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Best Vocations Poems

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Premium Member Coincidental Names and Vocations
I was reminiscing the other day about people I've known o'er the years,
And found it strange that their names corresponded with their careers.
For instance, Joseph...

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Categories: vocations, humorous, jobs,
Form: Rhyme



The Violence of Money
There is never an ending
		to the spending
	a world of paper
and plastic to collect
and horde
	clothes
	and cars
	and homes
	and jewelry
	and fine wine
	and paintings
	stocks and bonds
	vacations 
and expectations
entire vocations...

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© Barry Levy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: vocations, anger, anxiety, violence,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ecotherapist Conventions
Truth is a feather 
pushed off to the other side.

Truths are a body of feathers
within which our bodies reside.

OK, students of life’s healthiest purposes and...

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Categories: vocations, beauty, culture, earth, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Let Us Speak Clearly
Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival...

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Categories: vocations, caregiving, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member What I Didn'T Know
People, Places, and Things I Didn't Know I Trusted

I rather suddenly, and belatedly,
realized I trust the highest and best use for language,
for every community and...

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Categories: vocations, culture, health, love, political,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Universal Credit Union
Stepped inside Bucky's Universal Credit Union today
to ask what could I invest in
with least risk
and greatest potential for self-optimizing return?

He invited me to sit down
to...

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Categories: vocations, earth, nature, psychological, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Beloving Dualdark Night

Some days and nights
I am terrorized by death,
cold silo ache-echoing fear,
claustrophobic breathless dark
barking inevitable factness and finality
of my decomposing mortality,
and posthumous demise,
probably post-humorous as well,
should...

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Categories: vocations, death, depression, humor, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Suicidal Notes
Do you sometimes wonder about your self identity
seen through your lens for suicidal risk as opportunity?

It interests me that this lens
evolves as we age.

In later...

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Categories: vocations, depression, destiny, grief, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Wise Elders
Wise Elders are patient,
fully embrace non-violent communication
and health care
of climates and landscapes,
persons,
places,
things,
plants
and planet,
hopes
and dreams
rebuilding positive faith.

Wise Elders non-violently listen
for karmic grace of love
sometimes overflowing.

If Wise...

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Categories: vocations, 5th grade, caregiving, class,
Form: Political Verse
Nevertheless
Nevertheless…
I used all my efforts
To get into the world
That I see some people in
The world with many
Interesting things
The world
In which people eat and celebrate
But all...

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Categories: vocations, career, community, feelings, motivation,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Living To Get Out
We all feel like
dying to get out of here
at least sometimes;
a meeting
a relationship
a job
a car or bus or airplane
a house or apartment
a nation or state
a...

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Categories: vocations, allah, birth, death, god,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Wild Domicile
I prefer my home and family buttoned down
rather than too wild and disorderly,
disheveled and irrational.

I prefer natural order
and shades of color
and dialects
and economic/political vocations
and sequential...

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Categories: vocations, destiny, family, fear, gender,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecotherapeutic Justice
When passion plants a multicultural seed,
then justice flourishes a polypathic trusting flower.

Permaculture and polyculture, 
grow holistic cause-effect karmic significance 
for our physical, and mental, political...

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Categories: vocations, blessing, culture, earth, nature,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bucky Fuller's Holonic Ghost
Let’s say the number 1
iconically speaks in Left-Yang Universal Language,
root of ecosystemetrics,

while PlaceHolder (0)
bicamerally dreams in Right-YinDiPolar ReGenerative PolyCultural Action,
health-flow of autonomic, enthymematic thought and...

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Categories: vocations, earth, earth day, health,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Education As If All Deaths Matter
Political Science of Eco-Educational Vocations

Really? That’s my topic?
Didn’t Paulo Freire already do this one?

Oh, I see..ecosystemic learning and mentoring,
including pedagogical development systems
doing the best we...

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Categories: vocations, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs