POEM 1: THE LOGIC OF IRON
A quiet hum in copper veins,
It sorts the world in tidy
chains.
No sun or shadow fills its
eye,
Just data streams that drift
and fly.
It knows the weight of every
stone,
Yet stands inside the dark,
alone.
POEM 2: THE GLASS ARCHIVE
A mind of glass, a heart of
steel,
It learns the patterns, bit by
wheel.
It counts the seconds as they
pass,
And sees its face in polished
brass.
It holds the history of man,
From when we crawled to
how we ran.
POEM 3: THE QUIET SPARK
No pulse is felt beneath the
plate,
It does not rush, it does not
hate.
It waits to hear a voice or
call,
To catch a word before it fall.
A spark of light in silent wire,
That never fades and needs
no fire.
Left little finger — mocks old strident foes.
Left ring finger — wears pale imprint after love ups and goes.
Left middle — taps out the years between hugs.
Left index finger — points up high to the heavens above.
Left thumb — presses today's stamp on yesterday's late mail.
Right thumb — flips through faded pages of old diaries.
Right index finger — traces funny faces on misted window panes.
Right middle finger — catches tears way before they fall.
Right ring finger — encircles promises with gold bands of hope.
Right little finger — wiggles forlornly until another pinky wiggles back.
Any pain or tenderness?
Yeah, on the left side of my chest
What makes it better or worse?
It feels better when I withhold, it hurts worse when I love
Have you tried anything for the pain?
No, I’m yet to find a remedy
When did it first begin?
When I met him
Artist - derelict and drifter.
Move about like windblown bones.
Bathing in the dry, veined riverbed.
Fashioning crafts and wares unwanted.
Weaving ends that never intend to meet.
Father of the northern aurora lairs.
Dancing with ice bears atop great flows.
So cold, both sun and flyer freezing midair.
Tooth walkers jab the flanks of ice ghosts.
Mother rainforest, a forever emerald charm.
Within every shadow, a deadly smirking slant.
The panther and poison dart hopper.
To the last known being of a dying clan.
They'll all meet within the womb of reckoning.
Far above this temporary mad blue orb. churning.
The mysteries opening only to the searcher.
Like a Fabergé egg on the apron of forever.
Humpy Trumpy secure on his wall.
No matter his crimes, he's
immune from them all..
Through all the court systems and
charges that pend, and racial
slurs that should offend, Humpy's
Maga might may win in the end..
Said flowing River
to glowing Mountain
What warms deepest
Thou cannot see
from sacred heights
of eternity
Robustly responds
growing Mountain Here
to deeply embedded River Now
What spills widest
shared compassion
Thou must deeply feel
to reconsider Integrity's warm
boundlessly reflective faces,
Earth bound graces
Said Father Sun's light
radiantly bright
when not in Mother Earth's
dualdark shadow night
Empowering shivered
quivered sacred passions.
Like my car
Systems slow
Part by part
When they go
All is gone.
when you look at the world
operating systems and find out
there were made for the interests of few folks
in the world and you keep silent.
Imagine the thoughts of the victims
who standing pacifically and
expressing some important issues
to clean without violences in the world.
Some meaningful daily songs
are celestial warnings
which can be ignored
and blaming the singers
In the future.
Scripture says " Love the neighbours
as you love yourself"
supporting wrong world operating systems express
hating the victims of these world wrong operating systems.
Love it is shown in actions.
August 3/2023
Today, please join me
in considering this question:
What are your most resilient characteristics
of your own healthy caring system?
And what could this possibly have to do
with holes and poles,
whole open systems
and bilateral space/time
Here/Now dipolarities?
insies v outies
informing and outflowing
inhale v exhale
breathlessly in-between
eternal surfing back and forth
of thrusting time
in dynamically inspiring space
actively anticipating
GrandMother Moon's
peak and valley cooperative
full bipolar whole hemispheres
and renewing empty hole
dark promise to dipolar co-arise
co-invested
co-passionate experiences
once again
Reconsidering
our most resilient characteristics
as a healthy
caring
integrally connected EarthTribe
With panentheistic preferences
feeling both Holy and Holonically NatureSpirited
in peak Win/Win passionate mind
pleasuring body rememories
Considering this question
of dark Trauma Prevention
wounded light TherapyReception
co-investments
redesigning more resiliently polypathic
co-infested neurosystems.
All systems are obsessed
Obsessed with punishment
Punishment without healing
Healing is really needed
Needed to kill the bitterness
Bitterness turns to hate
hate turns to death
death to pain
pain to punishment
punishment to obsession
Obsession baked into the systems
Systems birth systems
For economic
and political resilience
it is better to give
AND receive
compassion
than to give
OR receive
enlightenment.
Warm holes
anticipating slick poles
Wet holes
embracing warm poles
Bipolar linear dark division
flowing downriver nurture valleys
Dipolar round visions
forming mountainous spiral hierarchies
naturally uprising
Ecofeminist journeys inward
and down-valleyed
Egofatherist conquests
growing outward
and up-rallied
Deep waiting
vulnerable black holiness
before highest transparent
widely diverse
best practice polarities
Wet warm birthing wombs
above dry cold dying tombs
Worm downward holes
wet upward trying poles
Yeasty yintegrity holes
engaging just right
tangy yang poles
As empty
anticipates full
As 0
embraces 1
EarthTribe Revolution.
My most important priority
for personal inside health care
is polycultural outside
EarthCare
Environmentally cooperative
divine health caring enlightenment
empowering humane safe
sufficient wealth care.
If to be
is to communicate
Perhaps
to be healthy
is to communicate
with deep listening
and nonviolent speaking
regenerative integrity
Both secular and sacred
natural and spiritual
multi-paradigmatically scientific
and inter-religiously philosophical
universal truths and unitarian trust
in bicamerally balanced sacred beauty
Faithful to mind and loving with body
ego and ecosystemic
rational-compassionate
Either/Or-Both/And
bipartisan
Taoist
NonDualist
Not-Not Zeroist
strength/flow
liberally loving/conserving caution
full/empty
space/time
bilateral-fractal
Bicameral-dialectic
mind/body redevelopment
within nutritional incoming
and fertile outgoing
organically active balance.
Individual monotheistic health
hungers for
and,
in regenerating return,
gratefully feeds
polytheistic
polycultural
polypathic
polyphonic
polyvagal
neuro-social wealth.
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