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As we prepare to leave the mountains…I admit…I have no shame
for I’ve also been preparing…to play the alphabet game.
It’s a game we’ve played since our children were little…
on our trips from the mountains to the sea…
One person names something we’ve done that starts with the letter A…
and we keep going until we reach the letter Z.
It’s a wonderful family game…as anyone whose ever played it knows
and to get an edge for when we leave tomorrow…Alphabet game…here goes.
Asheville, Arrow, Birds, Bonnie, Bryan, Cherokee, Deer, Elk, a Freeze
(You see by getting this head start…I’m going to win this game with ease).
Games played in the cabin on a picnic or on the porch in the afternoon.
Hikes, Indigenous, Jelly from Momma’s Boy, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Leaves of many colors, the Moon, the Mountains,
Nantahala, the Oconaluftee River all aglow
Poplar trees, a Quart of cider, Raccoons,
a Steam engine, playing in the Snow..
Turkeys in the yard, Umbrella’s in the rain, Vegan fest
Waterrock Knob with sunsets that astound
X…a letter we ignore….Yellow colors all all around.
Z is another letter that is difficult but I have this one in the bag…
in the mountains we traveled on many roads with curves that zig and zag.
There you have it I am ready for out 2 day trip back home…
I only hope that Deborah…doesn’t take the time to read this poem.
(Of course there are no winners or losers…that is just a myth…
The real treasure of this game….is having someone to play it with.)
Looking skywards, the Alsatian’s eyes glinted for a split second, connecting to a piercing sun ray.
The ray beamed onto dried semen ammonia. Hot dog breath puffed from his nostrils, onto my bare arm.
He sprung next to a sweating succulent, where a tiny kruisbessie leaf quivered human sperm cell display, in a whimpering breeze.
This was a filigree second, in a day of twenty-four hours times twenty-four hours.
Next the Alsatian’s back muscles rippled.
Coarsely-soft black-brown hair along his spine needled up. Four other police dogs whelped in frenzy. He gave a whip snort-sniff, then one sharp bark of achievement.
Wolf ancestry pupils dilated, penetrating that of his handler.
Time, matrixed into bruised, scratched body was a figment, my cells metabolising light and raw earth like the fragrant koppie bushes. Detective voices sliding sediment rock were parachutes opening, falling, dissipating __the helicopter an incessant mozzie.*
“Hy’t dit gekry.” **
The Alsatian with his helper dogs found the evidence of a brutal ripping of my young teen daughter’s virginity, by an impoverished farm worker, on a rugged hill in the Little Karoo.
THE ALL partnered with dogs for humans.
from my loins, a jewel
God connected sun with earth
violence, a teacher
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*mozzie : slang word for mosquito
** “He’s found it.”
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This lifetime’s moment is etched into my evolving DNA as experience. The power of seeing an Alsatian’s eyes connect in radar, with the heavenly Sun, directing him to dried semen on a delicate fynbos* leaf was astounding. Instant perception was one specific gift during great trauma. I chose this unrepeatable moment as it emerged from memory when I read the contest details.
No line was hard to write, though I shed a couple of stagnant tears.
I deleted how I was able to access the best sniffer dogs in the country, the Alsatian and his handler being flown in from another city. I deleted contextual details about the time.
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*fynbos : fine sweet smelling bushes, some producing small flowers, indigenous to South Africa. Rocky koppies are often covered with them, making this type of hill challenging to climb.
PLACED NINTH : Premier Contest
Sponsor: Daniel Henry Rodgers
Feb. 26
A natural/spiritual,
multicultural,
bicameral dialogue
develops a healthy cognitive/affective individual,
So too,
development of a metaphysical system,
is, through diverse seasons,
creative
and re-creative
and pre-creative
and un-creative
and not un-creative
in-between synthesis
Of physical facts
and metaphysical feelings
out of which a new contagious
robust
resonant
resilient paradigm
Emerges
merges
re-emerges
pre-merges
un-merges
not un-merges
democratically organic
holistically in-between interdependence
and equitable independence.
Universal principles
and ego/ecosystemic
nondualistic unitarian understandings
organically develop
within each ego/eco bilaterally healthy system,
whereby resilient networks of communication
undergo continuous co-acclimation,
physical and metaphysical,
natural life territory
and spiritual wound healing maps,
self/other revising
refining
changing definitions,
double-binding pan-transformations,
holistic communions.
Like a democratic intended constitution,
or multicultural health,
or equitable
and wealthy robust climate
of truth and safe beauty,
Any polyphonically resonant thought/felt system
becomes resiliently health-wealthy
only in its co-relational
interdependent dipolar co-arising entirety.
Ego/eco-systemic prime indigenous learning
provides a win/win therapeutic-historic way
of perceiving ego-centering
polyculturally communing persons
with bicameral balancing curiosity
And this deep integrity learning
graces natural/spiritual
open whole systemic climates
of bilaterally transformative
natural health/spiritual wealth
green cooperative wisdom
Co-arising natural civil health,
robust
non-violent communication,
with spiritual
metaphysical wealth
of non-violent communion.
merciless genocide
slaughter of native peoples
wrought with (super) wanton zeal
feeble ability to thwart
"discoverers" rapine wicked onslaught
merely ratcheted wrecked webbing
wrenched tribal unity,
violently rent asunder
vibrant indigenous linkedin weave
rendered sacred weltanschauung
decimated "noble savage"
woke wretched nightmare,
sans pock marked worsted weal
the Native American holocaust
shrouded in whitewashed veil
tragedy trampled truces
triggering tearful trail
scoped scattered remnant
snuffed out via surveil
futile sympathetic remonstrances,
viz rant and rail
hermetically sealed
dirty deeds done dirt
blunted, cheapened,
and deadened
lance armstrong to quail
most definitely coloring faces
of captive
American Indians deathly pale
into figurative coffin
got hammered
rusty nine inch nail
subpar critical population mass
for survival, plus storied "red man"
bereft of ample potent male
off limits to original proprietors
forced to hightail
happy hunting grounds o'er hill and dale
becoming desiccated bleached bones
devoid of awful, pitiful,
and sorrowful fait accompli
and roaming spirits
like banshees bewail
grievous shadow a blot doth cause me to ail!
What's your hope?
Your great green
or white
or black lives matter
and otherwise conscious culture
of full color
wheeling
reeling love?
To reduce today's competitive pathology,
grasping theology,
for resources and transportive health
and inside climate comfort,
resonant ecological convenience,
resilient wealth
against Earth's future dying
a rabidly competing outside climate death
Or do you dare,
more optimistically,
to retain gospel revolution faith
in Win-healthy MotherEarth?
AND Win-restorative ecofeminists?
Green globally networked Earth Mothers
and multicultural Allies
for Continuous Health DNA-Resonant Improvement,
Playing Left-deductive with Right-inductive
WinWin Games
and thereby avoiding RightWing dominating Left
multiculturalists of co-animated
green-loving
health-advocating
ecoschooled for polypathic listening co-messiahs.
Do you see and fear
a fading LoseLose inevitable
bipolar future disarray?
Or can you also hear
an emerging
co-arising balance
WinWin 2020 restoring bodhisattva-messianic consciousness?
20 Left - 20 Right
50 West - 50 East
Ego Out - Eco In (Jaynes, B. Fuller)
Yang - Yin co-acclimation (Bateson, LaoTse)
Convex - Concave (Fuller)
Space - Time (Einstein, Fuller)
RealTime DeepLearned ZeroZone (Zen)
Animated MotherEarth Tao-Soul (LaoTse)
Scientific - Aesthetic Revolution (Kuhn, Bateson)
with WinWin Health - Wealth (Indigenous Green Wisdom)
Original Source
resource secular - sacred dipolar Intention,
co-enlightened historic mindfulness,
Left with Right ecotherapeutic gospel
EgoTrust with EcoBeauty
Where lie
and co-arise
Tipping Points
of gospel faith?
How many of us have been walking along the shore of a river, a stream or a lake
by ourself or with our partner, our son…our daughter…
and randomly picked up a stone…carried it for a while, took it home
or skipped it across the water.
If, as indigenous people believe, everything on Earth is connected…
every thing…one and all…
then perhaps you picking that particular stone…
wasn’t so random after all.
Perhaps there are time in nature…for reasons we’re not sure why
we feel more connected to the earth, the sea, the sky.
Perhaps there are times we are more attuned when out in nature walking
When we feel more attached to our surroundings..
when we can hear Mother Nature talking.
Perhaps what we think is a random stone…
actually is not!
What if that stone is telling us
he or she is tired of staying in one spot…
What if that particular stone wants us to understand….
It feels like going for a ride…or being held within our hand.
And if that stone asks to be skipped across the water…
if we listen…we just might
hear that skipping stone…squeal with delight.
So the next time you pick up a random stone…
remember this indigenous people’s philosophy…
and ask yourself…did I pick this stone…
or was this stone picking me.
