Happiness Earth Day Poems

Impressive values,
like love,
claim resources that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional
spiritual
mentally glad wealth.

Oppressive disvalues
like homophobia and racism
and sexism and ageism
and ableism 
and monoculturing disregard
for threats...

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falling from the tree's autumn leaves paint the ground a colorful quilt.
crunching underfoot the sound of nostalgia memories of fall
red, orange, and gold a firework...

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You planted a weeping willow
The day we said "I do"
You said it was a symbol
Of our love so strong and true

You watered the weeping willow
With...

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We are not sea creatures
By Michelle Morris
21/09/2023

Don't be one of the broken ones
Who remain empty shells that echo
The remnants of their humanity
Long forgotten and stripped...

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On an Earth Day like today
I see a ray of light and sway.

I perceive a horizon that seeks 
and speaks of health and happiness.

That pledges...

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Remember the Sabbath
to keep it holy 
free of Shoulds.

A should-free cathedral
of intimate athleticism
romantic
exotic
ecstatic
euphoric
erotic

Exhausts this sabbath light
at long last
widely dawning deeply stronger
and resiliently handsome
dark as night

In...

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To celebrate Earth Day I went out early to watch the Lyrid Meteor shower make its yearly visit past Jupiter and Mars.
Why would I celebrate...

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I've seen Earth's epitaph:
S/He did more than Her share
to heal a broken world

Which sometimes seems to invoke anger
because I can touch what's broken
and other times...

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pets, feeding times
my presence, their animation -
two broods: chickens...

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On my long trek to church, not just traipsing
I felt utterly overwhelmed by all I'm gapesing

Graffiti, trash & recycling everywhere littered
Wished I could clean up...

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My GreenLeft side
resists AngryYang
win/lose competing AngloPowers
for making money 
commodified
secularized MonoTheistic
world conquering views

Supporting GodGiven economic rights
to colonize sinners,
more easily divided
from the AnthroHerd
when not white
not straight
not male

While...

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So!
Well...

ummm....

When you are,
someday,
experiencing coitus
of some generic buzzy kind
common to all species
of loving life,

And you are about to have
a peak
polysensory 
full mindbodied experience...

Excuse me for interrupting,
but...

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Inside my elegantly intuitive,
but SupremelyWhite Male neglected,
and cooperatively We-managed RightHemisphere,

Grows a nutritious nuancing
and nonviolently
nonverbally communicating
win/win systemically curious
dipolar co-arising
(not so much bipolar distancing
and often furious)
courageous sense...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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A pandemic coronated our world with thorns.
It stings came with fame
And locked down the busiest cities;
A reminder that this world has an end.

The miracle workers...

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