Resonant metaphors are nourishing polypaths
analogous to rich polyphonic relationships
comparing polynomial poetic communications
complexly contrasting nondual polarities
For those with humane identities
informed by richly cultivated Win/Win faith
to hear and feel eco-them
as the healthiest integrity
with curiously wealthy
courageous ego-us
Building not necessarily not
ZeroSoul metaphors
appealing not to and not for,
but always integrally with,
ZeroSum polypathic potential.
Fertilization
Impression
Suppression
Repression
Depression
Sublimation
Illumination
Transformation
Celebration
Immolation
Hesitation
Fertilization…
My handsome brown-skinned husband
was once again velvet-voiced complaining
just this morning
while I was staring
glaring at my overstuffed sock drawer,
“You are so consistently ambivalent
and reliably inconsistent
I have no idea what’s coming next
from your lack of erection direction.
You ‘both-and’ everything
hopelessly,
yet tirelessly,
looking for the perfectly balanced win-win
in a win-lose
eat or be eaten world.
I have no idea
what you would do without me.”
Although I somewhat more hopefully resemble this remark
and I can see he is not not wrong,
or right,
totally dark or totally bright,
all his “either black or white”
left-brain dominance
does sound impatiently judgmental.
So, in an impulsive moment of ginger anger,
I respond
“You are so poor
you’ve never had two co-incidental thoughts
to rub together.”
“Is that like a mixed metaphor
or something sinister
unpulled together?
Anyway, that sounds shockingly ungenerous
from win-win you.”
“Sorry if I hurt your feelings.”
“What feelings?”
“I think my question is
Which feelings did I hurt?”
“My feelings about personal wealth
and left-embodied with right-mind cooperative
win-win political health
to handle your dipolar co-arising appositions.”
Maybe I’ll go with one old dark sock
and one white privileged.
In a win or lose
either/or binary digital technology game
created from an original WinPlayer/WinGame
co-defining definition,
each player can play regenerative win/lose sequences
knowing
trusting
faithing that eventually a win/win outcome
emerges cumulatively from possible
toward probable.
And what does it mean for the individual player
to win this one individuating winner-contextual goal?
To “beat” the game
is for the game’s creator(s)
to win as well,
a cooperative embodied/intellectual endeavor
within a closed rule system.
It feels no great right-brain wonder
such win-ego/win-eco active hope
of probable consummation
within one mortal lifetime
would become addictive
As contrasted
to the immensity of lose/lose mortal risks
and ungraspable win/win immortal ambiguity
in the vastly grand theft stages
of Earth’s revolutionary
Open Whole EcoSystemic probabilities
Of achieving nutritional win/win opportunities
and avoiding sufficient toxic win/lose risks
of one mere mortal player,
An autonomous left-brain individual
unaware of an interdependent right-brain co-presence
individuating health-game wealthing processes
as timelessly eternal
as forceful Adam with resourceful Eve
As empirical closed rule game systems
emerging from lyrically open win/win harmonic ecosystems,
win/lose Yang endurance
with win/win Yin resilience,
Left brain wealthy strengths
with Right brain healthy sustainability,
Left cognitive intelligence
with Right emotive brilliance,
together holistically open
eternally interdependent
win/win ego/eco-gaming
health/wealth memory player systems.
We each have that early spring
post-matriarchal
un-hibernating
emerging from EarthMother moment,
An awareness memory
of late winter’s pregnant demands
to cramp and thrust forward
patriarchally over-powering
in full summer’s fertile august strength.
We each have this great green climate moment
of silent anticipation
bringing all our ancients gathered
and returning reborn music
danced in-between winter
and spring’s wild awakening
win winning together
seamlessly
All climates marched before
with all moods augustly septumbering behind
health/wealth bicamerally reiterating after
We each share one Great Matriarchal Transition
early springing out all over memory metaphors
of EarthMother’s first heart-felt song
sung inside late winter’s last hibernating
passive moments of bipolar unconsciousness
Marching into win/lose political
and economic
and personal
and natural/spiritual dipolar climates
and metaphoric moods,
conflicted/restricted voices
heard in slow-jazzed magic soul
As Pisces twins float midway
between healthy swimming heaven
and pathological hell
bi-fractally fifth-dimension
Aquarian EarthClimate ascendent
Emerging pregnant with creative nondual tension
as a regenerating inside/outside new mom moon
Transitional integrity’s annual fullness
reborn win-win EarthPatriotic power
of a liberating Virgo’s
august appolonian/dionysian
yang/yin
east/west LeftDominant
south/north RightRecessive revolutionary prominent
march toward democratic health/wealth
EarthCentric promise
with 2020 reverse-hierarchical ReVision.
Reborn of FatherNorth
and MotherSouth soils
and ancient DNA fractal regenerations
Zero ZenZone bicameral souls
of jazz dance left springing up and out
with gospel soul sung winter force/source right
Marching reborn
Matriarchal/Patriarch restoring justice,
Non-violent communicating embodied co-passions,
Pisces twins swim-dance
with spiritual gospel win/win Virgin muses
east with west
right early spring left late winter
in grateful green anticipation.
Spike cannot be accurately accused of reverse-racism
after his lifetime of chronic WhiteHouse Trumpian privileged,
Spike disempowering,
socially acerbic exposure
For the same reason
calling privileged daytime
“reverse nighttime”
takes us back only from moon set
toward moon rise
And does nothing to honestly confront
Trumpian fake-theological utopias
in which god’s full grace
brightest shines in space
only from colonizing sun rise
toward enslaving sun sets
by privilege of dominating light-skinned race.
This may come as large surprise,
but I did once take a beginner’s poetry class
which I often confuse with my beginner parenting class.
In which we learned good verse
and voice
have structure
pattern
imprinting rhythm
rich metaphoric content
perhaps even epic regenerative story,
assonant bouquet,
climates of hue and cry.
Who would or could a poet be
or hope to at last become
and yet unresponsively disagree?
Not me.
Even so,
if what I write
cannot resonate within your calling day,
and hopefully tomorrow
and resiliently flow on back
through all your best, not worst,
imagined yesterdays,
Then we are not yet our resonant poetry
so it is not so richly mine,
nor true poetry at disfamiliar all
of any kind
or mean spirit
natural
or unnatural.
Strong poetry cannot flow anonymously
autonomous.
My poetic muse shrinks,
like wound from salt,
from capital competing
absent co-infested resonance
resiliently wounded assonance
cooperative co-governance
restorative resilience
of integrity’s best eco-aspirations.
Poetry
with green me
grows not only rhythmic swell
and political ebb,
but also liberating healthy smell
and not so hoarding ego fell.
Poetry praises time we share
nakedly co-resonant,
resplendent as spiritual underwear
inviting nature’s brilliant subharmonies
to speak again full-voiced revival choir
without degenerate
autonomous
naked despair
In which we learn good verse
and voice
have structure
pattern
imprinting rhythm,
rich analogic content,
perhaps even revolutionary story,
assonant bouquet,
climates of secular hue
and sacred silent cry.
People of sacred wild Cornucopias
found ourselves politically alone
competing to survive
in Earth’s choking climates
of totally domesticated despair.
Corn People,
PolyCultural Planners,
greeting Yang-behaving bean bodies
growing up and into our digestive tracks
and tracts,
our speaking parts,
to sing like tassels
our Divine Corn and humane Yang-beanish ego-rising lines
of harmony
co-arising nondual Earth anthems
of graceful GreatSpirit incarnation.
Domesticating corn people
finally also meet Yin’s squashed voices
flowing bilaterally out
well-grounded cooperative incorporations
intending divine corn
and Yang-bean
and Yin-squash
mutually braiding
weaving up and out
trimesters of rich
and deep
nutritional development,
with winter dormancy in-between
summerish diastases.
Corn and Bean and Squash diversity
during August pre-birth deliveries
reducing competitive domesticating relationships
to favor cooperative democratizing trinities,
of Spirit and Body and Bilateral Flowing UnSquashed Minds.
These corny holonic domesticating resources
enjoy differentiated cultural climates,
Diverse partners prevailing
through multicultural nutritional landscapes
up and out,
down-rooting and inward feeding feeling
as outward bleeding
into each Other’s Common-Space
and side-by-side solidarity reforesting times.
People of the Corn
and beans and squash,
co-domesticating temporal WinWin differentiations,
preoccupying Earth’s global climate
in different times of day and night,
months and years,
transgenerational eras and stages
of mutual democratization
into trust
bean-sprouting
within interdependent pumpkin patches.
People of the Corn
invite diverse beanish vertical needs
and polypathic squashy tendril outputs
in different revolving stages
of our mutual domestication,
integrity empowered
through deep nutritional gardens
and forests of time,
like climates of Earth,
organically democratizing solidarity.
People of sacred wild Cornucopias
found ourselves politically atoned
through competing to survive
in Earth’s stroking strumming climates
of globally democratizing,
healthy wealth,
Original PolyCultural Intention.
