Long Centering Poems
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Father Time's InterviewHi.
We don't have a lot of time,
or, well, I guess you do,
but I don't,
so let's plunge right into the first big question:
Which came first, form or function?
False dichotomy. No such thing as a totally dysfunctional...
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Categories:
centering, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Two Wrongs Worth a RightToday, our first “All About Me” History class begins
when we comprehend every day and night
co-arises with “All About We”
full-octave
Zero-centric
bicamerally encultured
and regenetically reiterated
in and through,
by and for,
before and after,
each moment of Earth Tribe’s timeless surfing times.
If...
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Categories:
centering, culture, earth, humor, integrity, philosophy, political, universe,
Form:
Narrative
People of FaithIt's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
centering, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Who's Crazy NowI have an outside RightBrain dominant thalamus
to watch and listen to,
to feel confluent and resonant with,
to love,
as parent with child,
yet this is more of a mutual-mentoring of
notsad-notsad sustainable bliss
within our normally limited nutritional sensory environment.
My...
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Categories:
centering, body, dream, health, humor, identity, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Sonnets Xxv-XxxiiSonnets XXV-XXXII
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
centering, bereavement, body, cancer, change, death, depression, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Sonnets X-XviSonnets X-XVI
Archaischer Torso Apollos (“Archaic Torso of Apollo”)
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
centering, art, body, god, life, romantic, visionary, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
centering, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
centering, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Naked Redmeat EmperorsRE: Continuing RedMeat Only,
much less any Green Leafy Salads
Abraham Lincoln thought it politically unhealthy,
and probably economically unwise,
to disinvest his Cabinet,
much less his entire Constitutionally incorporated population,
from ecopolitical diversity.
What is politically healthy,
probably not an all RedMeat...
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Categories:
centering, anti bullying, body, emotions, health, loss, love,
Form:
Political Verse
God As Brown As An EggIf God is EggWhite
then Tao is His embryonic EarthYolk.
Why would you say such a confusing and silly thing?
What is the difference between a Paradise Tree of Life and Death
and a Great Chain of Being?
Is this...
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Categories:
centering, earth, god, health, history, motivation, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Archaic Torso of Apollo: Rilke TranslationArchaic Torso of Apollo
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a lamp lit from within,...
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Categories:
centering, art, body, god, life, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
Perennial ProblemsI suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.
Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...
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Categories:
centering, culture, history, humor, philosophy, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
New Year Poems INew Year Poetry
Auld Lange Syne
by Robert Burns
translation by Michael R. Burch
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot,
And days for which we pine?
For times we shared, my darling,
Days passed,...
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Categories:
centering, birth, celebration, change, firework, january, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
War and Peace: That Midst Nations and NationalsWar and Peace: That Midst Nations And Nationals
War and Peace, a classical fiction by Leo Tolstoy, first published as Voyna I Mir in 1865–69. This picturesque reflection of early 19th-century Russian culture saw as its...
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Categories:
centering, allegory, angst, life, marriage, war,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
More Resilient Dancing DaysShared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more
May also become felt
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our way
through emotionally deserted
dessert
Curiously lingering faith
in progressive integrity
of bilateral co-passions
and possibly multilateral
spiritual inside
reflects...
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Categories:
centering, extended metaphor, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Therapeutic Work and PlayYou mentioned you work with a therapist.
Has she encouraged you to incorporate centering exercises
and holistic thinking and feeling experiences
healing interior and exterior nondualistic climate events
in your everyday thinking/feeling mutually non-violent practice?
Has she encouraged...
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Categories:
centering, caregiving, deep, earth, education, green, health, love,
Form:
Political Verse
False ProphetsDisciples: How will we know True from False Prophets?
Teacher: You will cooperatively discern them
by their polyculturing love.
When does fear that disasters are becoming too relentlessly true,
masquerade as anger that such events and facts and trends
must...
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Categories:
centering, abuse, anger, fathers day, fear, freedom, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Rilke Translations IArchaischer Torso Apollos ("Archaic Torso of Apollo")
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We cannot know the beheaded god
nor his eyes' forfeited visions. But still
the figure's trunk glows with the strange vitality
of a...
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Categories:
centering, art, life, love, tribute, visionary, voice, wine,
Form:
Verse
Psychology of Political EconomicsShalom, Aloha, Namaste
Identity is rooted in socioeconomic health of mutual trust,
beginning in utero
swimming about in embryonic nutrition,
rather than active distrust
or more passive mistrust of the relatively unknown
yet somehow paranoic alien, Other.
The psychological fuel for polypathic...
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Categories:
centering, beauty, blessing, culture, health, humor, psychological, social,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Family Health AssessmentI have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not too much NegativEnergy, concerns
for hygienic technology professional management,
anger and fear commercialized insurance...
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Categories:
centering, earth, education, health, humor, muse, music, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Earth HuggingWhat could I do?
What to do
when your biological,
and even formerly sober ecological,
relationships suddenly veer insanely romantic?
Or worse,
mistrustful
and yet
not always distrustful,
or not,
maybe deeper sadness
and occasional manic gladness
emerging inclusively wider questions
of approach and/or avoid
Both romantic
and yet...
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Categories:
centering, health, light, passion, peace, power, romantic love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Healthy and Resilient DiplomacyAnd I respond
to your unasked question:
What might love have to do with regenesis,
synthesis,
integrity?
You ask me these questions
about framing an essential therapeutic message,
for that must be how centering questions end,
about essence
core
soul
spirit
nature
energy
guts
roots
seeds
wombs
eucharistic ZeroSum
ReGenerative Green
Resonant and...
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Categories:
centering, earth, environment, green, health, humor, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Cheerio ImaginationsImagine,
for the two thousand and twentieth time,
Yang is hierarchical upside power hungry
from above,
authorized to prey on those yins below,
however resiliently they may pray.
Yang grows politically overpowering strengths
of an autonomously omnipotent god,
pejoratively associated with patriarchy,
and ethologically...
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Categories:
centering, analogy, green, health, humor, hyperbole, integrity, metaphor,
Form:
Political Verse
Twice-Told TaleI was speaking with a bus driver mom
about her bipolar son withdrawing from meds
on a trial basis,
hoping to qualify for military service.
She was praising the strengths of her son's Christian school,
from which he is about...
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Categories:
centering, christian, culture, earth, power, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
My Avatar SonI have a son,
in whom I am well pleased,
with more than his share of heart
and mindbody intelligence,
to comprehend vastness of Earth's evolving history
and future demise,
to comprehend full emptiness of universes within
and without
co-arising nondual lonely/solitude
double-binary universes
de/re-generative,
Enough...
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Categories:
centering, father son, happiness, health, identity, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse