Political Love Hurts Poems

Johnson's bed with Trump isn't chaste
A waste dump that's sticky with paste
Mike's endorsement bet
Is an enormous threat
That sump pumps can never erase

Author's note: For those...

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It's time,
For you to stand in line,
And take a stand this time,
While there is still time,
For human rights to define. 

It is all to easy...

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Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy

Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often, 
feel stressful

Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self...

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Day Dreams

I love to have daydreams, 
about the nighttime. 
I believe I can see it all 
clearer in the light. 
I am not afraid of...

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"Grief can be a doorway to love."
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass

Grief can open toward gratitude
As loss can open doors to access gain

As trauma can open...

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TransGender Women of Color, have the advantage
in a white male dominant culture,
have an advantage
for finding therapeutic tools
for awareness of marginalizing
traumatic business as usual
weapons against Earth's...

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I know you don't want to hurt
or even disappoint
me

And I know you don't want to hurt
yourself.

Yet still your shame
and self-blame hurt

Your self-judging
punishing closet frame
suffocates our...

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The meing
and mining
and mowing
and moaning
and meaning
and moatedness of life
could not be so different
for girls and boys,

She and he and s/he speaking indifferent
hearing purpose

Enlightening wealthy spirit...

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I knew I was getting old
when I no longer always got up
from the floor
on my first try.

I remember I am old
because I no longer assume...

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An apt gift of presence empowers
as an unanticipated
unearned warning misfortune
enlightens apt rapt resilient fortune,

Delighted with discovering,
perhaps rediscovering?
healthy passions I would never have been wise enough
to...

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Rejection is nothing I am used to it
Somedays more so than others
Today was different
I took a risk 
even though I did not feel ready
And I...

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horny men 
looking for love
in all the wrong places...

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Oh say, did you notice
a national predative anthem?
Moving immediately
urgently,
without reflection of starlight 
sent or received,

From waving flags predicting elite weapons
fueled by complexly masculine 
emasculating
militarized corporate...

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I live in a curious network of relationships,
most quietly quite lovely
and a few more intensely challenging
unrelation shipped-out

In here both/and building awareness
is our non-verbal norm
of gesture
intent
confluent...

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A Taoist's View of Bill Plotkin's
Wounded Southern Orphan.

Really, dear,
that's too long for a co-inviting title,
How about just-us for
Wounded Taoist Anawim?

Oh
I don't think we want to...

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