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Forever
“Forever”
When The Terrors came,
The Uncontrollable Ones,
she closed her eyes
and listened for the notes
her mother had planted
amongst the deep blues,
beds of Forget-Me-Nots,
she followed the
labyrinthine trail
and through a gate unhinged,
it would seem destroyed, thrown aside,
she...
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Categories:
absorbing, dark, halloween, light, love, symbolism,
Form:
Narrative
Chinese Translations IiChinese Poets: English Translations II
These are modern English translations of poems by the Chinese poets Tzu Yeh, Lin Huiyin, Xu Zhimo and Huang E. These are poems about love, passion and beauty.
Tzu Yeh (circa...
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Categories:
absorbing, body, desire, love, lust, night, time, wind,
Form:
Free verse
Why LifeWhy does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
absorbing, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Caregiving Stories RepriseWounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
absorbing, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
absorbing, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Community Health AssuranceTransparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.
Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...
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Categories:
absorbing, community, conflict, corruption, courage, freedom, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Water's WeaknessThere is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
absorbing, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Yangyyolks With Yinyin-WhitesStart and end each day,
and life,
with a taoist egg.
I doubt my eggs are religious.
No, but they are natural,
organic incubators,
co-arising nondual yolk form
with white-transparent regenerative function,
teleology,
and cosmology, maybe,
if you're a chicken,
or a turkey,
or a...
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Categories:
absorbing, analogy, culture, earth, food, health, math, science,
Form:
Narrative
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerative resource,
CoPresence Source,
raised to believe the Golden Rule
is most effectively...
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Categories:
absorbing, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Epic
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
absorbing, angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Empathy As Green DemocracyI don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-empathic trust
where dipolar co-arising mutual immunity
raises...
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Categories:
absorbing, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form:
Prose Poetry
A Few Years Back and ForthA few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...
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Categories:
absorbing, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Riding Time's Political FlowWe might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our DNA/RNA cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.
We could do well
to...
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Categories:
absorbing, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Summer Reforesting SchoolYinYin,
what did you most appreciate
learning at school this summer?
Probably in Community ReForesting.
You know, the EcoTherapy Class
I took
instead of eating lunch,
using "lunch" loosely
as synonymous with edible,
or at least tangentially related to edibility.
Oh yes, that one.
What stands...
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Categories:
absorbing, culture, education, health, history, humor, integrity, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Exodus To GenesisWith Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.
Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...
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Categories:
absorbing, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
absorbing, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Balancing Work and PlayI was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.
Rev. Jaynes had a son,
a second generation Julian...
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Categories:
absorbing, christian, destiny, god, health, history, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rebuilding ParadiseParadise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciatively regarding both day
and dualdark
rich and fertile
souled and soiled
recycling night.
So too
my personal
and political
and economic
and ecological
and theologically reformed...
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Categories:
absorbing, earth, eve, god, health, love, paradise, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
absorbing, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share...
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Categories:
absorbing, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
Polyculturing EducationPolypathic conversation with David Holmgren:
Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [ecopolitical] future.
Although I recognize the value of formal...
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Categories:
absorbing, culture, deep, destiny, earth day, education, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Reyinning YangImagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality,
imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day of conversation between you,
as Ego,
and those you...
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Categories:
absorbing, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form:
Prose Poetry
There Comes That MomentFortunately, when I was young, what I perceived - 'my kingdom' -
spanned - and I'm not kidding you...seven - city - blocks!
But being neither worried about - nor having fully mastered -
the tricky...
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Categories:
absorbing, childhood, happiness,
Form:
Rhyme
Breathing By Design"...making this shift [from ego to Authentic ecoSelf] usually requires inspired [inductive Right to Left +health-reiterative messages] intention and consistent, diligent effort [and a supportive vocational and residential and eco-logically balanced environment.]"
"And the way this...
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Categories:
absorbing, earth, love, passion, peace, planet, political, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Permaculture's Political Lexicon of GraceCompassion,
rooted in economic capacity and political experience
within a co-empathic nutritional environment;
like before you came out of Mom.
Nutrition,
rooted in deep listening, learning, and, giving-and-taking,
absorbing and investing
consuming and producing,
competing and cooperating
double-negatives as positive double-bind dipolar
regenerating...
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Categories:
absorbing, beauty, earth, education, health, philosophy, political, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry