Best Corrective Poems

He sees the rose in her cheeks
She sees the wrinkles of time in her mirror

He sees the long, flowing brunette of her shining hair
She sees...

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1/ FOR GRACIE

your grace so sensitive 
other’s pain penetrates
so intense the hurt -you burn
there’s acid in your tears
one more pin hole in your heart

2/ how...

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Aristotle, who once said, “A flatterer is a friend,
Who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”
Magician or not, the appraisal we try to defend,
Veneer...

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ANTICIPATIONS

with
 apprehensive
contrasts
in
 sombre
 glimpses
 totally
 themselves
&
so
 necessary
 to survive

disquiet
made
manifest
in
 venerable
tradition

an
 intensity
emulated
with
hypnotic
fixity

a
considered
 significance
  evident
&
perceptible
with
an
indicative
corrective
descending

an
 embarked
inclination...

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The eraser belonged to me; it was saved by my mother and returned along with many other 
childhood items when I became middle aged. I...

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‘Out’-discipline!
“Teacher, beaten by student.” “Student stabs another in squabble.” 
“Teachers found without Lesson Plan.” “Noise level unbearable.”
Unfortunately, these would only be a few of the...

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(The rehab of a supervisor)

My eyes!  Saturated
with industrial crap, eventually
to intoxicate what’s left of one’s
bewildered brain.
My sight!  Shackled to the
delusion of corporate inconsistencies,
when...

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In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not...

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Of the distance, 
beauty appeared at peace, calmly resting. 
Proximity grew closer to this human figurine; 
lengthy legs painted in ocean blue jeans.
The thesis statement...

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~ In  His  Divine Love ~
( Nonet )



It tells me that God is good and true

The Bible says this and much more

Tells us...

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The scorn of abandonment,
howls of silence
when a room entered,
the school yard clatter
community chatter,
pulpit perniciousness
traduce in speculation.
Housewives with
corrective attitudes
deft in moralistic anomalies,
snarls over the broom
with piercing...

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RETROSPECTIVE RELEVANCE

Relentless search for relevance
Reflective selective reassurance
Rationalize elective rehashing
Relentless search for relevance

Regenerating nostalgic recall
Reminiscing connective reclaim
Reconciling corrective record
Relentless search for relevance

Radical projective refusal
Reluctance infective reclusive
Regarding...

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RITUAL

The anthropology professor
said Iroquois ways were a fading reflection, 
a cultural trace of a poetic narrative of indigenous
wisdom, tribal traditions that marry the spirit of
a...

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My community, like so many others, struggled with the number of calls for youth disturbances and crime. The reactive approach to solving this problem was...

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Waking me in the wake of her brilliance
words spoken,written in convoluted high tones
ringing meaning esoteric and quite unknown
the craft was hyped in meteoric terms
shining bright,...

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