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Premium Member On the Bottom Shelf
He made me ponder my greatest fear
not ghosts nor goblins grinning ear to ear
The one that I really fear most 
is the one peering back from the mirror
Is he real or will he just disappear 
Will anyone remember he was ever here

That person I present
the...

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Categories: rationalized, angst, conflict, fear, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Storyline
no storyline can thrive to throw off loves balance,
to purposely paint a picture to detour its countenance,
the stroke of the pen changing in every moments release,
unconditional love neverending in beauty with each piece,
to place the heart back in its proper alignment,
in the changing of each...

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Categories: rationalized, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Watchers
They stay in the background
 stating a useless union still self-centered
 powerless, ill-prepared, inept entity of promises,
 the verbiage of false hopes with all the dos and donts,

watching, waiting, predicting, and anticipating
 another's demise into servitude rationalized
 with lie and innuendo, pseudo promises, outright lie,
...

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© DM Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationalized, absence, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Rise Above It
A man who lacks a sleep schedule.
In a home that houses not only him
But his very own mother
His daughter who comes equipped with
Her very own mother too

Honey girl rises with the sun and sets with the moon.
Daddy is her best friend.
Somehow, he is always there...

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Categories: rationalized, allusion, analogy, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto Vi
For you are to be held up in
Judgement
By they so empowered;
Whose hot genes spilled from
Incumbent towers
Upon a warring continent -
The Sovereign house thus 
Pared and deflowered!
Thinning the blue bloods flowing 
Within the veins of royal bowers.
Bow ye then thy head, Meretrix,
At the inclusion of their...

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Categories: rationalized, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Million Men March
Million Man March 
Men of all sides tear the land apart
Marching band drums Bark
Trumpets blare Sparks
 Sitting in the back like Rosa Parks
See what's in the front that's Dark
Watching the sharks
The only flag we pledge allegiance to is Unified
Freedom liberty will not be rationalized 
Anything...

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Categories: rationalized, community, encouraging, freedom, international,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Spring
I waited... I surmised
I know I agonized
Of course... I never realized
Springtime was disguised

I pondered... I personalized
I know I criticized
Of course... I never recognized
Spring had improvised

I questioned... I vocalized
I know I dramatized
Of course... I verbalized
Spring had not arrived

I charted... I analyzed
I know I hypothesized
Of course... I...

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Categories: rationalized, angst, april, conflict, nature,
Form: Monorhyme
Foreign Restaurant
It is not like these restaurants in America 
with their sterile atmospheres: slick new furniture,
stylized art, ambient lights, and every angle 
rationalized to the judgment of specialized interests.
It is a restaurant filled with details, 
inviting customers to take in an experience while eating and drinking,...

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Categories: rationalized, america, drink, food, imagery,
Form: Free verse
A Friendly Exoneration
Twinkly bunch with loaded school bags
Ambition injustice and itching their backs,
Cunning those faces in front of the gate
Heedful pupils well-chosen apparently late.  
A fistful primary breeziness
Shared with smiles, tears and silliness,
Together they brawled, together they fiddled
At times they often complained to be differentiated.
Kiddo little...

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Categories: rationalized, friendshiptime, together,
Form: Narrative
Burdening
How 
Is it possible to harness energy sufficient for a simple mispronunciation?
Made from miscommunication...
at best.

At our best we tend to fear; succumbing to failure's hardship. 
Countered by an offensive degrade;
shortly mind-coming definition.
Afraid for conformity's confrontational dialects.

Pathologically diverted lifeways missense imperative arrangements.

Why 
Do we be what...

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Categories: rationalized, adventure, allegory, allusion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Neglecting Democratic Health
I'm feeling some civil
democratic health
neglect

To re-member
monocultural anthropocentrism
is a mental health crisis

In our U.S. Win/Lose normative
miseducational systems,

In our anti-democratic
unhealthy parenting,
self caregiving,
uncare-receiving deformative win/lose
devolutionary anti-thesis

AntiMessianic
to prophecy ReGenerative Earth's unParadise demise,
ecologically degenerative
and theologically rationalized:

Earth isn't Heaven
as Nature isn't spiritual Nurture,

Derived from ancient win/lose
RedYang autocratic DeathCultures,
warlike celebrations of anthropocentric...

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Categories: rationalized, caregiving, community, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Inner Demons
Inner demons tear me apart
Night and day
Today, tomorrow and in the days to come perhaps.
Relentless torment of the soul
Obliterating rational thought
Seeking to show the meanderings and 
Peccadilloes of fickle fate
Ennervating desire and drive
Cleverly rationalized by reason 
Towards  a life  of constant strife
Inching steadily...

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Categories: rationalized, depression, emotions, wisdom,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Merely Choices
Merely Choices 

Millions of hugs and millions of kisses are missing
So too those glorious days for reminiscing
Too many balls and too many dolls never played with
Sixty million laughing voices, silenced as merely choices

We now ride with young Willie McBride
But you will never sit at our...

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Categories: rationalized, abortion, baby, child, culture,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Deniers Stoke the Fires
When we start off
one rarely realizes
all the true scientific
downstream consequences
of our original acts

When we hear the key
click in the car's ignition
we know it revs up
the entirety of the
auto industry complex

When we go out 
to the grocery and
we pick up dozens
of pretty plastic packages
this vaults the...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rationalized, change, environment, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Dougd
DOUGD.
Doug.				
A pity – a shrug
No good-bye party  not even a shake or a hug
Fall for all the system takes
Institutionalized
A programmed criminal – an imprisoned thug
Excuse and rationalized
Convicted lizards – parolee bug
Should have stuck with sprinkling life with your spice
Freedom was not enough – so...

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Categories: rationalized, sad, sympathy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things