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Roots and Blossoms

Earth’s organic systems wonder
if both of these could be true:

Poverty and ignorance breed violence.
Capitalism and patriarchalism feed conflict.

If so,
is the first
or the second
history’s enculturing root system?

And is the Other
our competitively threatening
viral blossom of oppression?

And EarthMother wonders
if natural empowering
is also spiritual enlightening
cooperative Wisdom
inviting humane peace,
less dissonant debate praxis
preferring to invest
in more resilient dialogue practice
instead.

In dialogue with Monica Sharma’s “Radical Transformational Leadership: Strategic Action for Change Agents,” p. 13.

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Why Systems Comfort

What do healthy systems,
naturally spirited,
ecologically enlightened
and ego-politically empowered swell

Wellness
anthro-economic networks
wonder,
often wander around
what do wealthy mindbody systems do
when the Body squarely says
“I’m doing all I can comfortably do”

And the unsatisfied Mind asks
“Why is my need for healthy integrity
neglected
deflected
ignored
unrestored?”
at least half
my less than thriving
time
in your embodied space

In musical pace
and game place
and systems empirical
lyrical theory embrace,

This BodyMind feels a dissonant gap
between a comfortably expected
repetitively resonant accord
in music narrative compositions
as traditionally played
and replayed pitch perfect
military march uniformity
with RightBody empowered control

Over-riding a deeply serene
enlightened LeftMind unity
preference becoming contenting content
of EarthTribe’s sacred stereophonic
story, systemic

Waiting curiously,
and thereby less impatiently
win/lose pushing individual performance,
self-prophetically solo lonely

Waiting for our next cooperative
muse amusing immersion
peak climatic experience
designed
orchestrated
choreographed

Win/Win improvisational
in sacred
therapeutic scores
and scales
of resonant empowering harmony
enlightening multi-lateral symphony
in keys of bicameral rhapsody,
health/wealth systemic
ecstasy.

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Listening for Healthy Relationships

I grow increasingly concerned
about living in an unhealthy monoculture
of educational
evangelical
judicial
legislative hubris

Rhetorically LeftBrain dominant
verbally debating
which empowered opinion leader
will improve my personal consumer powers
and ego-incorporated
greed productive profits

In this competitive big Dog
eats little not leftbrain dominant
feminized nasty dog
predative worldview

In which straight white male dominant
militarized
police state supporters
capital profit performers
for self-aggrandizing opulence
corpulence
corporate satiation

Slick as opioid addiction
to causing pain
supporting profitable relief
through drug-addiction management,

Corporate sponsored
unhealth
uncaring
inhumane unwealth
predation strategies

With no apparent worthy survivors
after we professionally
corporately
predatively kill prosperity
of all our individual
competitive pleasure-seeking consumers
off our superficial entertainment regimen
and away from our own RightBrain
cooperative
compassionate health care
environmental
sacred indigenous
natural/spiritual nondualistic
bilateral contextual intelligence.

What we need
therapeutically want
expect our teachers
clergy
judges
and elected representatives to wisely administer
is health and safety
of this
and future humane
regenerators of bicameral
bipartisan
multicultural win/win compassion,

Sacred
indigenous
health/wealth equitable care

So,
our universal EarthTribe
becomes more economically co-invested
in win/win political values

Empowering integral
holistic
equitable health care reception

Which is also
enlightening
trusted
safe wellness,
prosperity,
wealth care
cooperative EarthPeace production.

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Diplomatic Mystics

Where Earth’s international diplomats
might hope for multiculturally appropriate
justice

Radical theologians aspire
to restore sacred EarthGreen Peace

And EarthBeauty mystics,
those reculsive nature is not not spiritual
indigenously serene
and spacious mystics
nondualistic
nonviolent
non-zerosum ecological economists

Actively hope
the rest of us unenlightened
and disempowered victims
of degenerative stressful traumas
find some cooperatively co-invested
serenity

In our sacred EarthTribal
co-empathic
co-arising justice
co-passioning peace restoring
peak experience
long-term multi-regenerational memories
of preferably bilateral
synergetic
co-neurosystemic
passionately peaking
co-identity

Right here at home
in family
and local ecopolitical community
Where Earth’s multicultural diplomats
might hope for democratic healthy wealth
restoring integrally cooperative justice.

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Night Silent Cross

How could an established Muse
sing and dance
invisibly transparent?

What could a mute Muse
not sound like?

Absence, without/within contentment
Neglect, without/within compassion
Divestment, without/in co-investment
Loss, without/in gain
Trauma, without/in therapeutic intent
Dissonance, without/in harmony
Risk, without/in opportunity
Sadness, without/in gladness
Negative, without/in positive
Unease, without/in health
Disability, without/in wealth
Disempowerment, without/in prosperity
Pathology, without/in healing
Darkness, without/in enlightenment
BiPolar division, without dipolar double-bind

Where we remain still
in silent loving room
at divine humanity’s cross

For natural with out/in spiritual you
ecological with out/in theological
non-anthrosupremacist
rightbrain compassionate
communicating Me with out/in We
bicameral Left with out/in Right
interdependent You.

What is our healthiest last choice
between seamless engagement,
vicarious entertainment,
and ubiquitous
ambiguous silence?

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Singers and Dancers Needed

What to gladly sing
about our global economic politics
and socially inept monoculturing predation?
divinely self-righteous
missionary terrorist zeal
also known as religious
colonization.

Such global
and national
and local PatriarchalCapitalist
RightWing unhealthy issues

Seem to have started
sometime after we stopped
singing and dancing
together

And before we began competitively speaking
and not cooperatively listening
always rhetorically against,
and never even theoretically for,
each Other

They
those separate
and really not pure patriotically
Christian evangelizing equal
non-rightwing dominant
agnostically disabled
gnostically feminized
politically marginalized
economically criminalized
using LeftBrain punishing RightBrain
retributively correct
didactic
anal-retentive Queen’s English
empowering
and enlightened
verbal correctness

In a neural network
somewhere
bilaterally between
wealthy multicultural engagement
and unhealthy mllitarized oppression,
assault rifle policing

And congressional
“mow’em down”
redblooded patriotic pictures
of families proudly erecting assault rifles
nestled between their fertile thighs
gathered round a brilliantly middle-class
StraightWhiteAmerican Christmas Tree
whispering plastic memories

Song and tribal dance
celebrating a Win/Win messianic virgin
bearing forth a GraceFilled Prince
for EarthJust Peace

AnthroSupremacist warriors
punish EarthGreen cooperative
co-invested,
less toxically infested, intent,

Polyphonic deep listening
for sacred Gaian
abundant muses
resonating panentheistic Wisdom.

While monotheistic persuasion
may be confused
with monoculturing coercion
at the end of a self-divinizing gun

And the loser end
of a capital-cultural hoarding game,

We
all hope
and body pray
and kind mind say

Genuine win/win conversion
to GoldenRule Trust
is free of win/lose persuasion
rooted in debate;
not dialogue

Resonant conversion
most resilient
adheres to EarthCentric
GreenCooperative Rules,

Health is wise wellbeing wealth
enumerated in win/win Positive Psychology
applied to uniting co-invested nations
and local communications

NonViolent for EarthJustice
and GreenPeace Days
transforming MeWe
divine humanity
into Beauty/Trusted Truths.

Feminist flow
and masculine strength
estrogen
and testosterone
co-arising away from LeftBrain
dominant StraightWhite AnthroSupremacist

MisUnEducated persuasions
and MonoTheistic win/lose coercions
do not predict PolyCultural EarthCommunion
resilient health outcomes

Are denying RightWing
degenerative lose/lose
nihilistic absence of health
and regenerative wealth communication,
resonantly resilient

Still GreenWing whispering
of perduring sacred co-invested Time
felt in harmonic healthy
gospel music
4/4 full-spectral
experiential octave resonance
of a holy warm-wombed night

Tao dancing integrity
of hereYang nowYintegrity
body/mind
spacious/timely
cooperative/integral
universal/unitarian
bicameral/contextual
health/wealth
museResonant Stength/musicalResilient Flow
Informing/Outgoing
multiculturally intelligent
organic design.

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Sabbath Hope

I hope to visit next Sunday
on a warm
sunny
early PeaceGiving afternoon

Outside with my wounded Daughter’s
extending therapeutic family
with win/win playful
and richly resonant intent

Inside her new
young
empowering
and cooperatively enlightened

Thankful
mind-full music
and muse dancing
mythically
mysteriously
majestically joyful home.

