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Bifocal Poems - Poems about Bifocal

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

Premium MemberSidewalk 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



Premium MemberWhere 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

Premium MemberIs 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

Premium MemberLove 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



Premium MemberHealth 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

Premium MemberPearls 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

Premium MemberYou 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

Premium MemberExegesis 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

Premium MemberMocking 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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