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Great Lines WithIn SacredSpaces

Architecture of 4/4 music
left and right hand scored
harmonic balance

Four sacred spaces
of energy
surrounded by five
double-boundary lines

Staff mused structures
within bicameral
emotive harmonies
for sacred octave
enlightenment
restorative safety help

And bilateral
cognitive integrity
with secular metaphysical
fractal-binomial DNA
regenerative health/wealth structure

Togethering
non-violent synergetic communications
in-between regenerations
of ecofeminist muses
spiraling dynamic octaves
of EarthJustice resonant songs
climaxing TransGenerational

TransFormative
resilient community
synergetic dances
of indigenous light energy
lunar star circles
timeless seasonal nonmartial-art development
and poly-religioning culturalgreen
healthcare con-sciences.

Fragrance of ecological relationships,
touch of theological AnthroSupremacist GreatWhiteMan Spirit
LeftBrain dominant hubris
foolishly underinvesting
in educational systems
indigenously root-wisdom connected
back toward prehistoric
heartsong and dance EarTherapeutic
music transports,

Invites interdependent participation,
engages circling
recycling intersectional harmonic
ringing
singing epic co-empathic
co-passions

Or
it is not music
And
we are not health-optimizing musicians.

Musicians,
like StoryDancers
and Ecologians
and Theologians
and Lovers
ecopolitically thrive on
organic neural systems
polyvagally co-empathic

Thriving most resonantly
on polyphonically healthy
resiliently win/win
cooperative
non-violent relationships
of inside/outside
ego/eco-systemic
restorative EarthJustice
positive ecopolitical health
cooperative energy

Between gooey wave spaces
of resonant felt healthy
harmonic frequencies
of strong enlightening
bright noted forte karmic prime chakras
speaking in octaves of timeless tones
hearing in 4D synergetic fractals
of cognitive LeftBrain

Prickly ego/anthro-centric lines
of wounding history
HumanNature v EcoSystemicSpirit!
rightwing kinda reactionary
LeftBrain monoculturally dominant
win/lose evolutionary unhealthy theory,

if you ask gooey
marginalized me
to activate Healing EarthJustice

With all that sung
and danced jazz
gospel kinda nonviolently
co-empathic
resilient dancing lines
inside resonantly sacred
sung harmonic
rung ergodic
democratic energy

Eco-resiliently synergetic
health/wealth optimization
for geohistorically emergent
indigenous musing spaces.

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Pandemonic Hope

“I believe in the sun
even when it is not shining”

I remember someone recently resaying
what has long lain unsaid
inside my paradoxical head,

When asked if I believe in God,
I don’t know what to say.

I might not believe in your God,
at least on my worst
pain-darkened day.

And,
I seem to believe in my own
only in those rare rain-free moments
healthy ego- and eco-gratifying

When I am having a climax heart
and head
song
and dance remembering
re-ligioning
reconnecting EarthMoment

Shared with at least one Other,
perhaps for our first through last time
in this
our day of sacred synergy

Sustaining
surrounding
celebrating a yellow morning
mellow sunrise
promising this wealthy day
without soggy rain

As we prepare to health harvest
warmly fragrant sun-dried hay
I quietly say

So, there is a God,
after all.

“And I believe in love
even when there’s no one there.
And I believe in God
even when he is silent.”

These two additional beliefs
feel like one Relief Belief
to my bicameral head choice
and heart voice.

For it has often been said
and felt
that God is love

Especially when
Matriotic HolySpirit of Love
doesn’t act like a Patriarchal Fool

And, by that,
I reference my own sociopathology
of privileged entitlement
monoculturally over-invested
in capitalist Straight
White
Earth Predations
Colonizations
Extractions
Rapaciousness

But,
my most courageous inscriptions
of whispering hope
often not felt enough
sacredly chosen silence
in spaces between
my LeftBrain dominant
distracting notes

Where my own AnthroSupremacism
falls vibrantly listening
to responsively hear
Elder MotherTrees
sigh
and breeze

Silently praying
for strong rooted
cooperative integrity

Within this organic Green Communion
forest of hands on
generating regenerous Hope.

Note:

Pandemonic Hope is part of a series of theological reflections offered to and from the All Souls Unitarian-Universalist Choir in New London, Connecticut. 

