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Theory of Devolution
I am a pacifist I despise war.
It’s the only thing I actually hate.
I’m never able to brace myself for
Diplomacy that deteriorates:
Recriminating dialogue amuck
That results in...

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Categories: devolution, people, war
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Reverse Creation
Taoist Principle of Reversion
grows metasystemic decomposition
degeneration
reverse creation
organic time and memory moving backward toward rebirth
of a Paradise Pleasing Planet.

Reversion anticipates the Yin-reverse action 
of indigenously wise...

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Categories: devolution, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Mother Nature - Not Amused
Oceans, woods, abused, confused!
Mother nature not amused!
Her bellies aching.
Mistakes we're making!
Time pollution was defused!

There is an old man of the ocean,
To marine life is his...

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Categories: devolution, nature, pollution,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Forgotten Freedom
In a shallow grave
Behind a big old whitewashed house
where a tattered flag still waves
beside a small cross made with staves
and in the wood, clearly carved
with...

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Categories: devolution, abuse, america, anxiety, farewell,
Form: I do not know?
Omission of Tradition 7-24-15
It has never been my intension
nor was it ever a bone of contention 
to alter or disrupt the social convention
but now is the time to...

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Categories: devolution, allegory, assonance, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Games We Play
Yang, dear.

Yes, my lovely Yin.

Why do you map Game Theory
onto EcoFeminist Political Theory?
It comes across as either just confusing
or, even worse,
vaguely sexist.

Really!
How sexist?

Well you seem...

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Categories: devolution, birth, games, gender, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Keeping America Safe
A prayer for God to bless NativeAmericans
is also a reminder of traditional political mindfulness,
basic awareness of our economic investments in security.

No one "keeps" this confederation...

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Categories: devolution, culture, earth, health, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Life Beloving Dualdark Night

Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
and posthumous demise,
probably post-humorous as well,
should...

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Categories: devolution, death, depression, humor, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Summer Reforesting School
YinYin,
what did you most appreciate
learning at school this summer?

Probably in Community ReForesting.
You know, the EcoTherapy Class
I took
instead of eating lunch,
using "lunch" loosely
as synonymous with edible,
or...

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Categories: devolution, culture, education, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Revolutionary Story
They called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and YinYin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet...

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Categories: devolution, health, humor, joy, life,
Form: Narrative
Snakes and Ladders
Please try and read with the rhythm, flow and spacing I created by use of the lower casing in place of full-stops and commas/breaths. Allow...

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Categories: devolution, earth, emotions, growth, identity,
Form: Rhyme
We Are Flotsam
(with a spark of God)

To govern a myriad selection
Of one mind and legion.
Top tier parasitic collection
From every living region.

It's not subjective good or evil,
Moral or...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devolution, addiction, depression, earth, environment,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Old Friends
Quakers build their cooperative politics
on following consensually-held fertile lights.

Buddha adds,
Follow your TruthLight,
back through our universal co-arising (0)-spacetime equi-valence
dualdark Out/In Breathing-Landscapes BiCameral MindBody Balance,
ecology of birth...

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Categories: devolution, destiny, earth, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Nature's Controversial Kindness
Taoist Elders have spoken--
and who could natural spirits be
to rewrite cooperative history--
nature, and therefore spirit, does not favor kindness.

Christian Elders
more recently issue citations
to this Problem...

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Categories: devolution, death, evil, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Making Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and...

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Categories: devolution, anger, culture, fear, history,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs