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 leaped and they twirled
in the merriest of chases
like a day at the races
But sad to say, nature comes last
when ‘progress’ is fast
‘Redevelopment’ came along
sang its familiar cruel song
Sheared off her boughs
turned her trunk to sawdust
Now fallen and humbled her stump sits
conservation having called it quits
Categories:
redevelopment, moving on, nature, sad,
Form: Couplet
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
multi-paradigmatically scientific
and inter-religiously philosophical
universal truths and unitarian trust
in bicamerally balanced sacred beauty
Faithful to mind and loving with body
ego and ecosystemic
rational-compassionate
Either/Or-Both/And
bipartisan
Taoist
NonDualist
Not-Not Zeroist
strength/flow
liberally loving/conserving caution
full/empty
space/time
bilateral-fractal
Bicameral-dialectic
mind/body redevelopment
within nutritional incoming
and fertile outgoing
organically active balance.
Categories:
redevelopment, analogy, community, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Have you seen,
or even felt,
an historical coincidence
between monotheism
and patriarchal theism
and competitive ChosenPeople
monoculturing control issues?
Have you heard
resonant compassioned languages
polyculturing herstoric redevelopment,
ego/polytheistic
nondualistic integral multi-regenerational experience
in-between cooperative ecomatriarchal green theists
and competitive multicultural EarthTribe Circles
thrivalist Ecological Interdependent Spirals
co-empowering multigenerational ReCycles
within co-operative
ego/eco-empowering
Left/Right-Economic Winging
singing bicameral
enlightening secular/sacred bipartisan
co-governance
And Win/Win co-investment
in sublimely divinely competitive
yet playful teams
and tribes
and local community opportunities
to avoid win/lose survivalist
patristic devolutionary risks
By embracing win/win thrivalist
ecofeminist revolutionary opportunities
to polyculturally embrace compassion
when we are at high pandemic
rabid fear and anger frisk.
Categories:
redevelopment, earth, education, environment, health,
Form: Political Verse
Writing is my compliment to speech
To articulate with pen and paper
Not fully knowing who it will reach
The great poets of yesterday
Shall always be in remembrance
A recollection from the past
Fine tuning my poetry in resemblance
What does it take to be a great writer
Should I make it dark and heavy or a bit lighter
What if my pen doesn't like my hand
What if my paper doesn't understand
What do I write about
Where do I get inspiration
Should I write a short story
Or a commentary with narration
Writing has its elements
One being redevelopment
What does my pen want to say to this paper
For now I'll put it down and come back later
Categories:
redevelopment, anxiety, conflict,
Form: I do not know?
Hull is the great and unique city where I was born
Sitting on the Humber estuary...proud and all alone
Known for keeping Charles I and his army out through courage and bravery
Also the birthplace of William Wilberforce who helped abolish slavery
The most bombed city outside of London during the 2nd World War
This made a strong community stronger even more
With a long and colourful history in shipbuilding, fishing and trading
The old image of Hull is still there ...but it's fading
The docks have been redesigned as shopping centre's or parks
It has an amazing aquarium that's got jellyfish, stingrays and sharks
The music and arts scene in Hull holds its own against the rest
The 2 mile bridge that spans the river is rated amongst the best
There's many green spaces to chill or restaurants to drink and dine in
It's now not unusual for Hull City or FC to score or even get a win
Hull has been rewarded with the City of Culture 2017
The redevelopment of this great city is very welcome but totally unforeseen
Categories:
redevelopment, birth, city, culture, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Six blocks of flats were detonated yesterday in Glasgow,
But only four fell down and tumbled to the ground:
The Red Road tower blocks, once the tallest in Europe,
Were the place where 5000 lived without a sound.
Five were to be demolished as part of the Opening Ceremony,
Of the 2014 Commonwealth Games,
But the real living worth and sentimental value of the homes,
Prevented the Council from airing their redevelopment aims.
The Glasgow Housing Association had to be sensitive,
To what the development and building of new flats meant,
That many would have to be evicted and relocated,
From the homes in which they relaxed and dreamt.
So now, in October 2015, the Association cleared the area,
For a more private demolition to take place without television,
But only two-thirds of the job was done as two flats still teetered,
So there’s an independent review with a look rather beleaguered.
12th of October 2015
See Scotsman news article
http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/red-road-flats-2-500-return-home-after-failed-demolition-1-3913725#axzz3oLT4Dlw1
Categories:
redevelopment, community, home, house, life,
Form: Rhyme
CULLERCOATS* DREAM REVISITED
Lifeboat bright on its modern track
Like shining star in the early dawn
Confronts the eroded view of the wreck -
Once was whole, now all gone
Pristine cliffs and innocent cottage face,
The welcoming harbour arms of yesterday :
Thru an unrecognizable shell of a place
Roads have raped their ruinous way.
There’s no recapturing past with dignity.
Real or unreal, to half-forget, half-recall -
Leave the ducks unspoiled in memory
In a dream lifeboat ‘gainst the squall.
Note : * Cullercoats is a small fishing village on the seacoast of England, much spoiled
from modern redevelopment.
Categories:
redevelopment, dream, dream,
Form: Quatrain