“Inscription of Hope” was composed for the Nebraska Choral Arts Society and Children’s Chorus by Z. Randall Stroope, in conversation with a Russian Folk Tune.  His lyrics are drawn from an inscription on cellar walls hiding Jews in Cologne, Germany, during World War II. Stroope’s own 1994 reflection on the significance of these words, in this Holocaust pandemonic context, “Hope was all they had to hold on to; hope was their only bridge to a brighter [nonviolently restoring justice] tomorrow.”

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Eighth Grade English

Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of these three tension intentions:

Like sacred mythic prayers
and fables invoking
poetry and soulful
gospel anthems

Of StraightWhite Man v AnthroOther

Or StraightWhite ManBody v EgoCentric Self

Or StraightWhite ManSpirit v Earth’s Sacred/Carnal Nature

I was disappointed
with the LeftHemisphere narrow-mindedness
of these three Either/Ors
which my RightHemisphere
could more deeply hear
as monocultural lack
of inter-trinitarian
Both HumanTrauma and DivineTherapy
in integrity’s polyculturally inclusive
compassionate Earth Communion.

I thought I had seen and heard
lack of heart resources
among AnthroSupremacist early philosophers
and scripture righter downers
instinctively suppressing liberally democratized
polycultural health-systemic
polypathic compassion communicating
polyphonic harmonic resounding
polyvagal neurosystems
most actively hoping health
among win/win economically enlightened
and politically empowered EarthWomanists.

I’m sure I still can feel touched gratitude
for more healthy democratic attitude
co-governing cooperative green co-investments
in EarthMother climate
and family healthcare,
public
and domestic,
global
and local nutritional wealth conservation,

Economically bright
and politically right
ecologically tight relationships
lead
and feed
theologically mighty cooperative reflections

Politically correct
replete with regenerative
healthy co-redemptive
win/win poyculturally meditative
mediation strategies seductive
among win/lose monocultural predatives,

Encouraging, perhaps, a cannabis sedative
and easing up on alcoholic dissociatives
drunk from win/lose evolutionary theories
of AnthroSupremacy Wins Earth’s wealthiest superlative
despite stumbling into humbling wounds
of multi-degenerational EcoCide

A more Left/Right Wing balanced
evolutionary race theory of white supremacy
unbalanced
mentions intrinsic narrative tensions
between peaceful intentions
and male militaristic
colonizing
enslaving
proprietary
patrilinear monocultural domination
going way back through HiStory

Toward brighter indigenous lights
of early monotheistic SunGod Worship
preferring healthier transparent light
and wealthier vulnerable win/win
co-sensory empowerment

Among prehistoric
preverbal family groups
extended kin

PanEnTheistic
early regenerational DNA co-relatives
of wavey Time integrity
and atomic faced Space
bicamerally synergetic

PolyHealth fed
and EcoWealth watered
compassion’s
co-binary extension

InBetween Yang’s Open ZeroZone
and Yintegral NonZero
soulful bicameral response
along polypathic lines
with polyphonic ringing
spaces
harmonic singing

For panoramic
epic textured narratives
of faithful AnthroSupremacists
learning how much we BlueSky love
and GreenEarth worship
our own
personal

Ecofeminist
Green empowering
Indigenous GrandMothers
who lived and died
long before verbal language
LeftBrain robust enculturation,
and Eighth Grade English
privileged class.

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A CoffeeGrounded Moment

Once within eternal Time
a coffee ground
of full-spectral
spacious consciousness,
Might sink in cold water cups

Yet rise to surface in warm oil sublime
joyously buoyant juice

Happiest to float atop
a hierarchy of divinely positioned selection
station
static inquisition

Yet again,
to an individual
free and woke coffee ground,
What is out
and up on top,
In StraightWhite
Patriarchally privileged position,

Is, yet again,
What is down
and inside repositioned
eco-conscious remission
into deep learning privilege
co-arises all our history’s
revolutionary
ecotherapeutic
subdued
immersed consciousness
of dualdark mystery

Universal EarthTribe unitarian
deep health through surface
sufficiently buoyant
wealth,
Ego/Eco Systemically
indigenous wisdom

This coffee ground up
is also ground down
perspectives in-between full
consciousness
of unconscious empty
spiraling dynamics
revolving revolutionary
wisdom

