My youngest
of three AfricanAmerican adopted sons
has profound nonwhite
nonstraight
nonverbal cerebral palsy.
Profound
in at least not being privileged
or victimized
by internal LeftBrain dominance,
violent micro-aggressions,
zero-sum competitive thinking
Either positively True and Good
or negatively False and Bad,
laughable
or humorless
Sacred indigenous consciousness
feels more Right-Elder brainstem
bodymind nondualistic synergy
friendly energy
which is my son's political blessing
and his capital secularizing
segregating
colonizing
economic disabled curse.
Youngest son communes
with music
more fluidly co-empathic
than linguistic communications
He touches
and sings
and chants
through echoing shouts
and exclamatory barks,
short nonphonetic phrases,
lip smacking,
and belly laughs.
When he cries,
which is seldom,
he cries silently
No vocal cords
Profound inhaling wet gasps
and exhaling sad sacred shakes.
He laughs unconditionally
from his root chakra
warm unguarded soul
and bicamerally cries
from his buddha
co-empathic eyes.
Functions
to Form
Include economic
and communication Functions
to political ReForm
Are like Relationships
between autonomous Things
Like interactive Verbs
to otherwise isolated Nouns
Round notes
between harmonic lines
Like Waves of ecosystemic interaction
are also Atoms of unchanging egocenters
Like exterior Dynamic
to interior Static
Like Time for becoming
and Space for timeless being.
Cooperative win/win Functions
to sustainable
robust democratic Forms
Like resonant Minds
to resilient Bodies
Spirits
to Nature
Light
to Power
RightBrain Enlightenment
to LeftBrain Empowerment
Interdependent Individuation
to autonomous Identity
Unitarian
to Universal
Synergy
to Positive/Negative Energy
Unclothed Integrity Functions
to contained Ergodic Form
Flowing Systems
to strong static Sets
Yintegral Time
to Yang Place
Sacred Organisms
to secularizing Mechanisms
Becoming Revolution
to Being NonEvolution
My problem with change,
it seldom presents our whole systemic bill,
our full currency required,
including Other ecological costs.
My theological change issues
are in Win/Lose and Lose/Lose
degenerative economic directions
Unraveling cancerous erections
eruptions
extractions
excommunications
extinctions of natural species
and spiritual beauty
and truth objectives
and cooperative subjects
co-invested in political trust,
in health/wealth bicameral development,
Secularizing autonomous ZeroSum
LeftBrain dominance
and not enough sacred polycultural NonZero/One
RightBrain ecosystemic prominence
Of nonviolent
eco-political communication,
relationship,
integrity's therapeutic change
toward interdependent balance
for polyculturally health wealth
Of polypathic
metabolic multimathic experimental thoughts
with imaged feelings
for improving Earth's cooperative health
and co-invested economic safety.
Mental
mortal traumatic anxiety
is a metaphor for physical pain experience
As anticipating personal therapeutic healing
is analogically connected to absence
of win/lose cultural pathology
in a bad air
anxious atmosphere
climate.
Atheism about sacred healing Benefactors
is not so much a theological position
as it is a disconnected memory,
disembodied experience,
dissociatively anthrosupremacist,
non-panentheistic
In a secularizing monocultural climate
often PatriarchalCapitalist nationalistic,
fear and anger-rooted
cognitive/affective chronic dissonance,
dis-ease,
stress,
detachment from Whole Systemic Healthy EarthMother's
traumatic
laborious
nihilistic experience
of autonomously stressed-out
disordered monotheistic
supremacist inhumanity.
My RightHemisphere's enlightening felt choice
for Integrity
empowers my LeftHemisphere's ecological voice
for cooperative worldview Synergy
ReMembering
GreenGoddess gave birth
to EarthChild Left and Right re-connecting
secularizing sacred good news
for polyvagal neuro-sensory health attachments
ReLigioning
interfaith reborn synergy
developing nonviolent integral good news
green interdependent conversations
networking communions
of nonviolent communicators
ReStoring
EarthMother's Win/Win global matriotic
peaceful health
ReConnecting
climate justice wealth
ReGenerating
EastBrain felt enlightening choice
of eco/theo-logical Integrity
empowering WestBody ecological voice
for cooperative worldviews
ReVolving
mature, good, green faith,
sung and danced,
performed and liturgically reformed
to inclusively enable
enlighten
empower
The Tao times
and seasons
and ways
of bicamerally interdependent intelligence.
Good and active healthy thoughts
produce and reflect
left-brain regenerative labels,
Bad and entropic death of feelings
effect and affect
left brain degenerating labels,
In-between
ambiguously left brain
and ambidextrously right brain
not not generate,
still actively ruminating.
Positive enlightened life,
Negative disempowered death,
Not not in-between these Yangs and Yins
all binomial egocenters
and ecosystems
positively regenerate restorative thoughts
and negatively degenerate retributive feelings
Creolizing
Transubstantiating
sacred in-between Paradise
and Hell,
Heaven
and Earth,
compassionate communication
and demonic debating demagogue experience,
healthy ecological thoughts
and punishing felt theological enculturation
sensation
energy
Healthy democratic communion
and pathologically autocratic disunion,
sacred resonance
and secularizing
segregating dissonance.
I agree with sacred teachers
who advocate I best not feel resonantly privileged
while meditating
to take part in something special
like sacred mysteries
of sabbath revolutions.
And yet,
I only half agree.
This secularizing paradigm
would promote democratic accessibility
and convenient evolution of educational systems,
transport and marketing of organic integrity
and win/win compassionate systems
to left-brain dominant calculators
extractors
deducers
labelers
reducers
either/or thinkers
without co-developed sacred feelings.
My other half
remains prime zero-rooted
in EarthMother's primal health/wealth relationship
through non-violent communion,
Peaceful reign of eco-feminist EarthJustice
sacredly felt
and secular thought through
deep EarthTribe nutritional
well-lit
warm
empowering
regenerate bilateral intelligence.
Religion
holy, peaceful
serving, loving, dedicating
harbingers, wishers, speakers, sellers
separating, competing, fighting
narrow, isolated
community
community
selfish, bellicose
hating, disbelieving, thinking
saints, bishops, saviors, pioneers
committing, secularizing, uniting
fraternal, human
Religion
SOUHARDYA GOSWAMI, INDIA
(The poem was written by my son Souhardya Who is 14+ years old. He is inspired by every great poet in POETRYSOUP.)
Forgiveness
Merciful, kindhearted
Absolving, spiritualizing, uplifting
Benevolence, compassion, coldness, malevolence,
Condemning, secularizing, depressing
Cruel, hardhearted,
Blame
© November 15, 2011
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
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