Best Orientations Poems

Once in a blue moon, in the circuit of the cryptic sky appears the transcendental fusion,
when the acquiescence of the sky emerges to display two heavenly bodies most exotic phases of union.

On those, mesmerizing venerated nights, the new moon and the wolf moon in juxtaposition,
supercede...

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Timely sifting, sets slowly drifting
lofty apart, aloof of sort
as lost ships, in tidal dips 
as ocean attests, perils at best
sortie Est, sortie Quest

Through a remembered gate, serpent’s dream abates
love’s reasoning renewed, ego’s reasoning eschew
 the garden that parts, by two reasonings sorts   
the...

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Now frontsies or backsies can have a different connotation
When referring to the many varied sexual orientations
To me it doesn't matter
As long as there's no chatter
To disturb the task at hand and my total concentration


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention inward [Right]
and then outward [Left],
between valuing the self [Animus-Eros-TaoEmpty]
and then...

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Depth of the Darkness

Where I am
Unknown even to me
The dizziness
Dis-orientations linger here or
Maybe there

I am not quite sure
Other than I have drowned
Emptiness overcomes even
The sadness
Eyelids, do I have them?
Emptiness you see is a blindness
Seeping into the nether lands of my heart
No longer caring
Or daring
Hidden in...

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All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their corporate direction,
to support further public broadcasting
for the benefit of our children
and their children,
and so on.

While this has often felt like...

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Maverick Free Verse

~Born after the flesh, orientation toward cash
Orientation toward Spirit, heavens are always near it
That which one loves, covers one like a glove
Orientations make clear, toward it one will always steer
One’s orientation always manifests as one’s connotations
and by it Love or greed take a...

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I told the nun in charge
of Religious Education
If asked about sexual orientation
I will say
I'm gay.

I want to teach
deep listening learning
not how not to lie.

She wonders why
such forthrightness
feels so important
Are you a recruiter
for gay pride?
Are you a political activist?

Gay pride
makes as much sense to me
as straight...

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I love my family but am not wholeheartedly committed to them.

I am significantly detached from society as a whole itself.

I shall always embrace my inner child or inner self.

I am free to introspect and imagine as much as I want or even need to.

I hold...

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Our ancestors started that what we call
today - our human race, around this blue globe,
sure enough we all are part of their great quest
to populate our precious planet earth,

Now along our way, we learned a thing or two
to pass along, what we all must do,...

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Permaculture Designers
give first priority
to facilitating
and mentoring
long-term cooperative returns
for ZeroZone therapeutic investments
and traumatic divestments.

Our maps may include many zones
and these may have subclimates 
currently a mix of healthy and pathological
but,
at the beginning and end
of each designing day and project
we assume this cooperative network
would work best for...

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Such a yearning in my heart to find a one
No, find the one 
With the appropriate prerequisites
The right experience
The proper internships to complete my externship
The perfect applicant
Just right for the job
After many interviews and several orientations
I was able to convince myself you didn’t exist
Until…
That long...

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secrets of a homeless shelter
group of people
fallen victom to the game of making one's life unfair
granted i am good at giving them their power back
allowing them to replace negativity with happiness they can actually feel

why did you go to war?
leave societies middle finger behind

did Nikki...

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Please come to me as the Sun
Showing  the horizon and 
The orientations  in my mind

Please come to lit the engine of mine
And don't let the silence  remain

I  can't move a bit without your presence 
Come and ignite it to soar or...

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