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Best Furthering Poems

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Premium Member Because I Live
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
  Is our destined end or way;
  But to act, that each to-morrow
  Find us farther than today.”
A...

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Categories: furthering, life,
Form: Rhyme



Reset
I found my reset button
If I only knew I had it at all
One moment, one instant
My identity I am all for

Resetting back to comforts levelling
The...

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© Joel Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: furthering, life,
Form: Rhyme
Moving Forward Into Expansion....
Ignorance....

How is it...gifted with
abilities to reason
we can all remain so unaware...

How is it...gifted with
mental ability of logic
yet,what do we really know....

Even with our limited sense
of...

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Categories: furthering, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mazes
The sun closes in on itself imploding.
Storm clouds clots like cream.
The sky tinged a rancid yellow of dream
raises tornadoes like totems scolding.

A wet haze weeps...

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Categories: furthering, introspection, life, loss, nature,
Form: Rhyme
But Seriously
Seriously?
You drive a Benz with chrome plated wheels,
then from the government you continue to steal,
I wonder if you’ll ever really know how it feels,
to be...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: furthering, abortion, abuse, corruption, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Fundamentals Redefined
Fundamentalists compete with and through struggling evolution
as Transitionalists would further peaceful revolutions.

Fundamentalism:
A patriarchal-historical view
rooted in interpretation of sacred scripture
written by nondual co-arising NatureSpirits
dipolar appositionally rooted
of...

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Categories: furthering, earth day, environment, history,
Form: Political Verse
Unifying Theories of Chemistry
Unifying Theories of Chemistry 

Plants react in synthesis
Stimulations sunlight
Breathing the winds causes
Through fluid chains
Reproducing flowering responses

And systematically chemistries
Drive in attractions of curiosity
Stranger love crushes
To your...

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Categories: furthering, life, love, mystery, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Goal Is Safety
The generic-brand black and white bumper sticker 
on the commercial passenger van announces
MY GOAL IS SAFETY.

I immediately know this cannot be the van driver’s intent,
much...

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Categories: furthering, culture, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
A Girl Was Raped In a Bus That Night
A girl was raped in a bus that night 
By six men, all drunk, who had lost their minds	
Ambrosia was the elixir of gods, it...

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Categories: furthering, angst, daughter, men, night,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an...

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Categories: furthering, caregiving, health, humor, love,
Form: Political Verse
Physique of Unique
Slicing & dicing the 
fabric of time.
Contorting & distorting 
functionality to reality.

My unique physique poetic 
swagger broadcasting
Elegance in resilience
Relevant to intelligence. 

Rewinding the two hands...

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Categories: furthering, character, identity, life, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In This Taoist's View
Could we be doing our best
to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets?
While you sell our most competitive killing machines
to our Saudi Arabian cousins.

Referencing this touchstone...

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Categories: furthering, destiny, earth, fear, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Days
Days

From images, from messages,
from reflections, from representations
from the shady land of dreams,
- each morning my ass is kicked into the light –
reality strikes me each...

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Categories: furthering, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Grow Peace
To faith communities
and fraternities,
brotherhoods
and sisterhoods
and sororities,
local non-profits
and friendly neighborhoods,
mediators
and counselors,
cooperative associations,
trauma-informed learning theorists
and practitioners for resilient
mind/body peace,

Do not deceive yourselves.
Continuing to gaze and daze 
on...

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Categories: furthering, adventure, earth, education, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Found
They found her today, curled around a dirty blanket under an overpass.  The coroner estimated her age at 78.

She had been an aged, unhealthy...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: furthering, betrayal, destiny, devotion, emotions,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things