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Premium Member How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways
1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and there is nothing like that first kiss.
2.
and it is not just that i love you with every fibre of my...

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Categories: monopolized, love,
Form: List
Premium Member Seafood Sundays
*Been posting some heavy stuff lately. Time for a bit of levity.

"Hey babe, you're never gonna believe this. Crab fishing in Alaska has been cancelled for 2023." 
"I don't understand, dear."
"Well, according to the paper, all the crabs have 'left the building.' It's crabs no...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monopolized, humor,
Form: Narrative
Fine Dining On Air France
We’re monopolized by the Saran-wrapped food,
the plastic cutlery,
absorbed by the clutter of the food tray.

Numbed by hours of jiggling,
the carting of torpid bodies through interminable distance,
we’re wedged now into boredom, uncomfortably numb.

Anesthetized – we fear nothing.
If the aircraft stalls, few will scream.
We’ll keep decanting small...

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Categories: monopolized, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Mortal Wound of the Civilized World
"The Mortal Wound of the Civilized World"



Shift upwards
speed fast
the choice, Is

Gears chosen by the 
energetic heart 
fuel the freedom

The point of attention
the “I Am” 
an expression

of the same
consciousness 
that you are "Is"

we are living 
yet contained economies
numbed and played circadian 

pinned and 
framed 
to our...

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Categories: monopolized, freedom, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated 
upon advent of twilight,
or self adjusted/regulated 
based on outside temperature 
since...

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Categories: monopolized, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Is the World Insane
(A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE 21ST CENTURY CIVILIZATION)  


This story goes on to throw light on the 21st century civilization. And in that political era, the religious and political atrocities, which ended up as the back bone of social injustice, inequalities, war crimes against...

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Categories: monopolized, discrimination, , western,
Form: Alliteration



Out of the Shadows
A curse. It's what she was ascertained to be.
A plague which has been put on the burden of the residents of the world.
People discarded her as mere trash for they considered her as an ill-omen.
Misfortune embraced her when she didn't even know the real meaning...

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Categories: monopolized, feelings, , Lullaby,
Form:
Premium Member A Congregation of Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins held a conference deep within
my fragile, mortal soul with destruction as their goal.
Pride took the role of lead, but was monopolized by Greed;
Sloth paid no attention; Anger interrupted the convention;
Envy held a jealous hunch; Gluttony moved they break for lunch;
Every member...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monopolized, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thomas Jefferson
It interests me to peer past the drafting
and rewriting shoulder
of Thomas Jefferson,
unhappy slave-owner,
and John Adams,
with domestic slave-owner nuisance issues,
and other principle writing minds 
of original democratic declaration and constitution shaping times,
as they listened to their own ecopolitically experienced histories,
some with fear and anger-mongering slave-owners,
some as...

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Categories: monopolized, culture, happiness, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Sweet Jane
Sweet Jane, 

The essense of euphoria, cloud 
of confusion 
Fooled by your seductions, 
indulge in delusion 
You betray me, 
Trading blissful thoughts you 
gave me, for Will 
My best friend I knew forever, 
and still 
Eyes Bloodstained in pain, and 
raging until 

Sweet Mary, 

You...

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Categories: monopolized, abuse, confusion, emotions, first
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Naming Plants and Animals
A Commentary on

"A Note on the [Patriarchal-Colonizing] Treatment
of Plant Names"
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, p. 385
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS:
INDIGENOUS WISDOM,
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE,
AND THE [SACRED] TEACHINGS
OF PLANTS

I too often accept
with nary a LeftBrain dominant thought
that our verbalized labels
for individual EgoPersons
are RoyallyCAPITALIZED.

To write
"Marvin Appletree"
would be to strip my tree
of His/Her sacred...

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Categories: monopolized, earth day, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
When I Was Your Age
For Christmas I got half a glass of Coke; nothing else was given.
If I wanted something else I could spill it and get a spanking in addition. 
My parents washed my underwear for my birthday 
That’s all I got, and I liked it that way!
My...

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© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: monopolized, age, change, child, dad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Refined White Values
While trickling thick amber honey
in my black decoffied coffee
I wonder why I never noticed
until just ever now

How refined white sugar
has monopolized my wider full-hued view
of more nurturing nutritional brown sugars
natural bio-resonant sweets
healthier sugar-phosphate cooperative relationships
as if the least of these white privileged
rich and resilient wealth...

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Categories: monopolized, culture, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
A Song For the Herring Gull
The cliff tops were bare, rocks lay scattered across the beach, the nearing harbor holding all in its silence. Along the bay the ripple of a kayak hovered on a waters edge. All was quiet, or so it seemed.
Overhead clouds rolled and arched a landscape...

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Categories: monopolized, animal,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Tao of Healthy Climate Care
Nursing and nurturing
can often be used synonymously.
To nurse a baby
is first to nurture a cherished infant.

They share a nutritional history
of healthcare giving
and receiving,
delivered best and most durably
when care works coincidentally both ways
in all Win-Win bilateral directions.

Up and down and laterally across hierarchies,
networks,
dialectal frames,
nutritional and health-care...

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Categories: monopolized, caregiving, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things