Ding dong the witch is dead
And her intersectional house of cards
Built on a shaky swamp of lies
Is now tumbling, blown away
And burned to the ground.
Who could not see this coming
10 years ago, five years ago, one year ago,
The inevitable backlash to tyranny?
The truth is it was always a toss up,
And it took a political groundswell
To open the doors to disinfection
By the cleansing power of light and air
Good old reason and common sense.
Gone are the days when DEI
Was forced down our throats
On our knees, hands tied behind our backs.
The witch with gun to our head may be gone
But her policies and lingering stench
Still fill the halls of power,
And like all things evil,
She can always rise from the dead.
Ding dong the witch is dead
So today we celebrate, dance and sing
And stomp the ground above her grave.
(2/21/26)
Conservatives’ banning’s apropos of nothing
At twelve when he delt with this
shouldn't have to jump through hoops
should’ve been able to explore when a teen
But because of many conservative groups
The Ire excessive was the coming of age
Juvenile mistakes made in adult years
Denied the ability to pick up social skills
Sexual assault and sexual awaking
considered pornographic
Q**r’s often live a second adolescents
This is a guide for the coming of age allies
States have taken off the shelves
Intersectional as his life
Chapters are a collection, four acts
referred to as “parts” in this guide
self-contained essay’s
The memoir progresses through Johnson’s life
Two letters appear alongside
the chapters for mother and brother
Conditioned to think what’s the truth
Indoctrinated in us
Stop crying, racialized
School bullies
The flee market incident
Institutionalized violence
Family structure marginalized
Community –college fraternity
And black joy
Tells the truth
A black and q***r boy’s experience
Gender identity
Toxic masculinity
Brotherhood
Love and Nature intertwined
Intersectional ties that bind
___________________________
Inspired by Deb M's POTD, 'Sweet
Majesty' ... and the 'lost meaning
of intersectional.'
Universal health
feeds unitarian safety
breeds universal health
A most patriotic way
we can live and breathe
In our diversely languaged nations
cultured continents
of global EarthTribe advocates
for nonpartisan stations
Interdependently loyal
to universal health
safety
and sacred intersectional
inter-religiously green
solidarity
Of universal sacred health
winning Earth's unitarian safety
wealthing universal health.
Freshening
of the chair-wherewithal
I sit and meet
the stewing news
with hearty meat and veg
The idleness
unspoken here -
here I right
no wrongs
I just belong
to the sect
that sits upon
the court that no one hears
I write
of unimportant
matters that are detained
chained to a box
a talking box
How strange
our ancestors
would find the lies
between the perfect
teeth
of time
though linked
to an intersectional ginormous behind
5/7/2022
We expect to find
and ecologically pursue
performing possessive behaviors,
speaking with LeftBrain dominant purpose
in our individualized ego lives.
We invite,
theologically hope for,
and faithfully search out
and in to fulfill,
nonviolently provide
peaceful purpose
to protect interdependent
intersectional
meaningful relationships
in Earth's web
of sacred compassion.
As ecologists expand our awareness of ecosystems
as win/win cooperative health networks
With co-arising dipolar
interior and exterior
sensory intelligence,
Health optimization
adds deeper meaning
to an old proverb,
"Bloom where you are planted"
In animate
contextual
interdependent
intersectional
multicultural
contextual attachment
rooted intelligence
Experience
relationship
dipolar co-arising communion.
When Ego is inexorably planted
within Self's largest ecosystemic
interdependent metabolic
homeopathic multicultural
resonant musing relationships,
Then Ego is most free
to search
and find
Ego/LargeSelf-Systemic
voices with choices
cooperatively co-invested eco-political
lifetime rooted
Passion WIN/WIN Plays
Wealthy Ecological
Stealthy Analogical
Meldy Musicolyrical
Indigenously Theological
Multiculturally Mythological
EcoWomanist Political
Democratic HealthLogical
For a Taoist,
rivers and their valleys
are iconic
ecowomanist yintegrity,
Yet St. Francis feels rivers,
but probably not their embracing valleys,
as Brothers.
As the River running through my backdoor life
flows from northern right
downstream to southern left,
I remain nondualistically of two minds,
and probably all transinsurrections
in and out between
River waters flowing
and valleyed land supporting
gender specific identities
I cannot realistically experience upstream
from down,
or flow from strong stability
toward this River's mouth
emptying into nonviolent surf
progressively surging forward
and regressively back
From overflowing ocean sources
refilling MotherEarth's support
for stable
and resilient,
public
and intimate health care
TransGendered systems for all
Brother/Sister sacredly bilateral
spiritual strength
flowing naturally down
and out,
redeeming up
and in
Taoist interdependent rivers
and their intersectional valleys
flowing deep sea green
integrity.
Unitarian-Universalist bicameral principles,
like Yin-Yang Tao governance dynamics,
are a supportive context for discovering our own economic-political,
social-psychological,
eco-neurological,
theo-multicultural Truths.
But, ZenZero Taoism is more than poly-analogical.
UnitingYin and UniversalYang prime zero-balancing relationship
is also a non-violent compassionate therapy
for rediscovering individual EgoTruth
within Earth's interdependent living EcoWeb
of all becoming health-wealthy Truths
Of AllSouls
throughout all catholic
positive democratic
egalitarian energetic
co-relational 4D SpaceTime
Born of resonant matriarchal/patriarchal DNA
0/1 double-binary intersectional
fractally binomial
and warm wet polynomial
regeneratively polypathic
fertile health wombed polyphonic
Integrally harmonic
of
and for,
on
and organically within
Earth's health/wealth regeneration.
I suspect many of us,
if not all,
with a mindful of bodhisattva
positive deviant parented and educated exceptions,
grow up feeling like a human win/lose sinner
fighting against a divine win/win messiah within,
Internally conflicted
about being sent from past sacred regenerations
of survivors
and thrivers
to redeem a fractured Earth
in preparation for secular/sacred
dipolar co-arising Rapture Climates,
epic Operas,
small operations,
of and for EarthJustice grace,
love,
win/win compassion,
To raise multicultural economic health
from death's fading door,
to prophecy polycultural nutritional wealth,
To face immanently within
health/wealth bicameral Rapture,
predicting all Earth's cooperative messianic reweaving
of di-hemispheric bilateral ClimateResilience
for sacredly intersectional ZeroZone Earth
And all Gaian-Christian-Taoist-PolyCulturist
humane sinners,
winning behavioral secular interdependent resonance
to regain sacredly resilient EarthTribe's eco-political Trust
In humane sinners
redeemed by hearing divine sainted voices,
nutrients,
natures,
spirits,
NonZeroSum Souls
Becoming secular-
sacred interdependent Being.
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