Best Derivatives Poems

Can  love then,  be based
on an index of elements
from which one joyfully tumbles,
or drifts into equations, as we wander
toward a rush of serendipity...

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Thank you, Mr. Rogers (yes, his real name!) 
for rescuing me from teenage purgatory.

       Perplexed teenager, lacking social lumen
...

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Through the faded door of never mind.
Couldn't find the button to rewind.
A lost cause that was left behind.
Two stars that just never aligned.

The what if's...

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Cells aplenty, and blood coursing through my veins,
Derivatives of familial DNA strains.

Genetics play an important part, you see,
In the shaping of little old me.

The reading...

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a triple pariku 
  
the two part nature of light
reveals waves and particles
of Spirit a body forms

     stabilized by precept,...

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All around us
It’s an epidemic
Man-induced plague

It’s a conspiracy
To hook people
To non food foods
Eats that should be
Technically inedible

Anything to grease the wheel
Of factories and consumerism
Nothing grown...

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having a pleasant and distinctive smell.
"a massage with aromatic oils"
synonyms:
fragrant · scented · sweet-scented · sweet-smelling · perfumed · [more]
chemistry
(of an organic compound) containing a...

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Known Now, A Hidden Sweet Wonder Rarely Known
        ( Shadow Sonnet, form number 6 )

Green forest glowings transcends...

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Some say the scientific method
                              Is the ultimate algorithm and others
                              Prefer prayer.

For symbolists, all intelligence can be reduced to manipulating symbols, in the same way that...

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Philosophers, down the ages,  
Have strenuously tried
To figure out language:
Their numerous narratives polarize 
Into two Grand narratives, a binary:
Language is referential / differential.
This binary...

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King Leonidas 300 and Counting

It was 480 BC
King Leonidas with 300 Spartan warriors held Thermopylae Pass
Fought against the vast immortals horde of Persian forces
Lasted and...

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It's most fun to live on the line,

and see derivatives in-front of your eyes...

It's most fun to be alive and see for your side every...

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Two roads diverged in a mellow wood.
Rugged paths and uphill roads further ahead.
Dimly or half-hidden, like the wood itself.
Try to glimpse ahead.
But it is beyond...

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underground governmental labs extract organs, 
neon blood drips slowly to the concrete floor.
 organic roots sprout growing through the cracks..
 decorated bright magnets shake the...

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DERIVATIVES TRADING
I bet
you sweat
BANKER'S PROMISSORY 
NOTE
my gosh
what tosh
FINANCIAL TIMES
loan freeze
cash please
REPOSSESSED
no bread
in shed...

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