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Starting With BeginningsLeft:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
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Categories:
ebbing, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Burning LogsEach 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:
ebbing, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
VillanellesVillanelles
The villanelle is a poetic form based on repetition, with a double refrain.
Villanelle: The Divide
by Michael R. Burch
The sea was not salt the first tide...
was man born to sorrow that first day,
with the...
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Categories:
ebbing, moon, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic love, sea,
Form:
Villanelle
Water's WeaknessThere 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:
ebbing, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Yosa Buson TranslationsYosa Buson haiku translations
On the temple’s great bronze gong
a butterfly
snoozes.
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Hard to describe:
this light sensation of being pinched
by a butterfly!
?Yosa Buson, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Not to worry...
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Categories:
ebbing, age, animal, autumn, father, moon, mother, nature,
Form:
Haiku
Rondels, Roundels and RondeauxRondels, Roundels and Rondeaux
These are poetic forms similar to villanelles, with refrains (repeated lines) and sometimes double refrains.
Rondel: Merciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot...
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Categories:
ebbing, art, beauty, heart, repetition, romance, romantic, romantic
Form:
Roundel
Cooperative FeministasCooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.
In David Holmgren's introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts "Industrial Culture" with "Sustainable Culture"
kind of like comparing masculine LeftBrain culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather...
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Categories:
ebbing, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
And Still I Drive - Part OneStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
ebbing, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Balancing Work and PlayI was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.
Rev. Jaynes had a son,
a second generation Julian...
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Categories:
ebbing, christian, destiny, god, health, history, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Daily Show and TellDear Toni,
I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.
I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...
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Categories:
ebbing, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Listening For FirestormsAlways respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.
They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...
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Categories:
ebbing, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Old FriendsQuakers build their cooperative politics
on following consensually-held fertile lights.
Buddha adds,
Follow your TruthLight,
back through our universal co-arising (0)-spacetime equi-valence
dualdark Out/In Breathing-Landscapes BiCameral MindBody Balance,
ecology of birth through regenerate rebirth
of eco-ego-cooperative Zen-Zero-investment
Earth-0-centric Health EcoReGenerativity,
Creativity of Love and...
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Categories:
ebbing, destiny, earth, earth day, freedom, humanity, light,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Catonita Strikes - Part One: a Freezer Mice AdventureContinued from FREEZER MICE
The cat had travelled straight from hell, a hell beyond the stars
The cat that theories claim once levied genocide on Mars
She now seeks vengeance on descendants of the primal shrew
Whoever knew that...
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Categories:
ebbing, adventure,
Form:
Narrative
Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July MorningThe Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is struggling with unfamiliar, alien romantic emotions. Even though she is...
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Categories:
ebbing, adventure, romance, science fiction, sensual,
Form:
Narrative
Absorbing GraceTo begin each morning here with now
includes who we bicamerally are,
who we have Elder RightBrain been,
where and when our DNA-scripts
came from RNA-AnimaMundi divine whispers,
and who and when and where and why
we would most clearly appreciate...
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Categories:
ebbing, caregiving, dream, earth, education, integrity, love, math,
Form:
Political Verse
Benighted EnlightenmentPotawatomi language,
says Robin Wall Kimmerer,
does not verbally divide us into masculine and feminine.
However, unlike most English verbs,
Potawatomi verbs distinguish between animate and inanimate objects.
For example,
we use sit down
when speaking to an unruly son
and set down
when...
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Categories:
ebbing, anger, culture, earth, health, love, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Revolutions In ResistanceBefore we had the LeftBrain eclipse word,
circa 1200s on back through space and time,
we had great sacred transformational co-arisings,
re-alignment as BlackHole icons
of ancient eco-alignments,
Yang solar resilience
with Yin lunar resistance.
Before we had dualistic separation,
from sunlight's...
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Categories:
ebbing, deep, earth, gender, health, history, math, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Future Self Among OthersFuture selves recycle past dynamic imaginations,
Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images
evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin,
double-edged incarnations of power.
It is in this coincidentia oppositorum,
claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
that the peaks,
the Taoist Tipping Points
of wu wei...
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Categories:
ebbing, christian, culture, earth, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Zero HeroesEach Zen ZeroSoul
invites a sacredly unique understoried purpose,
enthymematic matriotic meaning
through nurturing Health-Wealth Consciousness.
ZenSoul identity
heroic voice
shadow sacred
yin-suppressed
among LeftBrain Dominant
adolescent RedStates,
monocultural extraction planners.
Red or Blue
and Green
between
depths of social Turquoise personality
for outdoor aquatic conversations,
ebbs and flows,
eggs and...
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Categories:
ebbing, caregiving, earth, humor, integrity, nature, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
The Lorax SequelI took the only seed of hope
for any future healthy Truffula Trees,
but reminded my clinically depressed acquaintance
we are all born co-redeemers,
not addictively incubating extractors.
Ours is not to commodify
what we did not recreate
for its sufficient...
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Categories:
ebbing, earth, environment, integrity, love,
Form:
Narrative
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
ebbing, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Cloud of KnowingI believe it was Buckminster Fuller
who first posited
a prime appositional,
like Yang and Yin,
but his was:
Energy is to physical nature
as Information is to metaphysically languaged systems.
And,
if we were to add the Yin and Yang
of this positivist-regenerative...
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Categories:
ebbing, health, humor, language, leadership, love, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Cross-ReadingI'm reading The Evolving Self:
A Psychology for the Third Millennium,
by Czikszentmihalyi,
and How the West [sadly] Came To Rule:
The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism,
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisanciogla
at the same time.
Czikszentmihalyi (C) wears academic labels of Positive...
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Categories:
ebbing, creation, culture, earth, environment, health, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Undead Through Full-Love HealthHere's my thing.
I wonder if Yin-UnDead,
river of Time's ebbing wave
predicts Yang-Love Health Abundant PowerWith.
No, really,
I think about that,
and I wonder if EcoReligious CoOperative Messiahs
could also become Bodhisattva Integral-Unitarian Occupiers,
Zero-centric self-invested/divested PlaceHolders,
bilaterally stretching thresholds toward health-balanced...
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Categories:
ebbing, destiny, earth, health, humanity, love, nature, universe,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Cooperative PowersPower to condemn others, and oneself,
is weaker than power to help others, as oneself.
Power to destroy others, and oneself,
is lesser than power to regenerate others, and oneself,
interdependently.
Powers of fear and anger management,
with terrifying consequences...
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Categories:
ebbing, anger, culture, earth, fear, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse