Flower Integrity Poems

in the Nazi concentration camp
when a starving prisoner gave a flower to another prisoner
he showed we have a choice
to be compassionate and kind
in spite of...

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Well John was brand new to the Rockin’ Bar J
down in Missouri's where he'd spent his young days

His white cowboy hat with the fancy gold...

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Gay Rights are not Civil Rights
grabs my Yahoo facetime
fast-paced news rhyme

Civil Rights are not just Gay Rights
on my administrative time
bounces back a Left WhiteHouse reprise
that...

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because it  burns  you
you don't like the sun
and the shadow doesn't buy a story,
It knows its edges and the milky ways,
attached to a...

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Personal
and familial
and tribal
and species integrity
grows the maturing root system
of spacious compassion's
wondrously eternal
awesome flower.

Whether considering politics
of power,
or religion
of rightness,
or sexual expression
of sensuality,

Yesterday's healthy truths
represent tomorrow's wealthy...

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If my Trumpian weed patch could talk
I'm sure he would say
it's past time to capitalize our stay

"We're taking over,
spreading out,
patriotically proud of blatant
rather than tribally...

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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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Religion
could be more spiritually grounded
in healthy ecological relationships
were theologians and governors
to remind each multiculturing Other,

This re-connecting work
of religious economic and political enculturation
is less about unchangeable...

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It bloomed but for awhile,
 blossomed in half season then betrayed by a rapid Spring march.
Flower of utopia, 
cotyledon scapegoat,
poisoned by delinquent family roots.
stung ...

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Here is my ecological faith
rooted in experience
yet to flower in things unseen,
relationships unfelt,
communications not yet heard,
tasted and spit out;
Savored

When I touch another life's body
with kindness
I...

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JOEL

 I go through you
weaving 
strings of finely minced clippings

But, on the green Elysian 
I will devour you
I will show you mortal wings
cunning lips as...

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Thanks so much for forwarding
these John Paul Lederach stories
of un-learning academic approaches
to peace mediation.

I wonder if you remembered
my ongoing certification process
for justice-restoring mediation
in complex multicultural...

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Does non-verbal communication
sometimes also mean pre-verbal action,
with unlanguaged intuitions
preceding calculating language
LeftBrain labeling and commodifying
objectifying RightBrain subjective feelings
to their logically languaged conclusions?

Does non-violent communication
sometimes also mean...

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Whenever you are feeling down,
Adorn your brow with a flower crown....

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Telling Tales


Very telling
truth buried in lies
hate disguised as love
weeds strangling flowers
corrupt gardeners
singing the devils last song
virgins bloom all white
raped by old men
an old ways...

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