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Premium Member dichotomy -
yeah, right ...
do you really think I believe that?
that I'll swallow that pill?
look at the damn lines on this brow ...
do you think they were...

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Categories: transposing, analogy, break up, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ekphrasis On Artist's Garden At Giverny
grand garden at Giverny
are gems gorgeously
nestling near a warm abode
where golden path lies beneath
in thick impasto and rugged strokes
transforming terrestrial moment
into amaranthine beatitude

baggy brush movement
of...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transposing, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Fiona In the Night
For Fiona Meyrick, poet and musician; a Petrarchan sonnet

Fiona, in the silence of the night
Sings songs of sorrow soft in minor key
That sigh above all...

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Categories: transposing, muse, music, mystery, night,
Form: Sonnet
Teach Them To Trust
Thoughts travel tenaciously through tunnels 
Taking torpedoing trains to transcend time
Tempting tongues to talk to tittle tale
Twisting the truths in tones that tire

Telling trifling tit-bits...

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Categories: transposing, life, trust, truth,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Allah and Buddha Were Talking
You know what I think sometimes?
said Allah to Buddha,
Of course you do
and yet you don't.

I think I gave this gift of language
because you have a...

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Categories: transposing, body, health, mentor, political,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Bitter Sister
Bitter Sister:

Don't want to leave
like this
want to pick you up
in my arms 
kiss you and tell
you - I have 
stored away and
protected,
this love I have...

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Categories: transposing, angst, character, pain,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Speechwriter
Not too many decades out of college
I finally landed my first full-time job,
as a White House speech writer.

I know,
you would expect
I would not start at...

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Categories: transposing, earth, freedom, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
This Crooked Family Tree
As I stand here gazing  upon
A row of trees nearing their demise
My mind is overcome by a barrage 
Of paralyzing truths
That have contaminated my...

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© Mark Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transposing, imagination, visionary, family, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Facing Racing Eyes
So, I guess a 12 year old
American brown male playing by himself
with a toy gun
is outside your boundary
for normal early-adolescent activity.

Well, I can see why...

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Categories: transposing, emotions, judgement, peace, power,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Adventing New Resolutions
"The Path of Evolutionary Enlightenment,
like all enlightenment teachings,
is a path of ego [Past/Future Tense]-transcendence.
In Evolutionary Enlightenment,
however,
transcending ego [investment in anything other than the Present]
is not...

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Categories: transposing, adventure, birth, culture, nature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Here Once Is a Time
There once was a species
with one sacred EarthTribe Vocation
provoking polyphonic yearnings,
polypathic necessities
responsibilities
authority spaces

There once was a NewTribe health plan
divinely humane for ecodancing,
ego listening cooperative well-said...

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Categories: transposing, caregiving, games, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member We'Re All Passing Through
We're All Passing Through
on this journey of life
Some have an abundance of years
Some not enough

You leave with what
you came into
this world with ----- nothing.
Everything stays...

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Categories: transposing, fate, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Atlantis Dreaming
Before the inchoative formation of bygone days, before time's transposing and 
infantile sands,
Before the engulfing deluge covered our quixotic shores,
Whence the awakened were dreamers bestriding...

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Categories: transposing, fantasy
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Loving Political Management
So what do U.S. national political candidates recommend
to resolve degenerative trends
to turn toward sustained slow-growth of bicameral political health
as cooperative economic wealth therapy?

I'm still waiting...

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Categories: transposing, earth, love, passion, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ekphrasis On Liszt Liebestraum No 3
Fluttering fingertips 
on ebony and ivory
gently ascending 
like the wings of 
a white butterfly~
then gradually descending~
fading like a sleepy sun.

Tender instrumental pauses ~
transposing into heart...

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© Jcb Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: transposing, appreciation, love, music,
Form: Ekphrasis

Book: Shattered Sighs