Best Disenchanting Poems

The Hands of Time


The hands of time stand eerie still
Where hearts chamber a cagey chill,
And whispers warn of shadows deep
With eyes that strain as shower’s...

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He's been struggling with depression,
She said, so then have I.

It's our bad news
that competing depressions
breed more contagiously
than our cooperation feeds happiness.

Yet our good news grows:
Depression...

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Poverty: 
Unusually limited access
to health,
nutritional poetry,
liturgical dance,
and positive-restorative energy resources--

The four WealthFaces of liberal love.

Poverty of Health derives from
and heads toward:
Win/Lose survival pressures,
crisis,
abscessed longing for...

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UNPLEASANT ONES

Money obligations:
 Parking tickets, mortgage, credit cards
All sorts of insurance: 
Life, car, house,  dental and health
Are overbearing and unmentionable 
Disenchanting, unpleasant ones
Crying out...

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To Husserl's phenomena,
enchanting and disenchanting
healthy and pathological
and all colors in-between,
We might remedially add relationships,
cooperative and competitive
and all hues and cries in-between

To play our LeftEgo with...

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Thine distorted reflection rippled 
within rain maker's pool 
   upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata 
   flooded shallow abyss, 
cleaved fractal...

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There's no doubt, by reason, my reason's in doubt
I stayed up all night 'til my demons came out

I let my indulgence seep into my skin
And,...

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Speak not ill of competition,
Tell not happily of his sin.
Inform me of your position.
I then can vote the best to win.

When I listen to your...

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An errant breeze blew hair across my cheek
and suddenly my tears flowed as I recalled
how we once loved. A love which I still seek.
Is it...

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What's the problem with homelessness,
other than the violence from which it comes
and toward which it further travels?

Why not ignore 
and grow tolerance
for the inevitability of...

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Most effective teachers
are perpetually curious students.

Most accomplished chefs
have voracious appetites
for nutritional taste
and nurturing fragrance.

Most resilient lovers of here and now life
have known and felt hate...

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The opposite
of egocentric perpetrator
is ecofeminist victim

The opposite
of conservative perpetrators of Win/Lose retribution
are liberating wounds of WinWin absorption
enchanting green restorations by mindful day,
ultra-nonviolet by not not...

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So, like I said
awhile ago,
I'm reading until totally dead
"Systems Thinking for Social Change."

With four primal turning and returning seasons
of natural yet spiritual developments
between dusk of...

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MY WAY

I see reflections of my life, how I arrived
at this stage of my telling life, the phase I thrive.

Was a curious child with too...

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To find enchanting integrity,
She transparently confronts her disenchantments
with present and past toxic flow,
disempowering absences of synergetic experience,
like rape and enslavement and aggressive commodification,
disharmonic songs
without time...

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