Best Empathically Poems
Nuancing Andrew Cohen
"If we are interested in learning how to engage with consciousness
at higher and higher levels,
to consciously facilitate its evolution within us
and between us,
we need to look more closely
at the extraordinary phenomenon of [nondual co-arising] emergence
in matter,
in biological life,
[in economic life,
and in political systems,]
and most importantly,
at the level of [Anthro-mind/Earth-body] consciousness.
We need to cultivate our capacity to visualize
and to emotionally connect
with what it would mean
for [positive] emergence to occur
within our own interiors [mind/body landscapes,
co-dominant dipolar Left-Right bicameral Yang-Yin balance],
within our subjective
and intersubjective
[peak-crown-head therapeutic
and valley-root-sensory/sexual body]
experience."
We LeftHemisphere hear
and eco-politically translate
in orthodox paradigms
of prior enculturation
to speak
and mind-0 zone
body-1/0 co-empathically transpose
co-engaging win/win
bipartisan reformation.
a disinteresting air
another gaze
within a full length mirror
a persnickety grimace
bandaids
the severed slices
of crystal
sleeping
within my
larynx
excuse my idiotcy
not utilizing
punctuation marks
cmon darling
please please
warrant my arrest
dementia is not covered
under my insurance policy
but
cough spit
mutants
like myself
somehow survive
religiously pathetic
empathically morose
sympathetically laughable
one last day
one fleeting
precious
moment
the rifle is gently removed
from an uncolored mantle
periwinkle would have
been my palor of choice now
Say ah and place
the hunter's
metallic eye
strategically
down your throat
everything is pretty
everything is so goddamn
wonderful
sweat on my forehead
sweat on the trigger
one deep breath
one more for good riddance
go my sweetheart
cmon
pull it
i said pull it
for a starved beggar's last day
will be
righteously
and
magnanimously
honored
by himself
Cerebral magnetic attraction,
our minds are drawn to one another
I love the way your mind works,
as do you love mine
Mental synchronicity
is a beautiful thing to achieve
Blissful harmony
Our minds meld as one
when you merge with me
It feels good to think your thoughts,
things you desire of me
Then I reflexively know what to do,
how to completely satisfy you
With never a word spoken between us two
Let us touch telepathically,
look into my mind,
and tell me you love what you see
We are two corporeal bodies
Neural synaptic integration is how
foreplay to our lovemaking is done
Pure telepathy
You want me to caress your thoughts,
embrace the electrical energy
that your mind produce
I feel your theta waves
rise to the apex excitation phase
Orgasmic serotonin release
Pleasurable sensations
explode in our minds simultaneously
So in tune with each other empathically,
we stoke fires of desire with pure telepathy
This is how we make love in the 24th century
When you hear plans for reactive justice
do you also listen for responsive mercy?
Or are you more likely to feel merciless revenge
against uncivilized behavior
swelling vibrant adrenaline
thrilling your self-righteous bloodstream?
If revenge is your best defense
against chaotic complexities of bad mad behavior,
If punitive humiliation
is this justice by disgrace
you deem responsible,
comfortably live by,
protect and defend,
then you will be an often disappointed,
and disappointingly ineffective,
parent
And would best and brightest stay far away
from anything in law enforcement,
militarized defense,
courtroom dramas,
and gun permits.
Advocates and defenders of justice for all
are deep lovers of intentions and behaviors
good healthy humored
seeking our not so bad, sad, and mad renovations
of white-washed purging rituals
including Society's eco-political purifying rituals,
obsessive-compulsive demoralizing ruminations,
ruinations,
rambling echoes of great and small transitions
quaking Earth's moral indignation
steeped in Anthropocene rape cultures
and pillage histories
of patriarchal justice
without matriarchal mercy,
much less Eartheatrical peace.
Justice without mercy
is like believing in love
without practicing peace
Like trying to restore a moral climate for love
without a maturing polycultural life
engaged co-empathically together
All guilty of anti-Earth transgressions
against compassioned innocents
of most every unmerciful violence one might imagine
inside inhumane uncivilization
Until we fall Anthropocene bad
sad
mad
unglad apart
To reweave yet another new inter-re-ligious
brightest and best day
Without such long LeftBrain EitherFor/OrAgainst
pathologically punishing shadows,
unmercifully thrown survival of the fiercest apart,
not yet fully grown Anthropocene together
Mature sacred and organic
mind/bodies
Anthro/Earth-Tribe polyculturally thriving
merry mercy co-passion full
Maturing polypathic peace
EarthJustice regenerates.
As I conclude each day
and year
and life,
conclude that life with death
refers only to LeftBrain ego's Past toward Future
ionic-ironic languaged consciousness,
too often angry about life
and therefore fear-filled about an untimely
and clearly inappropriate
not to mention unfair,
death.
Earth's Time memory
is stored in natural-systemic DNA/RNA regenerative folding
and unfolding egoclocks,
sequence,
rhythmic function,
a recycling journey of time traveling identities,
memory strings transcending generations
by transposing across the eisegetical communications
of any one ego-identified entity
Learning to harmonize in
on
with
within
a too strident humanizing nature
trying to invite more resilient
humane kindness and justice
To gift EcoTribal nature with humane nature
as a blessing for Earth,
from Earth,
with Earth,
for Earth's Advent,
inclusive of all species
and all natural economies,
and all RNA/DNA cellular cultures
of universal co-arising intelligence.
When divine love
and win/win neurosystemic kindness say
"I have nothing but time with you"
fear and anger are also saying
"I regret not having enough time
for my own anthrocentric agenda
right now,
between past's neglected anger
and future-fear depression
anticipating further repression
of this integral body
authentic mind
moment."
EcoLove and Ego's Kindness
only speak with present-tense consciousness,
which is all remaining communication
when neither future nor past tensions
tyrannies
terrors
win/lose dominate preverbal anxiety
Post-traumatic tension
and trauma-informed intension
of ego's fear and anger experience
Anger about past leads toward further fear
about repeating
and repeating
ego's degenerative abuse
and neglect
in Earth healthy life future.
To dissipate fear,
we have evolved curious Adventure
to co-empathically embrace Anger's
non-violent communication
About not repeating a negative judgy,
too Left-brain dominant,
toxic nontrauma-informed past
mono-culturation
Perpetuating anthro-privilege
playing a Win-Lose political game
toward ego-centric political economies
disabling RightBrain ecological pilgrimage
to AdventTransition Ego Away
Toward further
LoseMind/LoseBody
cosmological
devolutionary
deadly conclusions
And not not cobinary
positive health
Win/Win revolutions.
In this lifeskills class in political economics,
we look at politics as healthy power
and economics as wealthy flow
of cooperatively held assets
and win/win co-passionate resources,
investments in polycultural symbiosis
and disinvestments from monoculturing politics
bad relationships and nontransactions of hoarding
and competing discommunications
suffering monolithically
Anthro-centric LeftBrain dominance.
This lifeskills class
may also reconsider
where paying-it-forward economics
and democratically cooperating politics
lead to healthier and wealthier outcomes
for society
and all Earth Tribe cultures
than patriarchal capitalist
systemic RightWing trauma.
If economic flow
and co-investment balancing function
are sacred,
then politically interdependent relationships
might be divine,
designed with therapeutic intention
co-arising positive wealth-care practice.
We might conclude this lifeskills class
for medicinal doctorates in health optimization,
with some split-brain research
concluding that RightBrained politics
can only Be present
with graced ego/eco-proportional presence,
a non-languaged
embodied
root systemic
HappySpace of co-empathic confluence
with Positive Political Psychology.
Meanwhile, LeftBrained evolving economic function
flows from past to deduct-reduct-redact,
then re-language
a lexicon of future's felt win/win v. win/lose
v lose/lose mind/body
wealth/health frequencies,
stored in dialectical strings of DNA
back through transgenerations of space/time
co-revolution.
This politics of Right's timeless-present
political grace
informs Left's economic discernment
of sacred cooperative space
as primal relationship of Self+Other,
as Yang-AnthroMind with Yin-EarthBody.
We could conclude this lifeskills class
intending to elect political leaders
to deep listen to economic
nutritional wealth mentors
speaking compassionately
about how to grow healthy
co-empathically powerful
win-economic-mind/win-political-body
co-relationships
Which may require letting go
of Earth's monotheistic-capitalist
systemically traumatized clergy
Supporting God's BeLoved People
with competitive win/lose
missionary economics,
silently sustaining
AnthroPrivileged
trans-phobic
unhealthy ordained gurus
and mono-theistic
unwise
unwealthy politicized thugs.
With thanks to the Environmental Defense Fund,
Advice from ecosystemic pantheists
PENGUIN:
Dive into life;
Avoid undiving into dying, stagnating in reverse-time ruminations.
Appreciate regenerative daydreams;
Depreciate decomposing nightmares.
Take long intuitive wilderness walks
away from short deductive domesticated pathways.
Stand together;
Avoid falling apart.
Go extra cooperative miles
rather than staying stuck
in competing monocultural piles
of divestment away from
polycultural health.
Keep your cool;
Sweep your warm incarnation stretch
into excarnational meanings,
hot co-arising vocations.
GLACIER:
Carve your own path
opening to bipartisan polypaths.
Go eco-slow
by stopping ego-too-fast.
Channel your strengths
with ecosystemic decomposition
of dissonant weaknesses.
Smooth the way for others
by struggling with your own anthro-supremacist addictions.
Keep moving rationally forward
which is not irrationally backward.
Avoid meltdowns,
Embrace freeze up frames
of dipolar co-arising balance.
Be cool, trusting,
by becoming empathically warmer.
SEA TURTLE:
Swim with the current;
Fly with bilateral enlightenment.
Be a good navigator;
Become a self-as-other optimizing listener,
follower of Earth's nutrition.
Stay calm under pressure,
Grow resonance with wu wei midway
slower resilient revolutions.
Be well traveled, outbound,
to become less homebound,
paranoic inbred.
Think long term;
Feel short-term compassion.
Age gracefully;
re-ligiously childlike.
Spend time at the beach,
invest space in one surfing ocean
of nurturing dreams.
POLAR BEAR:
Live large;
anthro-die down toward (0) Earthcentric.
Be thick-skinned;
Become transparently inter-religious.
Sniff out opportunities;
taste internal crisis, risk.
Learn some good icebreakers;
Unlearn some mad meltdowns.
Be fearless;
Become peace co-empathic messiahs.
Keep it cool,
not so much climatic warming
of melting EarthTribe landscapes.
Leave footprints if you must .
On the sands of time in trust
Just remember ….
No footprint is totally foolproof
to be washproof
All is a game
like the tides that tame
Even the strongest surfer …
Eternal to all is time and nothing else
And sparking in the cosmos we are all just wayfarers
Tread softly
Love authentically
Live lovingly
Behave empathically
Speak truthfully
Move consciously
Grow gratefully !
Savvy
http://www.savvyraj.com
"Ignition"
Magic sits with you
you wait and you listen
for messages from the other side
this is true
this addiction impressive
you write her your gift
you whisper words as you write,
she sees you, she listens
very close
always present
you can't see her, she's missing
you write him his riff
some ephemeral missive
he is in accord, in his truth, he is implicit
a ghost
sits with you
empathically diligent
you look at life
and wonder where it is
wiping away the tears
you cry
then you grieve
she sighs
phantom sighs
he looks over his shoulder
there is no one there
yet he smiles
passion fire reigns
in your hands
you hold it in close
to move all the wild horses
you whisper ever nearer
towards you
sentences,
corrals to be open
in all your fierce dreams,
you hold onto believe
wild creatures
can never be tamed
they must
of their own free will
come to you
they shall advance;
Love’s gift
always commands
picture this vision
the world lives inside you
asleep not yet risen
within you the dormant key
waits for its driver
it anxiously turns
like a fretting
child
in its sleep
woken
ignition
to drive off the plateau
no longer asleep
without fear of Love
into the
Deep
(LadyLabyrinth / 2021)
gvlm
kobi, moonie
“Love of Strings” / Moby
https://youtu.be/tdo7s16l04g
“This is what I believe:
That I am I.
That my soul is a dark forest.
That my known self
will never be more
than a little clearing in the forest.
That gods, strange gods,
come forth from the forest
into the clearing of my known self,
and then go back.
That I must have the courage
to let them come and go.
That I will never let mankind
put anything over me,
but that I will try always
to recognize and submit
to the gods in me
and the gods
in other men and women.
There is my creed.”
D.H. Lawrence
To paraphrase George Lakoff, and maybe Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi,
and maybe Julian Jaynes,
and possibly Gregory Bateson,
and Laura Brown,
and then there was...
Nurturing empathy is the only doorway through healthy effective
LeftBrain Deductive and RightBrain Inductive
nondual co-arising communication,
whether the message pattern is WinLose debate,
Either This EgoYangElite Or That EcoYin-NotNotElite
or WinWin dialogue,
Both This EgoYangPatriarchal AntiPathic-Deductive Competition And That EcoYinMatriarchal Empathic-Inductive-IntegralNurturing CoOperation,
Or some hybrid of WinLose LeftBrain Dominant
and WinWin RightBrain Yin struggling appositionally with,
but preferably not struggling oppositionally against WinLose suboptimization strategies,
short of co-empathic WinWin relational outcomes.
These two, W/L and W/W,
X/Y and Y/Y,
U/C and A/G,
regenrative discernment evolutions
emerge co-empathically trusting outcomes,
plans,
designs,
policies,
procedures,
U.S. democratic Original Intent,
Friends of Extended Family are empathically trusted as Friends to regenerationally-fertilely thrive toward Earth's humane enlightenment,
and not at all the less enlightened and more pathological-patriarchalElitist,
NonElite Allies [not Western White Straight Strict Males] of my Extended HealthySafe Family are antipathically untrusted and unempathized as our probably competing against us to survive Enemies.
Mutual empathy is our constitutionally protected,
enthymematically-healthy,
key toward regenerative communication
as mutual antipathy degenerates,
so too does active dysfunctional and unhealthy distrust,
motivating further Win/Lose survivalist Elite EcoPolitical assumptions.
Follow the light,
in ecological language,
also means
follow our most fertile-cooperative
economic and political healthywealth.
What if all your communities of choice
were to gather around you
to also become each others' communities,
extended families,
of choice?
Homeless children and mothers
decompose their social-economic analysis
of loves and pathologies
with your PhD health policy developers.
Your rich and powerful associates
consult with political-ecological evolutionary scientists
and vice versa
about possible sustained futures together,
so we all might learn something worthy of living in hope
for a new panentheistic golden wisdom age.
Medical professionals
meet and greet neuro- and eco-sensory health optimizers,
those specializing in the consumption and production of resonant sounds,
nutritious tastes,
beautiful sights,
profoundly robust and fertile fragrances and compost,
healthy passion communication
and re-creative pleasure imagination,
memory creation and sustainable family and community development,
regenerative ecotherapists
hopefully,
potentially,
integrally,
cooperatively re-connected
re-ligioned
togethered.
Sacred and secular leaders
discerning healthier spirit and nature futures
with nature-spirit nondualistic
poli-economic non-violent
win/win evolutionary seekers,
new pilgrims toward a polypathic ecologic
Earth's enlightenment hunters
and empowerment gatherers might trust enough
to co-empathically communicate already
today,
togathering for this cooperative community of inter-religioning choice,
discerning this mind/body wealth/healthy moment,
this day,
this project,
this lifetime,
these small and great family
resonant passion
and resilient pleasure
win/lose toward win/win transitions.
Deifying a great teacher
is also a great way to make some money,
to establish a new commercial market
selling redemption from fear and ultimate failure.
I find Jesus of Nazareth's gospel message richly nutritious
compelling and resonant
when I have full co-empathic faith
that he taught a Way for all individual humans,
and historical-cultural tribes,
to consciously comprehend Earth-natured life
as Sun-spirited love
co-arising crown/rooted hybrid compost
for eternal health and safety
of EarthTribe's co-creation,
Trees of PolyNomial Life as Not-Not Paradoxical Death
reversing Life as Time-DeGeneration.
This view, however, is a profoundly inclusive version
of our co-operative Golden Rule,
and its DoubleReverse Corollary,
"Be not as you would not have others
co-arisingly become, intend, and operate
against you."
While this is deeply rich wisdom
about our divinely humane opportunity and risk,
this wisdom can only optimize with neurodiverse inclusive intention
and will to co-evolve our own-with-Others'
win/win redemption
within each sacred EarthTribe
panentheistic moment of love life
as full-elational
co-empathic health.
Wealthy development of co-empathic love
grows cooperative inclusive political economics
of discernment and choice-making,
planning and development,
which cannot work effectively,
with optimal resonance and resilience,
within an overly commodified,
deductively divided,
anthroprivileged monotheistic market,
driven by bottom line fear of inhumane death
as loss of timeless EarthTribe now,
rather than loving a healthy rebirthing
neurosystemically functional
reverse-embryonic process
back into deep co-elational TransParent nest
from which Sun enlightenment
and Earth empowerment
co-empathically emerged
convex monotheistic light
and concave panentheistic dark.
