Recentering Poems - Poems about Recentering

ReCentering Domestic NonViolence

...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.  

Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug...

Exit Strategy

...To prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled

echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale

silent sacred pause 
for Earth's final soliloquy 

Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,...

Deep Valley Chewtoy

...Perilous fall risks
these double-binding thoughts
with feelings still nascently attached
positive and negative,
often complexly ambiguous

Sad and glad
as an old calico sock
become chew toy
...

Mixed Questions

...Dear Old Joe,

I have found a retiring fascination
with right nature conserving
and yet very wrong 
left-handed spiritual answers

Messengers to invite
more deeply recreating 
natural outsid...

Pequot River Land Trust

...Once,
or twice, 
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal

A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted 
sometimes hysterically clu...

Coredeemer Restorations

...Self as Other redeeming
invasive species
responsively mirroring 
co-empathic esteemers

CoMessiahs
not even primarily historical remembered persons
plants
planet
isolated from cooperative re...

Recentering Earthconsciousness

...When I see and hear,
touch and feel,
something

Somewhere unwanted
someplace uncherished
egocentrism

Making alienating choices
that follow group win/lose competitive norms,
this constellat...

Aging In Curious Places

...As I age in place
into awareness of replaceability
I bow to humbling curiosity,

Whether more anxious
or anticipating,
I remain conflicted

About predicting
a win/win global healthy climate
...

Progressive Intentions

...The opposite of pain
is not ease.

An apposition of ease
is ecstasy.

The difference between pain
and pathology
reflects transparent
appositions between gaining ease,
green global peace,
a...

Slow Grown Salvation

...I wonder if salvation

[and ecologies of cooperative win/win forgiveness,
and political powers of health-trusting democracy,
and investment economies of mercy
beyond a capital self-investment mo...

The Curiously Democratic Invitation

...RE: Cooperative HealthCare Development

Dear Neighbors, Community Civic Civilians:

Curious about win/win economic and political games
co-investing and co-empowering

Past
and present
and he...

Fatiguing Pandemic Questions

...Why do ecologists
and theologists
and neurologists
see and hear,
touch and feel,
smell and taste
ReGenerating Trust
as Positive Communication?

And,
Why do multiculturists
disvalue active ...

Unrepentant Privilege

..."The simplicity
of total trust
is one of the most powerful forces
in the world."
Sogyal Rinpoche

The Rinpoche's faith 
in radically democratic trust,
feels too wildly green-inclusive madness...

2020 Graveyard

...Clare Graves,
from beyond our 20/20 graveyard
for sinister climate climax
spoke systemically
to Washington's Future Feelers
Mediators
ReGenerators:

That very moment,
when we chose to 20/20 ...

Seeking Wealthier Questions

...Said the evangelical
straight white male
God-privileged Pastor
to the UU lesbian black ecofeminist
Reverend:

You are not feeding your flock,
You are not spiritually nurturing 
with scripture...

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