School Integrity Poems

Youth is a deep,
                   colorful green as...

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(Lyrics written to the tune of: "That Old Black Magic" *NOTE: Maintain forward tune throughout all six stanzas; last three stanzas don't revert to original...

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Reflections on the important things in my legacy, history, and values appear with me were always reading books since I was 5 or six years...

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When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the...

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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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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,

Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;

Followed the...

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Tony had an unwritten absence 
Which he did not choose.
He suddenly became ill.
He hated having the blues.

He coughed, had a fever;
Lay completely still.
He felt nauseous,
And...

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Learning,
like feeling thought experiments
brings LeftMind sacred experiential math
enlightenment
for RightBody fertile nurturing
co-passionate full circling empowerment

Sexually sacred
and con-scientifically thrivalist,
ego/eco-balancing
Taoist yang/yintegral 
natural/spiritual 
linear/circular
1/0 bicameral soul
intent

Brings awareness of patristic...

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Coach Carter: "Basketball is a privilege." Learning self-respect is a key to being better and achieving more.

Sport makes a huge difference for people around the...

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Mistakes I’ve made
every path I see tracks.
The strain of pressure made it hard to relax.


Four years apart of me
Four years under me
Four years ahead
 A...

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The hardest losses
are those too late to repair
what has been win/win time lost
to despair

Just as love
cannot co-arise
where fear grows 
fully uprisen
a prison
predicting anger's nearby
impetuously apprised
surprise.

So...

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When I drove away from the family farm
to embrace my freshman year
at the University of Michigan
in Vietnam-era 1970,

I was planning on majoring in political science
which...

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A competitive path,
society v individual,
to retributive justice
is measured in accountability
of the individual
to respect 
the imposed police and court
and prison system.

More cooperative polypaths,
individual Me AND social...

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A former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not

The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.

We were starting...

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Tempting to offer an anthropological history class
and call it Earth History,
beginning with our current
messy
riled up
LeftBrain emergently dominating
our fracturing Anthropocene.

While trust seems true
and wise
when our public...

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