Come to the hill named Flagstaff
Climb to the top and glimpse the emerald expanse
In summer when kites are flying and students laugh
Or the crystalline mounds in winter when tobogganers prance
From here we'll stroll past the Carnegie Library toward the Cathedral of Learning
Where we will embark on another ascent before we proceed
To devour pierogis in the Strip, kayak along the Ohio, and go tunneling
Through the Fort Pitt and emerge at high speed
Into this land of golden bridges and charming neighborhoods
The Steel City will not disappoint
For adventures await amid Appalachian backwoods
Where a dazzling skyline encases a capitalized Point
Categories:
capitalized, adventure, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
i am still at times, in shadows
watching you in the world
stealing glances
when the world has drawn you away
there is a beauty i can clearly see
when the picture is devoid of me
meeting for lunch
i step back from the canvas
pause in the servers' din
shelter behind the flora
drink in your essence
holding that moment
my life with you has been as such
like a glass of fine wine
the aging intensifies the allure
oh i know well why
you never let the magic perish
one of my greatest joys
i never had a clue
so i sit back and watch
as her magic unfolds before me
and for all of my sleuthing amidst shadows
i have been bested by a master
that silly smirk she wears so well
adore fails to grasp the fullness
my eyes behold a path
the bewitchment therein
where dwells the beautiful soul she is
poets know these things
OKC 5/22
The phrases “the eyes are the window to the soul” and “I can see it in your eyes” certainly sound poetic. Many singers, songwriters and writers have capitalized on it. But it turns out that the eyes really might be the windows to the soul.
Google the above and you will discover the Science poets knew millennials ago.
Categories:
capitalized, devotion, fate, i love
Form: Romanticism
My spiritual vulnerability
to feel persuaded
and powers to persuade
emerge curiously informed
by Others speaking suggestions
and my own inside power digestions
not yet said out loud,
uproarious
Yet co-arising
from life's multi-generational crowd
EarthDay choir
cyber cloud
singing and dancing every day
for Earth's integral potential,
sacramental organic health
reproducing GREEN capitalized wealth,
fabulously non fatuous
inside
as outside
nuturingly nutritious
above
as below
delightfully delicious
Suggestions that land
sync
resonate
with percussive persuasion,
efficiently efficacious.
Like
"Maybe you need appreciation
for who you are
already?"
non vindictively victorious
Maybe I want
more integrity,
synergy,
positive neurosystemic
organic
healthy
sacred holonic energy?
non glamorously glorious.
Categories:
capitalized, earth day, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
When wisdom not often the same thing,
the first letter may not be capitalized.
Endless *****homini lupus,
more than human and dragon clash.
Smelling overlord blood feud,
taxation penalty redeployed.
Create more misery,
giant trading subjugating.
Free market eliminated,
minimal state dead.
Categories:
capitalized, age, anxiety,
Form: Bio
The two major forms of Judaism in Jesus' day were Pharisees and Sadducees.
All of heaven and The Lord knew priorly that many of them would not believe.
Pharisees believed in angels, like those appearing to shepherds one dark eve.
Both sects had problems especially along the lines of 'JOY' and 'LOVE'.
They had no experience with The Holy Spirit descending like a dove.
Mortals could live a HOLY LIFE on earth without any HOPE from above?
Christ arrived with GRACE and an invitation for any who would, to have FAITH.
Jesus spoke with authority, not with arguments, discussions, or a Great debate.
Essentially, Jesus said to thief on the cross, come with me now; it's not too late.
070121PSCtest, Jesus, Regina McIntosh
7-word requirement, Capitalized
Last word rhymes in each 3-lined stanza
Categories:
capitalized, heaven, jesus,
Form: Terza Rima
Please don't speak his trumped up name
Like ValdeMore
and more
and more hard-played cards
in my competing hand,
history echoes such dark memories
fettered, now and then,
by death's final reincarnation
Because some will claim
his was a name
for Boys will be CowBoys
all White the privileged
well-capitalized same,
An unspoken name
for Wild CowBoy Lost,
a martyr for washed out
useless
stupidly competitive lives
following red's latest overpowering authority
shifting and shifty
while barely surviving Followers
deny, or even religiously
rapturously celebrate
Earth's final redhot climate death
And others will take up his StraightWhiteMale
miseried DeathCulture tune
and persistently
resistantly speak his name
as if its virally true
red white and deadly blue,
He was wild;
A cowboy who could buy your ranch
and you
and all your neglected and abused riches
for tomorrow,
and all Earth treasures
borrowed from health manifest,
destiny of win/win Wild Liberating Bounty,
beautiful green democratic Us
Who barely remember
his weaponized
violent
CowBoy name.
1/23/21
Categories:
capitalized, abuse, anger, angst, anti
Form: Political Verse
Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunions,
So, also
noncommunion ZeroZones
of red
against green,
So
also
red/green
non-violent mediation,
ego/ecotherapeutic,
So
also
red sky fades
inside green/blue
yintegral yang
speaking "green regained"
So too
Christian
green/red
sensed newborn
divine/humane
light/power
ancient eco-messianic solstice
fertile
non-violent celebrations;
So
also
red sky
light fades
inside ringing joyful ears
poised toward regreening
non-violet ultra
ecofeminist Earth
Green ReStoring Justice
In solidarity with
RedSky Sacred Rights
to worship
unprivileged
under-capitalized
everyday compassionate princes
and feminist princesses
of and for green/red
co-passioned
co-arising
co-gravitating
co-operative
eco-therapeutic
Red sky fading
refacing
non-violently communicating
healthy democratic
WholeEarth
GreenNatured/RedSpirited
Eco/Ego CoAligning Peace,
So
also
Red sky
fades
inside ears
poised toward greening
non-violet ultra recommunion
solstice redivining...
