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Premium Member Quo Vadis Poetry, a Damsel In Distress-W
Captive damsel of creative-writing programs,   
Personalized, eulogized job of small groups,  
The frenetic activities handy to very few,  
Poetry now belongs...

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Categories: subculture, satire,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Quo Vadis Poetry, a Damsel In Distress
Captive damsel of creative-writing programs,  
Personalized, eulogized job of small groups,     
Quo Vadis poetry, a damsel in distress?

The frenetic activities...

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Categories: subculture, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
The World
Born in a world of sin
A world filled with evil from the very beginning,
Greediness and selfishness,
With the existence of poverty, unemployment, crime and disease
Caused by...

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Categories: subculture, nature, philosophy, world, class,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Portraits of Racial Politics
“It is the custom of scholars when addressing behavior and culture to speak variously of anthropological explanations, psychological explanations, biological explanations, and other explanations appropriate...

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Categories: subculture, culture, earth, health, love,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Family Values Party
Healthy families can be quick to anger
but, if so, they have also learned to be quick to forgive,
forgiveness redeems anger and fear to again risk...

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Categories: subculture, america, anger, conflict, family,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Self-Identity As a Self-Made Predicament, Or, More Fun With Socratic Irony
An insane System by any other name
Should still be considered simply insane

A prison by any other name
Could well be the throne 
Of a primitivist's brain

A...

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Categories: subculture, angst, dark, hilarious, humorous,
Form: Free verse
The Raging Party
The raging party goes on into the night 
Near the market place 
Where the poor search for a fix
In the royal kingdom of religion 

The...

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Categories: subculture, addiction, angel, lost, sound,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Redemption: the Children of Infinity
"Redemption: The Children of Infinity" 


from the belly 
of the new world
revolution sleeps 

biding its time ;

when all the walls 
of Rome crumbled
new empires dreamed...

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Categories: subculture, future, humanity, muse,
Form: Narrative
Reverberating
After the rains, 
it was a full moon
in summer night.

Fleeing from a subculture-
of violence, she was
nestling in the arms of clouds.

A lost killer swearing 
with...

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Categories: subculture, art,
Form: ABC
Safe Behind the T.V. Set
Giant bruises from words pulse on the inside of my chest
The past's grip comes biting at my head
I saw a girl beat up by bullies...

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Categories: subculture, social, anger,
Form: Alliteration
Black Man's Burden
For all the weighted years of empires
Stockpiled with human grief
For all the fallen towers of desires 
From which love has no relief
For all the cargo...

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Categories: subculture, socialself, children, history, self,
Form: Verse
Dark Ages At the Deep End ( For Alex )
Dark Ages at The Deep End  ( For Alex )



What does our society teach our children
Churn them out as fodder
For the cultural use of...

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Categories: subculture, lifeart, art, society, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Dont Know
You hope that university will answer all of life’s questions, but nope.

I don’t know, 1.
There was a guy who’d been hanging around outside our residence...

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Categories: subculture, friendship, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Black Lite
my pain grows tall like sugar cane
destroying my mental state with decay
a chemical labotomy to part east from west
the subculture of my dementia united in...

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Categories: subculture, imagination, inspirational, introspection, pain,
Form: Free verse
Graduate Congratulated With a Counseling
To you, Geoffrey, congratulation
On your gladdening Graduation
Well-deserved: the standing ovation:
You are ready to serve your nation….

However, I fear, from your bedroom,
As you wait for the...

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Categories: subculture, absence, celebration, education, fear,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs