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Opposites Connect
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Gerald Dillenbeck
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absorption, community, destiny, education, environment,
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Dr Ford and Judge Hyde
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
absorption, bullying, conflict, destiny, earth,
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Go West Old Woman
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
absorption, health, humor, paradise, peace,
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Nothing Between
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Freddie Robinson Jr.
| Free verse |
absorption, dark, perspective, sad, sick,
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A Lone Wolf
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Caren Krutsinger
| Free verse |
absorption, animal,
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Why cannot we see
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Kai Michael Neumann
| Free verse |
absorption, love, peace,
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The Magnificance Of Christ
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Mario Vitale
| Free verse |
absorption, appreciation, art,
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Expresso Expression
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Duncan R. M. Ferguson
| Light Verse |
absorption, perspective, social,
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Sacrifice
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Winged Warrior
| Rhyme |
absorption, philosophy, self,
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Gray Area
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Elena Welsh
| Free verse |
absorption, perspective,
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Life and Humans
by Mad Rose
Balance. Unity. The harmony inside of me.
No more self-pity. No more self-doubt. Fear no more. Sigh no more. Cry no more.
Love. Confidence. Love. Everyone...
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Categories:
absorption, blessing, inspiration, life, peace,
At a Loss
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
The mental frames of the past were empty,
as were all thoughts of any permanence
Feelings of substance crushed into nothingness
by the grind of time
Aimless wandering...
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Categories:
absorption, allusion, confusion, dark, perspective,
Colour
by John Scotter
From birth we see the the world all bright and blurry
Colours there sparkling for our eyes
The brain free to make sense of this spectrum...
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Categories:
absorption, color,
To Collect
by Kristina Whitmore
Seasons pass as tendencies fall
Tripping over laws that order societal resolve
A laughing matter not for the victims assailants never caught
Consuming thoughts processed opposite happy holidays
Timely...
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Categories:
absorption, community, culture, humor, life,
Neverending Quest
by Probir Gupta
The river wanted to love its own motion
In my hands in a blond and pink nudity
I failed as my strength to hold was poor
I bowed...
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Categories:
absorption, image, life,
Paranoid Schizophrenia
by Jessica Jones
How can I help her when she doesn't want help?
She's content with living this way
No one can help her, not even herself
Her mind is her...
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Categories:
absorption, child abuse, childhood, confusion,
Merciful Mirror
by Winged Warrior
Merciful Mirror
‘Merciful Mirror on the wall...what is the greatest of our fall?’
The invasion of illusion the greatest of your fervent fall
The absorption of confusion the...
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Categories:
absorption, identity, mirror, self,
Summer ReForesting School
by Gerald Dillenbeck
YinYin,
what did you most appreciate
learning at school this summer?
Probably in Community ReForesting.
You know, the EcoTherapy Class
I took
instead of eating lunch,
using "lunch" loosely
as synonymous with edible,
or...
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Categories:
absorption, culture, education, health, history,
Bad News Junkie
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
They like their news delivered intravenously
Nonstop drip of
horrific images pumped straight to the cortex
Ophthalmologically dosed every hour
Raw footage unedited,
fatal tragic scenes
unfiltered
on the...
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Categories:
absorption, addiction, drug, metaphor, truth,
Cleaning House
by Gerald Dillenbeck
If cleanliness
thrives next to godliness,
could wealthy White Houses,
slick and in their capital-sucking groove,
survive when paired with homelessness?
This question presupposes
perhaps a radical view
that divine powers are...
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absorption, beauty, destiny, earth, health,
Umbilical Strings of Time
by Gerald Dillenbeck
The umbilical cord
connecting Left-dominant Yang
with Right-integrative Yin
stretches back to alga and fungus,
symbiotically congressed as bilateral lichen.
Lichens are a couple of specifics
within which the hybrid whole...
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absorption, creation, earth, health, integrity,
Half Measures
by Crow thepoet
This is how it starts
the decline of who we are, the decline of something more
the start of wars
Installed in us is confidence
confidence, a blessing or...
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Categories:
absorption, suicide, symbolism,
The Dying Wasp
by Dale Gregory Cozart
She vibrates:
a chassis
minus shock absorption.
A painting:
the Nude Descends a Staircase,
rings of Saturn etched
in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords
and switchboards.
She isn't programmed
to see light...
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Categories:
absorption, insect, technology,
I dreamed for a time
by Chris Fortin
I dreamed for a time,
as I walked with you,
that I was an ascendant being.
Now that you have left me,
am I doomed...
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Categories:
absorption, absence, death of a
Let Me Go Back
by Jonathan French
Let me go back, for just one day.
Back, before responsibility,
when empathy's bulb was buried
deep in the soil of self-absorption.
Let me feel again the freedom of...
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Categories:
absorption, longing, love, memory, youth,
An Oblivious Revelation
by Lu Loo
U n c o n s c i o u s while the entire universe
fights against her reality,
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Categories:
absorption, absence, analogy, anxiety, fear,
Procrastination
by Keshan Govender
A tense mind, forsaking abilities
Days passed can not be recovered
The suffering brought upon, by choice
Fear arisen at the thought of the inevitable
I scorn at my...
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Categories:
absorption, angst, conflict, feelings, high
A New Dawn
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Theoretical abstractions,
reductive hard word choices,
to describe and prescribe spiritual experiences
are unsatisfactory for daily consumption and absorption
as they reify exceptions to your Business As Usual,
which is...
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Categories:
absorption, deep, destiny, earth day,
After The Storm
by Duncan R. M. Ferguson
The road crew assembled some using
a push broom
sweeping into edges of K-rails placed to stem
the Laurel Canyon hillside mudbath's doom
Customers convened...
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Categories:
absorption, perspective, weather,
SEARCHING:
by White Wolf
Perusing the dictionary for words to enlighten,
That would illuminate through my paper and pen,
My mental absorption was in dire need,
I urgently required gaining a word...
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Categories:
absorption, fun, funny, humor, humorous,