NonZero conscious Zones
NonDualistic
DiPolar CoArising
basic bilateral
polypathic space

Is also felt polyphonic
in temporally respiring
harmonic octaves

Of ecologically regenerative health
double-4fractal prime DNA systemic

Double BiNomial
RedYang
coffee ground’s individual sinking strength
is also buoyant yintegral consciousness flowing

1 nomial moment is to 0-triangulated space
Open Exponential double-binary
therapy-thought/trauma-felt Times
consciously capital bicameral
ego-dignity/eco-integrity binomial
bilateral development

As EgoIdentity
embodies organic multi-regenerative
decaffeinated grounds of Health
empowering Yang BiLateral FullConscious Wealth
Left

Of Wisdom’s Right
EcoSystemic
FullSpiraling
Inspiring ReVolutionary
PolyTheistic
ReGenerous Solutionary

Enlightening yintegral polyphonic
deep ungrounded feelings
Intro/Retro CoInvested
win/win strategic resource
CoInfested

DNA 4-fractals of EcoConsciousness
universal/unitarian
space/time communitarian
left/right bilateral creolian
west/east nonsectarian
north/south repairian
secular/sacred dipolarian
dignity/integrity bipartisans rock
and roll again

CoffeeGround consciousness
naturally PatriCapital up
may be more buoyantly multicultural
Yet no more than equals
not not PolyCultural Communion
down deep

Or up top soon becomes degenerative
unconsciousness,
Lack of win/win rebounding
away from Business As Usual
StraightWhite PatriCapitalist
LeftHemisphere
slick oily
and juicy dominance
Once again on this water drenched
bad
depressing
lack of EarthTribe consciousness day

Preferring deep dark
polycultural
democratic
ego/eco-systemic
health/wealth global conscience

Singing
and ringing red sky climate warnings
yet again
against deep pools
of eroding PatriCapital
sufficient for full EarthTribal
deep root health-chakra consciousness

CoffeeGrounds rerooting
in nondualistic indigenous wisdom theory
that theological experiences
of our Great Immanent
Imminent MotherEarth Spirit
Are doubly rooted

In ecological ecosystemic co-investments,
In EarthTribe’s BluSky enlightened radiance
resiliently floating in compassionate love
with GreenEarth empowering

Health/Wealth Integral
bilateral self/other conscious
GoldenRule
up/down
in/out
ego/eco win/win Ratio

Balancing NonSectarian ReLigious Resilience
of full open-systemic copassionate
bicamerally co-empathic
verbally thought
and nonverbally felt
nonviolently communicating
integral health/wealth consciousness

Once within eternal Time
a coffee ground
of full-spectral
spacious consciousness,
Might sink in cold water cups

Yet rise to surface in sacred oils
of sublime
joyously buoyant
woke up
deep and wide compassion
juice.

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Revolution’s Peace PerSpective

Go ahead
Dare to invite him
to a climaxing fall-colored picnic

To read you his obituary for himself
and for you,
subject to future updating
round perspectives
free for changing
still-evolving revolutions

Then,
my retrospective therapeutic turn
to introspectively review again
past traumas
of EgoSpection
surrounded outside
by his contextual EcoSpectral Spectrum Spectives
warm and cool,
freezing and redhot
climaxing traumatic knots

Not to out loud trust
speaking these Interior Obituary Inspections
about myself
and also His Exterior FullSpectral ReInspected
vulnerable truths, as I would heal them
through more transparent healthy wealth
of mutual compassion
slowly moving forward.

Then,
while opening the picnic basket
and our impassioned historic mouths
to speak of our possible future
re-amending revolution,

We take in all we can become grateful
for receiving now
here,
in this sacred dining
graced reperspective place
through our correlational experienced time
space within this eternally nutritious
nature seen and nurture heard
compassionate communion
grace

In this
our eternally momentary
yet fully spacious
nonzero zoning sacred space

For further IntroVersive Speculation
Exterior AdVersive SpecuElation
RetroInversive
CoReVersive Spectator Meditations

Spectacularly vulnerable
IntroAdversive
SpecCumulative
SpecUlative Reflections

On MeWe personal health
is also our cooperating political wealth
to socially empower
and culturally enlighten
economic incorporating cooperation
with nonviolently positive
psychologically therapeutic
nontraumatic communication

