View From a Sanctuary
...He retired to his sanctuary
on the Eastern shore of the Thames River
three years ago,
an often frustrated permaculture organizer
for building cooperative social health
by creatively communicatin...
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Categories:
reforest, age, america, change, health,
Form: Political Verse
Love Is Healthy
..."Give up all hope
for a better [healthier] past."
Bumper Sticker, on way to church
"Give up no gratitude
discovering a better [healthier] future."
Homily at Churching Hope Together
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Categories:
reforest, caregiving, earth, god, green,
Form: Prose Poetry
Integrity Wars
...Integrity warriors
are not allowed to raise our sacred voices
even against defiant children,
and defeated adolescents,
and immature monoculturish adults
Much less could we therapeutically self...
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Categories:
reforest, children, environment, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
Win Don'T Risk Loser Offensives
...Birthing,
feeding and watering Ego-integrity
is our CommonGround,
infant-parental first collusion.
Yet, Ego maturity is
our EarthCentric Promised end.
If Ego is to EarthParadise
as Activ...
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Categories:
reforest, birth, creation, culture, discrimination,
Form: Political Verse
Earth For Sale
...Sponsored by Lowest Bidders
It interests me
that Hiawatha,
like Jesus of Nazareth before him,
and Mahatma Gandhi after,
taught WinWin cooperative peace
by co-investing in ego/ecotherapeutic j...
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Categories:
reforest, america, anti bullying, caregiving,
Form: Political Verse
Regarding Health and Education
...Dear Local Boards of EcoSchool Education,
Departments of Environmentally Protected Walkable Transportation,
Cooperatively Maintaining Public-Private Works
and STEAM Play
and WinWin GreenGames,
H...
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Categories:
reforest, caregiving, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
Humbling Gratitudes
...Monasteries,
both Western and Eastern,
traditionally practice:
The Way of Poverty,
A trusting Truth of Chastity,
And a Life of Obedience
To both spiritual and natural authority,
laws,
rul...
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Categories:
reforest, art, culture, faith, gospel,
Form: Political Verse
Secret Lives of Shame
...We could speak together,
Decry rabid violence of chronically stressed kids
and young adults acting like kids,
apparently regardless of income or race;
perhaps not of enculturation.
Feeling cla...
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Categories:
reforest, abortion, caregiving, earth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Life's Vocation
...If your life's vocation
were to plan,
design,
and co-govern
an extended healthy family
through cooperative ecopolitical incorporation,
what would your cooperative do?
Where does my cooperati...
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Categories:
reforest, culture, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Three Sisters Coop
...The CoOp featured Women and Families
and their Matriarchal Allies,
often LGB and/or T,
and even some curiously queerer,
but not meaner
in appropriate demeanor
regardless of habitat
and camoufl...
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Categories:
reforest, analogy, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Paradise Reforested
...Seeds, like mentors, are germinators.
Generation wears two faces,
as does development,
positive and negative,
regeneration and degeneration.
Some seeds are healthier than others.
Some are pos...
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Categories:
reforest, art, creation, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
A Call To Action
...There may be troubled times ahead
if things do not change.
In as little as 30 years monsoons could stop
this is due to deforestation.
To avoid this happening we need to
reforest vast areas.
It ...
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Categories:
reforest, earth, water,
Form: Narrative
Ole Farmas Call
...Twickenham's green mead is silent now
Carlos like a fallen steeple gathers dust
That will not grow nor heed the plow
Our ancient skill like dead machines rust
From the distant shores that feed us...
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Categories:
reforest, inspirational
Form: Verse