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Surviving Winter Pandemics

Winter survivors
open downstream
thawing toward cooperative green thrivers

Spring green economic
and democratic empowering,
multiculturing fertile resilience

On through summer climax
and then autumnal equinox 0-range
Transitions back to winter’s more vaccinated closing

Closeted fear of losing
survivalist right brain terrified
by white privileged winter
punishing winds

Of depressing changes
against all EarthTribal joy
unseeded
unbreeding
dispassionate left brain red
rabid intolerance
of repressed right brain green
ecofeminists

Holding cooperative worldviews
blue/green compassionate EarthCentric
nutritional re-investments
in timeless spring EarthDays

Liturgical warm Yang easy
stretching downstream thaws

Also draws
yintegrity’s timeless flowing feelings
more sacred poly-entheistic
downriver dipolar co-arising
toward EarthDay open
light empowering Seasons

Less secular monopolitical econo-mystic
values counter productively red
hotly profligate
in straight white patriarchal privileged
mutually assured destructive USA red
and unEarthly unsacred blue white
deep left brain freezes static
intended for surviving win/lose
ancient winterish wounds

Of historic
monocultiural
left brain dominant
lack of spring outside sacred
regenerative eco-health care

Planting and thereby receiving
green wealth developing
health survival systems
flowing downstream
time for win/win cooperative
warm green resonant
thrival.

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Teachable Momentums

Today
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may need to co-invest more
in co-operating democratic research
of
and for
WholeEarth DiaLogical Matriotism.

Excuse me,
but co-passioned listening
to silence
speaks not consent
to dispassionate lectures

Featuring compassionate feelings,
in every way but delivery
of compassionate communication
compatible with thoughtful principles of non-violent change
more intuitive, less leftbrain cognitive,

Complex language systems
yet less chaotic than violence
random
overpowering
more than dipolar nuance

I’m hearing sensory
sensually resonant
co-passionate polyphonic language
forming more of an octave healing choir
singing four part green gospel

Natural liturgy for thriving
Truth and Beauty
health and safety
passionately surviving

Yet another autonomous Yang-verbal lecture
to pass down information
from heavenly paradise Principles
passive dispassion voiced
from on high ex cathedral authors
and authority judge figures

Speaking down
into fading democratic deep learning
root systemic researching ears and eyes,
noses and mouths
tasting and seeing warm and cold feelings
bitter and sweet tastes salty and sour
acidic needs
to feel authentically persistent

Green regenerative miracles
of perennially trusted Truths
and safely symmetrical double-binary Beauty

Compassionately ego-therapeutic
while restorating WholeEarth
systemic cooperative justice
exhalations

For today’s politically incorrect multicolors
shade
and then fade Blue liberal elite egalitarian
to remerge communing Green
conservational conversational
nonviolent interdependence
passing through principles
of autumn’s non-violet 0-range

Playing hard impassioned thoughts
as soft compassion worked out feelings
win/win multiply
optional peace investment games

Calculating leftbrain privileged
autonomous unspoken risks
against, not with,
rightbrain win/win adventurous opportunities
to regain regeneratively healing
positive blue/green WholeEarth classrooms

Health/wealth systemic
dually compassionate
intuitive co-investments
ego/eco therapeutic,
bicamerally speaking
after bilaterally deep learning
listening.

As I was starting to say,
before so compassionately
impassionately interrupted
from where we left off
in the 20th century
leftbrain information flowering
of 19th century Industrializing
Well Capitalized Militarizing
Colonizing
Patriarchal StraightWhite
ego designed AnthroSystems
privileged violent evangelical Yang
Red demonizing
vengeful
punitive shame

On EcoOthers
dissociating blame away from Ego

PreDetermined monotheistic identity
only a leftbrain StraightWhiteMale god
could lectionary empower MAN
not so kind,

Yet sometimes curiously clever
at being cruel
enough to economically survive
not just passively obey
long enough
for yet another democracy thriving day

This green post-millennial 20/20 range
of compassionate revision
re-arranges reweaving reconnecting re-ligion

Our curiously clever win/lose
autonomously investing
light and power entrepreneur

May hope to retire
a professional academic
merely PhD-grade
Either True Or False philosopher

Feeding and watering ego identity
versus verses reverses
eco-incorporated overbearing
assaulting and extracting task masters

And my favorite pin-striped suit,
male or female,
and sometimes she/male
in between

An industrious era
of leftbrain capital dissociation
from traditional nutritional roots
uprising RedYang resiliently systemic
reverse green re-anticipation
within a compassionately felt octave

CoAwareness
multiculturally feeling and responding

And polyculturally passionately thinking
and co-responsive
co-investing in Teacher/Student
Parent/Child co-mediating
compassionate Language Circles
for restoring green EarthJustice

Needs no important permission
or more information
from wise leftbrain Authority
before win/win economic/ecological
deep empowerment listening
co-arises multicultural felt voices

No longer bought and sold
by more monoculturing
leftbrain education systemic
patriarchal choices

Instead, now re-investing
in blue/green equity
and cooperative 0-range co-invested
authenticity of co-articulating Green Communion
principles of healthcare systems
giving as receiving communications

Sometimes memed
and re-membered
and re-connected
rewoven,
rehealing mixtures
of left/right dipolar co-arising
teacher/wise student compassionate discourse,
trans-generational proactive win/win deliberation

Deep co-listening dialogues
mentored and co-mediated
talk stereophonic non-violent therapy
and green blogcast
cooperative
regenerating win/win health
caring non-violent
ultra-nonviolet coverage

Also feeling yintegral
full moon compassion flowing
rooted 0-range original
unrigid
uncoverage lessons
left right off
for yet another past tomorrow
this cooperatively held day

We left off yesterday
to pick up
where respeaking non-violent principles
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionately curious
eternally young
green healers.

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LoveWar of WorldViews

YangLeft: Those still capable of right thinking,
as our more civil
humane reflections
on bilateral political
and economic investment experience,
sometimes cooperative
and democratically co-invested,
but usually just BusinessAsUsual
life remains a win/lose dis-integrity
compromising
ZeroSum political disempowering game
competition.

YintegrityRight: Sweety,
thanks for honorable mention
of integrity, green democratic felt
internal health
actively hoping and acting
activists and not soully pacifists
for, and not just against, its opposite,
external ungated free
for interdependent future
health and safety regenerations…

…EcoFeminist green health/wealth
systemically flowing out
this last minute rambling mention,
in your amusing
by the biway highway
bipolarizing way…

…but you cannot expect win/win conversion
using win/lose dissociative verbal structures
when what we all multiculturally hope for
is just some everyday…

…Green CommonSense;
a LiveGod
is not an EvilDog…

…Dawn becoming LightPower
is not Dusk becoming DualDark
in our ZeroSum MonoPathing Zone

YangLeft: Sorry, I lost my linear rational place.
What were we not actually conversing about?…

Oh yes, neurological
analogical health wealth
cooperative, not competitively dueling, systems,
trans-communicating

Yintegrally Right Behind: Ecological wealth networks
of interdependent green sacred communion
co-investment.

Autonomous Yang: No, I can’t be
bipolarizing RightWing
full-frontal attack
anxiously anticipating…

This is a topic much too big
for mere Yang beginners,
hoping to understand
why we are not yet win/lose winners…

The problem of Live-Evil bitheism
among lonely Loser sinners
in my monotheistic
patriarchal
polynomial world
rational view
Left neurologically well endowed…

With overwhelming individualistic
verbal dominance,
often obsessed with defending
retributive blame and shame
capitally entitled patriarchal systems…

Either defensive RightWing safety
or wrong
my Great NotTransitioning ReActionary Way
or highway,
among enlightened monotheistic
capitalistic
retributive nonmercy
evolving win/lose secular world-view minds
developing without WholeView Earth souls.

Yintegrity Psalms: Too big or small,
too short-term or tall
this way you think to call
our Great MonoTheistic Fall
as I recall
has nothing to do at all
with my polytheistic ecofeminists…

…are seldom found
worshiping at an inside Mall…

…When outside rages red
with wild multiculturing colors
0-range Fall.

