Long Enfranchised Poems

I was skeptically listening 
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;

An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.

But, I found...

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Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.

That disclaimer said,
I have two incomplete conversations
in mind and heart
and what I...

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My thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.

Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.

Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...

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"The Second Amendment is a bedrock principle of our Constitution..."
                         ...

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Original New Yorker Intents and Purposes

So who did you expect
to actually elect,
Vandana Shiva?

from Uniting Constitutions of MotherTrees

Tribes and groves
grow forests together
forming more therapeutically perfect Unions
of unity yin-flowing integrity,
not quite so much uniformity
of Yang's violating offensive...

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Imagine
if you would be so kind,
join me
in striving to become 
less blind

Brilliant God says:
Give to your oppressively militarized government
weaponized suppressive
defensively repressive
straight white monotheistic privilege
paid for in tax advantages

And so
it was nationalistically done

Every fall
all co-invested residents...

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Not wanting to make anyone nervous,
pandemics can be unsettling enough
without economic and political surprises,
inconvenient systemic insights,
more expansive circles of empathy
positively impressing 
more than negative deep
steep hierarchies
practicing neglectful shallow sympathy
for Others
remaining NonMothers
on distant drowning pagan shores.

These...

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How do we get to restoring democratic energy justice
for all EarthTribes?

Especially when those not originally enfranchised
in our GoodHealth Constitutions,
like slaves
like non-patriarchal
non-white
non-anthro
non-ego-centric 
non-elite subcultures
advocating for non-violent communication
inside health and outside wealthy green climates
probably don't feel this...

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Advent--
adventures in annual rings of evolving trees,
culminates in EcoMessianic MidNight
as MidWay Mass,
Winter's purgative soul-sticing Season
empathically uncovering perennial rebirth.

Primal Corollary--
Advent does not culminate at (0)-soul on CoMessiah Day,
but climaxes full-diastatic on Christmas MidWay Eve.

ReGenerating (0) souls--
dark...

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I
Madiba, you inspired this world  like never before
An African George Washington & Lumumba
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela of South Africa
Yet crossing borders, bashing down walls
Smiling, beaming, with good words for all

II
Then you said, many blacks were...

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Choreography’s Turkish Delight

On sediment at the bottom of the cup of societies 
   drags of dis-enfranchised masses are waiting for a
trickle from the leaks of luxury founded on coffee 
   planted...

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STAY OR GO yes or no?
An offshore island we remain,
whether we stay or go..
But our history we need now
to declaim.. and say No!
Truly enfranchised for only a
few decades,now cheaply given
away for a pottage of gold...
all...

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it is imperative that we do not circumscribe to being thorny
Veritably all will acceed to rising in the morning.
Though melodramatic we must abnegate and repress that static. All the pervading overcast of complicity we must...

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The long grass,hiding secrets,needles our bare thighs.

In the distance, magisterial, stunning, see a skylark rise.

The coax coax frog-sounds echo in the mist-cloud night

Dare to touch one, grotesque, delicious chilling fright

     ...

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ANNIVERSARY
(Apropos A Sable King & Ebony Queen)


Perpendicular...a score and ten...
our weary feet have collectively
trod the level plane...foot for foot
bonded by the cable tow of love—Tiled.

Sailing on the ship of faith
we've weathered wayward storms...
their undulating waters...treacherous...

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She shimmers in the sun,
she's onyx in eventide,
Rio Grande.
She can be waters of a
new horizon,
or a river of Death.
Swimming in desperation,
mothers, fathers,
wanting coveted freedom
for their children to live
in USA-
a divided nation,
for an education, a chance,
to...

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