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Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
retain, 7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Burning LogsEach flame
elegantly weaves in waves
flowing up from resources red cinder hot,
similar in warm color
temperature decrees
of beauty as integrity's truth
trust each surrounding flame.
Each flame
unique in point of origin below
as ubiquitously flickering fading destinations above.
Yet...
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Categories:
retain, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Psychotripic Theory of EverythingCompassion co-arises nondually
internal-external.
Today I want to talk about possibilities
for integral polycultural dynamics,
which are systemic relationships,
correlations,
between LeftBrain deductive ego-mind,
RightBrain inductive eco-body,
and a boundary between these bicameral landscapes,
which we call unconsciousness.
The feasibility
and health value
of recognizing this...
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Categories:
retain, community, political, psychological, science, spiritual, western,
Form:
Free verse
The Bone Idol[First posted in 3 parts. Intended novel: time never allowed]
Prologue
This, Sir, is the prologue from before our tale begins
About the day our father did succumb to mortal sins
And left behind a man who would...
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Categories:
retain, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
Creative Climates For ThinkingfeelingWe are each a new way of bilateral becoming and thinking
about what a mind with body is,
where these are headed,
individually,
and as a part.
Thinking about what embodied consciousness is
and where,
in what stable climates of opportunity,
and which...
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Categories:
retain, health, math, paradise, political, religion, science, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Miracle of HypocrisyI was listening to Cornell West,
who described our catastrophic tolerance of disvalues for others,
situations we would never tolerate for ourselves,
disvalues like homelessness and hunger,
but also like random violence,
abuse and neglect,
lack of caring,
as a "conspiracy"...
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Categories:
retain, abuse, culture, earth, integrity, nature, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Couples CounselingMy early 20s Eldest Black Lives Matter Son
wears his disabling ADHD label uncomfortably,
impatiently,
like a possibly self-redeeming crown
but with unfortunate MessiahComplex thorns
as the Great WhiteMan's sacrificial lamb.
His First, and hopefully last, Girl
is an ADHD Latina,
with sparkling...
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Categories:
retain, earth, games, health, humor, integrity, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
What Daddy DemandsEarthMama Invites
Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line
extinguished.
Because all RightBrain feeling voices
and chemistries
are outside Sacred NatureSpirit
experientially
regeneratively
cooperative
Patriarchal/Matriarchal Voices
secular and sacred...
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Categories:
retain, bullying, caregiving, gender, health, integrity, love, violence,
Form:
Political Verse
Bucky and JulianBuckminster Fuller and Julian Jaynes
recently reviewed their cultural and scientific influence
on health and well-being,
ecological and economic positive outcomes,
during the current CoOperativist NonDual Transitional Era.
Bucky:
I wish I had spent more time...
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Categories:
retain, health, humor, math, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Listening For FirestormsAlways respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.
They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...
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Categories:
retain, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
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:
retain, culture, freedom, god, health, integrity, psychological, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 8He awoke to the sound of lightly crunching ice. As he opened his eyes the boy stood looking at him, then with one fluid motion he stepped forward and stretched out his hand,
...
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Categories:
retain, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Problems of SuccessOld misunderstandings of how Earth
and Her species
evolve,
regeneratively and degeneratively change,
sometimes in revolutionary expansive/implosive quick and great transitions,
but more traditionally in slow-grow emergent spacetime development,
are often summarized in secular capitalism's
Might Makes Fertile Right.
While this does capture...
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Categories:
retain, culture, earth, health, mental illness, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Dream SanctuariesI dream into my Ta(0)ist
not-Universal Yang equals
not-Unitarian Yin
Sanctuary,
expecting to be greeted
by visions
of familiar spiritual apartheid.
But I am not.
Instead,
communion in this Sanctuary
looks and resounds,
feels and resonates
with multicultural communities outside,
tilting GoldenRule windmills,
bowing toward Eastern nondual rainbows,
surfing NewMoon...
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Categories:
retain, dream, earth, happiness, health, longing, love, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Bucky Fuller's Holonic GhostLet’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,
while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and awareness
influenced by feelings of EarthCentric BiCameral Consciousness
as Plan A,
so...
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Categories:
retain, earth, earth day, health, humor, political, psychological,
Form:
Narrative
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 108
Shortly after the naming they made arrangements to visit Jessica's home in Nordgrend. Her father, Raðulfr, sadly, had also succumbed to the last ringing of life's chimes as time's pendulum could no longer be...
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Categories:
retain, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Life's Fading Light-Part 1-Heroic Crown of SonnetsYouth
When orchids bloom in beauty life's aglow
to hold emotions locked in deep repose
in young desire and love warm thoughts will show.
Affection holds its ardor as it grows
to burn inside young hearts in evening tide.
In darkest...
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Categories:
retain, age, death, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Thiru-Valluvar On Praising Ladies of Their Qualities: Canto 112 - Nalam Punainthu UraiththalThiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal
[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e., cantos...
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Categories:
retain, beauty, culture, relationship, tamil, true love, women,
Form:
Epigram
Notes From a Unitarian ChildOnce upon a time,
an eight year old
Black and Green and Brown and Red and Blue Lives Matter
ultra-nonviolent kid
wrote an ultra-violet note to him/herself
about stuff s/he needed to full-rainbow recall
if and when s/he ever became
a worn...
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Categories:
retain, age, childhood, culture, earth, health, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthy Full-Time InvestmentI was interviewing ecotherapeutic health workers
and ran into one from the Conceptualist School
of Positive Psychology.
While this sounded quite abstractly wonderful,
I asked her for the elevator version.
"Ceptual" derives from "septum",
a (0)-centric bilateral boundary platform
for "conceptual" as...
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Categories:
retain, analogy, earth, health, political, universe, mental health,
Form:
Free verse
All My PresidentsIt is getting to the place where free speech is no longer free in America. ...
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Categories:
retain, america, presidents day,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rainer Maria Rilke: Second Elegy TranslationThis is my translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's second elegy from his Duino Elegies, which he began composing at Duino Castle in 1912.
Second Elegy
by Rainer Maria Rilke
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Every angel...
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Categories:
retain, angel, art, desire, eulogy, god, love, passion,
Form:
Elegy
Everyone PoopsI am playing with my dollies
And my princess pram all pink
I'm nearly 5
A big girl now
No more nappies
Or plastic pants
I think
I outgrew the potty
When I was only three
My mum says it's because I am brave
Now...
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Categories:
retain, body, humor, humorous, wedding, mum, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Stoicism as a Way of LifeWritten 23 November 2023
Placed 1st in :
Stoicism as Way of Life Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Sotto Poet
...
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Categories:
retain, humanity, inspirational, life, men, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Secret Love - 2nd Place Contest WinIf you spill your secrets to the breeze,
Don't blame the wind for laying them to light.
Once said, words are disclosed, even to trees.
And claim peace in the leaves that rustle and fight.
Whispered tales of a...
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Categories:
retain, analogy, appreciation, beauty, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets