I am a true rebel- for I question
the words of my catholic rigid rules.
And will rise up to claim my self-expression,
keeping the parts that are like precious jewels.
Spiritual freedom is my obsession . . .
I do not want to be like the mindless ghouls.
Forces of desiring things creates aversion,
and pushing these things away creates diversion.
So, I let go of all useless craving
and let go of the resistance and fears.
Stop the beliefs like old etched engraving,
I hang from stars that seem a chandelier.
Don't obey all the catholic ravings,
but hold what I consider to be dear.
Through meditation my focus is unbroken,
and I can hear my spiritual voice spoken.
I turn away from any cult-like faith
throwing away all the rigid mindset.
Discard all the bible verses that saith,
to find my inner song- I press reset.
I will seek a journey to interfaith,
and hum to my internal clarinet.
I am placing all those old teachings on a shelf,
to begin an amazing journey to myself.
When sunlight meets the water
Creates magical green turquoise hue
Adorned sand bar across pacific barrier
Line up speed boats and colorful vintas view.
Amidst a desert a light shine
Illuminate a brave soul and passers by
Vastness of sand dunes and azure sky define
Humdrum history of our ancestors vilify.
After trouble heavy rain fall
Cleansing the dusty streets of slogans of hate
Erasing cobweb of doubts and restoring friendship recall
Propagating love for humanity through interfaith.
Why do historically indigenous integrity
and cooperative cultural responsibility
Sound and appear too silent
and invisible
to Capitalist power centers
of immediate reaction
against ecowomanist impassioned co-response
Integral Call and Respond
empowering memories
of enlightening
good-humored interfaith communications
of and for
Earth's regenerative SeedBearers
Aware of natural
spiritual nonzero-sum empowering
enlightened cooperative economies
of empty wombs
becoming pregnant potential
For political integrity
for healthy polyculturally co-invested lives
and cooperative economic co-responsibility.
Seeing is believing
but active listening
costs expansive empathic commitment
As patriarchal competitive investments
often fall short of resonant faith
in ecowomanist multicultural
polycultural
biocultural
ecoclimatic pregnant health
for ReStorying EarthJustice Wealth
Of resonant knowledge deductively Left
and resilient wisdom
without mono-cameral walls Right
Ecosystemic health needing minds
with ego felt wealthy sensory bodies
Good/bad cultural spirits
predicting destined climate nature
Sacred pregnant wisdom
forgiving
yet foreclosing
merely secular knowledge.
Bicameral seeing
is nonviolent synergetic believing
active bilateral
and multilateral polypathic listening
grows redemptively pregnant
with multi-regenerational commitment
to EarthHealth wealth
of future perceiving days
and past reviewing nights
Bright,
with a win/win InterFaith EarthTribe
economic nonfight wisdom light
fulfilling political empowering flight.
May Unitarian Universalists sustain
active faith
in Both/And integral feelings/thoughts
co-gravitating intentions,
nuanced principles
of UniversalTruth greets UnitarianBeauty.
In these ways,
in this public health emergency
climatic time,
may we join with good faith multiculturing
healthy democratic Others
Less invested in partisan elite-insider knowledge
and also not feeding and watering
non-elite Outsider fear
and anger of sensory-sexual sanity
necessary for building
and retaining a healthy cooperative
wealthy democracy
And may we always listen for a resilient,
inclusive
sustainable multicultural optimizing
green new nature/spirit Indigenous Deal
co-investing divinely-humane balance
For restoring healthy ego-sufficient peace
and eco-justice interdependence
throughout our interfaith
ecopolitical
cooperative
therapeutically uniting spring days
and full moon nights.
So, you're a liberal!
she invited,
Are you liberally intolerant
of the unknown,
of pests,
of inconvenience,
of mere sufficiency?
Or liberal in your cooperative esteem
and co-investments?
