Defensiveness Poems

My Shoes

...I found them tucked beneath a cracked mirror,
brown leather dull with the dust of old grief,
heels worn down from turning away—
a shape molded by silence, not comfort.

I wear them when the air ...

The Labyrinth and the Gardener

...A pondering of multiple raindrops from a detrimental storm onto the empty fields, crashing into them as hard and loud as clashing metals. The depth and existence of love weighs over any deprivation a...

Jealousy

...Feelings of jealousy stem from insecurity, 
Making us feel bound by infidelity. 
It stirs in us feelings of great distress, 
Thoughts consuming us, causing unrest.
Sometimes it’s a mere misunders...

What Was That About

...Truthfully,
and kinda depressing,
I can't "manage" anger
any better than fear
and contagious distrust
and nearly constant anxiety
and chronic depression.

In nonviolent communication practice...

Speaking of Common Goods

...What I wanted to say
the other day
when exalting healthy kindness
for potentially freeing us
from Straight White Men's great meanness

Costing Earth's Green Commons
and charging disinterest ag...

Correcting Unhealthy Inaccuracies

...EarthMother senses a difference
between Political Correctness
and everyday domestic political accuracy.

Political accuracy grows best
and sprouts up healthiest rooted
in directly observed Eart...

Supremely Courted Systemic Feelings

...I believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v is...

Ecosystemic Party Games

...Healthy organic systems
remain resonantly peaceful,
resiliently stable,
exhilaratingly good humored
as they remain easily
naturally
spiritually cooperative,

Nonpartisan played with win/win c...

Wandering Sorceress

...Maybe because I have on my public health hat,
my ego searches for more ecotherapeutic subclimates.

Maybe because we wear our ego/ecotherapeutic climates inside,
Real Whole EarthTime bilaterally ...

Sacred Energy

...Fascism lives in tension with holy optimism,
as hatred fades in presence of mutual love,
as WinLose evolutionary models
give way to WinWin sacred Energy
stories and songs and dances,
as patriarc...

Learning Is a Process

...“Learning is a Process”
© 2015 Michelle Lynn LeBlanc



Learning not to react
Can be a lesson every day
When feelings of rejection
Tend to come our way

Why the defensivenes...

Hit Me With Your Best Shot

...HIT ME WITH YOUR BEST SHOT

Hello brother and how are you.
I know you been upset because of the things I am doing.
Tomorrow is just another adventurous day. 
My life is an ascertain maze...

Feelings of Inferiority

...Feelings of inferiority 


Irritated and enraged
Just like ocean waves
Defensiveness like a baby who tries and crawls but falls

Fear and forlorn hit the floor
Confused and want to run out th...

A Few Antidotes

...Anyone deserves the time of day.
Wave your hand to say hello.
Ciao, you are close.

Tongue and teeth fall out.
Your best defensiveness is to know why.
An olive branch you offer.
No amends found move ...

Natural Selection

...I could not stick my head in glue
To feed and wait with barnacles,
Or seek security among
Aggregate anemones,
Or anchor to tomorrow with sedentary polyps,
Or browse with slugs,
Or cling to rock...

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