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The Great Life Supporter

After the big bang in space you hang and hang
Getting ready and steady before our history began	
Beating a couple of a billion stars to become the Sun
Molding the ashes of earth for the descent of Man

What was your name before we gave you our own?
What was it like the morning of that first dawn?
Did you see our ancestors crawl out of the sea?
Did they acknowledge you, even as they roamed free?	

While other planets were too cold or too hot
You made sure earth was a well-ventilated cot
You gave light and warmth just the right dose
A little less or more and humanity would never have arose 

Life in abundance, from microbes to the great dinosaurs 
Many creatures of the like, when the world had no doors
Then you got rid of the dinosaurs, to save us from harm
That was the plan, so that our turn could at last come

You know which day; the first human stepped on the ground
A great evolution hybrid, compound of your compound
Did he thank you for the water he drank and the air he breathed?
Or for that flower he picked for the first woman he kissed

And when humans became the most dominant species
You guided them to cross the most dangerous of seas
They conquered the world; from ice age to industrial age
But for you it was just another turn of a simple page

They divided the world into nations and races
You watched as they discriminated those of darker faces
They forgot that you polished every creature with a unique shade
And only Mother Nature can answer for what she made

Where were they when you reduced earth’s temperature?
Who was present when you designed life’s nomenclature? 
When you painted the sky blue without using a brush
Doing everything to perfection without any rush

Yet we walk around proud, as if there is no extinction	
Self appointed custodians, with portfolios of distinction 
Finding our refuge inside high walls and banking halls
Staking our immortality by the words of ancient scrolls

We have the theory of it all but it’s not enough
For we have not traveled to the last galaxy above
To answer the mysteries surrounding your birth
To understand why you chose to support life on earth

What keeps you going, what’s beneath your core?
What else do you have for us in store?
Is there an afterlife after we die? Oh great life supporter !
Does our conscious live on in a land of endless laughter?
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member The Sweat of Thy Face




                           The Sweat of Thy Face

When we were young, we were given a charge by the Almighty…
 “ Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it.”
                       ( This, we seemed able to do. 
It was the second charge we've had trouble with…)
“...In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground…”

     History, according to the Bible,  tells us that, one reason Adam was formed was because God wanted someone to till the ground…to work the soil, planting seeds and reaping the fruits of their labor.
      Since it goes on to say we will do this with the sweat of our face,  we can deduce that this will be hard work. Perhaps mankind misunderstood the words,  “of THY face”, reading it as, “the sweat of THEIR face”?
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Slavery,
Bond servants, 
Free labor…
Sacrificing humanity and compassion for a footstool.
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Freedom! Finally, unpaid and forced labor is rejected and despised…outlawed.

However, the ones in power were still the wealthy. 
Mankind, always searching for the loophole to save their soft, lilly white hands from respectable callouses. 

We began to forget how to work, how to grow food, preserve it, and how to be self reliant.

We sacrificed quality for quantity, flavor for convenience, health for sloth.
We've been blessed with intelligence, ingenuity, common sense…what do we accomplish with these blessings? Discovering more and more ways to avoid a sweaty face and those calloused hands. 
****************************************************************************
The industrial revolution,
The Sciences, Technology,
Our superpower,  Pollution. 
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     Now, on the cusp of inventing the ultimate slave, we could be creating a world where human beings are merely dumb animals relying on our own creation to do all the hard stuff…like thinking. 

Once again we create the tower of Babel. 
Not to reach heaven, no...
a tower that controls our very own Adam...
 Our highly polished, Eve.

When one tries to control Artificial Intelligence , how will we know who holds the leash and who wears the collar?
Form: Didactic

Pleasant Spring Like Day January 12th, 2020

Pleasant spring like day January 12th, 2020

Courtesy climate change
(think global warming),
I would never wish to exchange
unseasonable temperature
way out of range
far to balmy, undoubtedly
ole man winter
weather did shortchange.

Once thermometer readings rise
even smidgen one moost not minimize
Earth way out of balance,
I haint gonna catastrophize
as bajillion acres plus

one after another ocean dries
even the skeptic cannot turn
blind eye and believe contrary lies
when every species practically extinct
and self proclaimed éminence grise

doth trumpet and stubbornly tries
to claim plethora unearthed resources
as sudden goldmine
against wages of sin
former traitor joe redeemers actualize

to catalyze nth industrial revolution
teaching as heresy
ecocentric, which material basket
of deplorables power mongers bowdlerize

Concurrence toward meteorological
trend most all people agree
toward adapting, experiencing,
and witnessing increase -

fair in height degree
bestowed upon Thomas Newcomen,
Richard Arkwright, Samuel Crompton,
Edmund Cartwright
and James Watt first Industrial

Revolution conferred as honoree
appellation not necessarily
in retrospect donned as noble pedigree,
now hundred of years

later downside we see
of belching, coughing,
disorging... yes siree
foul, (née deadly)
cancerous, gaseous, noxious... pollutants.

Decreased dissension 
grudgingly did abate
unclouded protests trumpet
Trump to abdicate
irrefutable proof generates
activist voices to accumulate
linkedin over Green Party 
blessedly to administrate

hoop fully figurative tide
will turn and aerate
political atmosphere whereby
progressive minds will affiliate
otherwise business as usual,
cuz spewing deadly particulate
will only aggravate
dire straits, where series

of unfortunate events will airdate
prophetic apocalyptic fate
especially if nonprogressive
stodgy commander in chief re-elected
flush with bigotry and hate
increased chance (chants) ripe state
for revolution avast swath
of population to amalgamate,

and overthrow anachronistic government
absolute zero survival unless dramatic
nondestructive strategy eschewed
to supplant exploitation and mandate
radical transformation, which dramatic
shift off grid if lucky requisite
Earth friendly manufacturing
can possibly ameliorate.

Early Mid Afternoon May 22nd 2020

Early/mid afternoon May 22nd, 2020...

Raindrops percolate Perkiomen Valley watershed
pleasant reprieve versus quite warm temperatures
yesterday found yours truly averse attempting re:
ding outside, the secluded alcove visible looking
thru single bedroom window here, once upon time

former Schwenksville Elementary School, now re:
purposed Highland Manor apartment alphanumeric
unit B44, 2day precipitation lightly palpitating terra
firma quenching thirsty flora and fauna donning viz
age fifty plus shades of lush green meteorological

regular phenomena offsets prospect where drought
would deprive biota requisite liquid nourishment
speculation June, July, and August promise triple
digits essentially forcing creature comfort ala air
conditioning as climate control to weather extreme

hot temperatures linkedin with global warming, a
grim prospect lately tempered courtesy coronavirus
COVID-19 inexplicably temporarily giving respite
the Earth atmosphere purportedly less toxic since
countless manifold modes of industrial production

lockdown subjected since employees in quarantine
to thwart contagion infecting adjacent areas, thus
impacting transportation hub, no substantial traffic
most rerouted thru information superhighway data
bits and bytes sent to and fro, hither and yon, until

"green light" signalled for businesses to reorient
themselves to alternate paradigm, hoop fully more
eco friendly less dependent upon fossil fuels, where
greenhouse gases deplete ozone layer compromising
delicate balance offset severely trending toward by

Yoda - star wars pitched battles witnessing galactic
empires armed 2 teeth with supersonic weapons mass
destruction spelling demise of human civilization
think brinkmanship whereby within eyeblink en-
tire realm encompassing eastern, western, northern

southern, brethren and cistern multifarious legacies
snuffed out without a trace extinguishing gamut of
living things great and small, perchance world wide
web overtaken with radiation resistant critters, an
unrecognizable changing of the guard when no pry

mates abled (Cain not) wrest control against giant
size carnivorous entities deliciously feast carrion
until nothing but lovely bleached (bomb shelled)
bones scattered across the pock marked terrestrial
landscape - mush room 4 opportunistic organisms.

Premium Member Growing Health Her Dipolar Self

Sherri Mitchell invites us all
to gather more cooperatively in our search to avoid
once again in this Fifth Extinction MultiGeneration,
the entitled
privileged
win/lose colonizing
leftbrain dominant potential patriarchal terrorist
lurking within
our climate darkening ego identity.

How do I sabotage my more benignly intending self
repeatedly into predative win/lose games-manship?

How do I hate my lose/lose mortal degenerating nature/spirit Body,
And reject my own physical/mental
ego-natural/eco-spiritual
fragment/interdependent
universal/unitarian bicameral individuation?

A lifetime process of co-acclimation within EarthTribe
secular metamorphic transmutation
of sacred transubstantiating spirits
of win/win
left/right
dipolar co-arising
inform/exflow binomial correlation;
creative appositions

We all,
Mitchell responds to her own question
strangely
prophetically before she asks it,
following an Industrial leftbrain-dominant Revolution
leading away from rightbrain win/win 
more organically compassionate moments,

In which we, more domestically together,
possess harmonic left/right States 
of cooperative understanding
climate YangLight
and YinDarkness
infant/womb nondual potential fecundity
ego/eco-co-acclimating inside/outside attachment
primal connectivity
ego-interdependent win/wins overpowering win/lose detachments,
from our co-creative
re-creating win/win cooperative health development
caregiving/receiving communal green ego/ecological abilities.

Our metaphysical question,
Why me; Everything ZeroSum,
and not just nihilistic Zero-NothingCore?
Is not just why growing healthy consumers
developed robust competitive EarthMarkets,
but also how we co-productively show up
most powerfully to meet this depleting nutritional time
in which we lose to climate monoculturalism

We are most egotistically invested in
when not interdependently win/win
bicamerally conscious internal DNA multi-regenerational cultures
resisting win/lose predative climate-death trends.

How do we invite cooperative dialogue
rather than trigger competitive debate,
mere empty theoretical words?
Devoid of heartfelt rightbrain compelling experience
deeply learning through our win/win mutually co-invested actions
not of win/lose leftbrain entitlement
but of win/win interdependent engagement.


Premium Member The Coming: Mood Variations

The Coming…
(Mood Variations…)

		      
The long hot summer yields to the arrival
of the cooling fall.
Despite the coming treat to survival
towering trees proudly stand firm and tall.

Sticky, sweaty, steamy nights
have now all gone;
giving way to the cool ebony breeze.

Horny frogs and crickets
no longer sing their eerie song;
squirrels organize
their cupboards in the trees;
and ivory towers grow on
graves of fall’s fallen leaves.
		      
In the early evenings’ misty wine
sun of change set the close of day,
leaving hued shadows to sway
on the footprints of changing time.

The angels of the sky have flown far away;
leaving a strange peace to seek out another day
to find sanctuary in caverns of hope.
Seasoned lives prepare for what winter nature will send their way;
as echoes of rain mock the variations like a cruel joke.

Strange how nature’s circadian rhythms
bring about change: yet the more things change,
the more they stay in the same range.
No one saw the ambiguity of the coming strange schis

Dawn seemed to have struggled this morning---
     Returning from her nocturnal journey,
She slowly stretched, yawned, and arose
     To the appointed occasion 
Sending dim, golden rays piercing through
     Shades of lazy grey clouds

The whistling wind wails, whooshing through the trees
     And winding around corners
Bring awakening alarms that hands cannot stop
     Nor ears can ignore

The weight of sleep lifted; the window shades of dark orbs
     Open to the set time
Oblivious to the exact moment of designed closure, only
     Aware of the here and now;
Thanksgiving is offered for one more day of struggle:

To be free of the shackling mind games they play,
     We prepare to fight another day.                         

Only God could have made this chosen day
     We cherish 
To teach the children the liberating way
     That they not perish
In the ongoing struggle to be totally free
     Culturally, politically---
     And economically be.                           

Closing in on an all-time high, wars remain in vogue:
     Peace has been vetoed 
Military-industrial complexes are the nation’s money lode
     There is no other road. 
At the conference table, negotiations continue 
     To collect dust
And the compromise remains us.

Reflections of a Dollar General Shopper

Making my way through the Dollar General hoping to get an economy pack of Thank You cards to send out to all the people who had just given me expensive gifts  

(Not really; I was there for cheap cosmetics), 

All I could smell was that discount store smell I can’t pin down, but if I had to describe it, I’d say it’s the smell of spilled Prell baked on raw plastic packaging and industrial strength Irish Spring spread all over the place to repel insects and people with disposable incomes

I heard Elton John in the background, and it was the same song I heard as a nearsighted but proud third-grader at Kmart with proud young parents doing their best, too, as they had me try on all the reading glasses on the spinning rack, hoping one of them would be an affordable solution to a suspected vision problem, but none of them were going to help me read writing on a board more than a few feet ahead of me.

But it was fine; for now, everything’s fine. My grades are good, and everything’s fine for now.  Prescriptions can wait a few years for now.  I can only see what’s right in front of me, and it’s fine for now. 

Now here I am thirty years later at Dollar General under the same overhead music and florescent lights, and the same smell that I can’t positively identify.  These discount places all seem to smell the same and I can’t explain it, but maybe it’s in my mind the way it clings to my clothes and hair almost as bad as cigarette smoke

And as stuck as that smell gets in my clothes, so I’m stuck in this place as a ghost wishing to move on, but trying to save money on scar concealers, ignoring pains in my jaws and sides and back, 

So I’m back, and still not sure what that smell is exactly
And all there is to do is be glad that for now, everything is fine.  

I can see what’s right smack in front of me just fine, now, but I ignore the distance as I did then, saying it’s just fine, still believing I have a chance to escape and move on to someplace better, if only in my mind.  

Gratefully I’ll head home with my discount concealer and change, and like that nearsighted girl, see nothing far ahead.

Everything’s fine today.  The smell of rain will send that discount store smell away with the breeze for now.  Tomorrow will soon be today, and as long as today is fine, it’s fine for now.
© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Educate Or Eradicate

EDUCATE OR ERADICATE?

A child's education turns out to be cruel 
If they only learn about sex education., and not life coping rules 
And ultimately, my angel, it's the children that will pay 
Because nine months later, a new life is on its way

Education can be a gift, and some of it will have a great purpose 
But, it's useless when they have to figure out how to hire a wet nurse 
Help children know more, show them how much more they can dream 
Of a much greater future, let them know what that means

Demand now that high schools implement more life strategies 
Children can't learn something different if it's only the diapers they'll see 
Children won't get to have a mind until they are taught how it can expand 
If you don't know, then learn together, think twice and take command

Change the patterns that keep on growing in each generation 
The technology we have today can help us unite our nation 
Children don't need to walk the roads, that you all walked down before 
They are autonomous, give them back their mind, and you'll see so much more

It is up to you, my angel if you let society make you cower 
Get control of your mind right now, because a child is like a flower 
They will grow if you give them love, knowledge and feel the sun 
Or they will wither and die in the darkness, paying for their mistakes alone
 
(c) Giggles the Poet
April 6, 2018, 3:00 a, m.

We often hear from people that education failed them. That’s because our industrial age models of learning don’t prepare us for our rapidly changing world. Nor do they teach us the things we need to be extraordinarily happy, free, healthy, and fulfilled.

Prepare your child mindfully and they will EMPOWER themselves in ways we couldn't as children.  A child will learn more if you give them their mind to explore.  Help them THINK ABOUT THINKING, UNDERSTAND THEIR EMOTIONS ARE IN THEIR CONTROL.  Help them learn ways of communicating, ways that we were never taught, and you will give them riches beyond the material....riches OF THE SOUL

Help them THINK about THINKING and they will grow EMPOWERED.

They do not need to walk our roads, know our path.  Help them make theirs and you will see more through their eyes

 
FEAR - FOCUS EMPOWERMENT AND RESILIENCE  

 SKILLS FOR PILLS
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Venice a Crazy Nice Adventure

Venice, Italy, is a crazy shamozzle of new and old 
Where junk, graffiti, decay, stunning beauty, 
     history and culture poverty and opulence, all reside side by side, bobbing. 
Water dominates the landscape, canals and waterways replace all the roads
Everything is carried by boat, food, people, garbage, produce, industrial supplies.
Ambulances, fire engines, delivery trucks and police cars are all replaced by boats.
The disorderly rusty ferries ply the waterways, jostling along with gondolas, magnificent polished wooden water taxis, 
Occasionally the historic scene is ruined by modern fiber glass runabouts 
     with huge outboard motors completely out of place. 
Next comes barges with cranes, garbage collecting boats, delivery and construction supply boats, and the many service vehicles.
Grab a table beside the canals and watch the parade of boats old and new jostle and bobble on by.
Walk through the tiny crowded streets and enjoy the kaleidoscope of people of many cultures enjoying themselves.

There are many surprises. Tiny shops with feet in large glass tanks being cleaner by fish.
Everywhere there are places to explore and things to enjoy.
Looming off in the distance you may see huge cruise liners dwarfing the buildings, 
These vessels are seemingly populated by ants, as the ships are so big. 
The ancient church bells in Venice chime as the ships depart arrive and depart, in homage to the new god of tourism.

The Palace art is simply overwhelming, overloading your senses. 
Ancient art is everywhere and often ignored. 
Venice is beautiful, but one gets the impression that all the photographs taken in Venice 
    are gradually sucking out the life force out of the structures, hastening their decay.

There are so many dimensions and experiences, places to explore that you never get tired of Venice. 
The more times you visit the better you will like it and the more you will find to do and see. 
You have to laugh and ignore the hassles, the jostling crowds, the regimented crowded ferry system, 
     the pushing and shoving of the crowds in the tiny streets,
     simply laugh and have fun.
Venice is crazy, nice, with diverse multi-faceted attractions and lots of things to do. 
You will love it! 
Venice Trice is Nice.

The Most Excellent Pipes For House Plumbing

Want effective and long-lasting house plumbing? Here are few examples of the most excellent pipes for house plumbings that will last forever.

The most reliable pipes for house plumbing are ones that will persist for a long time, as well as efficiently do the job.

ABS pipes are the most reliable drainage pipes but PVC is most suitable for underground settings in commercial and industrial constructions. PVC is more heavily used in the United States, where ABS is less popular. Both work well, it all comes down to the codes and allowances of your particular region.

Water

Copper and PEX are the most suitable for the use for water services, with PEX being the most affordable by a landslide. PEX is very simple to work with and cut, as well as attach fittings too. This cuts down the price of material as well as labor time for a plumber.

Copper is more costly, and type M Copper is not permitted in all circumstances as it has thinner walls, but it can be utilized for various domestic applications. Type L copper is more easily employed for commercial and industrial settings as it has thicker walls and will last much longer.

Copper seems fabulous but needs a bit more time to operate with. The positive side of copper though is that it is a more rigorous material and is less likely to get pierced(although possible). Copper needs soldering (melting metal with a low melting point around the pipe and fitting) as well as sanding the element to guarantee it is clear of dirt and grime that necessarily builds upon the outer wall of the pipe and then implementing flux to make it more manageable for a flame to get attracted to the interior of the fitting for that watertight seal.

Cast Iron for drainage

Besides ABS and PVC for drainage pipe, you can also have cast iron pipe for your drains. These are also a more costly option for drainage (like copper is to PEX) and takes more time to work with.


This pipe also demands a bit more care to be hung from the roof as earlier discussed, it’s heavier.

When it comes to plumbing, your code is power. Whatever choice you make, be certain the  hydraulic hose fittings  are to code as a lot of stuff may be immediately sold, but may not be to regulations. This could lead to crashes in plumbing and accidents.
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