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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"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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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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Ha
Hap
Happ
Happy
Happy o
Happy or
Happy or d
Happy or de
Happy or dep
Happy or depr
Happy or depres
Happy or depress
Happy or depresse
Happy or depressed
Happy or depresse
Happy or depress
Happy or depres
Happy or depre
Happy or depr
Happy or dep
Happy or de
Happy or d
Happy...

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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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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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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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You have gained that stature  of man
Holding  the sky on your palms.
Twist the world around your fingers
And diffuse the arrogant fury of the nature.

Your knowledge and intelligent   probes
Shall  restrain ...

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I continue reading Iain McGilchrist's
"The Master [Mistress] and his [her] Emissary,"
a retelling of many RightWing dominant
and LeftWing repressed and suppressed events
anti-ecofeminist
and pro-orthodox patriarchal white privileged histories
of nationalistic fatherlands
written across the individual ego-hearts
and eco-habitats
of every EarthMother...

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It’s ironic, when I think about it…as the years pass…
the more and more I grow
the more and more I come to realize…
all the things I do not know.

My parents and my teachers helped me learn…
They...

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A lot of hurtful things 
Said that night 
In what was to be 
Only Discovery

We pucked honesty
And talked toilet truth
Somehow we tried
To execute the universe

Our soul’s purpose to live
In life, in the present
Not the future...

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Confucius was confusing
speaking of tones in long
ago bones found in a stone
carving of sorts. A King
with legs too short playing
hot!kee indeed.

Hold my sky.the Scribe isn't falling....

It's Just, as described the Kitten
purrs calling eYes that are...

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