Best Restorations Poems
The slave kneels in reverence temple in Karnak's hollowed halls.
A prayers silent whisper echo's against stone walls.
Rituals divine figure, a golden idle lies before honor's altar
Mother earth's first born child, she whom is known as Isis.
Deities winged goddess with wings extended across heaven.
Embracing upper and lower Egypt beneath her ivory feathers.
The giver of life, magic and wisdom.
Upon a gilded throne she sits amongst the agust royal's,
Nobility's crowns bow in highest respects
To immortals grand mistress of fertility.
The Nile's waters separate as her highness steps
Forth to welcome the dawns first rays of light.
Almighty Osiris places his hand in hers uniting as one.
The mortal world is renewed again in loves faithful devotion.
Cast down the shadow of jealousy, Set's envious hatred kills beloved's
Most sacred.
Tears of sorrows shed at deaths trembling hand.
The Nile waters rise, flowing crimson red, breeching sandy barriers.
In cautious destructive reasoning she is inconsolable, overwhelming the lands,
With Wrath's devastation.
In tidal motions emotional earthquake, creations raw power restraints give way.
Piece by piece gather the maid, thus scattered limbs appendages lain at flames
Eternal sacrificial fire, a torch burns within the darkness.
The four winds blow raven tresses to and fro and a new magic is born unto the
World of men, loves ultimate truth it shall conquer all.
Softly she speaks his name, gently she reaches out,
Restorations goddess inhales,
Exhales and Osiris once again places his hand into hers.
Living again two lovers renewed in sacred vows ceremony.
Elders elite ascend towards their astral plain beyond the gates of infinity.
Glittering scepter shinning in brilliance sunlight given by Ra himself.
In the westward kingdom they rule side by side united in noble union.
Dynasty's Egyptian divinities spirits commanding mutually
In harmony's peaceful everlasting bliss.
BY:CHERYL ANNA DUNN
Dedicated to Isis Rose
I look you up and look you over,
better days have left you far behind,
you're older, but to me you're still appealing,
yet you draw comments that are less than kind.
You're neglected, not consulted,
when an answer is required,
hidden now behind the others,
avoided, disregarded, mired.
I massage your spine with oil and friction,
restoring your luster to cherish and keep,
remembering when you were readily handled,
sought after, popular, top of the heap.
I'm so busy these days with my key restorations,
I scarcely have time, and I don't have a say,
so you'll have to hold on for my deft ministrations,
a labor of love, postponed for a better day.
THE LIGHT HOUSE
The shimmering white beacon off the shores
Of Marble-head, let it's flickering light shine again,
In restorations amber glow of hope.
For are we not the custodians of our own history.
Allow us to relight the spark, igniting the flames
Kindling, a tinderbox of explosive force,
To expose our historical past for others to enjoy.
Than shall we not pass the torch forward.
It is up to us, to save legacy's heritage,
For the future generations to come.
Crumbling monument’s cry out to be
Remembered, times cruel weathering, does
Ascend tearing at the walls of mortar,
And chipping at the layers of paint.
Can we not lend a helping hand, to aid in
Such a worthy cause, to preserve our past.
Allow us as human beings, the keepers of
The lighthouse, to fuel the fire for preservation.
Let us leave a historical landmark, a piece of
The past worthy of saving, to be restored.
Hand-N-Hand, brick by brick, layers of
Humanities historical records need
Preservation reclamation.
It is a proclamations that should be heard,
For prosperity's sake alone.
Rise up Toledo-ans, see the torch light from
Afar distant island, let not this flame be
Stamped out, or fade away.
No not here in the grand state of Ohio,
In the light house, off Sandusky Bay,
Shall it's rays of brilliance shine again.
Against the Lake Erie waters, standing
Tall, as a beacons light of hope,
For future generations to come.
