Mother Integrity Poems

you're the king in my jungle,
Peace in my world.
You're the sunshine blossoming my life,
The healthiest air I breathe.

You're my most important person.
The moon in the...

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What's the lesson it teaches today?
Didn't heed the storm. Checked rune sac.
Rune plight will have rapt ending.
Deep-seated cleaning time !
Cleanse imperfections.
Mother Hulda .
 happens
Hela
Hail...

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Dice, the goddess of morals, asked her mother, Themis
Why there's divorce, gambling, abortion, and alcoholism?
Why should dehumanization, like a Bloodstone, beamish?
Why should knives of nemesis...

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Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.

She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving...

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Before we begin,
I want to introduce
my most hopeful self

Before we begin
life's communication
we know love's energy

Mother and Child
intimacy
sacred mild
intricacy
integrity...

Resonant hearts beating
repeating
+1 then 0 then -1
circling around...

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My favored Muse
mysteriously asks
muted
kinda sexist
win/lose 
either/or 
complex bilateral questions.

Oppositional
defiant
nearly despairing quests
exploring why I have yet to find
Faith
Hope
or delightful Joy
as names for a boy

Who might be...

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Said flowing River
to glowing Mountain

What warms deepest
Thou cannot see
from sacred heights
of eternity

Robustly responds
growing Mountain Here
to deeply embedded River Now

What spills widest
shared compassion
Thou must deeply feel
to...

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Said the Palestinians
to their Israeli neighbors
singing and dancing
karaoke on the Strip

I wish I knew
how to pursue
dual citizenship
as readily
as you

To which Israelis
responded to their Muslim neighbors
dancing...

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Dear Single Mother, - Part 2


Young man or woman who is, black, white, or any color under the sun, & you identify as Blue, Pink...

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Overnight, the landscape has
More color and yet less
How’d I fall asleep on the East Coast
And wake up in the West?

Everybody is tattooed
Everybody is tattooed 
Uh-oh!...

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What could I say
to change this kindness
you may have warmly heard
but only coldly felt?

How might my peaked
and valleyed,
top and bottom,
out and in 
prelude and postlude...

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Tears in the Crowds

A tyrant on a corrupt throne 
A sheep about to become a genetic clone
A weary traveller far away from home 
A heroin...

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Harry Windsor now presses the charge.'
Against instigators;  roaming at large.)
Fellons with fetters, who apply methods hard.'
Who twist and will twitter, stretch an inch to
A...

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Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more

Both Father Sun's timeless 
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich 
empowering 
soulful soil
and...

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How might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?

A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and...

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