Passion Parallelismus Membrorum Poems

We are natural bodies outside
engaging spiritual souls inside

So also,
and with more significant integrity
in this domesticated 
desecrating 
lack of thriving home

We are timeless souls 
with spacious...

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As I Turn Gray

As I turn gray, the music fades,
Melodies lost in the echo of days.
Consciousness swarms me, a ceaseless tide,
Drowning in thoughts I cannot...

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Unreciprocated passion
is not yet resonant compassion

Unreturned love
feels dissonantly lonely

Failure to cooperatively thrive

Longing for health giving 
mindful exotic 
double-binding 
cobinary relationship

Strong wealth receiving 
resiliently embodied 
erotic...

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How does it feel to you
when presidents proclaim anthro-supremacy
exclusively made
in one universal God's
straight WesternWhite monotheistic 
over-Capitalized 
and stealth-marketed 
kleptocratic image?

How might this have felt
comfortable and...

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Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.

Am I OK?

Healthy?

Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,
final answer."

Warm, wet exhaling,
"My moisture, too,
dying to...

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Love
ain't hate

Divine discourse
denies degenerative debate,
Church
ain't State

Conserving compassions 
content obligations
contentiously Liberating.

I love thinking 
about win/win compassion
disturbed by hated win/lose
feeling obligation.

We/Me wants to conserve
resilient passion/pleasure
peak experiences
yet
Me/We needs...

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AnthroPoids
standing tall
on both unlikely hind feet

Are a great aped longing
to belong

Without getting down 
on all four transportive limbs

Stretching down
and dusking in

ReImagining
another dawning day
empowering
and enlightening
mind's embodied...

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Mom of 13 siblings was the last to pass. Behind a hung draped sheet that parted the bedroom she was in, from the living room,...

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When he speaks
transparently
he feels co-passionate
as long as s/he appears
to vulnerably listen

Without Me v We risks
of retributive judgment,
body shaming
and mind blaming,
when he aims
to restore healthy cultures
and...

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Yogi Berra said:
In theory there is no difference from practice.
In practice, there is

Applying this to communication theory:
In nonviolence theory
there is no difference from practice
of win/win...

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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
transcendent and immanent
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...

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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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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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