Best Divestment Poems
For Straight White Boys Only
...Have you seen a Rockwell 1950's Lemonade Wars?
Two girls, both white of course,
dressed for YoungRepublican success
scowling at each other on a pristine deserted street
of the tree-lined rich sub......
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Categories:
divestment, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Fan of a Fan
...Chorus
Sights are far but our minds are close
two hearts share one inhale with one nose
stage acts are for her even the pose
smiles from down she wishes for a rose
ten out of ten is her l......
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Categories:
divestment, celebrity, fairy, i love
Form:
Lyric
Therapeutic Democracy
...Democracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.
Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.
Democracy seems......
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Categories:
divestment, community, earth, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Whole Earth Patriotism
...What is patriotism?
Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health caring integrity?
What is nationalism?
Usually positive values about monocultural
mon......
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Categories:
divestment, beauty, culture, growth, happiness,
Form:
Political Verse
Sublime Terror
...Let's say I am an antro-privileged terrorist.
What would we be saying?
And is human nature supremacy
over all other less sacred nature/spirits
as monotheistically redundant
as anthro-industri......
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Categories:
divestment, earth, earth day, fear,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Earth's Final Answer
...A society
culture
religion
humane species
forgetting,
or more likely under-valuing,
how to unitedly suffer loss
may never have learned to face our universal fear
of dissociative ego-death
a......
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Categories:
divestment, beauty, earth day, health,
Form:
Political Verse
After School Jam Session
...How was school today?
Fine.
Did you learn anything important?
Maybe. I'm not sure yet.
Really? What are you considering?
We talked about Howard Odum's natural trinity
of altruism.
......
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Categories:
divestment, culture, earth, education, environment,
Form:
Political Verse
Remember the Number: 350
...Technicolor lights metallic noises split my neurons
Naked rocks replacing people's grass lawns
Thin glacier crumbling under polar bear's weight
You hear a voice rising from the carbon emissi......
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Categories:
divestment, earth, earth day, environment,
Form:
Acrostic
666 of Boxing Day
...Around 29AD, a saviour claimed eternity as a light of future hope,
Recorded or foretold, accepted or rejected, he left a message that stretched,
Across the pages of all mankind, throughout all time......
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Categories:
divestment, betrayal, boxing day , conflict,
Form:
Riding Time's Political Flow
...We might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they......
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Categories:
divestment, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Failures of Integrity
...I feel like a high school civics class dropout.
So much confuses me,
to this day, you see,
about democratic constitutional legal equity,
which feels like it should have WinWin original empowerm......
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Categories:
divestment, community, culture, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Sacred Spacemaking
...Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace
Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely ......
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Categories:
divestment, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Economically Great Political Health
...What are your power values and disvalues?
What are the political powers and weaknesses,
capacities and incapacities,
of economic value and disvalue?
What values are not for sale?
What powers a......
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Categories:
divestment, destiny, health, philosophy, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Political Transactions
...Currency reifies values.
Cash represents value.
Capital iconically,
and capitalism idolatrously,
removes humanity
from Earth's gifting cooperative nature
as reciprocating nurture.
Value,
li......
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Categories:
divestment, beauty, blessing, community, health,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Farewell Finale
...Enjoy our parting day
the young girl child,
now full-grown wise Elder,
reminded me,
the brother she had taught to flex male muscle
without overbearing her Sister Gaia powers.
On this classic ......
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Categories:
divestment, age, earth, goodbye, loss,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum