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Strategic Considerations

Maybe it’s just me, hanging around with nonviolent communication students and teachers too much. But,

Always the big, “BUT”

But,…maybe AND is more appropriate.

And, if Putin’s big concern is to spoil Ukraine’s hunger to join NATO, then a full military assault seems maybe counterproductive, killing women and children, bombing bread lines and schools. Wouldn’t that kind of thing be why Ukraine is looking for NATO alliance, because of concerns that Putin and his overpaid Generals might forget that carrots are more effective than sticks when you are trying to persuade less wealthy, and more hungry for safety, people that your big stick next door isn’t an unfortunate event threat to their carrot crops and tops, and all those other greens and blues and even reds; who seem to have a peculiar affinity for ballistic sticks, even when spoons of sugar are so much less expensive, less damaging to well-manicured nails, and landscapes. The important classy stuff making up a delicious series of more fortunate events.

When I was trying to persuade those bratty neighbor children that they need not gang up against my less-affluent kids, it didn’t occur to me to lob grenades over the fence, instead of suggesting a pizza party. But maybe that was mainly because I was hungry too, for food, and health, and safe nonviolence.

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Punishing Silence

Do we choose silence
not only as a tool
for self-protection
when speaking
our latest chapter stories
feels unsafe?

But also stern silence
may become a weapon
to ward off apathetic enemies
of our straight
hopelessly white
monotheistic
monopolistic
patriarchal capitalist
enemies

Who would not seem to care
to love us
more than we ourselves
can love them
as part of us
right now
left multiculturally
and ecofeminist
silenced here.

As you go
and liberally grow silent,
I may quietly
then traumatically
hear,
as isolating time
sticks ominously by,

“I am not your constant un-masked friend,”
and, thereby,
an ominous self-fulfilling prophecy
emergently erupts
in punishing response,

“I cannot remain
your therapeutic good-times,
vaccinated against silent unease,
healthy
co-empathic musing friend,”

To trust when skies grow silently dark
and night descends
beyond despair
to safely share
stressed Trauma

Itself first felt ray
of restoring justice promise
despite this loss of salvific
passioned hope.

Prosperity losses steal
from future compassion
already while first silenced weapons
dream denying
relentless truths of suffering
lack of healthy opportunity
to speak our fears
out loud
with those who trust
our trembling tears.

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Interview With A Narcissist

I need to know
if you have seen
or heard anything from me
or about me
that would cause you to hesitate
to hire me full-time
for the next sex worker
and spiritual director
and financial co-investor
position

Opening up
on your personal
and political empowerment team.

I would also like to know
if you have seen and heard,
tasted and smelled,
felt and touched
anything positive
compelling
engaging about me

That would discourage you
from firing me
from my current part-time position
enabling your fears of losing me
to some better
bigger
more powerful,
possibly even somewhat more enlightened
and less angry,
narcissist.

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Forgiveness

Forgiveness,
like trust
and repentance
and the salvation of heroes
slowly getting back up,

Forgiveness,
of Other
and others
and self,

Forgiving
is not instant,
like a package of oatmeal
or grits,
because growing
and regrowing trust
is a process,
like growing flowers,
blossoming in their
and our own
best time for resilience,
regeneration,
restoring beauty
and peace

Forgiveness,
like repentance
and the win/win salvation of souls,
isn’t all or nothing,
except in those climatic moments
of anger,
when it is nothing,
and except in those climatic moments
of joy,
when it is all

When we are fully engaged
in trusting this place
investing this time
within win/win EarthTribe
mundane sacramental life

Just right
for getting back up

What’s left
for giving Other
yet another chance
to not screw us up.

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Peak Experiences

NonViolently listening
contentedly
conveniently
is not too much

Communing
courageously win/win
curiously co-invested
in contagiously copassionate
communication events

Writing
and discussing
reflecting
and sharing
conversing
and dancing
while singing
and nonverbally musing
moving outside
as inside
Golden Rules
of and for revolutionary
peace actions
cooperative intentions

And reactions
while deep listening
win/win contentedly
mindfully speaking
remembering
reconnecting
healing
singing
musing
conveniently Self not Othering
optimizes health Nature’s eco-
political care giving

Is also care receiving
wealthy panentheistic
Holonic Soul

Inside and
outside
co-passioning serotonin
dopamining
self-perpetuating
MeWe climax

Where copassionate listening
blooms MeWe contentment
fading doubts
while conveniently entertaining
when both fully experienced
and reflectively engaged
in bilateral exterior/interior
objective/subjective
natural/spiritual
body/mind care

Of ecosystemic nutrients
nurturing ego centers
root chakra informed
core balanced resonance

Peacefully reaching
for self-extending
perpetually resilient
co-relational climax

Win/Win eco-self
not Othering
dialectically integral
optimization

Spiraling
revolving
bicameral
bilateral
binomial
double-binding
co-empathic awareness

Peeking out
while Peaking in
creasingly extended
app
earances

NonLanguaged communion
NonScarcely commodified
NonViolently impassioned
self-NotOthering
communications
MeHere/WeNow
bicamerally re-educating

Peak Experiences
nonviolently deep listening
contentedly
conveniently sure
of future’s nondualistic
health is wealth systemic
passionate generosity.

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Might Be An Isn’t

So,
she autistically
and powerfully
said,

One me
plus one you
makes two

And we two
minus one me
leaves you one

Which feels like not
quite enough
for ego sufficiency

But one whole lot more
than zero deficiency

Because Dr. Seuss sings
of zero BirthDay rings
and EndDaze spirited non-things

“If we didn’t have birthdays,
you wouldn’t be you.
If you’d never been born,
well then what would you do?…

Why you might be a WASN’T!
A Wasn’t has no fun at all.
No, [s]he doesn’t.
A Wasn’t just isn’t.
[S]he just isn’t present.
But you…You ARE YOU!
And,
now isn’t that pleasant!…

If you’d never been born,
then you might be an ISN’T!
An Isn’t has no fun at all.
No [s]he disn’t.
[S]he never has birthdays,
and that isn’t pleasant.
You have to be born,
or you don’t get a present.”

And sacred co-prescience

One me
plus one you
makes two,
and now
aren’t we pleasant
co-present?

Note: Dr. Seuss quotes are from “Happy Birthday To You!”, 1959, when I was celebrating seven sacred birthdays.

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Strength We Find

Some body
wants some thing
some space
some time
some Other body’s place

Some individual
ego-incorporated
organic wealth
health systemic
mindbody wants to resonantly thrive
to resiliently survive

Some body
cannot compete with BusinessAsUsual
resolve
against trauma-induced Need feelings
with sufficient therapeutic compassion thoughts,
co-investment plans,
co-operating dialectical designs

To accept denial non-responses
to transparently
vulnerable
sacred polycultural
inter-religious
health/wealth invocations,
EarthGoddess reflective
resonant
resilient invitations
into peace
restoring EarthHealth
systemic justice.

Some body
wants what?

For what health
wealthy felt resonant reason?

Why can’t we gratefully accept
history’s tone deaf manipulations
economic oppressions,
political suppressions,
polyvagal dissonant
neurosystemic repressions,

LeftBrain overpowering
militarized
commodified weapons
of unenlightened
Great White Father
patrilinear capital competitions

Left hemisphere dominant
pedagogically verbalized
ecologically secularized
theologically desecrating
wounding
divisive monotheistic impressions.

Some body
needs to become empowered
through our shared depression
panentheistic oppressions

Further disabling already trauma compromised
lifetime resonant health
is never also pathologically dissonant
internally imploding
absence of indigenously resilient
ego/eco-systemic embodied
bilaterally resilient wisdom

Musing,
integrally fusing,
left hemisphere cognitive verbal dominance
suppressing right hemisphere interdependently
intuitively felt inside synergetic Voices

Indigenously wrestling
with sacred singing and dancing
spirit/nature
mental/physical jubilant choices

Panentheistically sacred
healthy democratic
ergodically resonant harmonic
bi-ionic co-binary
mind/body energy

Compelling Truth/Beauty
Yang/Yintegral
bilateral
binomial
bipartisan co-arising
light/power co-reinvesting
in seven regenerational
EarthHealth Muses

For humane ego-centering
divinely ecosystemic
inside wise resonant muse
spoken word resilient inside Voices

For outside sacred music
restoring healthy inter-connecting
eco/theo-logical choices

For abundantly non-oppressive
non-violent communion co-passion

Green resilient health/wealth
co-investing life
for love of natural nondualistic

Yet non-zeroistic
nonviolent Taoistic
indigenous wisdom

Of some body
wanting some thing
some sacred place
some health caring space
for expanding indigenous wisdom

Cooperatively co-governing
Yang/Yintegral
co-pedagogical
muse-elegant
integrally resonant
right brain prominent
eco/theo/egological

Some body
wants some passionate thing
some sacred space
some inspiring time
some Other inspiriting body’s
MeWe cooperatively resonant
bicamerally resilient
co-empowering music
muse
moving on
graced place.

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Mythic Muse Mindfulness

I know the difference
between cooperatively intended sympathy
and solidarity of empathy
more easily articulated
by identifying sympathy’s antithesis
as dissociation.

Sympathetic feelings
may be captured by:

Twinkle twinkle
little star
how I wonder what you are
from afar

As co-empathic compassion by:

Twinkle twinkle
big bright star
now I see just who we are,
new enlightening depths
mutually ajar.

Like the difference
between pornography
and regenerative
sexual ecology,

Asking for a thesaurus
for synonym wealthy choices
does not help
if my standard of healthy success
hopes to spin and weave
a co-arising dipolar chorus

Lyricizing analogies between theoretical God
and experiential Love
inviting our polyphonic
evolving metaphoric
spirit sympathetic
for EarthTribe’s polypathic
healing reeling
revolving metamorphic
wealthy rocking
nature co-empathetic

Enough to know the difference
between cooperatively intended sympathy
and solidarity of empathy
more fluidly articulate
separating sympathy’s antithesis
as silent
and neglected disassociations.

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Seeking Salvation in Retiring Spaces

Prayers,
sometimes lightly lyrical,
slyly satirical,
self-conscious,
ego-
and anthro-chosen folk
transcendently
yet personally
individually woke,
and sometimes full embodied
passions in Praise Him!
shout out

Echo in-
voking round resonance
with all Earth’s eternal
regenerating lively
lovely resilience.

Prayers
express “I feel”
so invoke “I want,
even actively need”
Trust Statements

Or,
prayers are LeftBrain dominant
performances
of True v False
Health v Pathology
internal v external
enlightening transcendent thoughts
v empowering emotional support,
Reason v Passion Stories.

“Lordy, Lordy
I sure do hope
for active Sunday hope
that Donald Trump
will someday,
although probably not this day,
enjoy a long
and healthy
and unusually quiet,
cruelly serene,
claustrophobically private retirement
into suffering
and mental anguish
over all his many sociopathological
sins against natural
and spiritual,
physical
and mental,
embodied and mindful health care
giving
by receiving
copassionate
co-invested communion.”

In this prayer,
what does grandmother Eartha feel?

Lack of sufficient hope
for robust and healthy redemption,
maybe sadness about humanity’s great fall
into partisan disunion,
probably chronic climate anxiety,
in which She betrays
and is betrayed by
fear of RightWing AnthroSupremacy.

Meditations
on red sky climate warnings
nonverbally remind MeSheWe
together invoke nonviolent polypaths
leading to polyphonic
lyrical and PraiseHim!
for what we all,
with thriving rich resilient souls,
wish for

An unusually quiet,
serene,
private retiring redemption

From Old Testament
PatriCapitalist
Nothern White epic histories
of colonization

We nearly all AnthroSupremely invoke
deep EarthTribal fears
of our own BusinessAsUsual corporate
systemic
nationalistic
white cracker violent
discommunications

And we are all dearly angry
about lack of sufficiently empowering
and enlightening retirement funds
and redeeming facts,

Spiraling polynomially spacious circles
of polyphonic prayers intoned
entombed beyond eternal silence
peacefully polypathic

Invoking
“I feel lyrical” performances
and I need more than mere divine performance
embracing deep Nature/Spirit flow
ing widely polypathic
“Praise Him/Her, We Two!”

Wu-wei extending conscious
polyculturing healthy conscience
continuing compassion’s
discontinuous
EarthPeace Prayer.

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Shrouded Clouds

Shrouds mystically cover
sad shadowed environmental things
as clouds hover
over ego/ecological glad relationships,
Earth empowering,

Heaven enlightening
like outside’s natural winds
of evolving tradition
and inside’s spiritual breath
of revolving
bilateral
inter-communications

In/ExFormational BiCameral Systems
of prickly thought things
and gooey
shrouded
binomially felt co-relationships.

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