WinWin v WinLose
our polyvagal wavering way
OK
but inviting more friendly
cooperatively co-invested
Left/Right DiPolar ReInSpections
reigning in co-passioning consciousness
of win/win co-relational banalities

cognitive/affective rebalancing
thought/felt binomialities
nondualistic wisdom
indigenous Left/Right
redeveloping naturally spiritual
embodied mind realities

Indi/ExtraForming Genius
genous
generous
regenerate

Ego/Eco-ReIntroductions
ReInductive outflowing consciousness
ingrowing rememory
outgoing
MeWe reflowing

NonZeroZones
of inside/outside double-boundary baskets
and tongue-speaking lungs
on a picnic for nonviolently recommunicating
our CoPassionate RetroSpectives,
autumn harvest
obituary perspectives

Of two separated
yet still married gay men
in our sixties,
with memories as a Southblack/Northwhite couple
and as parents
of four wounded
gratefully adopted children
of color
and diverse genders
and gender preferences
and transgender questions,

Longing to live
in a global climate perspective
of universal empowering healthcare
and unitarian eco-outside green respectives
multiculturally woke
enlightened consciousness
yang outside health
is also yintegral inside wealth

Of polyculturally green ecosystems
producing healthy multiculturals
ego/eco-loving
NatureEarth-ReSpirited
EcoFeminist Win/Win
cheers and chills
for this
our RetroSpective
CoEmpathic
ReUnion.

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Urgent Health Democracy

Amusing sacred A-musings
like Atheistic A-gnostics

ReDiscover resilience
where Trauma is some part of Life

Win/lose LeftHemisphere dissociating
lack of RightSung resonance

ReUncover indigenous integrity
to feel wise reculturing nuances
between naturally Therapeutic
multicultural spirit dynamics

Health optimal democracy
grows wealth of opportunity
for deep octaves
of integral systemacy

Integrity
rather than feeding
and overwatering
more Traumatic risk
of patriarchal
capital-growing
opportunistic duty

To ReGenerate eco/theo-logos reflections
on what we healthiest communionate:

Am I Self protagonist
against Other antagonist
egocentric?

Or
EcoSystemic’ly healing
healthy wealth in-forming out-goes
AnthroSublime
more than Self/Othering
AnthroSupremacist
winning over sinning today
to avoid losing disembodied identity
in some disenfranchised tomorrow

Hurtfully devolutionary
monoculturally ordinary
retributively penitentiary
cruel and unusual anti-fairy
dissociatively deflectionary
not inter-religiously extraordinary

Apartheid
lack of compassion’s transparency
experientially coreflectionary
nondeflective musicarried
win/win vulnerably co-revolutionary

Our MeWe
green peace operatic
operations wu-wei
healing PatriCapitalist historic harm
dousing further climate flames
of even more CancelCulture NonCommunion
lack of amusing charm
in LeftBrain’s dominating ways

Toxic
anti-systemic worst days
entropic best nights
endemic absence
of bilateral
binomial
bicameral cooperative plays

Musing inspirations
do not lose gratitude
for our best day attitudes
nor operatic curiosity
about Politically Incorrect furiosity

Worst day fears and angers
about what EarthTribe lives endangered
have been WholeEarth lost
to future expiring
un-musing
unraveling spirals
of dynamic
epic
Earth respirations
inspirations
exhalations
operatic muse desperations

In A-gnostic octaves
double-fractal coloring keys
Me without We forgiving
history’s broken win/lose nest
dissociating nature-spirit’s We celebration
indigenously healthy best

In tegrity,
co passion
a musing muses
of nonviolently sung communication
danced in spiraling fire circles
of octave-structured resounding sound
and music Earth empowering
and sacred Sky enlightening sight

Bicamerally co-governing
therapeutic co-invested
anti-trauma co-infested
co-amusing muse

Singing HerPassion storic
rebirthing
revolving
EarthMother/Child infantstructured
co-operations

Amusing sacred A/C-musings
co-arising A-theistic energies ergodic
A through Z octavely harmonic
eco-logos theognostics

ReDiscover Win/Win cooperative resilience
where Trauma is always red-sky warning
some win/lose non-therapeutic part
of EarthTribe Musing Life

Win/lose LeftHemisphere dissociating
lack of RightSung resonance,
co-redemptive resilience.

