Best Systemic Poems

To the victors go the spoils, or so they say
  It's a rarity when losers have their way
Though the Democrat-fueled Mueller investigation
  took $32m dollars from the taxpayers of our nation

Come now questions 'bout the recent election
  Late mail-in ballots neither signed...

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It is known throughout Earth's anonymous
unanimous Commons,
Systems are hard to change.

The more macro-competitive,
Yang-strong,
The more difficult of all conversion stories

Over pernicious decades,
We tend to add "isms"
to pathological ends
of these global systemic issues.

This polyculturalistic/multiculturalism suffix,
negative appendage,
suggests a pejorative problem
of systemistic stuckness,
where once may have lived
a progressive potential...

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Comes a time when I must face life's larger picture
On canvas of my mind, earth is kept garden
No one promotes killer weeds, God forbid!
Facing my Goliath; those stones were formed by One
Reverence for mother earth is linked to the Almighty
Only eyes seeing from a contrite...

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I salute those (about to die??) Figuratively at least.! The
People..How shall I best describe them.? The middle to
Top level bankers..Hedge fund managers..Pension fund
Ceo's you know stockmarket traders at the middle to upper
End.' Who are going to be nutralised.' Monatarily wise.!! Yet
Who know so much, as...

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Can you make any sense of
systemic racism?

No more common sense than
too much patriarchalism--
all leftbrain-rightwing dominant things
oppressing sacred Earth's
polycultural win/win systems
promoting resiliently wealthy
resonant synergetic health

Care given
as received
in fruitful wombs,
like apple cores in transition
from refuse
toward rebirth

Maybe an EarthTribal positive prejudice
not associating Yang courageous energy
with evil supremacist paternalism
and...

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I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.

This comes to mind
as I listen to another lose/lose partisan debate
about democratic U.S. civil defense
of appropriate...

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Bertrand Russell
was intrigued by systems theory,
appalled by systemic racism
within himself and others,
corporations and churches
not recognizing each other's wisdom
also found in temples and synagogues
and community investment banks
and poor houses.

He was also interested in political philosophy,
power of aristocrats
anticipating growing personal economic despotism
offering no respite
to green/blue democratic EarthLovers.

A...

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Mars flew out of orbit
     Venus got rid of her gas
     Mercury sped past Pluto
     Jupiter shrunk her mass

     Saturn shed all her rings
     Neptune's...

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We’ve had warnings before of real dangers we face,
Populations whose growth could exceed Earth’s resources! (1)
Might chemicals used to produce more (enrich some)
Be curse if we poison consumers, farmworkers, and soil
That grows crops? (2) Have men spawned a ‘disease of the soul?’

Do we honor Creation...

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Two Taurus husbands
intending to nurture shared truths 
of Win/Win 
organic mind/bodies
engaging Earth's interdependent communion

To discover our conflicting 
and often unshared 
half-baked thoughts
intentions
anticipations 
in articulate and marvelously punctuated language,
rhythm, 
lexicon of meta-confluent function 
and integrally warm
co-gravitating flow
like butta' 

To uncover, 
recover,
rediscover 
our therapeutic seeds 
and traumatic...

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Time's natural spaces,
a universe of footprints in remembered places.

Need kicks me in the ass 
and head.
Trauma iafterflows,
undertows,
crashing carnage 
with runaway horsepower.

Want is a branching step,
coincidentally left-producing and right-consuming
memory footprints on Earth's beach of time,
some more resiliently resonant
before erasing surf remerges,
and some less formed before washing...

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War is not my wintry answer
when summer's serene peace
remains a cherished question.

Late autumn's year end Advent
sadly anticipates late winter's 
grey unrelenting Lent

As Christmas traumatically
commercially prophesies
black Good Friday
before Easter mortality

Painful future passion story losses,
hopefully temporary,
yet now recently felt
with post-bimillennial stressors.

A global sensory climate of anxiety
and not...

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I wonder what it means
we are a multicultural species
still capable of waging war,
employing ballistic terrorists,
investing in capitalism's ruthless game
of surgical monopoly
to become patriarchs of bloodied mountains,

This feels related,
perhaps co-arising,
with inability to distinguish
an ecology of natural grace
from an efficient economy of spiritual just rewards,

Ego's self-righteous returns
for...

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When we compare the numbers
and percentages of innocent,
trusting lives lost
in significant part because of Christian
militarized
capitalized
patriarchal 
monotheistic judging fundamentalism,
punishing Afghanistan
and other Islamic cultures
over the past four or five decades,

To the number
and percentage of innocent
economically and politically trusting lives
lost in significant part
because of Moslem militarized
capitalized
patriarchal
monotheistic vengeful fundamentalism,
punishing...

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Everything 
and everyone 
we have ever legitimately loved,
we will lose.

Mentally embracing
facing this problem
of biological mortality
is half of our potential
multigenerationally licit grace.

The other half,
more redemptively front
and ego/eco-centering,

Everything
and everyone we licitly hate
and have ever feared,
we may never legitimately choose
to lose.

Embracing these opportunities
to let go of misunderstandings,
neglect,
and abuse,
cowardice,
and...

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