Best Secularity Poems

repentance again

old women kneel in pews
dotted about the shadowed church
black splotches they float
among the incense clouds.
faces waxen like the flicker candles
raised, softened, in the stained...

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post an atom.
we need one.

subversions
differentiations
of Chantal Akerman reading the Ladies Almanac.
grandpa was jewish,
maybe this summer i'll go to Israel
 and visit the mother of all...

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First, imagine, if you can,
"Love" is not just a many splendored thing,
although it is that,
but behaviorists and existentialists behavioralize
the complex of emotions and consciousness
wearing that...

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In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold...

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The realms of resurrection buried,
Excavating bloody beliefs of slavery,
Decimating riots in a blink,
Rejuvenating imagery primed energy.

Shrillness of voice overpowering the silence,
Tears bursting eyes insane,
Holiness captured...

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It is my Taoist maxim
HereYang is
Where Yintegrity of SilentNow.

In my TaoSearch mission,
I reach an outside summer vulnerable peak
at YinNow
when we revolt into people
who transparently unveil
We...

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My longer life
reads like a ransacked,
formerly almost democratic constitution,
Whether well read in organic silence
or not so screaming fascist tumored
rumor bad-humored
much.

Some days present easy milestone messages
to...

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Whether LeftBrain dominant
or RightBrain feminist prominent,

Whether outty
or insy,

fast
or slow,

stop
or go,

yes
or no,

decline
or grow,

inhale
or blow,

hide
or show,

strength
or flow,

sun
or snow,

cry
or crow,

Yang's cognitive power pleasure needs
are also Yin's emotive enlightened...

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The host-guest relationship is more or less sacred all over the world.  (Gregory Bateson, Sacred Unity)

Except among terrorists, where host and guest are reversed...

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She came to me
at five
at war inside
between Plan A 
RightEgo Dominant
against Plan B 
LeftEcoPolitical Wrong.

I came to her
to ask outside
for LeftYang NatureRights,
cooperatively supported,
ignoring RightYin SpiritWrongs
you...

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Church is usually a noun
for a sanctuary becoming place

But, both church and sanctuary
are scripturally more about revolutionary verbs.

Countering capital-consumer culture
Churching
giving and receiving healthy cooperatively-owned sanctuary
are...

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To patronize,
repatriotize,
restore,
co-invest in:

To express positive WinWin attitude,
sacred gratitude,
through mutually cooperative investment
of healthy bilateral Time
past and future researched,
as wealthy sacred history of EarthSpace

SpaceTime ZeroZone Zen
Zero-notnot interest
in...

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An important difference
between climate health (win/lose toward win/win thrivalist)
and climate pathology (win/lose toward lose/lose non-survivalist)
is a discerning capacity
to invite slow-reweaving 
deep sacred learning relationships
Rather than...

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Secular silence,
still as death.
Sacred silence,
subtle sounds of Earth's synergy

And what vast sounds,
unheard voices,
unloved songs,
unjustified dances,
unpeaced anthems,
unbeautified pose of light
may lie in waiting silence
between invitation
and deadening...

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Stewardship
is taking cooperative care of what you don't own,
giving and receiving care
from what you could not rightfully own.

I could not exclusively own a symbiotic relationship,
a...

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