Long Balancing act Poems

Stepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?

He invited me to sit down
to consider cooperative transactions
as our intentional understory
camouflaged within our ecotherapeutic relationships,
like...

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I 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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Humbleness
(Free Verse)

Humble is a man who prefers 
To take fresh air in his garden
Than waste his time in a pub,
To be dressed in simple clothing
Than in expensive high class dresses
That bursts a whole in his...

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"Fatal Attraction"



The letter was typewritten
IBM Selectric, 
No final salutation
in italics
“With love”, 
but it was there nevertheless
invisible
electric
“VC”
Bleeding Bold Black 
thick cursive stroke
With knife point calculation
An arrow hit it’s bullseye
A flourish with intent
A nicotine stain 
at the...

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There are many reasons for the case of the Anti-christ being from a Muslim 
nation:  They (Israel's inner ring of enemy Muslim's nations) have taken crafty 
counsel against Your people (the nation of Israel),...

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SPECIAL INTEREST 

With the thought processes of the masses overwhelmed 
By the heavy burden
Of no influence on policy  
And with little scope for advancement
Up the greasy pole 
Insurrection and rebellion abound
Catching the chattering classes...

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Happy
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Happy or
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Happy or dep
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Happy or depres
Happy or depress
Happy or depresse
Happy or depressed
Happy or depresse
Happy or depress
Happy or depres
Happy or depre
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Listen up, my daughters, let me break it down
Life's a stage, but you're not here to clown
You've got to face the music, face it strong
Face your fears, show the world where you belong

Don't let them...

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The Firemen were ready for their competition, as excitement did abound.
Then in flew Super Dragon, while landing, he mowed his buddies down.
Yep, he had landed tail over appetite, but of course, that they did expect.
As...

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An inner earthquake rattles him again
             as the fiery sun dips in the horizon
         ...

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Celestial Zodiac Jazz 
 In the constellation of sound, Where Miles Davis breathes celestial blue/
 A Gemini's whim dances through the air/His notes like shooting stars
 Twisting notes like a lover’s embrace/ His horn whispers...

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My kids like myself were instructed on how to wash clothes as soon as they were tall enough to reach into the basin without falling in. Parenting 101 calls this the see-saw or teeter-totter effect,...

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She was 4.
She never knew what made love different then what her parents had.
She thought love was what made depression spread through their veins like wildfire.
She thought love was what was laying above her pillow...

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Everyone has fears. Let's try to have faith greater than our fears. Let's allow light to illuminate our souls and highlight the darkness that we fear. Negative emotions do not have to be bad. We...

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Over ten worms then? In coats. Goggles? Flight then. Huge paper bees. Altitude 4 on curvatures rattling over the field,fauna and hedgerows. Boom boom boom beasts coming. Mooooving across the territory pulling dragging. When old...

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7:13
The coldness came quickly
The darkness began to spread
Violent tongues were lashing
Evil fingers pointed at innocence
Thanks and forgiveness had been forgotten
O' DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, how might we stop this
TIC, TIC, TIC, TOC
The sand is moving fastly
It...

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Sweet love, what you do to me, 
You follow me all the way home.

I've got places to be, to see, 
If I'm ever gonna make myself known.

Sweet love, when you climb on my back 
you...

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Faraway in a distant land hope grows 
age of centuries battlefield of truth 
a merry go around 
cotton white kisses clouds 
dancing joy blows them away 

Warmly into paradise upon golden sands 
lingering magic music...

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Do not call me
strong Black woman for
it is not a compliment
It is a title given to us
boxed inside expectations that
weigh us down
We are not superheroes
yet we are branded with
an "S" on our chest
forced to steer...

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THE BALANCING ACT

I woke up again, again and again,
Rewind the incidents that gasped before me;
I was a freak at that time, there I was saved by a matriarch, 
Oh! I was dried and dehydrated yesterday...

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I believe in the goodness within mankind,
Even though I have seen good evidence against it.
I believe that there is good in very nearly everything,
Even though that often seems impossible.

I believe that bad situations can be...

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There’s a place that exists
between Hell and Hell
We’re doing the balancing act
on the wobbly center rail
trying hard to keep our sanity

America, I’d pledge allegiance
if I only knew which country owns us
I’ve asked the questions
never get...

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to those struggling to stay afloat,
performing that ever-amusing 
balancing act, standing on the raft 
of dwindling “faith,” while the river 
of rationality, science & reason
continues without pause 
to flow stronger than
ever down below---
that is, when...

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I don't dream about someone rescues me
I don't believe in who rescues whom
I believe life is what you make it
What is life anyway?
Life is doing what you want when you want it
Life is going after...

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A nature's change cycle:

Some noted trees are of these: cypress, cedar, chestnut, cottonwood; 
the hawthorn, hazel, hickory, honeysuckle and holly
These are a few of the color guards of this time filled governed season 
The balancing...

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