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A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits,
...A trunkful of recyclables patiently awaits, (and cries out long day's journey into night, no...not for Eugene O'Neill), but rather being distributed in their respective bins at Wegmans Under t......

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Categories: co opted, adventure, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Twenty first century civilization gone I askew
...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew. Ah... what luxury to wax poetic as freedom to trumpet thoughts, ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane, especially if president number forty ......

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Categories: co opted, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme



Jesus asks us to live in the months
...In the dead of winter a crocus rises Within the snow, Jesus is reborn Both fragile yet frost resistant Like Persephone to Hades’ reign Innocence is granted rebirth In the Spring He brings s a......

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Categories: co opted, august, jesus, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Mideast Peace Oxymoron
...Mideast Peace: Oxymoron Though descendent of Jews, I feel boggled at the brutal, nasty and wanton war between Israelis and Palestinians. Many innocent victims bred to know and hate their en......

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Categories: co opted, abuse, anger, angst, arabic,
Form: Rhyme
Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness
...Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness Analogous to Möbius strip - measured passage of existence seems to defy any beginning or end (unless Artificial Intelligence s......

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Categories: co opted, absence, africa, animal, birth,
Form: Free verse



July First 2023 Will Celebrate
...July first 2023 will celebrate... our sixth anniversary at Highland Manor Apartments Subtitled: The perspective of one festive folky fellow friendliness ofttimes prompts me when crossing path......

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Categories: co opted, absence, abuse, america, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Respite From Mortality
...Poetry knows no age, as thee Marcia Abramsohn (the former ex lady friend of my late father corresponded with me some years back) wrote (by hand nonetheless, a long lost art) inlaid with ambidext......

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Categories: co opted, absence, age, anxiety, birth,
Form: Free verse
Tacit Understanding Regarding Designated Parking Spaces
...just dawned upon me awareness today April 20th, 2022 14:30 military time. Unvoiced law of the land obeyed lest one who owns temporary priority will get mad and deliver hex upon generations of......

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Categories: co opted, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Poetic Message
...Poetry per se always send images unless not being captured, co-opted... is not almost anything.......

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Categories: co opted, allegory, allusion, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Light Verse
Nothing More Frustrating Trying Damndest To Kindle Memory
...(buzzfeeding, kickstarting, needling darn noggin) An effort to recall word, phrase, musician... indigenous tribe... most frustrating literary endeavor to das scribe aggravating enough to sub......

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Categories: co opted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Respite From Mortality
...Poetry knows no age, as thee Marcia Abramsohn write (by hand nonetheless, a long lost art) inlaid with ambidextrous zealousness impossible to identify, which hand crafted artistically colorful e......

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Categories: co opted, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Body Mind, and Spirit Triage Co Opted
...Body, Mind, And Spirit Triage Co-Opted Viral microbes didst relish meaty morsel feast hyperbole (included greased for dramatic effect) ceased not, but linkedin constituent facets increased ......

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Categories: co opted, 12th grade, father, friend,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Wait a Minute
...Did I hear that wrong? On my way for another appointment with the vampire bleeding Quest, big stage conversations on the radio travel way too fast for me to stay tuned in to our nesty mess a......

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Categories: co opted, america, caregiving, culture, games,
Form: Political Verse
Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew
...Twenty First Century Civilization Gone Askew...? Methinks perchance man kind always vain n'er did appertain moral hike polar opposite from human being: uncivil, unethical, unsocial,......

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Categories: co opted, america, death, destiny, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Displaced In Kathmandu
...Our dinner, boiled to death root vegetables, we swallow in silence as night closes-in on the school. The co-opted Buddhist monastery housing us empties its porcelain thrones into the walled garden’s ......

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Categories: co opted, anxiety, fear, war, ,
Form: Haibun

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