Best Restoring Poems
Mend,
my friend…
Please, transcend.
Begin to bend…
with courage, defend
soul’s ache for Love to spend.
Free your heart; let arms extend
around this earth and back again!
Profits portend Divine dividend!
~*~*~*~*~
Rhyming Nonet written for contest.
Whoops! Contest was full....
Still, thought I'd post ;)
11/12/19
We are going to see a lot of changes, happen in the days to come
A time of serious reflection, into the many places we come from
As we are faced with challenges, we will stay united and strong
Everything good is worth restoring and we resist what is wrong
Patience is worthy, while truth and justice have a way to prevail
The time for celebration will make its way to soon set sail
We will live life to the fullest, breathe each gifted breath of air
Clipping clamps from our wings, fly above holdings of despair
And as we fly like eagles through the open sky, thanking Lord
We will know, the American Dream is not lost, but restored!
Heidi Sands
10/12/19
Restoring Balance
Let me sleep in fields of primrose;
Allow me the peace of a shade tree.
For my worries to drift as the wind blows;
My spirit, blissfully free.
Should my thoughts carry to memories;
And for a moment relive my youth.
To childlike dreams and simplicity;
The evening shadows my sooth.
May the gentle rain wash over me;
To cleanse me from all trace.
My spirit drifts in harmony;
To another time and place.
Forget the day that transpired;
Release the waves of wrought.
Let nature's embrace rekindle my fire;
For worldly matters can be forgot.
As sun sets and night begins;
The shadows of clouds arrive.
With a deep sigh, I shall rescind.
Ever grateful to be alive.
By: Darlene Doll Smith
What is our primal purpose
for continuing this troubling relationship?
asked Yang of Yin.
If you are clueless
then you have not been listening
to us
as actively as nondual times would predict,
replied Yin against Yang.
For me,
this purpose is to enjoy Sacred MotherEarth,
but I preferred to hear yours first,
again,
your speaking grace
where silence contemplatively rules,
replied Yang more gently back to Yin.
As we both well know,
for me
each space is time sufficient
for ecological gratitude,
neither mere secular reasons of nature
nor more romantic euphoria of serene spirits
planting as you harvest what we more cooperatively nurture,
defined Yin toward Yang.
We are
this yintegrity of gratitude
for enjoying MotherEarth's outdoor Golden Ruling places
Golden Ratio Voices
Golden Elixir Schools for learning sacred ecology,
ecopolitics of cooperativity
as geese form immigration journeys
as co-emigrant bilateral functions of democracy
riding winds back and forth above waters
washing streams of cooperative fertile time,
integrity of you and me
as spacetime wu-wei We,
sings Yang while Yin dances
through mutually enjoying gratitude,
singing grace
dancing rhythms
of EarthMother's fire-circle ecstasy.
What are primal relationships
for continuing this troubling dance?
asked YinWater under YangWinds
revolving Sacred EarthTime
together integrity.
Restoring American
Neighborhoods
Motherhood, Fatherhood, Parenthood,
Brotherhood and Sisterhood are the keys
To the doors of a unified peace and goodwill
The hood being the covering of one mind
In an agreement, that empowers every step
We take as a nation moving as one collective unit
Refusing to allow terror to rule our lives
Enforcing, you touch one you touch us all
American soil grew to greatness from unity
Righteousness, Mercy and Grace taking pride
In our homeland and the value of life
We need to rise from the ashes building a human
Chain by one hand to another unbreakable
Through honoring the life in one another
Not Race, creeds or gender wealthy or poor simply
Because blood may be thicker than water
But
Love is
Thicker
Then
Blood
As a child everyone watched over the other
If your house burned down everyone came to
Help build a new one and feed and clothed those in crisis
I am not one but a part of each of you and you matter
To me using any gift or talent you possess to reach others
Our
Actions prove
What dwells
In our hearts
Help tear down
The social walls
Of indifference
By seeing equality
Moreover, value
In the coverings
Of the HOOD
Carole Cookie Arnold
Restoring Waters
A Poem by Debbie_Philly
" Inspiring piece about not giving up , and not letting other bring you down. "
RESTORING WATERS
The ripple effects of the calm tempted water relaxes me
Soothes my soul till my inner being is illuminated with
brilliance , restoring me to life.
