The exclusively logical conclusion
of monotheistic-nationalistic strategizing,
rooted in anthropocentric caste-preservation,
is Winner or Loser fascism
AND
The inclusively ecological commencement
of polytheistic-international integrity,
flowering as Gaia Hypothesis caste-abolition,
is Winner and Winner panentheism.
Just as no one could sanely become
a fascistic panentheist,
we already have far too insanely many
monotheistic fascists.
I teach beneath a foreign sun,
where the desert hums in quiet gold,
and the call to prayer meets the ringing bell
of a Philippine school far from home.
My passport rests heavily in my pocket,
but my heart carries islands
Luzon’s mountains, Visayas’ seas,
Mindanao’s songs whispered in memory.
I speak of heroes not carved in stone alone,
but alive in values
malasakit, bayanihan, dignity in labor,
hope glowing on a smart board.
I tell my students:
Nationalism is not only loving the land you stand on,
but honoring the land that raised your name,
even when your feet are planted elsewhere.
In Qatar, I draw maps with digital light,
yet the truest map is within
a compass pointing always home,
no matter how far the journey goes.
Every correct answer, every dream encouraged,
is a quiet service to the nation I left behind.
For though I teach abroad,
my purpose remains Filipino.
When anthro-privileged consumers
of massive monotheistic miscommunications
replace faith in compassionate StatesMen
and bipartisan StatesWomen
with vainglorious hope
for straight white supremacist BusinessMen
Then what might have been a healthy
polycultural democracy
has now become just another nationalistic
monoculturing kleptocracy.
Sacred EarthMother
does not define
what matriarchal yin Beauty is,
and yet S/He seems to refine
what patriarchal yang Ugly is not.
It may be the world itself is lone here or is in solitude
or is vulnerable or prone,
then, talk, talk, talk who cares or listens: If such subject
is to tarnish her or whims?;
if such assumptions is to wear her most on the blood
or life itself;
if such whisper or rumour may blaster humanity
elsewhere on the net or these woods-
It may be tis our rights to be patriotic here or elsewhere
around the world?,
It may be tis our rights to be nationalistic here or
anywhere through?-
yes, the notion is always unity and progress?.
Said the Palestinians
to their Israeli neighbors
singing and dancing
karaoke on the Strip
I wish I knew
how to pursue
dual citizenship
as readily
as you
To which Israelis
responded to their Muslim neighbors
dancing in sacred dervish spirals
with songs of 40 year journeys
into We Haven't a Clue
So what shall we do?
Let's all apply
for dual citizenship
on this EarthTribal Strip
What could our governments say
to deny this sacred integral Way?
Both together
and apart
we know our governors
are not here to be our keepers
of narcissistic
nationalistic
and alarmingly ballistic
defense.
Our empowering folksongs
empathically resonate
with peace and love demands
for compassionate EarthTribal dance
Better religiously together
than disintegrating apart
from our karaoke on the Strip
song and dance togatherers
Descended
from ancient shepherds
dancing through inhaling
and exhaling monthly moonlight
singing under shared story stars
Sacred EarthMothers
unexpectedly
miraculously
emerged from Black Holy Matters
with singing children
and inspirating Sabbath men.
Teenage yeshiva students from America
'Big Heroes' - 'Land of Israel Nationalists'
All yell 'Death to the Arabs' as they smile for the cameras
A 'real good look' for 'Parents'-skins'-in-the-game activists'
Another year come and gone; another Flag March survived
Its sole achievement, stoking ultra-nationalistic pride
Next to the sea of blue-and-white flags burns white-hot terror
Ready to avenge insults directed at ~
Palestinian flag standard-bearers
____________________________________________________
The Flag March was originally meant to commemorate the capture
of East Jerusalem and the reunification of Jerusalem during the
1967 ('Six-Day') War. What it's become now is, in my opinion, a
gross perversion of its original message of 'Unification.'
The pathway to peace is strewn with goodwill
Arms embracing those suffering from poverty,
A thousand points of light upon a shining hill.
To the Golden Rule pledging allegiance still
No violence like before plagued our history,
The pathway to peace is strewn with goodwill.
Forgetting what it means to covet and to kill
No nationalistic leaders claiming superiority,
A thousand points of light upon a shining hill.
Remembering no reason others’ blood to spill
While throwing open portals of cordiality,
The pathway to peace is strewn with goodwill.
In our children the virtues of kindness instill
While educating them in the principles of unity
A thousand points of light upon a shining hill.
Like in ancient fables, hearts with joy shall fill
Learning to love one another spontaneously,
The pathway to peace is strewn with goodwill
A thousand points of light upon a shining hill.
Written December 10, 2022
[with a nod to the words of
President George H.W.Bush]
Our current political identity
is not exclusively red conservative
or blue liberal atheist/humanist
We are also
pissed off sheep
who have gone astray
of richly green domesticated economies,
instead red enslaved,
blue judiciously penned
incorporated property
belonging to the utmost
OmniPotentating Jehovah
Descending from a long
royalist
blue blood-hierarchy
of Straight White Male
red-blooded religious
and political
and economic privilege.
Our anti-PatriarchalCapitalist anger
is our potential bipartisan win/win
supreme civil citizenship
delivering us from this
Sky Is Falling Kingdom
of win/lose zero-sum
nationalistic segregated purgatory
And, we bring our angry
fearful,
anxious
depressed bicameral values
into all our cisbinary/transbinary political
EitherOr/BothAnd
economic
religious
reconnecting
neuro-sensory co-passionate engagements
For the woke glory
of Earth's Green
SabbathQueen
of polyculturally robust
HeavenLight
inviting eweing/ram
yintegral-yang
Co-binary
co-governing
co-operative
co-invested
co-passionate
ego/ecosystemic win/win
co-enlightened bipartisan empowerment.
Wealthy anthro-supremacists
do not grow healthy
Earth climaxing climates
So too,
Earth's optimal health cultures
currently predict
massive
unmediated
anthro-mortality
So too,
to a monoculturing sociopath,
whether person
or corporation
or national federation,
intent on coldly acquiescing to ecocide,
What remains of proper poetic
and dignified distinctions noetic
between civilization
and civil war?
What remains of integrity's
healing bicameral balance,
educated
informed
reformed
restored
to distinguish between
domestic health empowerment
and global corroding nationalistic wealth
through sacrificial violence?
We grow up being doctored into thought processes and beliefs on how to live and find success. Family and nationalistic attitudes inherited wether or not we believe in their rationales, logic or prejudice.
When we stand upon our own feet. We find our own way to survive. Survival takes its own path on these roads of many miles.
Our minds become accustomed to dealing with failure and success. Our bodies carry this engine that controls how we measure up against humanity and the human state of mess.
When it comes down to the basics the powers treat us, look upon us and condemn like we are all the same. But when it comes down to our minds we exist on levels of countless varied plains.
Mental
mortal traumatic anxiety
is a metaphor for physical pain experience
As anticipating personal therapeutic healing
is analogically connected to absence
of win/lose cultural pathology
in a bad air
anxious atmosphere
climate.
Atheism about sacred healing Benefactors
is not so much a theological position
as it is a disconnected memory,
disembodied experience,
dissociatively anthrosupremacist,
non-panentheistic
In a secularizing monocultural climate
often PatriarchalCapitalist nationalistic,
fear and anger-rooted
cognitive/affective chronic dissonance,
dis-ease,
stress,
detachment from Whole Systemic Healthy EarthMother's
traumatic
laborious
nihilistic experience
of autonomously stressed-out
disordered monotheistic
supremacist inhumanity.
World views matter,
sabbath gratitude informed,
and savaged loss exflowing
Communion reviews matter
most when not nationalistic splatter
To remain focused
informing nutritional economic choices
forgiving our inhumane ego rejoices
of past disrespect
against empty relationships
devoid of polyculturally resilient voices
Practicing
in gathering
keys of nonviolence
for political win/win empowering anthems
danced in co-investments
Preferring multicultural reflection
on theological health
through polyculturing wealth
of experiencing each EarthDay and Night
revolving Matters
Muses
moving
empowering sciences
enlightening macro-economic world views
about Power's practicality
for restoring win/win justice
through a global moratorium
on punishing disrespect
against Earth's original sacred feminist
green/blue indigenous wisdom,
Cooperative grace
for winning health
not competing
win/lose
unsafe splattering race
to lose/lose hell
is absence of wealthy saving face
If and when
our Earth views matter,
sabbath gratitude informed
and/or savaged loss
exflowing climate splatter.
A tribute to 159th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Jose Rizal
Soul of a hero ignites,
With the use of mighty pen he fight,
From the colony of other countries,
Hail your greatness, it stays in our memories.
Dr. Jose Rizal, your life was an inspiration,
Born to defend our beloved nation,
You are really an intelligent person,
Writing poetry was your greatest passion.
The spirit of nationalistic was in your mind,
Helping Filipinos shows that you are kind,
Your heart dictates to do the right thing,
To fight for freedom, history remember your writings.
Runs in your veins Malayan royalty,
Bloodless revolts spread easily,
By your pen that is considered mighty,
Shout for joy, Philippine Independence for our country.
This poem dedicated to 159th Birth anniversary of our Philippine National Hero
Dr. Jose Rizal
Written by: MPS
What of them?
What do you think that they would they say?
Do you think they turn and ran when democracy was at stake?
What of all that suffering, all that hate seems to stay! What about all that blitz fear that they conquered day after day?
Does it make you shiver now when you see democracy could be blown away?
Does it make you feel any regret for what our ancestors died determined to save?
What about all the children now living free in a racially tolerant state? Do you think that freedom and tolerance are a given in an undemocratic nationalistic state?
Gardeners and farmers know better
than to feed and water the weeds.
Psychologists and sociologists agree,
best way to manage an unrepentant narcissist
is to ignore him
and his ego-privileged run-away lose/lose habits,
addictions,
ranting paranoia.
Political scientists might learn from their experience,
we need not further inflame nationalistic cynicism about remaining hope
for global health
through actively impeaching already soiled
and transparently corrupted nationalistic
supremacist behaviors.
Sins meriting excommunication are most likely to implode
from within when not fed
or watered,
when the cameras and microphones simply aren't turned on anymore,
when actively ignored
and shunned by all victims,
prey of encroaching,
marching militaristic weeds.
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