Categories:
capitalized, adventure, christian, christmas, health,
Form: Political Verse
Rolling cloud slides tip
We, on Milky Way's Starship
Sparkling tender lips
September 5, 2020
7:30pm PST
read at a classical poetry
site that this form cannot
only be capitalized....but
also rhyme!
Here's my first attempt*
Categories:
capitalized, fantasy, kiss, space,
Form: Senryu
code number
code name
user name
password
zeros or oh’s?
capitalized or not?
a curious language
I never thought I would have to learn
And now I am thrown into it full force.
Categories:
capitalized, computer,
Form: Free verse
Ugly
Angry
Vandalism
Justified
Then
Capitalized
Or
Capitalized
Then
Justified
Till we've become
Overrun
By Artistes
Who create
Ugly
Angry
Vandalism
Categories:
capitalized, art, loneliness,
Form: Concrete
Alluvial prayers cast in gold
Reverence capitalized
Christianity besieged
His excellency pardons
Begging paupers of virtue
Indulgence contaminates
Seeks marble idols at church
Heaps insincerity
Onto faith and religion
Purchases circle of sins
06th February 2020
Categories:
capitalized, religion,
Form: Acrostic
Self knowing
We speak
Of the small self
And the large Self..
With attention to the
Capitalization of Self..
However..the Truth
For our grasping is:
There is only one Self
Capitalized or not..
We refer to our Self when
We use our most
Intimate name:
Which is "I"..
Small self is "I" which
Is clouded with the
Transitory and beautiful
Things of our day..
Also this: ..each entity
Of creation..deer..frogs
Trees..share in identifying
As this Wondrous Self...!!
Categories:
capitalized, appreciation, identity, remember,
Form: Blank verse
I have USA raised
and LeftBrain Dominant branded
and capitalized
AfricanAmerican sons
disassociated from Earth
as a healthy,
caring,
inviting habitat for well-being,
Instead too narrowly focused on what Straight White Western Men think,
notice,
value,
monetize,
reductively compete to achieve
Too EgoCentric
AnthroCentric
XenoPhobic
EarthAlienated
to indigenously
timelessly cherish
what unwhite
unpatriarchal
unWestern
unviolent
uncolonizing
uncapitalizing
unhomophobic
Species of healthy wealth regeneration
cooperatively remember
and perhaps even 20-20 re-imagine
sensually
deductively
inductively
thought and felt,
yanged and yinned
ComPassion
Love
Solidarity
Integrity
Resonance
Resilience
Robust Regenerativity
So much more
than life-as-slow-dying objectives like
Avoid prison
Avoid police
Avoid criminalized economic behavior
Avoid shamed and blamed political misbehavior
Avoid Xenophobically Colonizing
Incorporating White Western Male
Capital MonoTheistic Ownership
Yet also
Avoid CoOperative CoInvestment
Avoid SacredEarth Communion
Avoid EcoFeminist Persuasions
Avoid Healthy WealthCare Giving and Receiving...
Categories:
capitalized, conflict, culture, earth, grief,
Form: Political Verse
To little Samara
Once, I found a bible lying on the street
I found it in the parking lot of the grocery store
I took the book to the library
I did not know what to do momentarily.
As I am recollecting this memory now,
I do not know why I recalled her face again.
She posted her status on Facebook
A Smiling picture with her colleague
I can still recall her post
It started with a typo
“0n an official trip……”
And, I was noticing that it began with a zero,
A zero instead of an O letter, capitalized.
She was a kind soul, gentle and straightforward
Something was very natural about her
I envied her simplicity in a real sense
I liked her smile, such a genuine smile!
Smiling is hard for me, especially nowadays.
When thinking inline is tight with the apparent face.
Within two hours, the plane crashed,
Made big news on the internet
She left a little girl,
I was thinking about her smiling face
I was thinking about the little girl.
Her last photo, taken on an airport lounge
Had her naturally glowing, smiling face.
It had a simple girl starting her journey with a big, big zero.
Categories:
capitalized, remember,
Form: Free verse
True and trusted octave colors
of and for HerStoried Earth
unfold again
for those who listen
with new eyes
for over-filled mouthfuls
of Indigenous Systematic Theology
With sensory experience roots
in sacred ecological relationship trees
remembering our left/right cooperative Time
before Wealth was capitalized,
suppressing EarthMother's interweaving health investments
Where
and when
and why
health is Earth's only sacred sign of wealth,
resilient theological systems
feed and water human nature's
robust right enspirited networks
signifying sacraments of co-operative wealth,
ecosystemic nutrition networks
True and trusted history
retelling psyche passion cultures
of and for HerStoried Earth.
Categories:
capitalized, color, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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