Long Midway Poems
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Father Time's Surprising Taoist IntimationsTell me,
Father Time,
if you would share this space
it would mean everything to me
to us, so kind,
which forms of integrative diversity
incarnate your highest priority,
most comprehensive,
social-political-economic-cultural issues:
1. Domestic economy flat-line trends,
2. International peace intent and praxis,
3. Universally...
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Categories:
midway, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form:
Narrative
Water's WeaknessThere 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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Categories:
midway, power, psychological, water, western, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Zen Death Haiku IiToday, catching sight of the mallards
crying over Lake Iware:
Must I too vanish into the clouds?
—Prince Otsu translation by Michael R. Burch
This world—
to what may we compare it?
To autumn fields
lying darkening at dusk
illuminated by...
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Categories:
midway, death, imagery, life, nature, symbolism, visionary, world,
Form:
Haiku
Watering TerrorI'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time,
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a regenerative resource,
CoPresence Source,
raised to believe the Golden Rule
is most effectively...
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Categories:
midway, anger, destiny, fear, hate, love, power, violence,
Form:
Epic
Fishy Science School of Geometric ArtsMath speaks through us
within us
of cognitive landscapes
imagined still and/or moving.
Primal metrics are rational and symmetrical,
good as true as straightforward,
complex creation story problems
unfolding with precise answers,
right as at least not not ecologically wrong,
ecopolitically suboptimal perhaps,
yet at...
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Categories:
midway, adventure, earth, life, light, math, science fiction,
Form:
Political Verse
SweetspotsCould you tell me, please,
how to become polypathically smarter,
economically deep learned and wisely adept
co-arising ecologically systemic theories
to grow more co-empathic trust
of and for cooperatively organizing positive
nutritional slow-growth,
optimally sustainable Continuous Quality Health Improvement?
Try...
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Categories:
midway, beauty, earth, growth, happiness, humanity, humor, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language Enculturation
long become YangDominant associated
with 'civilization',
co-arising anthro-centrism,
including Earth's newer history
of revolution by Empirical Elitism.
Processes of empirical empire supremacy,
kill or be killed,
became not really...
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Categories:
midway, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Riding Time's Political FlowWe might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our DNA/RNA cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry enough,
as they would like to treat us.
We could do well
to...
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Categories:
midway, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Life Through a Thousand DeathsHere life waits
with a thousand little discontinuous deaths, again,
right here in The Evolving Self's
sixth principle of preferable options for more humane revolutions
of evolution,
lurking behind Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi.
I had seen this life coming
when he began by rooting...
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Categories:
midway, blessing, freedom, health, humanity, humor, science, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
Cooperative FeministasCooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.
In David Holmgren's introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts "Industrial Culture" with "Sustainable Culture"
kind of like comparing masculine LeftBrain culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather...
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Categories:
midway, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Slots poker machines unsolved murders IllinoisLake county music company filled with
slots carney folk real carny folk the little
pete's illegal gambling road show throughout
the Midwest gaming like your idol Frank Peter
Balistreiri the mad bomber stops Metropolis...
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Categories:
midway, america, beautiful, blessing, integrity, march,
Form:
Free verse
Romeo and Juliet: the RemixThree voices required,
Professor,
and two students:
Yang as Fr. Time
YinYin as Sr. Gaia
In a college classroom with Win-Win Game Theory written on whiteboard.
Professor:
Today we are going to role play
a Win-Win enculturation game.
We will define enculturation...
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Categories:
midway, absence, allegory, destiny, games, humor, love, myth,
Form:
Narrative
Exodus To GenesisWith Julian Jaynes
we find an egocentric languaged LeftBrain
developing reasons to sacredly love our healthy RightBrain inductive-integrative SacredPower feelings of Earth's co-relationship with LeftBrain's Self-ReGenerating Identity
of BiCameral Ego/Eco-Consciousness.
Later on in the evolution of Positive Psychology,
we find...
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Categories:
midway, culture, health, nature, philosophy, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto TranslationPremise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When just the midway of my...
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Categories:
midway, dream, poems,
Form:
Terza Rima
Balancing Work and PlayI was reading Rev. Julian Clifford Jaynes' homily,
delivered May of 1919
to the First Unitarian Society in West Newton, Massachusetts,
commenting on the 100 years since Channing's Baltimore Sermon.
Rev. Jaynes had a son,
a second generation Julian...
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Categories:
midway, christian, destiny, god, health, history, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
New BeginningsToday we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic
of Synergetic Steerage.
"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need to stay in contact with people with whom we share...
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Categories:
midway, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
TeatalkDo you share my concern that your happiness and healthy life are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive energy for life,
despite the odds of...
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Categories:
midway, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Hymn To FarewellWhy does my multicultural applauding message,
my polycultural cheerleading,
sound so monocultural chant, rant,
a passionless litany of redundant verse?
Who would have it said of their voice
It remains both too rich
and yet wandering on far too long?
Even resonance
can...
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Categories:
midway, bullying, earth, education, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Noneastern Family PoliticsI began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
midway, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
America 101When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States. Of course I do not personally remember him. Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I...
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Categories:
midway, celebration, patriotic,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Breathing By Design"...making this shift [from ego to Authentic ecoSelf] usually requires inspired [inductive Right to Left +health-reiterative messages] intention and consistent, diligent effort [and a supportive vocational and residential and eco-logically balanced environment.]"
"And the way this...
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Categories:
midway, earth, love, passion, peace, planet, political, psychological,
Form:
Free verse
Manic Depressive ClimatesDepression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by avoiding outward.
Focal awareness of ego mortality,
immanent and emanant,
eminent,
turns inward,
returns...
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Categories:
midway, beauty, culture, depression, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Straining TogetherOur cognitive and emotional struggles against dissonance of all varieties,
and struggles for more love and consciousness and health
work better as decompositions laid out between Ego and Eco,
as cooperative nondual co-arising partners,
Left and Right MindBody
of one...
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Categories:
midway, body, earth, environment, humanity, humor, identity, nature,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sun God's Original IdeaI'm not much of a writer,
more of an activist,
a doer,
timeless doing.
Anyway, my Yang side,
which you AnthroTribes might recognize as EcoJustice,
emerges from my PositiveYang/NegativeYin Balancing
compassionate/revenge YinFractal-Dialectical DiPolar
appositional
negative co-relational,
co-arising side.
Just as my Yin Compassionate/Immune Empathetic/Aptic Elation
emerges...
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Categories:
midway, earth, health, sun, time, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pronoia Happiness FinalsBrezsny in quotes:
"Bestow a blessing on a person you've considered to be beneath you
or alien to you."
Donald, may your future communications involve both deeper listening
and comprehensively ecological learning
about our cooperative potential as individually evolving parents,
and...
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Categories:
midway, blessing, earth, health, humanity, humor, love,
Form:
Prose Poetry