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Premium Member By God's Grace
I, who always used to gravitate toward health and fitness,
would flatter myself that I was too healthy to ever get a bad disease.
Then it happened!...

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Categories: high risk, cancer,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member For Straight White Boys Only
Have you seen a Rockwell 1950's Lemonade Wars?
Two girls, both white of course,
dressed for YoungRepublican success
scowling at each other on a pristine deserted street
of the...

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Categories: high risk, culture, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Rain On the Scarecrow
We ask God’s blessings for food we eat;
those who toil to grow it deserve our prayers too.
In 1985, Farm Aid musicians took their beat,
rocking in...

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Categories: high risk, farm, music,
Form: Quintain (English)
Premium Member If Truths Acclimate Climates
Truth is a fertile feisty feather 
pushed off to the academic side.

More complex truths are feathered climates
within which creative co-empathic minds 
transgenerationally reside.

Owl Medicine:

"At the...

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Categories: high risk, destiny, humanity, love, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member New Beginnings
Today we begin with a quote from Eisenstein
with commentary in brackets
informed by Bucky Fuller's cooperative metaphysic 
of Synergetic Steerage.

"We have a[n intuited, autonomic systemic] need...

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Categories: high risk, nature, philosophy, political, psychological,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Mask Can Wait
Wear a smile
Wears a mask
Mask for others
Mask for you
You want to be safe
You want to be good
Good citizen
Good neighbor
Neighbor of the world 
Neighbor who shelters...

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Categories: high risk, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member 2020 Revolution
Numbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.

Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both...

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Categories: high risk, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Tit For Tat
An old man walked into town at noon,
And met a fat-looking dangerous goon.

“Give me all your money”, the goon said, brisk,
“Or else your life’s at...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: high risk, funny,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member When We Need Health
Insufficient knowledge for fully comprehensive consciousness
is also
more than sufficient ignorance
of our individual and collective participation
in comprehensive disease, weakness, loss, decay,
anger and fearful hatred
wilting climatic change
in...

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Categories: high risk, culture, health, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
I'M the Brain
I'm like a cheetah in the boy I'm quick and I'm cold. A young alchemist achieving transmutation of gold. Used to be a sayain power...

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Categories: high risk, career, character, cool, i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Making Space For Love
It might take a more comprehensive review
to explain why I thought it would make sense
to read
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger:
Using DBT Mindfulness
and...

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Categories: high risk, anger, culture, fear, history,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Fugitives of Justice
Thank god I finally was caught and cited
for doing something that I didn't do.

Just think how much worse I would feel
if I actually had done...

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Categories: high risk, community, health, hope, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Riding Time's Political Flow
We might do well
to worry less
about including the grizzly bear population
in our DNA/RNA cooperatively encultured Golden Rule,
after all,
we already would kill and eat them,
if hungry...

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Categories: high risk, beauty, culture, nature, philosophy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member In Essiac I Trust
The tea I use was born in Canada.
Holistic doctors told me of its name.
This strange concoction does a lot of good
with curing cancer its main...

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Categories: high risk, drink, health,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member King Solomon and Jonathon
Said King Solomon to Jonathon,
speculatively,
"Think of helium
as saturating the eggwhite understory
of this immense Earth-atmosphere
egg-incubator sack of hydrogen-saturated
wet air breathing in heat and light co-informing
to breathe...

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Categories: high risk, beauty, destiny, earth, race,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs