Best Toasting Poems

Cheers to Death
You took a life from me
Your insatiable greed never ceases to be
You rape, steal, cower, and cover
Never accountable to the life of another
Cold and indignant you choose and select
Of those unaware whose lives you collect
Lifeless carcass left to decay
The resident soul now ripped...

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I talk with indigenous treed elders;
Tell them about my distractions
divisions
severance in-between
secular and sacred beings,
between human nature and divine spirit,
between ecological relationship
and theological redemption.

Communing cultures
and structures
return a secularized version
of theological Earth/Heaven
humanely rooted
and divinely radiant
empowering
enlightening relationships

Popularly seeded and matriarchally replacing
top down
with down co-arising up HerStoric sacred revision
of...

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Positive freedom,
nose in the wind
Negative freedom,
refusing within

Shaking and straining,
the spirits set free 
To pour or leave empty,
 at times disagree

Positive, Negative,
the labels of truth
Distilled combination
—like gin and vermouth

(Villanova University: February, 2021)...

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1 crumpet. 2crumpet 3crumpet, 4
You no you shouldn't eat, a single crumpet more
Then there's crumpets 5, 6 then your at 7 crumpets more 
Soon the 8th crumpet is also onboard 
Apparently the 9th crumpet didn't appear although the truth about that is a little unclear,...

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