Act As Poems

Beyond the Blackbox

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Attention:
This one is the problem child.

Mom and dad deny autonomy
take authority over a diary
supervised at all times; no privacy
door hinge wide open
so why are the walls closing in?
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Categories: act as, angst, anxiety, depression, mental
Form: Spoken Word

Premium MemberSutra 7-10 from The Holy Science

...“Chitta, the spiritualized Atom, in which Ahamkara (the idea of separate existence of Self) appears, has five manifestations (aura electricities).

They (the five aura electricities) constitute...
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Categories: act as, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet


People are Humans

...People are humans, They are children, They are adults, They are male, they are female, some may be in between, some may not identify as either, some may act as animals, some may like opposite genders...
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Categories: act as, appreciation, community, confidence, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Toward the Faraway

...I travel incognito, using a name I once found
in a book of minor sorrows.
I have a longing for the sea, yet languish here
behind the wheel of a rental,
crisscrossing arid lands with many ...
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Categories: act as, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDaily Prayer

...Dear Lord,
thank you for yesterday
thank you for today
I commit to you my day
with honor and obedience 
tie me to your yoke
so I may walk in your path
do the things that you would do
use the ...
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Categories: act as, love, prayer, religious,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberEmpty out the mind

...“Come undone to know God and we are one ~
We are as God’s child, His prodigal son”
               ~ quote by poet


We reincarnated a thousand times,
but in each life role our soul her...
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Categories: act as, god, silence, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet

Premium Memberinternal voice

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the voice spoke quietly from an inner sanctum
he had out-sourced for what seemed an eternity
muffled at first and barely audible it challenged
his deluded mischievous sense of corrupted reality
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Categories: act as, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPigeon Deterrence

...The moralists, twenty and two,
Know not what is like to ensue,
When, grasping but smidgeons,
They act as if pigeons;
They’ll probably hate me when through....
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Categories: act as, anxiety, bird, fantasy, funny,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberThey Say We Jews are Afraid

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     They say we Jews are afraid
        that no one 'now' will come to our aid

     Murder of Jews in America is multiplying
        more and more hate crimes, innocents dying

     Well, t...
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Categories: act as, america, hate, history, jewish,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberSanta We've Been Outta Touch

...Santa Claus, we’ve been out of touch 
and I don’t ask for very much 
but I have needs, and I’m in Dutch

I want to see the light of day
oh, and can you give me a sleigh
and a way to forget yest...
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Categories: act as, crazy, dark,
Form: Rhyme

Premium Memberdream of dreams

...She came prancing into my mind
A dream that showed the world is kind
People doing selfless things for each other
Empathetic fathers, mothers caring for another
The year is 2052; we all act as eac...
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Categories: act as, parents,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTo speak the truth in a world woven with lies is to set yourself on fire like a torch

...To speak the truth in a world woven with lies is to set yourself on fire like a torch,
Just to prove you were never made of wax melted under absent gazes,
They praise polite silence, mute nods, and...
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Categories: act as, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Damaged

...They stick labels on broken things that say damaged

Damaged but still usable 
because why would you throw something away when it’s just a little broken, battered or bruised, we pride ourselves in...
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Categories: act as, abuse, cry, dark, emotions,
Form: Free verse

The Tariff Wars

...There are no bombs, nor guns ablaze
No killing fields or bloody sands
Yet world is driven into craze
From “sweet old home” to distant lands

Mosaic shattered on the wall
To shreds is ripped old...
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Categories: act as, america, war,
Form: Rhyme

Take two to tango

...2025.04.28
It takes two to tango.
It is very true, if you believe otherwise,
You are naive and a simple minded soul.
It applied to all the keeping promises too.
I made so many on my own will,
D...
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Categories: act as, art, dance, desire, hope,
Form: Free verse

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