I’m not sure
if nature’s spiritual voices,
if Earth’s cultural songs and dances,
are merely subjectively interesting
nutritional creolizing metaphors,
or if all ecological analogies
are necessarily and objectively interesting,
or perhaps even both,
sacred-secular co-arising.
This is for better as healthier, more regenerative, economic and political health advocates. We begin with a request for proposals from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with a March 23, 2017 deadline.
With that, or some other health-regenerative, rather than pathology-degenerative, Purpose in mind, here is an excerpt from George Lakoff’s “The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to your Brain and its Politics” but including my own private/public health-related ‘both-and’ notations in brackets, which I hope will not be too distracting to be useful:
How the Rational [WinLose Competitive LeftBrain Dominant] Actor Model Contradicts Real [Left/Right Bicameral] Reason
This is a book about real [bicameral re-centering] reason–what the cognitive sciences have discovered about how we really [regeneratively-positive and degeneratively-negative] think [and feel]. So far we have seen that we think in terms of [evolving WinWin nutritional] frames, [regenerative/degenerative] narratives, [ecological-nurturing flow-trend] metaphors, [multicultural] metonymies, and [choice-tree WinWin patriarchal/matriarchal Left/RightBrain] prototypes. The rational actor model is itself defined by metaphors, and its stylized [ego/eco-bilateral structural] facts [with inductive trust, mistrust, distrust feelings] are defined by [landscape of organic network, reverse-hierarchical, WinWin choicemaking-tree bilateral] frames. But [organic ecological network] frame-based and [creolization, Jane Anna Gordon] metaphorical [WinWin] thought are largely [inductive-nonlanguaged RightBrain] unconscious and reflexive, while the calculative thought of the rational actor model is [deductive-languaged LeftBrain dominant] conscious and [bilaterally, bicamerally, binomially co-arising] reflective. If you limit what you mean by ‘reason’ to [deductive-only] conscious reflective thought, you might very well be led to believe that the rational [positive-affective co-empathic] actor model [co-facilitative regenerative-reiterative mentor], or something [positive-regenerative WinWin ecopolitical] like it, might define [bicameral] rationality. That is, you might see such a [WinWin Gaming WisdomCouncil] model as defining the rational [bilateral thought/feeling] structure of [empathically trusted health v pathology] reality as well as human [metric-algorithmic-ecological] rationality–allowing human [bicameral] beings to fit their [LeftBrain EgoCentering] reason to the [RightBrain EcoFlow Inductive Feeling] rationality of the [ecopolitically nutritious] world and hence survive [Left WinLose assumption] and thrive [Right WinWin polypathic health-regenerate trust].
…The [bicameral] rational actor model is a [polypathic discernment and dialogue, communication] product of real [health-wealth optimization] reason. But the [WinWin Gaming Patriarchal/Matriarchal Network] model itself makes the inherent claim that [organic] reason does not involve either [mechanistic] metaphors or [merely metric and abstractly languaged] frames. It therefore cannot [not] be a[n ecological] model of real [interdependent WinWin] human [cooperative-dominant rather than competitive] reason. And moreover, when we study the [political health as economic wealth] metaphors, [eco-network gaming] frames, and what [regeneratively/degeneratively] follows from them, we can see the limitations and possible dangers [of LeftBrain Deductive Enculturation Dominance], as well as the [health-optimization, cooperative thrival outcome] benefits, of applying such [ecologically bicameral nutritional-regenerative as also ecopolitical empowerment/disempowerment health] models [of and for WinWin EarthCentered internal and external climates and landscapes of regenerative health, and not so much LeftBrain Dominant degenerating WinLose pathology].
pp. 220-221, Penguin
If anyone else out there sees bicameral health-wealth wisdom investing in our shared cooperative WinWin Ego/EcoLogical regenerative-positive/degenerative-negative trend analysis, leading to large-scale Both-And, rather than Either-Or, matriarchal (reverse-patriarchal mutual subsidiarity of nutritional flow-empowerment) choice-developing cooperative health-rooted decision trees, as you explore your own interior psyches, and your discussions with family and friends and aliens and other surprising and curious mixtures of health and safety defensive-progressive ambivalence, maybe we should try to bring this WinWin WisdomCouncil to global ecopolitical cooperative scale, for everyone’s current and future health and safety.
Gerald Dillenbeck MPA, M.Div. EcoPolitical CoOperative Health-Wealth GameSystem Designer, as are we all, at least biologically speaking
