Emerson ,a 'literary lion ' of his era 1803 -1882, (& of Unitarian sect) in this abab quatrain 'Sacrifice' alludes to Christ's redeeming free gift to confessing sinners ,(those true believers )who then accept
Ralph Waldo Emerson
a minister unitarian
When filled with consuming doubt
prosody poured forth..without
Which comes first?
asked Justice Sage
of Peaceful Muse
Divinely inspired Peace
or Humanely expired Passion?
For amusing organic bodies
inspiring sage minds
perspiring pronoia purposes
While DivineSage minds
worship HumaneMuse bodies
anticipating deep sacred meanings
Unveil organic unitarian Muse
purposes flowing toward
prevailing universal sacred Sage
meaningful peace forms
Pronoia Gaia's hypothetical paradox
Gnostic God's metaphysical orthodox
How could SageMind remember anticipating
organically resilient purpose
without MuseBody religiously conjoining
sacredly resonant meaning?
Why would democratically organic bodies
reproduce belonging
autocratically irreligious minds
seduce longing
For sacred AnthroSage inspiring Peace
love songs refueling
Organic EarthMuse perspiring Passion
justice dances restoring
Which sacred longing first
comes organic belonging last?
asked peace perspiring MuseBody
inspiring SageMind passions.
When he speaks
transparently
he feels co-passionate
as long as s/he appears
to vulnerably listen
Without Me v We risks
of retributive judgment,
body shaming
and mind blaming,
when he aims
to restore healthy cultures
and wealthy climates of peace
through win/win reassessment
Which may be why
music feels safer to sing
resonantly
when compassionate audiences dance
engaging pleasure's peak resilience
Co-empathic brilliance
of CommonSensed communion rituals
Wealth-enlightened minds
empowering health-embodied love stories
NaturalRoot/SpiritualCrown
wisdom recirculations
as old as
universal salvation
Anthro-passion cultures
unfolding/refolding
unitarian co-redemptive
Earth-pleasured body climates,
wealthy mindful singing
performance Now
within healthy bodies dancing
co-engagement Here
Receiving in
light's notations
while thrusting out
power's most sacred
invocations.
Mistaking side by side pluralism
for more resonant
co-infested polyculturalism
Is like mistaking chaotic divisions
for resilient organic complexity,
integral multiplicity
Like only perceiving competitive dissonance
and degenerative
confusion
while missing inside resonant light
regenerating
cooperative mind/body
health/wealth consciousness
Free from win/lose
lack-of-capital-driven anxiety,
Free toward win/win
co-invested anticipation
Dipolar co-arising hope
Left/Right
UpMight/DownTight
root-budding Yang/Yintegral
bilateral balance
Resonantly resilient Way
as a round wombed ch'i
polypathic pole
Holonic joy
of sacred unscared
unscorched Earth
Tribes timeless
unboundaried
win/win paradise,
co-invested bipartisan peace
Warm wombed
multicultural embrace
restoring grace
in some nonviolent inclusive
ecofeminist wombed
fertile green sung
blues danced
LeftHere-RightNow
resonantly resilient
amusing
sacred communion place
Body space
in timeless peaks
of co-infested Yang/Yin
space/time bilateral balancing Way,
EarthTribe universal/unitarian.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST WOMAN
Sometimes you see your spouse
of many years as if for the very first time!
Yesterday I realized that there is a “look”
in my community and in my home too
For those among us with unlimited funds
that look is fostered by Eileen Fisher,
but in the case of my wife by J.Jill
(Do we look like money to you?)
White blouse, black slacks or blue jeans,
gray sweater, a colorful scarf, ballet flats
and for my wife specifically, a little lipstick
and nothing else needed
Thank God (if you must) the gray hair,
the beauty and the kindness are free!
From the Book of Integral Democratic Change
Straight White ego-patriarchal
colonizing
predative
mountainously universal
SunFather Poles
And unstraight
unwhite
uncapitalized
unmeaningful
secularized
shaded
merely ecofeminist
Yin-valleyed
EarthMother Unitarian Holes
Have become
Patriarchal
LeftBrain dominant
Either/Or Win/Lose risks
And yet also
Matriarchal
RightEarthMind prominent
Both/And Win/Win
warm wombed wet opportunities
Depolarizing bodhisattvas
respectfully
warmly
unconditionally
appreciating Holonic
Open-Systemic
EcoPolitical Integrity
Natural/Spiritual resilience,
body/mind resonance,
secular/sacred co-empathic
win/win Left/Right
Top/Bottom
EarthHealthy organic natural 1 poles
fill wealthy holonic
spiritual not not-0
root co-empathic chakra
for ego-wealth
of eco-health,
Win/Win resilient potential.
Orthodox answers
Paradox questions
Peak Experiential Doxology
ParaDoxological
Taoist ParaDoxEcology
WuWei Win/Win Thrival
Universal-Unitarian
Yang-Yin Communion
Indigenous Paradox
communicating sacred experience
beyond LeftBrain EitHer/OrThoDox
1/0 co-empathic binary
pole/hole double-bind
full/empty NonZero CommUnification
BlackWhole Systemic
Indigenous Ecology
CoPassionate Biology
CoInvested Economy
CoOperative Psychology
BiCameral Win/Win Neurology
BiPartisan Paradox Theology
Trauma Prevention answers
Therapeutic BiLateral questions
as night
responds to light;
poverty
to power,
valleys
to mountains,
bottoms
to tops,
creolizing holons
to colonizing
polarizing pile ons.
Sing standing atop this rolling blue ball
little that we ever hear stays the same.
Spirits of life sound in the wind for all
there is no one else to ignite this flame.
Earth connects with each single living thing
deep within dwells the soylent shaft to strive.
So this truth can universally ring,
sing its song out loudly and feel alive.
Sense our world's center core, pent-up, stone heat;
when will it irrupt, we cannot be sure -
piercing through the crust down below our feet.
By our letting go, we shall all endure.
Learn the turnings of spirit globally
be the balance to be forever free.
108 words 14 lines Sonnet 2/7/23
Tribute to "Spirit of Life", Unitarian hymn.
References made to Buddhist principles of
"oneness", "letting go" and "impermanence"
in the text. Mention of the phrase "Soylent
Shaft" refers to the 1973 movie Soylent Green.
Illustration in colored pencil by G. Gaul
A more prolific key
to preventing a sinful monoculture of crime
is recreating a sincere inclusive climate
for trauma prevention
Just as a more robust tool
for healing narcissistic egocentrism
is curiosity to understand
catastrophic anthro-supremacism
Just as a more effective resource
for ending investment
in militaristic nationalism
is to promulgate polycultural panentheism,
robust solidarity extending family residents,
soul cousins of macro-organic soil,
our ecologically economic
global EarthTribe home
Just as fixing religious partisan dogmatism
is to experience unitarian integrity,
empowering universal energy democracy,
delightful synergetic strategies
for creolizing inter-religious
cultural diversity
Just as monoculturing weapons
of discommunication
reinvest in polyculturing tools
of trust communionation.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
a minister unitarian
When filled with consuming doubt
prosody poured forth..without
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.
Scientists,
like health focused democrats,
have universally applicable intentions
when designing research questions.
Artists,
unlike capital-endowed elitists,
enthuse over unitarian themes
of balance and beauty
when designing interactive responses.
Egos,
like healthy ecosystems,
polyculturally thrive
where integrity evokes
joyfully compassionate
souls
Scientifically left widely exploring
liberating win/win purposes
for and of
artistic right meaningful
deeply conservational
sacredly integral
feelings.
Universal health
feeds unitarian safety
breeds universal health
A most patriotic way
we can live and breathe
In our diversely languaged nations
cultured continents
of global EarthTribe advocates
for nonpartisan stations
Interdependently loyal
to universal health
safety
and sacred intersectional
inter-religiously green
solidarity
Of universal sacred health
winning Earth's unitarian safety
wealthing universal health.
MindBody notices feelings
EgoMe-EcoWe deign ordain
to listen sacredly inside
And consider speaking up
kindly and calmly outside
about how I feel
+Healthy=InterDependently Wealthy
original earth-tribe design
Is what's left
when you subtract
Lose/Lose mortally diseased,
and/or win/lose uneased,
anxious
stressed in-between
by uncertain climate healthcare
survivalist or thrivalist choice
of health is wealth wellness-voiced conditions.
Heart and lungs feeling
EcoWe intuiting
inviting panentheistic peak sensory experiences
Reminding bicameral mindbody
why MeWe find
deep sacred safety
where we uncover wide polycultural democracy,
compassion,
multicultural
inter-religious gratitude
for EarthDay/Night
Light/Power
Space/Time
SkyYang/RevolvingEarth Yintegrity
OutSide/Inside
Precessive/Repressive [Buckminster Fuller]
Dipolar co-arising
StrongMind/FlowEmBodied
MonoTheistic/PanEntheistic
Universal/Unitarian
1/0 double-binary
co-empathic
Nature/Spirit
nondualistic bilateral
liberally conserving
ego/ecosystemic balancing
bilateral bicameral gifts.
No one loves alone,
sings EarthMother Muse.
No individual person
no isolated incorporation
or musical composition,
No monoculturing society,
No individual nation
or religious denomination,
No Father's WhiteTheistic
Orthodox
ChosenPeople Church
or SinFree Synagogue
or Patriarchal Mosque
or Black Lives Assembly,
No transcendently triumphant Kingdom Hall
lives inside health resonantly
while outside remains entirely wealthy
with runaway dissonant loneliness,
despair
depression
oppression
suppression,
lack of multiculturally systemic impression
Neglecting cognitive opportunity
to grow deep intuitive feelings
of integrity
Loving inside EarthPower
and outside HeavensLight
resiliently
BiPartisan bilaterally
ego/ecosystemic brilliantly
Panentheistic holonic spirited
green democratically
universally co-enlightened Left
co-empowering RightBrain wealthier expressions
of Earth's polypathic
polyvagal
polyculturing
unitarian Muse
Fusing and fuguing
toward polyphonic songs of synergy
found in healthy incorporated bodies
anticipating curiously communal
wealthy win/win green minds
with red-blooded bicameral hearts.
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