I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press
I owe appreciative courtesy to alternative press...
for enlightening my senses
to the evocative, reciprocative
and suffocative
auditory and visual material
publicized in The Nation
magazine January 2025 issue
on page 59 about Macklemore
(his given birth name
Benjamin Hammond Haggerty)
an American rapper
composed protest song titled Hind's Hall
viewed YouTube video by same name
English words flashed across screen
incorporating subtitles videre licet
the primary language
spoken and written
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Categories:
appreciative, adventure, america, appreciation, art,
Form: Free verse
I'm All That and an Appreciative Hat
I'm just an old-fashioned, flannel lumberjack shirt.
My father was some overalls, a farmer of dirt.
I'm a worn out and holey pair of cotton socks,
An unwanted sweater, packed away in a box.
My son's a fancy ascot living in New York City.
He can't be cut from the same cloth, he's too pretty -
A button down shirt, a
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Categories:
appreciative, age, clothes, father, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Be Appreciative Always
Happy is he who isn’t led astray
He walks in happiness in his stride
Tranquility is in His Word today
Here, I lay in silence in which I hide
Blessed is he who doesn’t speak with ungodly men
Blessed is he who is appreciative over and over again
Where did I stand? I stood with you long ago
Now, where has the
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Categories:
appreciative, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Appreciative Lover
When your body has had enough of me,
when we're both exhausted flat out on the floor,
when you think I've loved you all I can,
I'm going to love you just a little bit more.
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Categories:
appreciative, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Appreciative
Appreciative
Six o`clock
In the morning
Is the best time
To get up when it is summer
Stay on the terrace
Inhale the air
Before it gets hot
Make a coffee
Just being alive
Elderliness is to be grateful
For little things
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Categories:
appreciative, columbus day, conflict, courage,
Form: Chastushka
Be Appreciative
Be appreciative
Generate more harmony
The scenery will change
Live life completely
Time will fade
Moments become a memory
Take the world by storm
Rise up with endless energy
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Categories:
appreciative, inspiration, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
I Was Appreciative of My Cornet
I WAS APPRECIATIVE OF MY CORNET.
(Northern dialect)
I went to the ice cream man on the corner for me, me friend and me Nan.
I got two cornets and a wafer with nougat in, for me Nan.
I remember it being hot that day cause me ice cream melted down me hand.
We sat
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Categories:
appreciative, art, fun,
Form: Free verse
Appreciative Eyes
Earthen figs, blooming soil
with leaves stiff leather fanned and bright
Green desire, invisible sky
with white cloud shadows in the whites of my eyes
Papaya pulp, caviar seeds
like the swollen thoughts of summer trees
Warm the skin, juice the chin
like orange blood from sea urchin seas
Breath of lungs, sun begins
to saturate kidneys and mush the mind
Braided fern, dragonfly dance
to
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Categories:
appreciative, happiness, life, nature, peace,
Form: Quatrain