Health Parallelismus Membrorum Poems

Impressive values,
like love,
claim resources that liberally breed
ecological
natural
physically happy health
and conservatively feed
emotional
spiritual
mentally glad wealth.

Oppressive disvalues
like homophobia and racism
and sexism and ageism
and ableism 
and monoculturing disregard
for threats...

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Enjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf

As our bodies adjust
to rocky and prickly
either me
or not me space

And...

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Back in the day,
before right hand
leftbrain dominance
became our mean girl
weaponized thing

Our bilaterally balanced grandmothers,
whether Eastern Taoists
or Western Animists
(and almost certainly both)
did not think to separate
Left...

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What do top and bottom
above and below
leader and follower
high and low
day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
pole and hole
convex and concave
vertex and vortex
frontsides and backslides
dominant...

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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...

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S/he is troubled
about how to dance more green
in this overwhelming Anthropocene

And has grown to love 
an outside starlit image
of Universal Red SageGod 
resiliently dancing under...

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My sacred ecologist within
re-cognizes Bucky Fuller's pre-millennial insight

What appears,
from a transcendent distance,
to be a static
entirely monocultural 
universal Vertex,
A Black circular Whole
at New Moon midnight,
while circling...

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At sixteen
People's Bible Church
sent me from rural Michigan farm lands
to Moody Bible Institute
in siren-screaming Chicago

Church fathers assumed,
despite curious evidence to the contrary,
that I was a...

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Our green campus favorite
MuseSpeech Teacher
always hosted outside seminars
at noon,
Sharp!

And served chocolates
while mentoring
Her systemic theology

"Doesn't get on well
with academic secularized ecology
we have
and have not
personally experienced."

This is...

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Gratitude
for grace already received
is a robust measure of generosity.

Compassion scans for generosity's fullness
felt within
as incarnated without

As dispassion predicts greed's anxious emptiness.

Giving is physical and/or verbal
while...

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Asked the crowning Trees
of their Grass rooting neighbors

When you feel like singing
while dancing
are you more likely to invoke devotion
to capitalism's competitions
or compassion's cooperation?

Responsive chords,
amusing reeds
and...

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When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance

I could hear no music,
see no dancing.

The quilting room
and the...

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We may need a rest left here
right now
said the Muse
to his Warrior
and her Sage.

In compliant spirit,
Sage feels a rest not
not significant
in music's octaved stories
of wealthy
deep...

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If Thou take not our hands,
and feet,
our bodies
hosting ghostly minds,
our organic inside lives
flowing out emphatic love

We will continue to fail,
to fear,
to feel tired,
retired,
weary,
untreaded,
worn.

When I try...

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MusEcology
is like musicology
except music theory
is about how to write
outside
resiliently capturing what is felt
and heard resonantly flowing first
inside

Using a shared
polycultural (P) notation
Language System.

While MusEcology
mind sings
and body...

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