Political River Poems

Here lies what this aged Indigenous River
thinks s/he needs
and wants, perhaps,
but most emphatically feels,
from us.

We continue to use Her
more like a shameful toilet
than her delivery...

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Which is the easiest way to make two
Indian states to fight?
One is to throw power, language, water-
Issues on their face.

So you’ll have got two Dravid...

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I had closed absolute ideas when I was young.
But they changed rapidly, as I changed.
Other people did not appear as flexible.
I am pliable to the...

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It seems unlikely
Left Hemisphere's
Either 100% Positive-On 
Or 0% Negative-Dormant circuitry

Could change
toward polypolarizing
Right Hemisphere's
Both Full
And NonZero Empty
CoPassion
And Silent Soul feelings

Devoid of unilaterally dissonant monoculturalism,
monotheistic judging voices,
depressing...

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You can acknowledge the emptiness at the core of your being
or go crazy when the world goes crazy.
The numbers of us overwhelm, 
an impending tsunami,...

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We dream of rain
In the setting sun 
in the season of one.
A wildest west and a withered crest, 
the coat of arms. 
A falcon and...

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For a Taoist,
rivers and their valleys
are iconic 
ecowomanist yintegrity,

Yet St. Francis feels rivers,
but probably not their embracing valleys,
as Brothers.

As the River running through my backdoor...

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To go on ahead 
without you
is dead,
said strong Yang's spatial
spirited Mountain

To Yintegral flowing
living EarthRiver
of temporally co-arising energy
power
light.

Left hemispheres
speak in mounting deductive thoughts
sequentially supposing Yang opposes...

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There were two
Acting role written as ‘cool’
One from the first state
Other an empire whose façade outside looks great
Table chances inside the beachside resorts
A drive through...

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Sogyal Rinpoche
tells a Doors to Perception story.

Positive and negative feeling individuals
bear witness to a river.

Those more goddess-like
see this river as great
savory
fragrant
nutritious
beautifully resonant
musically harmonic
multiculturally rich,
a transporter...

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Drowning in our incubus sleep,
phantom enemies are devised.
Easy answers for night terrors.
Social purgatory for the stranger,
Our river Styx for the brown ones.

Our fortress must wall...

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There was a lame duck 
Injured looking for a quick buck 
And feeling struck
Thankful for the merciful luck 
After being stalked and plucked  
Taking...

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I heard a new term today,
slow sighed Earth's River,
"spiritual intelligence."

I have become flowingly familiar
with cognitive intelligence,
before that emotional intelligence,
before that contextual intelligence,
similar to climate intelligence
throughout...

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I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be...

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With apologies to Robby Burns and Sweet Afton - in celebration of Spring, and the return of our Bald Eagle family to their Great Falls...

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