Best Correction Poems

Light the nation a new fire;
Awake the apathetic’s desire;
Like sheep to Shepherd’s crook;
We need a new course, old Book.

Our founders risked it all;
Starting with Lexington’s one ball;
The leaders penned a declaration;
Planting the seeds of a Revolutionary nation;

One Creator, created all equal, followed by this sequel;
No...

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Yesterday,
when conscious slept,
anger was my shield,
fear my faithful sword.

When hatred contaminated my heart,
tears ached for tranquillity,
polluted in guilt from selfish greed.

Life can be a disaster waiting to occur,
leaving you in despair gasping for air,
suffocating your sighs with crippling changes,
due to disorientation in imagining reality.

I've always...

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I thought anger was a negative emotion
to be avoided at all costs.
Then I thought about the oppressed.
Anger grew inside of me.

I chose to act upon that anger.
I used my voice to speak against the oppressor.
Even so, I measured my motivation 
tempered my response with love...

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Written: November 12, 2023, For Unseekeing Seeker Contest
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Love is a rule binding us all, broad yet near,
Saffron sun sparks souls and spells fear.
Anger, stern iron law, and lethal sword to...

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Consciousness Correction – 11-20-23
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Consciousness Correction

Envy sneaks in unseen
A thief robbing light from my house of gratitude,
Sowing simmering anger, extinguishing thankfulness,
In blind yellowed views
Gratitude held captive,
Strangled,
Pennies of “I wish” tossed into stone cisterns
Where winter thrashes cyclconic -
Vortex of a gleeful witness to spring’s demise -
Dead-ends swell...

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"Be like a lotus flower, open your petals to let go of fear and sadness."

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Vivacious, practical, self-directed
Mary Bailey, nice body
it makes no sense that just because George
might never have been she suddenly becomes a shy,
homely, lonely librarian without a dog or god.
No, it did not fundamentally matter
whether George was born except to his mother. Potter
might have taken over but...

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In life,
there are times when anxiety can set in.
Maybe from a person or a place,
then fear can follow.
Seems like anxiety and fear are best friends,
and we do not need them.
In the world of anxiety or fear,
we can meet frustration.
In life,
anxiety with fear like to play...

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I've always had an aversion to emotions with a negative trait.
Anger doesn't dissipate with age, but I don't fly in to a rage
when I feel the first inkling of frustration. Instead, I contemplate
the source of my anxiety and tell myself, "Just turn the page."

By doing...

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a subtle, almost imperceptible vibrational distraction
became an irritant causing consciousness contraction 
taking a step back, we allowed the flame to die out
contemplating on why we had so allowed it to grout
as such, the seeming nonevent, though a flicker in time
redoubled our resolve to entwine with...

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You have apologized to the world
Now apologize to me
For I did not give a swine my pearl
Nor put sugar in the sea

What this house on old foundations
The thinking group domain
What is a beginning without inventions
Where is the new path of pain?

We hear and hear again...

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Clutching the moment 
Before yesterday became yesterday,
The promise,
Before he pledged his love to me,
The colors,
Before autumn waltzed away, 
Swaying in shadows of soft snowfall,
Breathing white, plunging into the thought,
A blizzard erasing the gentle flames,
Sheltered by November skies,
Sighing beneath laughing starlight.

Stuffing darkness beneath a blanket,
Drifting to...

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high expectations, low visibility - impossible becomes reality...

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“Watch that thought, ego begot ~
Be thee oh hermit, self-taught”

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Is each touch gentle
in heart’s love temple,
offering healing
with sincere feeling?

Playing our life role,
do we seek control,
spawning thoughts shoddy,
serving mind-body?

Unvoiced low intent
scars the joy current,
for which we atone
alone, on our own.

There are no shortcuts,
as conscience rebuts
each thought...

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I
often 
feel despair
about my health.
Doctors have no cures,
and my rare conditions
never go away; therefore,
I find things that bring me comfort
and do my best to enjoy sweet life.
Family, friends, and writing are my salve.
Also in life. I sometimes make mistakes -
not things of shame, but embarrassment.
I...

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