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Premium Member Positive Political Problems
My fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,

Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science pathologists
Straight-White privileged proctologists
urologists
bicamerally challenged...

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Categories: downplaying, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Disaster Flirting
1. They said the meeting point
between your traits and swagger
has dislocated 
and your newly acquired awful image
is beyond reversal.
But hey! I do not fall for...

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Categories: downplaying, abuse, adventure, betrayal, devotion,
Form: Lyric
Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
My grandfather Hymie 
     spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands 
     and ruddy complexion...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, art, character, deep,
Form: Ode
Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
(scoured from dregs of me muss held head)

I shore up a vignette to free 
my ("FAKE") grandfather Hymie,
whose scrunched countenanced 
evinced beetle that of browed...

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Categories: downplaying, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Narrative
A Poet's Dozen An Invective Contest
the sticks and the stones                    ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downplaying, fun, humor, humorous, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Shamrocks Blanket Green Acres
All across the webbed wide esse Scott's wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold
burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold

wishes if captured might
divulge pot of gold
at...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, blessing, cute, environment,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Bar None No Shortage of Soap Shampoo, Nor Detergent
Bar none, no shortage of soap shampoo, nor detergent

Courtesy food pantries
Saint Eleanor's Saint Mary's,
Our Daily Bread,
the missus and yours truly (her spouse)
well stocked with good...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, appreciation, beauty, care,
Form: Free verse
Schwenksville Pennsylvania
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Earthdate/starttime: 11/04/19 01:10:26 AM
Earthdate/endtime: 11/04/19 02:55:46 AM

Poetic snapshot regarding immediate
actual, physical, spatial... environment
pertinent, relevant, salient... yours truly
commenced within fleeting electronic

date/time stamp indicated above bereft
attempts...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
How So Humdrum
How So Humdrum...
Being A Nonpartisan Author

One path of literary renown striving
     to craft belles lettres
     versus another...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
What Happened To the Giants, Part I
You may have heard folks speak about giants,
it certain circles that some call ‘plain nuts!’
among cryptozoological types
they’re speculated upon rather much.

And every few months on...

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Categories: downplaying, conflict, history, myth, people,
Form: Epic
Verizon Router Won'T Connect To Internet Blues
Verizon router won't connect to internet blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
telecommunications gone south).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gotta quench...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble
collapsed...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Orson Welles and the Martians
Orson Welles and company put on a show
which was broadcast in 1939 over CBS radio.
It was based on a book written years before
by H. G....

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Categories: downplaying, history,
Form: Rhyme
Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive) 
finds me bleary eyed stupefied 
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble 
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Canoodling Within Cyberspace
Squarely conscientious, I unwittingly
sanction selfhood acutely triangulate
courtesy webbed geometry jeopardize,
galvanize pluck nudging contrived arc,
virtually courting temptation aware,

sans impetuousness compromises an
anonymous commingling, nonetheless
electronic fraternization enthralls mine
plucky...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things