Best Exceptionalism Poems
ExceptionalismEach species has its tools
to do what it can to ensure
its own survival.
We, try our best to
separate,
and say we are not
the same.
We pick a trait to denote
our exclusivity.
Other species prove
their relativity.
Once it was tools
and to our chagrin
we found they all
were using them
and so...
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Categories:
exceptionalism, introspection, life,
Form:
Free verse
Exceptionalism"Expect great things; do great things" is a quote I once heard.
X, the 24th letter of the alphabet, is often used to designate a person.
Commitment, dedication, endurance are required to achieve the exception.
Excellence, erect with heads up, seeks neither excuses nor sub-par outcomes.
Preparation has no...
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Categories:
exceptionalism, america, christian, god, integrity,
Form:
Acrostic
Mothertree IntegrityHow might Earth's underground narrative
of a sacred Tree
speak most profoundly
of old growth economic
and political
environmental trauma?
A question I forgot to ask
when I was younger
and more disabled
and WhiteMale monotheistic
How might even Republican Red MotherTrees
avoid secularized Self-serving
by Capitalizing Other-undeserving
Instead of
separating and unequalizing
retributive justice disvalues
pimped by StraightWhiteMonoTheisticMale privilege
to criminally...
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Categories:
exceptionalism, appreciation, earth, health, humor,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum