Best Civic Poems

A hood on Mount Hood
wearing a hood hammered the
hood of a Honda.

A cop from Kansas
climbing in the Cascades caught
the recalcitrant.

The cop received a 
commendation, and the hood
a long vacation....

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Do not be self-conscious or anything, but I have got my big ,rotatorof an eye on you.
I know your mama and yourdad, and I’m willing to let them know if you are not being true.
I cannot tell you that it is never odd or even,...

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With her citizenry in speculation?
What next after the abomination?
Why shoot the stood confrontation?
Just for dictatorial execution

The far for we move away from,
Independence in full of storm,
Creative tumbocrats innovate scam,
All around in a boiling water frame

All workplaces baptized in troubles,
Shelters occupied just troubled couples,
To put on...

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I never doubted my gliding flight like a baby bird,
I have always trusted the free winds of democracy.
It offers justice for those whose freedoms are deferred.
It grants inclusiveness to those so threatened by autocracy.

I am just a poet, still believing synergy has wings,
I am just...

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In a land where kings once ruled, a new voice emerges at dawn. It's a quiet call, but clear, a reminder of a duty reborn.

A young person hears the echo on sacred ground, whispering stories. No longer ruled by force, but guided by the song...

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Suburban Pastorale

(I walk in nature still alone. Thoreau)

Among purchased trees
he seeks repose
and bruised 
by civic alienation
forgets that Eden's cleft
has led to all that's made.
But surely he knows
Man and Nature
bound only by cultivation
are not the same.
For he, like most,
prefers his nature tame....

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Back in the day
of exclusively straight white male
****-retentive missionaries,
the Church

Whether monoculturally Catholic
(which may become an oxymoron
one enlightened day)
or Protestant,

But certainly not polytheistically ecstatic,
like a perfect Thanksgiving meal
shared with EarthMother's sacred
deeply co-passionate
mutually resonant
and co-invested
convivial people

Proclaimed religious education
in response to local questions,
and questionable behaviors
and thoughts
and feelings,
moral and...

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