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Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Universal Credit UnionStepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?
He invited me to sit down
to consider cooperative transactions
as our intentional understory
camouflaged within our ecotherapeutic relationships,
like...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, earth, nature, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free 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:
neighborhoods, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Miracle of HypocrisyI was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence,
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, abuse, culture, earth, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
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:
neighborhoods, nature, philosophy, political, psychological, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Narrative
Out For a SpinI take a four-fold spin
through Bill Plotkin's wheel
of bilateral identities,
iconic developmental faces,
ironic personalities.
FIRST comes Eastern-born
dawn of human infancy,
Innocent Sage infants
so WiseElder
in our LeftBrain emergent
wrinkling unfolding
sacred RightBrain ways.
Searching for care giving eyes
to be sure we...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
To Grow PeaceTo faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,
Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze
on a monotonous monocultural path
Disassociating
internal v external
navel v social
my...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, adventure, earth, education, environment, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Regarding Health and EducationDear Local Boards of EcoSchool Education,
Departments of Environmentally Protected Walkable Transportation,
Cooperatively Maintaining Public-Private Works
and STEAM Play
and WinWin GreenGames,
Hysterical Historical Associations,
Social Work Departments of Climate Restorative Therapy,
and Public Health-Wealth Departments:
Did you leave anyone out dear?
Just the...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, caregiving, earth, gospel, health, humor, patriotic, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
When We Need HealthInsufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, weakness, loss, decay,
anger and fearful hatred
wilting climatic change
in both Interior and Exterior Landscapes.
So which do we continue intending...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, culture, health, love, peace, political, trust, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse
My Rightwing FamilyMy RightWing
all white male dominant
or venus invidiously envious
family
Is way quick to remain gated
away from drug
and alcohol
and automated arms dealers
and users,
black market buyers
and sellers
and renters.
Yet these same straight
boxer whitey patriarchs
are curiously too tidy comfortable
with...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, culture, earth, health, humor, light, power, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Chapter 131 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Gifts To the PeopleDate: September 2049
Early morning pleasant weather
Time. Holly woke thinking she would
Visit her mother today. She felt ill
Lately she's been feeling this
Uneasiness. She couldn't, she didn't
Want to think about...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, birth, child, confidence, dance, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
The Market PlaceI have been trying to pen this verse for the past two weeks but
Someone was standing in my way and my mind went astray
Can’t you see that it is a brand new day?
Winter has subsided...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, change, character, courage, environment, metaphor, money, truth,
Form:
Narrative
When I Was Born In '45When I Was Born in '45
By Franklin Price
08/08/202
When I was born in '45, was another time and place
Merritt Island, I called home, we had not gone to space
Segregation was the way, we lived back in...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, america, discrimination,
Form:
Couplet
Moving Times and SpacesMoving into a new home
with anonymous neighbors,
whom you typically have not even met
before deciding where you will replant yourself,
and perhaps also your significant others,
sometimes including multiple generations,
and pets and plants,
all takes place before you have...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, earth, environment, health, humor, marriage, parents, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Statistics, Polls and Percentages - Both Audio and TextI heard, a couple days ago, the Austin Armadillos
spent thirty million dollars for some slugger named Peru
Whose last year’s on-base-average, from the year before, had doubled
from a pretty wimpy POINT-O-ONE - to a...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, humor,
Form:
Verse
On Resilient HealthI am reading my Resilience Systems Manual,
avidly,
like an underfed developer
hoping to strike gold
while laying healthy habitat foundations.
Today I see Community Resilience mention
Tipping Points,
dipolar appositional,
when exceeded
on a WayTooMuch Yang OverInvested
Western dualistic
nature ain't spirit
so divine couldn't...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, environment, health, humor, integrity, science, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
Family GardenersI've noticed
since early years on the family farm
with large matriarchally planted and harvested gardens,
that food,
for moms,
is a natural,
and yet also spiritual,
communion relationship.
Nutrition evolves from and for communal relatives
of which we are ourselves made
and nurtured into...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, caregiving, earth, garden, gender, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
National Public RadiatorsAll this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their corporate direction,
to support further public broadcasting
for the benefit of our...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, conflict, crazy, creation, earth day, environment, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Outdoor OperativesCommunity outdoor innovators
are challenged by premillennial lack
of potlatch cooperative investments
paid-forward
by ZeroZone invested WiseElders,
Limited by Space
for developing multifamily co-housing
with cooperative community organic gardens.
Limited by volunteer outdoor ego-eco therapeutic
Time.
Limited by competitive economic grid
and profile assumptions
for future WinLose...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, caregiving, community, education, family, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Gateway TownGateway town, Mississippi and Missouri river flooding confluence,
with its celebration of manifest destiny, its looming, iconic archway.
Stainless westward marker, its culture flowed southward for influence
within the lawn-jockey, pink flamingo neighborhoods of moral decay.
T.S, Eliot,...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, allusion, city, class, longing, racism, slavery, urban,
Form:
Rhyme
Wisdom To SurviveWhen will we gain the wisdom to survive
this disturbing
degenerate
NegativEnergy
adolescent denialism
of fascist climate-bullying tendencies
toward shrieking violence
at silent displaced victims,
creating rivers of homeless
multi-degenerating non-thriving refugees?
Where are the all growed up
nurturing regenerate adults
in our capital cities?
On...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, anxiety, caregiving, grandparents, health, integrity, peace, youth,
Form:
Political Verse
RevolutionaryI went from ghetto living
And the ghetto kind of days
To being up out of it
And to seeing better days.
Now the truth stays
And my mind plays,
in a blessed way
defying the lie defining me
in my...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, america, freedom, god, hope, humanity, independence day,
Form:
Free verse
Rampant and Endemic Police BrutalityRampant and endemic police brutality...
flourishes against United States citizens of color
going on three years
post George Floyd
short lived heightened awareness
when #blacklivesmatter
in conjunction with 1619 project
wrought upwelling of progressive surge
hinting at positive...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, absence, abuse, africa, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Free verse
The Toilet Paper RevolutionDate June 2024
A large group picketed outside
Of the toilet paper factory.
People held picket
Signs marching in a circular line.
The Group chanted:
Revolters deserve better bottom
Paper on this caper! The group
Became bigger...
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Categories:
neighborhoods, anger, history,
Form:
Alliteration
Chapter 130 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Holly: Preoccupations and Damian's DivergenceDate: September 2049
Late morning was nothing except
Family objectives investments and
Some preoccupations. Damian was
On Skype conversation with CJ
Julius Franky-Joe and cousin Domonic.
Damian introduced the experiment.
"Family let me know now inform me
Brothers....
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Categories:
neighborhoods, allusion, child,
Form:
Alliteration