The aluminum lid he lifted.
Polished clean? Hunger struck back!
“Your days are numbered,” he vowed
To a woman who counted not coins, but breaths.
“Did I drink with your money?”
“No. You drank our supper.”
“You sit at home without a job.”
“You take loans. They disgrace me.”
Co-operative shame on her doorstep.
He called her liability.
She called for freedom from foolishness.
Both broke. Both bleeding pride.
Radically erroneous monotheists
have mistakenly substituted
our co-infested
co-operative
co-invested
co-empathic pantheistic HolySpirit's
naturally healthy
resonant EarthTribal bodhisattva powers
of polyculturing communion love and peace
for messianically monoculturing luster
and loneliness
unnaturally unhealthy
irreligiously irritating dissonance
degeneratively devilish
and idolatrous
and disrapturously ecocidal
false-god demonic
anthro-supremacist power
Struggling to survive
against Othered
fundamentally erroneous monotheists.
On a mild Spring’s night
In the heartlands of Ulster
A prodigious child was born
For Ireland, to save her
A man of modest means
Yet formidable wit
The mystics he joined
A cause to commit
In poems and paintings
He found self expression
Yet through a noble pursuit
Would leave his impression
He traversed the country
On a campaign of recruitment
To free the impoverished through struggle
And the Co-operative movement
With Horace Plunkett and Connolly
He struggled for justice
Yet the Gombeens and the despots
Outweighed Caesar Augustus
Though Russell did not stop
In this quest for social reform
From misery to prosperity
One sought to transform
But the inconsiderate dogma
Of the Irish Free State
Meant to delay his mission
As the ‘Homestead’ must wait
George William Russell grew older
Crippled by usury
To wretched cancer, succumbed
Rest in peace, ‘AE’
What could I say
to change this kindness
you may have warmly heard
but only coldly felt?
How might my peaked
and valleyed,
top and bottom,
out and in
prelude and postlude
father spawned and mother sacred
before and after
stories
speak to your ambivalent ear?
Without hearing too much impatience
and continuing to feel
nothing
Nothing urgent
passionate
empowering
to survive dark days
of quiet lonely severance?
Where EarthMother's womb
had promised dawning reverence.
Could I sing with sufficiently enlightened passion?
Should we dance to light's bilateral integrity
flowing out communion?
Curiously nurtured Tribal fashions
if Earth would repair Her dignity
through sacred kindness
we may have lightly touched
but never deeply felt
Integrity
resurrecting powers
of ego trauma
in dialogue with eco-therapy
Where Yang meets Yin,
Truth greets Beauty
Resonance
of healthy minds
trusts wealth of resilience
co-empathic
co-invested
co-operative
organic
peaked and valleyed
opportunistic spiritual minds
inside risky natural bodies.
Sacred,
unlike corrupt,
wealth
May also become
mental health,
unlike pathology
Empowering compassion,
unlike disempowering dispassion
Co-invests in win/win
economic relationships
Which may also become
co-operative political partnerships
Rooted in courageous
deep felt listening,
bicameral breathing
Pregnant pauses
open to silent
nonviolent procreation
of health minded
and grace embodied
deep multicultural re-connected
re-ligioned holistic meaning
Integrity's warm
unconditional potential
compassion of Left green minds
and integrity of Right red-kin-kind
organic bodies
Exploring further win/win
peak and valley
front and back
out and in
summer and winter
paternal and maternal
co-refining
dipolar co-arising
yang/yintegral peak
co-gravitating
intuitive/cognitive
nonverbally felt then verbally thought
co-empathic
Divine monotheistic mind
humane polytheistic body
co-infested peak polyvagal experiences.
Therapeutic political systems,
like unpolluted oceans
filled with healthy sea creatures,
slowly evolve
from cooperative thrival
of polyculturally healthy
nonviolent communication,
anticipating co-passionate intent,
for co-invested planning
and co-operative green design
Bicamerally balanced
enlightened Either/Or Left
yang dominant
empowering Both/And Right
yintegrally co-prominent
four fractally dynamic seasons
Sacred flow of wu-wei reasons
indigenous
nondualistic
inter-religious seasoned wisdom
Informed by EarthMother,
profusely ecological,
politically co-empowering
liberating Trust and conservational Beauty
Nonviolent relationships
polyculturing
depolarizing
dipolar co-arising
green enlightened nutrition
from and for
co-invested global communion
A new page
turning our compassion narrative
deferring to a more inclusive
democratic health and safety energy
for a repurposing EarthJustice
AnthroHealth-EarthWealth -
LeftEgo-RightEcoSystemic
BiNomial Either/Or
Both/And BiCameral
Not(Not) BiLateral NonZero
Open Whole Systemic
political power-withing
win/win strategic worldview
health and safety
Organic AnthropoScene.
Our current political identity
is not exclusively red conservative
or blue liberal atheist/humanist
We are also
pissed off sheep
who have gone astray
of richly green domesticated economies,
instead red enslaved,
blue judiciously penned
incorporated property
belonging to the utmost
OmniPotentating Jehovah
Descending from a long
royalist
blue blood-hierarchy
of Straight White Male
red-blooded religious
and political
and economic privilege.
Our anti-PatriarchalCapitalist anger
is our potential bipartisan win/win
supreme civil citizenship
delivering us from this
Sky Is Falling Kingdom
of win/lose zero-sum
nationalistic segregated purgatory
And, we bring our angry
fearful,
anxious
depressed bicameral values
into all our cisbinary/transbinary political
EitherOr/BothAnd
economic
religious
reconnecting
neuro-sensory co-passionate engagements
For the woke glory
of Earth's Green
SabbathQueen
of polyculturally robust
HeavenLight
inviting eweing/ram
yintegral-yang
Co-binary
co-governing
co-operative
co-invested
co-passionate
ego/ecosystemic win/win
co-enlightened bipartisan empowerment.
What made Catherine the Great
The Great
instead of merely The Terrible
aristocrat?
Great is not her messianic
multiculturally inclusive
democratic therapeutic intent
Which is a surprisingly ubiquitous delusion
of win/lose
all or nothing LeftBrain
Either deductive persuasive Truth
Or inductive synergetic trust
and lust for Beauty
Rather than win/win
RightBrain co-operative
intuitive BothTruth/AndBeauty
Yang/Yintegral
bilateral Great Climaxes
bicamerally integrating
dialectical InEgo/OutOther
co-empathic consciousness
Actively
curiously
courageously listening
for cooperative
co-passionate
co-governing Greatness
Not quite so
Business As Usual
patriarchal
hierarchical
capital-commodity invested
in StraightWhiteMale privilege
Kinda Terrible
terrifying
aristocratic entitlement.
Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunions,
So, also
noncommunion ZeroZones
of red
against green,
So
also
red/green
non-violent mediation,
ego/ecotherapeutic,
So
also
red sky fades
inside green/blue
yintegral yang
speaking "green regained"
So too
Christian
green/red
sensed newborn
divine/humane
light/power
ancient eco-messianic solstice
fertile
non-violent celebrations;
So
also
red sky
light fades
inside ringing joyful ears
poised toward regreening
non-violet ultra
ecofeminist Earth
Green ReStoring Justice
In solidarity with
RedSky Sacred Rights
to worship
unprivileged
under-capitalized
everyday compassionate princes
and feminist princesses
of and for green/red
co-passioned
co-arising
co-gravitating
co-operative
eco-therapeutic
Red sky fading
refacing
non-violently communicating
healthy democratic
WholeEarth
GreenNatured/RedSpirited
Eco/Ego CoAligning Peace,
So
also
Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunion
solstice redivining...
Have you seen,
or even felt,
an historical coincidence
between monotheism
and patriarchal theism
and competitive ChosenPeople
monoculturing control issues?
Have you heard
resonant compassioned languages
polyculturing herstoric redevelopment,
ego/polytheistic
nondualistic integral multi-regenerational experience
in-between cooperative ecomatriarchal green theists
and competitive multicultural EarthTribe Circles
thrivalist Ecological Interdependent Spirals
co-empowering multigenerational ReCycles
within co-operative
ego/eco-empowering
Left/Right-Economic Winging
singing bicameral
enlightening secular/sacred bipartisan
co-governance
And Win/Win co-investment
in sublimely divinely competitive
yet playful teams
and tribes
and local community opportunities
to avoid win/lose survivalist
patristic devolutionary risks
By embracing win/win thrivalist
ecofeminist revolutionary opportunities
to polyculturally embrace compassion
when we are at high pandemic
rabid fear and anger frisk.
a meer hic can
say
yes no maybe
to
an us against them
political
two party system
that cares not
for
other than conflict
and
negates co-operative
politics
as social corruption
stan sand
Insatiable - Quest For Perfection historically
From The Republic of Plato's Socrates
Offspring with high intelligence, comradery
Athletic, science minded, co operative
Tailor made 8 cell diagnosis selects finest
Anxious embryo developer keen to accelerate
Pleasurable reflection held in liquid nitrogen
White gold filled syringe holder operates
Selective patronage of top notch chromosones
Sought out the prestige of Nobel Bank of Sperm
Files boasted outstanding bio father credentials
Mothers maintain reputation of ability to discern
Nobel's demise came in failure to maintain stock
Eugenics launched acceptance of IVF technology
Petered genius imput, deposits from general flock
Duped recipients faithfully awaited tiny prodigies
Varied outcomes, 215 proclaimed, now adults
Demonstrate unclear connection between elite
Genes giving invincible humans as sure result
Driven by nurture to thrive, rationale incomplete
9th September 2020
Kai Michael Neumann, Sponsor
Clutching At Straws
To touch
can be to give life.
Michelangelo
To feel
can become receiving life
health
spirited wealth
empowering depth
co-invested width.
To physically touch
can grow toward spiritual
bilateral feelings,
co-passionate
co-empathic
co-operative
co-invested,
ego/eco-logical
viral and metaphysically benign.
To touch fractal DNA/RNA-inspired nature
may also feel seasonally expiring divinity,
ecologically created,
theologically creatured.
To healthy touch
and compassionately feel
can be to give spiritual life
and take away natural death
for embodied now,
from well-minded here.
True and trusted octave colors
of and for HerStoried Earth
unfold again
for those who listen
with new eyes
for over-filled mouthfuls
of Indigenous Systematic Theology
With sensory experience roots
in sacred ecological relationship trees
remembering our left/right cooperative Time
before Wealth was capitalized,
suppressing EarthMother's interweaving health investments
Where
and when
and why
health is Earth's only sacred sign of wealth,
resilient theological systems
feed and water human nature's
robust right enspirited networks
signifying sacraments of co-operative wealth,
ecosystemic nutrition networks
True and trusted history
retelling psyche passion cultures
of and for HerStoried Earth.
Glutted left-brain information media
actively hope to understand
Why does emotional intelligence
speak to egocentric concerns
of mortality and discomforting toxic defeat,
loss and difficult win/lose everyday choices
in a calming voice for unself-conscious contentment?
What is this ZeroSoul content of contentment
to feel we are right
sentient full beings
here co-present
within eternal now relationships of compassion
affiliating on this Earth
in our co-passioning interdependent webs
of health co-operative
wealthy co-investment?
Without mortal loss,
suffering;
Without unwanted walls between us
and them.
Why does emotional unintelligence
speak too loudly
intolerantly
of Earth-UnCentered constant concerns
of inhumane immortal overpowers
and toxic LoseHealth/LoseWealth
RightWing left-brain dominant choices
in cacophonous dissonant voices
claiming no rights to contentedly prefer
healthier multicultures
of win/win emotional intelligence?
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