Best Redeemers Poems
We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty
We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists and the Amish
Are neighbors here
We the People
Are Jamaican and Japanese
Swedish and Samoan
Cuban and Cherokee
Moroccan and Mexican
The Irish and the Inuit
And all shades of Africa
We are country hills and cityscapes
Suburban parks and downtown fire escapes
We are singers and stutterers
Daredevils and diplomats
Renegades and redeemers
The leaders and the lone wolves
The suits and the sarongs
We are the gun owners for gun control
The justice for unjust loopholes
We are the hands that struck the iron
And the backs that laid the tracks
Of trails of rails connecting
Sea to shining Sea
We are protesters and poets
The soldiers without peace
The nurses without sleep
We are the straight arrows and the skeptics
The gay and the god-fearing
We are Black Lives Matter
And we are the badges in blue
We the People
Are complicit and complicated
No freedom gave
To chains of slaves
We have conquered and colonized
Sacrificed and stolen
Pillaged and planted
To naturalize a nation
We are teachers of tenacity
Prophicies of pioneers
And the children of second chances
We the People
Speak for our land’s legacy
In every tongue, from every rung
On each stumbled stair, each crumbled chair
We demand democracy.
8/21/20
Poem of the Day
August 23, 2020
Am I dead or dreaming? Lightfoot and scheming.
My head is full, I’m not sure which persona is in charge.
Have taken strong opiates, many too illegal to mention.
Unleash me, woman. Give me some sort of detention.
Let me be. Leave me alone. I have to be me.
We never were a complete or lovely we.
I’m too intelligent to be fooled by your endearments or looks.
My upbringing offered sordid truths that fed others lies.
You’re the crazy one. Unleash your stifling grappling hooks.
You are insane, with those rose-colored glasses on your hazel eyes!
I was raised by wolves, posing as Catholic redeemers and upstanders.
Evil creatures hiding in parishes on Sunday, pretending to be….
People who do the right thing, live morally, caring for children.
I knew the truth of them, they were liquor whores since I was wee.
Throwing me a life line? That makes me laugh. You want to save me?
I scoff at your holy handedness, your righteousness, your prissy stupidity.
I am well above your station, and we were never a thing, never could be.
My mind is shaking my soul out of her uncaring attitude at your weird lucidity.
I have saved myself, you see. So fly away, interferer, just let me be!
There is no we, never has been, and will never be, you see.
I am always, forever, and chronically only “me”.
Raised by wolves, heading toward my own morbidity.
Million Man March
Men of all sides tear the land apart
Marching band drums Bark
Trumpets blare Sparks
Sitting in the back like Rosa Parks
See what's in the front that's Dark
Watching the sharks
The only flag we pledge allegiance to is Unified
Freedom liberty will not be rationalized
Anything less Will not pacify
World wide
Alliance strategize
All lies we magnify
I'm just one of the leaders leading the band
Secret plans
Chairman in chain of command
New secret society
No illuminati
Peace on earth is the philosophy
Beautiful minds full of ideologies
Now I believe in astrology
Feel like the stars guiding me
Truth seekers they don't hide they seek
Lost an found we find the truth an keep
Reach for the stars an take stars for dreams
Then we shoot shooting stars to dreamers to weave
Cause dreamchasers
Its dream killers
Dreamstealers
Jeepers creepers
We the redeemers
With enough power I would overthrow these governments
No democrat
Or republican
Following the footsteps of Harriet Tubman
An Leon Howard Sullivan
The ground cracks while we marching
Turn the bright sky into darkness
With a Blood Moon Sparkling
Lightning startling
Thunder barking
Invasion of aliens martains
We the new beings looking to harvest
Settin the flame I'm the arsenist
Fire in me arsenic
Respect for Earth an Nature
So the Universe has us Favored
Naturally regenerative
living systems,
like Earth
optimize global ecological opportunities
as co-redemptive economies
of loving solidarity relationships
expressing mutual not-negative subsidiarity,
within a web of interdependent Win-Win default networks.
If we are born passionate investments
of past yang/yin regenerations
redeeming economic risks
weighed as ecological opportunity
for pleasuring pleasant peace
with active love for all species,
all nature,
all Earth,
all Universal Intelligence,
then are we also,
at least potentially,
an interdependent species
of co-redeeming economists
thinking and acting and relating and feeling
sensing and feeling and smelling and tasting
touching and respecting and appreciating ecologically balanced reasons,
seasons of time and pattern and rhythm?
Where fasting advents precede
and roundly follow
cornucopic polycultural seasons for all cells
and organelles.
We find and sustain co-therapeutic relationship balance
half way between Yang-ego's deductive-reductive immunity boundaries
and Yin-eco's intuitive receptive co-operativity,
co-redemptivity,
correlation-ability,
mutual empathic gratitude
polypathic trans-actional multisystemic relationships.
If co-redeemers are messiahs
then we are also mutual bodhisattvas
as we intend cooperative Win-Win eco-normative salvation
and eco-logically therapeutic outcomes.
Perhaps mutual messiahs find it simpler to wrestle with,
rather than against death's pain and suffering,
to figure out what to divest of
by reconnecting within each moment's present opportunity
to what and whom and when and where and why we invest integratively
with each Other's health and well-being,
co-redemptive economically rational, yet passionate, logic,
as well as Right-brain's intuitive temperate sense of balance,
proportion,
enthymematic syntax
permaculturing rooted rhythms
of mindful songs
and global dance.
Ego's Logos as co-determinate partner
with Eco's Right-brain Mythos
co-redemptive political design
re-creating economic developmental revolutions.
Give what you want to receive
Deepak Chopra
I have a gift suggestion.
A gift for EarthTribe.
Let's rebirth this "permaculture" paradigm,
anchored with Naturally Organic Climax Communities.
Emphatically broader,
perhaps less dogmatically narrow.
Enculturing sustainability of life-systems;
not primally an organic paradigm for designing farms and gardens,
and other bodies,
although most certainly this is a prime sweetspot in which to start,
but also an inclusive development process
to mutually synergize,
recreate,
regenerate polycultural environments
and cooperatively networking economies of diverse inclusion,
consumers with producers,
decomposers with regenerators,
productive parasites with a benign host,
and polypathic reconnecting redeemers of natural health systems
re-imagining Manifest Win/Win Dual-Destiny.
This returns to primal appositives in dynamic revolutionary evolution,
incarnation,
an interior landscape in which dying is to living
as ego death is to eco-rebirth;
we each and all Tribes give birth to die in our equivalently good time,
just as we are all dying to give ourselves,
each other,
our Mother Earth and Father Solar Systemic Universe,
ReGenesis.
This ReGenesis Project,
our collective felt Beloved neurosystemic integrity,
our shared permacultural vocation for all EarthTribe sentient species,
our mutual gift that keeps on regenerating.
Revolutionary evolutionary
Heartful constitutions
Lovers constructing
Contributions contorts
Contours, all sides a winner
Armies of DREAMERS
WE are redeemers
Consecutive notions
If we begin we are beginners
Heavily measured DEVOTIONS
Affiliated positives
Once SCREAMED
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE ARE FREE
and the corners of the WORLD are
Furnished with a song not yet sung
Blessed be the birds and bees
Strum down low
A guitar STROKE
Strum up glow
A GESTURE, a hope
A fluid atmosphere, infectious
Ambiance is here.
Revolutions STOKE the hearts aflare
Free aflame afire
Inquire multiplier of fame escort
One ply one try
What cost
Multiple efforts
Floral fashions flourishing actions.
Asking freedom festers festivals
Basking in ever GLOWING
EVOLUTIONS everlasting
Effortlessly REVOLUTIONIZE
THE WORLD, EVOLVING
As I age
I hope to become increasingly difficult
to extract from flow of Presence
apprehending EarthMother focus
through holistic reflections
within Now
Without targeting Others
over There
lacking CoPresence.
I hope ego-awareness shrinks
within aging
cranial carrying
mindbodies
To swell without
toward ecstatic soul
comprehensive understanding,
co-infested stand-and-grabbing
To more easily let go
of my now eldering past events
yellowing oranged brown falling away leaves
of absent grace
To grab ahold
of bold winter's regenerations
of green-full hope,.
Prehensive linking
syncing resonant peace
engaging Earth JustUs
rooted ancient systems
Free-flowing through boundaried paradigms
dividing seasons
into tipping pointed reasons
for circling
deepening peak
yet widening spectral valleys
echoing Other's resounding exclamations
Fading
failing bipolarized dissonance
becoming dipolar co-arising
resonance
Confident this curious TaoWay
through resiliently polycultured Midway
seasons and surfs
at last expounding
plantings and pullings
rebirthing our final say
Fusing octaves of sight and sound
fizzing fractal note conduction
musing slow-grown co-redeemers
Risking final opportunity
to refill treasured seeds
sown and reaped
Cherished bodymind's rich pot
ential,
outial
post-axial cross
Over space
and under time's harvest
reimagining memory's branching place
for rooted earnest fortune
Racing thoughts
increasingly aged difficult
To extract from co-presents
of EarthJustUs time
sufficient for grace
repurposed peaceful space.
Laundering wealthy clothes and other valuables,
baptizing moments and grand white-washed events,
scrubbing dissonant deposits
into healthy places and times,
laundering life with transcendent love.
When we're done sitting in solidarity with Earth's laundry,
it's probably time to start over,
or succumb to our own stinky mess of pseudo-wealth
Therapeutically baptizing body-minds toward resilient health
may require soaking in resonant eco/ego co-awareness,
eco-herent
eco-operative
ecompassioning co-identity.
