Our Hour
...I’ve been reminiscing about the past recently
I’ve been running out of time so fast remarkably
We have been dancing to our hour of fun in the stereo room
We have been having a good time, shaking o...
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Categories:
therapeutically, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
A Waterfront Wish On Mother's Day
...Mom, I embrace the SunShine
Mom, I embrace the Rain
Mom, I alleviate the coarseness of the grind
Mom, I eliminate all pain
Mom, I welcome all rhythms that move me
Mom, I relax the most easily tr...
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Categories:
therapeutically, mothers day, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Grand Mother Eartha's Dream
...My husband and I always enjoy visiting
GrandMother Eartha
on Mother's Day
She often shares
last night's dreams,
which too often follow rather disturbing peak experience themes
Because,
you...
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Categories:
therapeutically, culture, earth day, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
White Beach
...Ocean breeze blows so fresh and pure
While white clouds sail away in departure
Azure sky reveals its majestic mirror of beauty
As choral-remains and shells stud ashore in bounty
Sand ...
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Categories:
therapeutically, nature,
Form: Couplet
Mothertree Integrity
...How might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?
A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and m...
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Categories:
therapeutically, appreciation, earth, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Trauma History
...Could chronic stress,
like sleep deprivation,
noise and light and air pollution
also derive
by avoiding barely still alive
high-risk trauma messes?
Sometimes sadly beginning
prior to economi...
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Categories:
therapeutically, anxiety, culture, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Sinning Saints Once More
...When I was in seminary
my spiritual director advised me to notice,
as had he,
that there are two kinds of:
Clergy
Those who understand their calling
as to coldly forgive
and heatedly chall...
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Categories:
therapeutically, community, culture, earth, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Gods For Power
...If God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate
And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear
Which can overwhelm
personal
and professional
and economi...
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Categories:
therapeutically, courage, earth, god, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Treasuring the Educator
...A former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not
The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.
We ...
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Categories:
therapeutically, education, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Rebuilding Paradise
...Paradise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciat...
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Categories:
therapeutically, earth, eve, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Personal Growth In the Extra Soft Pillow of Her Love
...so wonderful
you swept me off of my feet
my heels are bleeding,
but the weight is lifted
you take my feet between your warm, reassuring hands,
and make them immediately better
you clean them
y...
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Categories:
therapeutically, appreciation, for her, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Misguided Meditations
...I am sorry
about my judgmental,
sadly disdainful,
tone
in earlier messages.
Even worse,
I remain embarrassed
for spreading it out
for key staff
and leaders
to well-positioned see
and hea...
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Categories:
therapeutically, anxiety, appreciation, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Sometimes People Share
...Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
...
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Categories:
therapeutically, abuse, god, health, muse,
Form: Political Verse
History Lessons
...Victims of Straight
White
Patriarchal History
are usually not hopelessly unenlightened
and permanently disabled
Ostracized by Self
and/or Others
from healthy democratic
co-redemption
Ba...
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Categories:
therapeutically, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
How Many Holidays
...How many times have I heard?
The family that prays together
stays together
And, the family that eats together
stays together
I know from personal Holiday
and every day
experience,
neith...
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Categories:
therapeutically, celebration, christmas, corruption, family,
Form: Prose
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