Best Therapeutic Poems
Democracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.
Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.
Democracy seems like an empowering experience
of equality and interdependence
before it became an anti-royalist political philosophy.
Which may serve as a humbling reminder
that great abstract theories
so left-brain universally fascinating
derive from whole mindbody experience
of individual egos,
healthy or other-unwise.
If no ego-experience,
then no ecosystemic consciousness
of democracy
or autocracy
or kleptocracy
or plutocracy
or oligarchy
or capitalocracy
or theocracy
or patriarchy
or even warm accompanying matriarchy.
Multiculturing democracy,
a hybrid of egalitarian aspirations
and interdependent respirations,
requires organized
stable
win/win ego/theo-logical communication,
health wealthy ecological relationships.
Disorganized communication
is an oxymoron,
like enriching divestment
and disturbing attachment
and democratic capitalism
and resilient win/lose compassion.
Democracy is what we win/win breathe
do
develop together
to empower egohealth identities
and wealthy ecosystems.
If you’re older and somehow not dying,
Yet live with dementia or worse,
Prepare to be hit with some lying
Before your last ride in a hearse.
This strategy’s gaining approval
As nursing homes struggle to cope
With patients whose memory removal
Deprives them of reasons to hope.
So little white lies are suggested
Like, “Your husband will visit real soon”
Since the truth often can’t be digested
And no time will be quite opportune.
Or, “Let’s visit the nursery; maybe
You’ll help rock your child to sleep,”
Where a doll substitutes for the baby
Which remains where the memories keep.
If deception brings comfort, I wonder
Why, to me, it just doesn’t feel right
Reaching into one’s psyche to plunder
What the mind has kept tucked out of sight.
It is therapy for me
to make the pen dance melodies
across an otherwise bleek
piece of paper.
To create words that don't exist
because I WANT TO is simply bliss or
to write about that crush that I want to kiss
in the third person as if it is a wish
of a young girl around 16-ish
can only be done in poetic form.
I can curse out my best friend or
ask God to let me into Heaven or
bunji jump off of clouds at night and
wake up flying a kite around the sunshine,
because I am the author of the masterpiece and
to me it is the best pain killer for reality.
It is MY therapy!
I can honor those who I loved so much
or degrade them to an anesthetic touch
just because
they pissed me OFF!
I can lay down and write haikus all day
about the rain personified or
the clarity of the water in the bay.
I can use words that those around me do not understand or
think with my pen in my mouth and
his heart in my hand or
vice versa or
write about sitting all day
while I stand.
I create a magical landscape
with a concrete jungle back drop or
sing a capella songs in hip hop.
It is my THERAPY!
And I can re-create my life
by myself
unjudged,
unrevised,
and fully certified.
Thank GOD for it.
You try to move, something grabs your hair:
You look-about everywhere,
Try to reason and to see
Thinking,''What's that, that's pulling at me?''...
Then out of excruciating pain, a certain tear-drop
falls--
You try to wipe it, when another crawls
Down, along the crevices in your eye:
You give up this struggle, with a sigh--
Try coming to terms with a pretence truth--
The feelings eat at your brain;
You lay low and sigh again,
''Where are the ones that loved me in soothe,
Who'd stand by me in thin and thick...'',
And decide you are sick...
More memories and emotions swell:
Still in a trance and still unwell,
You decide that no one cares;
But choked with a heavy heart, you try to find
Your Power of Will--a longing for some place new,
As more emotions spill and spew:
Burden'd by the piled-up past,
You try to wake and rise-up fast--
Battle invigorating pain,
Get back on your feet again--
That's when you stop feeling blue
When such a Loneliness eats at you...
To paraphrase George Lakoff, and maybe Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi,
and maybe Julian Jaynes,
and possibly Gregory Bateson,
and Laura Brown,
and then there was...
