Spring Powers That Be Poems

This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

Wide and longing
for committed dialogue
not surrounded
by elitist debate,

Win/lose games,
Zero-sum asinine assumptions
requiring ego-infested shadows

Resisting win/win opportunities
of healthy
democratic dialogue

Between...

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All breathing
hearted
living sacred creations
are born of white light
and red power,

Of empowering transparent ecstasy
and vulnerably impassioned fire,

Of triumphant wind
radiantly communing spring tease
and slow burning
Earth-rooted
desire

To restore life-giving...

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(On May 1 1960, at the very depth of the
Cold War, CIA pilot Gary Powers was shot
down over the central USSR.  Here we are
imagining...

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A wilted rose still has her thorns,
a ruined home still has its stones.

A mirthless Queen still has her throne,
a sleeping bloom will one day grow.

A...

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Magical wishes remind me of Jim Carrey,
starring as Bruce Almighty,
pulling the moon with his hands;
Morgan Freeman as God had given him powers
for some "holy" time.

If...

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