Long Replant Poems

I have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.

This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more embodied communication environment...

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A shaman has two vocations,
inter-related, 
wise teacher
and robust healer

With emphasis on noticing healthy natural systems
shared values
wealthy spiritual development of seasons
with timely regenerative change
without untimely degenerative treasons
to reason

Healers of motherland
and Her EarthTribes.

My favorite teachers
seem to remember...

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Moving 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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Every time I change directions
lately, and possibly beforely,
Trees stand by to mentor
and nurture,
to feed with branched hands
to bleed when uprooted
from aptic past centuries
of hibernating winter naps.

Trees of original pheromone attraction,
August spawned
like Taurus colonizing crabgrass
embedded in...

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Yesterday brought not a storm, 
But a suffocating stillness.
Everything stopped.  
My throat grew dry.  
My bones began to ache.  
The silent but constant rhythm of my little world seized.

Everything stopped.
Then in exactly...

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Do not treat other species badly
as they would not
treat you
LoseLose badly.

Minimally,
love requires
we intend 
no aggressive monoculturing-supremacist harm.

Follow and lead
our own WinWin EarthTribe Golden Rule
toward,
and not sadly away from, 
health-wealth BothAnd optimization.

Ignore small and short-term aggression,
except...

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It was a nasty war.

To call it an UnCivil War
is to avoid an obvious oxymoron
as embarrassing as Military Vitriolic Intelligence
through lack of Anger and Fear Management,
violently over-industrious absence of mutual civility.

We were too optimistic
about democracy's...

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I had a Dream with Dragon in it, yes, just this morning, yes, today!
And the Dreams that linger, that I recall, are usually bad, I’m wont to say… 
Haven't seen 'Day of The Trifids' in...

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As a young man I was not very smart,
for brain cells they were never my game,
but I did what I could for without any doubt
through hard work I had ample to gain.

The cleverer folk seemed...

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Everyone has a childhood witch.  Mine was Florence.  I would run and hide when she walked past our house, stooped over, staring at the sidewalk.
Her hair was an ugly gray color, held away...

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Is
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I am stifled, stagnant, stressed and seriously strung 
from streetlight to streetlight
There is nothing left, my energy is kaput, gone. 
My creativity is something I barely remember.
Until I get home to my refuge in the...

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I am beautiful no matter how dirty I feel
There is beauty from ashes to ashes and dust to dust, and muddy water has never been so clear, wilting petals never so strong
Life is a journey...

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The hand plants the seed of love in hopes of a new garden.
The heart gives way to love like a blooming rose for all to see.
The hand is a drunk man that takes the effervescent...

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My name is Walter Eddington,
live in Maine with my wife and son,
own a growing timber company
way up north with vast tracts of trees.

My son’s name is Bruce, and one day
at age fourteen he came home...

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Recycled Wisdom Lost
                       by Odin Roark

How common to recycle today
bottle,
cardboard,
can,
or bubble wrap.

How rare...

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A center stage of flood light probing,
      desperate living in a murderous onslaught 
war's naked inhumanity
          sky tearing rockets, a pinpoint...

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What happened to the days of playing hours in the sun?
Where in our hearts and on our minds was how fast we could run?
Now we have these ozone days, SPF’s of 45
The cancer rates increasing...

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I Died Once 

At this very occasion I witnessed my spirit decent from my flesh hurried to meet darkness as I lost breath 

At that very moment a combination of numbness, sorrow and grief couldn’t...

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An ocean full of emotion
                              ...

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My daily route took me within its view,
a place of rich worship and devotion.
This small plot grew abundant sustenance.
Brick walls, two stories high, bordered this womb.

It was a garden like none I had ever encountered.
Under...

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........and then the sky was quiet 
Freed from the invading noise
Returned to its youth 
As if the progress of years 
Had had no purpose in its sphere.
Creatures of wing and flight 
Could now rejoice 
Reclaim...

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I had this old potted flower just sitting there on the window sill 
And with each passing day and hour it was none the better still
Half dead it never really seemed alive with only a...

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Her body was like a flower,
more specifically a lavender rose.
I want to analyze her
As her beauty grows.
I want to pull off her pedals
In the middle of spring.
I want to watch her sprout
As the lovely Hummingbirds...

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When you pluck a flower, the tree remains silent                          ...

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