Best Communitarian Poems
Grace and Solitude
...Emerging from sleep dream temerity,
his remote aurora spectral prisms
from which his wakefulness gives legerity,
from which surfaces new burgeoning aphorisms.
Truth’s contours arrayed in fluid......
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Categories:
communitarian, grief, hope, humanity, military,
Form:
Rhyme
Positive Political Problems
...My fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,
Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science path......
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Categories:
communitarian, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Not Your *****
...Last night I was mesmerized
by James Baldwin
in a documentary
"I Am Not Your *****"
in which Baldwin reflects on
Medger, Malcolm, and Martin
who were shot in that order
within six years of eac......
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Categories:
communitarian, community, health, history, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
African Dream
...Which is the real African dream?
building an independent continent?
decolonization of neocolonialism?
I think it is a no!
Which is the virgin African dream?
is it life of mutual brotherhood?
......
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Categories:
communitarian, africa, inspirational, song,
Form:
Elegiac Lyric
Continuous Quality Improvement
..."It [Communion] is the liberating experience of the Authentic Self recognizing itself in others--the many coming together as One in egoless freedom and the mutual conscious intention to evolve."...
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Categories:
communitarian, analogy, beauty, destiny, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
A Sustainable Sanctuary
...I'm in the life-long process
of conjoining a Unitarian Universalist Green Sanctuary
communion of All Souls
living healthy
on all wealthy Earth soils.
This is not my first time joining an int......
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Categories:
communitarian, community, destiny, green, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Today Is Different
...Today is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacr......
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Categories:
communitarian, america, health, integrity, prayer,
Form:
Political Verse
Designer Ways and Means
...Permacultural Designers
are taught to multiply the number
and networking depth
of relationships
between species
and organisms
and systems
and cooperative economic networks,
rather than the si......
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Categories:
communitarian, class, culture, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
The Hinterland
...Democracy devolves into tyranny, Plato cautioned.
Flooded by the frigid torrent of factionalism,
will we certify his prediction?
Blinded by the prevarication of public discourse.
Numbed by the ......
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Categories:
communitarian, allusion, dream, hate, hope,
Form:
Political Verse
Ordinary Man In Africa
...Ordinary man in Africa
deals in magic, herbs, soothsaying
Very important person
deals in guns, bombs, wars
who is greater in destruction?
Ordinary man in Africa talks
proverbs, riddles, poetr......
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Categories:
communitarian, africa, leadership, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Understated Yet Overheard
...I'm not comfortable
talking about racial differences,
Or even racial
or sensual similarities.
I know what you mean
or maybe I do.
Something intimate and personal
about melanin
and hair qu......
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Categories:
communitarian, culture, health, humor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Literate Lettered Latitudinarian
...Literate lettered latitudinarian
Presents the following slapdash
higglety-pigglety bupkis, whereby reader
experiences being mentally hogtied
perusing pseudo poetic perambulation
devoid of sens......
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Categories:
communitarian, 12th grade, adventure, blessing,
Form:
Free verse
Lumpy Bump Survival
...Fearfully awesome bumps
lumps
crumps
slumps in powerful night
become reassuring natural dynamic spirits
with first overpowering light.
Bumps in angry nights
may retributively escalate punish......
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Categories:
communitarian, earth, happiness, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
More habit forming than any drug or liquor
...More habit forming than any drug or liquor
I considered myself sophisticated and wise,
but the addictive power of texting
and subsequently sexting
took me by surprise,
and impossible mission t......
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Categories:
communitarian, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Once Within a Moment
...Once within eternal Time
a coffee ground
of full-spectral
spacious consciousness,
Might sink in cold water cups
Yet rise to surface in warm oil sublime
joyously buoyant juice
Happiest to ......
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Categories:
communitarian, analogy, earth day, health,
Form:
Political Verse