Best Purposing Poems

I stay close to home these days,
my roaming needs seeming to
expire with age, finding more
of what I need in the Silence
of packing; of course, this 
worn-out body is far too cumbersome
to even contemplate wanting – like
frayed clothing, now best for rags;
like empty cans for the...

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John Calvin one I greatly admire
a man God set apart in His will
turning His mind and heart
and by His spirit full He did fill

This man once obedient to Rome
now transformed by Christ His king
for he was indeed God's man
purposing glory for God to bring

Although born...

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how i feel, silly, spoken word, write,
Submitted for contest
Punctuation Personified!

Mind your use of me when making a full stop with finishing your  point
This can either overstate or understate your completed thought
I find I mean you no disrespect stating when you are to be done...

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The Jerk
Dr. James E. Martin
©May, 2013

Each morning he went to work,
Not purposing to be a jerk.
But some things will be
What they are, you see.
He nearly drove everyone berserk!...

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EarthMama Invites

Without RightDaddy Dominance,
Left EcoMama
and Her still innocent suppressed Children,
share no opposing WinLose
assuming
internalized voices,
just anxious and angry
and fearful feelings
about LoseLose
ZeroZone,
ego and Earth
matriarchal-line 
extinguished.

Because all RightBrain feeling voices
and chemistries
are outside Sacred NatureSpirit
experientially
regeneratively 
cooperative
Patriarchal/Matriarchal Voices
secular and sacred heart-felt narratives
evolutionary and devolutionary
ecologies with anthro-centric histories,
HerStories of DNA SpiritNatures
also...

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Ecology is to healthy systemic relationships
as economics is to human healthy systemic transactions.

Economic values are an anthro-privileged paradigm
for ecological thrival of Earth's cooperative fittest.

Imagine that evolution is a cooperative pilgrimage process
from Elder generations, genes, and species,
toward a shared destiny.

Imagine evolution involves symbiotic learning:
where this cooperative...

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Anna. . . . Dedicated to my daughter Anna-Douw by Theresa Rossouw.
 
A lily fair, with hazel eyes and dark hair. You came to me on a night of crackers, fireworks bright.

 From early time your will, strong, you knew always ríght from wrong! Your...

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frivolous
flighty, flippant
dallying, flirting, trifling
sport, play; study, staidness
sobering, unamusing, purposing
resolute, passionate
serious


written August 24, 2021
for "Diamante Poetry For Fun" Poetry Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger...

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A dance  lives in winter time.

The dance of pursuing life
   struggling among the harshness of nature to live,
     shivering in chilled days of snow and ice.

You can feel the cold,
   pressing in against your face,
 ...

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What lies waiting
at the end of a self-made
independently empowered
self-invested
"pulled my own economic-political bootstraps"
life?

A unilateral
linear life,
like any passionate journey,
requires an end point
for returning in the opposite direction;

In this lifeline
ego/eco-systemic case,
from regenerative
to degenerating autonomous powers.

What happens
at the end of an emergent spiral,
rainbow,
expanding circle,
oval,
deepening square
and swelling out reverse-triangular...

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Moses’ Prayer For His People

Lord give pardon to sinners this I ask of  Thee
Do not wipe out this nation from Thy all stern sight
The world’s heathens will say that our waste was your goal
Thou called these stiff neck people out purposing graves?
And the heathen...

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Anapest Pentameter

Lord have mercy on sinners this I ask now humbly of Thee.
Do not wipe out this nation from Thy all stern sight in your rage.
The Egyptians will say that our waste was your goal all can see.
Ye called these stiff neck people out purposing...

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Blasts of Dorcas for what she’d done 
And for thinking that she had won:
For being the cause of what Ray did 
And for treating him like a kid.
 
Off a scene, Magnus had thrice slid
To be of Dorcas’ presence rid 
His flat rejection of her...

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In this world of selfish people 
Will you be mine someone special 
No, I am not purposing you 
I just want to know reason of you 
No, I didn't want someone to make me smile
But I want you to hold when I am crying 

I...

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FATTI GLI AFFRI TUOI THE SIMPLE PLEASURE OF LIFE IS ALL WE REALLY OWN IN THIS LIFE I TRIED TO TELL YOU BUT YOU SURROUNDED YOURSELF WITH A CONVOY OF HATRED TO MURDER ME I NEVER HARMED YOU WE WERE FAMILY GOOD OR BAD YOU...

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