Jesus as God.
Perhaps only possible
when HolySpirit
is panentheistically co-present
at hand,
now as always,
cooperating our slow-growth political power relationships
as co-arising economic transactions
of pleasure health
for Beloved Bodhisattva compassion wealth.
Wealth of Eartheistic
0-soul neuro-receptors
health caring
EarthTribal wealthy
and sacred humanity.
She got a pile of
pictures to pick
from
All types all ripe
searching for a
victim
Silently striking
Vixen soiled Viking
She easily takes a
liking
To anything fruitful
and frightening
The lady is a
parasite in paradise
Dicing life
Such a perfect slice
Too late she took a
bite
And ate the pie
Troubled herself
with why
Can’t afford to cry
So she’ll leave you
high and dry
Still trying to pry
poetically
Empathically
pathetic
Knowing when she
grooms you
You’re soon to
regret it.
With her lit
cigarette she smirks
at your feelings
Faking hers so she
can keep you
revealing
Her target is your
heart that she will
be stealing
And once it’s been
taken you’re forever
intaken
Just like the rest
of them
Then like her you
will never use your
heart again
*Authors Note:
This is part of a
collection of poetry
about how women can
be just as evil as
men.
First off,
this is not pick on George Lakoff day
because I love his Political Mind like a brother.
BUT,
yes,
you knew that was coming,
so let me change it right now
AND,
yes, much of the proletariat-patriarchal Enlightenment Era
of the 1700s was weighted toward Transcendence,
so, yes, a tendency toward disembodied,
AND YET,
if we look toward the more bourgeois-matriarchal sector,
especially all those disenfranchised women birthin' babies,
but also other disadvantaged perspectives of Enlightenment,
these were very much about natural, healthy regenerative richness,
perhaps erotic wonder and climatic awe,
(remember Walt Whitman?)
rather than some spiritual experience
more high-brow agapic,
yet no less,
perhaps even rather more,
integrative flow-abundant
embodied
co-mentored and empathically communicated
reverent and sacred enlightenment,
however democratically common
as our universal experience
of diastatic enlightenment
nurtured within a matriarchal integrative womb
rather than embryonically formed
from a patriarchal transcendent *****.
I don't think red-neck conservative Republicans
are any less interested in,
or committed to,
or capable of,
healthy enlightening polypathic experience
than are progressive Ivy League academic Democrats,
although I do think that those who have healthier nurtured
integrative communication between LeftYang and RightYin hemispheres
are better at finding the WinWin cooperatively enlightening opportunities
while avoiding unnecessary disembodied pitfalls of WinLose choices
suboptimizing regenerative potential
to experience more positive enlightenment-flow power
rather than more cognitive-affective dissonance,
mistrusting antipathies.
These tend to be those
for whom LeftBrain enculturation dominance,
supremacy,
has been less kind than RightBrain's matriarchal nurturance.
RightBrain's eco-geometric metaphysical systems,
ecopolitically optimize rational-primal networks,
co-empathically trust
ecologically healthy LeftBrain
deductive-orthodox BusinessAsUsual
scientific revolutionary discovery
as regenerative SacredArt Fusions
bicamerally yang/yin integrative balancing
Ego/EcoPolitically Positive ReGenerative
of/for Permacultural (0) Earth-spiralscaping
Reverse-Temporal 4DNA/RNA empathic-mensional
DeCompositional through Regenerative dipolar spectrum
Climate-Health Developmental
Dialectal-Nutritional CoOperative
ExteriorYang-Uracil/InteriorYin-Cytosine 4D fusion-doublebinding function
NeuroSensory CoEmpathic-Trust
EnCulturating ConSciences,
equivalently both/and contrasting
appositional zeroism as coincidentally notnot balance co-arising
notnot cognitive-affective dissonance
of/for deep learning pathological unraveling rememory,
multi-polypathic paradigmatically reconnecting
temporally nesting ego/eco bicameral ecosystemic consciousness
comprehensively democratic
fertile
regenerate
bicamerally unfolding/refolding climate-health networks
for Bodhisattva-Messianic (0)soul co-operatic sacred climates,
ElderRight through Left Brain Balancing multicultural occupiers.