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See No Evil
See No Evil
 
Let not your vision be distorted by the green eyes
of jealousy that raises its invidious ugly head,
overflowing with cynical thoughts,
slithering like a...

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Categories: invidious, evil,
Form: Free verse



Alien In Atmosphere Goes Human...
Little green creature,curious and ingenius,                    ...

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Categories: invidious, funny
Form: Limerick
The Trial of Christopher Okigbo
I

Hungry earthworms
Forever entombed in the bowels
Of mother earth
Awake

Defy this asceticism and prostrate
For your ultimate destiny
Lies not in the dogmatic 
Steady march along beaten footpaths

Hungry earthworms
These...

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Categories: invidious, tribute,
Form: Free verse
The Gilded Silver Jubilee Peg
I insisted the jubilee amiability
to stir up with twilight-ed spirit
zeal of desires aroused 
as the silverly rays crowned me
to pour out the gilded spirit.
Earstwhile crimson...

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Categories: invidious, happiness, imagination, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Enchanted Murder
A beauty danced beneath pale moonlight,
While hypnotic song flurried on the breeze,
Distant, the voices tell of magic’s flight,
A heart is caught with such apparent ease,
And...

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Categories: invidious, love, sad,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)



Graduate Kid
Graduate Kid


Nature’s invidious corn
With school, Genius is born!
With crayons of every colour
The World may lose dolour!

Like determined drudges
With gusto he smudges;
On my car, my painted...

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Categories: invidious, angst,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member And As Ambiguity Leads To Anguish
Ambivalence amends itself 
when ambition challenges the amoral freedom
like the ambrosia we partook of,
something prohibited to humans...
that only the mythological gods
had the pleasure to enjoy;
and...

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Categories: invidious, confusion, introspection
Form: Free verse
An Envied State
Envy eats at my eager overtone.
Airing aspirations of me alone.
Resenting ruse, requiring need.
Festering famine, for you I feed.

Covet creation, I crave carelessly.
Desiring deeply, damn fearlessly.
Greedily...

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Categories: invidious, angst, depression, introspection, life,
Form: Alliteration
Time For Reflection
Time for reflection

May I not rue, when life draws to an end,
Invidious, mean words which bring distress
Nor sigh, that precious time I did misspend
On frivolous...

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Categories: invidious, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Childhood
“Childhood only exists”
“While its innocence lives”
“In time, it is stripped away”
“By what, our invidious reasoning gives”     WIZDUMBs by JA 223 ...

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Categories: invidious, betrayal, blessing, growing up,
Form: Narrative
Wait Death
Wait Death

When in a hurriedly hurricane
An egg expounding hope
Slips, falls and cracks open
The mother bird stands helpless
Shall she weep for a child to come?
As if...

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Categories: invidious, loss, mystery, mother,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part One
“Query”
from a word miner non-trumpeting
Beatle browed quarry man.

One emailing digital commoner bemoans assiduous, 
zealously yearning xing worthy values undergirding 
the storied renown quintessential peaceable operation...

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Categories: invidious, bullying, environment, fear, grave,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Semblance
Your crisis of conviction
Of the ages and the aging
Left me a bereft,
stupid, scarred leaf  --
Trembling, weathered, soliciting 
something of a haven from 
Graver monsters...

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Categories: invidious,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The One Otherzone
Permaculture Design,
like any health restoring process,
begins with listening to each ZeroZone client
speak about deeply held goals and underlying values
they would like to share with their...

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Categories: invidious, earth, environment, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Unlimited Mercy
Unparalleled beauty 
as a sky illuminated by a lusty moon
whenever God is revealed by lucidity;
many are the luminaries that magnify:
and all He created by a...

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Categories: invidious, faith, forgivenessbeauty, beauty, planet,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs