The Rites of Business
...When one hits pay-dirt
How far can this go
The thrill in success is habit forming
Success becoming currency of the day’s blo'
Materialism playing a heavy hand as judgment
With minions waitin...
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Categories:
consolidating, betrayal, business, corruption, culture,
Form: Rhyme
I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025
...I cracked on the central air-conditioning on Juneteenth 2025...
the first time this summer,
when martyrdom got chucked aside for cold comfort.
How heavenly the climate controlled apartment
unit...
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Categories:
consolidating, cool, environment, humorous, june,
Form: Free verse
I Tried to Unlearn
...I Tried to Unlearn
……. his name , his face, his memory
but each morning they kept resurfacing;
rubber ringed feelings that would not sink
no matter how hard I pushed down.
So I journeyed to p...
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Categories:
consolidating, lost love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
C S Lewis J R R Tolkien Elgar and Malverns distress
...Around the Hills of Malvern now..Desecration takes place.'
Let me inform all how.' Where Elgars body has rested long
And Tolkien and Lewis did ramble in song.' all of these
Three historical giant...
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Categories:
consolidating, beauty, character, education, england,
Form: Rhyme
Meetingthe Need
...The belief in re-establishing greatness.
Using yesterday as the template for tomorrow.
Consolidating our past and funding
our current situation
to afford, build, create,
pause
and reconsider, t...
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Categories:
consolidating, america, business, culture, language,
Form: Ballad
Be Not Complacent Bout Dire Global Warming
...Be not complacent 'bout dire global warming...
Thus spake Zarathustra
necessitating donning layered clothing
in tandem, especially trumpeting
being with wise mind and economical
exercising...
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Categories:
consolidating, 12th grade, appreciation, april,
Form: Rhyme
Tomorrow Today
...Because we can't comprehend the future
It is easy to say it does not exist
Until tomorrow
Then tomorrow will come for the alive
Consolidating yesterday’s activities
Strengthening the will
...
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Categories:
consolidating, destiny, fate, identity, image,
Form: Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verse 14:3-14:4
...
14.3
“I have realized the Supreme Self,
the Witness, the One
I am indifferent
to bondage and freedom.
I have no need for liberation”
14.4
“The inner condition
of one who i...
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Categories:
consolidating, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Chiselled Forever
...Time passes,
I look in retrospect
on a life petering out.
Memories rack my brain,
there under the pine tree
we stand embraced
in perfect harmony,
our names chiselled
on the tree's ...
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Categories:
consolidating, how i feel, love,
Form: Free verse
Ashtavakra Gita Verses 14-3 To 14-4
...14.3
“I have realized the Supreme Self,
the Witness, the One
I am indifferent
to bondage and freedom.
I have no need for liberation”
14.4
“The inner condition
of one who is devoid of d...
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Categories:
consolidating, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
North Dakota Sunset
...Anther shamanic sunset in the upper Midwest
Magical brush strokes and hues that redact your mind to the test
Assisted beauty consolidating at the end of day
Memories of the heart that are created ...
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Categories:
consolidating, beauty,
Form: Quatrain
Park Life
...The ants and the beetles were all celebrating
As I wed the spider that I had been dating
And soon sixteen legs would be consolidating
I could say eighteen but that’s exaggerating
But all of a s...
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Categories:
consolidating, insect,
Form: Monorhyme
Chaos In Laos
...Looked up and down, right and left
Wondering why life suffers a theft
Subtracted beauty from my chin cleft
If I deserved and preserved the best
My love could lavish to attest
Why my love pass...
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Categories:
consolidating, poems,
Form: Free verse
On Pride a Fat Cat Sat
...Get not bitter
If an insidious issue under consideration you flatter
Cos a situation abnormal can get better
If only your blinkered eyes can see
Life ain’t all about gung-ho glee
Cos common se...
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Categories:
consolidating, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Sliding Slice of Precious Peace
...Gimme a break, Drake
In the space I own
In May, June or July to rake
In tonnes of peace without the groan
That serves no useful purpose
In the scheme of strategies I adopt
To rid my life of ...
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Categories:
consolidating, poems,
Form: Free verse
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