OF FAITHFUL FORTIFIED FEET
In the chill
of the night,
pining, piercing pain,
took its toll on the spirit
of my weary pedals:
swollen, aged feet,
seeking Hannibal-like
courage to meet
new sunrise challenges
tomorrow will bring
to a primed soul
still sojourning
struggle:-
Pray tell,
it’ll be God’s will,
that these
worn soles,
will stand
my worn soul,
perpendicular
to the worn
soil of life:
keeping me
in elephant-walking calmness,
in another blessed day, sacredly
still sojourning the struggles of life—
struggles, God streams us overcoming:-
Of course, love has preferences:
I prefer eyes sort of like, yours.
Misty at times,
And at others, deeply dark and
Startlingly invasive – no point
In trying to keep secrets from such
Penetrating eyes. Then there are those
Moments of unsettling absence. I attempt
Vainly to enter your silence, gain needed
Access to mysterious inner parts kept
From me...I try to cross the meridians
Keeping souls necessarily private, where
One meditates and prays in solemnity. My need to
For safe familiarity, juxtaposed with
With strange planets and alien landscapes
Each mortal possesses and senses to
Sacredly guard. Yet I track your disturbing
Aloofness. As a hound on the scent. Into
Whirlpools of privacy where no uninvited
Sojourner has right to venture. No one
Should attempt to know another that entirely,
That consuming. Yes, love has preferences. Like
Your dainty bell ears, and adorable ski nose --
And very large feet~ all for the next poem.
FROM ME TO YOU: APROPOS OF WISDOM, GUIDANCE, AND LEARNING
(A Teacher’s Reflections For And In A Labor Of Love)
Remember, “To not know is bad.”
“To not wish to know is worse:-”
Reading involves more than being able to pronounce words.
You must also know the meaning of each word encountered:-
It’s not about rushing to be first to complete the test.
It’s about taking your time to get the majority of right answers.
Hey, homework is equivalent to body and mind practice
in sports:-
Your mind is the home where you energize to become great
in academic challenges:-
Just because AI “solves” a problem for you, doesn’t mean
it’s solution is correct:-
Remember, AI only does what it is given by NI to do what you
input it to do:-
Remember, praying is not merely quick regurgitating
of remembered words;
Rather, praying is sacredly speaking with God, Saints,
and The Holy Spirit:-
Stop regurgitating, “I’m sorry”! Be in awareness!
“Don't be sorry; be aware.”
Hey, for me, teaching is a labor of love:-
Make learning likewise, for you:-
Be in onderful oneness onement:-
Peace and Love:-
Which comes first?
asked Justice Sage
of Peaceful Muse
Divinely inspired Peace
or Humanely expired Passion?
For amusing organic bodies
inspiring sage minds
perspiring pronoia purposes
While DivineSage minds
worship HumaneMuse bodies
anticipating deep sacred meanings
Unveil organic unitarian Muse
purposes flowing toward
prevailing universal sacred Sage
meaningful peace forms
Pronoia Gaia's hypothetical paradox
Gnostic God's metaphysical orthodox
How could SageMind remember anticipating
organically resilient purpose
without MuseBody religiously conjoining
sacredly resonant meaning?
Why would democratically organic bodies
reproduce belonging
autocratically irreligious minds
seduce longing
For sacred AnthroSage inspiring Peace
love songs refueling
Organic EarthMuse perspiring Passion
justice dances restoring
Which sacred longing first
comes organic belonging last?
asked peace perspiring MuseBody
inspiring SageMind passions.
This LeftMind dominant
viral virtue
of practicing RightBody patience
Is a coverup
for feeling deep impatience.
Feeling impatient is not as hopeful
as exploring active curiosity.
Curiosity
about why someone,
including my own anthro-privileged self,
would default to live win/lose
competitively
When our healthiest,
and safest
economically enlightened
and politically empowering experiences
have always grown choices to live
liberally
radically
integrally
EarthTribally
sacredly
neurosystemically
ecologically
more fully win/win,
cooperatively co-invested.
Passionate curiosity might kill the occasional cat;
but probably not more deadly
than dispassionate lack of curiosity.
Besides,
passionate curiosity can also be more fun
than boring impatience
More joyful,
than sad
mad
bad
More curiously glad
even appropriately win/win consenting adult/adult lusty
More sad/glad soulful
preferring mindful disciplines
like healthy therapeutic dances
and well-sung
resiliently brilliant love songs.
Light travels at a constant speed
though bent, attracted and absorbed –
is love so different from its beaming
physical counterpart, dear wave
that truly recalls a soul's worth of gleam
the only ethereal that lingers
within and beyond~sensing even greater
paths of flight yet to be sourced unimaginable
for what is truly remembered of a valued
life
outside the breath of a candle
never extinguished for sacredly
carried
like the sentiment of a stone
at a grave-site
where two often lie
when the one departed....
Look through the hidden cracks and you will find
The university of my mind,
While trapsing through the dreamy dark
Sweet silence left behind.
You will look upon a little living light
Through paved pathways of my minds new night
And sparks will faintly flicker
While wading past life's slight in sight.
My thorough thoughts then quickly overcome
And simply settle with a quiet hum.
You will eventually enter and seed the drill
Which my melting mind has created and become
And then like lucid lightning and thunderous skies
The looming creative conception lies
Beneath the splendid surface
Begins its outward inventive cries.
You will then see the eager exercise begin
Where pen verses paper, and paper wins
Scribbled words of mind eye laid out
That sacredly speak of truths and sin.
And wonderous words on lines in rows
Connect and yet earns ebbs and flows
Wonderous when's, what's why's and where
My mind like seeds in garden grows.
CNK
Like RightBrain felt
faith
without LeftBrain thoughtful
works
Passionate prayer
without compassionate actions
is dead on non-arrival
Monotheistic rhetorical events
however sacredly felt
without polycultural global planning
for healing EarthTribe unrest
is like praying for gunfire to end
while hunting for your automated violence permit
during Brown Immigrant Abortion Season.
Don't want to be reductionist
obeying only secularized rules
Would prefer to grow more
sacred inductionist
rediscovering golden win/win tools
For imagining
and re-membering
why win/win ancient relationships,
like space and time,
humane and divine
here and there
circle and square
pole and hole
purpose and goal
Feel more sacred
than win/lose dueling competitions
seem routinely dissonant
Despite StraightWhite Paternalistically Capitalist
secular indoctrination
disrespecting ecofeminist experiences
of resonantly resilient
compassionate relationship
elationships
Guiding sacred inductive curiosity
to restore eternal health and safety
sacred communions
within each reiterative communication
string through holonic communities
of resonantly cooperative freedoms
uniting wealth resilient experience
Lavishly conserving
future regenerators' trauma-healing
romantic re-memories
sacredly dramatic
peak and peaceful co-elationships
Replacing immigration threats
by Other cold colonizers
Restoring shared emigrant memories
warmer strengths
with cooperative
co-invested
mutually infested
creolizers.
Crystal
Holy;
Righteously
Iconic;
Sacredly
Temperate;
Magnificently
Adorable;
Sacrificial
Godhead…
Illuminates
Fraternal
Testament...
13 December 2022
Christmas Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Bobby May
13 December 2022
Christmas Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Bobby May
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 system
of upstream pure
and nutritious drinking water
would suggest she had coming
from former deep green estuaries
Root flow systems
sacredly emerging functions
from deep EarthMother's darkest
primal wu-wei
winter womb,
dipolar co-arising
health is wealth compunction,
conservation.
