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When Reason Goes Out the Window
I find it curious that people will debate the nature of God, with one side saying it is irrelevant as He doesn't exist and the...

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Categories: devolved, angst, atheist, god, humanity,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Your Intentions
Your intentions 
Were good 
It’s just that you misunderstood 
The technology 
You issue your child 
A digital leash 
An electronic guardian, babysitter, and spy 
We...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devolved, how i feel, technology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Her Brevity
her kisses were glacial...honest
she devoured every star on which she rode
at times, amber spirits would peal the veneer
expose the pulp of her mind...scarred...
one night the...

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Categories: devolved, death, heart, life, loss,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Love of Wisdom: Philosophy
Why isn't philosophy written most wisely
also poetic verse,
both-and analogical ecology?

While classic philosophic historians
continue this great debate
about which is most important,
truth or beauty?
this same political philosophy...

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Categories: devolved, beauty, earth, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member This Passionate Moment
Red hot and cool Green peace
passions bring us to this sacred 
synergetic EarthTime

More dialogue regenerative
when cooperative
so more redundantly competitive
when endless debate degenerative

Less producing fruit
of Future's...

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Categories: devolved, caregiving, culture, earth day,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



The Island
An island
Afloat in a sea of galaxies and stars
Orbiting its sun
Light and energy to warm and stir its life
Conceived by God....
With one explosive...singular...divine idea
14 billion...

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Categories: devolved, earth, environment, nature, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Silent Essence
Silence is my favorite crypt, 
and when I'm feeling pious, or 
magnanimous, or greedy 
or alive, 
I go there. 
I go there because 
in silence,...

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Categories: devolved, space,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Signs of the Time We Live In
This sandwich board licence business closely illustrates 
what this is really by taking the biscuit 
money for signage so much a year
 
Drawing a unique...

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Categories: devolved, conflict, corruption, judgement, life,
Form: Political Verse
Present Perfect In Summer School
PRESENT PERFECT in SUMMER SCHOOL

CONJUGATION
I have yearned
Thou hast returned
He has departed
She has kissed faint hearted
We have voiced warm greetings
They’ve had timid meetings

The young ones the...

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Categories: devolved, celebration, happiness, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In My Lifetime
(From the other side of the track)

Grammar the regal tool of pure English
Alas used as a wedge to classify,
A divided country a trait snobbish
To ridicule...

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Categories: devolved, angst, confusion, education, language,
Form: Sonnet
The Original Magna Carta
The Magna Carta changed the rule of law,
That is, what the law was and who it was for, 
From being a simple, dashing validation of...

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Categories: devolved, community, corruption, god, history,
Form: Rhyme
Anti-Creation
Cursing and cutting bleeding and boiling
Undressed and undone...like a microscopic maggot now scorched in  the sun
Strung out and strung up
Feasts of flesh...decomposing...devolved...deterioration
Anti-creation

Over the limit...

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Categories: devolved, bible, drug,
Form: Blank verse
Beyond the Snows of Winter
BEYOND THE SNOWS OF WINTER

You go on ahead, my son,
I’ll catch up with you when the snow reaches the end of winter
You have your life...

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Categories: devolved, father, father son, loss,
Form: Free verse
Class Act
The simplest of starts,
A decade of revolution,
When paternity and guidance drifted apart,
With leather jacket banners marked my breakout social intrusion,
To replace the sorrowful suits and...

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Categories: devolved, grief, society, war,
Form: Rhyme
You Are Not Him
move me past 
these words 
stroke my face 
as you transport me 
on the tip of your
tongue, directed,
everywhere 

there is nothing 
but the fall
to your...

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Categories: devolved, lost love, mysterylonging, me,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs