Political Passion Poems

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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When personal narcissism
and tribal autism
choose our words
as hurting 
threatening 
weapons of trauma defense

Rather than choosing wealth
of healing tools
for compassion's therapeutic unfence

We soon find 
that no...

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Religions,
and other strange passions
exotic 
and erotic 
and hypnotic,
are at their healthiest natural
and safe wealthiest spiritual
best

Reconnecting compassion
between yesterday's remembered 
conservational enlightenment
and tomorrow's anticipated 
liberating empowerment
restoring EarthPeace...

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  Martin Luther King Jr. Day is coming again
     Ho-hum, can we all pretend
  It's a deeply meaningful holiday
...

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My left-brain dominant challenge
begs for a worldview
of unconditional warm regard

Which sometimes feels uncomfortably warm
through heated confrontations
confused about whose voice is rightfully speaking
respectfully with whom

And who...

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No Taxation without Representation has risen yet again:
No taxation without Socialism.
Without Socialism, there’s no Representation.
When there’s no Representation, there’s no Taxation.
No Taxation without Socialism nor...

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What begins 
with in
and out?

Then best ends brightest
with a cooperative
exhausted shout?

An orgasmic climax?
Or a groaning prayer
for co-infested peace?...

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Beauty
in motion,
sacred mystery
lies in tied conjugal ritual
of Yin's want
rising up
and out
to engage cosmic need
coming Yang down
penetrating in

My rising want
conjoins His incoming need
co-arises wanting here
and needing...

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Natural Sacraments

Emerge from what sacred center,
committed to integrity's potential
become more resilient,
and not fragile

More nature-soul evolving
Earth's deepest
widest
longest
roundest
mountainous
dark valleyed sacraments
of light and power.

Gandhi regenerated
humane love lives on
and
inhumane...

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No one speaks of Rapture
anymore

What could one say
short of singing
and dancing
graceful tandem play?

Even evangelists
seem less sure
Rapture is a grace-filled promise
of reward for virtue
and not merely...

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Glow morning warm
hugging
sleepy scalp and face embrace
outside sacred pink
yellowing fragrant dawn

Without fear of fading dark
or death
or sin

Welcome in
naked foot massage
pressure memories of walk
on stretching strings

Hang...

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When you and your wife visited,
you shared a question asked by a pastor
of a raped
and thereby pregnant
vulnerably young and questioning parishioner.

"If your unborn child survived
his...

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For economic
and political resilience
it is better to give
AND receive 
compassion
than to give
OR receive 
enlightenment....

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Christians once sacrificed their own, 
To the God of Love, like pagans known, 
Burning heretics, they claimed divine, 
Killing their own in a holy shrine.

Those...

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If I had an IQ of 17, 
would this be normal?

My son, 
with cerebral palsy, 
no language capacity, no LeftBrain ability to read or write...

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