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Women’s AnthroCultural Services

“I didn’t know conversation was an art”

“For a woman, everything is an art”

“I don’t think I want to be a woman”

“Ah, my dear, someone has to do it”

receive It

worship It

seduce It

entertain It

absorb It

tickle It

inflate It

wash It

taste It

distract It

flatter It

accept It…

Note: These four one line quotes from a dialogue between an older and younger woman are extracted from p. 144 of Asha Lemmie’s excellent novel, “Fifty Words For Rain.”

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BumperSticker Salvation

I’m behind a dull white Chevy sedan
developing a lived-in look
while waiting for a greener light

With more than sufficient time
to read two rather ragged bumper stickers
in radical red,
relentless white,
and smoky blue.

The left side message
right in front of my resting wheel
reminded me of my waiting shame
that Jesus had to die
because of my personal sins
for which no one else
could even be partially
pulled out to blame

Only confirming
my bad-self flame
burning along with
a ZeroSum Win now
to delay Losing later
our all-in financial
and partisan lame game

Selling out to our competitive patriarchal
hierarchical shame
of predative corporate Christian Capitalism,
which is what remains
of Cooperative Economics
after squeezing all natural
indigenous spirit wisdom
out of wealth
is health optimizing life.

If only I were less selfish
and lazy
about mediating good-faith
healthcare co-investment cooperatives
as I move along
through each nonviolently communicating
day and night

Bringing me back to the bumper sticker
on my right wing
reminding me,
There is room left
at the Cross for me

Which immediately feels threatening,
ominously judged
and found collectively guilty
for my personal lack of faithful
healthy Soul,
big shortages in potential win/win co-investments
like gratitude for PolyCultural GreenHealth Communions
wherever I might stumble into them again
acting like We care
about health wealth resilient Us.

So, I’m tragically predestined
to climb onto the same rugged cross,

[and why is our cross always so iconically “rugged”
rough and primitive
ragged and wretched
manly and rapacious?
Why never graceful,
flexible,
poignant
transformative
potentially metamorphic
compassionate?]

Losing today
to maybe survive until tomorrow morning’s
StraightWhite God
declares redawning
punishing
timeless omnipotence
to judge all my tomorrows.

Yes,
there is a room for me
at the patriarchal foot
and the capital head
of threatening
punishing mortality
inflamed by oppression
of LeftHemisphere dominant
StraightWhite PatriCapital
anthro-divine individualistic
monotheistic supremacy

Worshiping healthy SunEnlightened humanity
by denying a wounding Cross
we have win/lose ZeroSum created
and recreate each day
between each nightmare
against sacred Earth’s polycultural communioning
reunioning
reweaving
win/win NonZero Soul
optimizing sacred Integrity’s
ecological
economic empowering
EarthWealth

Of a love so radically liberal
Jesus could get more democratically down
off our CapitalistCorporate cross

And then
I’m suddenly no longer behind a dull white Chevy sedan
developing a lived-out look
while waiting for my greener light.

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Hedonistic Hate

When we compare the numbers
and percentages of innocent,
trusting lives lost
in significant part because of Christian
militarized
capitalized
patriarchal
monotheistic judging fundamentalism,
punishing Afghanistan
and other Islamic cultures
over the past four or five decades,

To the number
and percentage of innocent
economically and politically trusting lives
lost in significant part
because of Moslem militarized
capitalized
patriarchal
monotheistic vengeful fundamentalism,
punishing the U.S.
and other NorthWestern Christian cultures

The outsized scale of human
and environmental casualties
in Afghanistan
does not redeem Bin Laden’s terrifying success
on 9/11.

But, this difference in chronic ballistic stress
does suggest why
a well-capitalized terrorist
was able to garner so much economic
and political support
from those already too familiar
with sudden
tragic
violent losses of family
and friends
on 9/11.

This is not to say U.S victims
and non-victims (should there be any)
asked for vengeful death
nor deserved such tragic
excruciating loss,

But
these same losses
may remind us
we, as a democratically healthy
responsible wealthy nation,
a polycultural society,
could have listened with more extensive
bilaterally compassionate ears
and mass mediated eyes,
to the rapacious horror,
loss,
trauma,
fear,
anger,
hate,
chronic anxiety,
post- and pre-traumatic stress disorder

Perpetuated by militarized
capitalized
patriarchal
monotheistic
dogmatic
RightWing
LeftBrain dominant privilege
elitism
supremacy
autistic autocracy
greedy kleptocracy
dissociative denialism

Doubt in cooperative polycultural powers
of global compassion
love
active and provoking hope,
healthy trust in win/win resolutions.

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