Nurturing empathy is the only doorway through healthy effective
LeftBrain Deductive and RightBrain Inductive
nondual co-arising communication,
whether the message pattern is WinLose debate,
Either This EgoYangElite Or That EcoYin-NotNotElite
or WinWin dialogue,
Both This EgoYangPatriarchal AntiPathic-Deductive Competition And That EcoYinMatriarchal Empathic-Inductive-IntegralNurturing CoOperation,
Or some hybrid of WinLose LeftBrain Dominant
and WinWin RightBrain Yin struggling appositionally with,
but preferably not struggling oppositionally against WinLose suboptimization strategies,
short of co-empathic WinWin relational outcomes.
These two, W/L and W/W,
X/Y and Y/Y,
U/C and A/G,
regenrative discernment evolutions
emerge co-empathically trusting outcomes,
plans,
designs,
policies,
procedures,
U.S. democratic Original Intent,
Friends of Extended Family are empathically trusted as Friends to regenerationally-fertilely thrive toward Earth's humane enlightenment,
and not at all the less enlightened and more pathological-patriarchalElitist,
NonElite Allies [not Western White Straight Strict Males] of my Extended HealthySafe Family are antipathically untrusted and unempathized as our probably competing against us to survive Enemies.
Mutual empathy is our constitutionally protected,
enthymematically-healthy,
key toward regenerative communication
as mutual antipathy degenerates,
so too does active dysfunctional and unhealthy distrust,
motivating further Win/Lose survivalist Elite EcoPolitical assumptions.
Follow the light,
in ecological language,
also means
follow our most fertile-cooperative
economic and political healthywealth.
EarthMother grows impatient,
despite her curiosity driven
cooperative inviting polyculture
reconnection with SunFather's Great White
monotheistic climate
of Patriarchal-Capitalist classroom activity
RightHand saluting
salutary competitions.
Your historic move,
S/He dissonantly
defiantly intones,
from sacred polytheistic peak experiences,
inherently dipolar co-arising,
not monotheistic judgments
punishing bipolar sick people
for manic/depressive original sinning
Missing win/win marks
is also a monoculturing move
away from sacred arts and scientific
metaphysical traditions
favoring polycultural communion
fueling resiliently cooperative health care
systems
networks
creolizing organizations
synergetic incorporations
Swimming
and floating
and flowing
and flowering
Indigenous Wisdom
more accessible
and engaging
and attractively organic
than a mere secularizing staid set
of Patriarchal-Capitalist
win/lose survival of the strongest dogmas
resisting sharing wealth
Outside your monotheistic
dualistic secular v sacred dividing
bipolar nature v spirit
as body v mind dissonance
Rooting in traumatic win/lose
zero-sum
closed entropic lose/lose despair
Degenerative despondence
loss
stress
trauma
predicting cosmic existential
climate dopesick anxiety
Wrote EarthMother's neurosensory
bilateral systemic theology
for multiculturing
metaphysical review
Win/win re-connecting
inter-religious panentheistic
empowering incursions
into WHoly Nature/Spirited
Enthymematically enlightening
health is positive wealth
less frightening
physical/metaphysical resonance
eco/theo-logical excursions
toward health/wealthing polycultural resilience
Noticing
when we come together
toward health care giving
and receiving fair wealth share,
One organism's health religion
is another's multicultural wealth
of co-empathic conscience.
To a tree,
universe is Time's co-arising health investment,
evolution of unfolding branches and their root systems,
merging in one co-arising
nondualistic yet dipolar appositional functions
Time of Light
and Time of DualDark,
Dark before dawn of regenerate hope,
Dark after absent dusk of despair.
For children of trees,
EartHealth
deep invests in dualdark ecology
merging fertile co-relational dreams
eco-empathic nights
decomposing health from empowering light,
and dark as deep folded
integral wealth thereof.
Regenerative investment-present/divestment-past
before future seasons
of creolizing kosmic grace,
well-planted light
evolved through enculturing
forest of oceanic breathing waves,
producing embryonic seeds
Synergetic God
of Bilateral Time's further co-arising regeneration
and co-gravitating degeneration.
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.
A tonic for the soul on this fine day
To quit the ruminations of the mind,
Let barren walls to nature's lure give way
And leave life's dull banalities behind.
On bended knees I loosen stubborn ground
And tackle weeds too long allowed to roam.
A robin takes a furtive look around
In search of worms to bring back to his home.
Above, the tranquil sky is azure blue
And chiffon clouds are swiftly giving chase.
Red roses burst with stunning bloom anew
Entrancing with their fragrant sweet embrace.
The garden takes my worldly cares away;
A tonic for the soul on this fine day.
20.05.19
Garden Inspirations Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: BJ Legros Kelley
'Nature scene orphan sonnet poetry contest' : sponsored by Dale Gregory Cozart
Favourite Poem From May, 2019 Poetry Contest : sponsored by Julia Ward
Therapeutic thoughts have feelings
of resonance and dissonance
as healing behaviors have internal beliefs
motivating
inspiring spirited resilience
and passions for love
surpassing anger,
compassion
conquering all dispassions,
positive attraction
reconnecting past negative distractions.
Feelings have internal colors
compassionate green health environments
and narcissistic snarky red hot interiors
and radiant blue light
and absorbing yellow warmth,
and many multiculturing other hues
and cries for resonant ultra-violet peace
with black and white and brown restoring justice
not so much grey-scaled punishments
for too liberally
compassionately coloring outside
proper eco-political WinLose lines,
social walls of propriety
against impropriety of full-scale wildly imaginative colors.
When I heard Caillou's white-speak mother
inform her son,
Red is the correct Valentine's color of love,
I knew this could not be my whole virtuous enculturing story
because red is also the color of bloody fraternity
and viciously escalating anger,
Healthy passioned red
or short-flaring diseased fear
of overpowering betrayal,
losing power to overcome
threats to green therapeutic self-portrayal,
regenerative esteem
virtuously red-blooded,
Surrounded and benignly invaded
by green nature,
yellow absorbing internal blue heedfulness,
caution,
discerning nurtured feelings
attributed by more dissonant color relationships
said and sung in virtuously harmonious major,
and viciously dissonant minor, keys,
round co-relational octaves of color
revolving rhythmic qualities fueling flow,
Morally affluent yang prescriptions
with ethically effluent yin descriptors
of exterior green sanctuary natures
with interior red-blooded
DNA ultra-violet
communicating nonultra-violent
recycling nurture wheels
of resiliently felt therapeutic thoughts.
My experience of a living power
that poetry brings to a wounded soul
having faced much stress and anxiety
due to my stammer which left a gaping hole
When I was encouraged to write poetry
some 20 years ago it brought release
especially letting out my emotions within
my inward thoughts found real peace
This was great therapy for me
at least finding a wat to speak
to explain my inner feelings at last
so that one's life is not at all bleak
Poetry is a great outlet that's for sure
to write with freedom via your pen
opening up one's mind to words
joining letters in a way that's future
Therapy is a power that's active
learn well what it can bring
poetically stirring raising you up
awaken one towards a certain zing
Consider a beehive
and/or an ant nest,
and call it holistically holonic,
egoQueen and eco-proletariat balancing regenerativity,
Beloved cycle-climaxing Community.
Now look at the manual/womanual service sector
as co-responsible co-redemptive CareGivers
and the cooperative-matriarchal Queen
and her fertile multigenerational authoritative function
as perfect CareReceiver,
co-investing in long-term mutual future optimization returns
of healthy regenerativity
continuously slow-growth projected
for long-term CareGiver/Receiver health-wealth ecopolitical abundance, resonance,
recycling resolution.
Now notice,
while we might see bee and ant ecology of CareGiver/Receiver
as creolizing, syncretizing, transubstantiating
mutually co-relational primal relationship,
yet the CareGiver employment sector
in LeftBrain dominant human ecopolitics
has become increasingly competitive WinElite-Receivers
contending with Loser-NonElite CareGivers.
Wealth receivers
and health service providers,
domestic matriarchal nurturing laborers
have turned what was rich creolic mutual nutrition
into a ghetto employment sector
for those who have nothing more valuable to offer
our capitalist-survivalist Either/Or
monoculturing degeneration,
over-feeding CareReceivers into WealthHoarders,
growing ecopolitically revolutionary,
and revolting, boundaries
around shrinking service economy ghetto-dwellers
with full-growing feelings of over-populated futility,
competitive LoseLose terrorizing/terrorist rabidity.
For healthier cooperative ownership and self-governance,
consider a beehive
and/or ant in his/her nature/nurturing creolic nest
of appositional Both/And role identification,
rather than EitherOr Win/Lose
LeftBrain egocentric anthrocentric
CareReceiver un-naturally dominant reification,
predicting further LoseLose degenerative trends
of over-competitional grazing and hazing,
feeding off the proletariat CareGivers
rather than feeding and breeding with.
I suspect mercy may be more resiliently empowering
for optimizing multicultural health and safety
as compared to uniform law
and ordered, cookie-cutter, justice
unresponsive to ubiquitous mitigating circumstances
of unique spaces
and relentlessly changing times.
Mercy recognizes society's environmental
historical contributions to loss,
to absence of equitable justice
more aware of each individual perpetrator's responsibility
to society,
to family,
to local community
Society's justice,
without nurturing
restorative mercy,
speaks decontextualized
un-nuanced authority of capital-measured economic systems
including reasonable and fair expectations
of retributive law,
imprisoning neglect
and sometimes violently punishing order.
I wonder if both justice and mercy
improve therapeutic co-arising potency
restoring merciful justice
AND
revising metaphysically just
equitable
reuniting mercy,
co-redemptively resolving
what Earth has positively conjoined
in thoughtful truth
and felt beauty
Breathing,
re-animating,
enspiriting
inspiring nature's in and out climates
of seasonal development,
undevelopment,
redevelopment,
anti-development,
pro-development,
fractal phases of leftbrain space
mercifully greeting,
halfway meeting,
bilateral rightbrain TaoTime
With merciful multicultural anticipation,
so less competitive room
for monoculturing white justice anxiety
about sufficient health and tribal safety
for all EarthTribe's resilient health.
Medicinal poetry,
miracle recipe,
ideal therapy
placebo poetry that heals
divine poesie...
What if great transitional chains of Being
were to mysterious dream transform
into a rather mid-way
invitation every day
depths of therapeutic Becoming?
Would we accept such a green fresh
democratic
cultural invitation?
With open arms
and redeeming heart
and double-bonded mind,
deductive left
and inductively seductive sacred Right
like warm and wet blood-red light
of a new messianic dawn
a new bodhisattva everyday
a new cooperative overnight revolution
Could I entirely turn
my big backside to such delight?
No thanks to becoming healthier
and wealthier
and wiser.
Let us instead stay here
in depressed repressions
oppressively reductive
deductive identity
including dissonant dissent
for lack of every way ecotherapy.
How to explain such internally competitive oscillation?
Constipation
Desolation
DeGeneration
It's not like I actually live and die
in an internally competitive family
or a totally rabid
pathologically viral infested community
and monolithic State
and monoculturally supremacist religion
opposing evolutionary sociology,
and healthy ecology
and wealthy theology
and ethology of Earth's therapeutic purpose,
grace space
love bilateral sense of RealTime
cogravitating space-time,
convex concaves
ZeroZones
with both zen-hands clapping.
Every historic day
and night
invites
more maturely healed Becoming
cooperative Eastern newdawn hearts
with Western old dusky minds
bilaterally blessed and mutually blessing,
Inviting invitations toward health becoming
more than great nationalistic chains
of RightWing dominant
LoseLose
nihilistic political
fascist economic
capital-hoarder Being.