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Premium Member Oneness
Oneness
                   Authored by Chuck Keys

It had no...

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© Chuck Keys  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustainable, black african american, dedication,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Patriotic Pause
Hate, hate 
and more hate
so much it frustrates 
Don’t serve that man 
or that woman
put away those plates
leave them to their own fates
loving only you...

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Categories: sustainable, angst,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Bipartisan Dissonance
When oppositional cognitive dissonance 
deflects focus from compassion,
I've learned to go back to when I deflected focus from her.
She sends me passive-aggressive messages,
bread crumbs leading...

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Categories: sustainable, conflict, math, parents, political,
Form: Narrative
The Walk Loop Poetry
The walk. ( Loop poetry )

As I walk down country lanes
Lanes of life that wind and turn
Turn memories into dreams
Dreams of love without concern,

Green fields...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustainable, beauty, happiness, journey, nature,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Only English Poems Are Allowed
It's too bad there are only English poems allowed,
For I found the most beautiful poem,
the most exact, precise, lush, and sustainable string of words.
But they...

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Categories: sustainable, language,
Form: Free verse



Heart Blessings
"There are too many to count in just one day, so let me poetize it this way"   
A thousand dreams have sailed away...

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Categories: sustainable, assonance,
Form: Abecedarian
Earth Sings and Swings Through Space
earth sings and swings through space
blue pearl's nascent sostenuto
sun's rouge reveil blush dusts her face
space pings as new world rings
angels praise God's high hopes 

Lind...

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Categories: sustainable, celebration, earth, sound, space,
Form: Verse
Hanky Panky
I feel just like that old grey squirrel, 
whose belly is empty as can be.
He keeps on searching for those acorns, 
but he has climbed...

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Categories: sustainable, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Doing the Math
When I was eight
I knew Paradise could not be merely secular humane
and yet be justly and omnipotently divine,
when a Great Horned Owl
breathed her last sacred...

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Categories: sustainable, beauty, earth, earth day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Watering Terror
I'm so confused,
raised to believe cooperative love overpowers competing fears
about scarcity of time, 
and other resources,
and anger about past over- and under-valuing of myself
as a...

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Categories: sustainable, anger, destiny, fear, hate,
Form: Epic
Judging Hypocrisy
Look at you
Oh so fashionably accessorised
In a demi-couture package
In your environmentally conscious style
Playing out ecological homage.

But bright red plastic buttons tinge your dress
iPhone resplendent in...

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Categories: sustainable, environment, judgement, pollution, vanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mars
On the planet Mars

red dust covers the surface

we perceive as red.


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Planet of dry dust

life probably did exist

in past centuries.

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Dry deserted place

no life is sustainable

the air...

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Categories: sustainable, space
Form: Haiku
Fabric Khadi
Born in their meadows and

 bread for the masses -  to
      
culture exploited, a suture



    ...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sustainable, clothes, independence day, motivation,
Form: Verse
Premium Member An Ode To the Scavenger
(1)
Strophe
Slowly and slowly fly the mighty feathers:
the uncanny wrath bearer, the poacher's prey,
the bald bizzare stigmatic cryptic creature, the ecology's majestic role player;
the curtain raiser...

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Categories: sustainable, absence, animal, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Great Ironic Co-Arising
Positive nutritionists co-arise!
Now, while toxins mutually self-immunize,
then co-subside,
then decompose,
to implicate potential revolutions.

Health,
cooperating abundance of Self with
as by of Other!
Now, while decay slinks into silos of
"That...

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Categories: sustainable, culture, integrity, money, passion,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things