Best Upriver Poems

It's  rough 
          and tumble,
life's frenetic 
          race,
we stumble 
          and struggle
to outrun 
   ...

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I am just finishing my morning meditation when I hear my doorbell ring. It actually sounds more like that buzzing sound you hear if you fry a fat fly on one of those electronic bug swatters. On my way to the door I hope it's...

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Eel River Tragedy

I’ve gold dollars for my darlin and a Stetson for my son, 
and in my old broke saddlebags, I keep my Schofield gun,
when home I’ll make some coffee and tell a tale I’ve seen, 
about the Eel river tragedy, the like since never...

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August heat used to send us to the river
to fish
in the scorching heat we would go 
stand under the trees
maybe swim
then move upriver
I'd bait the hooks
the boys were babies
and we'd fish
mud up to our knees
brown from so much summer sun
and starving for dinner....

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Ludwig Andreas von Feuerbach Or What Is in A Name
 
When building Babylonian Towers with the Lego of our minds we construct 
                 our world and worlds our truths...

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Five more nights till you return
Burn Baby Burn
Last time your hand slid across my skin
Quiverin' and Shiverin'
When you return I will drink you in
Skin to Skin

Four more nights till you return
Burn Baby Burn
You turned me into a river
Lover oh Lover
When you return I will consider
To...

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Which are your points for living
if we all die into cold leaky stink or ash anyway?
What's the point of dying
if we could otherwise live continuously?

Heading down the river
on AAA rite of ritual passage.
Six years since last I drove this way
not imagining this homing ritual
to drive...

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Fear of Climate Success

If you're like me,
which probably already reduces the size of my captive audience
to Zero,

Regardless,
if we're like we used to be
when we were born
with all the potential integrity neurons
of the uniting universe,

Through childhood formed into bilateral rivers
for transporting Win/Lose toward Lose/Lose risky conclusions
and...

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   I know a river where the fish fly in the sky.
      Sheltered by boundless ember morning sky,
         a lull stillness, it refuses to say goodbye;
    ...

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Eagles fly

Minds soar

While Eagle flies
soaring off ahead
echoing upriver cries
to where s/he became
back before

Egged on
Eagles fly

Fertile minds soar......

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 Bang! Bang! Who shot and killed
   Jeanette and Harvey Crewe?
 By whose hand was their blood spilled?
   The cops they surely knew.
 Two fatal shots rang out that day
   and to a grisly murder led -
 no witness...

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Silenced Voices


                                          Mountains upriver...

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The ravens swarm before me
above the railroad tracks
I walk
downriver pilgrim toward silent wilderness,
away from more civilized savagery,
pre-revolutionary, I fear,
as they chatter and clatter flap their wings
roosting and dry clatter bones stalking me,
inviting me to continue forward.

And so I continue
with their chatter clatter now fluttering and...

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That evening
we took a flat-bottomed boat
and swam it up the Thames.
Douglas the middle-aged *****
served martinis out of a crystal pitcher.
Lurching for lips, he kissed me.
I was surprised how sweet it felt.
Jenny in a canvas chair, pale legs crossed,
water-trailing sensitive fingers.
I prized the seahorse lilt of...

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Raison d'etre,
RightBrain's voiceless shadowed FutureSearch
begets healthy past nutrition research,
both secular-natural Left centered
and sacred-spiritual Right symmetric,
cooperating Earth Patriarch/Matriarch Balance.

Restoring Food Justice,
reborn of Green polycultural ecosystemic fuel balance,
discovers appositions,
although not necessarily recovering oppositions,
uncovers mistrust without total LoseNature/LoseSpirit hopelessness--
anti-trust
anti-love punishing Totalitarian LoseLose 
nihilistic guilty and terrifying Nutrition Injustice,
fuel-sucking...

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