Best Commonalities Poems

In Ulzana's Raid,
the Native- and European-American concepts of property ownership
      and rights
are incompatible and irresolvable. McIntosh
had no illusions about that....

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Self-Portrait, 2011
v. Ortiz Vazquez


4’9” or 5’0”, never quite knowing which
Brown eyes, black Afro hair
She Hercules strength within
34 years old wondering where times has gone
A second,...

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Throughout the animal kingdom, 
There are commonalities, don’t you think?
One of the strongest among them
Is an inborn maternal instinct.

She wouldn’t leave her litter
To go outside...

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I have a mind, a body, a sense that I am one
I am a husband and father, but first I was a son
I do have...

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Things confuse me easily these days 
it might be age or some kind of rare 
oncoming dementia preparing me for 
a difficult but joyous passage...

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lead my hand o' dear life

lead my hand
on this land
o' dear life, 
until the end

o' dear thought
of comfort

seed my life
feed me not in strife
bleed me...

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face to face 
inevitably doing this to
kill time doing this to 
find a place outside the moment to 
reside doing this to bend the
will of...

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The wood is stacked for winter.
One way out of the mind's limitations
is through other minds' contemplations.
The books are stacked for winter.

Yet even that cannot satisfy.
Failing...

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Allowed for his glory.
The bound burden seems so heavy,
So brutal as if to chastise,
Though that is not its purpose.

To peel back the sinful man,
And replace...

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When you look at me, what do you see?
When you look at me, what do you expect?
When you look at me, what do you need...

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Where does it begin?

Is it in the DNA?

Is it in the foundational structure?

Is it through skin conformity families?

Is it through children's cartoons? 

Is it through...

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I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme 
Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems 
Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions,...

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"I never travel without my diary, 
One should always have something sensational to read . .  ."  
So, I like Oscar Wilde, 1891,...

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I
 I the great leader of Africa, 
A true revolutionary of the pan African struggle
The acquitter ’s blood I enjoy, in the tears and sweat
Of...

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Christmas Tree, Menorah Meet-Up





A Christmas tree and a Menorah,woke one morning right next to
one another!
Both were shocked to be so placed, thinking this was such...

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