when human beings forsake 

the critical principle 

 

to recycle waste 

material as a huge 

mistake that will break 

 

the resources extraction 

rate over the resources’

 

regeneration 

such that extinction may slay 

the bipedal minds 

 

that could not find their way to 

resign animalistic 

 

competition to 

realign with the good sense 

to commence with more

deeds toward cooperation 

over annihilation. 

 

Cooperating 

means seeking harmonious 

integration with 

 

the elaborate eco-

intricacies that need all 

 

to fall in balance 

with forces that are sources 

for sustainable 

 

growth in healthy conditions.

[Reginald (Regge)]

 

Hi Grace, I am Reginald. 

 

Friends call me Regge. 

I’m Zaling’s little brother 

who is a lover 

 

of all animals; large or 

small; short or tall and also 

 

all tiny insects 

crawling or creatures flying, 

or those slithering 

 

as well as the slimy ones.

Skilled mathematically

 

I’m a regular 

attendee of two key guilds. 

Appropriations 

 

and Ecological tasks 

ask for prudent, not reckless, 

 

comment to cement 

fixes for sustainable 

finance to advance 

 

management of resources 

to maintain the ebb and flow 

 

that all of us know 

is the natural balance 

of expenditures 

 

with coffers of money saved 

that assures our future 

 

needs will be no more 

than what will speed fair payment. 

But all water spent 

 

from a now dry well can’t quench 

thirst or repel withered crops 

that foretell hunger 

pangs ’cause currency can’t feed 

those empty bellies. 

 

Forget the speech that harangues 

the gains of competition. 

 

A transition must 

be the condition to forge 

society’s path 

 

away from narcissists who 

gorge on greed’s gluttony for 

 

excessive wealth and 

repressive, selfish power 

toward forming towers 

 

on firm ground that empowers 

cooperation’s skill set 

 

that begets facets 

contrary to everyone 

of competition’s 

 

very shortsighted skill set. 

Conflict resolution as 

“last person standing

wins” is the soul solution 

for kings and tyrants. 

 

Execution of win-win 

solutions require more 

 

distribution of 

free will, self-discipline and 

tolerance needed 

 

for acceptance of diverse 

thinking strategies that please 

 

alternative views 

from which to choose the best course 

rooted in the source 

 

that supports all to survive. 

Hence, while we thrive we must 

 

abide fair minded 

accountability to 

reign in naive acts 

 

that track along everyone’s 

road to higher learning and 

 

erode ignorant 

minds that work to grind away 

our harmony 

that feeds the needs of our 

robust cooperative.

 

[Katy]

 

The Literary 

Guild is filled with astute heads 

bred to be well read, 

 

but I’m the black sheep that reaps 

the loot stashed in pop culture 

 

and cinematic 

truth they try to refute as 

second class booty. 

 

I, the lame, insane Katy 

see their snooty bias as 

 

being weighty brains 

that trained away primal, raw 

passion that fashions 

 

gut wrenching intuitive 

response to caustic forces 

 

ensconced in deceits 

from which we ought not retreat, 

but work to defeat.