Political Growing Up Poems

Better together
than falling apart.

Inside I sigh
between sad traumas,
mad bad dramas
fading together
when not
not
not thought and felt glad

Better left together
than falling
falling
falling right wing exhausted
apart

Outside we cry
for fair...

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Speaking from personal
and political
and economic
and social-equity experience

Empowering cooperative co-investments,
like businesses
and condominiums,
arrives slowly
yet more surely
through cooperative management experience

Robust
and resilient co-empathic tenure,
stretching unconditional regard
from enlightened win/win management
to...

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For measuring fleeting successes
of punishing policing justice,
we have overly relied on recidivism rates
in response to curiosity about
How to decrease crime.

For enjoying compassion
of restorative
healing justice,
we rely...

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Introversion, like strengthening integrity,
explores fusing with the Whole
which I associate with ego-death
whether by colonizing encroachments of Other
more powerful,
arrogantly unenlightened,
predators

Or by ego-transmutation
creolization
rebirth
synergetic sacraments
of wedding
bedding
feeding
breeding
loving
win/win compassion

And probably...

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A PRIVILEGED EDUCATION

Just within reach of a soft whisper,
I swear I can hear the small voice,
Weeping, of an innocent boy, 
Held in limbo out of...

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Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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We do not listen
or learn,
sing
or dance easily
when we do not feel safe

When we are not sure we can trust
the voices not speaking and listening
with us,
but...

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What grows integral
shows up cooperative,
not competitive,

Like communion
transcends capitalism.

Earth knows cooperative co-investment
expands informed sacred vestments
stretching co-empathic communication

Mother Eartha
verbal WestHemisphere dominant communion
and nonverbal EastHemisphere intuitive
self/other reunions
seeking Me/We...

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If one to see the ripened fruit
go back long before the tree – 
to where the feet are planted: 
firmness of the soil~be certain 
that...

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Blithering idiots abound
Where intellects don't make a sound
You must speak your mind
Or else you will find
There really is no common ground...

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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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Inroduction"Wonder Woman" was a cartoon character I read a girl. She 
was super strong and handled huge problems! She was awesome!




I have always wanted to...

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Dreamer
In my boyhood I waded shoal creeks;
Veins of living waters swirling past my
Ankles; returning home, grinding stones. 
I asked: How are rain drops like millstones?

I...

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In some integral green ways,
and blues truths,
and red-hot fear-filled/angry rightwing lives,

We all began as the ecofeminist 
EarthMother-wombed and -birthed
children

And, thereby,
co-attached with her EarthMother's health-egged 
mind/body...

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To the north are the gators 
Growling “see you later” 
Then going south 
Playing French quarters with their mouth 
“We love our Hurricanes
And bit coin...

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