Best Placeholder Poems

for Hidipo Hamutenya
1939-2016

At the end of this hard road
Spider webs adorn the graveyards
Of all those who reach freedom
By intellectual decree.
The tears of the fallen
Are not...

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lightning struck
and a sparrow fell
into the nurturing arms of the great oak
the branches grew and grew
and it built a home.

and eighteen years of fair weather
blessed...

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We are naked and alone, being not willfully born,
And we are also alone when we die.
And the same in between, every year on and on
No...

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"Universe to each must be
All that is, including me.
Environment in turn must be
All that is, excepting me."
       Buckminster Fuller

Evolving...

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DEDICATED TO ALL
MY CHILDREN NEAR AND FAR.
 
What is in my heart for you -
Is what has been in my heart- period dot, dot, dot....

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Imagine we live in an eco-normative story
of competing for wealth-commodities,
cash piled in quantifiable currencies,
collectively blinded to our Win-Win
natural economic,
ecological,
psychological,
biological health and well-being 
nurturing value roots.

One...

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Let’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,

while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and...

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I was interviewing ecotherapeutic health workers
and ran into one from the Conceptualist School
of Positive Psychology.

While this sounded quite abstractly wonderful,
I asked her for the elevator...

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Dregs and tumors of decay
co-arise therapies 
for humoring healthy
wealthy life.

Those who stand on tiptoe do not stand firm;
Those who stand with equal weight,
bipedal-planted, do stand...

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Bodhisattvas turn airflow into flames,
water into Earth
as Jesus turned baptismal waters
into blood red rivers
of warm nutritious wine.

Bodhisattvas,
like Messiah prophets and saints,
long for
belong to
the baptismal political...

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I remember my mindbody would tense
sometimes
then relax into confusion
while non-consiliently reading Bucky Fuller's "Synergetics 2."

I also remember,
and too often reweave,
Fuller's stream of thought ecoconsciousness
as I...

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Nobody knows the thought that goes through my mind.
Nobody knows the truth of who I am. 
See I am what I am, what I'm not...

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We each step into
then through
an isolating silo threshold
of Zero-static flatline,
EgoDeath counter-defining
EcoLove for timeless life.

EgoDeath
an opening
a return to dominating EcoOther
primal identity becoming cellularly disorganized,
sub-organically interdependent chaos,
whole-system...

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Her heart was preoccupied. 
Many men came knocking. 
Looking for a home. 
Looking for refuge, 
not knowing she was the storm. 

She gave them grace...

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And so it begins ...

The sad sad story 
of why I’m lying in a hospital bed
with my right leg in traction

Valentine’s Day arrives
My girlfriend moans...

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