Power Parallelismus Membrorum Poems

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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What might be your perfect way
to awake with joy and gratitude each morning
within this new day
old way
of opportunity and mourning?

This morning's epic re-awakening
into Beloved Paradise
opens...

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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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Why is it that kindness,
like integrity,
is both free
and freeing?

And meanness,
like Supremacy,
is too expensive
and frightening?

Yet
I often do not feel free
to choose healing passions
and pleasures,
Earth's sacred dancing...

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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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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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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
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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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 communion lives
flowing out emphatic communication love

We cannot continue to fail,
to fear,
to feel tired,
retired,
weary,
untreaded,
worn,
unpleasant,
numb.

When...

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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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