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I am from planet Earth.
Surrounded by an atmosphere
Shared within this house;
We are all together...
I live with you.
When times pass, people look away.
Eyes hide from other eyes.
Life plays elementary games; most likely in dark places.
Certainty is an opinion.
Unsure is the truth.
Facts are what they are.
Feign understanding is not always false.
Temperament is the framework of our home.
Attitudes reflect our comfort levels.
Moods are contagious.
I'm from yours.
Yours is from mine.
We share our lineage from each other.
Half the time, I don't even know where I'm from.
And I cannot recall exactly where I've been.
Then
I forget you.
And you forget me too.
But that's because we share such an expansive home.
Life is fast.
Home is constantly changing.
This leaves a breath of fresh hope.
It is never too late to do the much needed work on our home.
It is a mental task,
Conjuring the idealistic.
A directive toward positive change.
It is so hard.
But it's so easy...
To make our home the way we deserve it to be.
6-25-17
Contest: Where Are You From
Sponsor: Joseph Soper
In marble halls where laws are etched in stone,
Where freedom's song should echo, full and grown,
A silence creeps, insidious and slow,
As arts and letters wither, they are forced to go.
For what is liberty without a voice?
A hollow promise, absent reasoned choice.
Democracy's not merely casting votes,
It thrives on minds that question and take notes.
When budgets slash the painter's vibrant hues,
When libraries close and silence muses,
The public square, once rife with fierce debate,
Grows quiet, leaving choices to cruel fate.
Without the poet's verse to stir the soul,
Without the novelist's expansive scroll,
How shall we see beyond our narrow view,
To walk a mile in another's shoe?
The tyranny of ignorance looms large,
When the barge leaves critical thinking.
For despots fear an educated mass,
And cheer when arts and letters fail to pass.
In schools where STEM alone is given sway,
We risk producing citizens who'll say,
"I know the 'how' but cannot fathom 'why',"
As ethical dilemmas pass them by.
So heed this warning, guardians of state:
A democracy's strength cannot diminish.
Fund every book, each play, and gallery,
For these aren't luxuries, but necessity.
Let children learn of Plato's cave so dark,
Of Martin's dream, of Joan of Arc.
For in these tales of struggle, loss, and strife,
Democracy finds its pulse, its very life.
Without the humanities' guiding light,
Our ship of state sails blind into the night.
So champion every word, brush stroke, and stage,
Lest we become mere numbers on a page.
For when arts flourish, so too does our voice,
In the ballot box and beyond, we make our choice.
Democracy's not given, it's hard-won,
Sustained by letters, arts, when day is done.
~Of Infinity~
Infinity spoke at Genesis
Drawing up finite from the abyss
Light, overjoyed,
Raced with cartwheels in the beyond.
Newborn light, in vain, searches
For a border, a boundary,
Like fleeting hallucinations,
Ever expanding the elastic expansive
~
Seamless continuum of joy
In a shapeless womb
With no punctuated spaces
Of an algorithmic solution
~
Defining definitions absent
Time folded into the Ubiquitous
Echoes of reverberations swallowed
Like shadows chasing mirages
Seamless, lyrical line of continuity
Infrared joined in perpetuity to ultraviolet
The fire and ice of our season’s continuums
Falls away
Enigma of the flesh bound mind
Gives way to the ageless spirit child
Stepping through a stardust trail
Into endless galaxies of formless grace
Infinity invokes us into
Abiding everlasting blessing
Resolution of redemption
And it is good!
11/23/21
Contest: This or That – Of Infinity
Title Chosen: Of Infinity
Sponsor: Edward Ibeh
Freedom with far Freedom with | Order with less Order with far
less emphasis on less emphasis | emphasis on less emphasis
Order - on Order - | Freedom - on Freedom -
__________________ _______________ | ________________ ________________
F: Far-reaching Fundamental O: Opportunistic Onerous
R: Rectifications; Receptivity R: Responses Regulatory
E: Effectuating Expressly D: Diminishing Dogmas;
E: Evolving Empowering E: Empirical Emplacing
D: Determinants Diversity; R: Rights; Rules
O: Operability Optimizing L: Lessening Limiting
M: Maximizing Meritocratic E: Effective Equalitarianism;
L: Laissez-faire; Lifestyles; S: Subgroup Subverting
E: Exhorting Enhancing S: Sureties; Safeguards;
S: Superior Systemic F: Fostering Formalizing
S: Sensibilities; Subjectivism; R: Regimens Restrictions;
O: Obviating Operationalizing E: Eroding Engendering
R: Revisionism; Responsiveness; E: Egalitarianism; Exclusivity;
D: Demanding Developing D: Devaluing Demonizing
E: Expansive Eclectic O: Objective Oppositional
R: Resources. Representation. M: Messaging. Momentum.
___________________________
Above are these competing views
Of social construct ends
And choice is not to win or lose
But how they all should blend.
The truth is each is built into
The fabric of our days
Requiring that we must pursue
Sound, realistic ways.
Judicious blend is what we need
To keep us on due course -
With none promoted to exceed
And sanction our remorse.
From the ridge, they can hustle down the valley.
It is a blissful process to complete the strolling way.
View blocks and square structures in another shape,
What happens in an expansive variety of land crops.
Crocuses, strawberries, and other flora bear life.
Color and sacred awe may divinely inspire us in wildlife.
Seasons have subtly shifted from lethargy to flurry.
Contributing to the table's key resources and vitality.
All this, plus a tropical drink to typically start the day.
Another balmy moment deep of life and enthusiasm ray,
Another journey with a bursting heart of eternal gratitude.
Another glorious day, unearned yet lavishly has bestowed.
A lens of the future will convey itself to happiness!
Life's dazzling splendor eases our fears and wickedness.
Written: December 1, 2021
Seeing is believing
but active listening
costs expansive empathic commitment
As patriarchal competitive investments
often fall short of resonant faith
in ecowomanist multicultural
polycultural
biocultural
ecoclimatic pregnant health
for ReStorying EarthJustice Wealth
Of resonant knowledge deductively Left
and resilient wisdom
without mono-cameral walls Right
Ecosystemic health needing minds
with ego felt wealthy sensory bodies
Good/bad cultural spirits
predicting destined climate nature
Sacred pregnant wisdom
forgiving
yet foreclosing
merely secular knowledge.
Bicameral seeing
is nonviolent synergetic believing
active bilateral
and multilateral polypathic listening
grows redemptively pregnant
with multi-regenerational commitment
to EarthHealth wealth
of future perceiving days
and past reviewing nights
Bright,
with a win/win InterFaith EarthTribe
economic nonfight wisdom light
fulfilling political empowering flight.
What might you find there
down deep in my soul
Within the darkness
of that expansive hole
Will there be substance
Will there be diamonds or coal
Step down the stairs quickly
at the door pay your toll
If you wish to be a voyeur
there will be plenty to see
Unclothed and oh so gorgeous
beautiful women are plenty
Yet the guilt from these carnal thoughts
makes me feel a strange empty
I long for their pleasure
yet I yearn to be set free
Walk a bit further
see deeper to my core
You have just scratched the surface
do you really want to see more
My soul is a vast ocean
no ceiling and no floor
Liquid and expansive
molton lava shore to shore
There is plenty of love there
tremendous courage it's true
I have known my share of pain
there is much that I've been through
Roads I've traveled are many
dark alleys quite a few
I've found the way to the light
my heart is forged a steel blue
If you travel far enough
you will bathe within light
The darkness a shield
to protect this soul with might
Beyond the locked door
my soul rises like a kite
Only those who have courage
can fly to such great height!
For Frank's Contest
Oscar and I
Today, I drove to Faro, In the Algarve
I wanted to eat a tunny steak at a café
I used to go fifteen years ago
The place had gone upmarket, as had
prices
The server remembered me, but not
my wife and took an instant dislike to
the man said he was effeminate
Oscar Wilde entered, or someone who
looked like him
He was of the expansive sort, told jokes
and recited poems, the other guests
and my wife liked him
I decided to become gay for the day
and after a few glasses of wine, stood
up to read my poems
she tugged at my sleeve and told me to
shut up.
Oscar Wilde looked at me with deep
sympathy in his intelligent eyes
I had my moment to gain, if putative
fame, she had to spoil it all
My chance had gone
Poems with very little words
Only serve to minutise my imagination
Every word has the power to build
My sweet imagination
So serve them to me on a blank white sheet
WITH
Verbalization flare and you got my thanks forever
Engage me in your story let me feel the
Rising passion of your soul and
You will have me hooked forever
LITTLE
Words restrict my possibility of expansive thought
Open your mind and spill out the story my fellow poet
Rewind your life and tell me all the stories of your journey
Dance on my soul like a dervish circling my aura
Sing to me with words of assonance and repetance
STUNT
Me with your poet's steel quill and dip me in your well
You need not scimp on words just show me your story of
GROWTH .
October 13, 2018
A significant line might be drawn
between long-term permaculture design
and agribusiness,
improved this year production
through better and more expansive chemistry,
soil and water and air and light pollution.
We might draw a parallel contrast
between inclusive Earth-nurturing politics
and elitist anthropocentrism
Between human natural purpose
and Earth-nature's felt wealth
of healthy co-passionate meaning
Between divine cooperation
inducing continuous Yin-flow
belonging in joy
and human competition
deducing discontinuous Yang-strength
of longing to restore Earth Justice
Between cooperative stewardship
and anti-ecological autonomy of human nature's
competitive capital-dominant rulership.
From a LeftBrain deductive dominant perspective
this line looks like Old School preservation,
of mutual antipathy.
Yet, from a cooperative Left-Right mindbody perspective
this same line
looks and feels
like a dipolar appositional space
for incubating heuristic co-empathic trust
For significant deep learning Both-And co-empathy,
rather than necessarily always and only Either-Or antipathy,
appositionally benign rather than always
and everywhere bipolar toxic
A nonviolently co-passionate practice
of egoMe/ecoWe
+1/-(-0) cobinary
peace-making perspective.
Just as Either-Us/Or-Them cognition
follows Win v Lose
not health-effective outcomes,
while Both-Us/And-Them follows Win+Win
bipartisan transactional resilience outcomes
for EarthGame Day and Night
compassionate Earth-wealth continuance.
So, suppose,
both UpperCaste and LowerCaste positions,
at the risk of oversimplifying a multiculturally caste situation
Republican nationalistic agri-vating business
merely an appositional uncreative distraction
from Democratic polyculture delighting designs
and multicultural power planning
For CoOperative Earth Ownership
and ReGenerative TransForming Governance,
still including some degenerative-decomposing functions,
yet without recreating a runaway waste stream
nor a runaway personal, family, community,
or national nutritional, financial, or health-assurance deficit.
That's what's been up-caste
and down-caste
within my bicameral Yang/Yin mind.
What's been co-evolving with you
and your unconditional love-extending family?