So, you're a conservative?
redeeming ChristMother,
economically and politically co-investing
in trans-regenerational listening
for win/win culturally synergetic questions
posed by cooperatively thriving historic transactions
Before win/lose assuming
empowering sufficiency
of resilient win/win conversation
could not lead back to interfaith conservation
Of all EarthMother's healthiest liberal opportunities
while also conserving MotherEarth's wealthiest conservation
Safe and healthy
polyvagal inter-good green faith
goals of healthy global purpose
Wealthy empowerment
enlightening
by religioning
reconnecting EarthHealth
of synergetic,
metaphonic meaning
wellness purposes
Recalling enlightening songs
empowering
polypathic dances
of voice
and throat
and mind
and non-verbal soaring
and leaping
and liberal loving
graced bodies.
My RightHemisphere's enlightening felt choice
for Integrity
empowers my LeftHemisphere's ecological voice
for cooperative worldview Synergy
ReMembering
GreenGoddess gave birth
to EarthChild Left and Right re-connecting
secularizing sacred good news
for polyvagal neuro-sensory health attachments
ReLigioning
interfaith reborn synergy
developing nonviolent integral good news
green interdependent conversations
networking communions
of nonviolent communicators
ReStoring
EarthMother's Win/Win global matriotic
peaceful health
ReConnecting
climate justice wealth
ReGenerating
EastBrain felt enlightening choice
of eco/theo-logical Integrity
empowering WestBody ecological voice
for cooperative worldviews
ReVolving
mature, good, green faith,
sung and danced,
performed and liturgically reformed
to inclusively enable
enlighten
empower
The Tao times
and seasons
and ways
of bicamerally interdependent intelligence.
Green civil compassion
and smoky brown passion
passing on empowering Yang universals
enlightening Yinitarian dialogue,
Economically
and politically cooperative
co-invested discussion
prioritizing
budgeting
planning
planting
harvesting
Saving integrity's potential love seeds
for next regeneration's cooperative
EarthTribe harvest.
This interfaith nondenominational
nonpartisan
nonviolent conversation
about whether or not
humane-divine love
is a ZeroSum
Win/Lose
merely mortal Game
Unstable
non-resilient
or NonZero Sum
Win/Win emergent,
Cognitively elegant,
emotively exquisite
co-elliptical passions
quietly restored
green peace-mongering.
Where to start
together more than still apart?
On our enlightened circling parts
and empowering pyramid wholes
of strategic win/win choice
Triangulation mediated default
where Earth's survival is of greatest health potential
Here in my personal experience memory Space
Now in your continuously unfolding
eco-political
multi-regenerational TaoEncircling Ways,
except probably still too eager
for your most resonant praise
Bicamerally healthy future imaged
wealthy past re-membering
re-connecting courage and nonviolence
re-ligioning interfaith green co-interdependence
CoOperatively owned
and managed
health imaged
re-imagined EarthCapital wealthy
democratically empowered
enlightening green communal Time.
The lowest common green ecological denominator
of healthy highest interfaith power
and light compassionate dialogue
Is potentially now deepest learning
and widest eco/theo-languaged communication
Secular Earth as potential sacred Heaven
in multicultural dialogue
And global health care development
win/win systemic
For optimizing green therapeutic
polycultural
resilient multi-organizational
ego-health/eco-wealth outcomes
refueling pro-active
kindred
enumerating spirits
At least those not denominationally undermining this WholeEarth comparison
I am trying to recycle, non-linear,
to grow unstuck dynamically in-between
actively restoring hope,
dormant independent faith,
co-empathic love objectives
NOT reactively punishing Self
and Other
and WholeEarth BioSystems
As if merely
nerdy
unprivileged
unimportant subjects
Of omnipotent StraightWhiteMale
immortal internal Voices of God
judgmentally monocultural,
merely pedestrian denominational
The lowest common green ecological
left-hemisphere rational denominator
of healthy highest interfaith power
and light co-gravitating
nonpartisan
co-passionate eco/theo-dialogue.
