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Premium Member The Real Question
Most significant agreements or treaties
Employ important legalistic terms like
  Inspections
  Verifications
  Notifications
  or Null-and-Void immediately

Yet considering, O Pundits,
The withdrawal by the...

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Categories: legalistic, leadership, trust,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Understanding Reconciliation
Sometimes fundamentalist Christians
Give the expression “to be saved”
All you need to do is “repent”
Meaning to give up your sinful ways

This sentence from the Gospel of...

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Categories: legalistic, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through Thick and Thin
I think it might be John Rawls
who writes about
thick and thin justice sandwiches.

Thick justice
may be more deeply embedded, richly spread
in regenerative pursuing time,
producing and serving...

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Categories: legalistic, analogy, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Shadowed By Guilt and Shame
Shame must have burned her countenance,
along with fear that gripped her heart;
she’s a woman in the gospel  brought into the open,
by those Pharisees and...

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Categories: legalistic, faith, history, hope, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Don'T Miss Out
Father Christ’s encounter with the Pharisees never fail to entertain.
Almost everywhere He preaches
A few people would show up
Trying to compromise His ministry

To catch Him in...

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Categories: legalistic, black african american, christian,
Form: Light Verse



Heart Check
Long dress… CHECK!
Natural Hair… CHECK!
Bible… CHECK!

I have on my CHURCH CLOTHES!
On the outside I look really Christian,
Like Judas- Everyone thinks my walk with Christ is...

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Categories: legalistic, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
Born One Hundred Years Too Late
My co-worker posed a theory to me
That our boss was born one hundred years later than she was supposed to be
Neither of us could exactly...

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© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: legalistic, absence, change, home, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Restoring Earth
How do we get to restoring democratic energy justice
for all EarthTribes?

Especially when those not originally enfranchised
in our GoodHealth Constitutions,
like slaves
like non-patriarchal
non-white
non-anthro
non-ego-centric 
non-elite subcultures
advocating for non-violent...

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Categories: legalistic, america, celebration, depression, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Considering Conditions
There are users, abusers
And bitter accusers
In the World of negative thought
There are legalistic, ballistic
And increasingly sadistic
In the World of righting the "not lot"

~On the other...

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Categories: legalistic, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healthy Ways and Wealthy Means
Educational Competitions:
"You/We are not motivated to learn
how to take care of yourself/ourselves."

And,
We are, together, motivated to learn
how to give and receive
personal and social,
political and economic,
theological...

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Categories: legalistic, caregiving, change, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Healthing Voices
Personal identity,
like politically empowered/disempowered identity,
evolves within EgoSpirited voices

Exchanging feelings
with EcoSoul's outside co-relational serenity,
anima mundi
uncovering ZeroZone bilateral Janus-faces,

Non-verbal language 
noticing co-relational
health and pathology
qualities sensed,
felt,
originally tasted

And

Verbal iconically...

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Categories: legalistic, health, integrity, nature, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Origami Legends
She has a brain full of legends.
She has a whole heart full of legends.
Shaped by summer’s yellow collar bones
She caresses a sepia hued image to...

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Categories: legalistic, fear, life, mystery, image,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Memorial of a Loved One Ct
Memorial of a Loved One

In Memory of My Mother, Irene!

Some memories so terribly painful be, 
and will not leave my memory.
I took care of my...

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Categories: legalistic, anger, death, how i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reavaluated My Spokenword
Anchored stricken;
Home grow religion;
Borrowed freedoms;
Who? Said they had the keys to the kingdoms;

Spiritual warfare Merited Men heaven stormers 
Legalistic?

Arithmetic context;
Virtual biceps, malicious cell texts;
Borrowed freedoms,...

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Categories: legalistic, analogy, forgiveness, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fault Line
I never could have predicted
That I would leave in such a way
Circumstances brought me to a place
Where I could no longer stay

The legalistic rules
All of...

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Categories: legalistic, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs