Fluffy, the Fuzzy Bunny Ballad
...Hopping across fields of happiness
Early-morning Fluffy rejoices in the edibles of earth
Glowing white and pearly, a real spunky bunny
Points her petite, pink nose upward to daylight’s boundless b...
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Categories:
mundanely, animal, april, celebration, easter,
Form: Ballad
Chasing Feelings
...I want to cry. I long to smile.
Some feeling to wash over me for a while.
Scrolling, relentlessly with my thumb.
Every other part of my body and mind, numb.
'Life is for living', that's wha...
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Categories:
mundanely, angst, anxiety, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Sacred Spacemaking
...Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace
Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely ...
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Categories:
mundanely, community, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The Back of Dad's Chair
...The back of Dad's chair is black like a void,
its mid discontinuous of solid support.
Cushion coils creak as his weight shifts,
his interest unhinged from light hypnosis.
The scuff of rough wheel...
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Categories:
mundanely, absence, addiction, child, dad,
Form: Free verse
Reconnecting Rituals
...Rituals
are sacred
when they reconnect
what LeftBrain dominant
straight white privileged man
has transcendently and monotheistically
disconnected secular nature
from sacred polytheistic spiri...
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Categories:
mundanely, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Unreachable Dreams
...Sometimes Earth's peace dreams
feel unreachable,
ever,
for anyone,
Including our unhealthy enemies
and aggressive aliens
and militarized terrorists
and anxious sociopaths
and despairing cri...
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Categories:
mundanely, culture, earth, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Endlessly Speaking Timeless Relistening
...ReGeneratively nonspanking speaking,
co-empathic
co-operative
co-governing
co-passions
of and for
resilient health
and safety
win/win communication systems
Are also non-violent communicati...
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Categories:
mundanely, culture, education, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
My Visit To Nirmal Hriday
...Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire,
To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire;
At the thought of Kolkotta - Mother's house - my heart did churn,
To be with t...
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Categories:
mundanely, caregiving, dedication, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
That's What You Do - First Movement
...The detritus of consumer culture
Is coming down the chimney Christmas eve.
It’s a milk and cookies taming of the shrew.
It’s what we do.
I have a firm grasp on the mundanely ineffable,
But I’...
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Categories:
mundanely, allegory, romantic,
Form: Lyric
Lifestyle Synergy
...Part of me longs to reside in
a high functioning
win/win cooperative community
of resilient left hemisphere,
resonant right hemisphere,
polypathic/polyphonic communion.
Part of egoself-care w...
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Categories:
mundanely, beauty, community, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Power Is Personal
...So, is this personification
of political systems?
asked the organic ecologist.
Or politicization
of intimately
yet transcendently
secular and sacred
personal economic-nutritional analysis
o...
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Categories:
mundanely, christian, earth, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Belly Dancer
...
The Belly Dancer
Learned private lessons in a club
in Chicago's Greek Town.
Her teacher told her,the bigger the
dancer....the more beautiful.
Being thin was no attribute to see
that...
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Categories:
mundanely, dance,
Form: Free verse
Last Night
...It began mundanely as ever.
Us, together. Nothing unusual.
Nothing unique, nothing portentous.
I wondered if I had upset you;
I tend to believe that too often.
It's seldom true.
We spoke.
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Categories:
mundanely, beautiful, cry, desire, heart,
Form: Free verse
Integrity Wars
...Integrity warriors
are not allowed to raise our sacred voices
even against defiant children,
and defeated adolescents,
and immature monoculturish adults
Much less could we therapeutically self...
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Categories:
mundanely, children, environment, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
December Morn
...Winds blow hard freezing water into ice,
Snowy roads make us think about traveling twice.
Inside we’re squeezed together as by a blacksmith’s vise,
Winter makes us mind as we are told.
Like a m...
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Categories:
mundanely, winter,
Form: Rhyme
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