth systemic green
gaming LeftNature as RightSpirit growth.
Every day
high incarceration rates inevitably rise
while Win/Lose crime levels recede
Only if you have gospel faith
that punishing imprisonment
is not itself a soulless crime
unconsoling Win/Win's soulful nature.
Warm wind circulates
night's conspiracy of primal option:
Stand up with me!
or Give way!,
let us have this day,
it cannot be your's alone.
We bare too many sickly souls
for soulful mediocrity.
Stand up with me.
Help.
Or, please get out of our healthy way
for this day is ours
to plant and harvest
produce and consume
dance and sing EarTherapy
Consumer mind with productive body
empowering healthy integrity
and authentic in/out-facing normativity
as from polycultural wealthy old
Tao's neuro/geo-systemic
wu-wei re/de-generative
Me/We pole/hole
dominant/recessive
mind/body win/wintegrity
Crown/root yang/yinergy
Peak resilience/valley-resonant co-relational
passion/pleasure
EarthMuseCalling CoOperative.
It seems to make a difference
when my personal
sadly mortal lifespan
unfolds a lively competition
against time
for lonely win/lose
0-sum expectations
Shared by individual EarthTribe species
unfolding a cooperative
win/win NonZero soulistic
eternal co-arising inside/outside,
contextually valued time
for cooperative
co-empathic lovely anticipations
reconnecting peak experience
transubstantiation
Which feels like rather too much to ask
and yet not enough
for deep sacred learning
sufficiently
efficiently
win/lose 0-sum
LeftBrain dominating
solidarity's resolve
with a solid Yes or No,
a simple Fast or Slow
individualistic anthroprivileged answer
to competing questions
It interests me,
this journey into the garden
each spring
to notice how diverse vegies
and flowers,
edibles
and ornamentals,
pollinators
and soil enrichers,
work cooperatively together
when they can
My own planning part
notices potential competitions,
for light
water
deeper top soil,
but these pursue
optimizing cooperation
to jointly thrive,
not competition
to barely survive
trauma,
stress,
pain,
loss,
duress.
While sitting in the shade
looking over a host of community gardens
enlivened
and enriched
by cooperative community gardeners,
I recall business
and even public sector classrooms
worshiping at the win/lose altar
of competitive capital investment
Sure,
without responsible question,
that at the end of our lifetime journey
we will be celebrated by our successful oppressions,
suppressions of the vanquishable
repressions of the feminist weak
within ourselves
our gardens
our families
and compassionate friends.
This has not been my experience,
that I am celebrated by,
and for,
those I have divested of
obstacles to overpower,
mere consumer subjects
to satiate into silence,
to financially abuse,
to emotionally neglect.
Whether contemplating
another spring season
of cooperative community gardens
or harvesting reasons
at the end of a long midsummer dream
In which we are religiously celebrated
for our multicultural passions
and polycultural communion,
participating in EarthTribe's
cooperatively redemptive journey
back toward green
pristine Eden.
Competitive capitalism
is about dominance,
which increases separation,
space between Winner haves,
and Loser have-nots
Degenerating into polarized views
more culturally dominant
than old-school cooperative middle
in-between
socio-economic median disappearances
Away from civically active democratic imagination,
focus,
functionally experiential frames
favoring cooperative democracy
over capital plutocracy.
Democracy is about win/win bicameral consensus
which grows integrity
between co-investing Haves
and HaveNots,
depolarizes our EitherHave/OrNotHave
eco-politically valued lives
Mediating in-between re-membering,
reweaving multigenerational cooperative
matriarchal empowering history
of mutually enlightening democratic health care
Through cooperative ownership
stewardship
citizenship
home and meal management
integrity of co-responsive thought and feelings,
polycultural communication
and multicultural energy systems
Refracting integral re-MEMEory
left-hemisphere empowering
right-hemisphere energetic win/win
neurological waves of win/lose healing
win/win co-investing light.
They are friends,
I imagine,
Or perhaps unfamiliar
yet curious
neighbors.
These two seem to like
to lick
each other
And probably value public transparency
more than personal privacy
I wonder
how they became work out
and play in partners,
surprisingly athletic,
flexible,
and inventive
With minds
that began flirting,
Engaging bodies
now urgently culminating.
Benediction
for this newly heated
yet ancient
sacred communion
A warm summer kiss,
a shared soiled towel,
a sapient smile
in my shy shower.
When we communicate aggressively,
cynically narcissistic
about Earth's WinWin historical healthy wealth, ongoing
slow-grown into our great grandchildren's regenerative future,
We abandon globally universal passions
for mutual care-giving and receiving
ego and eco-therapeutic cooperative missions,
We do not intend for the ego-messenger
to be ignored,
emotion un-intelligently shot down
along with our LeftBrain too dominant
unilateral,
sometimes too aggressively monocultural
privileged messages.
We're often mis-communicating mortally-wounded humans,
whose ancestors have bicamerally reproduced resilient regenerations
more than cognitively affective degenerative wounds.
Instead, intending to communicate through communion gestalts
despite flawed WinLose ego-messengers
still longing to make enthymematically nice
polypathic WinWin eco-messages,
Healthy wealth engorged,
DNA vulcanizing,
creolizing,
affluent effluent rooted Elder RightBrain stem
branching non-sectarian networks
leafing non-violent webs
budding non-competitive WinWin economies
seeding co-passionate
co-arising dipolar
Here/Now
SpaceTime ZeroZones
both resilient and resonant,
both health and wealth co-passionate messages
Paid forward
through all affluent history with effluent herstory integrity
to speak enthymematic yang-cause with yin-infective solidarity
Positive 1s co-passioning bilateral 0-Zones
Informed by Earth's healthiest well-being
this democratic energy-balancing
emergent WinWin green integral
not merely psychological
and not unjustly eco-political day.
Compile a list of all your losses,
worst moments,
fears and hatreds,
your defensive fears
and most angry
dispassionate
paranoid dualdark bilateral margins,
edges,
boundary issues
and double-binding love-hate dipolarities
of gooey too-yin stuckness
in ambivalent waves
of notnot yet
notnot past
so all is left
is Lose to Lose
notnot (0) remainder hopeless.
Now compare a fractal spiral
of all your gains
from embryonic Winter
WinWin (0)-sum Mother's Womb,
through pre-pubescent LeftBrain growing dominant languaged Spring,
on into full middle-aged
and gendered Left and RightBrain balancing Summer
of egalitarian ecopolitical EarthTribe peace
with global ego/eco-justice,
through Elder RightBrain's sacred ecological Fall
as Autumn Harvest Yang-with-Yin Solidarity Strength
and not so much Original Sin of Monocultural Hubris
acting against, to oppress,
MotherEarth as Yin RightBrain EcoCentering Wisdom
about how to play our cooperative
WinWin
Boundary Issues
from marginalizing birth
through demarginalizing death,
Now compare and contrast
listed losses
with spiraling gains
toward WinWin.
As marginal victims flow through boring Business As Usual
economic and political and psychological classes
on how best to not measure progress
transcending military-industrialized competitive violence,
way too much LeftBrain dominant
over-Yanged hubris,
way too pre-millennial
to even think WinWin
YangYin
about
bipolarities now new-edged
Yang with Yin,
Left with Right, double-margin wu-wei
ego with eco-therapeutic bilateral opportunities,
health care giving and receiving for all
climates
and landscapes,
boundaries
and relationships,
marginalizing issues
and bicameral ego/eco-systemic opportunities
to play polypathic WinWin.
Kids,
like adults,
who become ecologically active,
join in gardening,
urban, and suburban, and rural cooperative farming,
green environmental sciences,
school gardens as group art installations
and outdoor entertainment
and spirit/nature nondualistic humane-divine experience,
tend to be joiners and stayers,
sometimes annoying OpenSpace Occupiers
Who stray away
from competing subcultures
and millennially stray toward
green cooperatively-owned and
matriarchally co-managing climates
of healthy-wealth interdependence--
the opposite of competing encampments
for forced and loathed
compromising Win/Lose codependence.
Ecologically passionate kids,
like adults,
tend to be joiners
and stayers,
but if they stray away
then probably they,
like you,
only have so much time
in any one day
and they have found a more resiliently healthy place
to transparently WinWin
vulnerably, yet safely, play
Where Positive/Negative Energy Democracy
is another way to say
Let's listen Both/And
bilaterally Ego/Eco
Inside/Outside climates together
and not judge ourselves
or each other
as always autonomously Yang-good
or Yin-bad
when we could
instead
invite YangLeft with YinRight
to ecologically with theologically
roleplay WinWin plant planting nicer
as each creolizing
PositivEnergy
Trust-Democratic other
blooms where cooperatively planted.
Kids,
like adults,
who are ecologically active
tend to come from theo/ecological past WinWin joiners,
heading toward Left language for Right nutritional experience
ecopolitical secular/sacred vulnerable transparency,
yet safely protecting past errors
as long transparent,
permeable,
regenerative/degenerative lines
of WinWin Here with Now intent.
Health-evolving mission statements
free to reacclimate
mutual subsidiary
co-arising dipolar
Left with Right
inside/outside
Ego/Eco
Health/SacredWealth enculturation
of binomial ZeroZone
resilient ego-choices
For EcoTherapeutic revolutionary avocations,
praise,
liturgical dance,
sacred meaning
theological sacraments
for ecological purposes,
ethology of EarthTribe developmental phylogeny
Historical WinWin revolutionary dominant,
occasionally hysterical WinLose devolutionary,
EarthTribe compassionate
becoming WinWin
ego/eco-dominant.
Cognitive behavioral therapy
is also compassionate WinWin behaviors with positive belief,
active good faith
both natural and spiritual,
abiding health only in co-relational solidarity,
Left with Right
YangNature passioning YinSpirit
ego- with eco-therapy.
Ego's behaviors expressing EcoHabitat's cooperatively owned beliefs,
Integral bilateral faith
in environmentally impassioning communal output
Healthy outcomes invite further non-violent communication,
active hope grows WinWin integrally multilateral democratic discernment
and communal Trust
in interdependently individual Truths
unveil more than their summed parts,
exponential empowering ego with eco-interdependent
compassionate enlightenment.
Polypathic pan-paradigmatic spans
for and of tran-systemic EarthBound passions
spawn healthy DNA seeds,
root systems dynamically internal
and external deep-creolizing organic nutritional webs
defining refining ZeroZone networks
for future co-passion planning
places in spaces
timing timeless traces
To re-incarnate grace,
transparent truth and beauty living,
vulnerably loving
bicameral YangYin external with internal cooperating ownership
co-passion administrations
engaging deductive/inductive communications
verbal and non-verbal peace managing
therapeutic cognitive/affective health
now at wealth-optimizing climaxing hand
and bicamerally opulent mind
and bilateral ego/eco-therapeutic behavioral belief,
humbling humane LeftTruth with divine RightBeauty
integrity communion potential,
cooperative gratitude dominant, without prominent
negative ego-attitude, today
this timeless day
more gracefully recessive.
CognitiveAffective compassioning therapy
for and of this our GreenEarth
informing with exflowing co-operative health vocations,
co-investing positive behaviors
in robust democratic belief systems.
Condos are not Cooperatives,
he was quick to deduce,
reduce compassionate opportunity
to democratic annual voting duty.
But, both are co-investments
in residential
and/or commercial property,
preferably humane infestments
with exterior roofs
and walls
and windows
and doors
and halls
and floors,
she responded
all residual night
and most the residential day.
But who's in charge
inside my space?
And wouldn't it be nice,
she responds with grace,
If we invite each Other
to partner with We
in our cooperative journey,
as called
and able,
to invest in residents
without competing worries
Free to sing and dance,
jazz and rock
and rollerskate,
cook
and possibly clean
up outside together
Depending on the weather
Cooperatively free
to pick up the outside trashy
recycling depository
now looking kinda' nasty
Like a neglected laboratory
While we run and walk right by
feelin' fly
on our way in to organic networking gardens
with and without compost buckets
Children playing composite cooperative
deep nature
nurturing outside classroom education
Learning nonviolent communication
across multicultural demonstrations
of multigenerational cooperative intent
to reduce restrictive Othering,
Without claustrophobic smothering
of those who co-invest with us,
wild natured
and mild spirited,
in this condo place and time
where cooperative communication
is our culture,
To economically
and politically
and socially
and psychologically
and ecologically nurture,
as cooperatively desired
but never autocratically required.