Long Betweens Poems

‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of  different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. ‘

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Verse 1: Hating can hurt...taking off my shirt 
Fading can make you feel like dirt 
Sometimes, I feel beautiful and high as a kite
Other days, I feel like a cow patty on the ground...you love...

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Please don't share this
pledge to inter-religious allegiance
with your straight white monotheistic worshiping
friends and family,

But, just between us panentheistic ecofeminists,
sometimes,
not often enough,
we would be healthier and wealthier
to reflect together upon

Internal polytheistic integrity communications,
bilaterally organic both/and dipolar
internal/external...

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Political Science of Eco-Educational Vocations

Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?

Oh, I see..ecosystemic learning and mentoring,
including pedagogical development systems
doing the best we can,
bless our matriotically nurturing hearts,
to figure out our own deep...

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A pure Hawaiian of rare birth,
living a life somewhat carefree,
fed farm animals by this squirt,
sticks and stones were real toys indeed,
set trash ablaze, be on alert,
a barefoot country kid, that's me,
a runner on trails made...

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Tonight the act of naming fell through the floor.
We speak permeable solids inflect’d by light.
Things move indistinctly: a pine palette floats
momentarily from semi truck’s bed, crosses
its body with windshield; ovidian shift from a
Forest to an...

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[A few years ago, I wrote this poem “On Writing Poetry” for creative writing students. I hesitated to put it on Poetry Soup, but I did some revisions and decided to share it with you....

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Oh that’s you and me  

“You and me were always with each other,
before we knew the other was ever there”

Destiny carves its path through lives,
filling needs unknown until it happens
Bridging gaps of empty terrain
where...

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We don’t appreciate
the sun until it r a i n s,
warmth of gentle rays
that subtly stroke
distressed skin
  when time was f r o z e n 
  smiles were s t o l...

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Sharp alien quiet accosts our nuclear fallout,
Twin beds and I between them,
Remnants of faces
Laughter, tears,
Exchanges deadline in future tense,
The decimating absence of marriage
To anything whole--

This uniform hotel room mien
Eats emotional in-betweens
R B G
Symmetrically channeling Western...

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So, is this personification
of political systems?
asked the organic ecologist.

Or politicization
of intimately
yet transcendently
secular and sacred
personal economic-nutritional analysis
of health-wealth trends?
asked the macrosystemic economist,
in his rather too long projecting way
of exploring means
and medians
and in-betweens.

And both?
asked the theologian
after listening...

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Once some travelers on the road
to a land of treasure, slowed,
halting in their journey’s pace
halfway to that distant place.

Scared that bandits might attack,
they decided to turn back,
too discouraged to proceed…
Hence the group began to plead
with...

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Seed - scattered strewn or downtrodden.
Grain stuck on passive flytrap mucus.
Wild life biomes ripe with  open sesame.
Frantic birth pangs stiffen their gestations as green  leaf ferments bubble underneath.
Mother of all wombs, diva pulse...

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Some say 
 the experiences and encounters along life's paths and ways,
 it's the journey that we're on,
 the sibling rivalry, the parental guides in each direction gone,
from birth to death we do our best...

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At the ripe old age of seventy something
one begins to notice the clouds that have formed
in the mind creating a veil betweens one's
consciousness and the world around them.

It seems that things that were once important...

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There was a sickly tree

In a barren clearing

In a burning country

On a mourning day.


A wild crown of branches

Haloed by concentric rings;

A rising wave of spires and spindles lashing at the air;

Prismatic infernos leaping forth from...

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A time there was that I was caught between
my innocence and an awakening!
I learned of grown-up things. No longer green, 
I then had neared the ending of my spring.

Brief was the in-between I next would...

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I believe…

He is wise – He is strong
He knows my heart and my soul
He’ll love me my whole lifelong
His light shining down makes me whole

He is joy and He is peace
He abides in love and...

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I dreamt of being on a cloud 
Dancing and laughing gaily out loud 
For I felt so very light and free 
Free of life's mediocrity 

In my dream I was deeply in love 
Not the...

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Nocturnal go betweens as I wish wonder why and
pine and ponder the thrill of you, in-sensed
enraged plight unforgiving unkind-blistered
human frality relentless fingers grip and squeeze
the terrified emotion from a craving heart strong
with beaded bridled bullshit;...

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From Sea, Earth And Sky, All The In Betweens

So sweet, splashing waves of Spring's fawning crest
beauty dear sent at Nature's kind behest,
vivid sprouting colors, its brilliant sheen
fresh dawn's soft-born glows, its peacock like preen!

Invigorating as...

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ReGeneratively nonspanking speaking,
co-empathic
co-operative
co-governing
co-passions
of and for
resilient health
and safety
win/win communication systems

Are also non-violent communication networks
rooted in bicameral
bilateral
binomial
bipartisan
bioregional 
polyculturally healthy ego-purposed
voices co-arising wealthy eco-sacred
choiced meaning

Regeneratively deep listening
within compassionate verbal/non-verbal communication
systems flowing in
bicameral branching
co-gravitating up
and out
from Earth's internal 
immanent...

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At ease of ill on bed where thoughts I lay
over cigar butts & a bottle of gin approaching

to its eight. c/o you, a wry malice 
once most I herd under the influence of curiosity, intimacy

more...

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Windows And Doors 

Windows and doors 
And other means 
Of escape, or views 
Of me inside. 

Doing laborious chores, 
But full of beans, 
Yet the latest news 
Is that I cried. 

So I dreamt up...

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You are the sunshine of my life
That’s why I’ll always be around
You are the apple of my eye
Forever you’ll stay in my heart
—Stevie Wonder

“Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow...

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