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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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Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky

Touching Earth,
reaching sky.

I walk salt shores
where all Souls fly
over joy’s ocean,
under sad bad lands
my faith in quests
we could understand.

Touch this Earth
to feel our sky.

Wise fools ask
our reasons why,
In glad lives
our answers glow,
in sad love
we learn to grow

To heal our Earth
and teach this sky

We are born
while I shall die,
Life’s my time for in between,
to build you a star,
to chase our dream

Touching Earth
while feeling sky

Hugging laughter
feeds my cry,
May I see
what we can give
for future’s child
to sacred live

We touch this Earth
to reach light’s sky

Soaring courage,
healthy high,
All Souls joining
in Earth’s flight
to touch Her right
I reach through night
for love’s last
last
last splendid sight.

This variation on Grace Lewis-McLaren’s hymn  (#301, Singing the Living Tradition) is dedicated to All Souls-PlanetEarth, especially New London, on the occasion of our Great Return, September, 2021.

Gerald 0’Liver 

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Post-Millennial Parable

Once within our time,

SkyPrince and SunGod  talk,

as usual,

endlessly actually,

sending their radiant messages

out toward mutually gravitating receivers,

no Yins allowed.

SkyPrince wonders if SunGod might consider turning down his heat,

and wanders aloud as Sun burns enlightening minds,

“I’m worried about EarthGoddess,

she seems wilting

and actually melting on her polar caps.”

 

SunGod wishes this were funny,

or wrong,

just a mistake somehow,

maybe her time of this post-millennial period.

“Business As Usual,” echoes SunGod.

“My fire burns her waters into that amazing green-blue skin of hers.

Climate change pathology evolves like wind through your air-brained

SkyPrince head.

Business As Usual!”

 

Meanwhile,

WaterPrincess keeps her primally balancing distance

from SunGod’s overheating reign.

Still,

very still,

too still,

she melts within EarthGoddess.

And, with her Earth’s diverse species

until EarthGoddess’ soil becomes dry as dust.

Her cooperative economic and ecological soul

unravels dishumanic culture,

preparing for her transmutation

into Yin’s cold hibernating cave

of deep ecological nightmares,

galloping full horsepowered,

feverishly racing racism,

to prove we are chickens in our own messy soup

melting together and flying apart.

WaterPrincess weeps and seeps down in to Earth’s Core

overheating compost’s ecotherapeutic heart.

 

SunGod notices WaterPrincess,

too frequently absent from his divine comedy.

“She fails to feel my good humored rays

of wise warm radiance.

This feels more feminist Left than justly Righteous”

glooms SunGod’s manic calculating ways.

He glimpses dissonant doubt

where his regenerative organisms had been competing virgins

to cooperative sex,

much less mutually maximizing economics,

or crystal mirror echoes of ecologic myth and language.

SunGod weeps and wilts his PrincessWater.

 

Earth Goddess succumbs toward SunGod’s redeeming shaded fears.

Her revolutionary octaves fill with pregnant repurpose

and rehabilitating permacultural designs of herstory.

Her justice joys his peaceful recommitment

toward balancing polycultural praxis.

Family ecotherapy wins our enculturing history.

 

YangGod kisses EarthYinGoddess

as Left deductive embraces Right inductive primal balance

as human nature competes to cooperatively regenerate

what nature coincidately incarnates

to sing full octaved Earth Day Opera,

remembering future tales of SunLeft equals EarthRights,

as Earth resolves Sun’s pay-ray-forward gifts,

happily ever after now and here.

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Becoming Climate March

Ground of Being,
Climate of All Becoming
horizon’s now moment of Earth meets Sky,

EcoSpirit bound solar fire heating air
warming crystal ice floating water
soaking absorbent soul of soil
rusting fractal minerals

decomposing eviL-ing flesh
regenerating Live-ing organic systems,

open sets inform researching rhythms
percuss prehensile patterns
of octave colored sounds in songs
reconnecting mythic culture stories
reweaving co-grounded horizon long becoming,
Be longing Nondual-Now.

 

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