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Cymbric Vale
I believed that I was rural … that I lived in country style,
where the city was close handy … that big distance was a mile.
Trains and buses ferried daily; a freeway ran close by …
comforts...

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Categories: prior, holiday,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Starting With Beginnings
Left:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.

I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."

We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...

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Categories: prior, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Healthy Caring Systems
Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more

Both Father Sun's timeless 
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich 
empowering 
soulful soil
and surfing seas

And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...

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Categories: prior, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Father Time's Surprising Taoist Intimations
Tell 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: prior, analogy, culture, earth, games, humor, psychological, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Thc Ordinance
I am fairly new to this Norwick community.
If I recall correctly
we have about forty thousand households here
where the Connecticut River
conjoins the Mohegan and Iroquois Rivers;
originally deep rich virgin eco-forest 
of and for harmonic rhythm and...

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Categories: prior, community, earth, family, growth, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member The Flash Mob Application
I'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.

Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.

I think this might be a violation of my Rights
to Free Speech.

I see...

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Categories: prior, america, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Victories For Love
The problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral, 
concern.

This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...

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Categories: prior, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Adieu - Part 2
The tears flowed and I still smiled,
My body and spirit and mind,
Were still in that state of residual bliss,
Soaking in your sweet smile,
And savoring the moonlit skin before me,
But my soul was being torn asunder,
And...

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Categories: prior, heartbreak, love, passion, true love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Few Years Back and Forth
A few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...

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Categories: prior, beauty, earth, health, political, psychological, trust,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Games We Play
Yang, dear.

Yes, my lovely Yin.

Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.

Really!
How sexist?

Well you seem to associate competitive ZeroSum WinLose
with strong aggressive patriarchal effectiveness
for defending...

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Categories: prior, birth, games, gender, health, history, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Remembering Radical Relatives
Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly; 
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.

We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an...

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Categories: prior, beauty, culture, health, humor, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Everyday Christians
I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.

I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...

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Categories: prior, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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Categories: prior, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form: Prose Poetry
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...

with kidnapping little boy 
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.

The deadly scourge of  
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.

Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia 
nadir of onset 
diagnoses...

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Categories: prior, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: prior, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse
Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost
Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Categories: prior, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry Beach, sunning and playing frisbee, I
playing guitar, she practicing her...

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Categories: prior, memory, missing you, passion, relationship, soulmate, time,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Be Embarrased By Arms
Be Embarrased by Arms

The right of a person to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon when in a
well-regulated militia necessary for the security of a free state. In other words, if 
you...

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Categories: prior, encouraging,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Escape
"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."

I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...

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Categories: prior, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just Be Thankful - the Linked Style
~ Just Be Thankful  ~
( The  Linked)


~O~



 Just be  Thankful
 J
 Thankful for all
 U
 All that you have
 S
 Have in your life
 T
 Life that God gives
 B
 Gives every...

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Categories: prior, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees, 
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage, 
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...

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Categories: prior, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Today In Billy the Kid History - April 28, 1881
"Sentenced to hang in the town of Lincoln,
Billy made his bold escape.
Both of his guards died from thinking,
that a shackled young boy couldn't break away."

I've often wondered what thoughts were going through his head
as he...

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Categories: prior, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Balancing Work and Play
I 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: prior, christian, destiny, god, health, history, religion, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Pray For the Lost - the Linked Style
~ Pray  For  The  Lost ~
(Linked)


~O~


Pray for the lost
P
Lost  in  this  World
R
World, Needs Prayers
A
Prayers, Love, God
Y
God sent His Son
F
Son to Save  All
O
All who are lost
R
Lost, Blind, Confused
T
Confused, thru...

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Categories: prior, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Teatalk
Do 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: prior, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things