Which comes first?
asked Justice Sage
of Peaceful Muse
Divinely inspired Peace
or Humanely expired Passion?
For amusing organic bodies
inspiring sage minds
perspiring pronoia purposes
While DivineSage minds
worship HumaneMuse bodies
anticipating deep sacred meanings
Unveil organic unitarian Muse
purposes flowing toward
prevailing universal sacred Sage
meaningful peace forms
Pronoia Gaia's hypothetical paradox
Gnostic God's metaphysical orthodox
How could SageMind remember anticipating
organically resilient purpose
without MuseBody religiously conjoining
sacredly resonant meaning?
Why would democratically organic bodies
reproduce belonging
autocratically irreligious minds
seduce longing
For sacred AnthroSage inspiring Peace
love songs refueling
Organic EarthMuse perspiring Passion
justice dances restoring
Which sacred longing first
comes organic belonging last?
asked peace perspiring MuseBody
inspiring SageMind passions.
Administrator incommunicado
Acknowledging nymphomaniacs
Reclassifying philosophical
Ideologically Transcultural
Pronunciation Calligraphers
Communication demilitarized
Grandstanding orchestration
Carpetbagging adjudications
Redistributed improprieties
Abolitionists brinksmanship
Sarcastically realistically
Craftsmanship flabbergasted
Enlightenment librarianship
Democratically
My country is under a siege
That's why I write a dirge
My country is falling apart
'cause her leaders have taken the wrong path
The land is full of greed
Remember, That's not what we agreed
Masses continually wallow in pain
Yet our cries is often in vain
Nigeria is another old today
Then it's falling away
The youths they refused to give the way
The old have refused to call it a day
While they have ship in the deep
And , masses continually killed like sheep
Corruption, nepotism, there watch words
Neglected, the constitution as their watch dog
Which has been known to the world
Nigeria, The sleeping Giant
With Great lands of hope
Lush vegetation by nature provided
Where diverse icons of Erudite are awarded
In the past we uttered corrupt masters
In the present we call , kleptomaniac in their fingers
Nigerians, independence we cried out for
Unity In diverse they preach
In the inns we hope to reach
As they've democratically persuaded to teach
We had the freedom to be free
But has been more strong weaker
Nigeria my country is about to fall
That's why I am making a call.
APARTHEID REGIME IS LONG PAST
BLACK SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN SUFFERED DEARLY UNDER OPPRESSION
SHE GOT LIBERATED IN 1994 OR SHOULD I SAY SHE GOT POLITICALLY LIBERATED
WHEN WE CAST OUR FIRST VOTES WHICH LET TO THE INAUGURATION OF THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA
HOWEVER,BEING LIBERATED ONLY MEANT DEMOCRATICALLY
TO THIS DAY,WE STILL NOT LIBERATED FROM THE SHACKLES OF DISEASE WHICH HAS CLAIMED THE LIVES OF SO MANY AND STILL CONTINUES TO DEVASTATE FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES AT LARGE
INTIMACY HAS BEEN ENGULFED WITH SO MANY BOUNDARIES
FEAR HAS BEEN INSTILLED IN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US
YOU CANT HELP WONDERING IF TOMORROW ,YOU WILL BE THE ONE OF THE CASUALTIES OF THE ENORMOUS MONSTER WITHIN US AND SUBSEQUENTLY A STATISTIC
YOU LOOK YOUR CHILDREN IN THEIR EYES
THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO IS PRAY AND LIVE FOR THE MOMENT
THE REST YOU LEAVE IT IN GODS HANDS
INDEED ,WE ARE LIVING IN THE TIMES OF NO POUND AT ALL
No one loves alone,
sings EarthMother Muse.
No individual person
no isolated incorporation
or musical composition,
No monoculturing society,
No individual nation
or religious denomination,
No Father's WhiteTheistic
Orthodox
ChosenPeople Church
or SinFree Synagogue
or Patriarchal Mosque
or Black Lives Assembly,
No transcendently triumphant Kingdom Hall
lives inside health resonantly
while outside remains entirely wealthy
with runaway dissonant loneliness,
despair
depression
oppression
suppression,
lack of multiculturally systemic impression
Neglecting cognitive opportunity
to grow deep intuitive feelings
of integrity
Loving inside EarthPower
and outside HeavensLight
resiliently
BiPartisan bilaterally
ego/ecosystemic brilliantly
Panentheistic holonic spirited
green democratically
universally co-enlightened Left
co-empowering RightBrain wealthier expressions
of Earth's polypathic
polyvagal
polyculturing
unitarian Muse
Fusing and fuguing
toward polyphonic songs of synergy
found in healthy incorporated bodies
anticipating curiously communal
wealthy win/win green minds
with red-blooded bicameral hearts.
God's oral,
and Gaia's ancient ****
naturally spiritual laws
are win/win discursive,
not win/lose debating,
when climate polycultural conditions
are democratically healthy thriving
Not blaming,
judging,
shaming,
cursive,
as when monoculturing colonizations
of EurAsians autocratically
and kleptocratically sick
and barely monotheistically surviving
curiously endure inhumane denial
of runaway capitalist win/lose
LeftBrain dominant
straight white patriarchal
lose/lose ego/eco-fading systemic nihilism
Repression of ecowomanist mindfulness
lustiness
integrity
bilateral resilience
Suppression of post-traumatic climate stress disorder
Depression
of PolyCultural Sacred Law
for and of
humane sensory EarthTherapeutic Justice
Musical
mindfully mused
meditative medication
as Blue/Green
4/4
Who Are We For?
regenerative rhythmed
co-passioned
deeply resonant peace.
It all comes down to
Do you believe more
in enlightening original Earth creation stories
or
in empowering messianic passion narratives.
What comes down
inhaled
drawing in light
may reasonably appear like a monotheistic weapon
to avoid patriarchal-capitalist loneliness
loss
What goes out
exhaled
empowering polytheistic tools
to embrace polypathic-cooperative
co-passions.
What are we coming down and up
in and out toward?
Life,
love,
purpose,
destiny, I suppose,
whether secularly and democratically
universally enlightening multicultural stories
or sacredly and theistically
unitarian narratives
co-empathically empowered.
Yes, I see
your massive LeftBrain verbal story
Truth OR Fiction
AND then raise our RightBrain cooperating feelings
mythically narrating more.
Where to start
together more than still apart?
On our enlightened circling parts
and empowering pyramid wholes
of strategic win/win choice
Triangulation mediated default
where Earth's survival is of greatest health potential
Here in my personal experience memory Space
Now in your continuously unfolding
eco-political
multi-regenerational TaoEncircling Ways,
except probably still too eager
for your most resonant praise
Bicamerally healthy future imaged
wealthy past re-membering
re-connecting courage and nonviolence
re-ligioning interfaith green co-interdependence
CoOperatively owned
and managed
health imaged
re-imagined EarthCapital wealthy
democratically empowered
enlightening green communal Time.
C.O.V.I.D.
Control
Of
Very
Incompetent
Dumbasses
C.O.V.I.D.
Control
Of
Vile
Idiots
Democratically
C.O.V.I.D.
Contemptible
Oppression
Violating
Individuals
Daily
Covid19 while bad is nowhere near the oppressive measures being implemented daily by the same people we put in charge.
Eric (and sometimes not)
Dear EveryThing AntiObama Donald,
It is a humbling,
not so Great Again, truth,
is it not?
This statement,
"Don't ever talk to
[or about]
The President
that way"
Sounds and feels much 20/20 different
when you are a belittled
and/or challenged
and/or blamed
and/or shamed President
judged as insufficiently Winner effective,
Than what you may 20/16 see,
and longingly return to competitively golden touch,
when you were belittling
and challenging
and blaming
and attempting to shame
as too multiculturally weak
to be resiliently strong,
without offering a shred of evidence
for your narcissistic bias,
running as a RePublican candidate
against a healthy democratic Presidency.
If you had this Win/Lose divisive Presidency
to do all over again,
how might you respond
to your own now wiser advice?
Don't ever talk
about a multiculturally health-wealthing
democratically inclusive
and cooperative economic
empowering
and enlightening Presidency
that shameful
and WholeEarth unpatriotic
straight white patriarchally privileged
ChosenPerson narcissistic way.
The Earth's rapid climate degeneration,
now rolling out faster with private transport
and industrialized meat and poultry farming,
and longer with artificial light
and factories birthing plastic products
all night,
moves into a revolutionary height
of global anxiety,
democratically felt
But kleptocratically denied
by win v lose monocultural caste leaders
not familiar with win+win revolutionary
polycultural outcomes,
caste abolishing incomes
for all sentient beings
Multigenerational regenerators
meta-morphic appositional
(not win v lose oppositional)
dipolar
(not bipolarized)
thinkers because feelers
meditative contemplators
integrity's permaculture designers
restoring down to top co-arising
AND, therefore, co-gravitating top through down,
all around,
non-violent communicating peaceful mediators,
All healers of toxic subclimate
and monocultural win v lose
either/or left-brain dominant thinking,
are also, at our best,
bicameral ego/eco-systemic equivalent anticipators
of win+win global green peace
New through indigenously experienced co-passionate raptures,
sacred Heaven anticipations
as Earthly organic garden
expectations
NonViolent Communication
might become more
democratically and multiculturally accessible
as NonDissonant Communication,
Affectively and cognitively bilateral
and, at least potentially,
multiculturally polyempathic,
inclusive,
contextually intelligent,
Articulated more positively
as Confluent Communication
About experiences of communion
and anti-communion
and miscommunion,
CoPassionate Communication,
about multicultural
EarthTribe Healthy Communion.
Democratically effective governance
of people
plants
places
and planets
cannot begin with degenerative violence,
strategic starvation of indigenous populations,
without ending as militant predation,
Which does not sound like healthy
trusting
and cooperative co-invested democracy
even to a child
familiar with playground bullies.
Rather than roots in "retributive justice"
revenge
punishment
exploitation
extraction
enforced conversion
religiously licit order,
healthy democracy stems from restorative win/win peace,
multicultural ego-natural eco-spirits
listening for biosystemic sacred wisdom,
At least interdependent wisdom enough
to avoid militaristic patriarchal predation
and pollution
of all that Earth holds sacred.
My brook has grown
into an ocean.
Pearl-spot fish
have disappeared.
Instead,
sharks skulk around.
They see
my pocket,
not my heart.
They’re
democratically undemocratic.
Poetry is inedible.
Profit is
the sole default
in their thought-mechanism.
Shark morphing
petrifies me.
I wake up
from the dreamy life,
losing my serenity
in their serrated presence.
I turn
a tiny sardine,
ready to be swallowed.
First published in The Literary Hatchet
Growing up on God's impoverishing family farm,
he learned to hide his work
in tissues of unearthly privacy.
Regenerating in Earth's richly resonant nutrition,
she recovered her playful avocations
in ecosystemic response
to global over-grasping issues
of under-conscious
her/his-storied
positive domesticity
Over-privatized
so powers under-privileged;
personalized
so shy of compelling
retelling publicity
Earth camouflaged
democratically healthy ecopolitics,
co-empowering
co-operating
co-generating
co-laterally co-investing
co-systemic
ego/eco-analogical
co-passion.
Growing out on Earth's extending family farm,
he learned to share his playful work
with issues of unEarthly
inhumane
left-hemispheric primacy.
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