Peace Integrity Poems

Politeness,
like kindness,
may not sell newspapers
or win the partisan debate

Civility,
unlike deviliciousness,
will not win the civil war
nor leverage the biggest tax rebate

But integrity
is the world wide web...

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To stop proving how great you are, is the sign of true freedom and peace,



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Impressive values,
like love,
claim resources that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional
spiritual
mentally glad wealth.

Oppressive disvalues
like homophobia and racism
and sexism and ageism
and ableism 
and monoculturing disregard
for threats...

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Yogi Berra said:
In theory there is no difference from practice.
In practice, there is

Applying this to communication theory:
In nonviolence theory
there is no difference from practice
of win/win...

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Enjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf

As our bodies adjust
to rocky and prickly
either me
or not me space

And...

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What do top and bottom
above and below
leader and follower
high and low
day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
pole and hole
convex and concave
vertex and vortex
frontsides and backslides
dominant...

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This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.  

Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to...

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Where tender shoots each day birth new mercies,
cultured in your word, my young spirit grows.

From sun up, to down, your Spirit rises,
I find myself humbled...

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Pride picked her up, then threw her down
As humility made not one sound,
Before she found her way up from the ground,
Meekness would cry out to...

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Imagine
if you would be so kind,
join me
in striving to become 
less blind

Brilliant God says:
Give to your oppressively militarized government
weaponized suppressive
defensively repressive
straight white monotheistic privilege
paid for...

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S/he is troubled
about how to dance more green
in this overwhelming Anthropocene

And has grown to love 
an outside starlit image
of Universal Red SageGod 
resiliently dancing under...

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My candle burns at both ends.
It will not last the night.
But, ah my foes, and oh, my friends,    
it sheds a lovely...

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My sacred ecologist within
re-cognizes Bucky Fuller's pre-millennial insight

What appears,
from a transcendent distance,
to be a static
entirely monocultural 
universal Vertex,
A Black circular Whole
at New Moon midnight,
while circling...

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At sixteen
People's Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago

Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
that I was a...

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When personal narcissism
and tribal autism
choose our words
as hurting 
threatening 
weapons of trauma defense

Rather than choosing wealth
of healing tools
for compassion's therapeutic unfence

We soon find 
that no...

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