interpreting love.
gather all pieces for peace.
great grace guiding home.
The Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
prohibits cruel AND unusual punishment.
It does not prohibit cruel punishment.
It does not prohibit unusual punishment.
It only forbids cruel AND unusual punishment.
Therefore, cruel punishment is totally constitutional.
So, too, is unusual punishment.
When I say this, some of my liberals friends are in total astonishment.
You predict that dense clouds will bring drizzles.
Wild West wind, you say, causes scotching heat
Time's chisel, in your skill and will, fizzles.
In you, weather's ups and downs, take backseat.
Have you ceased seeing the deiform dawn?
Virtues and vices charm you as choices.
Towards past and future, you're often drawn
Can't you hear the present time's sore voices?
Both questions and answers are in your hands.
Your innocence should win over all.
Shouldn't harmony be your best of plans?
Isn't there a dawn after each nightfall?
Could the sun ignore any of its beams?
Reconcile! Foes too will flow with your streams.
Should the stars you love
so settle to the West to
shine, would you still remain here?
Why would I leave for
the light of distant stars when
I already hold the sun?
R-eceive
O-ne
S-weet
E-xpression
F-rom
A-uthor
I-nterpreting
T-he
H-eartfelt
S-entence
A-s
L-ines
I-n
D-edication
A-re
G-ladly
A-pplied
Topic: Birthday of Rose Faith M. Salidaga (December 28)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
D-elightedly
E-xperience
B-irthday
B-y
I-nterpreting
E-uphoric
R-egards
O-f
S-cribe
E-njoying
R-apture
A-s
N-atal
O-ccasion
S-weetly
A-rrives
Topic: Birthday of Debbie Rose R. Rañosa (February 18)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
J-ust
U-se
L-ovely
I-dea's
E-xcellent
M-use
A-s
R-eader
C-learly
I-nterprets
A-crostic
L-ine
Topic: Birthday of Julie T. Marcial (July 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
F First there was the word after the big bang
E Entirely clear from a poet’s vision’s command
R Reaped one single apple or was it a date
A Angels applauded the message and cherubs
L Lusted for more trust and longing thrust they evolved
F Finn and Fiona tempted the snake and entered
A Another world made from heaven’s delight
N Nubile naked and noble the temptress answered
T The masculine call was seduced herself by feral
A Adduction of wild pleasure and headed the call
S Slowly increasing the pace as time stood still
I Ignited the two fell from grace into untamed oblivion
E Enshrined in feral worldliness they forth-fully multiplied
S Senses’ union as they aroused sheathed nature from procreation
06th August 2018
I have always had a fondness for the narrative of dreams.
Why this may be so
I could not speak.
I do recall a former life as a psych major
reading Freud's Interpretation of Dreams.
Recognizing his iconic topography
yet wondering about his training
in phylogeny,
predicting one's pre-adolescent healthy ego
and ecological restorations
of our species' cooperatively maturing habitat
throughout our multicultural
matriarchal-dominant rebirthing story.
I hope to feel
this timeless sacred narrative
of Earth's reweaving Sabbath,
regenerating Eden's therapeutic dreams
of polyculturing Paradise.
And,
not quite so many patriarchal pathological nightmares
emerging shared paranoid and claustrophobic punishing vocations
so vulnerably naked without potential integrity,
somehow not yet patriarchally here
with matriarchal now,
co-arising.
I LeftBrain dominate with far too retributive
non-redistributive neglect of justice days
manifesting competitive WinLose assumptions,
haunted by LoseLose nightmares
of a merely secular mortality.
I RightBrain dream
in restoratively manifest destinies toward WinWin
ecopolities of cooperative therapeutic praxis.
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