Best Statements Poems

We wash our hands twenty times a day
Singing Happy Birthday twice, all the way
  Scrub down our whole home
  Don gloves when we roam
Hoard TP in all colors except gray...

But now that's passe, it's masks we must wear
Some are elegant, though what do...

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Zambezi's strength rules
who can harness our river?
electricity from water?
Nyami, Nyami

Kariba Dam damaged
by six decades of water
the Tonga tribes celebrate
Nyami, Nyami

May 10, 2022

Joseph May's contest on Naani.

Two naani of 24 syllables each
current statements about currents

When the Kariba Dam was built on the Zambezi, the Tonga people...

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Some fellers like to make fashion statements with their dress,
But I'm a rather conservative dude (much to my wife's distress!).
I'm fine with loafers, button-down collars and pleated slacks.
I'm not taken with tailor-mades, I prefer to buy off the racks!

Some dudes make a statement with the...

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Statements

With hesitation, trepidation, caution, I dance softly
to the music, the sounds of interrelationships, step lightly
upon the dance floor of  relationships, of commitment,
- that dance of souls to different drummers that doth rent –
as we try to absorb the beat, slowly moving our feet
across that...

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I hate being asked to write about hate.
There has been too much abhorrence to date.
How is it that many people relate?
Perhaps love and compassion have lost gait.

I hate being asked to write about hate.
Contentious poetry seems to mutilate
The souls of the righteous sometimes vacate.
Participation in...

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i've had it up to here dear for i fear the rear end of the deal makes me feel so surreal that i kneel and repeat which makes me sink to my feet when i meet the one sitting in the seat previously defeated by...

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If we reduced most mission statements to just one word,
There would be no need to use a sword,
To get a company to keep their word,
As reducing mission statements to just one word,
Makes it easy to spread that word.

Accountability would be a good one,
Accessibility could be...

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The yellow metal 
protecting the unborn
will catapult to outrageous heights.

*

Sky confronts the Mars
in improvisation. On earth,
the dead were lying side by side.

*

Ah, the mercy killing
of oneself. Out of compassion
or taking a revenge ?


Satish Verma...

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Teaching I statements is worthwhile
you do not start with a pointing finger
Or a mean look

An I statement is not an accusation
It is an expression of your feelings
I felt sad when….
I felt upset when….
I felt disappointed when....
Expressing your feelings does not put people on the defensive

So...

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on a soapbox 
constantly yelling 
black and white 
statements concerning 
what one should do 
to be considered normal
became an unhealthy 
ritual among the two 
repellent souls brought 
together by chance long 
ago in a land far far away...

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This world is only flat 
as I could wish for it to be.
All wishes come
from hungry hearts as mine.

Curves I visit 
bring a noise of motion.
Unexpected joy and wonder 
found in every moment
leave me breathless 
in returning 
to my mirrored soul.

My flatness and my curve...

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The bonds that unite poets are

stronger than the cables that tie the ship

to the pier...

You poetess

that you offer me your beauty,

that you offer me the best of you...

that you pour yourself drop by drop

in me, you who flow

your feelings in my chest,

you who confess.
secrete to...

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deportation statements during time
observe pulitzer worthy escape by decree ego


overlap
deportation of "homeless immigrants"
census fraud
is not a measure of goverment in california
re segregated aggregated data is not a constitutional law 
being held

deportation hmis

creation of absence ballots in population control ownership agenda's...

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I’m tired of influencers faking nervousness.
my generation wants to care less
these days.
it’s a counter-current hack.
we want to be less defined.
we can search and reflect for ourselves.
we’re sick of the emotion
that’s all over everyone’s faces,
the unsightly splotches of opinion.
the entire election machine,
the process of getting there,...

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Statements are the treats
To the spoken,
But to the intended;
They still might ill-treat.

The Dreamer still dreams-day dreams
To find his passion
In his day,
But realizes at  nights
That he spends his time in nothingness.
The Merchant says,
Where and when forth you get me my love
There and then forth...

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