Long Mentorship Poems

There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)

That weakness of mind and body overcomes strength
And uniting...

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"It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual conscious intention to evolve."...

"It [Evolutionary Enlightenment] is a new and...

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Future 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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What remains 
when gratitude for learning
totally evaporates?

I don't know...
Totalitarian senility, maybe?
I guess I don't understand
the source of your question, dear.
Do you feel less grateful for learning
than in more formative years?

No, I don't
but I sense younger...

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MY HERO
This is a brand new truth so give me focus attention, 
in spite of all I've been through life keep challenging me, 
just realizing am on a sinking ship, 
following folks in friendship hoping...

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Obamystic Preludes: Things we wish tomorrow for today

Insufficient knowledge 
for comprehensively conserving consciousness
is also more than sufficient ignorance
to liberate comprehensive disease.

Knowledge is not optimally resolved
resonantly revolved
accurately measured
in deductive-reductive information
about lose/lose diseased systems
and win/lose uneased systems;
AnthroLogical...

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In PermaCulture Design
we have orthodox healthy outcome trends
which we call polycultural development,
and we have decompositional unhealthy outcomes,
when life does not go as integrally planned,
which we call, by comparison, 
monoculturally unfortunate results.
More of a weedpatch
than the...

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Corina Junghiatu, editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Vocea Literara", based in Bucharest - Romania wishes to express her gratitude to Dr. Kairat Duissenov Parman, president of the World Nation Writer's Union Kazakhstan, affiliate of the...

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If we were to follow a health model
for optimizing both economic and ecological wealth outcomes,
then investment in public and domestic educational systems
for active ecotherapeutic practice
and developing cooperative, self-regenerative systems,
would become our primary fiscal investment,

While military-surgical...

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Ego Yang always seems to get Left in our stories,
to monopolize our creation history,
while Eco Yin keeps whispering that she'll be Right out
as soon as she feels more feminist-matriotic nurtured,
invited with a more resonant flow-integrity,
appreciated...

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Gracious fortress of caring fortitude
Guarding by their compassion’s latitude
Governing to soar through faith’s latitude
Guiding with attitude of gratitude…
God blest our parents’ love-packed magnitude!

Daddy’s chromosomes in his fatherhood
Blended with Mama’s genes midst motherhood
Nourishing fully healthy babyhood
Toward...

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A multi-religious mediator's mission
might include supporting InterFaith Green Communion

And might organize community-based
EmPowerment and Enlightenment Missions
to cooperatively organize
polyculturally resonant 
Voices

To enact and advocate,
to gospel sing and liturgically dance
to empower Eastern metaphysical contextualists
and enlighten Western physical embodied...

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I hope we all at least aspire to become adept caregivers and receivers,
as these two directions seem to be nondualist,
mutually symbiotic;
to give care is neither better nor worse than to receive,
as optimal healthy care giving...

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July 30 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 12-17

Key Verse – Isaiah 12:1 And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine...

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Exemplifying jubilant triumphant life-building partnership
Sealed with remarkable intimate relationship
Around blissful freedom-bound fellowship
Upheld by care of loving leadership
Deserving loyal followership….

Such ties my Saviour through cord of sweet friendship
Nurtured by Christ upon Scriptural faith’s authorship
While I learn...

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Setting: As curtain opens, siblings are glued to the facebook page 
flooded with congratulatory messages for the children’s ensemble 
under their mentorship.

Characters:
Martina – Voice coach, 30 years old
Martha-choir conductress, 28 years old

Dialogue:

Martina: Congrats, Sis; we...

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Caring for Earth
includes caring for oneself,
and caring for those we have grown to care for.
Co-piloting Spaceship Earth
includes piloting humane landscapes of EgoLeft-EcoRight Identity.

Spaceship Earth evolves collective global 
LeftBrain power
and RightBrain wisdom
to co-manage with Earth
what we...

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Let’s relax along mentorship pleasure
to bask in varied students’ excuses when facing pressure
as they abound for sure…

Learner A says, “There is a lion in the way”
so I’m late for the reporting schedule today
hope to fulfill...

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December 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on James 1-5

Key Verse – James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not;...

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When you said to me,
"Climb up here,  It's pollution free."
Sacred. Safe.
Your rarefied air.
Calculating, you seemed so free.
Safeguard. Sage.
I said I could breathe...
Underrated your density.
Saintly. Sane.
High-minded insight.
When anticipated terror
denuded me,
cool rarefied air
regulated insanity, 
far gone...

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I hope this letter, to you, a stranger 
Becomes a letter to a friend 
As we travel on this journey to its end
Yes we’ll start off as mere strangers
Trying to share the selfsame track
And what...

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Meow
meaningfully echoes our unique distinction
making functional feline existence
mightily declaring our sacred raison d'etre
marvelously designed by the great Creator.
Meow! Meow! Meow!

Meow
magnifies the expression of what we are
moving us to communicate with others
mirthfully exposing our gladness
moods as...

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Apparel in my closet adorns my modesty midst self-multiplicity
Blending along blouses that bear dignity
Confidently exuding elegant beauty… 

Dresses distinctly define my femininity
Exposing woman-roles and their variety
Floral skirts mark motherhood’s blooming serenity…

Green and golden blazers gripped...

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Creating in me learner’s wondrous cravings
Alluring my mind around discovery arena
Painting possibilities, vividly picturesque 
Teachers* lead toward pursuits, triumphant
Instilling in my heart values, illuminating
Vanquishing ignorance vis-à-vis great ventures  
Always captivating soul for exploration agenda…...

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Edward ( Bud ) Atfield
Brother / Uncle

There is little to inspire this,
a day of reflection, but loads of hope.

There is a brother / uncle I will miss,
who has reached the end of life’s rope.

At the...

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