Long Sustaining Poems
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Urbane History LessonsI have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...
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Categories:
sustaining, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form:
Political Verse
Healthy ConversationsLife as active love
evolves toward more polycultural communication,
across both species and time,
within Earth’s Solar EcoSystemic Universe.
While this conversation includes human natured communicators,
we suboptimize our ecological balance
if endo-human discourse monopolizes our lifetime learning dialogue.
A life...
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Categories:
sustaining, culture, earth, health, heaven, humor, math, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financial benefits for faith-in-health communities
both internal to corporate anthrosupremacist monocultural...
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Categories:
sustaining, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Bucky Fuller's ReVival 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:
sustaining, earth, earth day, health, humor, political, psychological,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 2[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]
SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...
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Categories:
sustaining, society, truth, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
CommonSense Political WorkPartyEcoMinisters of Earth Rights
CoArise!
EcoLogicians of resilient encircling might
CoArise!
EcoLegislators of bicameral balancing disposition
CoArise!
What is our highest and best CommonSense
of currently elected policy-choosers?
Where are our optimal health outcomes
of proactive CommonSense?
What does vast emptiness of positive results
suggest...
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Categories:
sustaining, addiction, community, creation, culture, health, political, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Keeping America SafeA prayer for God to bless NativeAmericans
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments in security.
No one "keeps" this confederation of uniting states
safe with alien immigrants
unless we invite them.
Second, prayers...
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Categories:
sustaining, culture, earth, health, political, race, religion, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Inner ChamberTHE INNER CHAMBER
Please. Stop holding back on me.
Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.
I stand here longing to slip underneath your decades of cold-rolled steel...
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Categories:
sustaining, betrayal, courage, devotion, love, love hurts, relationship,
Form:
Prose
Political Science of Organic ClimatologyPolitical Science is the compare and contrast study
of governing authority powers
with concomitant economic responsibilities,
and...um...opportunities,
speaking perhaps too candidly.
Why not other powers,
nutritional loves that can be owned only cooperatively,
can be, and would like to become, health invested,
but...
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Categories:
sustaining, beauty, earth, health, love, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Rush Amid the Rapids PublishedThe greatest performance of my life.
Howard’s proud piece de resistance award on Poetry Nook for my magnum opus “Rush Amid The Rapids” in their daily member section.
After endless hours of toil, tribulation,...
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Categories:
sustaining, adventure, age, appreciation, art, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form:
Prose
The Daily Show and TellDear Toni,
I saw you on The Daily Show
the other day
having your way
with Trevor,
or was it the other way around?
Not sure.
I'm also not sure where we first went wrong,
but I'm sorry for once having thought you...
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Categories:
sustaining, family, health, humor, patriotic, political, psychological, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Gratitude For Truth As BeautyWhy is it that gratitude
for peak response to truth with beauty
multiculturally embraces Positive Psychology's
mental health,
humane respect
for life's naturally pleasant graces?
Yet sapient sacred trust
in Earth's impassioned beauty spaces
remains spiritually unexplored,
under-mined Truth,
anemically practiced compassion
AnthroMind/EarthBody
nondualistically...
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Categories:
sustaining, beauty, earth, happiness, health, humor, love, truth,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Being AmericanI live in America, as in the United States of America, and that used to mean something. At least to me it did. And it’s not so much in how I was raised but in...
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Categories:
sustaining, america, class, how i feel, introspection, patriotic,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Sustainable SanctuaryI'm in the life-long process
of conjoining a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary
communion of All Souls
living healthy
on all wealthy Earth soils.
This is not my first time joining an intentional good-faith community,
but it is the first...
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Categories:
sustaining, community, destiny, green, health, humanity, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Creation StoriesA lovely outcome for our recreational journey,
or Way
or Truths,
or LoveLives,
whichever you prefer to pick out
from among this graced array,
tells a multi-generational creation story
of cosmic sacred ecology
and Earth's evolution revolutions,
drawing on and with
scientific deductive knowledge
both...
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Categories:
sustaining, community, education, health, integrity, love, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Deep CoMessianic EngagementMs. Real Time,
an often engaging Taoist,
but sometimes, admittedly, not so much,
more of a disengaged cannibal really
on her dark time of before and after
her Taoist stimulating period
if you know what I winterish mean.
Anyway,
Ms. Real Time
invited her...
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Categories:
sustaining, adventure, birth, earth, language, religion, space, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
My Friend the Wise DoctorEu-e,
Eu-e-e,
Eu-e,
Bucky Fuller Big Bang.
U-C,
U-C-A-G,
U-C,
ribonucleic acid.
Yang-Yin,
Yang-Yin-Yin,
Yang-Yin
Bucky Fuller Big Brain
My Friend Bucky Fuller
came down to me today.
He said,
"Lao-tse's Time
grows not-not binomial
radiates fore
and gravitates aft
Space and Time
poetry as rhyme
Convex and Concave!"
My Friend Rumi Gloomy
said to me today,
"When you...
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Categories:
sustaining, nature, perspective, spiritual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Speaking With Donald JohnI was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
and otherwise dead already?
Except perhaps health services...
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Categories:
sustaining, earth, education, faith, health, integrity, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Cooperative Digestion of Earth's Ecopolitical ClimatePerhaps you have read
as I have not
Beard's "Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States."
Yet, here is my prediction,
and I promise to actually read it to confirm and/or deny,
so I suppose I more candidly...
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Categories:
sustaining, culture, happiness, health, humor, identity, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Deprived Of Your LoveGlib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
sustaining, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
When We Need CompanionshipInsufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, despair, degeneration, decay,
anger and fearful partisanship,
climatic cultural change
in both Interior and Exterior Landscapes.
So which do we continue to...
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Categories:
sustaining, culture, health, love, peace, political, trust, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
Follow the Nutrient StreamRegenerating light
reiterating bright as dual dark
fertile shadowing sighted polypathic light
when notnot night.
Healthy sight
as notnot dissonating blight.
Languaged cognition, thought, beliefs, ideas,
a LeftBrain Yang capacity
to extend internal emotional life,
evolving shared eisegetical stretch across a range
of empathic-trust to...
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Categories:
sustaining, culture, earth, education, emotions, happiness, health, integrity,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 28Quietly, the memory of my grandfather manifested itself,
In the colors and shimmers of the Holy Spirit,
I saw his human face,
The familiar lines, the flesh,
The pair of oceanic eyes, slowly blinking
Smiling,
Like a heavenly beam
Splashing...
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Categories:
sustaining, allegory, analogy, deep, emotions, humanity, meaningful, wisdom,
Form:
Epic
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 11In a sudden nodding shift,
I was lifted into the air by the hard wings of the Devil
His putrid stench waking me from what seemed all dream
And upon a balcony of singed vine and blackened soot,
He...
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Categories:
sustaining, age, analogy, crazy, growth, life, light, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
My Thing Is ThisAs hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...
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Categories:
sustaining, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form:
Free verse