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RumorsRumors
How we arrived at where we are
By Franklin Price
05/03/2020
By now you've heard the rumors
How Covid-19 came to Earth
How it did not come here naturally
How Wuhan, China gave it birth
Maybe aided by our government
To make...
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Categories:
valued, america, health, hope, leadership, perspective, recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
The Messenger
"The Messenger"
Love is rich with
venom and honey.
there was a female ...
snake,
it watched
with green-eyed
avarice, covetting
a dove’s nest
the dove,
was white as snow,
not young, getting on,
tiny flecks of grey
the dove
alone,...
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Categories:
valued, dark, journey, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monopolistic competing toward total self-consuming
reiteratively...
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Categories:
valued, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Narrative
Bilateral Creative Thinking SequelLast 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:
valued, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
StevenHe has the biggest heart.
He enjoys doing things for other people
Just because it’s the right thing to do, and
Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.
He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy
Everyone around him.
But...
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Categories:
valued, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form:
Free verse
My Corporate Life and How It All EndedI met with some bankers in fine textured suits.
I struck a deal quick. (I had such a knack.)
I offered rare cacti and tropical fruits –
a cure-all for things that ail your back.
I served 'em...
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Categories:
valued, business, humor, humorous, money, political, satire,
Form:
Couplet
Open To EvolutionariesDear Andrew Cohen,
I am riveted by “Evolutionary Enlightenment: A New Path to Spiritual Awakening.” Your theme that enlightenment need not be limited to elitist and eisegetical experiences, memory, but invites us to become co-travelers...
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Categories:
valued, culture, health, humor, perspective, philosophy, political, wisdom,
Form:
Narrative
TeatalkDo 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 energy for life,
despite the odds of...
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Categories:
valued, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Canto Xxvii Hell TransalationAlready was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,
When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...
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Categories:
valued, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
valued, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
The WarfareLiving in a war- wrecked, grass thatched hut, ...
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Categories:
valued, abuse, bullying, conflict, war,
Form:
Free verse
Doctors of Industrious DivinityDear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empowerment dysphasia
Some of us lesser health care practitioners,
good faith social workers,
teachers,
parents and grandparents,
uncles and aunts,
and ecofeminist inter-religious...
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Categories:
valued, christian, green, health, nature, passion, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Fr Time CommentariesA few words about my good friend, Fr. Time, perhaps over-invested
in developing this language and these dialects of evolution.
Not to blame someone for doing too good a job,
but why shine so much light on...
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Categories:
valued, earth, god, health, light, nature, time,
Form:
Narrative
EvolutionEvolution Not God
It is the case that there is no God,
He does not exist, he is not the one,
He is not there, he’s not everyone’s invisible puppet,
It is not personal, he is not the Son.
Evolution...
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Categories:
valued, animal, beautiful, change, cool, destiny, nature, universe,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a ReservationBack in the height
of our pre-millennial military-industrial
post-revolutionary days
of competing excess...
No, love,
Stick with
Once upon our Sacred Times...
Once upon a time
here in the US of Northern Americas
we used a Reservation Model
to dispose of hopelessly disabled aboriginals,
too RightBrain...
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Categories:
valued, destiny, education, environment, green, health, humor, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Voting With Our FeetIt seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace
And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatriarchal colonizing gratitude
for God's universally healthy
multicultural EarthTribes.
It was so...
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Categories:
valued, community, destiny, earth, happiness, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
If Time Is MoneyDoes your money derive from health-regenerative investments?
Well, what could that mean?
Do you make your money, honey,
with both light and dark co-arising memory
of midway love and peace intent,
avoiding anger-fear monoculturally competitive
dominant-power relationships,
and struggles against others,
against...
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Categories:
valued, health, humanity, money, nature, political, time,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Unforgettable Places - ActsI have so many places/acts dear to my heart
I’m just dying to share some with you
Not to boast, I but honor them, all played a part,
I'm sure helped to bring me in your view!
Tell me...
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Categories:
valued, appreciation, blessing, family, life, love,
Form:
Quatrain
How Clever You Are Reducing SaucesReducing sauces is a clever act that is not predetermined
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice cold bath. Bathing rituals signify statuses and this is referred...
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Categories:
valued, appreciation,
Form:
I do not know?
Fr Time's Ambiguous ContentFr. Time, are you a monopolistic universalist?
Yes, but an integratively polycultural universalist.
Are you a Yangian outgoing kinda guy?
Yes, but in an internally YinYin balancing
kind of a moderately outgoing nutritionally healthy communicator
way.
Easy to share Life's co-operative...
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Categories:
valued, destiny, earth, humor, identity, nature, political, time,
Form:
Narrative
Ninety Times a Fish Tail Equals a Spun YarnNine times a fish tail is spun from thin yarn?
Swimming in tepid waters often relieves tensions but a moose with a migraine prefers an ice cold bath. Bathing rituals signify statuses and this is referred...
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Categories:
valued, baby, baseball, beach, beautiful,
Form:
I do not know?
Future Self Among OthersFuture selves recycle past dynamic imaginations,
Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images
evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin,
double-edged incarnations of power.
It is in this coincidentia oppositorum,
claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
that the peaks,
the Taoist Tipping Points
of wu wei...
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Categories:
valued, christian, culture, earth, health, political, psychological,
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:
valued, blue, earth day, green, health, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Neigh say being corralled and cult shodNeigh say being corralled & cult shod
"Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis"
translation = thus always I
bring death to tyrants.”
Above the fray of twittering,
squabbling, and madding crowds,
an arrogantly belligerent creature deified,
yet vilified...
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Categories:
valued, 12th grade, age, allusion, america, fate, history,
Form:
Free verse
Inside Outside DelightA shaman has two vocations,
inter-related,
wise teacher
and robust healer
With emphasis on noticing healthy natural systems
shared values
wealthy spiritual development of seasons
with timely regenerative change
without untimely degenerative treasons
to reason
Healers of motherland
and Her EarthTribes.
My favorite teachers
seem to remember...
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Categories:
valued, destiny, health, integrity, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse