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Best Devolving Poems

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Lunar Ticking
American cosmonaut
	moonwalking
Humanity is tethered to the line,
sweating vacuum fear facing the void
Planet of the apes ...
	backwards talking
Silent film projector reel
spinning in reverse ... time capsule...

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Categories: devolving, allusion, dark, symbolism, word
Form: Free verse



Demon In Plastic.
In grimed secluded alleyway’s it’s his key into the divine, 
Believing deliverance has arrived while he walks this narrow line,

Those eyes begin seeing reality his...

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Categories: devolving, life, loss, sad,
Form: Verse
Perscribed Reality
Rarely reaching the expansive ranges
Where infinity influences reality changes

With illusion marked stigma stamped impressions
Sparingly accessed acceptance processing life lessons

Voided all non-existent concepts entered into calculation
Subtracting...

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Categories: devolving, allusion, community, culture, how
Form: Couplet
Borderline K-9 Cages

Parental desperation
is the dreadful flee bidden cause
Children separation
is the inhumane quarantine effect

Trying to cross the sovereign divide
is narrow mindedly viewed, by more than a few,
as...

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Categories: devolving, child abuse, political, prison,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Victories For Love
The problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral, 
concern.

This primal problem...

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Categories: devolving, health, history, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse



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: devolving, destiny, earth, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Positive Political Psychology
I question my own interplay of psychology and political science.
Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?

Intersections of sociology and...

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Categories: devolving, culture, health, political, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Without Love
There's no room in my head
it's filled with thoughts of you.
And I'm alive, yet dead,
both are equally true.

Losing your fight with death
grief shrouds me like...

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Categories: devolving, emotions, feelings, for her,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Messages For Regenerating Time
This revolutionary message
is brought to you by
the 
TransMillennial EarthTribe CoOperative,
your international ecopolitical sponsor,
speciating Earth's New PostMillennially Silent EcoLogical Majority.

We think we begin to both comprehend,
in...

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Categories: devolving, culture, health, humor, political,
Form: Political Verse
Redacted Heritage

Being culturally erased is a painless procedure,
take away the native tongue 
and communication cease
Unable to give expression of a horrific new reality
to another kindred soul...

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Categories: devolving, culture, perspective, slavery, truth,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Singing and Dancing In Balance
What I care about
and what I am working
and even playing hard with
is better understanding what and how
we and Earth
communicate to and with each other,
regenerating mindbody...

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Categories: devolving, art, community, depression, faith,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Primate On a Limb
Blissful he appears
Enjoys nature’s habitat --
Survival instinct

We have missed something
Only man kills for greed, sport --
We are devolving



*Entry for John Freeman's "Natural and Beyond" contest...

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Categories: devolving, introspection, nature, science,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Jesus Christ As Climate Savior
To my sisters,
and narrow-way brothers,
in Jesus Christ
as Supreme U.S. Savior,

I reached U.S. voting age during the 70s.
During this time,
the Religious Right
and Republican Party Center
were about...

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Categories: devolving, appreciation, christian, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Few Years Back and Forth
A few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he...

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Categories: devolving, beauty, earth, health, political,
Form: Political Verse
Bubble Branes
We float in spheres of loneliness
On pancake-branes so numerous.

Viewing down a sky-bound 'scape,
A microbial colony of working ape.

Trying to better our genetic canvass --
Or, devolving...

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© Tom Arnone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: devolving, change, children, community, culture,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs