Long Engaging 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:
engaging, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Amistad Mutiny
The Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
engaging, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Matthew delivers his latest bullet tin
Matthew delivers his latest bullet – tin...
from the Harris-Walz front
where liberal minded socially progressive
electorate doth agonizingly grunt
targeted in crosshairs scoped out
eager and ready to be mortally wounded
courtesy notorious big headed
(and bigoted) infamous...
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Categories:
engaging, absence, america, angel, august, courage, future, political,
Form:
Free verse
Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
engaging, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrain
A transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels
through naturally wild
and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission
before...
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Categories:
engaging, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Political Verse
Prophets and Messiahs
The difference between
bad-old-boy
competitively evolving
egg white privilege
And good-girl
cooperatively revolutionary
just-us-yolks
Foreshadows a symbiotic contrast
between prophetic performance
and messianic practice,
said Professor Glory
in her Gospel of Permaculture class,
one Friday morning
while sitting on her crass
desk of...
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Categories:
engaging, destiny, environment, nature, science, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Watering Gaian Grace
One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom
Is to explore together
how and...
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Categories:
engaging, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
engaging, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Feeling Better
Systems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
engaging, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
engaging, creation, health, nature, political, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
engaging, culture, earth, health, heaven, humor, math, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Some Poems
A Stolen Memory
A Mirthful Chorus
By Sy Roth
We surrounded him
Asked to let go.
She stared at the misshapen face,
Unshaven sandpapery skin
Eyelids a tabula rasa
Fluttery sere skin
And we could see the humor blossoming in his...
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Categories:
engaging, dream, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
Keeping America Safe
A prayer for God to bless Americans,
whether northern or southern,
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments
in global health and security.
No one "keeps" these northern confederations
of uniting states...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, earth, health, political, race, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Portraits of Racial Politics
“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate to the perspectives of individual disciplines. I have argued that...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Romeo and Juliet: the Remix
Three voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
Natural and Social Communication...
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Categories:
engaging, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
engaging, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Song of Amergin: Translation
The Song of Amergin: Modern English Translations
The Song of Amergin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
I am the sea breeze
I am the ocean wave
I am the surf's thunder
I am the stag of the seven tines
I am...
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Categories:
engaging, ireland, myth, mythology, song, storm, visionary, war,
Form:
Free verse
YangRed and YinBlue ReMemory
You.
Reading this.
Right now.
Proof you have descended
from an unbroken powerful line
of politically and economically successful
Elders.
If we define “powerful Elder”
as those who have had political and economic authority over another,
responsibility for at least one or more...
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Categories:
engaging, culture, earth, health, love, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
The Old Bear
The Old grizzled Bear... was now keenly aware
as he lay in his Cave all alone.
Where his time as King... was a mere passing thing
and must choose another...
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Categories:
engaging, funny, humor, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Remembering Radical Relatives
Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly;
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.
We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an...
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Categories:
engaging, beauty, culture, health, humor, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
New Beginnings
Today we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n autonomic neurosystemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share emotional...
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Categories:
engaging, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Riding Time's Political Flow
We might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.
We could do well
to become...
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Categories:
engaging, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
My Holy Bible - the Quatrain Style
~ My Holy Bible ~
( Quatrain )
~O~
My Holy Bible is very nice.
It tells me that God is true.
It fills my soul with Love Divine
And shows that God loves...
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Categories:
engaging, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Rhyme
IrReligious MisEducation
S/he is controversially counter-cultural
And yet,
MotherEartha defensively claims,
not so:
We grow trans-regenerational
transubstantiating substances
and subjects
to integrate more sacredly organic
Positive passions
re-connecting
re-membered past peak
pleasures restoring universal EarthJustice
and unitarian EarthMother peace.
I stand before you today
not to bury every conservative re-ligion
but to...
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Categories:
engaging, god, health, peace, political, relationship, religion, religious,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Once Upon A Christian Time
Once upon a Roman Empire building time
a brilliantly pleasing boy was born
of humble Jewish means,
named Jesus.
Born into autocratic occupation,
to avoid military police threats
of mass Jewish male child murder,
Jesus and his mom and dad
became...
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Categories:
engaging, christian, culture, humanity, integrity, jesus, jewish, religion,
Form:
Political Verse