Political Tree Poems

I've noticed our Republic's
RightWing Tree of Life
reacts to root-systemic problems
as if oak strong branches
lifted to majesty worshiping heights
of supremacy
need not be concerned
with watering
and feeding democratic...

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One day, the trees sought a king,
A ruler their hopes would bring,
In the land where trees stood tall,
But in their quest, a cautionary call.

To the...

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I've been warmly remembering
your peak solidarity experience
joyfully shared

When you suggested
in a state-wide wisdom circle
that our cooperative advocacy
might feel more robust
and become more strategically
and resonantly effective
If...

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Gay Rights are not Civil Rights
grabs my Yahoo facetime
fast-paced news rhyme

Civil Rights are not just Gay Rights
on my administrative time
bounces back a Left WhiteHouse reprise
that...

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“Turn the other cheek” – 
I hear you; but I do not
think the Bible passage
intended for us to become
Like Regan, in the Exorcist – 

Turn...

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A nut
is just a nut
till planted
in robust healthy soil

Soulfully watered
nurtured
among sympathetic neighbors
fed by solidarity
in co-invested toil

Not necessarily nuts,
yet from this same root
system of passionate EarthTribe
ruts

Anciently...

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Proclaimed the trunk to His roots:

A demagogue teaches
and preaches
as my head trunk talks down
to my frontline branches

Lesser beings who had best listen
and learn
my stern
and often...

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All coup newspapers
publish daily burn of trees
 nature doesn't read !...

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Faith is the earth in which we take root
Hope is the water with which we are nourished
Peace is the white cloud which gives us rain
Love...

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Sitting under the willow tree
on a hot and gray day 
just passing the evening away 
delicate sounds of thunder 
rumble far far away
watching the winds...

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Mining And fuel companies yearn
For all of our forests to burn
So they can get rich
But there is a glitch:
Climate Change won't wait its turn!...

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I spoke to a tree
last night; while
I sat on my garden 
chair – snug and
warm in the late
summer's air;

we spoke, of course,
of full, green branches
about...

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You continue to play the game and looking for someone to blame
You continue to play the game when everything around you is so lame
The days...

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Relationships
are things that invite my active RightBrain hope
despite all my leftbrain dominant distancing experience

And win/lose 0-Sum absence
of sacred faith
in Loves yet unseen,
unheard
on this deep and...

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People of Britain
Have hearts of oak,
And are wide awake, so
Don’t need to be woke!...

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