Long Codependence Poems

This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.  

Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking...

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Time begat space,
energy begat matter,
function begat form,
as Yin begat Yang.

Concave begat convex,
negative-squared begat positive,
ionic waves begat radiant sprays,
as NotNotBinomial Function begat PolyNomial Information.

Consumption begat production,
parasites begat Hosts,
electrons begat protons,
as monoculture begat polycultures.

Non-aversion begat co-arising prehension,
possession...

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Kids,
like adults,
who become ecologically active,
join in gardening,
urban, and suburban, and rural cooperative farming,
green environmental sciences,
school gardens as group art installations
and outdoor entertainment
and spirit/nature nondualistic humane-divine experience,
tend to be joiners and stayers,
sometimes annoying OpenSpace Occupiers

Who stray...

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Who can find a virtuous woman?
She is worth far more than rubies.
She is not a possession but a partner.
She is a fantastic conversation starter.
My wife found out that her brother drowned and that she was...

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Love isn’t amorousness,
Nor is it hunger nor thirst,
With vehemence, I insist:  Love is a perpetual motion machine
O!  Break!  Break!  Break!  My Hardened Heart!
Be shattered by Love,
And let all your disquietude...

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I loved you once years ago 
Our passion was divine
Could see our life together forever
But instead I could not compete
For your lover was a bottle.

I tried all I could do 
Being your wife and supporting...

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In your presence, I rode an emotional roller coaster.
A wild journey through peaks and valleys, no poster. 
From dizzying heights to the depths of a dungeon.
You stir my soul, unraveling emotions, no truncheon.

My defenses crumble....

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she & she or
she & he or
he & he or
locked in a cage
like birds with clipped wings
staring through the bars out at the sunlight making its way over the back of the early morning mountains
with...

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finding a depth in the 
vulnerable person
standing before him--- 
a hole he feels needs filling
by someone compassionate,
by someone who would just 
listen,
he moves closer to her &
offers his hand in help,
he offers his heart in...

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Being with you is an emotional roller coaster …instability
You circulate my emotions from the heights to the dungeon 
my guards are down I own the humility
You are the destroyer of my being, my soul sponge
Being...

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If poetry were a man
And he would be a man
As he exhibits all the symptoms of the most haunting members of that sex
On the one hand, a near-crippling arrogance, yet balanced by great likeability
He dons...

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This poem 
is about 
how much
I adore
my sister
and the
pot brownies
I’m in
trouble for
and how 
they are 
related for I
have an 
unhealthy 
obsession 
with one and
unhealthy 
Codependence
with the
other but 
for some 
reason I 
crave them 
both and...

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