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Unencumbered, A News Poem on Poetry24 The News is the Muse

3/31/2019

Unencumbered, A news poem by Kimberly Burnham on Poetry24 The News is the Muse re: Jury Awards $80 Million In Damages In Roundup Weed Killer Cancer Trial http://www.poetry24.co.uk/2019/03/unencumbered.html

{Read and comment on all Kimberly Burnham's news poems on Poetry 24] http://www.poetry24.co.uk/search/label/Kimberly%20Burnham

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Peaceful Desire in Kaili Ledo (Indonesia)

2/1/2019

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Kaili Ledo Peace Desire

In Kaili Ledo spoken in Indonesia
desire and concern
or lack of feelings
are juxtaposed with peace and calm

"Naino rara" is to crave and desire greatly
to be moved or touched by life
or beautiful music
to strongly want something
a relationship
a connection
and "naino rara" also means to feel at home and peaceful
as if when we reach our goals
motivated by a strong desire
we develop inner peace
and a sense of relationship to place

"Natinda rara" also means calm and at ease
but unlike "naino rara" it has a dark side
meaning doesn't care about or is unmoved
hard-hearted and unconcerned
and yet satisfied
as if one can be unconcerned
about the feelings of others
and still find ease

What it also says
we don't often know the inner desires
and motivations of another person
perhaps is it out of fear or lack or worry
that one seems not to care about fellow human beings
while another achieves greatness
and contributes to world peace

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Indonesian Peace Cure (Kaili Ledo)

1/31/2019

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The Indonesian Peace Cure

"Nompakabelo" means to make peace
but also to cure or to fix
in Kaili Ledo spoken in Sulawesi
an Indonesian peace cure
find the peace
cure and fix

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Peaceful Japanese Haiku's (Japan, Brazil)

1/14/2019

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Brain Health Exercises

Stealth Peace

"Shizuka" quiet
in Japanese unhurried
also peaceful, calm

Japanese—"Heiwa" (peace) 平和, "Wa" / 和 (わ) + "Hei" 平, (へい), "Wahei" (peace), "Washoku" Japanese cuisine ("Wa" (peace, harmony, "Shoku" (food, cuisine), "Yasui" (cheap, inexpensive, calm, peaceful, quiet), "Shizuka" (quiet, unhurried, silent, peaceful, calm)—Japan, Brazil.

Is Cheap Calm?

"Yasui" Japanese
calm, peace, quiet but also
cheap, inexpensive

Visit Tokyo this summer.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum

Hiroshima Day commemorates 6 August 1945, the day when an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, followed a few days later by another dropped on the city of Nagasaki.

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Answers Rolling Around, LGBT Stories

4/3/2013

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They catch on my tongue, roll around in my cheeks, cause my skin to turn green or orange as I desperately try to blend in with the answers to difficult questions. Common questions send me into hiding or delay in an effort to figure out how long I have for the answer, how much I should say, gauging the situations, the environment, the person asking the questions. Easy questions like, "Where are you from?", "Okay, where were you born?" ,

"Where did you go to school?", "Where do your parents live?" Straightforward questions are unbearable tricky for me. The answers, the intersection point between my straight laced Mormon past and my activist lesbian present.

I was born in Provo, Utah, where my parents have returned to live. I graduated with a BSc. in Zoology from Brigham Young University (BYU), so simple cocktail party questions once answered, usually lead to, "Are you Mormon?"

I am, five generations back and yes, there were polygamists but then Prop 8 destroyed what was left of my relationship with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter--day Saints (Mormons), the part of the relationship that wasn't already difficult because I kiss a woman, while still at a Mormon university.

So, sometimes it is embarrassing, in the circles I run in to admit to being a Mormon, especially with Mitt Romney, running for president of the United States. Simple questions, "Where did you go to school?" send me into a chameleon panic of does this person really want to know all the details or how can I answer truthfully without giving way too much information.

It is the same way I feel when someone finds out I speak Japanese, which I learned as a Mormon missionary, although I later returned to Japan to teach English with my girlfriend. There are lots of intersections in my life, certainly between the religion of my childhood and my sexual orientation but lots of others as well. What I have learned from navigating these canyons, like the red rock of Southern Utah, is that the part of my life that I want to hide also connect me to amazing communities, if I can just keep the self hatred at bay. If I can be comfortable in my own unique skin and share myself openly and honestly, and unapologetically, there are ways in which I can connect with anyone, not because we are the same but because we are unique but have some over lapping edges.

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Unencumbered, A News Poem on Poetry24 The News is the Muse

Peaceful Desire in Kaili Ledo (Indonesia)

Indonesian Peace Cure (Kaili Ledo)

Peaceful Japanese Haiku's (Japan, Brazil)

Answers Rolling Around, LGBT Stories

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Visit Paris France Virtually

Unencumbered, A News Poem on Poetry24 The News is the Muse

Peaceful Desire in Kaili Ledo (Indonesia)

Indonesian Peace Cure (Kaili Ledo)

Peaceful Japanese Haiku's (Japan, Brazil)

Answers Rolling Around, LGBT Stories

Now Available: Awakenings

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