Long Requited Poems

Gratitude
A co-empathic sense of trust,
awe,
appreciation of echo-resonant
deep-listening resolving life.

Gratitude 
Autumnal taproot harvesting spring-hope,
just as summer's nutritional maturation
unfolds Origin of fertile decomposing mindfulness.

Gratitude
Why Thich Nhat Hanh thinks it important to smile
nutritiously.
Why Positive Deviance works.
Why Positive Psychology...

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Dr. Sue Johnson,
developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy,
rooted in an Attachment Theory
that organic creatures live healthier
more robust
compassionate
and prosperous lives
when their original womb relationship
and earliest parent/child interdependence
is more warmly attached
and less coldly detached,
and certainly not absent,
stolen for...

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Do you remember stories about the incensed 60s?

The smoke-filled Beatles,
and acrid flowering Hippies,
and Aquarian Age of Free Love.

It fizzled out.
It wasn't such a Great Transition
as we had hoped.
Exhausted by Foreign and Civil Rights v Wrongs...

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I wonder if our reasons
for growing random acts of violence
are similar
to our dwindling random acts of reasoned healing,
kindness,
gratitude,
unrequited love,
uncommodified,
unconscripted,
unscripted,
uncontained
restoring cooperative ecopolitical relationships forward
not just because this is our right and healthy familial thing to do
but...

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I am a child of the universe.
a twenty-first-century woman
bred in the refinements of modern civilization.
   The universe story is my story.
I am fifteen billion years old, so it is said
the youngest of earth's...

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A very dark and lonely place, my mind is
Most of my time is spent there, as not much goes on to my person
To ever take me outside of it
A fantasyland it could be thought of...

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Continuation..........

Chapter..........1..........Part..........1..........2.

My Lords and Ladies, hearken close, 
the ancient tale of Alahsar  now begins,
handed down are words of glory handed,
we go to the mighty city of Alahsar.
Let the sands of time dissipate,
in your mind's eye,...

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In a moment of magic I once gave her a juicy innocent peach

Not yet knowing that she harboured a sweet nascent dream

In which as a youngster she knew that she would marry the one

Who handed...

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“Past Old Strangers”



I met a man with piercing eyes,
Whose cool façade was mere disguise,
Whose soul reflected sadness there,
The like of which I can’t compare.

Whose massive frame seemed somehow small
For one whose stature stood so tall,
Whose...

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If I have to talk about love

I don't think I will be able to

As I don't believe I have fallen in love yet

The powerful, all-devouring and most importantly requited kind 

The warm hugs, late-night conversations...

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                               A Petal Amongst The...

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Upon our (yours truly and his missus) exchanging holy matrimony vows

Ultrasound allowed, enabled
and provided obstetrician to zoom,
image courtesy sonogram
showing fledgling fetus,
thus we pledged our troth after spouses' womb
(approximately halfway
between her pregnancy) did balloon
uterus, wherein conception
delineated...

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Adventitious existence birthed introverted spiritual outlier i.e. me

Speculative fictitious flirtation imagined
courtesy grown old male offspring (me)
begat when mine late mother and father met
former named, a popular Arthur Murray
ballroom dance studio instructor.

Subtle social cues (nonverbal or...

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It started with an apple in paradise or was it a date they consumed

Had they kept their clothes off laundry day would have been easier

	The smell of seduction and no fake news

Honestly who cares whether...

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I have nothing against the Cinderellas
of successful society.
Cinderella finds her opportunity for freedom
for love, hopefully,
goes for it,
and it works out for her
and all the Prince Charmings,
wherever they are hiding from my life.
Anyway, all good news
as...

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There is a fire in my veins this night,
and I shall blaze across the skies,
as I must learn to tame this light,
lest it burn deep behind my eyes.

There are ghosts of battles in my breath,
from...

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‘You are but an old pine, what do you know about love?’
Questioned the blueberry bushes, to the mighty tree above
‘A lonely tree in these lonely lands, the only pine
In this arena of shrubs; tell me,...

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She's thirty when she learns her fate
the truth about her lot in life, 
a truth that fills her heart with hate
and cuts her like a knife

His face, once pleasant to her eye
his manner, once endearing
his...

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You’re right… the version of you in my head is so much better than realities you.
Wish I could jump into your body and see me from your point of view.

Genuine love….. for when I look...

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I invented magical moments,
Joyous memories and heartwarming regard
Because I longed to feel
And to cherish such experiences

And I fabricated romantic notions,
Filled with sugar sweet whispers and tender kisses
Because I couldn’t discern them
In the urgency of your...

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My morning stroll along the lonely walkway
took an unexpected turn.
In an instant encircling me was thick mist.
Soft
Floating
Imperceptibly in motion
Seemingly still.

The sun was hiding somewhere.
It didn’t feel like it was morning.
Obscured were the familiar
green, yellow and...

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Religions,
eco-political traditions,
faith systems,
variations on an evolving creation story theme

Are both rooted in
and feeding on
multicultural evidence of faith in nurturance,
mental/physical health-integrative outcomes
of living trusted truths
through co-empathic forests of beauty

Or faith in more fundamental monopolistic
autonomous idolatry of...

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I raced to the hand of beneficial friendships,
pledged myself to artful reasoning
and aspired to harness
freights of honor.

I took long drafts of audacity
and impetuously ingested
every molecule of opportunity
while the road was wealthy
and the track fertile with
smooth...

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Tiptoeing through the garden of love                             ...

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Longing for heart-quiet
in the inevitable fall
into Winter’s short days of sun
forwarding to Spring’s
longer days — a circling back
in the sameness of time.

Heart-and-mind-numbing time
with no respite. A longing to quiet   
those thoughts playing back
battle...

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