Reassuring waters wash over me lifting my indiscretions
I start to feel my inner strength flourish leading me from
hibernation.
Sparkling liquid pools of rejuvenation immerse my essence
down into it’s depth of blue limpid protection so that I
may emerge unpretentious yet proud of who I've become.
Once filled with self doubt like an irrelevant child looking
for validation.
I've been emancipated into real womanhood, relevant in every
way possible . Come bath here, all who doubt their worth
Drink of its enlightenment until you too transform and
resurface kicking to the top of life once more.
By: Debbie Kelly
I reached down into the bottom of my soul
Where there were sordid, bitter memories
Of hearts I had wounded over years gone by
I sorted carefully, reviewing each to decide
Whether I’d let them continue to fester there,
Or, whether I’d make amends and restore ties
With friends I had shut out by my petty hurts,
Surprisingly, I discovered it was not they, but I
Who suffered from my unforgiving spirit.
I resolved that very moment to contact each
To say I’m sorry, forgive me, I was such a boor.
“Forgive me for allowing trivial differences
To come between us” and each was restored;
Soul cleansed, I’ve forgiven others and myself.
SECOND PLACE WINNER
Edited June 26, 2022
Submitted to "Forgiveness" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Anoucheka Gangabissoon
When the last remaining Yang propagandist
against deeply yin-suppressed pedagogists
falls back in love with cooperative educational love,
we will learn to live forever
as one EarthTribe
with integrity's richest bilateral potential.
When the last competing retributive jurist and counselor
and parent and ecopolitical leader
sees past his WinLose ecopolitical assumptions and theories
to find sufficient WinWin cooperative mercy
for bilateral yin-squared equals yang-fractal enculturation,
then
(0)-Soul restorative bilateral justice,
for both propogandist perp
and pedagogist victim,
reweaving 4D RealTime peace,
as Tranquility already repletes our deep democratic team learning
through village reforesting designs
for short-deductive through long sacred-inductive
non-violent and yet resilient terms
of and for ecopolitical re-education
restitution,
love's restoration
as also grace
as also karma
reweaving (0)-Sum educational synergy
convexly co-arising secular space-here
with sacred time-now's concaving bilateral co-gravitation
back through Yang/Yin co-listening bicameral strength
erupting notnot Yin's timeless present double-binding flow,
you can't go back again
nor forth
without ego's eco-geo-bio-imaging whims
of reverse-RealTime 4D polypathic imagination,
polycultural folding/unfolding/refolding/prefolding instructions,
regenerative forward,
degenerative back through space as time's co-gravitational balance.
When WinLose learning competitions end
endless reiterative notnot polynomial repetitions,
WinWin education cooperatives can,
will,
already do ecopolitically restore climate regenerative health trends'
our left with right-full place in WinYang-WinYin Gaian Principles
for your/our Department of Education's
ReVolutionary ReForestation.
When the last remaining Yang propagandist
against deeply yin-suppressed holistic pedagogists
falls back in love with cooperative secular/sacred educational love,
we will learn to live forever
as one PolyPathic EarthTribe
with integrity's richest bicameral potential.
As You See —
Yes.
I
AM
Weeping…
And
At the feet of God
Wailing
Yes,
In God’s sight
My soul is groaning
Because
I am grieving
Into God’s hands —
These tears
From my spirit
Are shed…And
As you see it ~
Will take time
to
finish
their
streaming
Blessed
sequence
restoring
some
peace
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(Written for myself & BJ Legros Kelley, my brother poet
mourning his sister’s passing on)
** I advise, Don’t tell someone, “Stop crying.”
Better, give a hug and say, “It’s going to be okay.”
Romans 12: 15, “Rejoice with those who rejoice;
mourn with those who mourn.”
(c) sally young eslinger 12/17/2022
Glory to God…
My litmus test question
for supreme and more everyday justice makers
organic bakers
RealTime fakers:
Have you read research results
comparing retributive justice unhealthy outcomes
to those of good-faith restorative
cooperative
justice processes?
Repairing green reparations
rather than locking up long-held repressive sexist lies
and throwing away liberty's dwindling healthy discernment key
ring of bilateral co-passionate consciousness.
Could you justify voting against abortions
for those you have raped and pillaged
and still wear the mask of restoring justice
for all broken minds and embodied hearts?
When restorative criminal justice
invites and complies with WinWin peace-filling standards,
how much greater the legal-moral constitutional system
inviting and complying with transparent WinWin democracy
standards of and for co-operating health
with wealth
rather than
ego-eco anti-therapeutic lack of mutual invitation
Leaving rapacious room for anthro-centric stages
of monoculturing punishment,
retribution,
revenge
less sacred
and more secular locking up wild ecofeminist creativity
passionate restoring nativity
For historical Win-Lose evolutionary naivety
supplanting cultural Win-Win SpaceTime relativity.
Day dreamer, dreaming
In the boat with no destination
Thinking of life restoration
In the middle of the sea with her relatives
Focusing on how to change their lives
Day dreamer, dreaming
Strong wind started blowing
Heaving rains started raining
Everyone in the boat was so confused
Praying to God to be helped
Day dreamer, dreaming
Everyone was so dissapoiting
No more choice to continue sailing
Without good destination of reinstallation
Turning back home became their best solution
March 28/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe Mussabwa Chris
seams frayed and threadbare
rocking time till life to come
old clock once more chimes
4/1/2018
God's oral,
and Gaia's ancient ****
naturally spiritual laws
are win/win discursive,
not win/lose debating,
when climate polycultural conditions
are democratically healthy thriving
Not blaming,
judging,
shaming,
cursive,
as when monoculturing colonizations
of EurAsians autocratically
and kleptocratically sick
and barely monotheistically surviving
curiously endure inhumane denial
of runaway capitalist win/lose
LeftBrain dominant
straight white patriarchal
lose/lose ego/eco-fading systemic nihilism
Repression of ecowomanist mindfulness
lustiness
integrity
bilateral resilience
Suppression of post-traumatic climate stress disorder
Depression
of PolyCultural Sacred Law
for and of
humane sensory EarthTherapeutic Justice
Musical
mindfully mused
meditative medication
as Blue/Green
4/4
Who Are We For?
regenerative rhythmed
co-passioned
deeply resonant peace.
Yang+Yin optimal health economics
fueling wealthy cooperative politics
Leads to less survivalist
Yang v Yin
Also,
Yang x Yin
multiplies SunLight x EarthPower
cooperative empowerment
fuels enlightening reiterations,
integrations,
creolizations
As Yang/Yin divides
separates
disintegrates otherwise win/win
healthy systems.
So, just a quick restorative justice question--
Let's imagine a homeless adolescent (Yang)
and an angry and resentful parent (Yin)
left behind
at what used to pass
as their peaceful white picket-fenced
house
home
habitat.
Do we assume the defiant
rebellious
often self-vindicating
PTSD and ADHD,
homeless adolescent
is typically at fault?
maybe?
Or
do we blame
and shame
the still housed adult
working one
or two
or three jobs?
Why not both
and why not avoid condemning
either Yang or Yin
Perhaps complicated
with trauma intergenerational histories
as old as slavery
and warrior rape
and tribal sacrifices
of adolescent trust
and beauty
and soul emptying absence
of win/win integrity,
secular intent,
sacred hope.
A fine dinner
restores the spirit
Include dessert ~
bed and pillow near it