Best Intergenerational Poems

Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise integrity.
Decompressing reimagination of effective/causal Time 
within organizing space and sacred story place.
Gentle integrity 
is the flow-function of Tao.
Compassionate contentment 
is...

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{This "Free Verse" entry Received HONORABLE MENTIONS
              IN THE Intergenerational Poetry to Bridge the Generation
                 ...

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I think perhaps
The heart of a child really is
Heart shaped...

Like those on valentine cards,
Delicate and soft with seed pearls
dainty lace and fancy glittered
Ribbons, spilling over like happiness.

Yes, heart shaped,
You can tell by the sound of their
Laughter and of course by the was
They smile...

Babies coo the...

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Let us,
for a heuristic historical moment,
pause...
create mental feeling embodied space,
for domestication as value neutral,
neither inherently good nor bad,
but more of a gradual evolutionary process
increasing mutual accessibility,
and therefore care-giving
and care-receiving vulnerability
to active daily trust and mistrust,
while avoiding wilder excesses of active distrust,
anti-trust,
rabidity.

First,
YangLight domesticated with,
and not against,
YinWater-Flow.

Then
man...

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I was reading Lakoff's story
of what he learned at Berkeley
about international relations,
when I found my RightBrain offering further nuance;
not to deny what is here,
but to add what is also here,
but not explicitly stated,
about regenerative ecopolitical health and safety.

"The 'rational' approach to foreign policy was governed...

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And EveryBody to Play With

Cognitive maturation,
that portion of "please just grow up"
evolving climatically large transitional lifetime matters
of choosing to grow up
together

to not just act as if I am an adult,
but to also know we are always of an emergent adolescent species,
the new anthro-kids on the...

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Submission
       to 2014 INTERGENERATIONAL POETRY SLAM ELDERS AND TEEN TRACK
                           University of Nebraska,...

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Reached the panicle of an older state;
faced body rugged, as stone or slate;
I must reiterate, I am not old, but great;
I'm imparting of an older state;
A family that no longer calls;
An aged person whom new crawls;
Though, they sometimes may fall;
you won't find me shopping at...

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{This "Free Verse" entry Received HONORABLE MENTIONS
              IN THE Intergenerational Poetry to Bridge the Generation
                 ...

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grandpa use to sit in his rockin chair
I'd climb in his lap
both started to nod off
so we took a nap
he'd let me play in his bread
offend time he'll wake up
snorting, coughing, and showing
spitting hailing hands waving
jumping up out of his seat
screaming hollering what's this

He'd jump...

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I am old;
But not aged;
Edgerly, elderly...
~
I'm not old;
But I'm told;
~
Better sit down;
Before I fall down;
~
Why git a cane;
I yet remain on top of the ground;
Whose old, I'm 
I am eternal;


6/11/19

written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
For UNO  2019 Intergenerational Poetry Contest...

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As ageing growing old;
It turns out, most grumpy stale people used to be grumpy young people;
This I believe it is so;
Ageing doesn’t turn a cheerful person into a grouch;
Now that I’m older I need to go get and off this couch;
The birth we’re born then...

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Patrick Deneen follows Tocqueville
speaking of risks to Western liberal democratic experiments,
great personal enlightenment adventures
seldom calm within a federating kettle
of competing selected fish,
and usually not cooperatively resilient
for health optimization
of local community peaceful resonant wealth.

In Tocqueville's time and place,
liberal democracy evolved from feudal win/lose pre-industrial aristocracy
overpowering non-elite...

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My teeth are dull and dim shady yellow;
My bones squeak and pop;
When I walk I moan;
What is it, what is this all about?
Am I elderly?

My vision not to far;
I can see things up close;
When I shallow hard;
Get a lump in my throat;
Everything tingles, everything hurts;
Am...

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Innocence. Dissonance. A mind in puzzle pieces-
The poisoned family tree has reaches;
Narcissism. Derision. A rampant spreading fire-
All the leaves of a mask they acquire:
An intergenerational sexist pattern flow
It only takes one person to really know.
Unaware. Despair. Trapped like a bird in a cage-
Delayed in the...

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