Garden Political Verse Poems

Education Secretary Ellen,

Some of us
on the EarthCare Team
and also the Transport Solutions Committee
for special projects
are wondering
and, frankly, hoping

Your green STEAM students
and teachers
might research,
design,
and help residents...

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All of the men
and most of the women
I have known
whose most important life-affirming value
is not to be for Earth's climate health
and is to be adamantly...

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It's hard to be Green
in a Red v Blue drama scene

Hard to be heard
and seen
when the Blues
say the Reds
are too mean
and the Reds
find the Blues
too...

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Where the Left
supports cooperative
respectful
deeply integral 
yet widely multicultural health care

The Right
conserves against future changes
in hierarchical wealth structures,
thereby augmenting competitive
ineffective 
unhealthy class warfare

Rather than universal classroom...

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Armchair ambassadors
Lying in wait
Have all the criteria
For the perfect state –

That Garden of Eden
That Nirvana afar
History just slaps them
So they raise up the bar

It’s so...

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It interests me,
this journey into the garden
each spring
to notice how diverse vegies
and flowers,
edibles
and ornamentals,
pollinators
and soil enrichers,
work cooperatively together
when they can

My own planning part
notices potential competitions,
for...

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You don't think you owe me
Well I contend you do
On my desk, I expect a bouquet of roses
I worked thru most my childhood
Paying my playground...

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He steps outside
on love's front yard
to savor this final summer
of playful intent,

Too soon stuck inside
when he would happily
and more healthily
have worked out
surrounded by garden sex
with...

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My EarthMom used to stand easy
at our kitchen sink,
looking out across our fertile backyard
vegetable garden,

Rising from humbly short
but brilliantly red/green
bodhisattva radishes
inside white but spicy,
not the...

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A DETOUR TO YPRES, (on returning from a holiday in France 2013)

WHAT A WASTE
A DIM TARRY SUN CLOSES, THE ERRODED SCRAGGY DAY,
IN HIDDEN CORNERS OF...

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What is your opposite
for SACRED?

for sexually unscared
unscarred
unscrambled?

SECULAR, I suppose.

Secularization
sounds like desecration,
As sanctification
sounds divinely cooperative,
loving,
and not quite so punishingly competitive

Like win/win eco-political Game Strategies
to optimize and...

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In some primordial 
wandering birth-canal way,
I imagine we all experience traumatic excommunication

An internal climate PanDemonic
cerebral yet narrowly competitive 
win/lose health today or safety tomorrow survivalist
life...

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Great
and small
spiritual teachers
glowingly preach
and promise disciplined pilgrim creatures
Nirvana,
Paradise,
Heaven,
Blissful Features.

A timelessly perpetual climax
no natural teacher
this side of Eden's regenerative garden
would dare speculate
we might reasonably anticipate
some great...

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How would you agree
and could you disagree?

Those who oppose Domestic Violence,
secretly oppose restoring healthy
punishing
responsible retributive parental exercise
of absolute patriarchal authority.

Those who protest against Police Brutality,
Bullying
Violent...

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Sometimes I need to hear
what straight white male dominant privilege
what systemic racism
what degenerative ungreen anthro-supremacism
what xenophobia and yin-repression
what homophobia sounds like hate
and smells sour and...

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