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By Other Names

We need not accept
we shall never truly overcome

Another name for
PatriCapitalist
fake religious apartheid
monotheistic justified
ecofeminist punishing
Fascism

Is violent
War Propaganda,

Exploitive
AnthroSupremacism

To which Earth Justice advocates respond
by robustly singing resistance
and resiliently dancing resonance

We do NOT accept
win/lose WesternWhite
Straight
PatriCapitalist Evolutionary
racist RightWing reactionary
homophobic degenerate
miraculous misconception Theory

And we multiculturally do embrace
We Shall Overcome
resistance to our own
internalized
PanEntheistic Creation Story
of universally revolutionary EarthMothers
with co-invested
co-inviting
pay it forward ecopolitical experience

CoOperatively regenerative Win/Win
healthy EgoCenters
embracing wealthy EcoSystemic WombWoke
WuWei Practice

BiCameral experiences
of a well-sung
healthy resilient
wealthy resonant Dance
reincarnating
copassionate
PolyCultural Communion

Through memories
as old as preverbal
polyvagal neurosystemic
enlightenment

During FullMoon
StarLit
FireCircle
RightBrain dancing recycles
empowering
great LeftBrain spacious co-empassioning
muse amusing EverFlowering
OverComing climax forte Anthems

Passion Stories

ReCreation Epic Narratives

EarthClimate ReGeneration Advocates
need not accept
We Shall Do Win/Lose Less
than Win/Win ReVolutionary
OverCome

In
and on
and beyond
this timeless HereNow
SpaceTime
HealthWealthy
LeftWing/RightRing
co-infesting EarthDay.

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Learning to Accept

Thank you Stathi,

I thought this was going to be about Learning to Accept

degenerating ancient bodies
degenerating soulful minds
a degenerating,
indigenously NatureYang/SpiritYintegrally wise EarthTribe
of Organic EcoSystemic MultiReligious PolyCultures:

PanenTheistic
StraightWhiteMale Universal-West MonoTheism v. [and] Queer Spiral EcoFeminist PeaceActivist Unitarian-East PolyTheism,

AnthroSupremacist MonoTheism North 1/0 Sacred EarthMother PolyCultural South

[co-arising dipolar bicamerality]

PatriCapitalist Dominant RightWing/
MatriCommunion Indigenously EcoFeminist LeftWing

[potential for bicameral self and other restoring justice]

Within a more internally/externally
breathing in healthy and breathing out wealthy EarthClimate of Integrity

[GoldenRule, nonviolently applied to one’s own EgoLeftYang Hemisphere
by EcoSystemic RightYintegrity’s Sacred ReGenerative BiHemispheric Potential.]

Which is a journey all about learning to accept that win/lose PatriCapital LeftBrain Universal dominance can be forgiven,
especially as we deep learn
and nonviolently listen
for

PolyCultural Communion,
RightBrain Unitarian prominence
can become MultiCulturally
EcoPolitically
BiCamerally
ConCelebrated
CoPassionate
CoInvestments in thriving Win/Win Health/Wealth optimizing

Creolizing,
sacred inside/outside communion transubstantiating
regenerative healthier climate futures
for win/win thriving
co-investing
cooperatively GoldenRule organizing
EarthTribal regenerations
of bicameral balancing
ego-health/sacredEarthWealth amplitude
gratitude
positive ecopolitical attitude
ecofeminist organic platitudes
from way, way back

before U.S. history,
before English language
before European human history,
before linguistic language
before homosapiens
to DNA’s Left/Right spiraling
health/wealth
nature/spirit
outside/inside
strong/flow
regeneratively climaxing
dipolar co-arising wisdom.

That said, and even bicamerally so,
my LeftBrain ego identity still thought this was going to be about Learning to Accept
eternal win/lose anxiously, chronically traumatic pre/post stress, cognitive/affective dissonance,
strong win/lose evolutionary competitive human natural
PatriCapitalist overwhelming
win/win timeless NonZero Soul
ecofeminist underdogs
[RightWing often thought of as MeToo# []itches]
for aregenerative healthy democracy
by wealthy resilient way
of bicamerally climaxing overflow

Instead of Learning to Accept
LeftBrain dominance
as if it were monotheistically
Straight White Western “MaleGod”
monoculturally inevitable
AnthroSupremacy.

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Gnostic A/Theistic Systems

My bicameral strong connection
between monotheism
and anthro-supremacism
lies in dogmatic monocultural belief

OneGod
created and recreated
and remade and premade
this Universal Home
MeWe bilaterally celebrate
as HealthyTrue
enlightened resonance
and WealthyBeautiful
empowering resilient PatriCapitalist editing
while recopying

Scribes transcribing
hoping to transubstantiate
our own LeftBrain monoculturing
encultured comfort training

Communicating sacred rhetorical secularizing history
of monotheistic StraightWhiteMale
retributive divine justice privileged

AnthroEgo-dominant reinforcing
individualized protagonist oppressions
against Great Dark MultiCulturally Matriarchal Others,
RightBrain reweaving alien panentheistic
eco/theological preverbal foreign nondualism

With only primordially felt incapacity
to verbally distinguish
between ecologically uncovered healthy relationships
and theologically recovered wealthy theistically
mighty monocultural overpowering
entitled experience
of individually commodified things

Property owned more salient
than interwoven synergetic properties
ecofeminist cooperatively self-organized
co-natural/spiritual

Indigenously prehistorically felt
animated NatureSpirits
of nonviolent/violent communications
through exterior/interior win/win needs
to heal traumatic silence
dissonance
lose now or lose later
mortal dissociation

Boring through bicameral balancing experiences
remembering
reconnecting
re-ligioning
Theo/EcoLogically robust climaxes
down and up,
in and out,
back and forth
sacredly inspired
and secular expiring

Sensory-neural nonviolent communication
bicamerally co-arising
dipolar health/wealth optimizing
experience of EcoTheist
polytheistic natured
and panentheistic internally enspirited
EgoHumane/EcoDivinely
NonZero-FullHearted Soul
Universal-Unitarian
Tao WuWei BiCameral

Ego YangPatriarchal/Eco-Yintegral Womanist
Nature/Spirit indigenous
SkyWoman/EarthWomb myths
regenerating Light/Power sacred mystery

Spacious/BiLaterally Timeless History
of EarthTribe’s ReGeneratively Dynamic
CoCreation

Including Western StraightWhite Males
choosing ancient sacred manuscripts
requiring some editing holes plunged in
editing
correcting
disciplining manly scripture,
translating and re-editing

While recopying
and transcribing
and transubstantiating
monocultuiring PatriCapitalist enculturing
evermore BusinessAsUsual worn path chosen

For sacred rhetorical history
of monotheistically overpowering
StraightWhiteMale privileged

LeftBrain dominant further reinforcing
academic deductive
reductive oppressions against RightBrain panentheistic
preverbal incapacity
to verbally articulate
any distinction
that could possibly make a difference

InBetween ecologically healthy relationships
and theologically robust climax experiences

Of sensory-neural nonviolent communication systems
transubstantiating bicamerally co-arising
atheistic/theistic co-experience
of external verbally dominant Voices
and internally preverbally felt
prominently climaxing
and ebbing
heart-resonant
resilient health/wealth Choices.

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Where is HOME?

Among several sublime
and subprime
sacred meanings
and secular purposes
for HOME,
in October Sunbeams
of BlueSky enlightenment
and GreenEarth empowerment,

Dennis Lehane’s HOME
refining peaceful stable minds
defining sacred communion
for unconditional compassionate love,
not intentionally unkind

I could not sync
with mythological
or ecological
or theological CONCEIT

But, could not find a replacement
until recalling indigenously wise
nature-spirited refacement
of EarthMother’s EcoRoom,
a regenerate matriarchal WOMB

Making peace for Here
Now sacred place,
until we disregard
dismantle
desecrate
and degenerate,
in AnthroSupremacist ways,
down toward MotherEarth’s TOMB
GLOOM

Extracted
cancelled
pathological HOME
of DOOM

Which maybe does say something
about mythologically epic
CONCEIT.

Note: This piece refers to

“Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap.  Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them.  Happiness is clearheaded human interaction and empathy.  Happiness is home.  And home is not a house–home is a mythological conceit.  It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love.

Dennis Lehane, in The Sun (magazine), “Sunbeams,” p. 48, October, 2021

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