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Premium Member John Lennon
On the day 
that John Lennon died, 
people were just going 
about their business 
as they did every day. 

Mark David Chapman 
was reading 
Catcher In The Rye 
void of his holy self.
 He...

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Categories: departments, music,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Vicious, Is the Unwelcomed Stranger
Conclusive is the board meeting by death’s merchants in Wuhan
the planet is rich, now placed in a temporary ban.
Grey hair is condemned in the statistics...

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Categories: departments, anxiety, bereavement, death, earth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member A Divided Nation
Confined in one boundary, living together
showing different reactions in changing weather.

Stabbing each other, hoping to reach same destiny
creating a stumbling block as the way, what...

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Categories: departments, africa, patriotic, peace, people,
Form: Couplet
The Violence of Money
There is never an ending
		to the spending
	a world of paper
and plastic to collect
and horde
	clothes
	and cars
	and homes
	and jewelry
	and fine wine
	and paintings
	stocks and bonds
	vacations 
and expectations
entire vocations...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: departments, anger, anxiety, violence,
Form: Verse
Keep Your Laws Off My Body
You march calling for taxes on
things that you think we should not eat,
tax the soda, tax the chips,
and above all tax the meat!
We point out...

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Categories: departments, abortion, freedom, health, how
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Silence Is Deadly
 Silence is Deadly 

Stand up
if the masses did
Trump would be a gravestone


Notes:

Some will tell you never to be silenced, yet will not mention what...

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Categories: departments, anti bullying, green, hate,
Form: Free verse
The Anonymous Patriot
The Directorate of Criminal Investigations can attest
That none raised a claim against him, even in jest,
And reports on his environmental conduct all agree
That he never...

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Categories: departments, patriotic,
Form: Verse
The Strongest Woman, Part I
The strongest woman that I ever saw
was born thirty-four years ago,
to loving parents who doted on her,
told he of the great places she’d go.

She was...

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Categories: departments, angst, children, life, strength,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member You May Say That I'M a Dreamer But I'M Not the Only One
(this is just a write and does not reflect my own beliefs. i believe in God and Heaven. however i believe in peace, love and...

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Categories: departments, love, peace,
Form: Prose
The Tenure Star
It all started when I took a typing test
I did 95 words per minute and made two errors
The requirement was 50 or more words
Human Resources...

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Categories: departments, career, celebration, clothes, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
Capitalizing On Capitalism
Capitalism has been blamed by worthless people rich in power and other peoples' money.

True capitalism earns money.  
Jobs are created by capitalists. 
Workers earn...

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Categories: departments, historymoney,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shrouded
"Shrouded" 

found in the humanity
not in the divinity
many pilates 
wash their hands
of this

long enough
for the clouds 
to descend 
then rise 
fly away 

criminal as charged
electric...

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Categories: departments, dark, light, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Discomforted By Integrity
I wonder how many parents of students
suffer from studying and teaching white nationalism
against tides of multiculturing change.

And I wonder what our school boards
and state departments...

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Categories: departments, child abuse, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Regarding Health and Education
Dear Local Boards of EcoSchool Education,
Departments of Environmentally Protected Walkable Transportation,
Cooperatively Maintaining Public-Private Works
and STEAM Play
and WinWin GreenGames,
Hysterical Historical Associations,
Social Work Departments of Climate Restorative...

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Categories: departments, caregiving, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Political Verse
My Towel
When stepping from the shower,
Dripping wet and set to dry,
I like to know a bath sheet’s
On alert and standing by.

It needn’t be expensive
Nor the fluffiest...

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Categories: departments, me,
Form: Rhyme

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