Brainstem Poems - Poems about Brainstem

Waves in the Brain

...Waves in my brain
to your cliche songs they entrain
Background music in the store
It takes me over to my core

Others keep looking for merchandise
Or converse with each other to break the ice
...

The Basement

...I am organized.
At my brainstem.
The smells are underground. 
Like bricks and her amazing cooking. 
She turns her head. 
Her hair flickers. 
A crumb tumbles. 
Beneath it all. 
It is cold. 
B...

A Dream of Higher Powers

...
The other night
Visiting in a dream a foreign land
We waited in expectation
The arrival of a group of alien dignitaries 
Somehow involved in guiding the culture.

When they approached across ...

S 2017 J2

...Jumping over the jagged rocks of Jupiter's sixty-seventh moon
My soles are bleeding, but my soul continues chasing the memory

Maneuvering between boulder and ice
Irritating eyes to turn frost-bi...

When Profound Feels Sacred

...My youngest
of three AfricanAmerican adopted sons
has profound nonwhite
nonstraight
nonverbal cerebral palsy.

Profound
in at least not being privileged
or victimized
by internal LeftBrain d...

Flighty Entertainments

...Why does flight feel more lightly entertaining,
yet less engaging,
than fighting?

Laissez-faire thoughts lighter
than ponderous confronting ruminations,
Why?

I would not expect a babbling i...

An Average Schlepper

...This fool doth not consider himself wise,
writing paltry poetry difficult
to read and/or actualize
methinks perusers of great literature
snub nose how I miserably advertise,

laughable attempt ...

Inside

...Look inside.
Open up
to the core.
Bone, blood
flesh
and more.
Look into
the organs,
heart, liver 
kidneys 
and more.
Look behind
the eyes,
brainstem,
cerebrum,
cerebellum
and more.
A...

When Ends Justify Means

...When rapture outcomes
spiritually hoped for,
Paradise faithed in,
loved,
justify unnaturally violent missionary means...

When only scientific and deductively logical
reductive educational goa...

Peace Core Extensions

...What are possibilities for EgoHealthy Peace Corps
if death is natural degenerative outgo
but also spiritual regenerate transition--
as Win/Lose risk
is to Win/Win opportunity?

What if Natural
...

Laws of Deepening Gravity

...Laws of co-gravitation
are more like mutual invitations
originating with NewBorn memories
wombed by MotherEarth's DNA
WinWin empty Reed of Paradise potential.

Vocational streams of gaming weal...

Find Your Way

...Find your way
from brain stemmed
seed tree infancy
of glorious humanity
history

Find your way
From correct diverse limbic resolutions
back to shared soul temporal-health 
co-acclimating div...

Liberal Operatic Lovers

...What cooperative evidence
could we final climate find
for WinWin cooperation lovers
including LeftBrain secular humanities
inviting no more or less valueflow
than RightBrain WiseElder root-branc...

In My Alphatown

...In our wildly indigenous
western town
we have a notorious Ancient GoodWitch.
Like GrandMother Moon,
she seems to emerge with a new, yet old,
community healing process
about once a FullMoon mont...

Odyssey From Africa 9b

...Odyssey from Africa 
Chapter 9b (continued)


And this pattern was repeated 
On the following day's journey 
As the day turned into evening 
They again found rocky shoreline 
 
So once more ...

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