Long Memorization Poems

Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [ecopolitical] future.

Although I recognize the value of formal...

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Once upon this time
I was listening to the Christian Fathers
retell traditional stories
of God's election and predestination.

Predestination
is like being born into royalty,
power,
privileges of humane Earth's regenerative grace.

Election is more democratic.
Selection based on God's vote for mercy,
apparently,
because...

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What have you learned from your family experience
that influences your position
on public health and safety,
national health defense
and economic offensives you might propose
for healthier individuals 
and families
and nations
and even planet Earth, hopefully?

Could you give me an...

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Do you have your one way ticket to heaven?
(Have you made your reservation?)
Do you have your one way ticket to heaven?
(Already stamped for approval?)

Do you have your reservation made?
(Do you know the cost for your...

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Words unsaid can be undone
And in this way our liberty's forgone
Are we so abandoned in our quest for the throne
That we leave each other starved, carved and alone?
That we remain quiet in the face of...

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Deep Listening is integral and creative;
learning to listen in an organically dialectical context.
It works most effectively when you,
and your team,
and family,
and species,
trust their environment,
so everybody can venture outside ego's inside tiniest range of comfort 
and...

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Written: October 16, 2023
Changed past Poetry Contest               Sponsored by: Fire Bird
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Smooth as ebony silk, black aquatic waves the melting
Essence of liquid evil, stirring this lake placid of our
Eternal nightmares, deadened space in the fathoms
Deep, beneath the dreaming realm for which we sleep.
Translucent tears, left dripping...

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There are scratches on my coffin of life
As I struggle to break free from being buried alive
My fingernails are worn completely down to the wick
And I scream and yell and frantically kick.

But no one responds,...

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It’s a fresh morning of new mercies;
raise your hands in a moment of praise!
Do you recall that you’re in covenant
and covered with the blessings of today?

Spend some quiet and quality time with God;
speak genuinely and...

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Do you ever think about why you came to college?
to meet some new people? maybe gain some knowledge?
or out of obligation and potentially some homage?
Look, I'm not trying to bash everything about school
It's just not...

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A fit is thrown at the mere suggestion that they have to memorize something.
Memorization is boring.
They refuse.
 
What is the point?
We have the Internet.
We have I-pads.
We have I-phones.
 
We do not have spelling lists any...

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In college I frequently pulled all nighters
And showed up for morning tests somewhat less brighter
     With caffeine and pizza I struggled to stay awake
     And was always...

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What is not a question forms phraseology
Parallel worlds in freelance
A Fraction of elevated erudition
where days discuss weeks
hours neglect seconds
And accommodations without specifications
scar our ability to comprehend.

So an explanation sounds like run on sentences
Using the same...

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In school, I had to memorize
A Kilmer poem called “Trees.”
I wasn’t crazy ‘bout it, but
I did the deed with ease.

My 6th grade brain had lots of cells
Absorbing all the stuff
I entered as I learned things;
There...

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Dear Poetry Soup connoisseurs, and
courageous ones sharing and learning

There are those of you leaving me breathless
with your best, I must confess

Those vocabs astounds me to point
of fixation, research, memorization

Look at one poet's, "serendipitous" I now...

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We wear uniforms. 
Pleated cloth, v-necks, submission with a smile. Our uniform

We ask for privileges that should be our right. 
We are not prisoners, their is no barter system here. We have no rights.
Punishments do...

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Because I think of Barkley as my
four-year-old son, and I've gotten him
vaccinated to prove it, do I now 
put him in dog obedience school and
call it kindergarten? I think YES.
I need to show him off....

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Grounding teeth against the wollywork 
Memorization doesn't appetite and clause
Matching petulant crashing opposed 
Language and its neighbor
Avenue of bark 
Credible crock croaking a broken moat
Butcher a goat

Drowning why like castling a brook
Finalizing a product 
Like...

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Some See
David J Walker

Some see sun 
Some see none
some 
see 
the sum of 
light and countable  
luminations

Some see night 
and fear 
As the first creation
Falling near  
Failing feint 
supplications 

Some see music ...

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