Yang: I remain steadfastly against
your polytheistic integrity
of PanTheistic Green/Blue Goddess

Yin: As I recall
our past dipolar co-arising
co-invested consensus
for binomial
bipolar both/and nuanced in/exformation flow
of EvilDog powers,
reversing double-bind beauty flowers
for LiveGod’s bicameral ecofeminist Light…

…sounds and sight
beyond disparities
of light and night,
flight and fright,
fight and might,
rite and bite,
wrong and right

Yang: I suppose propose
what feels polynomially multicultural to you
could also appear binomially cathected,
mutually oppositional trends
and bilateral structures
merging into polarizing reductive obstructions
to monotheistic
capitalistic
patriarchal
cognitive v emotive monopolizing
Ego/Eco disassociated Me.

Yin: Worshiping a positive Goddess of Blue/Green AquaLight
and terrified of equivalent binomial dark red powers
of Evil EcoFeminists not…

…not equals not
lose to lose
double-negative
so equitably positive health/wealth bicameral
win/win multiculturing
poly-entheistic We

YangLeft: Speaking and listening
nonviolently poly-pathic
co-passionate GoldenRules
egopatriarchal-ecofeminist ways
and biways
systemic left-right yintegral…

…rivers of mountainous Tao strength
Yang

Yintegrity: positive LiveD
is not unhealthy negative DeviL…

…right brained God
would not act like
a left-brain dominating Dog…

As polytheistic cooperative dipolar health systems
do not grow more monoculturing competitive wealth.

Yin: OK, much better Yang, dear.
I feel not only recognized
and heard,
but positively anticipated
and economically appreciated…

…co-enlightened
and co-empowered,
co-redeemed
co-arising
co-revolutionary…

…co-operative

Yang: Those still capable of thinking
co-responsibly
could be feeling eco-feminist favored
by cameral merging polynomials
are equally enlightened by
not not creolizing polynomials
bilateral neurological
win to both/and win
healthier
structurally resilient systems
and safer ego/eco-systemic
conjoined compassioning wealth

Yintegrity: There we go…

…patriarchally competitive verbalizing
consecutively linear again
always needing to speak last
profoundly and summatively
and “from above” transcendently lost
like the young voice
of a benign but lonely isolating God

Yang: We love us together
more than sever those other people
apart?

Yin: Yes,
this question mark helps…

…how about ego-privileged
pathologically angry down and inside…

…potentially speaks out flowingly
up for ecosystemic healthy communication?

Yang: We are so brilliantly divine together

Yintegral Summation: …and so dully inhumane
bipolaring appositionally apart from…

Yang: Having the last summation verb.

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InExhaustible ComPassion

Solitude
not impatiently exhausted
remains open to nonviolent solidarity
through multiculturing Earth communication,
within reflective self
and without
in active dialogue with nature
spirited Other remuneration.

As yang-strong
solid regenerative nature
engages and co-invests in more
and better compassionate humane
divine experience

As objective secular outcomes
blend yintegrity within
without subjective secularizing intent

To optimize green ego-health
and blue eco-sacred
co-invested safety;
An EarthCommuniy of communities
practicing social-economic Solitude
can be regenerative,
an omni-potent
poly-pathic
non-egotistic
eco-feminist
healthy and safe place

Strong Yang-power mounted
within Yintegrative well alliterative rivers
shivers
quivers
slivers
through bilaterally flowing ZeroZones

Full of timeless NonZero
times undefinable potential,
future wealth
planted in solidarity
of now unfolding
prehistoric
indigenous green/blue EarthWombs
of and for
reweaving memories.

Active solidarity
within eco-responsive solitude,
full and empty
impersonal when co-impassioned felt
and needed safe wealth
is health
proper communication seasons

Inexhaustibly solitary
nonviolent political community
of co-investing economic green communions,
regenerating solidarity
re-membering compassionate nonhistoric nurturing experiences,
polypathically rational outcomes

Objective
through anticipating ego-health reflective
eco-wealth intent

Of communal solitary souls
full and ego empty
NonZero Zoned reflective
subjects inexhaustibly objective
passions
compassions
exhaustibly solitary
solidarity.

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Today Is Different

Today is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.

Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacred
happy secular “Amen!”

Our nearly fearless Editor and Chief
calls for political “ACCOUNTABILITY!”
like so many others on bipolar Left through Right,

And those still hanging on
with battered nails
to quickly fading dipolar
in-between HAVE-NOT
anthrocultured primacy race
and HAVE
cash class
co-empathic consciousness
that renters and owners need each other
like borrowers and banks
yet feel as competitively apart
as victims and predators,
droning prey and patriarchal colonizers

Insurrectionists,
nihilistic HAVE-NOT anarchists
military industrialized
invade our sacred capitalistic space,
so now, I read,
“there needs to be
accountability.”

I do not disagree, BUT…
AND would you not agree
our shared future will be healthier,
and co-investing wealthier,
if predators claim their own responsibility
for exceeding civil and civic
democratically cooperative authority
through more slow-grown discernments

Rather than passionate placards
preferring hot
and sometimes armed
debate
drama
extraction
capture
imprisonment
enslavement
debacle
bacchanalia,
angry selfie Theater

Fueled by manufactured Bud
more than ancient cannabis buds.

Our angry Editor
lashes nationalistic Republicans out of town,
especially the transcendently unEarthly
Vice President Pence,
praying for “healing” and “unity,”
and not even close enough
for government work
invoking a sacred benediction
through end of term ACCOUNTABILITY!
of blind justice,
thus retributively more equitable
punishing non-mercy
served against irresponsible
angry words
and violently desecrating actions.

Interesting,
I also hear President Biden
passionately praying for “healing” and “unity”
Unity
Unity,
and more silent about punishing justice
held up to public scrutiny
of LeftBrain dominant, Accountability–
not so much RightBrain felt prominent,
CoResponsibility.

Retributive justice of Accountability
is for punishing
the autonomously guilty.

Restorative justice of CoResponsive
Responsibility
is for healing,
and resiliently lasting,
peaceful,
healthy interdependent unity

By divesting of autonomously unEarth-responsive
economic anthrocentric capital gains
and politically privileged responsibility
of patriarchal
capitalistic
military-industrialized
corporate empowered monoculturing supremacy,
anthro-irresponsible intent.

Why is it,
Mr. Editor,
I wonder wander
as I moondrift flow along,

Why is it more important
or realistic
or essential to punish
before moving on to heal:
to set apart and imprison,
to judge
and shame and blame,
before reconsidering unity
through faithful
multicultural dialogue?

This military-first preference
seems to reflect Chief RedCommander
inciting rhetoric
echoing Hitler’s strengths
of hate and violence
and deadening threat
of powerful justice
developing full-throttle
exclusively through our patriotic
overpowering position
of autocratic STRENGTH!

To hold the Alien EcOther
revengefully Accountable.

Actually,
as I dimly recall
my own unfortunate experiences with punishment
and healing warmth restoring healthier wealth
of personal political empowering responsibility,
nonviolent communication
includes inviting proactive practice
of compassionate therapy
through restorative justice,
pursuing multicultural pace
of EarthPeace,

More polytheistically matriarchal
than monoculturally
LeftBrain soulless solely Accountable
for missing opposite experience opportunities
more typically therapeutic
and conveniently,
even co-responsibly,
CoOperative Truths
building healthy democratic Trust.

I’m thinking I learn more powerfully
not from Strength, but uncapitalized weakness,
fluidity,
both/and nuance,
empowering eco-political responsibility
and disempowering ego-individual accountability,
publicized felony revenge
and misdemeanor scorn

Distract from wider experience
deeper Light
by exploring my own disconnected woundedness
evolving lonely feelings of win/lose mortal brokenness

Past failures in responsive civil commitment
to cooperatively hold
and cherish democratic sacred space
at home,
reading the weekly paper,
and WholeEarth abroad,

Rather than my boldest debates
to strongly compete in high risk
armed and violent communication confrontations,

Alarming punitive messages
using win/lose weapons of strong obfuscation,
which are irresponsible,
demanding that EcOthers be held apartheid Accountable
for lack of healthy healing,
cooperative unity,
co-governing skills for building
resiliently healing
trust-struggling
ongoing inclusive dialogue
relationships,

Religiously essential
to any healthy democratic
natural and/or spiritual experience,
constitutional
and/or familial,
anthro-centric
and/or eco-systemic health restoring,
globally political
and/or personal cooperative economics
of ecofeminist
green newLeft/ancientRight deal
co-responsible
resilient
and polypathically resonant
Ego/Earth co-investment

In a different
universally healing
unitarian tomorrow.

