Long Civility Poems

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Premium Member Feminist Integrity's Nonscarcity

I can experience integrity of time
and dissonance of not enough
and too much
but cannot find
define
refine a line
in-between
anxiety and anticipation

Win ego-healthy center
to win-ecosystemic wealth sufficiency
divesting of a punishing win/lose shadow
anthro-supremacist leftbrain dominant world 
view

Feeling committed to change
strategies restoring peace 
on
and in,
above
and beyond awesome
and wondrous sacred 
divinely secularized humane
EarthJustice

Could never become regenerative
through degenerative win/lose
ZeroSum scarcity
predicts dissonance about punishment

AND
Peace will never spontaneously regenerate
when diminishing multicultural esteem value
for win/win NonZero sums 
of integrity's Truth means BeautyTwo emergence
restoring bicameral climates of warm felt justice

Through integral,
permacultural,
polycultural
global climate health 
restoring inside
outside Peace
of Just sufficiency
simplicity
sustainability
surrounded by EarthDay seas 
of gratitude

CoEmpathic sympathy
CoOperative empathy
CoPassion nonpathology

Win/Win trusting attitudes
of ecosystemic deep
and emergent wide experience
through multi-sensory 
multi-generational
poly-regenerational reflection
micro ego-inspired
and macro eco-witnessed

BiCameral Left with Right co-operative
co-reflection identity confluence,
curious confidence,

Integrity's potential 
slow-steeped tea
of sufficiency
robust simplicity
solidarity through win/win
elegant engagement
civility

Restoring EarthPeace
through multiculturally appreciative Justice
integrating sustainable EarthFull View dialogue

AND

Not diving so deeply
in disastrously dissonant
deductive dominant
EarthScarcity debate.


Premium Member Aging In Curious Places

As I age in place
into awareness of replaceability
I bow to humbling curiosity,

Whether more anxious
or anticipating,
I remain conflicted

About predicting
a win/win global healthy climate
sustainable outcome

In which my own anthroprivileged species
grows in ecological curiosity
and theological humility

Enough for winning healthy Earth
restoring justice,
inclusive
or exclusive?
of us.

A peaceful paradise of curious promise
for resiliently wealthy
multicultural ecofeminists
of all seeing/hearing EarthMother species

AND our leftbrain dominant
StraightWhiteMale capital growing fragile
and increasingly wounded Allies

Or will this Great Green Transition
end and recycle back again
a healthier peace and justice Earth
devoid of inhumane
predative
overpopulated rabid hetero-unsapient pests?

While this winEarth/loseAnthros 
heart-stopping vision fails to mention 
all the further kinship species
we have already helped exterminate
and will continue to take out with us,

Still 
stunned
shunned
I remain quietly hopeful
that a seventh great extinction
might never come to be
before Second Comings

Of Edenic Civility
bereft of straight either/or lined
leftbrain dominant distractions

Extractions
from right interdependent circling
spiraling feeling
abundant historical multicultural traction
for healthy democratic energy
empowering flow
and enlightened nature/spirit MultiSpecies

Worshipping
polyculturing sensory resonant pleasures
of resilient health wealthy climate paradise

Recovering
old aging wonder,
humbling
and still actively curious
how EarthMother healthy ends

And rebegins 
re-ligions wealthily ever after
with Yang empowering
Yintegral enlightening balance,

Either both/and way,
humane-divine hybrid consciousness
of
merely sublime natural 
sensory aware 
animating spirits,

Breaths of incoming
outgoing life
as love
regeneratively prevails.

And yet
I cannot resist some attachment,
as I limp toward my own ego-recentering
ultra-nonviolet 
compassioning horizon,

Rooting for this new global age
of Green Cooperative EcoNonPaternal-Privileged
already leading our nonviolent communion
toward a resiliently restorative EarthJustice Way,

A curious winning for AnthroTribe
also winning Earth GreenPeace
to health/wealth new deal Thrive.

Premium Member Communicating Gratitude

My non-communication
and dissonant
dysfunctional miscommunication,
and occasionally aggressive
challenging win/lose dogmatic
refusal to bother with communication,

These all degeneratively punish
and unpleasantly neglect
open systemic civility

With marginalizing effects
further reinforcing
disempowered
and unenlightened 
trauma-avoiding behaviors

Toxic for those most wounded
and disabled
by LeftBrain dominant
monotheistic divine omnipotence
v hedonistic human non-verbal
non-violent impotence

A non-communion corporate spirit
of LeftBrain individual is supreme 
divisive worldview
harboring "gifted" classrooms
and partisan parties
and elitist societies
for StraightWhite 
anthro-hierarchical evolutionary power
to suppress RightBrain
healthy multicultural Trust
wealthy with indigenous
natural/spiritual Beauty.

Resonant resilient communication
strings of thriving v merely surviving 
history may invite a long operatic organic epic
but does not necessarily suppress communion
of non-verbal healthy-wealth intuitions,
does not repress
felt polysensory-neural healthcare
community

Passionate gratitude
positive attitude
inspired by sacred place 
of generous natural Trust
meets secular incorporated time
to co-invest in ubiquitous spiritual Beauty

Communicating mindful thanks
humble joy
reminds me
my "disability" labels
lie uncomfortably close
to dis-enabling resonant integrity's 
deepest sacred potential,
resilient love communication
in multicultural experiences
of abundant 
serene win/win
resonant communion 

Wide passions
of co-empathic gratitude
for each day of Truth thought 
is also Beauty felt
growing in multi-sensory resonance 
neuro-systemic health-is-rich-wealth
polyculturing resilient communications

Prevailing over non-communication
and dissonant 
disempowering miscommunication,
and occasionally aggressive
challenging oppositionally defiant 
unenlightened refusal to bother 
communicating sacred 
space expanding 
compassionate co-passions.

Premium Member Civil War Revisited

A nation in crisis
                                       Democracy in divide
                                       Repudiating solution
                                       Political pride

                                       Democracy in divide
                                       Dissolution and havoc
                                       Political pride
                                       Absence of civility

                                       Dissolution and havoc
                                       A high price to pay
                                       Absence of civility
                                       Constitutional discord

                                       A high price to pay
                                       Repudiating solution
                                       Constitutional discord
                                       A nation in crisis





February 5, 2017
Form: Pantoum

Revealed


     In Battery Point, two centuries stayed
     Settlers’ cottage, compact, sandstone stoic
     Paired attic windows see civility made
     From grim past pioneering treachery awoke


     Piston motion push n pull combustion 
     Cloudy tea cups cultivate cow cud, churn
     Tangible treaties are carved, thrusting 
     Structure schools crops convened return


     Stood in a line, life dictates we press 
     Our progenies - dominoes, foretell demise 
     Dots identify, dark remains nameless 
     Two sided story - twists a spritely surprise



     Federation funds finds plenty plausible 
     Bundled under blankets, cash in chest reserve
     Heritage heirloom has relic resourceful 
     Epic ends agony against environment of verve



                        18th April

         Ate what our ancestors Sprinkled
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member A Four Way Stop

Always great fun at an intersection
With only a four way stop
You start, he starts, it's him no it's me
Nose to nose, where's a cop

You glare, he glares, nothing's solved
It boils down to a battle of wits
Like kids arguing over a colourful pull toy
“That's mine! No, it's mine!” and you sit

Even the ear shattering sound of horns
Has no effects on this yahoo!
All hell breaks loose, 8 guys get out
And a bloody fist fight ensues!

Standing back I watch the proceedings
Grown men acting like jerks
Get back in my car, I drive around it all
It's not worth being late for work

Four way stops are becoming quite rare
In this fast paced world we live in
The days of civility have all been replaced
When nobody's willing to give in

© Jack Ellison 2013
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member The End of Civility

It began with a careless remark
Uttered by one of the dinner guests,
Which ignited fury's sudden spark!
Perhaps it was better unexpressed.

Politeness went out of the window,
Good will left by the door,
Late afternoon lost its ruddy glow,
In the wake of the uproar!

Amid the August mess so fine,
Dinner, uneaten, grew cold.
Trembling glasses, spilled the wine;
The day grown quickly old.

Like butterflies, were all disguised?
Did they hide themselves so well?
Was it here today that love died,
Or long before the dinner bell?

Mockingbird sings to a summer night-
After the end, no turning back.
Though darkness is but a shadow of the light,
It is profoundly black!
Form: Rhyme

Carpe Diem

Carpe diem.

Life can turn on a dime.
One moment you may be engrossed in a book and the next,
it's as though time...Time slips away,  taking with it your imagination and civility.
Time steals your identity. 
It fractures under the daily stresses.
Life....., OH life! It totally depresses.
You stand on an icy pond, frozen... sub zero temperatures.
Then suddenly it cracks beneath your feet, it ruptures.
You try to hold on, before long..... you're gone!
The cold, inviting-biting all the way to your very core.
All of your memories good and bad begin to soar.
Your last breath, your lungs filled with filthy pond water.
You sink down deeper and deeper, nothing else matters.
The last thoughts you pondered.
-What could I have done differently?
-What other options were there?... taking all precautions. 
I have tried to see it through others eyes.
But linger the questions; what, where and why?
Carpe diem is a word many say. 
When karma decides to have her own way.
Like a serpent, in the night! 
Large enough to devour you, she may strike.
It is time that enslaves us all.
Good or bad, big or small.
Each decision made. Each word spoken.
A gift, a journey, a trial, lives stolen.
We may feel as though we are protected. 
But the system is set, your minds redirected.
We live in the matrix. A maze, just like mice.
Derived, deprived. A roll of the dice.
Have you ever Russian Roulette? 
One bullet in the chamber, cocking the gun. Life's regret.
With each and every breath you take.
Remember and know what's at stake. 
Do on to others as you wish done to you.
Because the frozen pond is your life, it can crack too.
With all seriousness set aside.
Life and time, a wild ride.
Always remember karma may come.
Do on to others as you want done!


~mp (copyright protected )
© Manon Peel  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Faded Crossings

The sun went down before mid day. 
And left me just walking away.
To feel the darkness cover me.
And wonder if I'll ever see.

The light of day has a new shade.
Since that dark day that the devil made.
A momentary lapse of love.
Where angels couldn't see above.

The clouds have covered up my view.
I now feel that I have lost you.
And once again I search my soul.
To learn love's lesson's and it's toll.

Bridges to where you didn't choose.
Emotions that leave you no clues.
An end result that just went wrong.
And now it's just gone on too long.

Roads back sometimes just disappear.
When reason fills your heart with fear.
Afraid to challenge what seems sound.
When evil brakes up solid ground.

Down and out feels too familiar.
That place inside where you can't feel her.
A losers sense of common sense.
That emptiness of recompense.

Civility, now lost sanity.
Where love knows no humanity.
Is where I now must find my way.
Back to that place where I can stay.
Form: Rhyme

So sorry to see you go Mo


So sorry to see you go Mo

Tally ho & bravo but must let you know

Not being weird...you had a bigger beard 

Face more hirsute to boot than even WG Grace.


Gleaming beaming grin..streaming through thick and thin...

Joker scheming and memeing of jolly japes in manic scrapes 

Becomes a theme which actually factually shapes the team..


Huge heart but at the start...batting was his art

But got the ball to dart...a sneaky peak of freak tweak

Rev of Revs..runs would leak but could get the conker to squeak

Bunsen burner turner..utterly butterly unique

It went wrong not long after the Swann swansong

Lucky that plucky Mo came along

Should be defended as ended up our number 3 in history


Lyrical levers larruping lush cover drives

Ridiculously pretty on the eye...fragrant flair as fresh as glacial air.

Humility..civility..and fragility...a kinder...peaky blinder..Midlands nobility

No cobblers.. Mo has to be one of the finest lip and cherry

Wobblers to ever come from the city of Brum

Where he was born...bred and buttered


Rally the Mayor to not dilly dally

Name a street Moeen's Alley


Oh and just in case you didn't 

Hear in the first place...

Or history does somehow misplace

Mo the face of grace..elan..silky as lace.. 

Had a bigger beard  than even the feared

Revered and rather weird...WG Grace
Form: Rhyme

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