Dawnland Testimony
...Honorable Members of the Mainiac Judiciary Committee
I hold gratitude for you, and for the Wabanaki Tribe of indigenous wisdom, on whose land we deeply listen for this opportunity to address this ...
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Categories:
unwealthy, addiction, america, anti bullying,
Form: Political Verse
My Social Science Seminar
...I asked my Sacred Arts and Science professor
why seminars work and play better in feminist circles
than claustrophobic minion lines
of lectured from teacher's desk
above
S/he sings
in rings
...
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Categories:
unwealthy, art, education, green, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Speaking From Felt Experience
...Enjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf
As our bodies adjust
to rocky and pr...
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Categories:
unwealthy, anxiety, community, feelings, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Indigenous Wisdom
...Back in the day,
before right hand
leftbrain dominance
became our mean girl
weaponized thing
Our bilaterally balanced grandmothers,
whether Eastern Taoists
or Western Animists
(and almost c...
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Categories:
unwealthy, happiness, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Before Emmanuel Began
...Before we begin,
I want to introduce
my most hopeful self
Before we begin
life's communication
we know love's energy
Mother and Child
intimacy
sacred mild
intricacy
integrity...
Reso...
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Categories:
unwealthy, christian, christmas, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Empowering Peace
...All my favorite on-line EarthJustice
and Transformation
and Compassion
and Global Peace resources
are scientifically
and inter-religiously sure
we have all the information
and physical resourc...
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Categories:
unwealthy, health, nature, peace, religion,
Form: Political Verse
When We Are Healthy
...If we are not,
is this always the opposite of
when we are?
If we are negative,
is this sometimes appositionally
in creative tension with
when we are becoming more positive?
If we are a not...
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Categories:
unwealthy, culture, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Why Meaning Refines Purpose
...Why did you think then
and
Why do you feel now
You are OK to park here?
drive here?
breathe in here?
stop breathing out here?
love here?
live here?
eat here?
defecate here?
urinate here?...
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Categories:
unwealthy, anxiety, community, culture, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
When Wrong Goes Right
...When bad
unhealthy
unsafe choices
speak in WRONG! voices
delivering shame,
deserving shunning
and irrepressible self-blame,
Reconsider this jump
from bad choices
to "wrong" voices
unable...
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Categories:
unwealthy, culture, god, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Creating Communion
...Communications among organic creations
of sacred EarthMother
are overwhelmingly rooted
in nonverbal
nonviolent communion
Complex evidence of things
within relationships of feeling
and touch,...
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Categories:
unwealthy, community, creation, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Compassion That Reconnects
...HeartChoice,
the Why
of my prayers,
invocations,
anxieties,
deep learning anticipations
Music of Integrity
throughout compassion's timeless
walking wounded prayers
Felt inside Win/Lose ...
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Categories:
unwealthy, education, health, inspirational love,
Form: Political Verse
Traditions of Healthy Change
...The next time you ask me why
we must follow sacred Custom
and must not defy LeftBrain monocultural dominance,
And I respond "Because it is our Academic Tradition"
Ask me
if I refer to ReGenera...
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Categories:
unwealthy, analogy, culture, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
This Passionate Moment
...Red hot and cool Green peace
passions bring us to this sacred
synergetic EarthTime
More dialogue regenerative
when cooperative
so more redundantly competitive
when endless debate degenerativ...
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Categories:
unwealthy, caregiving, culture, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Casting Earth's Redemption
...I need you to sing
the straight white male lead
in Phantom of Our Opera
as a Catch-22 steed.
I don't sing with wit
and I won't dance without it.
If that's a no,
but hard for you to show,
...
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Categories:
unwealthy, fear, health, heartbreak, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Parts and Holes
..."You are a part of me
I do not yet know"
claims interdependent Valarie Kaur
And I wonder,
Is she speaking to me?
Or rhetorically asking any stranger
except me,
already known
because I feel ...
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Categories:
unwealthy, earth, health, integrity, time,
Form: Political Verse
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