Long Favoring Poems
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Grand PrioritiesWhat fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
favoring, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
A Few Years Back and ForthA few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...
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Categories:
favoring, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
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:
favoring, culture, earth, health, love, political, race, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Positive Political PsychologyI question my own interplay of psychology and political science.
Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?
Intersections of sociology and psychology are at least academically commonplace.
I have a friend with...
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Categories:
favoring, culture, health, political, psychological, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy ClimatesIn 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...
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Categories:
favoring, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Faith In History LessonsPatterns of phylogenic history
retell our creative creation story
as bicameral restoration
of Earth's nature-spirit ecology,
both Eastern karma
and Western co-redemptive grace.
Spiritual memory experience
of RNA
and later DNA developments
and traumatic extinctions,
positive great transitions
and double-negative traumas;
are exegetical rhythms
and sacred seasoned pattern...
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Categories:
favoring, creation, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Amberina BallerinaA born lioness my untamed heart? ha!
a mouse, this pulsing token ruled by unruly wants
at times given, traded or stolen - sometimes
thrown down on a dare to be won or lost
till it became...
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Categories:
favoring, destiny, emotions, inspiration, introspection, memory, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Sacred EnergyFascism lives in tension with holy optimism,
as hatred fades in presence of mutual love,
as WinLose evolutionary models
give way to WinWin sacred Energy
stories and songs and dances,
as patriarchal colonization
gives way to matriarchal creolization.
Fascism,
synonymous with Totalitarianism,
as written...
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Categories:
favoring, anti bullying, caregiving, education, health, integrity, parents,
Form:
Political Verse
The Daily Show and TellDear Toni,
I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.
I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...
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Categories:
favoring, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Wise EldersWise Elders are patient,
fully embrace non-violent communication
and health care
of climates and landscapes,
persons,
places,
things,
plants
and planet,
hopes
and dreams
rebuilding positive faith.
Wise Elders non-violently listen
for karmic grace of love
sometimes overflowing.
If Wise Revolutionaries for change,
clearing murky swamps,
then Wise Elder non-violent evolutionaries
toward peace
restoring...
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Categories:
favoring, 5th grade, caregiving, class, health, time, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Supremely Courted Systemic FeelingsI believe it was Alfred North Whitehead,
an early developer of cognitive systems thinking,
who observed frequent miscommunication
and confusion
and chaos
over bilateral complexities
of Set v isolated Individual issues
within a systemic set
of inter-related issues.
This comes to mind
as I listen...
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Categories:
favoring, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
On Coincidences - Both Audio and Text - True StoryThis is a totally true episode from our 40 years spent collecting antiques -
You never know for sure what lays ahead in life, my friend…
And here’s a tale I love to tell, and...
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Categories:
favoring, friendship,
Form:
Narrative
Love Lesson PlanningFirst, imagine, if you can,
"Love" is not just a many splendored thing,
although it is that,
but behaviorists and existentialists behavioralize
the complex of emotions and consciousness
wearing that synergetic label
as active, sometimes spontaneous
"cooperation,"
an antonym for "competition."
Now,
Imagine you grew...
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Categories:
favoring, conflict, culture, discrimination, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Fr Time's Ambiguous ContentFr. Time, are you a monopolistic universalist?
Yes, but an integratively polycultural universalist.
Are you a Yangian outgoing kinda guy?
Yes, but in an internally YinYin balancing
kind of a moderately outgoing nutritionally healthy communicator
way.
Easy to share Life's co-operative...
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Categories:
favoring, destiny, earth, humor, identity, nature, political, time,
Form:
Narrative
Future Self Among OthersFuture selves recycle past dynamic imaginations,
Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images
evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin,
double-edged incarnations of power.
It is in this coincidentia oppositorum,
claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
that the peaks,
the Taoist Tipping Points
of wu wei...
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Categories:
favoring, christian, culture, earth, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Desperate Message To Kim Jong UnPardon any absent adulation, bequeathed capitulation, devoted dedication, indiscretion, blabbering peroration, improper salutation or any unintended vexation if this unknown earthling sent a nearly identical message. He over-looked a small number of errors and hoped...
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Categories:
favoring, abuse, dark, emotions, evil, hate, war, world,
Form:
Free verse
Story of Health TheoryThey say society's heart
is changed by story
and not by theory.
But what is history
if not also a theory about evidence
for healthy and pathological stories?
Experiences,
narratives,
parables,
analogies,
ecologies,
theologies
with active Yang EgoSubjects
and yin Eco Understories
favoring healthy WinWin ego/ecological theory
Entering the last...
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Categories:
favoring, earth, education, environment, history, humanity, integrity, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Trump Against ConservativesWhat are some differences
between post-millennial Trumpism
and pre-millennial Republicanism?
I know...I know!
Republicans used to be fiscal conservatives
but now support a one trillion dollar deficit
per unaffordable health and safety care year,
Expanded deficit spending
despite taking more from not...
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Categories:
favoring, abuse, bullying, caregiving, corruption, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Cooperative PowersPower to condemn others, and oneself,
is weaker than power to help others, as oneself.
Power to destroy others, and oneself,
is lesser than power to regenerate others, and oneself,
interdependently.
Powers of fear and anger management,
with terrifying consequences...
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Categories:
favoring, anger, culture, earth, fear, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
The Day Before the Sale --- 1st HalfI was skimming Friday's paper as I waited for my barber to put the finishing touches on a customer he he was pruning,
Glancing up occasionally at the Mohawk-headed dropout who'd wandered in from off the...
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Categories:
favoring, humor,
Form:
Verse
When Multiculturally PresidingAs no one
never said
about nothing,
"Calling in human health care options
might not imply
calling out
lack of Earth-wealthy choices."
I could, possibly,
but certainly not prudently,
go all the way
back
back,
Even further back,
to European roots
to StraightWhiteMale monoculturalism,
Christian-Royalist monotheistic supremacy
over educational
dogma
and development systems
(not...
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Categories:
favoring, earth, earth day, environment, green, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Treasuring the EducatorA former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not
The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.
We were starting our Autumn tradition
of arguing about next year's budget
which typically continues
until...
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Categories:
favoring, education, health, humor, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Riding Sixties ShotgunI was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
favoring, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
BipolarityBiPolarity
has been largely ignored
polarization,
Linear and stagnant hierarchies
peaking in well-capitalized severance
and sterile self-satiation
Use you
then leave you
win/lose planning
and worldview design
by non-feminists
Uninspired by EarthTribe's co-arising,
Both/And reconsidering
depolarizing
dipolarization
Bruised blue traumatic,
and green grown therapeutic
sides of each red coin's
capitalization
Of Left hemisphere's newer
monotheistic...
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Categories:
favoring, earth day, green, health, integrity, light, mother,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The First Gathering, the Wrath, the Return of Zeus*****************************************
The First Gathering, The Wrath, The Return Of Zeus
( "Wherein Fate and Destiny Reign Over Blind Worship )
Else the throngs of mortals find the truth,
teeming in the angry hordes they may,
forget to pay...
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Categories:
favoring, art, corruption, creation, imagination, mythology, symbolism, war,
Form:
Classicism