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Premium Member Everyday Christians
I would imagine Adam Smith's invisible cooperative economic
self-and-Other-investment hand,
at least during Christian Sunday morning services,
looked and sounded and felt very much
like the One Invisibly-Organic-Holistic-Enlightened MindBody of Christ.

I would further imagine
both he and George Washington,
at least...

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Categories: self interest, body, christian, culture, earth, health, psychological, religion,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Jesus Is Great - the Linked Style
~ Jesus  Is  Great ~
(Linked)



JESUS  IS  GREAT
J
Great is His name
E
Name so  Holy
S
Holy  is  He
U
He, Son of  God
S
God, our  Father
I
Father  Almighty
S
Almighty  and  true
G
True and...

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Categories: self interest, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Misguided Meditations
I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.

Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hear
and feel,
touched by wounded toxicity.

My training 
and experience
includes victimized by homophobia
and healing through community mediation.

Within this...

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Categories: self interest, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor, motivation, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Saviors Near - the Jewels Rule Style
~The Savior Is Near~
 (The Jewels Rule)


 Jesus  is near 
 With  Him  there's nothing to fear 
 He's returning any time 
 His  Love  sublime- 
 Return  prophesied...

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Categories: self interest, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Following Earth's Light
Borrowing from David Holmgren, Permaculture Principles and Pathways Beyond [Win-Elite v Lose-NonElite] Sustainability, 2002, p. 1

Health ethics are Beloved Community normative principles
used to guide action toward good and light and right outcomes
and away from degeneratively...

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Categories: self interest, creation, destiny, earth day, environment, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 2 Final
Nightmare 8. To Lose the Gift of Feeling Heard

Is each person not poet when he spills his heart?
Has your verse lost its edge if it’s true no one listens,
Or does God mean that no one...

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Categories: self interest, anxiety, christian, fun, humor, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Thing Is
My thing is,
Yang dear,
EarthMother
is much RNA-green older
than mammalian red-DNA Yang.

Yes,
seniority breeds long-term nutritious merit,
I remember this history lesson
from your creation by fairy tale,
how WinWin Paradise YinYin
wonder invited Yang's Patriarchal CoPresence.

Well said,
dearest,
which is exactly why EarthMother
needed...

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Categories: self interest, color, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Give Peace a Chance Part 1
Like the twelfth
juror in the play
I must say I am not
convinced
For I know a recipe
for trouble 
I have seen the
double standards
And I do not approve
this for Kenya
I will never approve
it, and neither
Would you, dear
friend of...

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Categories: self interest, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mean Economists 404
This course will encourage aspiring cooperative economists
to distinguish between mean national incomes
and global median incomes,
with diverse long-term capital growth/evaporation trends
expected.

First,
imagine USA mean income, including investment income,
could approach $500,000 for two-parent working households
per year.

Are you kidding...

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Categories: self interest, blessing, culture, health, humor, love, money,
Form: Political Verse
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on the outside looking in 
Are the only ones feeling queasy...

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Categories: self interest, business, community, corruption, international, london, money, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fight For What You Believe In
1.

WHAT?

Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool 
                          ...

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Categories: self interest, humanity, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Don'T Just Murmur
Don’t Just Murmur


1.

WHAT?

Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool 
                        ...

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Categories: self interest, visionary,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Dark Winter 201
Just suppose – a hierarchy rules this shadowland
Pulls the strings of governments, not walking hand in hand
Amend our constitutions, to suit their future plans
Throw Christians to the lions, as Lucifer demands

Just suppose – this world...

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Categories: self interest, abuse, bible, corruption, evil, hope, horror, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Deleted
I say I find myself trapped in some sort of sadistic paradigm 
With my eyes closed she’s still deciding whether she should delete this baby, I guess she’s 
on borderline  
They’re getting closer; I...

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© Kevin Wint  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self interest,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Defending Democracy
Oh Democracy, 
You, most desirable bride among political systems,
Your suitors have been many throughout history,  
In every part of the world, you were the one
They were after

But

You have declined their proposals, despite the fact
All...

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Categories: self interest, philosophy, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Humane Struggle
In the Congolese Jungle three men are training for a mission.
They train to detain and disarm poachers.
They hope this will be the conclusion of their efforts.
They also train for a formidable alternative.
Poachers are opportunistic and...

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Categories: self interest, africa, animal, conflict, environment, humanity, soldier, world,
Form: Sestina
They'Re Trying To Tell You
They’re trying to tell you
That your superstitions and machinations 
Are an exhausting game of whack-a-mole
They’re trying to tell you 
You’ve assumed a version of them
That society told you existed and you never questioned
They’re trying to...

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Categories: self interest, corruption, environment, money, political, racism,
Form: I do not know?
Prayer For the Sacred Gaia
Prayer for the Sacred Gaia

Lord God,

As we suffer in this famine of lack, we come humbly before you, confessing as the tax
collector once confessed, begging you to have mercy upon us.

For in a spirit of...

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Categories: self interest, faithfaith, miracle, thank you, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Promises of Consequence
A promise mitigates so many cares
Perhaps we should address one example
And just trust that its truth will be ample.
A secret shared whose recipient swears
“This matter I’ll keep under lock and key”
And silently begs, “say you’ll...

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Categories: self interest, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do Not Just Whisper
1.
WHAT?

Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool of
Unintelligible madness, and let calamitous folly,
Anchor its obscure ships of destruction in our
Harmonious hearts?

Or

Are we going to follow the discerning star of
Glowing reason and allow lustrous wisdom
Institute...

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Categories: self interest, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Polypathic Relationships
TranSpeciated GeNomial Code
emerges icons of regenerative poli-eco-normic syntax,
Earth nature’s kinder nurture
surrounded less primally by dualdark dissonance,
absence of Tao balanced polynomial Time
as 4-equidimensional Space Networks
potentiating WinWin on-as-off-line gaming grace.

Oh, your face,
what could this mean,
Bionic RealTime ecologizing...

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Categories: self interest, earth, earth day, health, life, light, power,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Don'T Just Whisper
1.
WHAT?

Are we going to enter the ill-fated whirlpool of
Unintelligible madness, and let calamitous folly,
Anchor its obscure ships of destruction in our
Harmonious hearts?

Or

Are we going to follow the discerning star of
Glowing reason and allow lustrous wisdom
Institute...

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Categories: self interest, happiness, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Journey of Souls
("Pema", 2017, original pen and ink)

The Journey of Souls

Dogs make the ultimate example
Of a conditionable being,
And my deaf-dog buddy
Old Pema the Pug is no exception.

Meanwhile Buddhists of all faiths
Believe reincarnation effects us all
And involves the...

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Categories: self interest, dog, memory, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Debaser
Opposing blades split artery walls,
 like slender ubbraided reddish hairs.
Scrutinizing concealed glands
 before a motion picture camera.

Meat to overcome oppisition,
 distressing persistance of control.
Sideshow characters resembling their reputation,
 pungent expressions of their slang.
Progress feeds the...

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Categories: self interest, allegory, people, philosophy, science, social, time,
Form: Free verse
The Un-Racist Truth
I’ve often heard you say these days
that your skin is keeping you down,
that others look at it and try
to drive your dreams deep in the ground.
As if ‘The Man’ was right out there,
scheming against skin-tones...

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Categories: self interest, how i feel, introspection, political, prejudice, race,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs