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Premium Member ComPassion's Braver Angels
Impressive values,
like love,
claim resources that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional
spiritual
mentally glad wealth.

Oppressive disvalues
like homophobia and racism
and sexism and ageism
and ableism 
and monoculturing disregard
for threats of global anthro-supremacist ecocide,
express what we are against
because these are...

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Categories: reparations, anxiety, earth day, health, integrity, mental health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member More Resilient Dancing Days
Shared 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
reflects...

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Categories: reparations, extended metaphor, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Rightbrain Victim Questions
What if we live in and out
among and yet autonomously
with and sometimes against
LeftBrain dominant enculturation?

Colonization,
predation with ego-logical economic secular outcomes
too often predicting compromised long-term health
in exchange for conserving an evolutionary win/lose model
serving industriously degenerating corporate...

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Categories: reparations, community, health, history, integrity, peace, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Power: Love V Whatever
What might it take for love to conquer anger
fear
hate?

How is holistic compassion already more contagious than a-holistic self-hatred,
we-hatred?

There is more than one way to hear a**holistic here,
but they all have to do with sectarian divides,...

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Categories: reparations, happiness, health, humanity, humor, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Riding Sixties Shotgun
I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread 
heavenly ThriftyAcres

Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...

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Categories: reparations, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Cheerio Imaginations
Imagine,
for the two thousand and twentieth time,
Yang is hierarchical upside power hungry
from above,
authorized to prey on those yins below,
however resiliently they may pray.

Yang grows politically overpowering strengths
of an autonomously omnipotent god,
pejoratively associated with patriarchy,
and ethologically...

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Categories: reparations, analogy, green, health, humor, hyperbole, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Sacred Ecology
I first ran across this term
Sacred Ecology
while reading Gregory Bateson
sharing a phylogenic
and holonic 
creolization
of ecosystemic language
with others speaking of and with integrity
as more primal and powerful
than competing WinLose psychic separations
of ecosystemic feelings-Right Sacred (0)Soul
and egocentric...

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Categories: reparations, destiny, earth, games, gender, health, humanity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Nature Nurturing Questions
Why is misery said to love company
while depression demands solitude?

And
is it always true that nature abhors a vacuum
or 
sometimes true nurture adores expansion?

Misery,
depression,
anxiety,
negatively respond to trauma.

Negatives do not look for like company
but can positively appreciate...

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Categories: reparations, health, heartbreak, integrity, loss, mental illness, power,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Perspective of An Invisible People
"Perspective of an Invisible People"

Struggling for over four hundred years
Drowning in rivers of tears
Throughout the country's history
Accepting black people, still a mystery
Since the country's discovery, we've been abused 
Standing with strength, will prevent us from...

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© Floyd Neal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reparations, america, emotions, encouraging, endurance, faith, family, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Listening For Sustainability
My daughter,
with Fetal Alcohol crippling emotional intelligence damage
and Cerebral Palsy perpetual TerribleTwo
"is too many,
because Earth is all about ego-defiant me"
has taught herself
to attach her lips,
and sometimes her wet licking tongue
when she is feeling particularly needy
and/or...

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Categories: reparations, appreciation, community, earth, environment, health, integrity, together,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Songs For Reparation
When I was a male child
I prayed to an eternally mute dualdark goddess,
Gaia was our name
for each Other's
secular
sane
sacred
sacraments to share passion.

And so I heard bird songs
praising each day's anticipated Gaian glory,
everybody playing cooperatively nice,
or at...

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Categories: reparations, bird, health, passion, peace, power, prayer,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Neurosystemic Passions For Peace
We have come into this epic time
for survivors of dispassion
to age into sacred communion
we can all share,
monotheist
and atheist
and pantheist
and all non-anthrosupremacists
in-between leftbrain 
snarky opinion leaders
and rightbrain 
slippery felt foolish followers
dancing what we must dance
while silently...

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Categories: reparations, culture, health, integrity, peace, power, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Mighty White the Us
Mighty White the US!

How ‘white’ whites are who worship Sun and think a tan line’s fine
though folks whose skin is darker tone won’t see a valentine!
Let’s say proof’s real, fear’s justified, and poverty breeds crime,
but...

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Categories: reparations, character, family, history, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Changing Systems
I'm reading this book called
"Systems Thinking for Social Change"
by David Stroh.

Although this is not his paradigm of systemic choice,
He talks about WinWin strategizing
for optimal outcomes
Rather than WinLose compromises
for suboptimal conservation
of the miserably under-performing status quo.

Future:
A....

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Categories: reparations, change, earth, health, peace, race, usa, violence,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Masculine V Patriarchal
What looks sexy
and aesthetically pleasing
on Society's well-endowed Page

May not feel so hot
when StraightWhite Daddy's capital-headed
economic fornication systems
lead toward Great White Father's abortion
of global green forests
and resonantly blue skies 
and sun-warmed water 
resilient EarthCare

Cosmic polarizing predations
against...

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Categories: reparations, black love, god, health, humor, hyperbole, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Poland II
A blitzkrieg wipes your innocence away
and only heaven’s hand can help you now.
Your counterparts lie trepid to the fray,
for they can sense the wolfen on the prowl.
Oh dear Poland, there’ll be no recompense
as death, unbridled,...

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Categories: reparations, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Cooperative Political Odds
I wilt with guilt,
self blame,
too comfortable with living midway
within this United 5%
stealing 28% of Time's encrusted fossil investment
as if by collective right
as if without loss,
no reparations for the other 95%
today
or for the 100% of future...

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Categories: reparations, caregiving, earth, environment, health, humanity, integrity, political,
Form: Political Verse
Maxims
There are some who say that marriage is old-school and out of style…
Yet single-parent families still devastate the child.

Some claim that the old writers are problematic, their works should burn…
But human nature doesn’t change and...

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Categories: reparations, culture, philosophy, political, repetition, society, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Slavery and Reparations All Done
SLAVERY AND REPARATIONS
I am a descendant of slaves - from India!
Anyone who demands REPARATIONS shake & quake at my words
Competition? So, we have competing tales of bondage?
The Jewish people's perhaps the longest & cruelest,
With smaller...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reparations, africa, america, analogy, black african american, education,
Form: Bio
Reparations
A man's first right is to his own country:
That place by choice that was his father's hope
Before. His breathing make its history,
Its death is his shackles, his dream its scope.
This was the first discord jarring...

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Categories: reparations, black african american, history, inspirational, god, children,
Form: Verse
Time Zips By At Lightspeed
Before scant opportunity
to make amends totally tubular slips away,
I (one generic doubting thomas)
reach out across cyberspace without delay
jumpstarting and kickstarting reflections
linkedin with fifty plus shades of gray
snapchatting and twittering
do you know the way to San...

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Categories: reparations, absence, adventure, autumn, daughter, destiny, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Race Management
Slavery
enslavement
force of self-imposed ownership 
overpowering another's ego-ownership,
anthro-morbid,
collective ego-morphic tolerance of identity rape,
fear and anger, together building hate,
from which enslavement derives;
a culturally camouflaged nondual co-arising relationship
of codependent despair,
self-hatred.

Enslaving force perpetuates Ego's full-blown angry reduction
in self-identity,
deduction of...

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Categories: reparations, health, identity, power, psychological, race, racism, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Bob Learns His Nephew, Part I
Bob Robinson had been born in the ghetto,
and his childhood was not a nice thing,
single mother, just a teenager herself,
in a neighborhood known for gang-banging.

But Bob was a truly tenacious soul,
he got his first job...

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Categories: reparations, education, growing up, jobs, truth, wisdom, work,
Form: Narrative
The Worst of Humankind - Part 2
Now you’re turning to the south
To save your battered face,
To claim some sort of victory
By flattening the place.

If soldiers cannot win your war
You’ll bomb and you will shell:
Blow everything to smithereens,
Turn towns to living hell.

Your...

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© Bob Trewin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reparations, anger, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Bar None No Shortage of Soap Shampoo, Nor Detergent
Bar none, no shortage of soap shampoo, nor detergent

Courtesy food pantries
Saint Eleanor's Saint Mary's,
Our Daily Bread,
the missus and yours truly (her spouse)
well stocked with good n plenti of
soap, shampoo and detergent.

Spongebob squarepants
would be in seventh...

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Categories: reparations, adventure, appreciation, beauty, care, devotion, humorous, image,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs