Why Do We Question - Why Are We Here
...Science
never answers
the primary
questions
it ponders
in circles
deck chairs
rearranged
Reciprocal
theorems
of self
aggrandizement
indentured
to kingdoms
where dilettantes
reign
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Categories:
aggrandizement, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Spring also known as vernal equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
...Spring (also known as vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2025
at 5:01?AM in Northern Hemisphere
out of hibernation,
sans mancave, I will climb
eastern standard time,
when calendrical, celesti...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, adventure, beautiful, bird, birth,
Form: Free verse
I coulda written that song, Purple Rain
...I coulda written that song, “Purple Rain.”
It didn’t take that big of a brain.
And I coulda written that song “Hotel California.”
But girl - I do wanna warn ya!
I’ve always been considered...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Woodpeckers in Silence
...The stench of puerile self-aggrandizement wafts through the air, a noxious cloud of platitudes and pomp, as the pusillanimous pustules of pseudo-intellectualism congregate to lavish accolades upon on...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, dark,
Form: Free verse
Kiss-Ups
...If a time and place is different
for them to fire off their weaponry,
to lie and win against a significant.
What keeps a similarity in liability,
to lie and win in a predicament
where skill is a...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, community, conflict, feelings, how
Form: Lyric
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
...The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, abortion, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
MAGNIFICATION-
...* MAGNIFICATION-
I see, I feel chose up, Natural soul mine atoms mold
Compulsive make up looked upon, so
I see Seismic waves micro-
I feel High pressures temperatures ca...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, adventure, analogy, appreciation, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Smoke and Mirrors
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lies and obfuscation
revenge politics
game of the day
extremists
s p l i t
hold hostage the government
power money
self-aggrandizement
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Categories:
aggrandizement, america, history, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse
Old Bolsanaro
...Old Bolsanaro wishes he was, and takes strides to become, a fictional character as a way to promote more predictable backlash from his invasive, divisive and inflammatorily abusive comments—you know,...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, allegory, political, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Seeking Flattery of the Crowd
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Like a deadly drug, it makes us dance
Put our nose in the air, turn our backs .
Craven souls, want another chance.
Walking over friends, we call hacks?
On, yes we sign, love, but ...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, character, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Decisions
...We are on a precipice of War
Yet you spurn the most skilled Knight
Just to stoke your selfish Desire?
You choose pettiness over the Realm
The tempest is Imminent
Yet you let the chief captain...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, anger, desire, emotions, life,
Form: Lyric
War of Politics
...The country is at war again
War of hustle and bustle for power
Power for self aggrandizement
All in the name of democracy
Birds of prey are in full flight
Hunting for the Carcass
Of the c...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, abuse, allusion, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Peace Message To the World
...“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”*
God-granted peace reigns withi...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Verity of Truth
...Truth* upholds golden rule’s functional verity
Authored by the Lord of supreme sovereignty
Loving others as one’s self with active surety
Promoting genuine kindness midst gracious duty
Co...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Didactic
Hyphenated
...This is what I am enjoined to be:
Hyphenated !
Bound to vacillate between self-aggrandizement and self-annihilation
I straddle two unrecognizable worlds
only to find solace in none
I am the bege...
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Categories:
aggrandizement, analogy, anger, confusion,
Form: Free verse
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