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Slow-Cooked Conversion StoriesI was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...
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Categories:
unstraight, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Blue Tolerating Red IntoleranceTo Ecological Greens
concerned about tolerating
evangelical
monotheistic Red intolerance
of unstraight
unwhite
unmale
unhealthy
unsafe
panentheistic EarthDays
and dualdark wiki-nights
potentially bicameral
bipartisan
bisexual
binomial
neurosystemic cooperative regenerations
of win/win resonant
robust images
Any nonbinary person
all growed up
in a homophobic
straight
white
male anthrosupremacist monoculture
must not fail to see
to hear
to smell
to feel
Will have trouble...
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Categories:
unstraight, blue, earth day, green, health, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
When Ungifted"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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Categories:
unstraight, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Riding Sixties ShotgunI was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a WalMart ImPlantation
but not Southern enough,
somehow,
to withstand straight-male competition
in fluent White Privileged...
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Categories:
unstraight, beauty, community, culture, extended metaphor, health, romance,
Form:
Political Verse
BipolarityBiPolarity
has been largely ignored
polarization,
Linear and stagnant hierarchies
peaking in well-capitalized severance
and sterile self-satiation
Use you
then leave you
win/lose planning
and worldview design
by non-feminists
Uninspired by EarthTribe's co-arising,
Both/And reconsidering
depolarizing
dipolarization
Bruised blue traumatic,
and green grown therapeutic
sides of each red coin's
capitalization
Of Left hemisphere's newer
monotheistic...
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Categories:
unstraight, earth day, green, health, integrity, light, mother,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Choir Dissonant PracticeI am a right-brain prominent writer
which must not be confused with
a prominent left-brain writer,
which I am almost decidedly not
nor would I aspire
toward such all or nothing thinking
and not at all both/and feeling.
Like most writers,
I feel...
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Categories:
unstraight, anxiety, appreciation, depression, health, integrity, muse, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Resilient Peak ExperiencesGayla Speak Experiences
promote healing events
not intended to contribute to trauma
drama narratives.
Stories we tell
and trust
and thrust
and softly smile about
when we dare to leave
our stiff
stiffling closets.
RedYang
universal dominants
friendly feasting
with BlueYintegral
unitarian intent
Together praising massively thick
and deeply embedded...
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Categories:
unstraight, culture, health, integrity, political, power, senses, sensual,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Correcting Unhealthy InaccuraciesEarthMother senses a difference
between Political Correctness
and everyday domestic political accuracy.
Political accuracy grows best
and sprouts up healthiest rooted
in directly observed EarthNatured experience
While CapitalInvested Political Correctness
is more shallow sandy shifty rooted
in some LeftBrain dominant
EgoPatriarchal WorldView Theory
of competitively...
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Categories:
unstraight, earth day, health, mother, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Aborted Trauma TalesWhen you and your wife visited,
you shared a question asked by a pastor
of a raped
and thereby pregnant
vulnerably young and questioning parishioner.
"If your unborn child survived
his first year
and walked back into your home
do you think you...
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Categories:
unstraight, abortion, death, health, humor, integrity, passion, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Healing Systemic TraumaCan you make any sense of
systemic racism?
No more common sense than
too much patriarchalism--
all leftbrain dominant things
oppressing sacred Earth's
polycultural win/win systems
promoting resiliently wealthy
resonant synergetic health
Care given
as received
in fruitful wombs,
like apple cores in transition
from refuse
toward rebirth
May be...
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Categories:
unstraight, addiction, beauty, bullying, culture, health, history, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Family MediationsI have confronted family,
and acquaintances
at the edge of my familiars
to understand my hurt
when they economically
and politically
and socially
and monoculturally
StraightWhiteMale privileged support
RightWing LeftBrained
Patriarchal-Capitalism
Because my Kids of Color,
with physical and mental,
natural and spiritual challenges,
lack of LeftBrain full accessibility
And...
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Categories:
unstraight, america, anti bullying, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Regressive ProgressIn Shaker Heights, Ohio,
founding fathers co-invested in:
Change doesn't happen
without planning
This, despite
unstraight
unwhite
unmale volatile experiences
feeling sometimes victimized
and sometimes blessed
by unexpected weather transitions,
despite feeling like vulnerable chameleons
on a highly complex day,
despite feeble farming
in narrowing spaces
between floods and famine,
Despite...
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Categories:
unstraight, fear, health, integrity, love, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Parsing PartisanshipGay Rights are not Civil Rights
grabs my Yahoo facetime
fast-paced news rhyme
Civil Rights are not just Gay Rights
on my administrative time
bounces back a Left WhiteHouse reprise
that Civil Rights
include Gay Rights
as a necessary subset,
but not multiculturally sufficient...
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Categories:
unstraight, analogy, animal, earth day, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Fiftieth Reunion ReflectionsThinking back on my all White
but One,
all Right
but One,
classroom learning experience,
I can see why
many of my straight white male classmates,
especially those with early varsity team excellence
and above average grade point systems
tipping toward future capital-valued employment
might...
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Categories:
unstraight, community, gender, health, heaven, peace, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Disabling Corporate CultureDynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral revolutions
during bilateral peace-sentry nights
DoubleBinary
for fractal 4 = NonZero ReGenerative
indigenous spacetime dynamic
century sensory wisdom
Integrity's sacred RightBrain ReWeaving Potential
to...
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Categories:
unstraight, culture, education, health, integrity, passion, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Casting Earth's RedemptionI need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.
I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.
If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
you clearly have...
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Categories:
unstraight, fear, health, heartbreak, integrity, muse, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Ecological Conversion"...the ecological crisis is also a summons
to profound [theological] conversion."
#217, Laudato Si', Pope Francis
Those who benefit
from a StraightWhiteMale privileged,
LeftBrain dominant,
Patriarchal-Capitalist
monotheistic image
for God's...
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Categories:
unstraight, beauty, earth, engagement, environment, health, integrity, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
History LessonsVictims of Straight
White
Patriarchal History
are usually not hopelessly unenlightened
and permanently disabled
Ostracized by Self
and/or Others
from healthy democratic
co-redemption
Baptized
and medicated
and meditated
into Truth seeking Beauty,
Sacred Voices seeking Secular Choices
reflecting cooperative EarthTribe's
most win/win integral
indigenous Wisdom.
The unStraight
unWhite
unMale
are not unPeople
living outside touchable
tangibly...
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Categories:
unstraight, culture, earth, health, integrity, peace, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
What Was That AboutTruthfully,
and kinda depressing,
I can't "manage" anger
any better than fear
and contagious distrust
and nearly constant anxiety
and chronic depression.
In nonviolent communication practice circles,
peace networks,
organic therapeutic systems,
"curiosity" slowly grows ascendent
as "patience" to resist negative feelings
and "impatience" with shameless Others
and...
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Categories:
unstraight, culture, earth, health, peace, trust, truth, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Citizens DisunitedAwhile back,
in the Dred Scott decision,
SCOTUS denied rights of citizenship
to people of color
"as a subordinate
and inferior class of beings,
who had been subjugated
by the dominant race..."
So, we need not dig too deeply
to rediscover where straight...
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Categories:
unstraight, health, integrity, leadership, peace, political, prejudice, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Any Love But OtherEarthMother sacred psalms
invoke reconstructive words
and loving deeds
With Her Sun of universal peace
and unitarian justice
for all living
forgiving CoCreation,
and not Just Us
Who are anything but Other
co-evolving meaning
within one truly sacred HolySpirit,
from biophilic womb
through necrophilic tomb
back to womb
sacredly...
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Categories:
unstraight, caregiving, earth, health, integrity, life, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Womb Wondering WhyWe whimsically wondered why
wandered victims by
and through our uniquely human history
of sexual trauma
and therapeutic politics
Mythically hinting
hunting
poly-resonant
mono-vulnerable
half full, half empty
gendered pantheology
Spanning spies discovering economic magic
denies political monoculturing tragic
outcomes for godlike monolithic
monotheistic empire-building
Wherein straight white males
disproportionatly championed
a...
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Categories:
unstraight, culture, earth day, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Virtuous CirclesDoes life seem to you,
as love does to we,
that virtuous circles
engage healing intent
While viscious squares
of bad-tempered stomping
marches much less gayly
toward escalating drama
with harmful trauma
and persistent
discontent
Positive engagement
does not engage negative performers
as if some lives
are divinely entitled
to...
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Categories:
unstraight, health, humor, integrity, peace, political, power, pride,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Universal Might and Unitarian TightFrom the Book of Integral Democratic Change
Straight White ego-patriarchal
colonizing
predative
mountainously universal
SunFather Poles
And unstraight
unwhite
uncapitalized
unmeaningful
secularized
shaded
merely ecofeminist
Yin-valleyed
EarthMother Unitarian Holes
Have become
Patriarchal
LeftBrain dominant
Either/Or Win/Lose risks
And yet also
Matriarchal
RightEarthMind prominent
Both/And Win/Win
warm wombed wet opportunities
Depolarizing bodhisattvas
respectfully
warmly
unconditionally
appreciating Holonic
Open-Systemic
EcoPolitical Integrity
Natural/Spiritual...
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Categories:
unstraight, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, peace, sexy,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Anneau De PromesseBeyound the horizon, it is hollow
there is a bleakness in the wind i feel
like falling tress with no sound to follow
like my weak spot, the tendent on my heel
'Tis the path i walk, dirty and...
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Categories:
unstraight, lost love
Form:
Sonnet