Best Monetized Poems
Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, not weapons, not prophecy—
but language that healed.
Real language—
not poetry, not prayer,
but syntax of cells.
Their infants spoke in codons.
Their trees...
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Categories:
monetized, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Terms and Conditions May ApplyWe cured death on a Tuesday,
launched the trial on a Thursday,
by Friday, 14% of the test group
was gnawing on the janitorial staff.
Still, the press was kind.
“Remarkable resilience,” they wrote,
as Unit 42A chewed through its restraints,
and tried to bite a cameraman.
We called them SoulSavers™,
engineered for eternal...
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Categories:
monetized, dark, horror, humor, life,
Form:
Free verse
Sacrificial AltarsWhen did business ethics
find roots in science
rather than re-connecting
humane re-ligion?
Thereby exempting,
divorcing,
earning a merely fair
and acceptable free economic pass
to continue extraction
exploitation
to build corporate empires
divorced from religion's incorporated
GoldenRule win/win ethics,
Including
family fair play
of sacrificially co-redemptive moral values
on altars of messianic
bodhisattva sacred smoke
and self/other co-reflective mirrors
Meming little everyday issue...
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Categories:
monetized, business, health, integrity, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financial benefits for faith-in-health communities
both internal to corporate anthrosupremacist monocultural identity
and healthcare ecosystemic unincorporated polycultures
in which residents/workers/recreators/players/worshippers do not...
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Categories:
monetized, culture, earth, health, humor,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Pandemic NervesNot wanting to make anyone nervous,
pandemics can be unsettling enough
without economic and political surprises,
inconvenient systemic insights,
more expansive circles of empathy
positively impressing
more than negative deep
steep hierarchies
practicing neglectful shallow sympathy
for Others
remaining NonMothers
on distant drowning pagan shores.
These government checks
that come and go in the mail
or by...
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Categories:
monetized, health, integrity, judgement, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Costs of FreedomThe value of individual freedom
seems impossible to quantify
without at least knowing,
What is this freedom for?
What is this freeing political and economic purpose?
Will my freedom
and your egalitarian
side by side
sometimes competitive
sometimes cooperatively multi-sided
liberty
liberate us to live in robust wealth
of interdependent multicultural health?
Is this individual freedom's disvalue
to die...
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Categories:
monetized, culture, earth, freedom, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Restoring Earthhealth"America's health care system
is neither healthy,
caring,
nor a system."
Walter Cronkite
An organic system,
an interdependent co-governing web
of relationships between communicating subsystems,
To be resilient,
to remain robust,
must be win/win cooperative rooted
and not so much capitalist,
headstrong win/lose dominant intended.
Win/lose plutocratic,
kleptocracy,
and capitalist monocultural intent,
straight white patriarchal divine design,
extractive environmental plunder,
all logically conclude
with...
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Categories:
monetized, caregiving, community, conflict, earth,
Form:
Political Verse
Burn, Burn, FlogBurn Burn Down!
The tired torch at the harbor
For water has risen to liberty's throat
We hang by the lips, of her flooding mouth
Praying angelic nudity, will expose her shores
Burn Burn Burn!
The monetized existence, declaring our blood at birth
Resurrecting pennies on eyes of the dead
Burn Burn...
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Categories:
monetized, america, anger, angst, baptism,
Form:
Free verse
As We SpeakWhen wandering through a clinical studies program,
I began a practice of writing verbatims,
capturing the essence of conversations
messages
for their therapeutic integrity.
In this frame of mind and heart,
several years ago
I wrote this verbatim
on behalf of my daughter
with oppositional defiant disorder
and cerebral palsy.
Rereading it just now,
I wonder how...
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Categories:
monetized, addiction, anger, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Children They may want to bring back,
the selective schools.
Simplify a complex reality,
the underlying relationship of keenness,
wherever it comes from.
Persisted,
portraying the label,
developed by power.
Uncoerced,
questioned as viable.
Symptoms worsening,
getting education right for the working class.
Their children remain a challenge,
the odds are stacked...
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Categories:
monetized, allegory, allusion, betrayal, dark,
Form:
Free verse
My Rightwing FamilyMy RightWing
all white male dominant
or venus invidiously envious
family
Is way quick to remain gated
away from drug
and alcohol
and automated arms dealers
and users,
black market buyers
and sellers
and renters.
Yet these same straight
boxer whitey patriarchs
are curiously too tidy comfortable
with jingoistic
nationalistic
patriotic commodified statistics
Athletically supporting
made and paid in the...
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Categories:
monetized, culture, earth, health, humor,
Form:
Political Verse
Bread Is From EarthDeep warm-blooded
Dark brown
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.
Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
or even a local family-safe
multiculturally resilient community
Because I am too capitalistically infested
with buying and selling
highest and best autonomously owned
unreal estates for developing future asset benefits
to my...
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Categories:
monetized, community, earth, health, home,
Form:
Political Verse
Pope Francine's TransfigurationIf Laudato Si'
were written by Pope Francine
and not me
replacing Pope Francis's
root anthrosupremacist choices
with similar
but more nuanced
and multiculturally inclusive choices,
cooperatively healthy premises
might further enlighten
to resolutely empower
a rather more transubstantially engaging
creolizing catholic haute cuisine.
#110. The LeftBrain specialization
belonging to industrializing
monetized technology
makes it difficult to see
the larger restoring...
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Categories:
monetized, creation, earth, health, humanity,
Form:
Political Verse
Dancing MeditationsDancers
and health therapists,
meditators
and educators,
speak of an embodied
listening
and teachable "CORE."
We need,
on bad days,
and want,
on better days,
To exercise,
stretch,
fill and empty,
appreciate
and open
our empowering MindBody Core,
With healthy, resilient outcomes predicted
as a return on investment
for such deep enlightening listening
and learning
intention,
integrity
of compassionate purpose.
Back in the day,
religious
and warm spring breeze
front porch Sunday...
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Categories:
monetized, health, peace, philosophy, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
If I Were SheIf I were S/He
I would look downstream
for a power so high
this mythic enlightenment feels sacredly deep
and widely therapeutic
mystical in feeling,
practical in application.
If I were She
I would declare a new Wisdom:
National superpowers corrupt
toward fundamentally polarizing RightWing dominance
Just as global enlightenment heals
toward evangelical gospel GreenQueen
MotherEarth empowerment.
If...
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Categories:
monetized, health, heart, integrity, military,
Form:
Political Verse