Sacred Promise
...That first black and white
grainy
strangely fluid
floating
flat screen view
of the early developing individual
inside EarthMother's womb
Reminds me
of that first
full-spectrum green and bl...
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Categories:
syncretic, earth, happiness, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
For Walt Whitman
...See in my poem
the most common link
simple elan
that is not difficult
understand...
Feel in my thought
how relative to deny
or claim ...
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Categories:
syncretic, allegory, appreciation, creation, extended
Form: Free verse
Silk Road
...Silk Road
S Syncretic in nature Mohamed ties silken faith
I Into punk rock's impetus and shouts from the mountain
L Leaves opulence behind and ...
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Categories:
syncretic, hello,
Form: Acrostic
Ancient Economic Empowerment
...Economic science talks about wealth and money
but ancient green ecology peace warriors
walked toward cooperative health and species nutrition
rather than poverty
lack of sufficient mutual invest...
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Categories:
syncretic, community, deep, food, health,
Form: Political Verse
Seen But Not Heard
...I remain stuck
and struck
by children to be seen behaving
but preferably not heard
regardless of behavior,
But especially not heard criticizing their WiseElders
or, probably worse, mimicking ...
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Categories:
syncretic, caregiving, childhood, earth, education,
Form: Political Verse
Sacramental Dialogue
...Let's do a bit of sacramental gaming.
Oh no, Dear!
That smells and sounds coldly inappropriate.
What would your great-grandmother say?
OK, well...
how about a mutually refining discussion
a...
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Categories:
syncretic, community, culture, health, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Cloud of Knowing
...I believe it was Buckminster Fuller
who first posited
a prime appositional,
like Yang and Yin,
but his was:
Energy is to physical nature
as Information is to metaphysically languaged systems.
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Categories:
syncretic, health, humor, language, leadership,
Form: Political Verse
Catchers and Pitchers
...Catch and store my energy,
said Yang-Sun to Earth-Yin.
Digest and absorb nutritional information,
said Earth
to Virgin Eve
to Fertile Adam.
Volcanize and subduct Earth's embryonic Commons
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Categories:
syncretic, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Watching Isms
...There is a world of difference
between schism and jism,
but they both end up the same.
Just as patriarchal Roman Catholicism
overpowers living and breathing Christianity,
so too does Capitalis...
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Categories:
syncretic, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Sacred Ecology of Game Theory
...The healthiest and wealthiest ecological objective
of designing and playing life
is to optimize potential for continuing reiterative plays and transactions
as long as possible.
Win-Lose
Either...
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Categories:
syncretic, beauty, creation, games, garden,
Form: Political Verse
Permacultural Trust
...The organic building of a coordinated artist
begins with reconstructing competitively clumsy LeftBrain technicians.
Whether learning to play the piano
or learning to communicate in some new lang...
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Categories:
syncretic, art, birth, bullying, earth
Form: Political Verse
Patriotism As Anti-Otherism
...Paul Tillich wrote
"nationalism hates and must always hate Judaism and prophetic Christianity."
When he spoke of nationalistic patriotism
he was thinking of fascism,
as the logical conclusion
...
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Categories:
syncretic, earth, health, history, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Whole Earth Patriotism
...What is patriotism?
Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health caring integrity?
What is nationalism?
Usually positive values about monocultural
mon...
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Categories:
syncretic, beauty, culture, growth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Noneastern Family Politics
...I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find...
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Categories:
syncretic, culture, health, power, ,
Form: Political Verse
Thought Experiments
...It is interesting to consider a national economy,
and a personal economy,
as iconic of our ionic political empowerment,
and competitively anti-ionic disempowerment;
so economic marginalization
b...
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Categories:
syncretic, health, native american, political,
Form: Political Verse
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