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Premium Member The Functioning Psychopath
Emotion has no place in the operating room, emotion cost lives.
Every time emotion comes into play, patients needlessly die.
In the operating room I am an...

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Categories: functioning, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Just Another Medical Issue
They say it all makes sense now. 
All these medical oddities I've experienced at such a young age. 
My doctor insists that things have to...

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Categories: functioning, april, emotions, health, pain,
Form: Free verse
Yoga In Poem a Novel Approach Step 7
Yoga in Poem A Novel Approach Step 7

Janushirasana – Knee- Head Pose  

In praise of Janushirasana


There are many Asanas 
And postures in Yoga
Full of...

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Categories: functioning, art, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Dying Wasp
She vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and...

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Categories: functioning, insect, technology,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Mental Illness
MENTAL ILLNESS

Mental Illness is a sickness of the mind.
It’s the sickness that rarely crosses our minds,
yet, it covers a wide range of conditions of the...

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Categories: functioning, mental illness, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Quintessential Placeholders
Yin/Yang
Ch'ang as "Constant"
natural law of growth and decay
yanging and yinning,
logically necessary alternation of opposites
universally permacultural law: exterior nature as inner conscience communicant
Interior Landscape of eco-Ch'ang...

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Categories: functioning, culture, language, math, nature,
Form: Free verse
I Have Autism
I have autism, mild MR, and OCD. I had those mental disabilities since I was three years
old. Even though I'm autistic, I'm still functioning just...

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Categories: functioning,
Form: Epic
Diana, Nature's Guardian
Diana, Nature’s Guardian 

Defending purity, virtues, by preordained, destine.
With faithful diligence I oversee all life that’s birthed.
Celebrating nature as its radiant guardian 
Fulfilling life’s desire...

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Categories: functioning, natureworld, me,
Form: Quatrain
The Lost Summer
From June to September
I cannot remember
A damn thing that I did
What took me over
Was a monster called Bipolar
Which escaped from the shadows where it hid

And...

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Categories: functioning, addiction, allusion, analogy, mental
Form: Rhyme
In the Beginning
In the beginning God created the heavens and earth
And some think it all came by chance, what a big mirth
That life arose by itself from...

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Categories: functioning, birth, christian, creation, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Six Brothers In Harmony
Every one of my five brothers
and I strive to create harmony.
Our lives are lived in parallel
yet at times we work alone.
Other times we play well...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: functioning, brother, music, together,
Form: Sestina
Should You Leave Me
You are the curve starting my smile,
the infectiousness in my laughter,
the glint in my fulfilled eyes and 
the wonder that turns me little girl-shy.

You gather...

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Categories: functioning, angst, break up, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Stew
Poetry stew.


My poetry stew has ingredients of goo

The ass end of a warm drink

The chaser for an anti depressant capsule

A five o' clock shadow 

A...

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Categories: functioning, beauty, depression, drink, poetry,
Form: Verse
Love Can
Love will crown you yet because Love Can
At the same time, it will also crucify you!
Love as sweet as honey was transformed into a closet...

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Categories: functioning, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Asp
A-s-p are three high-functioning letters
And while I imagine that some might do better
  Here are some ways to bring them together

At the start of...

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Categories: functioning, humorous, word play, words,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs