Someone is conservative
Someone is liberal
But
Someone is
Transcendentalist and
Universalist
Is he a conservative, too?
Mid Autumn, Saturday 6.30am
and daybreak is slowly climbing
over the back fence.
Frank O'Hara's poetry is still
echoing in my head from reading
it last night as I cook breakfast
of bacon and eggs.
Later I walk up the street
to the chemist to get
my blood pressure pills
and as I walk, compile arguments
against Postmodernism
and recognise that the notion of
the transcendental
sits at the centre of my beliefs.
I cannot abandon meaning.
Later, I prepare a leg of lamb
for baking along with potatoes,
pumpkin and carrots. Childhood
breaks through as I open
the oven door and a blast
of heat hits my face.
I am persuaded now
by the arguments
of the Universalist or else
there is nothing at all.
After dinner I sit quietly
with my wife. The evening
is coming on and the sound
of crickets filter in through
the front screen door.
I have much to be thankful for
but I feel sad. I am not sure
if it's just the early dark or having
to let go of the last line
of this poem and slip back
into the heavy silence
of myself.
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!
May Unitarian Universalists sustain
active faith
in Both/And integral feelings/thoughts
co-gravitating intentions,
nuanced principles
of UniversalTruth greets UnitarianBeauty.
In these ways,
in this public health emergency
climatic time,
may we join with good faith multiculturing
healthy democratic Others
Less invested in partisan elite-insider knowledge
and also not feeding and watering
non-elite Outsider fear
and anger of sensory-sexual sanity
necessary for building
and retaining a healthy cooperative
wealthy democracy
And may we always listen for a resilient,
inclusive
sustainable multicultural optimizing
green new nature/spirit Indigenous Deal
co-investing divinely-humane balance
For restoring healthy ego-sufficient peace
and eco-justice interdependence
throughout our interfaith
ecopolitical
cooperative
therapeutically uniting spring days
and full moon nights.
Unitarian-Universalist bicameral principles,
like Yin-Yang Tao governance dynamics,
are a supportive context for discovering our own economic-political,
social-psychological,
eco-neurological,
theo-multicultural Truths.
But, ZenZero Taoism is more than poly-analogical.
UnitingYin and UniversalYang prime zero-balancing relationship
is also a non-violent compassionate therapy
for rediscovering individual EgoTruth
within Earth's interdependent living EcoWeb
of all becoming health-wealthy Truths
Of AllSouls
throughout all catholic
positive democratic
egalitarian energetic
co-relational 4D SpaceTime
Born of resonant matriarchal/patriarchal DNA
0/1 double-binary intersectional
fractally binomial
and warm wet polynomial
regeneratively polypathic
fertile health wombed polyphonic
Integrally harmonic
of
and for,
on
and organically within
Earth's health/wealth regeneration.
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