Fight the algorithms
that tell us what to do,
to make us predictable,
unoriginal and bankable.
Have you witnessed how
increasingly bland and homogenous
our lives are becoming?
Choose freedom
avoid the diaries of commerce
that riff on the ubiquity of apps
resist the reductive tropes
of our published and circulated,
perspective customer identities.
Fight the algorithms
with their embedded back-lot
familiarity, built around class
and consumerism.
Try to understand the
vague, inscrutable and
purposefully circuitous.
Or stop overthinking
and embrace liberating surrender.
That’s the path I’ve chosen.
.
.
The Gates by Da Vinci's Notebook
Talk Down Dijon
Dogmatic supremacy,
loyalty to divinely-inspired causes
of a nation
or denomination
or religion
or tribe
chosen to be blessed
above all others,
dismissed
and denied full Love Matters
significance,
Is rather like evangelical capitalism,
an anti-ecological colonization,
pushing win/lose
us or them strategies
in which runaway economic competition
is right,
righteous,
sacred duty for evolving monotheistic historic might
of divinely blessed
StraightWhiteMale transcendent
sins of anthrosupremacism
LeftBrain verbal dominant
reduction to either TruePower
or FalseLight
fundamental dualistic deductions
Uninformed
but not unformed
by ecologically inclusive loyalty
empowering poly-theological solidarity
win/win cooperatively enlightening systems,
Perpetually more inclusive
of possible inductive/deductive resolutions
embracing more than reductive traumatic dissonance,
enlightening deeper intuitive compassion
for narrating WholeEarth mediating
ecowomanist GoldenRule conclusions.
Ecological healthy loyalty
serving
empowering
enlightening theological wealthy solidarity
of all nature/spirit polypathic EarthTribes.
Reductive and straight face.
Rage makes things even worse.
Revolting memories.
Recalled in a snide way.
Ruin a healthy bond.
Rough stark uses harsh taunt.
Razed venom of racism.
Written April 16, 2021
Pleiades R Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman
Ecological relationship
forms theological minds
and ego-rational hearts,
both omnipresently transcendent
and intimately political;
Both inhale enlightening
and exhale empowering
Earth justice
from interdependent EarthTribe peace
toward cooperatively invested freedoms
for compassion
both right hemisphere inclusive feelings
and left hemisphere deductive thoughts,
reductive-inductive dialogue;
Both ecosystemic Beauty
and ego-recentering Truths;
Multiculturally co-passionate,
non-violently communal,
restoring theological peace
as ecologically balanced justice
Where life becomes peaceful medication
love is freedom's EarthSoul meditation.
When I allow myself
to become an understoried note,
I hear our symphony co-relationally composed of
rhythms
patterns
pauses
silence
cacophony
measures
color
tone
tunes harmonic,
dissonant,
diminished,
subconcious sub-objective underlying creation stories
recreationally sung together
better than just loudly marching apart,
This bilateral muse awareness
releases me from fundamentalistic win/lose salvation stories
and allows this ego-moment to live freely,
yet securely interdependent,
co-passionately win/win present.
When I ego live
connected within co-present eco-source,
I hear no impossible disconnect,
no hard-line severance between nature-left
and spirit-right,
no bipolar either/or deductive
reductive conclusion;
There is, instead,
only both/and boundless win/win integral possibility
and endless round
timeless ego/eco-rational
interdependent truths.
You ask me what powers I want
that I'm not sure you have.
I ask you what we want
that could never be our power to give.
At first I thought of health
and not just unwise stagnant wealth,
But deeper still
I long for clear and true integrity
for me
for you
for us
whether together
or disinterred apart.
It's not my obscure dull worry,
as you might later restory,
this issue history
and physical mystery
that all life falls apart
like energy
when closed
and just in parts,
left hemisphere reductive.
And wider still
we belong within resilience,
not fragility
Where fragments suffer cynics
afraid to sacredly remember
we were once all of one part,
matriarchal ability;
It's my start,
resilient integrity,
not fragile mendacity,
my health discerning path
to polypathic wealth
with less pathology
not yours to give,
but ours to learn
Together,
or disinterred apart.
Ecological interdependent systems,
networks non-personified co-relational
non-sectarian
non-reductive
therefore holistic
holy
whole-theistic
trans-theistic
pan-theistic;
EcoTheistic networks
for active cooperation,
if you radically
and democratically
prefer creolization
over OldSchool colonization,
Business As Competitively Usual,
NonSectarian missions with more effective
and historically
and culturally valid cooperative outcomes
than patriarchal missionaries
of verbal dogma over-powering trans-sectarian opportunities,
healthy seeing and hearing integrity experience,
wealthy synergetic hope
Emerged from warm wet wombed
Zero ZenZones of nutritional co-passion
Speaking systemically
of health theo-logical
teleological meaning
ethological purposeful pasts
through transportive futures.
Agnostics mistrust theistic trust,
but mistrust is not actively committed
to distrust powerful muses
and memes.
Cynics mistrust anger and fear management,
but passive cynicism is not actively committed
to anger- and fear-mongering mismanagement
nor capable of leading us
toward everyday radical compassion.
As absence finds us silently saying goodbye
to everyone,
farewell to every place and memory I cherish
And absent any voluntary theological plans
in conscious development
to leave us with your absence
of both mind and body,
Pay close attention,
fully invest in,
what feels salutary,
salvific,
benign beauty,
peaceful healing
While calmly noting
what feels involuntary
and threatening,
unfair loss.
And, where you may hear
and see
and feel
All of holonic integrity above
Winning anything
but decomposing Loser usual
When absence of co-passion
finds us quietly saying goodbye
to every reductive relationship,
Farewell to each degenerative place
theology could never cherish.
Internal climates
reflecting external ages,
Ecological era of trees
engaging theological forest sages.
My unconscious Left
distrusts shadow Right.
And my reductive subconscious Left
mistrusts Win v Lose
Light v Dark
Ego v Eco shadow sacred Right
And fully conscious Left
polypathically trusts WinWin
Ego/Eco bilateral balance
ego Left with eco Right,
Positive as at least notnot Negative Energy
politically empowering Trust.
When Left plans high priority
policy practice procedural learning events
with Right mistrusting subconscious anxiety,
cognitive Left v Right
as Ego v Eco
as Yang v Yin not caring
daring to notice
each revolutionary bilateral Other,
then it could be therapeutic
to bring WiseElder EarthMother
holonic EcoSpirit
subshadow yin
cooperatively WinWin along
my evolutionary Yang planning highway
of yin's revolution
practicing healthy democratic trust
generating more resilient systems.
Not so much investing hundreds of millions
of taxpayer money
on corrupt undercover
absence of health care giving
and receiving nonsystems
still wearing mission statements like
"Always and only invested
in the child's best interests."
If health is just an unprivileged noun
and healthy is her adjective,
what is dynamic healthing,
the man-verb?
Some think healing LeftBrain Yang,
others feel therapeutic RightBrain SacredYin
matriarchal mostly.
But we all can bicamerally find active healthing
in secular/sacred Integrating,
cooperative creolization,
deductive/inductive transubstantiation.
Or do you find ego-healing
in secular dominant segregating
deductive
reductive
Either/Or
dualistic thinking about health
with no sacred hope of truly beautiful wealth
through one mere mortal lifetime?
Integration's noun is Integrity
which is as sacred,
or merely LeftBrain dominant secular,
as organic bilateral life ourselves
lived fully Golden Ruled
for our CoMessianic selves
and our originally disintegrated
Bodhisattva ego-health/eco-wealth
yang/yin holistic
ZeroZone zen
sum
Integrity's health-wealth intent
toward each Moment's
PrimeRelational potential
for polyphonic-polypathic-polynomial
synergy.
I know something about being a GLBT Ginger,
the undress and redress of our left leaning politics,
like sacred naked communion
for Therapeutic Warriors.
At my best,
when adolescence urged HisHer ugly ambiguous head
through pubescent tail,
I wondered if other fire redheads
and sun speckled skins
felt this co-passioned love,
desire beyond procreative need
to touch,
embrace,
to smell,
to taste,
but not to own.
How could I have known
difference between my Ginger sensuality
and gay male nervous sexuality
without more comparative communion?
Although,
in hindsight,
perhaps not quite so much commingling
of sacred elements
I invested with integrity
for sorting out these red
and blue-black,
purplish and heated
ultra-violet distinctions
of warm wet rainbow Gay ecopolitics,
with Ginger red-yin differences,
influences,
tinctures seductive and reductive,
distinctions inductive and deductive;
Integrity of wild red unrest.
From Rob Brezsny, except my own bracketed commentary, Pronoia, p. 274:
I say that the Creator includes death as an essential part of evolution's master plan.
Lifetime after lifetime,
our immortal[ly shared DNA/RNA solidarity] souls take on a series of temporary forms
as we help unfold,
in our own small ways,
the inconceivably complex plot
of the divine [regenerating positively deviant v. negatively deviant] drama.
Each time we die,
it's hard and sad to our time-bound [tragically doomed reductive] egos.
But from the perspective of the part of us that has always been
and will always be [We],
it's simply part of the epic adventure
[divine pronoia comedy].
The abolition of [either self or other-selves] suffering
is a worthy goal [of positive bothMe-andWe deviance].
Goodbye, Phil
Why die, Phil?
Now we all cry, Phil
Your greatness, Phil, in not tainted
Most could recognize
Your paintings, prize
But who could see behind those eyes?
Writers’ group did
When you put pen to paper you took off the lid
For your soul I will bid
To send you to heaven I vote
As long as there’s enough black paint
I hope
And endless canvasses
And to criticism just say “nope”
Unless it’s constructive
And not reductive
You deserve the best
Kind and gentle to the rest
No favorites did you have
Yet with you gone our hearts need a salve
Your light permeated my life
I just pray you are now free from all your strife
You are special, Phill
One hundred percent you, Phil
No one can replace you, Phil
I love you too, Phil
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