It is harder
for monoculturally divisive,
win/lose tolerant,
apartheid theological communities
and un-ecological,
ahistorical,
unreflective bad faith
denialistic
dualistic
partisan parties
to interfaith non-communication
non-solidarity
non-cooperative co-investment
to merely survive
Than it is
for empowering healthy democratic communities
to enlighten wealthy cooperatively multicultural economies,
And, thereby,
to win/win compassionately communicate
rooted in sharing personal natural/spiritual bilateral consciousness
of sensory experience
eco-political practice
psycho-neurological discipline
Of health and good-faith safe systems
evolving out of multi-orthodox
extra-tradition changing win/win climaxing
and then ebbing sensations
living and dying,
yanging and deeply yintegral;
Than it is to thrive
as one community's humane EarthTribe,
indigenously nature/spirited
for health optimizing
eco-theological
cooperative win/win
multiculturing goodfaith
health care giving and receiving
Communion networks
of interdependent
eco-politically developing
evolving
revolving
changing
creolizing
wealthy faith communities.
My sanctuary
includes an anti-racism team.
Our closest synagogue ally
has an anti-defamation league.
Both my Team
and our League
are against contempt for Earth
and all Her natural/spiritual Tribes and Systems,
Networks and PassionStories.
We are composed of anti-patriarchal feminists
not against non-violent actions,
and against non-verbal
and verbal
and pre-verbal
and reverberating
not-healthy communications.
For shared agendas
that feel so robustly positive
by discovering mutual resonance
hoping for immediate
through long-term resilience,
cherishing an experience of healthy
cooperative
interfaith family,
It feels surprising how our culture,
verbal and non-verbal language
grow so replete with double-negatives,
double-binds,
not not positives
stuck in fight or flight immobilization
Looking for more robust defining ways
to claim cooperative economies,
compassionate ecofeminist politics,
integral win/win healthy democratic strategies
for ego and eco-systemic
polypathic
polyphonic
therapeutic wealth.
Violence is a Gaza border constant
Israeli towns receive
heavy rain
of missile shells
Man-made hell, Hezbollah air sent
Meanwhile, Mossad
infiltrate the tunnels,
unpacking C4 bundles to fiery rent
Refugee status
is a Palestinian forced Tel Aviv flee
Suicide vested persuasion
have innocent souls
hearing worm echoes prematurely
Divided Jerusalem
stoke hate fires ... a common
epoxy bond emotion,
unifying two camps stuck on angry
Wash the bloody clothes
with every Arab dissent rock throw
Close the Negev windows,
as the fear cactus heat starts to grow
So beware of the prick from the needles:
Love sick twin conscience
grieving in funeral earnest,
with suspicious, interfaith locked elbows
Rinse the tear-stained clothes,
then put the brotherhood violence
on another tumble spin cycle
Peace progress is on a turtle slow dry,
evaporated trust
give oasis enemies another mirage try
I see how these people work to the hilt,
to offer themselves to a certain cause;
to take part in the so-called Project Hospitality
as they interact with all sorts of people.
An interfaith effort that takes its course in the island.
a wonderful institution that commits to people.
with numerous endeavors and assistance given;
they're faithful enough to lead them to light.
Giving shelter to the homeless
sounds clearly as part of the Beatitudes
Feeding the hungry and caring for the sick;
exemplify the gospel attitude
that one endeavors to fulfill God's criterion.
Beautiful souls, servants of the poor!
with great admiration they represent us all.
Like committed missionaries near and far;
a treasure, a gift, a pride of every culture.
Their smiles and hard work reflect who they are,
amid some brickbats and adversaries around;
still their foundation remains as ever
equipped with values meant for all times.
1 December 2010
The Pilgrimage
From young people of every nation
Will gather again to exalt
One faith in God for salvation
Inert spirit to offer salt
Will gather again to exalt
Jubilee of youth in pilgrimage
Inert spirit to offer salt
Of reaching hands, no blockage
Jubilee of youth in pilgrimage
To symbolize the living faith
Of reaching hands, no blockage
In horizon mingling with interfaith
To symbolize the living faith
Rainbow of races as covenant
In horizon mingling with interfaith
Song of praise resounding in rampant
Rainbow of races as covenant
One faith in God for salvation
Song of praise resounding in rampant
From young people of every nation
Written by: Noel N. Villarosa
8th place in Paula Swanson's Pantoum Contest
Contest Date: 12/21/2010
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