Pretendinitis, HDD & BS & NaPoWriMo - better late & why not/w? :)

Posted on Apr 11th, 2009 by

April is the National Poetry Month and thanks to John D Evans & all the creative enthusiasts from the Empowered by Poetry group here on Gaia, we are happy to declare it also a WORLD Poetry Month (a special press release about it and the Blog Radio Show this Monday April 13 coming later). What a better reason, season and time than to join NaPoWriMo http://readwritepoem.org/ - and start writing a poem a day for the entire month of April. Better late than never and why not now, right? :) Feel free to join by creating, sharing or just reading the many creative fountains bursting amid all of us in the most surprising ways... EnJOY my latest creation "Pretendinitis, HDD & BS", inspired by a word from an episode of The Office...

Pretendinitis, HDD & BS*

By Darina Joy

April 11, 2009

* Stand for Honesty Deficiency Disorder & Bullshit Syndrome

Imagine yourself really getting sick of lying

Of totally procrastinating and pretending

So you finally choose to take a day off

Not a sick one, but an honest day off

You fill all the forms well in advance

Citing the real reason for the absence

Instead of hiding behind tendonitis

Honestly citing - your pretendinitis

The truth spreads faster than rumor

All your colleagues retweet the humor

Your boss texts you that you are daring

All your friends dig how you are baring

Even your doctor calls to share

How brave of you was to declare

Having Honesty Deficiency Disorder

And no illusions of being all in order

A disease so common and ignored

And deliberately kept off the record

Shifts from chasing hidden suspects

To looking openly for study subjects

You feel suddenly lighthearted

Void of guilt and utterly delighted

So much that you feel adventuresome

To self-diagnose your Bullshit Syndrome

Having started a super chain reaction

Causing massive waves of truth in action

You witness shocking web interaction

That brings startling self-satisfaction

Employers, cops and doctors alike

Now offer cool tips on how to strike

Politicians confess for the epidemics

While comedians juice the new polemics

Pretendinitis gets such huge popularity

That it gets declared a holiday for posterity

You turn in the newest celebrity for sincerity

Winning stunning prosperity for such hilarity

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NaPoWriMo #12 - Where did you come from? - BULGARIA acrostic ~

Posted on Apr 12th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

Prompt for today: Read Write Poem is suggesting to write a poem about where you come from. Here's my take with a BULGARIA acrostic. Would love to read yours!

BULGARIA Acrostic

Beautiful Beyond Belief

Uber-fun & Ultra Underrated

Luscious Land of Laughter

Generous Gamers & Genii

Amazing Artists & Absurds

Radiating Rumors & Roses

Inspiring Inviting & Intriguing

Awakening Always Anew

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Blog Talk Radio Poetry Show & April - World Poetry Month Event

Posted on Apr 12th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

Hope you can join us during this first event of Gaians on the worldwide waves of Blog Talk Radio Show at 8 pm EST/ 5 pm PST on April 13 to celebrate poetry & World Poetry Month and pay tribute to our dear friend Christopher Cobb Chad who passed away 2 years ago by commemorating his amazing creations with his surviving wife and my dear friend Mary Kathleen Cobb during the show. Thanks for being part of all this!

April is World Poetry Month:
Poets from Around the World Unite on Blog Talk Radio

CHICAGO - Poets around the world call for a World Poetry Month. Talented poets from the Gaia.com E-community - Empowered by Poetry - will be interviewed on April 13^th and 20^th from 8:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. EST (Eastern Standard Time). Ella Curry of EDC Creations, John D. Evans, Dominant Muse of the Gaia.com E-community and founder of The Evans Poetry Collection, and select poets from around the world will unite and call for a World Poetry Month designation for the month of April.

The guest poets for April 13^th will include: Mikey Bergman (Phoenix, NY), Eric Walton (Saint Paul, MN), Seth Kahan (Bethesda, MD), Darina Stoyanova (Olympia, WA), Clayton Lowe (Newark, NJ), Mary Cobb (Cedar Rapids, IA), and Nicola Karesh (Pisgah Forest, NC). The guest poets for April 20^th will include: Evelyn Bourne (Washington, DC), Gael Bage (Rye, England), Siona van Dijk (Boulder, CO), Bernadette Watkins (Roanoke, Alabama), Valentine Snow (Littleton, CO), and Paul MacFarlane (Saint Louis, MO).

The poets will engage in educational, inspiring, and meaningful discussions on poetry and they will explain how poetry empowers. All visitors can chat live in the chat-room during the show live at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Black-Author-Network . Let's make this epic event an exciting and unforgettable one.

“When we take a stand for poetry, we take a stand for beauty. When we take a stand for beauty, we take a stand for peace. Celebrate World Poetry Month and get one step closer to World Peace…” says John D. Evans, Empowered by Poetry group leader.

The theme for the show is a statement of declaration: April is World Poetry Month - A Discussion of Poetry with Poets from Around the World.

If you should have questions about the guests or about the World Poetry Month effort, contact John D. Evans at 877-4MY-TEPC (877-469-8372).

If anyone is interested in calling with questions for the guests during the show, please call (646) 200-0402. Continue to shine my talented friends.

John D. Evans, Group Manager

Empowered by Poetry

Gaia.com

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The Road to Surprise ~ NaPoWriMo #14

Posted on Apr 15th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

The Road to Surprise

Nothing is boring on the road

Any one can happen on the journey

All things take shorter than you think

Every body grows on the brink

No trip redeems a traveler

No road refuses a driver

No path repels an adventurer

No journey scares a voyager

Any time satisfies a vacationer

Any place mystifies a tourist

Any event delights a visitor

Any thing surprises an explorer

Let us discover new adventures

May we find in & out ventures

Shall we synergize the journey?

What if we are already t/here? :)

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Word Salad - NaPoWriMo #18

Posted on Apr 19th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

How about co-creating a word salad with just 50 words arranged in couplets? EnJOY! :)

Chop up some exotic thoughts, fresh ideas and good intentions

Add some funny feelings, spicy creativity and yummy visions

Mix it up with naughty moves and playful action

Spice it up with enthusiasm, humor and passion

Garnish with a touch of erotica

EnJoy & share the Salad A La Poetica

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Friend Renga - NaPoWriMo #19 & #20 & Passiona di Flora ~

Posted on Apr 20th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

Double dose of NaPoWriMo - a poem on friendship in Renga format & visual haiku inspired by the Passiona di Flora and Perfection in Pink. EnJoy & share yours! :)

Dedicated to my true and amazing friends I am so blessed to have - YOU!

FRIEND RENGA

If s/he were your friend

S/he would be very honest

Radically so

S/he would be really true

Both to herself and you too

S/he’d be there for you

In times of hardship and need

A best friend indeed

S/he would surprise you more

Than you ever would yourself

S/he would humor you

Fill your cracks with light & joy

Help you love & grow

S/he’d do the impossible

Invite you to go beyond

S/he would defy rules

Allow you to face it all

Let you BE it all

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21 ~ NaPoWriMo #21

Posted on Apr 21st, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

a day, every day, for the month of April, World Poetry Month...

My playful take on NaPoWriMo # 21. See why... :)

1. First you come to Earth funnily short of 21st

2. You smile 21 times before they can count to 21

3. You learn your first 21 tricks in less than 21 trials

4. You try 21 sins without getting addicted to (m)/Any

5. You get accepted to 21 schools & you go to 22nd

6. You turn 21 into a driving withOUT influence party

7. You discover the One before being on 21 blind dates

8. You feel at home everywhere despite more than 21 moves

9. You survive more than 21 lay offs, bail outs & f*ck offs

10. You limit your online activity to 21 hours or 21 times per day

11. You can outplay the 21 somethings without needing 21 shots

12. You have seen 21+ billion dramedies & are still kind & funny

13. You juggle well your 21+ daily roles in less than 21 locations

14. You learn how to say thank you & curse in almost 21 accents

15. You intend less than 21 pairs of shoes & less than 21 sex toys

16. You practice more than 21 poses, be they asanas or kama sutras

17. You lost money & friends & found self way beyond 21 times

18. You humor & reinvent yourself more than 21 ways in a place

19. You have surprised, shocked & forgiven others many times by 21

20. You work & laugh in order to make 21 more dreams come true

21. You know better h/now to look 21, laugh like 2 & love like the Only 1 J

So how many of those 21 things apply to you?

If you can dare to share which ones too,

you get 21 surprises in the next 21 days, joking (not) included! J

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Gaia Day, Integral Ecology & Planetary Perspectives

Posted on Apr 22nd, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

Happy Earth, Gaia & Planet Day!

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."

~ Juvenal, Satires

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar:

I love not man the less, but Nature more.

~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

There is so much we can do & not only today.

Consume less & care more as a start.

Here's is a controversial and provocative view of the issues calling for a focus on the us, the humans and polluters and changers rather than Earth itself.

by Joseph Romm from Climate Progress via Alternet.org

http://www.alternet.org/environment/137586/

Then there is the Integral Ecology Center, Framework and web site which I invite you to explore for its comprehensive view and holistic perspectives. We have yet to turn many of those "conversations that matter into actions with sustainable impact" as Albert says.

Integral Ecology Overview

Today there is a bewildering diversity of views on ecology and the environment. With more than two hundred distinct and valuable perspectives on the natural world—and with scientists, economists, ethicists, activists, philosophers, and others often taking completely different stances on the issues—how can we come to agreement to solve our toughest environmental problems? We need a framework to help sort through these many approaches and connect them in a pragmatic way that honors their unique insights on their own terms. Integral ecology provides this framework: a way of integrating the multiple fields of ecology and environmental studies into a complex, multidimensional meta-disciplinary approach to the natural world and our embeddedness within it. Integral ecology unites valuable insights from multiple perspectives into a comprehensive theoretical framework one that is already being put to use around the globe. This framework is the result of over a decade of research exploring the myriad perspectives on ecology available to us today and their respective methodologies. In short, this framework provides a way of understanding the relationship between who is perceiving nature, how the perceiver uses different methods, techniques, and practices to disclose nature, and what is perceived as nature.

And some beautiful rare wonders of our marvelous planet for your amazement & delight...

Fantastic

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Listen ~ & NaPoWriMo #24

Posted on Apr 24th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

"It is the province of knowledge to speak.

And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

~ Oliver W. Holmes ~

listen

hear yourself

notice the breath

observe all life pulsing

note the rhythms of nature

open up your senses and heart

take in all this beauty and symphony

simply sense the subtle sounds of your soul

savor the sailing

silence

~

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OMG -> If I Were God/dess ~ NaPoWriMo #23

Posted on Apr 25th, 2009 by

Joy Bringer

A belated yet timely take on taking smb else's hat, shoes, body &/or spirit... :)

OMG(oddess :)!

If I Were God/dess

If I were God/dess I would be Clown/ing

I would make you laugh more than anything

I would let you see the funny side of things

I would urge you to humor every little thing

I will enjoy games with words and in-betweens

Show you what real ‘into-me-see’ actually means

I’ll help you see that ‘impossible’ implies ‘I’m possible’

Bring you from ‘nowhere’ to now here, is so simple

If I were God/dess I would play hide and seek

I may even act like a geek and give you a peek

Of a universe that conspires to surprise you

Utterly, surely & unconditionally delight you

I’ll make you an unexpected yet priceless gift

That will cause massive socio-economic shift

I’ll wipe out your hate gene about to explode

And forever deactivate your violent code

I’ll see the election of children leading with gioia

Out of state of paranoia into the age of pronoia

I’ll throw you a Divine L’After Party again

For your brilliant global free hugs campaign

I’ll kidnap your fears and bring you joy tears

Steal your identities and sponsor your dramedies

I’ll stomp your credentials and seduce your potential

Kill your limitations and exceed your expectations

I’m a God/dess of surprises and paradox

I’ll send myself to vacation on a joy detox

I’ll do not one thing that you can’t do already

I am lovingly lazy, so you’d better be ready!

RedNosedNun

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