Hope Essential Poems

A stiff neck in need of a massage,
I watch her break her back in parts.
Too often saviours feel the most pain,
Too often, their sacrifices lie...

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Essential workers
They stand in front of the mirror
With black bags under their eyes
Forcing themselves awake
Just like any other day
The clock says 2:00 AM
They've taken a...

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When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a theologian,
Dr. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864)
reaching...

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Credential Essential and Exponential

What we can know about each credential,
All always have potential to be essential;
Read some more;
We have hope for,
And is indicated by extreme...

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Once upon a time most of us had the potential,
With our tanks full of petrol,
To be the Hero quintessential,
Should the need become essential.

Now alas there...

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Essential


Do you remember when we used to meet at our own special place?
I would wait there impatiently, just wanting to see your face.
All day I...

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We can smell the fear in their voice

we can feel the anger on their breath

celebrate the inner

detox their guilt

choose calm

re access...

search for your star
and claim...

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I’m just one mind
So complex so undefined
There are always boundaries
For me to be out of reach

There are places I wanted to see
This large world I...

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In showy fashioning from your heart
      my beating heart demand a green light
      and date...

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