Clean chi-body clothes cover
and uncover,
discover,
recover would be co-redeemers of healthy mental wealth
rediscovering spiritually naturing systems.
Corporate-sponsored competitive detergents
of urgent LeftHemisphere enculturation
have blinded too many to a more polycultural Received Tradition:
human nature evolved through interdependent mentorships
of caregiving and nurturance and cooperation
between
within
among
inclusive of all Earth's tumbling Tribes
learning natural relationships
in environmental systems
stabilizing through mutual solidarity,
like air with fire,
soil with water.
Too often Left-Brain Dominance
has confused our designer attire and attitudes
facilitator scrubbing functions
mutual mentoring
co-redemptive economic EcoLogical Co-Operative Vocations
with those we have labeled
"Sole Proprietor"
and "Owner" of Nature's Laundry.
These labels tend to come off
during a healthy multicultural stone-washed thrashing
of decompositional analysis.
EgoCentrism,
like traumatic AnthroCentrism,
and its oppressor cousin, RacialElitism,
and MonoCultural SurfaceCleaned Tolerance
fail to wash well
for achieving long-term EcoCentric
PolyCultural
Health-Wealth Optimization Outcomes.
HumanHubris confuses ourselves,
scrubbing down our Beloved EarthHost
as if She were a monopolistically-intended Flea,
resulting in great misfortune
especially for Earth's future grandchildren
drowning in over-populated toxic pain in the everywhere.
They could have been our much Beloved Community,
if we would regenerate this drying out revolution,
permaculturally washing
with Earth's Nature-Balancing
decompositional soap
of ecological intelligence.
Yes, it's all about love,
and a highly proactive form of peace,
about both what's fair,
and what's also kind,
both long-term,
and right now.
It's all about vocation,
and paying the bills,
and enjoying life as production
as well as healthy nutritional consumption.
Most certainly all of those things.
But, organic farmers and permaculture designers,
master gardeners and cooperative developers,
ministers and healers and therapists of all types,
from physical through mental through systemic information network designers,
might use some different language
to define this love and active peace with justice, fairness, kindness,
well-being optimization.
A metasystemically therapeutic,
synergizing,
energizing,
dialectically emergent therapy
enriching,
nutritionally optimizing individual,
couple,
family,
and/or EarthTribe,
grows economic mutually mentoring redeemers,
human natural ecologist cooperatives;
a perma/polycultural balancing
harmonic Beloved Community.
Trees sprout nondual co-arising branch networks,
one system rising to greet sun’s light
also creating healthy atmospheres for Earth’s enlightened Tribes,
the other branch-system downward rooting
into Earth’s rich compost
feeding on gifts of co-redeemers past,
creating healthy Earth skin,
Earth soil-soul economic nutritional trans-actors
of vast ecopolitical harmonizing enterprise.
So too,
human nature’s bicameral-neural nondual mindbody network systems,
lungs partnering with Elder Trees
sharing climate control autonomic feelings
sounds and voices
smelling choices
deepening RNA surfing
spiraling syntax
brained body roots
absorbing Earth’s richly regenerative compost
his/herstory from which we each emerge,
YangEgo Left-dominant
language syntax
with YinEco Right Earth-prominent
DNA fractal-felt networks,
dialectic peer-to-peer communication design
and communion development
of re-ligioning health and beauty intentions,
RNA/DNA solidarity
co-revolutionary strong rooted Elders
supporting Earth’s vast panentheistic pilgrimage.
Trees wax and wane through longer terms
of aesthetic evolving purpose,
transgenerationally co-invested
in Earth’s future fertile health.
We might become re-connected
bicameral branch/root trees
wise to learn from Elders’ re-ligioned experience.
We share an ecological healthy heart
because we are each one
(0)-embryonic center
of EarthLove’s re-valuing
bipartisan
bi-hemispheric
binomial co-arising
bilaterally intelligent
AnthroBranch/EarthRoot
sacred systemic potential.
OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 017
BLOOD
TIME OF THOUGHT:LOSS
DATE OF THOUGHT:LOSS
It's a life
It's precious than gold
The primary part of life
Without it, no being
Something harder than mustard seed
Substance thicker than water
It attracts more than magnet
Is a cherish substance
An umbreakable cord
That connect all;
The child, mother and father
A convenant seal
A material for irreversible convenant
Like the on the of cross of calvary
Our best ever redeemers gift on the cross
It is a cherish stuff
Don't toil with it
Cherish it
Blood is sacred, don't drink it
Don't shed it
Keep it
Don't spill the innocent blood
There is a power embeded in it
Don't let it splashed
Let there be peace in all corners of our land.
In pieces we can't live in peace
Let us see ourselves as brothers
So we have an enviable haven.
The pages of poetry and prose,
So carefully and considerately composed.
