Nature Comes Last
...
She once bestowed shade
on blistering hot days
Now exposed all around her
is human flesh to sun’s rays
She was a playground for squirrels
where they...
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Categories:
redevelopment, moving on, nature, sad,
Form: Couplet
To Grow Peace
...To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-...
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Categories:
redevelopment, adventure, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Integrity's Health Potential
...If to be
is to communicate
Perhaps
to be healthy
is to communicate
with deep listening
and nonviolent speaking
regenerative integrity
Both secular and sacred
natural and spiritual
mult...
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Categories:
redevelopment, analogy, community, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Late Fall
...Outside views
remind me
Earth already represents
early winter
in my sacred EarthTale
Of internal climate healthy
redevelopment
heart mediated
in dialogue with nonverbal
Right/Left resonant...
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Categories:
redevelopment, health, november, peace, seasons,
Form: Political Verse
Disabling Corporate Culture
...Dynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral...
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Categories:
redevelopment, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
International Corelations
...S/he began our academic feast
in EcoFeminist HerStory Class
reflecting on the history of violent pissed communication
and nonviolent communion
between Afghanistan's empowered
and disempowering L...
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Categories:
redevelopment, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Growing Green Cultures
...Inside my elegantly intuitive,
but SupremelyWhite Male neglected,
and cooperatively We-managed RightHemisphere,
Grows a nutritious nuancing
and nonviolently
nonverbally communicating
win/win ...
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Categories:
redevelopment, earth day, green, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Compassion Stories
...What
to my LeftBrain appears
but Santa CapitalistClaus
and his eight domesticated
and monetized octaves
of neuro-sensory reindeer
To my LeftBrain
appears to not be
much of a healthcare givi...
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Categories:
redevelopment, change, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Bread Is From Earth
...Deep warm-blooded
Dark brown
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.
Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
...
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Categories:
redevelopment, community, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
Merciful Unblind Justice
...I suspect mercy may be more resiliently empowering
for optimizing multicultural health and safety
as compared to uniform law
and ordered, cookie-cutter, justice
unresponsive to ubiquitous mitigat...
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Categories:
redevelopment, caregiving, earth, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
Learning Healthcare Systems
...My educational system
has a diseducating problem.
How to engage young minds,
like young ideas,
easily distracted,
and potentially miseducated,
by vicarious
and often trivial entertainments.
...
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Categories:
redevelopment, anger, bullying, caregiving, education,
Form: Political Verse
Ungodly Control Issues
...Have you seen,
or even felt,
an historical coincidence
between monotheism
and patriarchal theism
and competitive ChosenPeople
monoculturing control issues?
Have you heard
resonant compassio...
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Categories:
redevelopment, earth, education, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Reverend Listens
...I spoke with Reverend Laura today.
She listened curiously
more than merely patiently,
actively
more than barely politely,
as I noticed her questions
in this sacred space
of co-empathic liste...
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Categories:
redevelopment, community, gospel, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
To Gladly Walk
...If I could walk gladly
and talk not sadly
across this Earth
around our home,
our shared place
of sacred journeyed birth
and emergent democratic space,
I would.
Yet, not only could we walk
...
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Categories:
redevelopment, earth, environment, health, journey,
Form: Political Verse
Transitional Illuminations
..."As I leave
this compound body
of flesh and blood
I will know it to be
a transitory illusion."
Could transitory
embodied illusions
become mindbody gateways
toward transitional systemic illu...
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Categories:
redevelopment, earth, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
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