REDUCTION
Permeable
Plethora
Potpourri
bouquet
Nosegay
perfume dry
Praise decay
Blooming lovely
bone dry fumes
Bone China burnt
white parfum
Colour of roses
Iceberg melts away
Reduction
in warm ocean
Heavens rainbow
reduced to tears...
Drops in the Ocean
Rise to nest in bosom clouds
Rain flows down river
Aqua Marine
23rd May 2026.
Job 36:27,28 (Rain cycle described in Bible)
The sky casts dreamworld pallor
Whilst the sun remains obscured, yet steadfast - the one consistent thing
Recognition of time, of place, of moment
The scales lift, vision clears
What opens the road?
amidst cycles of creation and destruction
of peace and disarray
i must remind myself of where i stand
it’s okay to spiral, it’s human
but i need to take a step back before i make any harmful decisions
feeling is temporary
the pain, the anger, the anxiety
they will pass
good will come again
Lips toothy smiles never desert:
For one's main course pays plus dissert
A granted walk by a bush stopped,
A political subject dropped!
Eyes searching for yours, finding them
Eyes proclaiming you a rare gem...
Soon, breathing down a not-warmed neck;
A time,if you're wise,him check.
Ladies should go beyond 'Recoil'
Their hackles rise,their blood boil
"Heh guy!I see that you're trying:
My eyes have yet to start lying!"
The war is against reduction
From submission to seduction.
For Trumpians
our multiculturally celebrated Golden Rule
applies first to Ego
then to immediate white privileged family,
then to wealthier gated community,
then to a more rabblous Republican Party,
then to USA nationalists
European predative culture idolaters
mistaking capital-inspired Manifest Destiny
for sacred DNA theology,
then to fallen Earth,
if there is any gold left over
after all that strained dispassion,
divestment fatigue
stretching out from entitled EgoCenters.
For Green Party contemplatives,
the Democratic Golden Rule
is first celebrated with,
then applied to, planet Earth,
then all Her sacred EarthTribes,
then to humanity, alive,
dead,
and yet to arrive,
then to cooperatively co-invested local community,
then to extended family,
then to nuclear family,
then interdependent Ego,
should there by any radically inclusive Golden Rule energy
left deductive
and right inductive
to regeneratively,
win/win bicamerally, share.
reduction, deduction
less and less intake
more and more output
weight watchers
reach their goal
more or less
February 22, 2020
Shards of glass compressed retention
Made a pass for hope ascension
Honey wall no matter silly
Stumble strong tow tally dilly
Master Stein the corner set
Write a draft and then forget
Once a meaning fleeting fast
Like a heartbeat never lasts
Plastered will neglectful matter
Purposeful reduction chatter
Polymorphous agony
To dialect reducing me
Reduction
This is the process
which seems vital
to our time and culture..
We need the experience
that perceptions are
what we know of
the world just now..
The world becomes
subjective..and we find
it has always been so..
So we reduce
the seeming world
to perceiving as object..
Then..that object to
that in which
and as which it is:
Consciousness...
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