Best Mentored Poems
A Contest Win of Friendship
...A fledgling poet round two thousand three,
I found some friends who mentored me; they led
me to a site called Shadow Poetry.
By mental challenges there, I was fed.
I learned to better......
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Categories:
mentored, friend, places, writing,
Form:
Sonnet
A Century To the Soup Combined
...Eddie currents confused the conduits in this mind
How can the transformers in the brain go not blind
Confusing is the light, direct me as it's straight shined
Hundreds of emotions imprisoned and c......
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Categories:
mentored, deep, devotion, friendship, poems,
Form:
Monorhyme
Bipartisan Dissonance
...When oppositional cognitive dissonance
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leadin......
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Categories:
mentored, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Pure Fantasy
...Episode 1
Enter Fire Ball
Can I help being curvaceous and bold,
Or so I’ve been told,
Can I help it, if I get a visual massage,
Daily compliments, in fact a barrage!
I was born a beauty, a......
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Categories:
mentored, fantasy,
Form:
Rhyme
The Testaments
...The Testaments
Behold, the essence of aubergine and a trail of sparkles yields the moment to radiant reds, like a breasted robin of autumns abandon legions in crumpled layers, impaled to moisten s......
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Categories:
mentored, autumn, day, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
Schooled Excellence
...Days of learning,
Teachers of value and kindness,
The language foreign and then familiar,
English, a refined mode of learning,
That leads to higher education,
Favorite teachers that mentored com......
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Categories:
mentored, education
Form:
Free verse
Army BRATS Always Wanna Fly High
...Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High
The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents
Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S)
Be always on the spotligh......
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Categories:
mentored, appreciation, celebration, character, childhood,
Form:
Narrative
Water's Weakness
...There is nothing weaker than water
But none is superior to it in overcoming the hard,
For which there is no substitute.
(Laotse, "Nothing Weaker Than Water", Lin Yutang, trans.)
That weakness o......
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Categories:
mentored, power, psychological, water, western,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Noneastern Family Politics
...I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find......
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Categories:
mentored, culture, health, power, ,
Form:
Political Verse
Twelve Steps
...Twelve step therapeutic environments
are probably as old as resonant light and color,
measured in resilient octaves,
and double-bound fractal half-octaves,
learning to listen deeply and widely we......
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Categories:
mentored, culture, education, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Jesus Told Me
...Jesus taught and lived
Those who follow the Way
Truth
Life, rather than punishing death,
would be known
by our love,
especially for our enemies.
He did not say, or live,
Those who punish th......
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Categories:
mentored, community, culture, health, history,
Form:
Political Verse
Allah and Buddha Were Talking
...You know what I think sometimes?
said Allah to Buddha,
Of course you do
and yet you don't.
I think I gave this gift of language
because you have a uniquely humanurtured gift
of comprehending
......
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Categories:
mentored, body, health, mentor, political,
Form:
Political Verse
Perfect Balanced Pitch
...Imperfection is the mirror of perfection;
opposites reveal each other.
Rumi (M Mafi translation)
Dissonance is the non-polynomial mirror of confluence;
opposites unveil each other.
Ego-suffe......
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Categories:
mentored, earth day, growth, math,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Corner of the Street
...Pedestrians are moving ups and downs the day can define the differences he experiences in the bathroom, cars buzzing their noise, around my understanding I cannot keep on thrusting for answers which ......
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Categories:
mentored, appreciation, butterfly, candy,
Form:
Chant Royal
Criminals and Victims
...We all have emerged from one nutritiously polyculturing earth,
one sun enlightening
one DNA patterned and structuring rhythm compliance
with fractally resonant RNA.
Predestined to remain withi......
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Categories:
mentored, beauty, culture, health, heaven,
Form:
Prose Poetry