Ancient indigenous wisdom
suggests we would be healthier
if we didn't dump on MamaEarth,
from whom we safely drink,
should we hope to keep hunger
and thirst at bay
with and for future regenerations
Pursuing our healthiest dipolar nature-spirit
co-arising win/win wealth
of ecopolitically enlightened nutrition
And empowering fertile poop repurposing
for cultivating improved soil health trends
Ego- and Eco-systemic
permaculturing design,
cooperative planning,
nonviolent implementation priorities
for local community co-invested resilience.
Chakra midst the forehead; way to spiritual empire;
Symbol of complete consciousness and ethical umpire;
Disposition of enlightenment; corporeal world;
Integral unity; angelic wisdom within furled...!
Myths speak of Lord Shiva comprehending through his third eye;
He could annul ignorance; see yonder limits of sky;
The mystical clairvoyance is on; inner sight glazes;
Purple splendor like Amethyst; wisdom within blazes...!
Single-mindedness, precision, inspiration, insight,
Unblinking third eye is continually glowing light;
Perceiving the world sacredly; connecting to cosmos;
Within ever-shining divinity it does engross...!
Abolishing dubiety, vagueness and skepticism,
Uprooting adverse weeds of purposelessness and pessimism;
Gives coherence, assiduousness, spontaneity,
Leads to endless bliss; merging with eternal deity...!
05 July 2022
Scientists,
like health focused democrats,
have universally applicable intentions
when designing research questions.
Artists,
unlike capital-endowed elitists,
enthuse over unitarian themes
of balance and beauty
when designing interactive responses.
Egos,
like healthy ecosystems,
polyculturally thrive
where integrity evokes
joyfully compassionate
souls
Scientifically left widely exploring
liberating win/win purposes
for and of
artistic right meaningful
deeply conservational
sacredly integral
feelings.
MindBody notices feelings
EgoMe-EcoWe deign ordain
to listen sacredly inside
And consider speaking up
kindly and calmly outside
about how I feel
+Healthy=InterDependently Wealthy
original earth-tribe design
Is what's left
when you subtract
Lose/Lose mortally diseased,
and/or win/lose uneased,
anxious
stressed in-between
by uncertain climate healthcare
survivalist or thrivalist choice
of health is wealth wellness-voiced conditions.
Heart and lungs feeling
EcoWe intuiting
inviting panentheistic peak sensory experiences
Reminding bicameral mindbody
why MeWe find
deep sacred safety
where we uncover wide polycultural democracy,
compassion,
multicultural
inter-religious gratitude
for EarthDay/Night
Light/Power
Space/Time
SkyYang/RevolvingEarth Yintegrity
OutSide/Inside
Precessive/Repressive [Buckminster Fuller]
Dipolar co-arising
StrongMind/FlowEmBodied
MonoTheistic/PanEntheistic
Universal/Unitarian
1/0 double-binary
co-empathic
Nature/Spirit
nondualistic bilateral
liberally conserving
ego/ecosystemic balancing
bilateral bicameral gifts.
EarthMother sacred psalms
invoke reconstructive words
and loving deeds
With Her Sun of universal peace
and unitarian justice
for all living
forgiving CoCreation,
and not Just Us
Who are anything but Other
co-evolving meaning
within one truly sacred HolySpirit,
from biophilic womb
through necrophilic tomb
back to womb
sacredly again repurposing
secular mind embodied
static states of short-term health
relonging for ecstatic stirring
long-term wealth
Wherein even straight White male bodies
systemically appreciate more sustainable peaks
of win/win experience
unflat
unstraight
unwhite
unmale
empowering RightBrain wealthy
enlightening minds
Capable of meaningful passion
for purposeful
and cost-effective
religious passion
invoking sacred exhaled words
Inhaling intelligence
unstraight
unwhite
ecowomanist
warm wombing ways
Restoring Earth's natural justice
through nonviolently peaking communication
Invoking sacred speak experience memories
communing green
and blue
and even nonreactive red
Peace
Mind embodied purposeful
mental/spiritual
biophilic passions
conjoining healthcare
natural spirited
soulful timeless fashions.
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