A response to the voice inside of me that
Whispers in a manner incoherent.
I am listening, because there is not much else to be.
I can guarantee I will die unworthy
And leaving no legacy but a beautiful corpse.
There was a time when I
Would give you this book of my verse
Some pages of open confession
Not be loved or adored, not to be suddenly understood
By myself or by this or the next generation.
Prestige in this current lifetime is a pipedream at best.
This is the legacy I follow against my will, the hallowed
Halls of deaf redeemers like the casket laying empty
Slowly approaching at a glacial crawl.
One day my name and my
Obituary will assert my solidarity
With the dirt. To the earth
I will go with all these prayers
My heart ‘neath my ribcage
Below this empty vessel
The soul departed somewhere.
I leave you maxilla and tines.
Or whatever else remains behind.
A petulant allowance to be
Engraved upon the crypts
In the most appropriate narrative,
Bereft of the truth in our histories
Given rather to fits of hysterics
And a careful, considerate lyric.
Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020
Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
ole man winter
weather did shortchange.
Once thermometer readings rise
even smidgen one moost not minimize
Earth way out of balance,
I haint gonna catastrophize
as bajillion acres plus
one after another ocean dries
even the skeptic cannot turn
blind eye and believe contrary lies
when every species practically extinct
and self proclaimed éminence grise
doth trumpet and stubbornly tries
to claim plethora unearthed resources
as sudden goldmine
against wages of sin
former traitor joe redeemers actualize
to catalyze nth industrial revolution
teaching as heresy
ecocentric, which material basket
of deplorables power mongers bowdlerize
Concurrence toward meteorological
trend most all people agree
toward adapting, experiencing,
and witnessing increase -
fair in height degree
bestowed upon Thomas Newcomen,
Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton,
Edmund Cartwright
and James Watt first Industrial
Revolution conferred as honoree
appellation not necessarily
in retrospect donned as noble pedigree,
now hundred of years
later downside we see
of belching, coughing,
disorging... yes siree
foul, (née deadly)
cancerous, gaseous, noxious... pollutants.
Decreased dissension
grudgingly did abate
unclouded protests trumpet
Trump to abdicate
irrefutable proof generates
activist voices to accumulate
linkedin over Green Party
blessedly to administrate
hoop fully figurative tide
will turn and aerate
political atmosphere whereby
progressive minds will affiliate
otherwise business as usual,
cuz spewing deadly particulate
will only aggravate
dire straits, where series
of unfortunate events will airdate
prophetic apocalyptic fate
especially if nonprogressive
stodgy commander in chief re-elected
flush with bigotry and hate
increased chance (chants) ripe state
for revolution avast swath
of population to amalgamate,
and overthrow anachronistic government
absolute zero survival unless dramatic
nondestructive strategy eschewed
to supplant exploitation and mandate
radical transformation, which dramatic
shift off grid if lucky requisite
Earth friendly manufacturing
can possibly ameliorate.
I'm surrounded
By those that believe
By those who conceive
That one's obsession and possession
Can lead to G-d's affection
I don't question their position
That noncompliance is perdition
To some heaven here on Earth
Stomached by some lord's thick girth
I prefer a tempered vision
One without devout or fission
Something tangible with proof
Compared to magic, faith, aloof
I understand the desperate need
To lean on something beyond their seed
Some large, hypnotic master
To help us all avoid disaster
But then some shooter's flagrant whim
Mows down everyone but Him
How does that compute the feeling
While the corpses finish bleeding
And yet when circumstances perish
By some indignant source that's garish
Leaving us wishing for the force
To lessen fate's corrupt remorse
We bring our hands together
Our forlorn limbs of ash and leather
It doesn't matter how consistent
When the prodigal yell's insistent
I need the fix, I need it now
I don't care who, I don't care how
This leads to redeemers blazing trails
To stores where G-d's love goes on sale
Because when shoves are frail pushes
Who really cares who saves our tushes.
(8/15/15)
If you have a favorite Creation Story,
one that makes your Ego self-identity swell,
and stay that way,
then you also have a favorite ecopolitical narrative
about how you would prefer your health development
might optimize your wealthiest ecological outcome abundance.
For example,
for Christians,
is the Messianic re-creation story
merely redemptive grace coming in?
Or more precisely co-redemptive,
where grace,
like money,
flows more abundantly
when everybody has more than enough gift-it-forward love to go around?
So, which evolutionary Creation Story
you politically choose to invest in
is your primally significant economic investment decision,
to optimize your health as wealth extending life--
WinLose self-redemption over other economic players,
or WinWin co-redemption
with other ecologically economic cooperating investors.
How was EarthTribe regeneratively formed
to ethologically function?
For me, with as much multicultural self-perpetuating freedom as possible
for all species of co-intelligent design living now,
Elders past still flowing through,
and future co-redeemers to follow.