While I work from home
two cats, one black and one beige,
stare in the window
of my small, cozy office...
my orange tabby stands guard.
Three felines reflect
a striking combination
of colors and hues...
and show curiosity,
never confrontational.
Later, at the beach,
I see several children,
white and black and brown,
friendly, playing together...
we can learn from cats and kids.
INTELLECTUAL CONTEXTS
encoded
anticipated
affinity
emphasised
with
tradition
neutral
collaborative
genres
articular
ambivalent
in isolation
then
deepened
with
representational
certainities
of
avaliable
choice
oscillating
intensely
collaborative
reclusive
concepts
circulating
sessions
to
celebrate
.significant
issues
temporarily
transcending
the confrontational
discussed
yet
introverted
amorphous
expatiations
anticipate
aspirations
in performance
Two years ago,I was encouraged by some friends
and also by my wife
To write some memoirs,
some description of events in my life
Two hundred hand written pages
in two years, since this project began
Since self discovery that I was capable of writing verse,
for six months the memoirs have sat idle, I compile poetry as quickly as I can
With this new poetic skill I am still able,
to record the aims of the memoirs, but in a precised form
Poetry I feel, provides a non confrontational platform,
when one wants to present controversial opinions, that deviate from the norm
I am regarded as an elder and I hope the definition,
includes wisdom not just age, I still wish to remain open and continue to learn
In the hope I am able to assist others
an objective, I never will adjourn
Substance or alcohol abuse,
Number one.
Joins a gang and carries a
Gun.
Makes bad decisions,
Impulsive.
Appears nervous,
Often disruptive.
Irresponsible with life
And finances.
Takes a lot of risky
Chances.
High emotions, no emotions,
No in-between.
Always in trouble,
Can't get clean.
Inability to process the highs
And lows.
Running against the way the
Wind blows.
Completely shut down,
Overreacting.
Filled with doubt and
Self-loathing.
Inconsistent with no
Motivation.
Often ruins the family
Vacation.
Full blown mania,
Deep dark depression.
Super funny then
Full of aggression.
Takes everything and makes
It personal.
Always combative and
Confrontational.
Have problems paying
Attention.
Shows resistance to
Intervention.
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA SIGNS
Turbo 1904 ?
If I would be known as an advocate
Let it be for what’s just and fair,
As I see it, telling it right and straight
The truth is not in a lot of hot air!
In any case, I would much rather
Hear the story from original sources,
Unembellished with a lot of blather
So, let me rely on my own resources.
Opinion is opinion; news is news!
Tell me in plain terms what happened
Don’t give me any secondhand views,
Or try to persuade with a chart, and
Insult me with other “expert” points
I’m not interested in the sensational,
Your network’s biased viewpoints,
News should not be confrontational.
Tell me who, what, when, and where
Work your way from major to minor
Tell me the facts and leave it there,
For me, the evening news will be finer.
Written August 14, 2022
Earth empowers life
by further expressing
natural well-being
cooperatively articulating
spiritually positive
(so not traumatically negative)
emotions
Of SunMuse sacred
sanguine songs
panentheistically felt anticipation,
communally confirmed,
transubstantiating health needs
therapeutic wants
more than trauma confrontational management.
I can feel
and hear musical Beauty,
As also musing
sometimes amusing
bipartisan Truth
In Earth developing
neurosensory ecological history,
multi-enculturing theological mystery
of a procreative
systematic
organic
symphonic Tree.
Imagine
Above us only Sky
Below us waging war
Mother didn't want to know
Craving a woman who would
Reminds me of my father
It's in the eye's and the nose
New York , Hamburger
King of hippy chic
Yoko pepper
Sergeant Liverpool
Solitary poet
Complex confrontational
Tortured inside
Mysterious magical
Grand white piano
Beat Beatle
Bed of peace
All you need is love
Come together
Shoot me
Shoot me
Bullet behind the back
Above us only Sky
Catcher in the rye
Confrontational types don’t cause trouble they confront it
they say it how it is upfront and bluntly
Those who slither speaking gossip and slander get hunted
appear harmless withers when victims to a punching
But believe me these cowards had it coming
mouth running behind backs
got caught out
got handed their behind back
If I confront you it’s because you are trouble
subjective sounds put downs and gossip
when I confront the scene’s specific, rumble,
blame put on me but I know truth, gobby
CONFRONTATIONAL
Must always be right!
Louder, bigger, when she’s wrong.
Always has the last ...
-Edlynn Nau
©April 19, 2019
How often does the battle rage
in scripting men and women of youthful age
to the war on which we lay our rights
calling all to the battle cry of fear and fight?
Freedom comes with a disastrous price
when misspoken words enrage the hate and internal vice
of gun and cannon roar to steal away the best of lives
only to be recorded in nameless historic archives.
Combative battlegrounds of confrontational hostilities
mark the flesh and blood scourge of future inabilities
to struggle to live in peace and learn to compromise
for land or some fool-hearty franchise shaded heroic disguise.
There is no righteous war to sanitize the tears
and children's cries left behind to remember and agonize.
Tightly closed and bolted locks held
the pack back from holding where it stood,
baying, howling at the moon like wormwood;
a curdling cry screeching at its fullness
casting lit shadowy haunts
orange red blood glow that taunts;
an immense and eerie specter of the night scape
drew the pack that gathered at the gate
a far distant position of confrontational stalemate;
lost to the wilderness that once was
relegated in progress and time
with freedom of the moon left to find.
For Wolves and the Moon contest 8/13/18
FROM YOUTH TO HEAVEN
~~~~~~~~~~~~
O the joys of youth, learning natures ways.
My desire, become more self-sufficient!
Natures larder, delights fill all its trays.
Each day I become much more proficient.
With learning, becoming more diligent.
Find many things in life belligerent
Why is life all so confrontational?
With nature, it's all about surviving.
With some, it is all institutional,
Purposely there has to be contriving.
Nature knows not a thing about lying.
The belligerent oft causing dying
I am now self-sufficient, loving life!
Nature now my allotment, my gardens,
where love grows without strife, found me a wife.
We work the garden, no beg your pardons.
Growing happiness, no need for wardens.
As we grow old our love, nature, hardens.
Once rural, old age moves us to urban
To a nice warm city, natures Heaven
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Entered in the 'Urban Sonnet ' Poetry Contest sponsored by Laura Loo
01/21/18
Bravery with no constraints
On show of the minds might and power
Irrespective of competition or opposition
Done deals finally achieved and executed
Necessitated by a confrontational desire to
Eclipse any difficulty on passion’s road
Since this is from within, it’ll
Show no signs of fear or defeat
He stands against the old barn door
relaxed not a confrontational bone,
thin as a pitchfork's tine.
Farmhand, hunter, true-shooter,
the lens flatters him.
A ring of white T-shirt gives a reverse
halo to his lantern-jaw.
Loose fitting pants rumple
just right atop his kick ass boots.
He stands against an old barn door
who held up who the real question—
a bit of James Dean in pocket pressed hands,
Paul Newman in his eyes.
Flannel hugs him. (When the woman aren’t.)
Capped by a bent brimmed hat,
he's rolled to perfection.
I’m sure the name tag on his shirt
didn’t do him justice—
TV sensation
Prime time news;
Wake up call
~~~~~~~~~
Elegant poise on TV
Charming sweet voice;
Brilliant anchor delivery
~~~~~~~~~
Homegrown talent
Sparkle and shine;
New media sensation
~~~~~~~~~
Stock market trends
Upswing and downswing;
Challenging times
~~~~~~~~~
Politics of freedom
Confrontational constituents;
Angry defiance
~~~~~~~~~
Observe the times
Conflicts permutates;
Right and left and wrong
~~~~~~~~~
Losing streak
Gambling losses;
Cut loss and run
~~~~~~~~~
Affairs of the heart
Uneasy showdown;
Bruised egos clash
~~~~~~~~~
Pun of old wit
Can still sting;
Mad hornets stir
~~~~~~~~~
Kill joy this talk
Something for nothing;
Deceit attends conceit
~~~~~~~~~
Gain or loss
Not much has changed;
Greedy is greedy
~~~~~~~~~
Here we go again
Flirt from old pain;
Embrace new pain
~~~~~~~~~
Sweet baby asleep
Mother's fond embrace;
Peace in the valley
~~~~~~~~~
Leon Enriquez
20 October 2014
Singapore
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