BY: CHERYL ANNA DUNN
Building Materials
It takes so long to understand
How the fractures of the past
Reach the home of the future
With such a stealthy hand
All the foundations
That you braced and propped
All the restorations
Made in cement and bricks
The plasterwork
Which seemed so seamless
Begins to show the cracks
While the girders and supports
Begin to resemble
A prison
Your own hands have wrought
Time you felt would give you time
Built that time, but it has slipped away
Behind the stalwart barriers
You designed to keep the time
At bay
You didn’t think to hide yourself away
But nobody knows you now
Anyway
No one can see you
Through the cage
And from the panoramic view of your eyes
You toss your crumpled warnings
To anyone who is searching for suggestions
On building materials
“Only fools turn their back on their heart”
“Only fools turn their back on love”
“Only fools paper over the agony
and believe in someone else”
“Only fools choose something other than love
“for building materials”
“Love’s a split between
yourself and someone else
“Martyrdom is not an expression
of a truly loving heart”
“It’s a sacrifice unasked for
from the loves in your life”
“It’s a solitary sacrifice”
This message I throw from my high walled
Window
High from the tower
I built my own
Not by choice these props and girders
These adobe bricks of sand and straw
I never knew
What these bricks
Were for
THE BOY KING
Oh youthful monarch of Egypt, so young to die and yet live again.
In the nether world a Pharaoh's golden death mask is lain upon
A boy king.
In silences crypt a stilled figure lies in stacious frozen freeze.
Until Ra's first rays kiss the dawn and they embrace in passions
Fiery flame.
Behold a rebirth an emergence from death's chilling shroud.
In the valley of the dead his caucus’s soul walks amongst
His ancestral ancestors.
Lost deities whom balance the hearts of men
Against the feather of truth
Speak his name with honor's reverence.
Legacy's inheritance a throne built in the shadow,
Of hierarchy’s indignation yields,
To restorations royal seal barring his title of rebirth
Tutankhamen.
The great sphinx retracts it's sharpened claws,
As this small emperor’s spirit bows with nobility’s,
Humblest of respectfulness at his marble feet.
Without fears emotions he thus stands all alone,
Before this stone giant of idles sacred worship,
At his touch this littlest of divine gods,
Turns a stone beast into flesh.
And beneath the night's blanket of stars,
He is welcomed
Into the warmth of the lions main.
A living creature cradling this child of light,
Slowly fallen into dreams eternal sleep once more.
In the halls of Karnack a peaceful lullaby plays,
Upon invisible instruments, in a gentle soothing.
Rhythmic tones the music plays.
As a woman's voice sings of a beautiful desert spring,
That turns into the Nile's fertile waters,
Feeding it's eternal life.
And thus the boy king sleeps wrapped in slumbers,
Golden fleece, listening to the holy Melody,
Which is ancient Egypt.
Finally at peace within the kingdom of thieves,
A Pharaoh of the golden realm.
Hush now beware do not wake him,
Or his curse may claim another victim.
BY: CHERYL ANNA DUNN
I look you up and look you over,
better days have left you far behind,
you're older, but to me you're still appealing,
yet you draw comments that are less than kind.
You're neglected, not consulted,
when an answer is required,
hidden now behind the others,
avoided, disregarded, mired.
I massage your spine with oil and friction,
restoring your luster to cherish and keep,
remembering when you were readily handled,
sought after, popular, top of the heap.
I'm so busy these days with my key restorations,
I scarcely have time, and I don't have a say,
so you'll have to hold on for my deft ministrations,
a labor of love, postponed for a better day.
I look you up and look you over,
better days have left you far behind,
you're older, but to me you're still appealing,
yet you draw comments that are less than kind.
You're neglected, not consulted,
when an answer is required,
hidden now behind the others,
avoided, disregarded, mired.
I massage your spine with oil and friction,
restoring your luster to cherish and keep,
remembering when you were readily handled,
sought after, popular, top of the heap.
I'm so busy these days with my key restorations,
I scarcely have time, and I don't have a say,
so you'll have to wait for my deft ministrations,
a labor of love, postponed for a quieter day.
I once read of a psychologist
her 1997 Yvonne Agazarian name
I can't quite LeftBrain recall
as our cooperative matriarchal
GroupTheory Ego/EcoGaming System,
sacredly ecotherapeutic--
restoring justice
as ego-theo-ecological peace.
Sacred, yet secularly securely proficient,
among deep learning WinStudents with WinTeachers
mutually secular-sacred Green
EcoTherapeutic Restoration Teacher Preachers
of HealthLeft-WealthRight flowing bilateral care
for WinWin dipolar WiseElder parents
sharing a reforesting ecoschool EarthTribe lesson ride
flying bicamerally through double-bound historic dipolar relational images
and cause-effect enculturations,
yet also swimming transgeneratively matriarchal amphibian
WinWin back toward pre-millennial re-acclimation tales of tails
and stories of winged restorations.
ZeroZone wombed
Virgin Mother Mary
shabbat paradise
reforesting ocean-boundaried Heavens
of flickering flight starlight
health-wealth nutritional Ego-EcoWisdom,
inside with outside sacred classrooms
within secularizing pathological LoseLose climates.
Left yang-deductive--SacredRight yin-inductive
EgoGod with or against DivineEco Gaian ZeroZone
resilience
polypathic nutritional resonance
theory of health-groups Left with RightWing
EgoPolitical
DNA inside
with Elder RNA outside classroom PositivEnergy flow
of nutritional polyphonic voices
singing EarthTribe's resilient healthy wealth--
in WinWin C-squared major matriarchal keys.
Here GroupTheory
and WinWin Green Cooperative RealTime Gaming Systems
co-invest ecopolitical language
polyculturally seen
and polynomially thought
and polyphonically sung
health resiliently and wealth resonantly meet
to deep learn fractally robust
ZeroZone
ecotherapeutic four-season planning
for polycultural outcome optimization
Including empowerment of Group Game Theories
to predict RealTime nutritional WinWin ZeroZone Design
for healthy-wealth
bicamerally evolving Ego/EcoSystemic
Bilateral Gaian Hypotheses.
All sacred things
work out
for the integrity
of EarthTribe's potential
health care--within
and yingiving--without
hoarding wealth.
Those who win the day
are those who choose love
instead of hate.
Rev. Dr. William Barber
Those who exclude victim inclusion
disrupt everyday sanctuary
for addicted bully perpetrators,
not unlike ourselves.
Those who dream sanctuary all FullMoon night
are those who choose uniting integrity
instead of egocentric universal mendacity.
Those who win each Mr. and Ms. Christ day
are those who choose to believe
Christ was Jesus extended family name
instead of Hate,
evangelically disabling anthro-centrism against EarthNature,
fundamental disassociation from messianic eco-restorations
naturally Here as also spiritually Now.
The magic of loving messiahs,
like the enchantment of Christmas,
is deeper LeftBrain learned and taught
as more about being fully present to healthy eco-wealth
To be less about becoming egocentrically full
of sufficient political presents for All.
Those who restore everyday magic
are those who choose MotherEarth Love
instead of negative ultra-violent patriarchal Hate
punishing sins and crimes
vengeance offensives against past envy and revenge
for sins against MotherEarth's
health of Ms. ChristSoul--
Ecopolitically housed through history's sanctuary cathedrals
cooperatively co-governed celebrations
for multicultural green reforesting projects
purposes
plans
procedures
policies
polypathic protests.
Deep learning sanctuaries
are ecologically therapeutic environments
are ecopolitically resilient regenerations
are GreenChrist Mentors
are EcoTherapeutic Bodhisattva Advocates.
Those who win each enchanting everyday
by choosing co-redemptive GreenLove
over demi-urgent fundamental RedHate
against healthy
multicultural
Earth-Boundaried Sanctuary.
A transportive
transubstantiating
sacred with secular pearl
of Eastern multicultural virtue,
measure of ecopolitical peace,
values of creolic absorption,
extended family blending,
dialectal democracy
co-operative co-lateral formation
incoming informative uracil with cytosine,
ultra-violet with green,
exflowing through past DNA co-memories
of love and regenerative lust
of death and degenerative dust.
Go West
could mean
Grow a stronger green LeftWing
ecological commitment
to deductive healthy rationality
complementing
supplementing
transporting West
your already wealth-developing East
flowing more resiliently ultra-violet
theological matriarchal ecofeminist restorations
of inductive green wild wiki
Conservational transparency
nurturing YangWest/YinEast agendas
for EarthMother BiLaterality,
at least for those Left with Right
Northern revolutionary advent bound
in this 2020 post-millennial tao
of TimeSource flowing ego/eco-centers,
bicameral core East
multicultural flowing
Western LoveStreams,
Southern PassionDreams.
I think of my Ego
and therefore perceive my bright light space place,
like my self-identity
growing optimally confluent health-power,
says Yang.
Yin co-responds,
We re-connect one EgoZone co-identifying place
within ZeroSoul Zone bilateral
one point of light
toward two-dimensional string of flowing-revolving time,
causally, almost casually, past through health-wealth
WinWin effective history,
fruitful future herstory
WinLose choices
mired in less nutritious suboptimization
of our Left with Right life-power,
And don't even under-poweringly think,
reminds Yang,
about LoseLose
dual dark
chaotic dissonance
not/not eco/ego
outside/inside
matriarchal/patriarchal upside down reversed hierarchical
suppressed ecofeminist Gaia
flow-power speaks effluent YinTruth
to RightWing genocidal
anti-messianic
god made in Man's fragmented reductive penal-envious image
WinLose
ZeroSum Yang uber-dominant
eco-political
egocentric dead-end line
of ballistic story-time.
Yang pleas for more WinLose forbearance.
Yin readily agrees,
but first requires WinEgo-Health explicating WinEco-Wealth
EarthJustice double-binding climate reparations.
Yang asks Yin if we should begin with replanting forests.
"Did you mean to ask for reparations,
ego-centric atonement,
Or health systemic restorations,"
Where ego- and eco-systemic climate futures
remain meta-consciously
bicamerally re-connected
for psychological LeftBrain egos
and ecological nurturing RightBrain memory echoes?
Yes,
Yin dual darkly
Both-not/And-not redundantly double-binary
Non-ZeroSum WinWin
EcoZone Tit for Tat
Restoring EarthJustice
cause-effective
subject-objective
multiculturally co-responds
In full eco-viral feminist
MotherEarth iconic
interdependently networking
Both/And RightBrain
iconic/ironic voice.
A culture steeped in retribution
becomes blind to freedom's contributions
accessed best through healing restorations,
trust,
virtual stuff
for democracies most resilient.
A society resisting love's innovative brilliance
comic and jazzy improvising resonance
healing ecosystemic egos dissonant
from aquatic wombs of patient advent,
Adventuring winter's iceflows of stark stuckness,
as impatient as a tongueless mess
stuck to a frozen metallic national goalpost
just as bells and climate whistles end recess
sound a new tune of chaotic harvest.
National prison lobbies
would lock up tongues and time
arbitrarily confining unconverted inmates lying
behind naked bars of self-isolation
and electric waves of competing institutions,
Walls against multiculturing opportunity,
defensive moats with hungry crocodiles,
black and white defenses against sinful lazy aliens,
and aggressive ballistic lobbyists
addicted to non-conversations
of fear and self-righteous anger,
marketing everyday all-white lies
of capital-hoarding omission.
Collective fears of punishing reparations
for sins against past and future poor regenerations
expands like melting ice-slow crystals
freezing fear escapes so many freedom wronged,
confined by greed against imprisoned selves
against relentlessly orthodox "Other."
Multihappy revolutions of 2020 vision,
listening to prison's sad social addictions
powering over
to rediscover yin-power with prisoners
together decriminalizing
desecularizing
retenderizing
pardoning humane nature
for past angry RedState patriarchal crimes
against Earth's cooperative matriarchal freedom
green inspiring Spirit.
All of which causal root to reflective branches came,
then took off again,
to show
One WhiteHouse addiction
to a HillHell of competing prison power
is another's enchantment
and/or disenchantment.
The hardest losses
are those too late to repair
what has been win/win time lost
to despair
Just as love
cannot co-arise
where fear grows
fully uprisen
a prison
predicting anger's nearby
impetuously apprised
surprise.
