Growing Up Political Verse Poems

Tell me how to think
Tell me what to do
Tell me if my politics
Should be red or blue
Tell me how to live
What to keep or give
And...

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Mirror Mirror everywhere
Large Small and Pale
None it spares from the critiques of its glare 

Mirror, Mirror, it Surrounds me from everywhere
Like Im in a mirror...

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Something’s missing in my lifetime. 

I’m a big believer in Space Exploration 
Especially when everyone is on board 
But before we start, Manifest Destiny Mars...

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KOO' LAID 

Oh boy, looks great!
You imagine the flavor,
The colorful look of fruity deliciousness 
you only hope to savour.

But think before you drink, 
for the...

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"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,"
Israel's war crimes, a brutal truth..
The statistics are glaring and growing more bleak.
One thousand Gaze an...

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One needn't be a Trump fan to
marvel at the sales persona in
the D.T. man..
Looming criminal charges don't seem
to matter as the marketing of his name
just...

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A green chaplain to trees
nurtures Her root systems
and dancing
prancing branches

Preaching
reaching deeply
into shared 0-soul trunks,
circling spinal enthusiastic core

Breathing 
circulating annual rings
of growing communion

Potential win/win performance
musing resonance
amusing...

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Before we begin,
I want to introduce
my most hopeful self

Before we begin
life's communication
we know love's energy

Mother and Child
intimacy
sacred mild
intricacy
integrity...

Resonant hearts beating
repeating
+1 then 0 then -1
circling around...

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Better together
than falling apart.

Inside I sigh
between sad traumas,
mad bad dramas
fading together
when not
not
not thought and felt glad

Better left together
than falling
falling
falling right wing exhausted
apart

Outside we cry
for fair...

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I hear a muse
who speaks
and sometimes sings
and dancing leaps
only through my dreams

Whether mine is lonely
or one of many
we share at night,
I wonder

Where dark certainties
and sometimes...

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What fills your goals, son?

I told you!
Need to get my car rolling [life rolling, love rolling]
yesterday,
if not today...

If I may interrupt
to process mindful resilience
for a...

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Community trauma prevention
sounds not so sexy
to absent-minded mayors
and perennial kleptocratic players

And growing a regenerative Learning Community
isn't really ecojust about restoring
healthy democratic justice
for a somewhat sexier
and...

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Speaking from personal
and political
and economic
and social-equity experience

Empowering cooperative co-investments,
like businesses
and condominiums,
arrives slowly
yet more surely
through cooperative management experience

Robust
and resilient co-empathic tenure,
stretching unconditional regard
from enlightened win/win management
to...

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To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,

Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze 
on...

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When I drove away from the family farm
to embrace my freshman year
at the University of Michigan
in Vietnam-era 1970,

I was planning on majoring in political science
which...

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