a mother births,
but she is a mother long before the labor
a promise to care for,
to love and to hold,
for better or for worse.
a mother protects.
a mother heals.
built-in powers granted by the gods.
a mother is a promise,
signed, sealed, and forged at conception.
The haunting question is..
how do you betray the one you love?
whom you wombed,
you promised to be here
yet I am motherless,
without love or comfort.
you promised me life,
yet granted me every way to die.
you promised me warmth,
but gave me a heart so cold.
our tie is astray,
our souls linked, yet welded with ice.
how I long for the promise you kept.
how I long to be your little girl again.
promise makers are forgivers too.
I will keep my vow to honor you.
I will forgive your deranged words,
only if you can uphold your bargain:
to be my giver.
to be my mother.
Cardiac cadence
of mama tides
keep zodiac time
tears like tides
taste of brine on baptized lips
sway me sea
in cradle-swells
between the crests
coddle me
in a pink-wombed
conch shell
for I like driftwood
have died yet survived the storm.
The mind hangs in silence,
All is stilled, thoughts lingering
Lazily, as if in cosmic animation;
No words drip from the faucet that once
Streamed waters of creation, and now is
Only empty air passing over an idle lexis;
How deceiving is the thought, idle mind:-
A dormant volcano creates its explosive flow
Does not the idle mind quietly stream likewise?!
There’s no creation that’s void of time;
God himself used time to speak in creation!
Thus, is not time herself, the plunger of idleness?!
Butterflies are timed in cocooned metamorphosis; babes in wombs;
And likewise, black holes are wombed in the depths of time’s space;
Yes, in all creations, time’s time is an instant of its own self eternity:-
Thus, we poets of the cistern of divine wisdom and guidance,
Must ever be aware that the sacred poem is a creature of time;
Germinating in the womb of mind, and premature birth is also timed.
Yes, while time itself–for anything–does not wait,
We mere mortals must wait on the timing of time,
For it is in its own time that the poem is delivered!
In Pacifica
I despise that portrait of me.
The likeness ends
with the name.
Yes, Jane Seymour, unbeheaded
Queen of England.
No, not of pinched thin lips
and sharp bird-beak nose.
Those hideous wimples
tented on over plucked foreheads
displaying protruding toad eyes....
I was not the smoldering gypsy beauty
of Anne Boleyn
nor the loud, youthful
excess of everything
Katherine Howard
but look what their beauty cost them:
one head apiece.
I was pretty in my watchful, rich-wombed way.
I carried a King in my devoted belly
and a great love for my cousin-husband,
a fondness for estranged young Mary
and a fervent wish for peace.
I carried the scent of my beloved garden
sweet forsythia
nor the harlot’s stink of
Paris and promiscuity.
I was loathe to undergo
a coronation
I did not want to be Queen
and yet here I am,
the only wife to receive a queen’s funeral
and share a tomb
with the Beheader.
EarthTribe dancing divas
still indulge emphatic circling
meditations
Dogmatically embodying
mindful medications
Producing peaceful pleasures
spiraling passions
against war's relentless anti-paradise
Dancing resiliently within
organic drama
while resonantly without
systemic trauma
Right hand
and foot
open out
in front of
future win/win
mindfully embodied
penetrations
in behind Left past
win/lose shady
mean predations
Right hand gratefully open
virtuous praising circles
inviting LeftBrain
viscous
vicarious healing
vicious marches
in ancient patristic
hierarchical lines
Resolving EarthDivas
now prancing in space-timed spirals
extending boundaries
to soon embrace love's immortal
body-mindful warm regard
Together circling
Earth's silent empowering
dormant winter solstice
starlit witnessing Adventure
Enlightening
dancing Gaia-With-Us
inside win/win
newborn presence Presents
Divinely humane
returning RightHand up
and LeftFoot forward
round wombed joy
Voiced
and love choiced
again
Indigenous divas
dancing EarthMother's
ancient wisdom
passion
light
power.
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.
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.
Complex 1 out/in polarity
for and of
chaotic not 0 holistic
in/out core dipolarity.
We may need to tolerate
survival of the win/lose fittest
1.
And yet want to invite
thrival of the win/win fit-in-ingest
cooperative
co-invested
perfectly balanced 0 soul
Co-arising 1 dipolar relationship
correlating round golden health
with win/win safety rules
for healthy-wombed
pregnant 0
Sentient non-0 souls
verbally dominant yang bodies
knowing 1's own yin-mind
1 knows
0-ego soul
+knows
and can not(-) yet feel
not not tipping points
Dipolar co-arising
co-investing in-between fully resilient
1/0 double-binding win/win
balancing empty entropic
x pole defines y hole
refines 1x
confines 0 not(-) yintegrity
loves fine yang 1(+)
nondual non-dueling integrity
As empty sentient minds
erupt embodied sensory feelings
Past 1 ego positive memories
evoke eco-future not-0
Earth-souled images
Complex bipolar 1's
for space and of time
1 mountainous body
and 0 bilateral valleyed mind
not empty hole
whole round spiraling 0
Looking for some compassionate
action
zone communion systems.
How do you feel
when stepping out?
Of a cold dark house
into this returning first spring
full-sun warm morning
just at fragrant dawn
Embracing your shoulders
neck
face
arms
hands
and your naked
cool green grassed
wet feet
You
squinting appreciation for FatherSun's
sacred enlightenment
promise
multi-regenerations greeting me
again
as He has spawned
co-arising deep gratitude
Resiliently penetrating
since FatherSun
first fertilized
organic MotherEarth's
black and brown-skinned
organic
ecofeminist
health is wombed eco-wealth.
How do you feel
when stepping out
into Earth's last first spring
full-sun morning?
warm
passionately resilient
warning
about summer's relentless
emerging heat.
Community trauma prevention
sounds not so sexy
to absent-minded mayors
and perennial kleptocratic players
And growing a regenerative Learning Community
isn't really ecojust about restoring
healthy democratic justice
for a somewhat sexier
and robust multicultural environment.
Both of these Win/Win Game Theory
trauma-informed learning theory applications
remain paternally erectile
mountainously synergetic
strength functions
of community YangWoke experience
And valleyed ecofeminist
indigenously EcoMatrimonial Wise
for growing integrity's flow
of nonverbal ecstasy
nonviolently yin
peak rebirthing experience
polycultural wealth wombed learning
co-passionate communionation
Sacred root chakra souled
and yet creolizing carnal
as rich
dark
warm
wet
erotically fertile
whole enlightened therapeutic day
and holonic nighttime soil
For cooperatively slow-growing
emergent community trauma prevention
Which may resound
more climate holiday sexy
even to absent-minded elitist mayors
and perennially kleptocratic
hopelessly straight white male
LeftBrain ego-narcissistic
phat but not-so-jolly players.
We whimsically wondered why
wandered victims by
and through our uniquely human history
of sexual trauma
and therapeutic politics
Mythically hinting
hunting
poly-resonant
mono-vulnerable
half full, half empty
gendered pantheology
Spanning spies discovering economic magic
denies political monoculturing tragic
outcomes for godlike monolithic
monotheistic empire-building
Wherein straight white males
disproportionatly championed
a revengeful
and punishing MonoPolistic Judge
polarizing One-1 omnipotent God
While unstraight
unwhite
unmasculine
marginalized
enslaved
and colonized
Would restore Mother Eartha's original
nurturing conservational economy
Nutritional ecosystemic politics
for wellness-natured spirits
Advocating sexual polytheistic immanence
imploring sacred not yet empty
circling recycling interdependence
inspiraling half-full health
pregnant with potential
sacred safety
half-empty zero-0 wombed
regeneratively polytheistic.
We could widely perceive reasons
for healthy win/win spiritual relationships
and deeply feel seasons
developing wealthy cooperative sacraments
growing nutritional food
and natural fuel
and nurturing fertility
Becoming therapeutic fruit
of nonviolent communion
when ego traumatized nature
lets co-passionately go
Of ancient AnthroSupremacist
monotheistic Capitalist
win/lose degenerative
zero-sum games
Condemning all sacred life networks
to ecocidal lose/lose death
Of Golden Ruling Gaia,
blue/green revolutionary
birthing deep round wombed empowerment
fertilized by richly robust
solar-seasoned
polyculturally polypathic
panentheistic health wealth experience
Deep inside peaking
and wide outside valleyed
ego/ecofeminist depolarizing
spiritual-reasoned/natural-seasoned
health-wealthy economic enlightenment,
ecologically nutritional
empowering
co-invested
So MeWe can widely perceive reasons
for healthy win/win relationships
and deeply feel seasons
of wealthy cooperative sacraments
growing polycultural food
and polypathic fuel
and polyvagal fertility
and polyphonic fantasy.
I could know no Self
without an Other
We could have no Child
without an EarthMother
No Ego
without an Earth-bound EcoSystem
I could understand no male
linear formation dominantly prominent
without a co-responding female circling
inflowing/outgrowing concomitance
I could not know severance bipolar
of either/or discursive logic
without feeling round wombed dipolar
environmental both/and nurturing
spiraling positive reiteration
revolving rounds of communication
seasonally developing
ecological peak nurturing communion
I could not form
positive 1
if not for informing/outgoing
co-passionate bipartisan
co-invested bilateral
binomial duo-binary
not negative co-related
half full-out/empty-in 0.
Prologue in BrideVoice
Let Him kiss me
with his patriarchal
predative
straight white monotheistic mouth.
His Yang passion
is more blissful than intoxicating wine;
delicate
elegant
integral in fragrance
of his scent,
His rich capital name
is a regenerating wet
warm oil poured
spasmodically out
and that is why
WoMan loves divine Man.
Lead me in your sacred footsteps,
let us run together.
EmPowering Yang has seduced me
into his unenlightened bedroom;
Sacred Integrity will become our wombed joy
and our climatic gladness.
WoMen shall praise your co-passion
more widely
and deeply than exotic
darkly erotic wine;
How right[brain]
we feel
and fail
to co-passion left
with only Us.
Which sounds healthier
to you?
Advent Serenity
or Christmas Birthing Terror
Separate identity comes from sacred Mother
and embryonic Child
interwoven bio-roots
As awareness of serene light
emerges from safe
and warm
original wombed
dark nutritious night
As regenerative individual delight
of nascent flowers integrity's potential
to evolve from organically disconnecting
birthing
and rebirthing powers
As LeftBrain ego identity
revolves with sacred democratic integrity
of healthy EarthMother
imprinting each indigenously divine
Gaian elder RightMind infant
Trusting EarthTruths
born of Serene Beauty
Like purple Health
co-acclimating red/blue Wealth
Like C centered resilience
emerging from A/E re-membering resonance
Like positive 1
mediating serene
resonantly balanced
NotFull/NotEmpty 0
co-emergent
double-binary compassion.
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