Nationalism Poems

Once Upon A Christian Time

Once upon a Roman Empire building time
a brilliantly pleasing boy was born 
of humble Jewish means,
named Jesus.

Born into autocratic occupation,
to avoid military police threats 
of mass Jewish male child murder,
Jesus and his mom and dad
became EastBound immigrants,
away from Western kleptocratic ruin.

Jesus was thereby exposed
to more Eastern polytheistic
and pantheistic polycultures
before returning home
to listen and learn literacy
from

The Tariff Song

Our president says, “Bring the factories back,
Rebuild the mills, get us on track.”
He looks at the rust belt, sees sorrow and tears,
Whole towns undone by decline through the years.

I have a bike made by Trek
They can't make it here, said an exec
He explained that nobody here makes any part
A whole bike ecosystem needed to restart.

Today's leaders

From ashes of pain, true leaders rise,
Forged in struggle’s unyielding cries.
Yet now, from gilded thrones of greed,
False prophets spawn, with lies they breed.
They weave deceit, a cunning art,
To hijack souls and rend the heart.
Using hired blades and looted dimes,
They buy men to side their evil dreams
Behind a flag, their falsehoods creep,
While nation bleeds and victims

Gee, Why Can’t We All Just Get Along

This basic wish
Is the wish of every mother and child
The wish for things to be safe and fun
For everyone to smile
And not push and shove, yell and fight.
It’s the wish that drives them like sheep
Into the beautiful green pastures over there
Just beyond the bounds, always
Just out of reach.
It’s the wish to unite 
Form a one

Let the New Year Come

(Dedicated to the Filipino Youth)

Our years of youthful yonder—
carry the mark of strength and beauty.
Like ancient, unwavering mountains,
no force can shake us, no storm can bend us.

Our years of noble sacrifice —
bear the weight of wisdom and menace.
Like the clever, tireless ant in summer daze,
Rizal’s pen a throne of heroes’ embrace.

Our years of patriots and

Ballad of nationalism

Assuming no war we fought 
    to name our country 
  Nigeria is no war we
    fought to know how tis perhaps let say all the wall is 
      frosty. 
  If tis monger or thirst 
     why

Nationalism

I wish to neighbor the some of the worlds, 
    yes, neighboring them in the morning and afternoon 
   and evening air 
     and when night brought her blanket towards tomorrow.

Listening Emphatically

When personal narcissism
and tribal autism
choose our words
as hurting 
threatening 
weapons of trauma defense

Rather than choosing wealth
of healing win/win tools
for compassion's therapeutic 
mind/body unfence

We soon find 
that no one cares
to impatiently listen
outside our partisan walls

For whatever future mindful kindness
and EarthBody forgiveness
we cannot trust
will win/win 
wealth/health last.

Civic Faith

I never doubted my gliding flight like a baby bird,
I have always trusted the free winds of democracy.
It offers justice for those whose freedoms are deferred.
It grants inclusiveness to those so threatened by autocracy.

I am just a poet, still believing synergy has wings,
I am just a poet trusting economic popular will,
a working-class autarky of mutual

Not Yet Time For Paradise

Mistaking side by side pluralism
for more resonant 
co-infested polyculturalism

Is like mistaking chaotic divisions
for resilient organic complexity,
integral multiplicity

Like only perceiving competitive dissonance 
and degenerative
confusion
while missing inside resonant light
regenerating
cooperative mind/body 
health/wealth consciousness

Free from win/lose
lack-of-capital-driven anxiety,
Free toward win/win
co-invested anticipation

Dipolar co-arising hope
Left/Right
UpMight/DownTight
root-budding Yang/Yintegral
bilateral balance

Resonantly resilient Way
as a round wombed ch'i
polypathic pole

Holonic joy
of sacred unscared
unscorched Earth
Tribes timeless
unboundaried
win/win paradise,
co-invested bipartisan peace

Without U

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Since 1983, I spent each year
With her, or reasonably near
O to think I once was young, in love
With U (USA) running from African woe
That apartheid in South Africa
Yet I hadn't planned to leave her
I'd visit a month or two, less than a year
Even when I worked (one in Mandela's time,
A deputy director in their State

Mothertree Integrity

How might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?

A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and WhiteMale monotheistic

How might even Republican Red MotherTrees
avoid secularized Self-serving
by Capitalizing Other-undeserving

Instead of
separating and unequalizing
retributive justice disvalues
pimped by StraightWhiteMonoTheisticMale privilege
to criminally punish
with disturbing chronic anxiety and fear
approach/avoiding issues of naturalbody v

Nationalism, Not God, Is Behind War

FROM A COMMENT TO ONE OF MY GOOD READERS/ Soupers:

"It's a blessing to have known Jesus through one's parents. I was 30 when I began to take Jesus seriously ("an acquired taste," for a Hindu nationalist). It's NATIONALISM - of whatever kind - THAT IS CAUSING WARS, not God/Jesus. Study wars & it's civil &

My American Daughters

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My two daughters love Two States
Two ways, at least
They love Maryland & Virginia
They love English and Spanish
They love their dad and Mom
They love Democrat & Republican as American
They know the Constitution didn't make Parties
They Know G. Washington warned Parties
Divide anation, when electing should take best 'man'
For the job he refused to Name "king" - but

Sir Aurobindo - National Internationalism

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At home with Shankara & Ramanuja
As with Spinoza, Kant, and Buber
Seventy years on earth, to 1950, heir
To Thought of East, West, 'Father Nature'
Fought for Independent India, from 'Raj'
Taught we must do spiritual evolution
Community and nation are a good start
But dissolve they must, peace past nationalism
Separation is overcome by One Identity

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Sri Aurobindo could use Brahman, Lila,

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