I Couldn’t Find Myself In The Mix
...I couldn’t find myself in the mix,
My reflection got lost in the middle,
Have I still the face of a kid?
Life doesn’t play by the rules,
Don’t resist,
Driving my mind with a complexion,
Wh...
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Categories:
dissociating, absence, abuse, age, father
Form: Free verse
Every January first of the new year
...Every January first of the new year...
finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien)
to give pause for reminiscences
and to take stock (sh lock and barrel)
about mein kampf in general
and previou...
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Categories:
dissociating, adventure, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Circling Public Squares
...Divide and conquer debates
favor win/lose competitions
as sometimes vicious over-investment
in defeating healthy democracy
to conquer public-square power space
not particularly sublime
While ...
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Categories:
dissociating, culture, earth, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Trauma History
...Could chronic stress,
like sleep deprivation,
noise and light and air pollution
also derive
by avoiding barely still alive
high-risk trauma messes?
Sometimes sadly beginning
prior to economi...
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Categories:
dissociating, anxiety, culture, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
When We Are Healthy
...If we are not,
is this always the opposite of
when we are?
If we are negative,
is this sometimes appositionally
in creative tension with
when we are becoming more positive?
If we are a not...
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Categories:
dissociating, culture, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Exploring Midterm Mindbodies
...Our minds play
an eisegetical game
transubstantiating our debating minds
translating our felt bodies
embodied contexts
Natural/Spiritual environments
felt yet untouched messages
spoken throu...
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Categories:
dissociating, animal, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Blues Boating Home
...Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy
...
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Categories:
dissociating, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Wisdom
...I am not yet a part of the afterlife.
Instead, it is those years shattering.
Underneath, there is chatter fluttering free.
A flood of numbness lifts.
And a sprinkle of kindness appear...
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Categories:
dissociating, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Lifeline
...she filled her lungs with air and insanity,
her heart grappling for mercy against her chest,
growing weary from a dissociating tyrant,
her mind running laps to every nerve synapse,
fleeing from t...
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Categories:
dissociating, pain,
Form: Free verse
Urgent Musings
...Amusing sacred A-musings
like Atheistic A-gnostics
ReDiscover resilience
where Trauma is some part of Life
Win/lose LeftHemisphere dissociating
lack of RightSung resonance
ReUncover indig...
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Categories:
dissociating, health, light, muse, music,
Form: Political Verse
Starting With Not Sure
...I'm not sure about this
entertainment
divorced from engagement
issue
But,
consider the following
a hypothesis,
a Thought Experiment
in the Indigenous MotherLand
and SacredWaters
of ecowom...
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Categories:
dissociating, engagement, health, language, math,
Form: Political Verse
Bread Is From Earth
...Deep warm-blooded
Dark brown
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.
Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
...
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Categories:
dissociating, community, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Teachable Momentum
...Today
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may n...
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Categories:
dissociating, caregiving, green, health, light,
Form: Political Verse
Recounting Wounding Costs
...I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.
I remember learning curious distincti...
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Categories:
dissociating, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Political Verse
Power To Embrace Difference
...St. Francis prayed for politically active
nonreactive empowerment
through serenity to change what we can,
and to walk away,
without loser disgust
but with winning acceptance
for what we cannot...
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Categories:
dissociating, change, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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