Long Lifers Poems

Wise 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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When asked
by my nephew
for an essential reading list
for PermaCultural Therapeutic Design,
my Taoist thoughts went back
to Unitarian-Universalist
Yin/Yang pre-history,
when Earth produced a theologian,
Dr. Thomas Starr King (1824-1864)
reaching out for non-violent dialogue
across all global healing cultures.

This 1800s Dr....

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I have written the following to voice my opinion of what the United States of America is supposed to be, where it is now, and where it is going, if We the People, through the...

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dear ms.
roman catholic 
secretary sebilius---
are you aware of what you have done to the young women
living within the borders of the 
empire, today?
are you aware that your 
delusional
christian
“ethics”
have led you to stand in front of...

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Not sure how fond I am of this write very different style to my usual genre. #experimenting 

Well look whos back again
My old compardra 
My closest companion chronic pain 
What a lovely way to see...

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"The World is smaller because the people are closer," ... by the Poet.

There's something singular needs to be said,
mind the conduct or stature -- latter's best,
the subject at hand is of size; nay zed,
a bit...

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Ah, the Sphinx-like mysteriousness  
Of tomorrow. While not promised
An invitation to new discoveries and epiphanies
Zest for lifers, optimists, idlers all await 
With breathless anticipation
 
Tomorrow, like death and taxes, is inevitable
Auspicious. It's fragrance more...

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MOSES’S EXODUS BEGINS 

Moses was easy pickings for Satan who saw in him a true son
For killing an Egyptian who was beating on a Hebrew, he done

Moses, for you are the true son of Satan,...

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Artificial Sentience

Another bad idea doing a number on the gist of guilt
Of nothing new, 
the same old talking points voodoo
Of everything left to prove
Of everything left to hide
Sides being taken, swilling back another last gasp
Zoning...

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Rights we are born into are being stripped. 
Ability to plan one’s parenthood is ripped. 
By replacing mid-election a progressive. 
With this barbaric right wing repressive. 
 
Our American families will be disrupted. 
Since the...

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My old friend called today,

30 years now he's been away.

jus said hello n he is well n fine.

n through the years,our friendship,

he's kept,in his heart,n alive in his mind.

recalling the days we ran hard,wild, n...

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Heartbeat of a sleeping giant

In my mind, there is a boy who exist in
Chains.
Inside a cold, dark room of painful 
Solitude-- is where is heart would remain.
Behind these walls the sorrow is inevitable,
As relentless as...

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*Image of Twilight New Moon by Novocom.
AUDIO: Soundtrack from the film, 'The Evening Star' with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Nicholson


Seasonings

               ...

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dead on the inside rotten one the outside
should go and hide but hindered by my pride
try to be unique but treated like a leper
standing tall but crumbling under pressure
take a look and you’ll see its...

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or
    
Life and Pain -- Twin Peas in a Pod    
     
"When that I was and a little tiny boy, with hey, ho, the wind...

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ON TURNING FIFTY

As my cousin turned fifty there was talk of AARP.

Two years behind Danny, I ask the million dollar question:

“What is AARP?” – “Oh you’ll find out,” my uncle laughs.

~

Fifty is the turning point...

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Wake up, Chicago, before it's too late
  Murders are rising at an alarming rate
Multiple car-jackings every day
  We're a criminal's paradise -- hey, hey!

As for classroom education, give me a break
  The...

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Trump is Almost Gone
By Franklin Price
01/07/2020

Trump is almost gone
Just thirteen days away
The Swamp controls the government
Will make We the People pay

Four long years they've fought him
Even when he had done right
I pray to God to...

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Out of the darkness you are strokes of light
A true masterpiece of visual delight
Like you your creator is forever penned
As I look at you I miss my friend
Your heritage is clear an Indian at birth
A...

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A certain thirty-nine-year-old man who is blatantly Pro-Life
Never thought it worthwhile to take for himself the wife
Confessed to me that he has ten children by the same woman
He has the reproductive habits of some notable...

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Spare a minute
to know about
those perky creatures
and their special features

Lifers, twitcher, tertial and lores
are nothing but the birding terms
Introduce, birding to the children,
As that would make kids pen

Their mesmerizing melodious calls 
and the raising tunes...

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good ol’ backwards North Dakota

wouldn’t want to be a woman in
North Dakota,
cause’ choice just ain’t happenin’ there.

nah,
if you’re a woman who gets raped in good ol’
backwards
North Dakota,
since they just shut down the last abortion 
clinic,...

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Could conditions terribly sad
Lead captives to do something bad
When a sheriff not cool
Won’t let compassion rule  
Do lifers in prison go mad?

Did structure that forms Gaza’s pen
Encourage the Hamas gunmen
And with vengeance hot
Will Israel’s...

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Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Surely the most pious, learned Christian in all the land

Came out today with a most scholarly shocker
For which I find it hard to do aught but mock her

She told several fawning reporters**...

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50 years ago I would have said
life was swollen with promise
as I awaited your return
from a land of bicycles,
Pagodas, potato vendors
and "Hiah, Hiah, Mushee, Mushee,
Hononea, Hononea."*

40 years ago the struggle
almost killed us both,
swimming against the...

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