Long Dissonant Poems
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Seductive Responsibilities
I am exhausted by bad government excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid my own responsibility,
well within the bounds of my self-governing authority:
"I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...
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Categories:
dissonant, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:
In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...
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Categories:
dissonant, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Grand Priorities
What fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
dissonant, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel lonely,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
dissonant, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Burning Logs
Each flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
dissonant, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Learning To Recreate Health
From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step
Summary
The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is
by [deductively analytical academic] tradition
the only proper [true, good] use of...
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Categories:
dissonant, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Father Time's Interview
Hi.
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:
dissonant, allegory, earth, environment, nature, philosophy, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Sins of Supreme Suppression
Not to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation
long become YangDominant associated
with monotheistic 'civilization',
aristocratic anthrosupremacism,
including Earth's newer colonizing history
of evolution by Orthodox Moral Elitism.
Processes of GodWord supremacy
became belligerently associated
with...
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Categories:
dissonant, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Caregiving Stories Reprise
Wounded Sacred Dementia: Part Two
Dementia's derelict WinLose SocialWorker
suboptimizingly hesitates
when I tell her
I have not changed my mind
about not adopting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
into my vulnerable home
with a seven-year-old AfricanAmerican boy
blind
and unable to defend himself,
or even run...
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Categories:
dissonant, caregiving, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
Community Health Assurance
Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and cooperative tree and plant and children and elderly nursing
preserved through winter kitchens
and solar-fueled composting centers.
Health insurance assurance,
transubstantiating health/wealth reassurance,
investing in cooperatively-owned and eco-managing
therapeutic non-violent...
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Categories:
dissonant, community, conflict, corruption, courage, freedom, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Bodhisattva Tease
Do you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
dissonant, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Our Earthcafe Coop
In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
dissonant, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Water's Weakness
There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...
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Categories:
dissonant, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Reyinning Yang
Imagine,
said Yin to distraught Yang,
never able to get quite enough of himself,
never enough time to fully become his ego-potentiality
Imagine this day opens a new rhetorical event,
a new day of conversation between Ego
and those you live...
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Categories:
dissonant, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
Making Curious Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...
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Categories:
dissonant, anger, culture, fear, history, love, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Healthy Conversations
Life as active love
evolves toward more polycultural communication,
across both species and time,
within Earth’s Solar EcoSystemic Universe.
While this conversation includes human natured communicators,
we suboptimize our ecological balance
if endo-human discourse monopolizes our lifetime learning dialogue.
A life...
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Categories:
dissonant, culture, earth, health, heaven, humor, math, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Custody of 2020 Eyes
Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other positions of merited or inherited authority,
to avoid appearing too curious
too available
too...
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Categories:
dissonant, games, gender, health, poverty, psychological, racism, slavery,
Form:
Political Verse
Universal Credit Union
Stepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?
He invited me to sit down
to consider cooperative transactions
as our intentional understory
camouflaged within our ecotherapeutic relationships,
like...
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Categories:
dissonant, earth, nature, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
Green Democratic Empathy
I don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal feelings,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-passionate trust
where dipolar co-arising positive pleasure
is...
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Categories:
dissonant, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
dissonant, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Political Verse
Fishy Science School of Geometric Arts
Math speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
dissonant, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
Sweetspots
Could 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:
dissonant, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
dissonant, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
A Few Years Back and Forth
A 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:
dissonant, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
SunGod's Original Idea
I'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might re-cognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NotNegativeYin
Win/Win Balancing
compassionate/pleasant
dialectically dipolar
co-binary appositional
positive/negative co-relational,
co-arising leftmind/rightbody hemispheres
of enbrightening light
and empowering...
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Categories:
dissonant, earth, health, sun, time, trust,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum