The setting sun weaves a poem, blossoming unsung trochaic along the river basin
...The setting sun weaves a poem,
blossoming
unsung trochaic along the river basin
(Nurulhuda Junction. Teesta)
Sometimes it feels quite an estranged thought to realise that living is a mundan...
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Categories:
bifocal, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Sidewalk Chemist
...
I test the gum
And the scum
That came from
So many feet
Scrape the blood
And the crud
Between mud
Smooshed on concrete
I sample spit
Ample birds***
All with a flick
Of the wrist
Coz I...
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Categories:
bifocal, city, fun, science,
Form: Rhyme
Where Sacred Meaning Fades
...Where juicy historic purpose fades
and pre-historic
nonverbal
nonviolent sacred meaning
polyculturally creolizes
WholeOpen systemic shade
preserving future health intention
Is where we also ...
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Categories:
bifocal, health, integrity, light, math,
Form: Political Verse
Is There a Boy For Me- -
...mama why must I be alone;
all of the other girls got there boy and gone;
with me left here all alone;
is it because my looks haven't shown;
some call me homely;
the reason why I'm lonely;
The...
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Categories:
bifocal, analogy, anxiety, desire, for
Form: Lyric
Love Lesson Planning
...First, imagine, if you can,
"Love" is not just a many splendored thing,
although it is that,
but behaviorists and existentialists behavioralize
the complex of emotions and consciousness
wearing ...
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Categories:
bifocal, conflict, culture, discrimination, health,
Form: Political Verse
Health Producing Wealth
...Wealth,
in a competing anthropogentric,
aging egocentric,
world
depends on cooperative health
of LivingEarth;
To paraphrase Johan Rockstrom,
from the Stockholm Resilience Center.
Our comp...
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Categories:
bifocal, caregiving, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
If Only You Agree
...If only once you agree IF ONLY YOU AGREE
I can fetch moon and stars,
Oyster pearls from the deep
And all the comfort of this world.
If only once you agree!
Stay assu...
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Categories:
bifocal, love,
Form: Free verse
Pearls Beneath the Harbor
...Our bank accounts nearly emptied so we could afford a vacation; two young working girls who'd never been far from home. We were looking forward to finding love on a romantic tropical island. Maybe so...
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Categories:
bifocal, people, places, world war
Form: Haibun
You Don'T Know Me
...Everyone has the freedom of choice
Everyone has an expressiveness to save their own voice
Who are you who am I to judge this choice
You don't know me
You don't know me
I may have rebelled ag...
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Categories:
bifocal, america, baptism, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse
Moronic Express
...There once was a good hubby named Nick,
on his wife, he tried to play a trick-
Hot wax on the table,
was willing and able,
but sick wifey came down with a tick.
So he dumped out the w...
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Categories:
bifocal, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Jenny and Lenny Hook Up
...Lenny was 30 and still living with his old cheese, everyone called, Lenny’s mum.
She was always on his Cadbury Snack to go find a trouble and strife for a chum.
“Geez, leave off mum, I’ve been look...
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Categories:
bifocal, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme
Exegesis of Original Intent
...The ugly head of the Original Intent issue
co-arises with what were our ForeFather Patriarchal Patriots
thinking and feeling to leave out prohibitions against antiChristian degeneracy,
and to put ...
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Categories:
bifocal, body, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Playbill
...Playbill: Sept 8, 2001
Time gives a bifocal view to the written scenes of life.
Mental screams of past strife.
Broken pencils lead to scenes being inked, unable...
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Categories:
bifocal, cry, depression, faith,
Form: Free verse
Mocking Reminders
...There they sit, those mocking reminders, on my nightstand table.
I wish I could just throw them out, but I find that I am unable.
There they sit, reminding me, of the life that we once shared,
Bef...
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Categories:
bifocal, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Grief Enough To Go Around
...Just like you to make a last minute date,
leaving me a quickly scribbled note,
before tossing aside that broken campaign pencil from last year's election--
I remember you snapping it apart
when ...
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Categories:
bifocal, america, death, grief, husband,
Form: Free verse
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