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Polypathic Political Scientists
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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Categories:
sum, beauty, culture, health, political, religion, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Live 2 B U
{intro}
(Whisper) mmmmhmmm
Turn me on by your tranquil, no-drama-no-trauma tune
It will be noon soon,
My sweet maroon moon
Don't panic, maniac of mine...you're swimming in your lament lagoon
Ohhhhh...
Please
Hear me out
At ease,
I hear your victory shout!!!
Ooooo I-I-I-I...
{verse...
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Categories:
sum, angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, fear, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:
In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...
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Categories:
sum, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
If brevity is the soul of wit
then brevity and levity
are the whole of it.
—Michael R. Burch
To write an epigram, cram.
If you lack wit, scram!
—Michael R. Burch
Conformists of a feather
flock together.
—Michael...
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Categories:
sum, bible, metaphor, philosophy, poetry, wisdom, words, writing,
Form:
Epigram
Short Stuff: Epigrams
Epigrams by Michael R. Burch
Negligibles
by Michael R. Burch
Show me your most intimate items of apparel:
begin with the hem of your quicksilver slip ...
Negotiables
by Michael R. Burch
Love should be more than the sum of its...
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Categories:
sum, body, clothes, death, eulogy, introspection, love, obituary,
Form:
Epigram
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
sum, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Starting With Beginnings
Left:
Let's start at the beginning
of your ecotherapeutic day.
I'm talking today with Fr. Time,
Earth's only fully self-ordained ecotherapist,
and recently published author of
"Journals of MotherEarth."
We have no corporate sponsorships to report,
although we are for sale
especially if you're...
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Categories:
sum, gender, health, humanity, humor, integrity, perspective,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Pequot River Land Trust
Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clueless condo
colonial-red predative brick
badly bald aging building
With a sometimes soggy south walled school,
but...
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Categories:
sum, blue, culture, environment, green, health, humor, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Healthy Caring Systems
Too many times sadly
too seldom gladly
I must learn to trust
Earth's future more
Both Father Sun's timeless
rounds of enlightenment
and Mother Earth's
codependent rhythms
regenerating rich
empowering
soulful soil
and surfing seas
And this trusting more
impels healing trauma's lessons,
surviving hale and...
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Categories:
sum, culture, earth, earth day, health, integrity, passion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading back in time
to where she began to feel lonely,
marginalized,
siloed,
anxious,
neglected.
If...
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Categories:
sum, conflict, math, parents, political, race, religion, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Burning Logs
Each 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:
sum, caregiving, community, creation, health, integrity, love hurts,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Learning To Recreate Health
From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step
Summary
The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is
by [deductively analytical academic] tradition
the only proper [true, good] use of...
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Categories:
sum, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sins of Supreme Suppression
Not to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation
long become YangDominant associated
with monotheistic 'civilization',
aristocratic anthrosupremacism,
including Earth's newer colonizing history
of evolution by Orthodox Moral Elitism.
Processes of GodWord supremacy
became belligerently associated
with...
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Categories:
sum, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
Form:
Political Verse
Why Life
Why does dawn dress robust morning,
while dusk undresses sight?
Each dawn incarnates another Earth Day
a lifetime of Easter mornings
redeeming nocturnal sight's revolution,
another therapeutic day of gift-it-forward light,
some longer,
some shorter
before naked covered night.
Why life?
To uncover...
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Categories:
sum, adventure, earth, earth day, farm, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of EarthTribe Education
Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?
Oh, I see..neurosystemic therapy learning
and restorative justice mentoring,
including healthy pedagogical development
of ecologically cooperative systems
doing the best we can
to avoid retributive...
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Categories:
sum, culture, earth, education, health, integrity, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Ono No Komachi Translation: Autumn
Watching wan moonlight
illuminate tree limbs,
my heart also brims,
overflowing with autumn.
—Ono no Komachi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono...
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Categories:
sum, age, autumn, death, depression, desire, heartbreak, women,
Form:
Tanka
Political Artistry
Brilliant writers
have recommended to younger students,
to only write if they cannot live without doing so.
Elder successful icons of artistic expression,
dance,
voice,
drama,
sculptors
have similarly advised apprentices,
do not do as I have done
unless you could do naught else.
But what...
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Categories:
sum, art, beauty, health, leadership, parents, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Dear Neighbors
Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
behind me, on the...
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Categories:
sum, baptism, health, heart, humor, passion, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Prophets and Messiahs
The difference between
bad-old-boy
competitively evolving
egg white privilege
And good-girl
cooperatively revolutionary
just-us-yolks
Foreshadows a symbiotic contrast
between prophetic performance
and messianic practice,
said Professor Glory
in her Gospel of Permaculture class,
one Friday morning
while sitting on her crass
desk of...
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Categories:
sum, destiny, environment, nature, science, truth, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Bodhisattva Tease
Do you share my concern
that your happiness and healthy life
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?
No! Why? Do you know something I should know?
Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...
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Categories:
sum, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Ono No Komachi Translations
As I slept in isolation
my desired beloved appeared to me;
therefore, dreams have become my reality
and consolation.
—Ono no Komachi, translation by Michael R. Burch
Submit to you—is that what you advise?
The way the ripples...
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Categories:
sum, desire, life, longing, love, nature, woman, women,
Form:
Tanka
Our Earthcafe Coop
In one sense,
the Cafe CoOp
started as my therapeutic retirement dream.
But,
in quite another
the CoOp goes back to when I was eight,
and I thought,
assumed really,
everyone indulged in Thought Experiments
about what would my optimal Eden Paradise.
restoring peace and...
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Categories:
sum, business, education, games, health, humor, integrity, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse
Making Curious Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New...
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Categories:
sum, anger, culture, fear, history, love, universe,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Energy's Dying Wish
So, if I understand correctly,
you want to respond to inevitable energy descent
by upgrading incentives for cooperative communication,
positive information expansion,
research and regenerative design,
implementation,
and ecopolitical evaluation strategies?
Yes,
because we achieved current WinWin cooperative communication
and organic networking capacities
by virtue...
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Categories:
sum, culture, deep, games, green, health, language, science,
Form:
Political Verse
FireGod Speaks Out
Angry FireGod sneers sarcasm,
"Not warm enough yet?"
"Still too much clean water and air
and other healthy stuff,
like sun-baked red chili peppers?"
Excuse me,
I was under the impression
that I invited you for my interview,
which would involve me asking...
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Categories:
sum, culture, destiny, fire, health, religion, science, universe,
Form:
Political Verse