Long Reflective Poems
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Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
reflective, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthy Politics As UnusualCreolization,
soars Dr. Jane Anna Gordon,
turns our co-empathic evolving democracy project
into a verbal,
active,
regenerative more,
degenerative less,
occasionally Elite-Pirates v NonElite-Prey revolution,
and even more unconsciously occasionally
Elite/NonElite Creolizing-SelfReGenerative
crave to grave
multicultural Earth experience.
What could all this Elite and NonElite...
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Categories:
reflective, beauty, body, community, culture, health, philosophy, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Rebuilding ParadiseParadise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciatively regarding both day
and dualdark
rich and fertile
souled and soiled
recycling night.
So too
my personal
and political
and economic
and ecological
and theologically reformed...
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Categories:
reflective, earth, eve, god, health, love, paradise, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
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:
reflective, gender, health, humor, integrity, nature, peace, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
thin fracturesThoughts can be thin fractures in the order of things.
Sometimes my dorm room seems a sterile sarcophagus, like an accusation, or an interrogation about my romantic choices, with nothing warm or inviting there. Sometimes I’ve...
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Categories:
reflective, drink, forgiveness, integrity, morning, romance, school, student,
Form:
Free verse
Artifacts of DestinyEach ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life
both cooperative and competing
so far.
So
every shrinking...
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Categories:
reflective, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form:
Political Verse
More Resilient Dancing DaysShared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more
May also become felt
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our way
through emotionally deserted
dessert
Curiously lingering faith
in progressive integrity
of bilateral co-passions
and possibly multilateral
spiritual inside...
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Categories:
reflective, extended metaphor, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Creation StoriesA lovely outcome for our recreational journey,
or Way
or Truths,
or LoveLives,
whichever you prefer to pick out
from among this graced array,
tells a multi-generational creation story
of cosmic sacred ecology
and Earth's evolution revolutions,
drawing on and with
scientific deductive knowledge
both...
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Categories:
reflective, community, education, health, integrity, love, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
On Theistic IntegrityLet us begin
by explicitly undressing
what may have been
implicitly held
multicultural feelings:
1. For the overwhelming masses
of teeming and scheming
healthy human adults,
and especially adolescents,
peak sexual experiences
are also our peak
lifetime
spiritual experiences
of compassion
co-passion
shared orgasmic passion.
2. Our elder right...
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Categories:
reflective, culture, freedom, god, health, integrity, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
gildedThis happened last Fall, during Thanksgiving break.
Lisa and I were at the MET (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with her family, at an exhibit of Art Deco sculpture. Lisa and I came out of a...
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Categories:
reflective, art, dad, daughter, fashion, fun, humor, vacation,
Form:
Free verse
Great Recycling RetransitionIcons are funny things,
she thought.
Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitively not communicating
when we are barely surviving
above the mortally terrifying bottom
of...
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Categories:
reflective, health, identity, integrity, psychological, religion, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Blues Boating HomeHuman history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy
Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often,
feel stressful
Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self AND Other
reconnect,
Like EgoTheistic re-ligion
and EcoMatrimonial
indigenously multicultural
ecowomanist wisdom
Of Ego/EarthTribe mutual MeWe...
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Categories:
reflective, culture, earth, health, integrity, love hurts, mentor,
Form:
Political Verse
Faithful Thought ExperimentImagine your favorite faith community,
whether sacredly vocationed,
or, more prosaic, secularly employed,
is also home to your local Green Freedom Party,
intentionally multipartisan.
This community intends to remain compassionately faithful
to short-term local
through long-term global
public and climate health
of all...
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Categories:
reflective, green, health, integrity, political, power, religion, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Walking While ReadingI was walking while reading
because this had been recommended,...
Well,...
actually more like required reading
while walking,
rather than too much blindly reading
while passively impassively sitting through
Earth-reflective stalking exercises
For improving body health
and soul wealth,
Not that these are really two...
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Categories:
reflective, caregiving, earth, environment, health, humanity, humor, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Edges of RhymeThe Edges of Rhyme
I wrote the playbook, watching what they took
While the earth shook I could not look
In the direction of the Big Book
Like a fish caught on a nasty hook...
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Categories:
reflective, perspective,
Form:
Rhyme
And Still I Drive - Part TwoStars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
reflective, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Darwin's Double-Dark DilemmaElder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for those YangStrong
while Darwin's Cross and his own eyes
clearly disguised
camouflaged ectosymbiotic...
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Categories:
reflective, culture, death, earth, environment, nature, night, science,
Form:
Free verse
The Square Root of BeirutThe Square Root of Beiruit
Ten men bending while theyre pretending to be near the ending
A capitalist nightmare glares like rotten fruit
The squate root of Beiruit
No it isn’t fair, so they’ll start to loot
The soldiers are...
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Categories:
reflective, introspection, life,
Form:
Rhyme
The Apocrypha of Familiars
“The Apocrypha of Familiars”
Wings hover
light luminescent
revelling sprites dark pearls
Corvidae shades
of a family
highly functioning
dysfunctional plural
morphing unobserved
perceived non-unique
spiralling into shape
more black and grey
than white spills
from their eyes
light from their shining
hidden away
intelligence...
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Categories:
reflective, muse, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Beloved Femme Fatale
“Beloved Femme Fatale”
Musk and Neroli satin skin spoons
Naked feet ‘neath The Pillars of Petra
She towers majestic above you, colours your grey skies
You are worshipping her on your knees
What does it matter, anymore? Before your eyes,...
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Categories:
reflective, love, romance, sensual,
Form:
Romanticism
Spring's Kindness - a Collaboration With Regina McintoshCascading off the winter chill
leaving warmth wherever it traces
the edge of the daffodil, tulip or crocus
spring shines its brilliant rays across
the windowpane that mirrors the friendly praise
coloring the seals with such sweet appeal
lavender lilacs...
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Categories:
reflective, appreciation, beauty, inspiration, joy, nature, spring,
Form:
Free verse
Indefinable LoveIndefinable Love...
Duty without love makes us hard and dictatorial.
With Love, we are softer, have a clearer, wider understanding. And: Accountable for what we do and who we are.
Education without love creates efficient, obedient but heartless...
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Categories:
reflective, blessing, courage, deep, humanity, inspirational, integrity, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
RoadMy acquaintance with poetry in general and the simplistic literary brilliance of Robert Frost in particular, came at a relatively early age. My mother would ambivalently imply that I was too young to remember, however...
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Categories:
reflective, age, perspective, , cute,
Form:
Bio
Broken ChainBROKEN CHAIN:
Chorus:
OH... Yeaaaah.....
Isolation kept him far from normality.
And his life was really pity.
Felt his last breath was gone,
As he was fastened to perplexity.
His personal beliefs were wrong,
And his faith produced no tranquility.
He upheld...
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Categories:
reflective, christian, freedom, life, meaningful,
Form:
Personification
Karma InspirationsAn Eastern term, karma
for Western causes
leading to subsequent events,
one bilateral lined dimension
temporally expressed,
explicated,
delineated,
articulated
co-arising dipolarity
correlational
co-relational,
negative and/or positive
Energy
empowerment/disempowerment
enlightenment/disenlightenment
Pathological benightedness
dualdark bilateral
East v West dissociative energy
potential power
shadowed unfore-giving lacking light
Repeatedly,
redundantly enough
that we create "pathology" language
to describe constant,
or nearly constant,
win/lose...
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Categories:
reflective, analogy, health, humanity, inspiration, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse