By L. S. Heatherly
Going back, and getting down to Earth-- our life within Her Life!
Calendar time is not the fullest measure of how old we are.
This tells us our age as measured by the mostly life-less solar system's measure!
We live on Earth, within Her systems! Not within the life-less solar system.
Calendars don't tell us the measure of a particular human being's
Length of time within Earth's living human being!
A mere measure of youth and age as Earth-solar cycles!
The truest measure is human being's passage through life and love!
Our passage is within Earth-life's eco-organismic, field of living beings--
Within a particular family, community and particular, human socio-culture.
Beyond the solar system's measure of our age--
How many trips around the Sun we have experienced--
We each have biological age, psychological, social, and spirit-ontological age.
Our bio age is how well our dying cells have been replaced with new cells.
Our psychological age is how well our mental and emotional needs have been fulfilled.
Our social age is how well our social, developmental needs have been fulfilled.
Our spiritual-ontological age is how well our heart-soul needs have been fulfilled.
People die from two primary deficiencies:
Of full, rich blood to the organs,
And of full, rich love to our eco-social, and heart-soul relationships.
Our age-- of persons, and, of our human species,
Is a family-community, living Earth-love thing!
Ah, beyond history's serial, greedy flings!
Yes, Virginia, there is a true, human heart, age,
Time, being, place and home of which to sing!
Squandered, now, we have little left of precious these.
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Mar 24, 2014
Visions of Love Over Blind Power
Love is blind to the single soul possessed;
Blind to one mind-body's selfishness.
Love is our wider, deeper vision -- blessed
By, and for, the Earth-human, village nest.
Love grows fruits of love as highest wealth:
Our deep panoramic, Earth and human self!
Love nurtures all humanness and Earthlyness--
unfolding, wide, as the soul's deepest quest;
Love nourishes the manifold joys of humanity:
Not what's bought, stolen, and possessed by insanity;
Sans the greedy, selfishness of persons and elites;
Sans all the Ages and millenia of recycled fights.
Love springs forth the flowerings and fruitings
Of whole human self's, community-soul's choosings.
Ask not for whom Love may ever flower.
Peoples seek Love's seeds and friuts as showers.
Into the winds and soils of the soul,
Love sows Her joys as hearth against the cold!
Ask not why Love's visions still grow in thee;
Such does portend all hearts know being free!
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Blind to one mind-body's selfishness.
Love is our wider, deeper vision -- blessed
By, and for, the Earth-human, village nest.
Love grows fruits of love as highest wealth:
Our deep panoramic, Earth and human self!
Love nurtures all humanness and Earthlyness--
unfolding, wide, as the soul's deepest quest;
Love nourishes the manifold joys of humanity:
Not what's bought, stolen, and possessed by insanity;
Sans the greedy, selfishness of persons and elites;
Sans all the Ages and millenia of recycled fights.
Love springs forth the flowerings and fruitings
Of whole human self's, community-soul's choosings.
Ask not for whom Love may ever flower.
Peoples seek Love's seeds and friuts as showers.
Into the winds and soils of the soul,
Love sows Her joys as hearth against the cold!
Ask not why Love's visions still grow in thee;
Such does portend all hearts know being free!
Copyright 2014 L.S. Heatherly
Feb 4, 2014
Free Play of Life
Listen, closely, to chirps and songs of birds;
To howls and moans of gathered worlves;
To suckling babes, and romping toddler kids.
Watch, closely; all freedom unfolds in spontaneity.
Growing Love is the one, and only, deity!
Here, on Life's love-play grounds;
Love flashes within Living Nature's bounds!
Feel, Earth-Human-Life-Love grow connected!
Artificial law, through this, will be rejected!
Spontaneity! Life and Love spring!
Here, inter-springing, are Spirits inter-singing!
Mourn this bliss, now, mis-decaying away.
Study, the hitch and glitch of high-tech play.
Study, our Life and Heart away!
Love's blueprints; are being s-mattered away!
Copyright L.S. Heatherly 2014
To howls and moans of gathered worlves;
To suckling babes, and romping toddler kids.
Watch, closely; all freedom unfolds in spontaneity.
Growing Love is the one, and only, deity!
Here, on Life's love-play grounds;
Love flashes within Living Nature's bounds!
Feel, Earth-Human-Life-Love grow connected!
Artificial law, through this, will be rejected!
Spontaneity! Life and Love spring!