~ The weather has many faces ~ whistling in the headwind ~ quote by poet
Natural and repetitive elements
in the sound of the wind slow down restless thoughts
Observe the thoughts without judging or interpret
avoid depressive rumination just let go
A breath of wind touched your cheek so gently
Happiness is fleeting not a cliché
a lovely feeling, dancing as a whirlwind
The constant wind which makes the strings tinkle
It blows wherever it wants, strong or weak
The gentle wind reminds me of relaxing
pan flute music, sensitively without words
Indigenous music did not die out
it is carried by the wind all over the globe
Can neither be controlled, planned nor ordered
With invisible bows the wind carries away
Progress require you to loosen the moorings
The wind ruffles your hair and the waves sing
It's wonderful to feel the forces of nature
Listen carefully – it's full of presence
Earth's green/blue healthy healing climate
Some LeftBrain emergent verbal singers
and dancers
felt as resonant Gaian EarthMother health
for rebirth re-connection
reweaving
Reconceived
empowered and bilaterally enlightened
benign winds of ecofeminist
local EarthMatriotic
community domestic
democratic
typically extra-familial fertile polycultural
Regenerative health global-systemic
benignly viral GoldenRule revolutions
inseminating
TrueWealth Win/Win NonViolent EarthCommunications
InBetween Both/And nuanced thought/felt dialogue
for win/win co-emergent
dipolar co-arising choices
Preferably not quite so unawesomely
sacred/sensory Either/Or bipolar
affective anxiety preconceptions
overpowering eco/ego-logically indigenous
green polytheistic cooperative reconceiving
re-birthing
reverse time re-membering
re-connecting
re-ligioning Truth/Beauty Ancient Gaian HealingMercy
We're All On This Sacred Green/Blue Earth
Interdependent MultiCultural Wisdom
Yang+Yin = 1 Universal PolyNomial Intuitive-Indigenous
NonZero-CoEfficient CoPassionate LeftBrain EcoLogos
for Unitarian Yin/Yang = (-,-) PreConception not
not also Yang/Yin = Original 1/0 Inception-BiNomialThicket
AnthroCentric LeftHemisphere relearning win/win
compassionate Both/And Ego/EarthHealth
restorative justice polycultural reset
reversing retributive monoculturing win/lose dissociation
Reincarnating local inter-healthfaith community's
most long-term resilient green economic
and ecological
healthy democracy
healthy climate
healthy anthro-public
wealthy all YintegralBeauty/YangTrust
CoPassionate Communing Healthy EarthTribe
protecting
providing for
polyculturally co-investing in
eco-politically green/blue healing
matriotic co-empowering
ecohealth-enlightening
self/other-copassioned lives
Sacredly committed
to at least the next seven regenerations
of a California RedWood Fertile Forest
and a Chinese Bamboo Resiliently Integral
Complexly Cooperative WinWin
Deep MultiCulturally Rooted Thicket.
The mining company
Has confirmed of a place
Its in the Alpha Centauri
Deep out into space
Their provisional scouts
Miners and Geologists
Declare seams of Unobtanium
In a jungle greened mist
Expedition and workforce
With their military men
Set of to this planet
To mine this precious gem
The day arrives
As their equipment scores
Months now having passed
Leaving incredible sores
Their expansion of greed
On this planet so green
Turns the indigenous Na'vi
Against man and machine
With their ingenious science
Of Na'vi-human hybrid
They create avatars
Entering their mental state grid
Infiltrating this species
To gain them on their side
So that mans greed can prosper
Whilst another culture slides
The inevitability of conflict
Indigenous against modern man
Bows and arrows against bullets
The fighting has just began
This species on this far distant planet
Who are in tune with their natures surrounds
Watch on in horror as mans flying machines
Bring their Hometree to the ground
This stirs up this indigenous nation
To rise up against mans greed
With their harmony with nature
Unites all the planets breeds
The might of modern man
Has met their match this day
And sent them back where they came from
For once a planet saved from decay
"I watched Avatar today and i was blown away with the colours, graphics and
the sheer imagination along with the messages of how we treat others"
http://www.thehighlanderspoems.com/avatar.php
THE PRESENT JUNETEENTH: A 2025 Juneteenth Flashback
Beginning with the celebration
Of our Juneteenth,
We prepare a new perspective
For the 4th of July:-
Though this nation now stands stalled
On the brink, she remains our nation
That she is also our nation too, there
Can be no lie!
What a uniqueness her oppressed people
Now share?
Two juxtaposed emancipation celebrations
Back-to-back:
Going from these times, only the future knows
To where:-
Oh what an interesting time it is for those of us
Born black,
And indigenous ones contemplating it all in utter
Amazement!
As for us, our eyes on the prize focus, must remain
In the present;
No more standing around in a sad dismayed whine:-
It’s celebration Time!
P.S.: Remember this, my Brothers and Sisters:-
“…We may not be
Where we want to be;
We may not be
Where we ought to be;
We may not be
Where we gonna be;
But praise God! We ain’t
Where we once were!”