Nonviolence Poems - Poems about Nonviolence

Nonviolent Communication is a powerful approach with a gentle voice To communicate with empathy, understanding, a compassionate choice It is a framework for expressing ourselves honestly While actively listening to the needs of others openly It encourages us to recognize our shared humanity Our innate capacity for compassion even towards insanity It focuses on understanding feelings, needs, and requests Rather...

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The "Trilogy of Non-Violence" advocates peacefully uplift humanity Humanity is to behold a peaceful way of overcoming the struggle of life. Life, where all souls are valuable and with love are diminishing hate Hate! Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. states, "Driven out by the light." Light of the world for humanity to see shining bright, eliminating darkness Darkness, which...

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This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van. Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a huge step forward in how well we can serve the growing number of our neighbors who need help with...

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If Thou take not our hands, and feet, our bodies hosting ghostly minds, our organic inside communion lives flowing out emphatic communication love We cannot continue to fail, to fear, to feel tired, retired, weary, untreaded, worn, unpleasant, numb. When I try to sing this earnest prayer with only my heady voice from the neck up, following all correctly crowned notes, judiciously following lines of predicted pitch and regulated rhythm, this feels secularized, segregating, dissociated, dissonant, disembodied divisive desperately diminishing re-ligioning integrity's potential health...

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Systemic trauma may be a more inclusive and challenging way of saying: Systemic racism, homophobia, sexism, ableism, discrimination, prejudice, bigotry, avoiding fear then anger aggressively approaching fear avoiding... unspiraling anti-communication systems of trauma, StraightWhiteMale privileged drama. Systemic trauma may become more profound and disabling with Decrepit OldAge replacing Dancing Wise Elders Rooted in personal lack of trauma-free systemic health and wealth and wisdom care, passion, compassion So far into this final full-health decade, my 70's revisited in a more swaying...

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When trauma lurks with upper hand, To know loss is to fear death of much-loved reputation compassion's robust integrity and lively self-respect. When therapy lends Her feminist sway to know and co-invest in life is to predict and cherish waxing love and self-forgiveness. For both these reasons, we send a significantly wrong message of blame the victim when we post public health messages like "Suicide is preventable" Which is no more or less true than Systemic...

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I wonder... If RightWing Activists are, thereby, actively against Allies of a healthy cooperative co-invested compassionate democracy. If RightMind disempowered pessimists lack Win/Win enlightened grace to feel unconditional warm economies of politically organic love in sacred time and space. If RightHand monotheistic powers could ever learn from divine experience to become more bicamerally GreenLiberal/RedConservational co-ecstatic If Left/Right circling spectral lights of win/win thriving Egos worshipping our sacred shared sexual EcoSystems become, thereby, compassionate peace-thriving intrapersonal repairs supporting resilient...

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Don't want to be stuck in the Trauma Prevention Department. Don't want to work that hard on dogmatic compartments for politically correct CAPITAL INVESTMENT governments over-investing in cautionary conditional chronic win/lose mistrustful competitive dissonant miscommunications and excommunication which is counterproductive for best Systemic Therapy practice Of mindful-civil cooperative warm regard AND co-investments in EarTherapeutic Community Resilience. I do want resilience to be free minded in a compassionate healing and attentive way To re-awake sacred...

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Community trauma prevention sounds not so sexy to absent-minded mayors and perennial kleptocratic players And growing a regenerative Learning Community isn't really ecojust about restoring healthy democratic justice for a somewhat sexier and robust multicultural environment. Both of these Win/Win Game Theory trauma-informed learning theory applications remain paternally erectile mountainously synergetic strength functions of community YangWoke experience And valleyed ecofeminist indigenously EcoMatrimonial Wise for growing integrity's flow of nonverbal ecstasy nonviolently yin peak rebirthing experience polycultural...

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Opportunities to rest in unconditional self-regard also present risks of unmitigated narcissism. While self-respect is my prerequisite for pursuing resonant win/win integrity's full bodied potential savor flavor favor MeWe co-passion for EgoSelf as also part of sacred EcoOther co-arises global unconditional regard for healthy life over harmful death and all conscious curious creatures in-between Alpha and Omega great transitions. Ego wealth of self/other compassion values love above all else, although perhaps more could be said for an unconditionally regarded sense...

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When I drove away from the family farm to embrace my freshman year at the University of Michigan in Vietnam-era 1970, I was planning on majoring in political science which later turned into a double major in communication theory and positive neuro-psychology Persuasion, cognitive/affective bicameral conserving/liberating bipolarizing dissonance, and more resonantly trusted positive therapeutic attitude change. What I do recall from PoliSci 101: The well-researched underlying root value for any...

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Lori Gottlieb describes mental health mediators and dream translators prescribing more cost-effective therapeutic questions: Who am I? What do I want? What's in my natural health/spiritual wealth bilaterally balancing way? What do I want more: to autonomously control OR to be part of some monopolizing, possibly monotheistic, Thing bigger than egocentric Me? May morph more effluently co-therapeutic than affluent expertise advice into: What do I want to safely control AND YET ALSO to be...

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Friends, Trumpians, EcoFeminists We gather here to no longer hear divisions across a win/lose zero-sum aisle so we can see revisions within a win/win nonzero-exponential future free of buried guile. Green flowing fullness no longer mourned for lost love of deep theistic preculturing wealth buried in steep sacred indigenous metaphoric meaning RedBlooded LeftBrain anthro-alien exceptionalism may open whole resurrection systems to universal anthro-healing skillsets widely re-educating re-birthing re-incarnating analogical ecological theological shared cognitive purposes felt sacred meanings For getting, and not...

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My youngest of three AfricanAmerican adopted sons has profound nonwhite nonstraight nonverbal cerebral palsy. Profound in at least not being privileged or victimized by internal LeftBrain dominance, violent micro-aggressions, zero-sum competitive thinking Either positively True and Good or negatively False and Bad, laughable or humorless Sacred indigenous consciousness feels more Right-Elder brainstem bodymind nondualistic synergy friendly energy which is my son's political blessing and his capital secularizing segregating colonizing economic disabled curse. Youngest son communes with music more fluidly co-empathic than linguistic...

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Much has been felt then written about loneliness at the top Less written, yet perhaps far more often felt, about claustrophobia in the center. Problems with delegation, boundaries, predictable timelines, responsive management focus, follow through performance, closeted partisanship, competitions to be heard listened to appreciated respected for our therapeutic, and not our terrorist, potential Nonviolent calm peace, by quietly listening contrast to violent fears, invites resiliently harmonic win/win expansive sublimely integrating synergetic intention, Short-term anticipation slowly pushing out and fading a cultural climate...

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