Long Emigrant Poems

I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...

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I was listening, last night,
to a sympathetic defense
for conserving liberal arts
and producing deeper and wider liberating sciences
including healthy democratic
politically empowering science.

Once again
I am hearing about the persuasive prominence of identity,
how we label our ego-political selves,
as...

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Global pride! Greatest story-theme worldwide! Oceanic!
Voyage liner - Atlantic! British cruise ship! Titanic!
Born in the yard of Harland and Wolf! Floated to venture!
Who did ever dream of a deadliest wreck- adventure?

Christened after Titans of the...

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First,
competing dominant patriarchs
become filled with climate toxic fear
about long-suffered win/lose evolutions
presuming Earth's great revolutionary Rapture.

Second,
hopeful matriarchs touch
and taste
and see
and hear win/lose suffering ecosystems
stubborn-headedly turning
to embrace western healthy aspirations in
with eastern wealthy respirations out
against nihilistic climate...

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I'm in bondage, is this a dream
I'm governed by extremes
Let's leave this land of tyranny
Oh, let us run away
Escape on to a new land of liberty
"people who survive war and escape tyranny"

Despotism, absolute power, autocracy,
Dictatorship,...

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What are your most winterish
critical trauma events
in these most recent
three millennia?

Why 
just my traumas?
Why not their corresponsive
therapies
for restoring EarthJustice?

Please go on
and on
questioning my questions
seemingly without end,
like an arctic wind-blown 
starless night
in eternally restless January.

As you...

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Again, with Adam Robersmith,
Taking It Further emphasizing cooperative value choices
in each compassionate win/win moment
of sacred economic/ecological dialogue,
covenants of non-violent respect for multigenerational 
healthy 
wealthy
robust
resonant
resilient outcomes.

What compassionately discerning choices
can we make today
tonight
tomorrow
the next day
next week
next month
next...

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Compassion wears an overwhelming,
mountainously exterior face

Filling
and refilling outside
while emptying inside 
ego flowing focus,
co-passion concavely felt
known valleys of contentment
wealth woke
health awakened
empathically safe embraced interior

Connected,
often without conditioned
encultured
articulated
verbal content

In-between integral ego/ecosystems
inducing and producing individuation,
MeWe co-relational identity
bicamerally felt communionation
bilaterally...

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As we’ve aged (tried retirement), sleep-patterns have changed.
I am staying up later! Sleep gravitates, ebbs
less from forces that rule in a drive to work job
(where one must leave home’s relative bliss for eight hours)!
You do...

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Now Paris
Is washing its eyes 
With August rain
Paris is now 
A woman
A Babylonian bride
Her wedding
Is set on Christmas
I hair trills in Paris
And emigrants cheering
And applauding
To welcome 
These eyes of marble
This your day woman
You will hug
Another...

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Alone again
yet evening rain falls
cooling fresh breeze voices
anxious for everything,
angry about nothing.

Nothing to do about rain falling
as sure as gravity
of dripping issues
landing in my lap,
splattering naked children's sleepy heads
and innocent soft shoulders.

Into each life...
Yes,
yet eventide...

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What is our primal purpose
for continuing this troubling relationship?
asked Yang of Yin.

If you are clueless
then you have not been listening
to us
as actively as nondual times would predict,
replied Yin against Yang.

For me,
this purpose is to enjoy...

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Don't want to be reductionist
obeying only secularized rules

Would prefer to grow more
sacred inductionist
rediscovering golden win/win tools

For imagining
and re-membering
why win/win ancient relationships,
like space and time,
humane and divine
here and there
circle and square
pole and hole
purpose and goal

Feel more...

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See true legacy when death takes you away:
Each person sadly pays respect today.


Each feels gratitude for your kind caring:
A sure attitude Singaporeans string.


See the crowds and queues that come to thank you:
Tears long overdue tell...

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How supreme the images portray
Painted in only white canvases on display
No vibrant pigments of differences
Cultures or brush strokes of excellences
How dull the mind of multitudes
Who judge the immigrants of other latitudes
Following paths of leaders lacking...

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Yes, there is a child in every grown up
Emerges out when proper time turns up
Those passions retain in the registry
Dormant and suppressed their identity.

I used to run after the dragonflies
Spirits elate when I find them...

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ONCE

The pinnacle of life  once   -
I was lucky, blessed with three magical figures.
Walks in the fields, finger clutched for surety,
Learned to love kites in the garden,
Dug tons of beach castle sand, ...

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here they come,
with batons made of the white 
mans wits,
with the sounds of our ancestral 
thunders,
all in different shapes.

marvelled we were,
seing them fly in the air,
and some down on moving 
huts,
faster than our forefathers 
ghosts,

he...

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Aaron Kosminski, you were not Jack the Ripper
 as many would have thought.
 You have not kept a dissecting knife under your coat
 as Raskolnikov had kept the ax.
 
You were not addicted to opium.
...

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