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Civilizing Poems - Poems about Civilizing

Premium MemberWhen Hope Sings

...When I am a healthy Norwich person
I hope to feel warm and joyful gratitude
for compassionate nonviolent communicators
past and present

With cooperatively nonpartisan
bipartisan
dipolar co-ar...
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Categories: civilizing, earth, health, integrity, muse,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberEmployment Trauma

...My protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples

Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.

He has bee...
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Categories: civilizing, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse



Premium MemberLiberal Leftwings of Flight

...It has been said
Charles Darwin was not happy
with leftbrain's Survival of the Fittest
without rightbrain's ecosystemic health roots
in Thrival of the Fit-in-ingest,

Which Bateson,
and other ...
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Categories: civilizing, appreciation, art, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberHumanity- -

...Humanity - tormentor of my dreams
I discovered the people diverse the scream
Limitlessness - limitlessness - limitlessness!
My ephemerality I could not awaken limitlessness
Take th...
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Categories: civilizing, anxiety, assonance, humanity,
Form: Free verse

War

...WAR

                     War, despicable, monster of madness 
                     Knows no mercy
                     Indiscriminately killing innocence  
                     Plundering, harv...
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Categories: civilizing, war,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberHealthier Democratic Days and Nights

...In good government sectors,
Inside capital-driven outside energized urban environments,
In healthy cooperative societies,
In proper green-civilizing schools,
and domestically robust economies,

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Categories: civilizing, community, conflict, green, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTranscending Boundaries To Trash

...Transcending boundaries to trash
transacts through vulnerabilities to crash
into compost cash.

I see and feel strange conjoining
curious listening to speak with old as young.
We carry less all...
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Categories: civilizing, age, gender, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberCivilizing Savages

...I stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.

The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and savages t...
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Categories: civilizing, bible, birth, creation, earth,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTrump: Persistently Steamy Poetry

...By: Moji Agha -- June 24, 2016 -- Tucson, Arizona

Last dusk at a small Tucson park, my 3-year-old dear friend, Rafi,
insisted unhesitatingly on imitating, no, actually embodying, a baby dog.
REA...
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Categories: civilizing, anxiety, conflict, earth, funny,
Form: Political Verse

Im Good

...Our the knives not sharpened since long,
Or they have missed my Achilles,
May be my heart have pumped some valor,
Have I become a saint?
Since I’m aloof, and with my two angels, 
Clammy death of...
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Categories: civilizing, blessing, cheer up, growing
Form: Sonnet

Rumi's Advice To Emerson

...I am the product of Rumi's advice to Emerson and Thoreau,

telling them to consolidate the spirit of compassion and truth in America

wisdom of Persians, layers of Judeo-Christian foundation, civiliz...
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Categories: civilizing, america, freedom, political,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMaquillage Civilization

...Maquillage Civilization

Come ! Quick ! Quick ! 
              Cover up the tracks !
That lead to my doom
Even the lynx watches blear-eyed the bald-eagle
	badgering badgers waddling down slithering m...
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Categories: civilizing, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Bullets In the Soup Pot

...BULLETS IN THE SOUP POT
I
BEFORE THE MIRROR
Sometimes, I sit on my sofa
Pondering on why war, poverty, hatred
and anguish has become a comforting bliss.
They say life is an unending quest; is it?
The...
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Categories: civilizing, depression, fear, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

For Carolyn

...Something prodigiously deep, profoundly placed on the mind
Do not pick it up in a rush ... for often we see better when
No light impale the eyes ... let history here forget, be blind
Before you ta...
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Categories: civilizing, dedication, on writing and
Form: Verse

God First Appearances

...After
The retreat
Of the last cubic ice
The fire
Discovery,
And after,
Thousands of years
Of 
Iron
Bronze
And tools
Testing.
After
The first form
Of calligraphic concrete was poured
Af...
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Categories: civilizing, art, inspirational, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?

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