Here, inter-springing, are Spirits inter-singing!
Mourn this bliss, now, mis-decaying away.
Study, the hitch and glitch of high-tech play.
Study, our Life and Heart away!
Love's blueprints; are being s-mattered away!
Copyright L.S. Heatherly 2014
Dec 31, 2013
Auld Lang Syne, of Soul
Deeply rooted truths, realities,
Comapassion, playings, labors, of loves:
Human commonalities are the commons of humanity,
Perennial, mostly buried, by all civilizations.
Source of all Human Revolutions against oppressions.
Not to be aware of buried, human treasure is easy:
Our primal roots and tubers
Of Earth's eco-family-community humanness!
Covered-over by the highways of personal,
Expedient, career and institutional selves.
Soul artifacts: underneath, national,
Commercial and political selves:
Underneath our intellect-egoselves'
Materialistic, diverse empires of domination.
II.
Not to join in the archaeological dig
For the organismic essences of humanity!
Not to yearn for the respringing and enculturation
Of natural, whole, human self and whole being!
To merely accept the ongoing sufferings
And inequities of the bulk of humankind!
III.
Human life (and being) is not a case
of "to be or not to be".
It is a case of where and what to be,
And how to be that whatness;
And why to be that whyness.
There in our home of human beings.
It is a case of the becoming of,
And sustainment of, human beings--
Beyond the case of mere
Human organisms remaing alive;
Beyond our brains' and bodies' growth;
Beyond health and life, of our brain-body organisms.
IV.
Our human ecosphere-habitat is our where
We journey through our human beingness,
Is where our eco-nature-human being;
Finds what to love, how to love, and why to love.
Should these grown attainments be forgot?
Or, ever be our find!
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Comapassion, playings, labors, of loves:
Human commonalities are the commons of humanity,
Perennial, mostly buried, by all civilizations.
Source of all Human Revolutions against oppressions.
Not to be aware of buried, human treasure is easy:
Our primal roots and tubers
Of Earth's eco-family-community humanness!
Covered-over by the highways of personal,
Expedient, career and institutional selves.
Soul artifacts: underneath, national,
Commercial and political selves:
Underneath our intellect-egoselves'
Materialistic, diverse empires of domination.
II.
Not to join in the archaeological dig
For the organismic essences of humanity!
Not to yearn for the respringing and enculturation
Of natural, whole, human self and whole being!
To merely accept the ongoing sufferings
And inequities of the bulk of humankind!
III.
Human life (and being) is not a case
of "to be or not to be".
It is a case of where and what to be,
And how to be that whatness;
And why to be that whyness.
There in our home of human beings.
It is a case of the becoming of,
And sustainment of, human beings--
Beyond the case of mere
Human organisms remaing alive;
Beyond our brains' and bodies' growth;
Beyond health and life, of our brain-body organisms.
IV.
Our human ecosphere-habitat is our where
We journey through our human beingness,
Is where our eco-nature-human being;
Finds what to love, how to love, and why to love.
Should these grown attainments be forgot?
Or, ever be our find!
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Nov 10, 2013
Birth of Soul
by L.S. Heatherly
Soul -- in singing, talking, playing music;
In living, loving, and being human:
Something unbought by diploma's hubris;
Ungained by travel, arts, and science in hand;
Something growing outward, upward and true:
Where yearning stops; Heart throbs; and Earth-love springs;
Enfolding the child, relating love's rule,
Over all Human and Earth brought things.
Soul is mother of family, village, and fairness;
Of bondings, givings, receivings: all this
Old treasure defies the greedy and selfish!
Soul is wonders, splendors, all lovings' sweet bliss!
Soul's a sweet cup, sipped here, in fleeting time;
So unworthy, we, of soul's long presence.
Human heart's vision is Culture's essence.
Soul's decision is pure, ancient, and sublime.
With each arising from our depths,
We are, briefly, born again-blessed.
With each pollution of child's purity;
We pollute, strike short, our futurity.
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Soul -- in singing, talking, playing music;
In living, loving, and being human:
Something unbought by diploma's hubris;
Ungained by travel, arts, and science in hand;
Something growing outward, upward and true:
Where yearning stops; Heart throbs; and Earth-love springs;
Enfolding the child, relating love's rule,
Over all Human and Earth brought things.
Soul is mother of family, village, and fairness;
Of bondings, givings, receivings: all this
Old treasure defies the greedy and selfish!
Soul is wonders, splendors, all lovings' sweet bliss!
Soul's a sweet cup, sipped here, in fleeting time;
So unworthy, we, of soul's long presence.
Human heart's vision is Culture's essence.
Soul's decision is pure, ancient, and sublime.
With each arising from our depths,
We are, briefly, born again-blessed.
With each pollution of child's purity;
We pollute, strike short, our futurity.
Copyright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
Sep 30, 2013
Nature of Life
Nature is reckless of the individual. When she has points to carry,
she carries them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men argue, nature acts.
-- Voltaire
The known universe beyond Earth is not hostile, nor is it friendly.
It simply has no feelings, no struggling selections of life, no joys.
-- L.S. Heatherly
Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all hers sons at play,
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away.
-- Matthew Arnold
Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in Nature-- daily to be shown
matter, to come in contact with it-- rocks, trees, wind on our
cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! Common Sense!
Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
-- Henry David Thoreau
Deep in their roots,
All flowers keep the light.
-- Theodore Roethke
Give me a spark o' nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire
-- Robert Burns
Man [has become] a complex being: he makes deserts bloom
plastics, steel, artificial intelligence, many anti-Earth-lifes. He
makes lakes, streams and children die.
Mankind can never hope to see
A living thing more lovely and still free
Than the infant child upon our knee.
Conscious life: the only nature breathing, caring, loving.
2013 All rights reserved
she carries them.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men argue, nature acts.
-- Voltaire
The known universe beyond Earth is not hostile, nor is it friendly.
It simply has no feelings, no struggling selections of life, no joys.
-- L.S. Heatherly
Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all hers sons at play,
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away.
-- Matthew Arnold
Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in Nature-- daily to be shown
matter, to come in contact with it-- rocks, trees, wind on our
cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! Common Sense!
Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?
-- Henry David Thoreau
Deep in their roots,
All flowers keep the light.
-- Theodore Roethke
Give me a spark o' nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire
-- Robert Burns
Man [has become] a complex being: he makes deserts bloom
plastics, steel, artificial intelligence, many anti-Earth-lifes. He
makes lakes, streams and children die.
Mankind can never hope to see
A living thing more lovely and still free
Than the infant child upon our knee.
Conscious life: the only nature breathing, caring, loving.
2013 All rights reserved
Aug 30, 2013
Pretty Lie
They say a picture's worth a thousand words.
If so, then why do poets write?
Do techno shots on paper and on screen
Lack wht science and art imply they mean?
Is this magic show a seduction without end
To hide some lies on which we now depend?
Does the poet's eye of spirit mind
Refute the eye of science-gadget mind?
Does this condensation of our speech
Reveal some truth that science cannot reach?
Will the poet rise up to defy
The rampage-mind's illusion, that Pictures don't lie.?
Does the spirit-eye go blind
From techno-eye, so prettily unkind?
(from Ch XI of The Last Human Spring)
If so, then why do poets write?
Do techno shots on paper and on screen
Lack wht science and art imply they mean?
Is this magic show a seduction without end
To hide some lies on which we now depend?
Does the poet's eye of spirit mind
Refute the eye of science-gadget mind?
Does this condensation of our speech
Reveal some truth that science cannot reach?
Will the poet rise up to defy
The rampage-mind's illusion, that Pictures don't lie.?
Does the spirit-eye go blind
From techno-eye, so prettily unkind?
(from Ch XI of The Last Human Spring)
Jul 15, 2013
Trayvon Martin Trial: 2 minutes = Scalpeled Justice
Scalpeled Justice, Truth, Reality, Court Trial, and Socioculture
The jury and lawyers were given FALSE and UNREAL instructions,
evidence, arguments, and concept of event. Everyone, in fact, was told
that the 2 minutes of struggle between two men was the the event causing
the death of Trayvon Martin. Jury and all were told: that 2 minutes was
the ONLY moments to reach a verdict about: a 2 minute incident.
But, in realty, those 2 minutes CANNOT be divorced away from
the preceding 3.5 minutes that created those last 2 minutes. The
physical life-or-death struggle was CAUSED, was created, by:
1. The defendant's decision to violate instructions given him:
"We do not need you to do that." (about 5.5 minutes before the fatal shot)
2. The defendant's 3.5 minutes -- of following, approaching-- and; thereby
triggering(creating) the 2 minutes of fatal struggle.
To scalpel away most of the fatal event-- the causation 3.5 minutes that
created-- caused and made inevitable-- the climax of the full event: this is a
misrepresentaion of the full event as being reducible down to 2 minutes.
The defendant's actions during the opening 3.5 minutes CAUSED
the closing 2 minutes of deathly struggle. As his group told him: "We
don't need you to do that." Nor did Martin and our country need that.
This scalpeling down to 2 minutes makes the full event equivalent to two
men walking toward each other on a sidewalk, locking eyes and, fearing each
other, engaging in a life-or-death struggle: this is NOT what happened. It makes
this event generally equivalent to a drunk driver being found guilty of another
driver's death; when, in reality, his friends (or social norms) assured him,
"you can do it; you can drive; you can make it home."
The life-or-death struggle was created by the behavior of the defendant--
following and confronting Martin!
The defendant created the life-or-death last 2 minutes. And thereby,
created the death of the loser of that struggle.
He created Martin's death in the starting 3.5 minutes that, innevitably,
in time, created the closing 2 minute deathly struggle. There would be
no death-struggle WITHOUT the opening 3.5 minutes!
The closing of an event cannot be divorced away from the event's beginning.
And this event cannot, in reality, be separated from wider events
creating this one! What really, more widely, happened? The defendant
( and those that think, hold the same feelings, hold the same values, and
behave like the defendant) created the death of Trayvon Martin. The
defendant was an agent, one person, acting on behalf of (at least two) particular,
sociocultural pathogeneses, racism and classism(Zimmerman was
employed).
The larger, bad news is that we, apparently, won't make it home either!
Because we have forgotten that, humanity, innately, had a home; and have
forgotten where it was, and what it consisted of: community, brotherhood,
the golden rule, et.al.
Coptright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
The jury and lawyers were given FALSE and UNREAL instructions,
evidence, arguments, and concept of event. Everyone, in fact, was told
that the 2 minutes of struggle between two men was the the event causing
the death of Trayvon Martin. Jury and all were told: that 2 minutes was
the ONLY moments to reach a verdict about: a 2 minute incident.
But, in realty, those 2 minutes CANNOT be divorced away from
the preceding 3.5 minutes that created those last 2 minutes. The
physical life-or-death struggle was CAUSED, was created, by:
1. The defendant's decision to violate instructions given him:
"We do not need you to do that." (about 5.5 minutes before the fatal shot)
2. The defendant's 3.5 minutes -- of following, approaching-- and; thereby
triggering(creating) the 2 minutes of fatal struggle.
To scalpel away most of the fatal event-- the causation 3.5 minutes that
created-- caused and made inevitable-- the climax of the full event: this is a
misrepresentaion of the full event as being reducible down to 2 minutes.
The defendant's actions during the opening 3.5 minutes CAUSED
the closing 2 minutes of deathly struggle. As his group told him: "We
don't need you to do that." Nor did Martin and our country need that.
This scalpeling down to 2 minutes makes the full event equivalent to two
men walking toward each other on a sidewalk, locking eyes and, fearing each
other, engaging in a life-or-death struggle: this is NOT what happened. It makes
this event generally equivalent to a drunk driver being found guilty of another
driver's death; when, in reality, his friends (or social norms) assured him,
"you can do it; you can drive; you can make it home."
The life-or-death struggle was created by the behavior of the defendant--
following and confronting Martin!
The defendant created the life-or-death last 2 minutes. And thereby,
created the death of the loser of that struggle.
He created Martin's death in the starting 3.5 minutes that, innevitably,
in time, created the closing 2 minute deathly struggle. There would be
no death-struggle WITHOUT the opening 3.5 minutes!
The closing of an event cannot be divorced away from the event's beginning.
And this event cannot, in reality, be separated from wider events
creating this one! What really, more widely, happened? The defendant
( and those that think, hold the same feelings, hold the same values, and
behave like the defendant) created the death of Trayvon Martin. The
defendant was an agent, one person, acting on behalf of (at least two) particular,
sociocultural pathogeneses, racism and classism(Zimmerman was
employed).
The larger, bad news is that we, apparently, won't make it home either!
Because we have forgotten that, humanity, innately, had a home; and have
forgotten where it was, and what it consisted of: community, brotherhood,
the golden rule, et.al.
Coptright 2013 L.S. Heatherly
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