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Integrity’s ConFusion

It is confusing
to RightBrain health values,
to systemically resilient integrity
of enlightened economic thoughts
and politically powerful feelings

When a confederated government
values home owner residents
for their economic future capital value

More LeftBrain dominantly
than indigenous wisdom
that Earth Cooperative Ownership
is win/win rooted in ego/ecoLogical
co-relational healthy wealth,
in co-federated political safety
of co-passionate communion values.

EarthCommunion
is often a frightening disvalue
to LeftBrain evolutionary learning
Either/Or thinking
oversimplifies adolescent value statements

Associated with RightWing red-herrings
like CommunISM,
and it’s communal cousin
SocialISM,

Historically associated
with foreign frightening TotalitarianISM,
AuthoritarianISM,

Autocracy
kleptocracy
PatriarchalISM,
CatholicISM,
Global MonoculturalISM,
empire-stealing steely
nakedly overpowering ColonialISM,
oppression
suppression
enslavement
“for their own unredeemed soul-punishing good,”

Repression of individual interdependently healthy
responsible freedom for growing
multiculturally universal integrity,
nation-state democratic liberty,
responsible interdependent destiny,
eco-responsive republics
investing in EarthPatriotISM,
matriotic WISDOM.

LeftBrain win/lose fundamentalism
evolving golden humanity experiences
may feel confusing dissonance
about the historical prospect
that Straight WhiteConfederated Male privilege
derives from AfroCentric natural/spiritual
communal
tribal ecofeminist birthing heritage;
slighted by nationalistic history.

LeftBrain’s
Either Good Or Bad
reductive default
locked in
unchangeable orthodox values
may not easily discern fluid
natural/spiritual nondualistic nuances

Like the vast Both/And wealthy difference
between incorporated ownership
by a central win/lose elitist demonic State

AND broad multicultural
bicameral
bipartisan support
for business and social
and religious and polycultural enterprise
ownership by co-invested workers
by co-operating inhabitants
by eco-passionate consumers
by those civically and civilly receiving
win/win Earth natural/spiritual services

By interdependently free individuals
cooperatively investing in each
co-responsibly speaking
and co-responsively acting Other,

By indigenous tribes
species
and extending families we patriarchally provide
health/wealth caregiving matriarchal protection
and GoldenRule provision
confusing prevision with Both/And

Indigenous
AfroCentric
ecofeminist origins,
when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
might have looked
and sounded,
enlightened
and nonviolently empowered,
more like Martha Lucia GreenQueen.

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What’s In My Soup?

An important political
and economic issue,
at least for me:

What do I nurture?
What do we invest
and reinvest in?

If this Taoist “jaw” of Great TippingPoint Green Transition
toward Earth’s vast climate healthy wealth
must nurture LeftBrain Yang dominant red
Team competitions with,
and not against,
nationalism’s StraightWhiteMale violent privilege,
then how do EarthResidents also,
and more RightBrain primordially,
nurture Earth’s dipolar co-arising recreation?

Do I even try to nurture natural spirit investments,
conscientious re-ligion,
re-connections of
and for
cooperative secular/sacred reconciliations,
natural/spiritual remunerations,
yang/yin bilaterally restoring
Earth’s vast regenerative,
nonviolently communal,
ego/eco-NonZero balancing emergent Zone
of Heaven/Earth revolving

Co-empathic,
co-gravitating,
co-arising dipolar bicameral communication,
polypathic health/wealth developing systems
for nurturing RightBrain mercy
with LeftBrain restorative justice,
cooperative solidarity
with pro-active hope

That our most transcendent ego-liberal freedoms
remain systemically centered
for nurturing Earth’s Great Green Transitional interdependence

Of species,
guilds,
tribes,
forests,
meadows,
of living spirit/nature
ego/ecosystems,

Articulating,
expressing,
reincarnating,
nonviolently communicating
revisions to win/win ParadiseLost
through win/lose LeftBrain dominant

Woundedness,
separation,
deduction,
division,
reduction,
repression,
suppression,
depression

More afraid of lose/lose nihilistic
degenerative futures

Than angry about loss of
WinHealthy Yang Capital CoInvestments
to WinWealthy Yintegrity
of Earth’s Great Reverse
ReTransitional 20/20 AntiPandemic Promise

Eco-nomial-logically ego-renatured
conscientiously re-ligioning
Poli-Nomial-Culturally eco-nurtured

As HeavenLight’s wealthiest EgoPromise
re-nurtures
EarthPower’s healthiest Pleasure.

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New MLK Day Revolutions

I have heard almost nothing about New Year Resolutions
this pandemic year;

Although personal sound waves are filled
replete with incomplete invitations
to take better health care
of personal
and social
and economic
and democratic
and public
and green climate nonviolent communication
wealth optimization

As we move post-millennially
and relentlessly,
perhaps as inevitably
as any self-fulfilling NewYear resolute expectation,
standing win/win apart
from ambiguous anticipation thoughts
with anxious feelings,
foreboding fore-tidings,
Right/Left
affective/cognitive dissonance;
fading resonance.

I have,
in this last pre-MLK week,
noticed an upsurge in human striving voices
invoking dark,
globally embarrassing, humor
and gratitude
for President BullHorn
for straight white male persuading
large majorities of Earth’s citizens,
red and green and yellow and orange,
black and mostly white patriarchally privileged
LeftBrain violently red dominant
RightWing wounded and terrifying,

To NewYear discontinue an elitist direction
we don’t want to continue pursuing,
extracting without explicitly agreeing
to democratically forego our constitutional commitment
to a healthy resilient multicultural republic
both polyculturally healthy and safe
for now,
and for all foreseeable future regenerations.

Many 2020s new year roaring revolution voices
seem to assume liberal v conservative choices
are limited to:
If one is good
then the other is bad,
opposites;

Appositionally,
demonstrably,
comparatively,
even consensually,
recognized as not true to personal
politically co-invested democratic experience
when we are discussing liberally loving
healthy
cooperative communication
and conservatively co-investing
in globally resilient public health
and climate WholeEarth safety.

Liberal left wings
and conservation right winged,
and all of us who faithfully remain
middling muddling in-between,
resolve closer to consensually green healing
than viral and climatic punishing pandemics,
ego-inside and eco-outside
our bilaterally integral sensory bodies,

We are
and often are not
re-transitionally resolved
for personal health
and/or public ecopolitical safety
sacredly cooperative Vocations.

When I feel healthiest and safest,
in this another new year,
in this early decade of Roaring BullHorn 20s,
is when I step outside
to listen for voices
of disenfranchised trees,
scolding squirrels,
babbling brooks,
rippling rivers,
surfing seas,
light conversations
between blue sky and cirrus clouds,
rain on rocks and rolling thunder
anthems

Sung in response to my questions
about what is healthy liberal YangLight
and conservative YintegrityPower?

And what is more Trumpian
nationalist
elitist Republican
pathological would-be autocratic fascism,
worship of richly narcissistic wounded
persons of exorbitant interest,
punishing power,
uninformed dissonant delusions,

Where StraightWhiteMale privileged
capitalist corporate minds
have falsely advertised resilient
and resonant bicameral fortunes
toward nationalistic
militaristic extractive wealth,
not so much durably thriving health
and safety through defensive win/lose strategies
strong pro-active
non-connective
violent colonizing aggressions
for mutual lose/lose
predator/prey assured destruction.

Sometimes Earth’s January voices
seem to predict
and celebrate
full climaxing
resiliently thriving healthy wealth.

Sometimes they warn of wounded and broken
personal and public,
social and political
and economic monocultural
non-MLK celebratory pathology.

But,
most of this NewYear resolving time,
especially when I’m working on MLK-Era
Revolutionary Green Resolutions
for restoring Ego/Earth-balancing Justice,
and WholeEarth Multiculturing Peace,
these nature/spirit,
inside/outside,
ego/eco-voices ignore my quests for wise discernment
because egocentric questions,
provided by past memories and future imagination,
are unworthy of macro-ecosystemic attention.

If the only choice I offer is:
“Should I live in a toxic,
fossil-fuel burning condo
or in a toxic,
fuel-burning trailer park?”

Why would such ancient god and goddess voices
and smells,
sounds and senses,
respond to these unintended wounds
and win/lose competitive broken messes?

Asking for less than wisdom
to always resolve win/win
revolutionary green new era decades
inviting questions and resolutions
exploring
remembering future images
of liberally conserving celebrations.

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Grand Old Trump Party

President Trump,
shortly after his singularly smelly election,
declared emphatic comparisons with Elder Republican
Abraham Lincoln.

Early on,
he described Lincoln as his kindred political soul,
admired mentor,
and the former President he was destined to most resemble
in spirit and success;

Presumably not including assassination
causing an abrupt end to his second term in office,
won by a landslide–
even if mainly because the ancestors of many Trump loyalists
were not in a northern political position to vote that year.

More recently,
President Trump,
not one to drop names of people who don’t actually exist
outside his own narcissistic imagination,
relayed the uninvited twitter message,
People tell him,
apparently hoping for the privacy of anonymity,
that he is already the greatest Republican President
in US history,
including Abraham Lincoln,

Who would be so supportive of Trumpian caging of children,
supportive of DT’s mockery
of women,
of people with disabilities,
of those homeless,
of people poor,
criminalized
traumatized by violence…
The list goes on in a remarkably non-Lincolnesque
non-spiritual
unChristian
snarky kind of way.

I imagine the President has heard Lincoln’s observation about trust
so necessary for even a quasi-healthy democracy,

“You can fool all the people
some of the time,
and some of the people
all the time,
but you can’t fool all the people
all the time.”

President Trump isn’t known for being a reader
outside consuming twitter posts
and Fox non-news banners,
but it seems he might have heard,
possibly read,
this Lincoln proverb as a challenge,
or just went with optimizing the promise that he could fool some people
all the time–
good enough for government work.

President Trump made it clear,
even before his Inauguration Day,
that only those people who could appreciate the splendorous beauty
of his naked narcissistic garments and greed would:

  1. get to heaven,
  2. become TrumpMedia empowered
    to hate multiculturally resilient democratic constitutions
    and healthy co-governance systems.

Speaking of aphorisms,
this night of January 6th,
my ecosystemic soul bows to the post-full moonlight
remembering,
“It is always darkest just before dawn.”

I grab onto this hope,
but then realize
Whoever knows this to be true from experience
could only speak this with reassurance
after the first hint of emergent light to the East,
source of sacred light
and EarthlyPower.

Is this as dark as fragile democracy
and patriotic civility must fail
this self-governing experiment?

I can’t quite yet see an Eastern sky of fading stars
although I would love to be vision corrected,
perfected to see light and power
in this climatic polarized time
of win/lose ecopolitical rabidity,
eating our children’s future,
wasting their water
and formerly fertile soil,
and decimating shading fruitful trees.

I can imagine a darker hour.

I can imagine my children
speaking with their grandchildren
about now vanquished land and water mammals,
the improbable kangaroo
and porcupine
and skunk

About former forests of mature trees,
huge plants
strong rooted
and reaching up
and out
much taller than the tallest remaining human;
now aging memories of neighbors lost forever.

Earth’s elder democratic,
healthy,
polycultural,
living biosystems might well survive
our species,

The only one that appears motivated to elect leaders
invested in fooling all the people
all the time,
of ignoring the rights and pleasures,
truths and beauty
of all “lesser” species
and “weaker” people,
now reduced to natural commodities
throughout Earth’s darkest hours.

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Violence Separates Us

My senior minister just now
pointed out and in toward Washington
aware of this extraordinary Time.

Violence separates us
from the ordinary
every time,
she speaks from her own experience.

I quickly agree.

Then, notice ways I do not agree
if violence denotes
feelings of violation.

Violence does not separate military time
from ordinary civilian time;
we call that chronic stress disorder,
mental problems,
spiritual issues,
weaponized opposition.

Violence does not separate
poor people
marginalized people
ignored, neglected, and abused species,
animals,
trees,
rivers,
oceans,
soil,
air,
Earth,
from ordinary
Business As Usual Time.

This statement reminds me
of two opposing experiences
in my own life,
white privilege,
where violence is what happens to other people,
and gay male child,
all growed up in a homo-hate environment,
where ordinary violence was about what I deserved
if I were caught
being me.

We want violence to be the exception
to cooperative economics,
nonviolent communication,
restorative EarthJustice politics,
empowerment,
enlightenment experiences
of multicultural healthy wealth,
for all EarthCreatures
and living ecosystems.

Still,
on this dark night
it feels hard to painfully remember
that violence is more exceptional
to ordinary experience
for some Haves
as compared to HaveNots.

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