So too,
Freedom cannot thrive
where addiction has hard helped
us feel we are not softly worthy
to survive
"Loser" labelled struggles
with addiction
cannot feel free of affliction
nor can giving in
to addiction's short-term affections,
powers to feel escape
from personal
and communal,
economic
and political,
monocultural
and monotheistic
OverPowers
Social judgment,
blame
and shame,
co-detachment
non-communication
developing hard
stiffly cold silent screaming
excommunication
Depressing loneliness
isolation
self-ostracization issues
win/lose closeted
fear-based shame defenses
against Old School GoldenRule
loss of co-invested love
offenses
Against spirited natural
nondualistic redemptions
restorations
of win/win historical
Sun nurturing light
and Earth nutritioning power
regenerating
EarthTribe
indigenously sacred regenerations.
Economic messages,
models,
exchanges,
transactions,
investments and divestments,
restorations and extractions,
therapies and punishments,
health and pathology
come from diverse secularized capital media,
like egos,
and nutritional flows,
health norms
and energy centers,
power points.
Similarly,
ecological messages,
transfers of nutritional resources
and toxic demons,
are read in diverse media climates
of water restorative balance
and extractive flowing floods and pollution,
of soil health and pathology,
of wind power and superpowers of hurricanes,
of fire restoring warmth
but also extractively devouring,
therapeutic restorations
and punishing retributions through over-extractive imbalance.
Capital is to economics
as Energy is to ecology;
each resiliently mediated by WinWin positive intent
to cooperatively invest
and predative WinLose negative intent
to compete against other capital-centered climates
of holonic unrest.
Capitalism extracts nutrition
where ReStorative CoOperatism co-invests cultures of loving health
in budgets,
creolizing plans and designs
and mutual intent toward polyculturally positive outcomes for All
students and mentors
followers and inclusively democratic leaders
DNA and co-arising RNA
children and parents
patients and healers
PostMillennial ClimateLovers and WiseElders.
When asked what skill sets
I hoped to bring
Her local ecology of justice
for nurturing,
I was not prepared.
But,
one of two internal wisdom projects,
still in process,
I'm ego-working on,
eco-role playing with,
is non-violent communication,
so I mentioned this
to the Trees and other WiseElder
youth nutritional developers
Young,
poised and elegant,
soft-spoken yet articulate
and straightforward
and with integrity of authentic curiosity,
She asked me
"What do you mean
by non-violent communication skills?
Does that mean you invite,
rather than demand, responses
by mentoring them
while listening for co-present hiding Wins
then Both/And speaking
then WinWin listening again?"
"Or are you still working
on healing OldSchool communication issues,
dominating patriarchal Left
by diminishing ElderMatriarchal Right?"
"Are you still working on non-violently violating people
with your body aggressive hands
and patriarchally mendacious voice
and homophobic and xenophobic
marching against green ecofeminist sacred feet
and blatantly exhibiting LeftBrain rabid totalitarian deductive-reductive dominance
and Trumpian: I'm just a bad bully boy
with a redblooded colonizing heart
testosterone twittering?"
I wasn't expecting that line of questioning.
But I found it really interesting
that a freckled nose
brown-skinned
young and beautiful,
inside and outside
ego and eco-core centered investigative interviewer
would need to ask that
of a white U.S. male
at this critical moment
of last non-violent hope
breathlessly waiting
for a WinWin communicated response
inviting cooperative ego/ecological polypathic climates
reversing pathological monoculturing decades
of business as competing WinLose usual
Now post-millennially reborn
green inviting integrity
of PositivEnergy Democracy
non-violently inciting
restorations of multicultural EarthJustice
SpaceTime co-arising
further EgoLeft-EcoSacredRight
ripe for ZeroZone theological healing.
But,
that's the other skill set
I'm sacred ecological
RightBrain STEAM green
writing with--
much too revolutionary
for any first time
PositivEnergy impression.
Maybe we could go there
next 2020 Revolutionary time.