Best Moderating Poems

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 Emotion Regulation Skills to Manage Anger
(Chapman and Gratz)
AND
Evolutionary Enlightenment:
A New Path to Spiritual Awakening
(A. Cohen)
at the same time,
in dialogue with...

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KRISTINA LUGN, YOU…: Two Sonnets
Dr. Manoranjan Das
One
You’re the  seeker of liberation with ultimate
Aim through  your own creation where  the everlasting
Happiness is nursed by you for moderating
The life’s dogma  and harmony ; that’s accurate.
Kristina Lugn, , ah! Your good deeds are attached...

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-dedicated to and inspired by Awoh Kingsley-


To define a friendship
Is to define each element held in a grand sea
The moments shared between the water and the single fish
The seaweed coursing in the shallow
Sinking in the deep

Through trust two can prosper
And even be happy
But when mistakes...

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Hillary and Hair Horn Haiku

With you secret I should share
Hillary and messed up hair
More she must take care.

Looks like she just got 
out of the shower lately.

James Thesarious Hilarious Horn
Retired Veteran and Poet

Oh, and my Dad CPO Arthur Frederick Horn,
AOC was killed while serving on...

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Colures transposed orbits closed whence derive the rains of rose?
Across million mileage magic and magnitude are striding
O'er holistic horizon svelteness and smoothness are sliding
Meridian framed parallax tamed whither swash the rains of rose?
Spray by spray, knuckle down to my mood pensive
From ethereal to real, from...

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Sunday afternoon
On a bench in the park
Friendly breeze
Moderating September heat.
She been to church
But it was nothing
Except people and practice.
God was almost silent.
Not the same
With Lloyd gone
He used to sing
Big and bold
With the tenors
And she sittin
Across an alto
And smilin at her man
Midst the songs of Zion.
Hardly...

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Enough of this frigid weather already
It's March for crying out loud
Time for the temps to start moderating methinks
It's not civil and shouldn't be allowed

When the hell is spring supposed to arrive
It's just around which corner, I ask
It's long overdue, it's stressing us guys out
Want to...

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It’s been corrupted,
Even the learning systems in normality altered
The Innocence of examinations
Has swerved
Into Guilt of examinations
Exam malpractices everywhere!

Many students have sown the seed of levity
Which has grown into complacency
They, being carefree,
Are shamefully confident
They would cheat to the bull!
Assured their money could in qualms set them...

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Miles racing underneath lively conversation
Whistling road noises and occasional bumps,
Time passing slowly to our expected destination
As concrete expansion joints create thumps.

Whistling road noises and occasional bumps
Punctuating rhythmic sounds from the stereo,
As concrete expansion joints create thumps
Sense of contentment and pleasantry is apropos.

Punctuating rhythmic sounds from...

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It's moderating, yee haw it's warming a bit
Finally it's getting above zero
Just a while ago thought 5 was freezing
Now it's balmy from a few days ago

In comparison temps can feel warm or cold
Depending on what we're accustomed to
Fifty can feel downright damn balmy or frigid
Really...

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Emotional intelligence
is best watered
with transparency
and fed through vulnerability.

Vulnerability becomes accessible
through practicing win/win courageous expectations
even in the most enduring partisan win/lose spaces,
secular and sacred

Transparency becomes articulate
through practicing multicultural curiosity
active and benign and free of prejudgment
and western white straight male
military-industrialized,
sometimes too fat and monoculturally self-satisfied
to become more...

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Pride negatory
Better to share His glory
God writes your story

Special kind of gain
We can only learn through pain
God may not explain

Treasure has a source
Wisdom is treasure, of course
God stores His resource

When God sends trouble
And we climb out the rubble
Job got a double

Lies are on the rise
Look...

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The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume, born in Edenborough, was a philosophical skeptic.
Born in 1711, died in 1776,
Two months after America’s Independence, a historical prolix.
Pride...

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As solemn curse extracts the entity of worse,
so moderating to a lesser verb
excoriates to slang of verse.

And so it is derivative's adverse,
is anger, that I cannot love thee - terse,
with gentle thought as in some morning's nurse.

I love thee, there it be, in violence or...

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As solemn curse extracts the entity of worse,
so moderating to a lesser verb,
excoriates to slang of verse.

And so it is derivative's adverse,
is anger, that I cannot love thee - terse,
with gentle thought, as in some morning's nurse.

I love thee, there it be, in violence or...

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