Long Dana Poems

Young Timmy saw Jim walking down the street.  Timmy considered a quick retreat, but steadied himself with a shrug.  Timmy dreaded the sight of Jim, a teenage bully and wanna be thug, who...

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When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a theologian,
Dr. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864)
reaching out for non-violent dialogue
across all global healing cultures.

This 1800s Dr....

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Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby the Army National Guard gets called
World War III...

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OF THE COMMON SEAS
  "We must come down from our heights, and leave our straight paths, for the byways and low places of life, if we would learn truths by strong contrasts; and in...

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Thought for Today: Casting Down Imaginations
By Dana Redricks
Gods People
January 2, 2020

" We are destroying sophisticated arguments and every exalted and proud thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God, and we are...

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Author Dana Redricks
December 9, 2023

I'm crazy so in love with you. I've never met no one like you. I like the way you keep it real, the emotions I feel for you is so real....

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Good News Trinities:

ReFold
Fold
UnFold

+1
(-)0
(-,-)binomial/double-binary 0

Positron, function of restorative reaction, informating
Neutron, function of bilateral mid-way action
Neutrino, function of result, exforming, intrinsic/implicate binomial

Trust
MisTrust
AntiTrust

Uracil
Adenine/Guanine midway balance
Cytosine

Brahman
God
Allah

Brahman, function of ReGeneration
Vishnu, function of ReStoring Primal Relationship
Shiva, anti-function of DeGeneration-Retribution-Loss-Jihad

Yagna, function of...

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Okay, tomorrow Father's dayy & i'm sitting here thankingg about all my father's done for me . . Yeaa, he gave me money from time to time, but it wus nuthang compared to what momma...

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Maybe the guff was empty—Cancer full moon eclipse

Left field call on the black wall phone
faint cry from the distant end
spoke with throat lump of capital
disaster and a troddened womans most
everydom—lost before found—somehow Jan
knew and put...

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Author  Dana Redricks 
November 28, 2024

(Verse 1)
God keeps blessing me once more, this I know for sure. Every time I look around, He's opening another door. I've seen Him bring me through, so many...

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JudeoChristian monotheists,
from fundamental conservationists
on back to radical creolizing multiculturists
inspiring nature-spirit co-revolutions,
declare YHWH to be unchanging,
in constant loving relationship with planet Earth
and all EarthTribes

And therefore constant integrity,
synergy,
creativity,
regenerativity,
macaronically iconized as creolizing fertility.

Mystics and prophets,
seers and heretics,
science-fiction and...

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Author Dana Redricks
December 12, 2023

(Verse 1)
I don't wanna live like this no more, tired of the pain, the misery at my door. Can't endure it, can't take it anymore,
Gotta find my strength and step through...

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By Dana Redricks
April 11, 2020

Persuading people of their need for Salvation is difficult sometimes, but it is we, do the planting, and God who does the harvesting."Remember that God does not call the equipped; He...

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Reverence the Lord for He Cares for Us: By Dana Redricks

 We should reverence the Lord. He has the power of life and death. This passage Paul tells us, God loves us, and no one...

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Reverence the Lord for He Cares for Us: By Dana Redricks

 We should reverence the Lord. He has the power of life and death. This passage Paul tells us, God loves us, and no one...

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Author Dana Redricks
July 18, 2023

In the depths of my being, a struggle stirs, a battle against society's chains,
My sexuality, an enigma to unravel, ongoing to break free from the shadows it restrains.

Whispers of judgment, they...

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  “Grief is like the ocean. The waves ebb and flow. Sometimes the water is calm. Other times it's turbulent. In order to survive, I had to learn to swim. In moments when I...

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Re: Thank You to unknown 
   tom, dick, harry, tam, dame, 
   or dana from the MHS Class of 77, 
   though this alum
experiences public education 
  ...

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Author Dana Redricks 
August 31, 2024

I know you’ve seen the shadows, felt the weight of endless night, cried yourself to sleep in silence,  
Fighting battles, yearning for the light.

Though the world seems cold and...

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You Color My World With Love
           Darling I love You           
    ...

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By Dana Redricks

Dear Heavenly Father, when I think about how things were in the beginning before sin entered the world I realize how destructive sin is, and how sin separates us from you. You are...

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Author Dana Redricks
July 28, 2023

In the realm of gratitude, I take my pen, to celebrate the blessings bestowed, again. For as I traverse life’s winding, arduous road, I find solace in the love that God...

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Author Dana Redricks 
August 29, 2023


In the depths of darkness, when hope seems to fade, when the road is long, and weariness pervades, take solace, dear soul, for there’s strength to be found, in the...

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Author Dana Redricks 
October 11, 2024

To have loved is a treasure, a gift finely spun, far richer than silence, where hearts come undone. With each brand-new chapter, with every embrace, we gather the fragments, we...

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By Dana Redricks 

"For while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened [often weighed down, oppressed], not that we want to be unclothed [separated by death from the body], but to be clothed,...

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