Long Mindful Poems
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Grand Mother Eartha's DreamMy husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day
She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes
Because,
you know,
or maybe not because,
how would I know?
Dreams about Her Straight White AlphaMale trauma
were...
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Categories:
mindful, culture, earth day, health, mothers day, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Grand PrioritiesWhat fills your goals, son?
I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...
If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a bit...
Let me ask again:
Noticing you are concerned about long-winded
and -winding
and...
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Categories:
mindful, black african american, earth, health, nature, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Pequot River Land TrustOnce,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
mindful, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Mom's UnderGround PeaceTrainA transitional skill
my Mom taught me,
good to use when I start to feel at-risk,
somehow
anyhow,
whether in my relationship with her,
or with EarthDays more kosmic travels
through naturally wild
and domestic spirits.
Remember to ask permission
before...
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Categories:
mindful, beauty, community, earth, humanity, humor, love, mother,
Form:
Political Verse
Political ArtistryBrilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.
Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do as I have done
unless you could do naught else.
But what...
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Categories:
mindful, art, beauty, health, leadership, parents, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Prophets and MessiahsThe difference between
bad-old-boy
competitively evolving
egg white privilege
And good-girl
cooperatively revolutionary
just-us-yolks
Foreshadows a symbiotic contrast
between prophetic performance
and messianic practice,
said Professor Glory
in her Gospel of Permaculture class,
one Friday morning
while sitting on her crass
desk of...
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Categories:
mindful, destiny, environment, nature, science, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Revolutionary StoryThey called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not...
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Categories:
mindful, health, humor, joy, life, love, political, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Bipartisan DissonanceWhen oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel alone,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
mindful, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Reclusive AccountabilitiesI am sick of excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid responsibility
with "I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I judge situations and relationships,
assess potential risks to care and nourishing...
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Categories:
mindful, culture, health, humanity, humor, political, race, stress,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist?
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monotheistic competing for all-consuming
ritualistic servicing?
How...
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Categories:
mindful, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Wisdom's Marching CouncilI know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.
Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I, like some of you,
know what it means to develop cooperative,
too...
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Categories:
mindful, deep, health, poverty, race, wisdom, women,
Form:
Political Verse
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart keen.
Unless your words heal me hastily,
my heart's wound will remain...
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Categories:
mindful, beauty, heart, relationship, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form:
Roundel
Ecotherapeutic JusticeWhen passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.
Permaculture and polyculture,
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance
for our physical, and mental, political and spiritual health.
Permacultural, as I intend it this morning,
refers to...
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Categories:
mindful, blessing, culture, earth, nature, philosophy, political, religion,
Form:
Narrative
Bilateral Creative Thinking SequelLast half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:
In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...
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Categories:
mindful, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
YangRed and YinBlue ReMemoryYou.
Reading this.
Right now.
Proof you have descended
from an unbroken powerful line
of politically and economically successful
Elders.
If we define “powerful Elder”
as those who have had political and economic authority over another,
responsibility for at least one or more...
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Categories:
mindful, culture, earth, health, love, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Working With TheoriesI'm working on this Systems Theory
All existing formal religious traditions
and informal spiritual experience
of Great Sacred EcoLogical Transitions
[e.g. Holocene to
Green AnthroScene;
HolySpirit to
Whole Holonic Natural Communion Systems]
Originally,
through our divine monotheistic
and/or polytheistic
and/or atheistic naturalistic branches
shared as...
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Categories:
mindful, anxiety, appreciation, culture, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Misguided MeditationsI am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.
My training
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.
Within this...
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Categories:
mindful, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Polyculturing EducationPolypathic 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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Categories:
mindful, culture, deep, destiny, earth day, education, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Jesus Messiah As Climate BodhisattvaTo my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme UnitingWealthyStates
sustainable legal/moral Savior
I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about the same place;
not distinguishable,
inscrutable, perhaps.
In strong conserving defense of...
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Categories:
mindful, appreciation, christian, culture, health, history, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Retire V RetreadWhat I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay
of a segregating Country Club.
No, this is addressed to economic...
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Categories:
mindful, earth, giving, nature, philosophy, poverty, religion, science,
Form:
Free verse
Health Questions For LeadersThese invite you
to expand your inclusive integrity
by engaging multiple choice responses.
Please choose your one healthiest answer,
recognizing you may often find more than one choice
resonant with your own complex experiences,
win/win WholeEarth open systemic beliefs,
and/or interior and...
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Categories:
mindful, community, culture, earth, health, humor, money, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Judging V MediatingJudging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,
As felt
and appreciated by my LeftBrain dominant
RightWing hand
nurturing StraightWhite patriarchal
overpoweringly privileged
systemically elitist judgment
Branching, colonizing,
extending up and...
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Categories:
mindful, community, culture, earth, environment, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown
“The Juniper Prize: Between the Known and the Unknown”
That man built a house
of straw and sticks
and the stories that burned within -
all consuming the titled prize;
like a bird
sings a song
the metre repeats and...
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Categories:
mindful, muse,
Form:
Narrative
Something Old Something NewIn a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic ...
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Categories:
mindful, change, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto ViiiI tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core
For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...
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Categories:
mindful, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima