Long Empirically Poems

Political Science is the compare and contrast study
of governing authority powers
with concomitant economic responsibilities,
and...um...opportunities,
speaking perhaps too candidly.

Why not other powers,
nutritional loves that can be owned only cooperatively,
can be, and would like to become, health invested,
but...

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I suppose you might have missed out on Paul Feyerabend's,
and especially Thomas Kuhn's Problem of Incommensurabiity.

Oh, not at all.
I have not looked at science or culture
or language
or even your attempts at communication
quite the same since...

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The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume, born in Edenborough, was a philosophical skeptic.
Born in 1711,...

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Fr. Time is with us today, again, 
or still bilateral, 
I guess I should before
and after say.

No, you just did
how I will play.  
You would be redundant, 
to say it again, 
like I just...

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Punishing for revenge,
could this occur to natural systems
without capacity to imagine alternative futures?

Punishing others for their defiant behavior,
actions and words stronger than ignorantly ignoring,
bolder than merely angry with Other 
and our defenseless selves

But how much...

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All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their corporate direction,
to support further public broadcasting
for the benefit of our...

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Why isn’t religious history taught as part of our still evolving creation story?

How could our great enlightenment drama not continually refine 
empowering language, music, liturgy 
with neuro- and eco-systemic healing functions?
as distinguished from sometimes toxic...

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Let’s be honest, I’m not that honest.
Be honest, 
Just this once.
Forget all the dilutions of grandeur,
The noise.
Eat it so hard in the teeth that your mouth has a voice.
Unclench your tongue just long enough to...

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Jung observed
Where animus PowerOver dominates,
empirically reigns,
there lies anima’s yin-Love
soft recessive Shadow.

Positive to negative,
and double-binding negative 
to appositionally reverse
not not yet re-imaged positive
power both/and democratically with.

PowerOver patriarchy
dominating mutual empathic
EarthMatriarchal power flowing with 
and through
each healthy root...

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A girl in the chamber

They know Kiswahili
Speaking it 
To their localities
A girl in the chamber!

Is thy family
Like that of an egg
Realizing no space
Entrance of oxygen Is?
A girl in the chamber!

Days of days
Knocked the ages
As the...

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It is not necessarily established as True
that all capitalist
and patriarchal red roads
lead back to EmpireBuilding Rome

Ancient Rome as original win/lose supremacist Home
unveils no more than an intuitive health preference
for global eco-political win/win consciousness
as both ecologically...

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A wicked council of elders robed in white and crimson,
Sit fat atop a tower to ruminate on sin and manipulation.

Decrees from ancient tomes and texts written in history,
Declare our origins in an operant opera of...

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Immanuel Kant, changed the spelling of his name from Emmanuel to "Immanuel" to accord with its Hebrew meaning: "God is with us." So, this quintessential Enlightenment thinker  - and Thomas Jefferson a little after...

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Testosterone performance history
shows great narcissistic
straight male supremacist
empire-building

Empirically right-justified
apartheid
RightHand verbal scribe dominant

HerStory defensive
offensive bipolar
oppositionally defiant risk

MonoTheistic colonizing missions
disassociating AnthroSupremacism
from Holy Nature/Spirit anger v fear
dipolar appositional
Testosterone AnthroMind v Estrogen EarthBodies
dispassionately misogynistic

Cognitive brights v Intuitive nights,
verbal logos historian...

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("Niobe's Tear", 2020, original encaustic)

The Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality

The world has always been divided
Along lines of haves and have nots
In whatever way you wish
To measure the having.

The difference today is
Inequality is no...

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When equanimity falls to the wayside
And the eyes empirically survey the hillside,
It’s Einstein’s time that I can’t bide,
Mawkish mental masturbation adroitly I chide,
Thy self,
Then my discreet self in its inchoate knowledge of reality,
Like the mass...

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So here it is,
The soul transposed
That never could quite lose control
So here I am
And here I stand
A shell of what was once a man

I used to know love's sweet caress
I used to feel, within a...

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there is no fire in the lavender skies of February
it is as if all that exists with warmth, light and desire
has fled to the future
it is here that the white swans muse and ponder
slowly stirring...

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She lay on a hospital bed like a pale rose wilting on a pillow sham 
done were her days of counting every morsel of food and gram  

they told her if she stopped eating...

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The abstract is creative confusion,
    Both infinite and void with its form.
        Compartmentalized by any illusion,
         ...

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A long time has passed while these spectacular seasons 
continue to renew themselves unlikely dormant awareness;       
images of the past clout me on the head 
and rebuke me for...

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If possession is nine-tenths of the law
 entirely, you're mine
   though cosmically, empirically
         we lack the ties that bind

For naught these thoughts
 escape me through...

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