Long Ungifted Poems

"A gift is different from something you buy, possessed of meaning outside its material boundaries. You never dishonor the gift." Robin Wall Kimmerer

A social gift,
a gift for compassionate verbal
and nonverbal communication,
a healing gift,
is different from...

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They say I need too much
to keep a positive
young-yang attitude,

More
and deeper soul,
higher sacred grace 
of gifted gratitude.

So do I often feel,
except privileged they feel too little
to let go
of supremely negative yin karma,
bad win/lose memories
with empty...

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Where the Left
supports cooperative
respectful
deeply integral 
yet widely multicultural health care

The Right
conserves against future changes
in hierarchical wealth structures,
thereby augmenting competitive
ineffective 
unhealthy class warfare

Rather than universal classroom welfare
where everybody can Left and Right bicamerally learn
healthy cognitive/affective resonant...

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The dawn spoke her name like a silken secret
carried carefree by the tradewinds of lust and larceny
imported from the traderoutes of paradise and pandemonium, 
sequined with violet venom she venerates the virtue of volition
her love...

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My GreenLeft side
resists AngryYang
win/lose competing AngloPowers
for making money 
commodified
secularized MonoTheistic
world conquering views

Supporting GodGiven economic rights
to colonize sinners,
more easily divided
from the AnthroHerd
when not white
not straight
not male

While my RedRight inside
recovers from ancient wounds,
frightened
angry
disappointed
sacred sad absence
of Holy Yintegral...

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I was climbing up a ladder on a day
with a cool breeze purring through the roof gutters.
The wind would dip and run inside the open metal 
canister then shoot up with the unforgiving wall 
at...

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In the deaf woods of curious willows
lies stalwart beliefs of days bygone.
Retribution, restitution, resolution
resolve, beginning our journey.
Blinded by bewares of sours ungifted
lost constitutions coagulate.
Lamenting gargoyles grin in reside.
The lost, given to hateful
brawls detonate heaven and...

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The signpost a warning
  a resting black swan

Its flight to perdition
  last call from beyond

With roses ungifted,
  their thorns bury deep

Last moon a reminder
  a reckoning steep

The doctor’s watch broken
 ...

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Sometimes the naturally gifted 
are without a flake of ambition
and the thoroughly ungifted 
have the ambition of a raging river. 
The wallflower wishing to be alone
seems to attract a murder of crows
a social butterfly's world...

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for Nancy  Cockerham

History does not repeat itself?
Oh Yes, She does.  She sent me
a sister from other lifetimes, a gift
ungifted in ordinary timelines.

A motherless child needs a sibling
waif, gifted in place with canvas and...

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for Nancy

History does not repeat herself?
Oh Yes, She does...  She sent me
a sister from other lifetimes, a gift
ungifted in ordinary timelines.

A motherless child needs a sibling 
waif, gifted in place with canvas and paint...

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My name is unimportant, 
I can barely speak out loud.
Your beauty strikes my heart
And I am in a cloud

I love you, pretty lady. 
More than the woman that works at Denny’s.
Your hair is like fine...

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The staff of my Father enjoining the past
futurity’s herding a bleating morass 
The bloodline of orphans forever is linked 
tattooing the flock with invisible ink
The first time the last time when nearing the end
tomorrow’s ungifted...

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Bitten fruit in still life oils
shined by light internal
shows there is no sweet perfection
immortalized eternal
Portraits crunched, pureed and such
by hands dissolved, ungifted
wipe the paint from canvas skin
until the stains are lifted
Soak the sky with thoughts...

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