Health Engagement Poems

Boredom deprives minds of power
Brains without purpose may sour
So shower a head
With endorphins instead
Via game apps played every hour...

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My world is oblique
Saturday, day of mourning
Read books in a week....

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For those who smoke
Take more drugs for therapy
To avoid stroke....

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Have I really been working on myself or did I just change from my work clothes to something more comfortable
Is this depression or is it...

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"The Beauty Of Community"
(written by Michelle Lynn LeBlanc  11/20/23)

When people come together
It's such a beautiful thing
There's something healing about it
For it brings a peace...

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Gross misconduct bullets falling like rain drops
Mosquitoes kissing marinated children 
While in the hood homeless and thugs
Suck on those the things unruly plugs
Crack-cocaine, meth, mary-jane
Elusive...

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experiences add wear and tear on the human spirit
Responsibility demands one respond to their ability
The game of life becomes risk and reward 
Time become more...

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If you are in hell, Inhale
In jail? Inhale!
But exhale, too...yes. Inhale in hell the ex IT hell
Exhale, exit hell. 

You can. 
In, Ex. Repeat
Must emancipate...

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For tonight
celebrating 163 birthdays
among the three of me,
my husband,
and oldest son's May birthdays
within four days of each other

For tonight
unestranged,
and, if we each prefer,
for the remainder...

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Parenting defiant trauma
attached to both hurt child
and wounded parent
needing to continue
co-invested relationships,
positive and constant,
without breaks
in healthy communication,
direct
and, if possible,
playful

Counteracting fear
that both TraumaChild
and I
will pressure ego-me
to...

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What difference can you feel,
if any,
between confrontation
and engagement?

Between nonviolent communication
and WinnerTakeAll debate,
or wrestling,
for that win/lose matted matter?

InBetween cooperative compassion,
dissociative persuasion,
competitive dispassion?

Between LoseLose despair,
win/lose anxiety,
win/win anticipation?

InBetween...

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Since retirement
I have gradually become more disappointed
with watching
and listening
to performers,
to on-screen entertainments,
to emotional yet disembodied hypnosis,
to vicarious fascinations
now suspiciously corrupt

Performance watching
becomes a cheaply vacuous substitute
for...

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My bicameral strong connection
between monotheism
and anthro-supremacism
lies in dogmatic monocultural belief

OneGod
created and recreated
and remade and premade
this Universal Home
MeWe bilaterally celebrate
as HealthyTrue 
enlightened resonance
and WealthyBeautiful
empowering resilient PatriCapitalist...

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Hello, my friend.

Some of the things I've read in your book have been rather remarkable.
The 'heavens declare the glory of God'.  In a lesser...

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"...the ecological crisis is also a summons
to profound [theological] conversion."
           #217, Laudato Si', Pope Francis

Those...

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