When personal narcissism
and tribal autism
choose our words
as hurting
threatening
weapons of trauma defense
Rather than choosing wealth
of healing tools
for compassion’s therapeutic unfence
We soon find
that no one cares
to impatiently listen
outside our partisan walls
For whatever future win/win kindness
and EarthCare forgiveness
we cannot trust
will last.
Our green campus favorite
MuseSpeech Teacher
always hosted outside seminars
at noon,
Sharp!
And served chocolates
while mentoring
Her systemic theology
“Doesn’t get on well
with academic secularized ecology
we have
and have not
personally experienced.”
This is today’s thesis
and antithesis
for engaging stories
of synergetic peak experiences,
amusing EarthBright passions,
peace-warrior beauty,
scents of sage sensed joy.
S/he mediates lunchtime vocations
inviting us to try again
replacing all our “mono” orthodox theories,
with “poly” orthopraxis
to reconsider
healthy freedoms
shamelessly uncovered
through personal experience.
Trading in monotheistic theories
for polytheistic compassion
Monocultural nationalism
for polycultural globalism
Mono-polistic win/lose contention
for poly-polistic win/win intention.
As our internal clocks
move from ZeroSoul search
to OneSum find,
s/he concisely
and precisely creolizes
resilient bipartisan
transparency
through less transient opportunities
for curiosity
“Thank you for investing this lunchtime
with me
and each sacred Other
to learn to listen
before speaking nighttime’s questions,
wondering and wandering on
and on
about why tumescent monotheistic poles
most always feel so happy
to taste and smell
our officious pantheistic holes.”
Gratitude
for grace already received
is a robust measure of generosity.
Compassion scans for generosity’s fullness
felt within
as incarnated without
As dispassion predicts greed’s anxious emptiness.
Giving is physical and/or verbal
while generosity is mental and nonverbal.
Giving,
like loving,
hoping for a return of grace
within your lifetime’s future,
does not share
or stretch
your gift of generosity.
Giving,
hoping to receive in equal measure,
plus interest,
plus loyalty,
plus admiration for our generosity,
is an investment
which counts the cost
of risking loss
Not necessarily a failure of gratitude,
or love,
for oneself
as for Other,
and also
not an outward compassionate act
of inward
mind-nourishing generosity.
Asked the crowning Trees
of their Grass rooting neighbors
When you feel like singing
while dancing
are you more likely to invoke devotion
to capitalism’s competitions
or compassion’s cooperation?
Responsive chords,
amusing reeds
and whistling thistles
shyly reply
When we feel most wealthy voiced
and healthy choiced
are we more likely to invest
in red soiled cults
of secular supremacy
or green cultures
of sacred communion?
MotherTrees of crowning shade
for their root systemic neighbors
flexed their branching muscles
groaning
moaning through Earth’s wind
and rain,
heat
and pain
Our best way to heal
Othering smothering instincts
is to repair our shared cooperative soil
restoring EarthPeace soul
of co-invested health
Thereby growing out
our shared climate
with compassion’s devoted wealth
Sang the crowning Trees
dancing with Grass rooting neighbors.
Religions,
and other strange passions
exotic
and erotic
and hypnotic,
are at their healthiest natural
and safe wealthiest spiritual
best
Reconnecting compassion
between yesterday’s remembered
conservational enlightenment
and tomorrow’s anticipated
liberating empowerment
restoring EarthPeace healthy wealth.
A peak spiritually experienced Warrior
dances.
A peak nature experiencing Muse
sings
of sensexual joy
in colorful
and fragrant play
thrival
Conserving cautionary work
for anthroprivileged survival
with birds
and frogs
and insects
and other mammals
giving peaceful voice
to health resonant choice
to mind/body rejoice.
A peak nature spirited Sage
sings while dancing
and thinking about reconnecting
All these thoughtful feelings
with healthy timeless resonance
and pathological
closed down dissonance
And wisdom
to resiliently search
for inside cooperatively
co-invested outside
Nature’s sacred compassions
at their healthiest
and best sacred Muse wealthiest
reconnecting Warriors
Dancing
between yesterday’s inhaled enlightenment
exhaling tomorrow’s singing
dancing
healing
restoring Earth’s organic
orgasmic empowerment.
When I entered the City Senior Center
with my Open Mic proposal
to increase resilience
and decrease apartheid dissonance
I could hear no music,
see no dancing.
The quilting room
and the game room,
even the pool tables,
were as quiet as the library,
which at least held four contemplative people
scattered in their own secluded spaces.
Like visiting a sad monastery,
without tai chi,
chi gong,
walking meditation,
and/or yoga classes
filled with abundant creaky grace.
Back then
The Senior Center felt like a sad retirement home,
day care for some,
a reprieve from unmitigated loneliness
away from an empty nest,
a dusty divorce,
tiring widow weeds,
snarky dark separations,
untimely and unwanted departures.
A place to avoid risks
of dying unhappily
in sequestered
marginalized 24/7 isolation
More anxious now
than anticipating
long weekday evenings
dark nights
and bleak winter weekends
Where no outside kindness
for aching bones
and sinus cavities
could be found
in one’s private old age tomb.
Fading
failing
irrelevant
uncherished rooms feel frightening,
sometimes angry
waiting to die stations
for prisoners of neglect
Victims of systemic trauma
aging alone
in a retiring
and not repurposing
silent place.
Now returning,
as we cooperatively rebuild
our Senior Wisdom Center,
former inmates remember ourselves
as guilty criminals,
blaming and shaming
and judging our sins
of lacking compassion
Throwing our humbled lot
in with all those Otherers
accused of Earth Matricide
Smothering our organic Center
with extractive plunder
Abortion of our regenerative Planet,
HOME plant
exploited for anthroprivileged
economic
and short-term apartisan gain.
I couldn’t feel
much active hope
for multi-regenerative communion
For sacred transmutation
of bad
and mad
and sad
becoming win/win cooperatively owned
and managed
root systemic glad
Back before we became a Senior Wisdom Center
conjoined with the City Arts Center
exploring neighborhood after-school and weekend
Open Mic
and Community SingAlong Dances
and Flash Mob WellBeing Engagement events.
This switch
from segregated Senior Center
and unhoused lack of any Youth Center
to Senior Wisdom Center
supporting neighborhood MusEcology Skill Centers
Began with cooperatively engaging
healthy CrownChakra songs
while dancing wealthy RootChakra
cooperatively co-invested rhythms
Dipolar co-arising mind/body patterns,
win/win indigenous governance systems
more friendly to universal health care minds
seeking resonant opportunities
through unitarian wealth care bodies
drawn away from risky win/lose trauma
repurposing toward resilient win/win
co-passionate engagement.
Perhaps immigration is our big US national anxiety
because we don’t know how to unilaterally abort
cancerous growth of ecocide.
Too much to even think about
at a merely nationalistic level
of semi-consciousness.
Earth is our shared sacred home
which has begun feeling like a dried out
grass and forest burning
tornado churning
housefire.
No Trespassing signs
of defensive desire
and cutting-edge lethal spirals
of kill and maim designer wire
assert our RightWing
LeftBrain patriarchal predative dominance,
anthro-privileged prominence
While health
and prosperous wealth
and indigenous community farm wisdom
all intend to restore EarthTribal
therapeutic peaceful justice,
nonviolent green communion
for cooperatively co-invested
compassion
Left/Right bipartisan
Universally salvific enlightenment
through co-redemptive
Unitarian empowerment.
Naturally acclimating spiritual cultures
grow anxiously attuned
to global warming
red-hot rabid pathologies
Spiritually co-empathic minds
are systemically seized
by trauma
by EarthMatricide
by rapacious plunder
by extractive predation
Rather than sacred
cooperative
synergetically co-invested
EarthTraveler identity.
If holistic love brings peak experience
memories
Then whole systemic life
is a migrating journey
away from chronic win/lose emigrating risks
and toward emerging
win/win immigrating opportunities.
Climate changing rabidity
includes RightYang v LeftYin hysteria,
patriarchal partisan polarity
dismissing matriarchal wombed
holy holonic wholesome holes.
Migration marchers
singing Never Again”
to weaponized violence
against both young
and old sojourner species
Often judgmentally justified
by divinely-scripted
manifest destiny
written by a monotheistic right hand
drawing a punishing border
in cosmic sand
against our holy uniting spirit
of co-migrating
mind and body compassion
Global peace
paradise found
in restoring EarthJustice health,
environmental wealth
Indigenous nondualistic positive wisdom
universally experienced
peak mind/body
yin/yang
-(-0) = +1
Polynomial co-binary
balancing bicameral
bipartisan
bilateral moving
shifting
grooving neurosystemic conclusions
Concerns that anthro-migrating health
is root 0-soul reliant
on Earth-crowning
not drowning
wealth
Both Left and Right
West and East hemisphere co-passions
anticipate binomial 1/0 adventures
in cooperatively migrating intelligence
Curious about why
immigration is our big First WorldView
national anxiety.
Wondering
about wandering
in competitive +1 v -0-thering
smothering defenses
Not able to nationalistically abort
rabidly cancerous migrations
of anthro-privileged
desecrating ecocide.
I would like to see
and hear
and feel a peaceful day
and silent night
When guns
are as rare as typewriters
When partisan hate
is as extinct as flying dinosaurs
When ranting out of anger
to instill fear
is as astounding
as love letters
written on rice paper
in compassionate cursive.
I would like to hear
free speech
can’t be hate preach
because anger
and fear
and dogmatic rage are limiting
and divisive
and rabidly dissonant,
dissociative
Conserving win/lose
endlessly expensive
back-and-forth debate
Which does not win/win
free mind and body
resiliently liberate.
Hate speech
costs our favorite EarthTribes
everything,
every healthy
and wealthy
relationship.
Free speech
creates rich
resilient
resonant
musical and wise compositions,
civil literature,
love stories
Deliberating life
delivering desegregating communities,
purple families,
non-violent muse communications
to sing
our cooperative Truth
and dance
advance our co-invested Grace.
Dialogue,
heart-filled discussion
restores free peace
Co-empathic
co-invested
co-operative
non-violet deep co-passions.
Conducting empowered multicultures
dwelling in enlightened wellbeing
Circles
and round cursive spirals
of community wellness danced
In public squares
and parks
Under shade trees
by day
and freely twinkling stars
by night.
I would like to see
and hear
and feel this peaceful day
and silent dancing
purple night
When automated guns
are as rare as electric typewriters
When impoverishing hate
and fear-provoking speech
are as extinct as predative dinosaurs.
We may need a rest left here
right now
said the Muse
to his Warrior
and her Sage.
In compliant spirit,
Sage feels a rest not
not significant
in music’s octaved stories
of wealthy
deep cultured
enlightening revolutions
Anticipating a Warrior’s peaceful relationship
between sound of tears
and silence anticipating fears
of dwindling years
Resting nonverbal
and arresting verbal
Muse full and empty
nonviolent communionations
resonant +/- Sage of time-squared Light,
resilient 1/0 Warrior of Earth-placed Power
Speaking
and singing
and dancing
Muse of octave crowning sight
and deeply rooted sounds
from darkest healthy
wealthy night
Amusing in-between
0 root chakras
and 1 crowned
LeftBrain dominant minds,
bicameral core hearts
connected to both Warrior’s fierce
love lost and found music
proclaimed
and rhythmically danced power
resting
and arresting
Silence
and sound
reconnecting
personal -(0) Muse embodied feelings
with public +1 Sage/Warrior
Win/Win thoughts
Dancing our bilateral
universal salvation walk
Singing our bipartisan
unitarian redemption talk.
Polypathically speaking,
We may need a rest left here
right now,
said the song/dance stealthy Muse
to his mind/body healthy Warrior
and her Crown/Root wealthy Sage.
Aunt Mary was a small and wiry mother
of six;
four by birth
and two by informal adoption.
She sang in a small querulous voice
yet spoke boldly
filled with loving EarthMother
indigenous wisdom choices.
Aunt Mary was a serenely quiet mentor
and suspiciously happy
Sunday School teacher
in our stern Christian evangelical Bible Church
where divine Revelation
ended with the last apocalyptic
King James chapter.
Closed “Father Has Spoken” inspiration
was not quite so All or Nothing clear
from our Teacher’s polycultural gardener
and permacultural farmer perspective,
with her animal husbandry perceptions
offering a more inclusive Holy Spirit articulating view
Of personal
and communal peak therapeutic experience,
naturally revealing,
spiritually fulfilling
universal salvation
seeking unitarian redemption
finding ever more expansive
universal EarthTribal sensations.
Aunt Mary led our high school class
theological reflections
always in her quiet
compassionate way
A question and respond style
she may have learned from reading Gospel Jesus
The outdoor itinerant Teacher
responding to both hostile
and admiring fan questions
Speaking in Beatitudes,
spoken word Psalms
Proverbs,
impromptu Sermons on Mountains.
“What did Jesus mean
when he said Abba is love?”
I might have asked,
hoping to catch her explaining herself away
from the Patriarchal personal knowledge
our straight
white
good-news privileged preacher
shared from his bully pulpit
about what demonic
not straight
not white
not strong warrior behaviors
God hates.
“Abba is ComPassion”
invites us to become liberal
only in love”
she responds.
This is the reverse side of becoming more conservative
about risky behaviors
and negative attitudes
and demonic platitudes
steeped in hate
anger
fear
greed
narcissism
anthro-supremacism,
ignorance,
traumatic abuse,
and chronic emotional neglect
remaking god into our own dog-
matic worst
bad excuse for a good-news day
degenerative imagination.
“The devil made me do it”
in jest
curiously reminds me of
“Jehovah demands I hate it”
excommunicating those who sin
against my limited
and exclusively safe
peak resonant experiences.
Judgmental
“Violence is mine”
loudly speaks StraightWhitePrivilegedMale
way back in the weaponized Old Testament.
This love we choose
to renew each morning
we often think of as compassion
and Mom-inspired peace
and blissful nurturing light
In contrast to the traumatic night
of a darkened daddy soul
Yet love of God’s creation,
creativity,
music,
musicality,
natural Truth
and supernatural Integrity
of wholesome holonic Spirit,
is also openly
and relentlessly curious
About the depths of Earth’s empowering summer soils
and disempowering winter snow,
About resonant healing
yet also dissonant harming,
About both dawn’s light
and dusk’s revolving night.
Embrace liberal love
of our co-arising bicameral
dipolar appositional`Spirits
And conserve deep disregard
for competing bipolar
oppositional Souls
More clear about which sheep
we must be against
than why God created all sheep
for us to adore
Who define alien Others
by whom and what we are commanded
and reprimanded to hate
Don’t even try to understand
and don’t slow-grow the courage
to appreciate
To become more resiliently curious about
how
and why They/We can
and do love each Other
in some mysterious non-Othering way
beyond LeftBrain dominant understanding.
Liberally love
reform
refine
refinish your human healthy Self
and sacred natural Others
by uniting with whom
and what we love
and faithfully hope to stand.
Explore radically profound courage
to become more deeply
organically
integrally
inter-religiously curious about
how to more resiliently choose
Each mindful day
each inclusive hour
each thoughtful moment
within each healthy relationship,
each communion,
each love song
of liberating compassion
Thereby worrying less about
conserving slow-burning
political dispassions.
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