Mediations at the Sea
...I've come to the seashore before the night
to imagine far lands with purple skies
welcome serenity into the twilight
redeem my soul as I eternalize
To release dark Angels from their disguise
a...
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Categories:
mediations, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Addictive Mediations
...Addiction is what happens
when mediation doesn't happen.
Addiction is what happens
with my feelings
when mediation doesn't happen
in MeWe conscious thoughts.
Addiction is what happens
with...
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Categories:
mediations, addiction, anxiety, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
From the Resilient Ones
...Do not give in
to lethargy
and despair
And do give joy
to recreation
and compassionate repair
Despite stained vulnerable underwear
in need of more transparent air
Do not lose faith
in ...
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Categories:
mediations, anxiety, appreciation, happiness, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Family Mediations
...I 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 privileg...
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Categories:
mediations, america, anti bullying, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Dancing Psalms
...Dancing our epic song
inside images
dreams
narratives
ritual motions
rhythmic changes
disembodied
Can become dissonantly self-predative
depressing
exhausting
compressing
Claustrophobi...
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Categories:
mediations, earth, health, light, love,
Form: Political Verse
Starting With Not Sure
...I'm not sure about this
entertainment
divorced from engagement
issue
But,
consider the following
a hypothesis,
a Thought Experiment
in the Indigenous MotherLand
and SacredWaters
of ecowom...
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Categories:
mediations, engagement, health, language, math,
Form: Political Verse
Dear Father God
...Dear Father God,
please heal the earth, give us peace, aid us in our daily duties.
I ask for the world, not just for myself or my country, or even this continent.
Dear Father God,
take the pand...
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Categories:
mediations, religion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Faithful Thought Experiment
...Imagine your favorite faith community,
whether sacredly vocationed,
or, more prosaic, secularly employed,
is also home to your local Green Freedom Party,
intentionally multipartisan.
This comm...
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Categories:
mediations, green, health, integrity, political,
Form: Political Verse
Juggling Bouncy Paradigms
...Martha Rogers
brought dynamic nursing relationships
of co-acclimating healthy minds
and Earth's well-being subclimates,
While Carl Rogers
brought empowering therapeutic relationships
of coope...
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Categories:
mediations, art, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Healthy Democratic Climate
...Earth's health
is robust eco-democratic wealth,
I said
repeatedly
to the growing,
maturing Democracy Works advocate.
The occupying Advocate responds,
Resonant democratic resilience
is an ec...
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Categories:
mediations, appreciation, earth, emotions, health,
Form: Political Verse
Polypaths Toward Warmfelt Metaphor
...A childhood memory warmly reminds
A game of Where's the Thimble,
hidden by a gang of siblings,
or just one strategic sister,
left for me to rightly find
as I wander through our living room,
f...
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Categories:
mediations, community, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse