Riding Sixties Shotgun
...I was in the shotgun seat
in 1960 Lansing Michigan
headed straight as a harddrive
through ghettoizing "Negra Section"
hunting down our commercial whitebread
heavenly ThriftyAcres
Wanna be a ...
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Categories:
potentiating, beauty, community, culture, extended
Form: Political Verse
Growing Green Integrity
...What grows integral
shows up cooperative,
not competitive,
Like communion
transcends capitalism.
Earth knows cooperative co-investment
expands informed sacred vestments
stretching co-empat...
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Categories:
potentiating, earth day, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Feeling Rememory
...I noticed just yesterday
while glowering about something else
now already
once again
forgotten...
I seem to have lost my good-sensed humor
along my stumbling
isolating internal say
Toward...
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Categories:
potentiating, anxiety, appreciation, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Conversions Growing Integrity
...In some integral green ways,
and blues truths,
and red-hot fear-filled/angry rightwing lives,
We all began as the ecofeminist
EarthMother-wombed and -birthed
children
And, thereby,
co-att...
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Categories:
potentiating, analogy, culture, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Less Hellfire Please
...YinPassion: Predictions of HellFire and Damnation raptures,
of Paradise far away from sinful natural EarthClimates of Despair
is not so different from our indigenous ancestors' experience
in the U...
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Categories:
potentiating, earth, games, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Congressional Grace
...I'm still reading Your Resonant Self,
by Dr. Sarah Peyton,
speaking of how contempt
destroys relationships
formerly cooperative
and, thereby, healthy.
Disgust about oneself
and contempt agai...
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Categories:
potentiating, christmas, earth, easter, health,
Form: Political Verse
Spiritual Color Associations
...WellBeing,
personal and political,
economic and ecological,
comes in at least two colors,
maybe four,
possibly octaved more,
but for every listening then speaking you,
natural health
green-bl...
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Categories:
potentiating, color, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Systemic Change
...It is known throughout Earth's anonymous
unanimous Commons,
Systems are hard to change.
The more macro-competitive,
Yang-strong,
The more difficult of all conversion stories
Over pernicious...
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Categories:
potentiating, caregiving, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Ancient Exhaustion
...Asking why our partisan democratic experiment
appears to be
failing feels like asking why our global climate
appears to be
failing feels like asking why old age
appears to be
a failing.
Poli...
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Categories:
potentiating, age, community, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
Poetic License To Heal
...I recently read a politically incorrect prolific poet,
or so I thought at the time,
or more felt than thought,
more truthfully,
integrally,
Who said, If poetry is politically correct,
it cann...
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Categories:
potentiating, appreciation, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Pulling, Not Pushing, Together
...With climate fragmentation, unholy pathology
comes ecosystemic over-specialization
supports growing competitive ego-autonomy,
playing a WinLose ZeroSum devolutionary depressing game.
With clima...
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Categories:
potentiating, anger, caregiving, change, health,
Form: Political Verse
Light Enchantments
...Starting way back
with sixteen hundred Scientific Revolutions
in math and physics
biology and ecology
climate chemistry and analogical theology
began transubstantiating dialects
Deductive/Seduc...
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Categories:
potentiating, earth, green, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Relearning Manifest Destiny
...What did you learn to play
in school today?
Hedging future winning bets
against lost devolving yesterday
I learned religious history
of manifest colonizing destiny,
Responsibility to over-rul...
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Categories:
potentiating, change, conflict, destiny, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Community Health Assurance
...Transparently robust private/public healers,
servants,
ego/ecotherapists,
investigate, with appreciation,
cooperative health insurance
for people,
healthy homes,
resilient transportation,
and...
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Categories:
potentiating, community, conflict, corruption, courage,
Form: Political Verse
Class of 1970
...When I was in my Michigan high school
I found something both promising
and sacred,
portentous with rural, yet also urbane, PositivEnergy,
in and among our graduating classes
of 1970.
Ending w...
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Categories:
potentiating, age, gospel, health, high
Form: Political Verse
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