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Premium Member Twas the Night Before Christmas 2054
Twas the night before Christmas in 2054
The only sound being robotic mice on the floor
Our digital wish-lists were hung with ultra-precision
above the virtual fireplace in...

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Categories: progenitors, celebration, christmas, future,
Form: Rhyme



Ode On the Clan's Iroko Tree
(for: them who are ever there!)

these branches and roots
that cord to the grave ancients
should be free from man’s swords!
both oracle and priest held for days...

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© Canny Amah  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progenitors, nostalgiavoice, voice,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Journey
Part 1: Catalyst
I recently read a blog that purported to report news
Of extraordinary import to us all,
That the Catholic Pope, with a new encyclical letter,
Announced...

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Categories: progenitors, faith, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Earth's Final Answer
A society
culture
religion
humane species
forgetting,
or more likely under-valuing,
how to regeneratively suffer loss
may never have learned to face our universal fear of death
as a badge of permaculturing respect,
dignity...

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Categories: progenitors, beauty, earth day, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Revolutionary Story
They called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and YinYin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet...

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Categories: progenitors, health, humor, joy, life,
Form: Narrative



When the Bubble Bursts
Buoyed over waves of elation
Marvel at favourable sights of creation

Prospect for attainment visible
Within glossy bastion, even trials seems agreeable

Mollusk of endearing devotion, grumbling for denied...

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Categories: progenitors, pain, strength, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Racing Issues
Why are we the human race
rather than another extinguishing species?
Why not the human species
and not the cockroach race?
Why is human nature
intended as somehow supremely natural
not...

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Categories: progenitors, america, peace, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
Priceless Treasure
We, as God’s children, sometimes get trapped in a search for
earthly riches, and forget the higher goals such as love, 
joy and peace and their...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progenitors, allegory, jesus,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Franciscan Swissophiles
Switzerland,
part of my own historic root system,
has a Bill of Rights for vegetation,
protecting rights of intrinsic dignity
with concomitant human respect for their healthy and aesthetic...

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Categories: progenitors, gender, health, humor, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Tao of Balancing Time
Father solar systemic Sun Time
and Mother Earth's Space
regenerated RNA 4D spacetime, 
reiteratively sensed
echoing through our dipolar DNA fueled
omniscientific
omnisciently empowering
Right hemispheric temporal memory
of Information's Harmonic String...

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Categories: progenitors, computer, confusion, culture, earth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faithful To Love
For Paul,
originally Saul,
and first generation Christians,
growing in spiritual development
and natural Body of Christ health

1. Begins with hope,

2. Becoming cooperative faith
in potentials not yet seen
or smelled
or...

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Categories: progenitors, faith, freedom, happiness, hope,
Form: Political Verse
Quick, I Need a Doctor
At the doctor’s office, I had to fill out forms,
Showing gory details—infirmities and norms.
They said, “Take a moment to furnish what we ask.
Just tell us...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: progenitors, satire
Form: Quatrain
The Oak Tree
He stood alone on the hill,

through dusk to dawn

His roots dug deep,

deeper into thoughts

Thoughts of sunlight,

and the rays of hope

For his progenitors,

for the leaves, the...

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Categories: progenitors, devotion, father, friendship, hope,
Form: Classicism
Tom Mboya Ndiege
Tom Mboya, son of Ndiege
From the craggy islands of Rusinga
--the craddle of his progenitors
He sprouts like avens in the loamy knoll
And out to the urbs...

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Categories: progenitors, death, dedication, freedom,
Form: Elegy
Unfinished Poem-2
Wanton words or bits of paper
Flotsam and jetsam or progenitors
Damp squibs or ticking time bombs
Collect..and recollect
Their golden worth, silverfish and all
Revived or transmigrated
To touch earth’s...

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Categories: progenitors,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs