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Hermann Hesse Translation of 'Stages' from 'The Glass Bead Game'
...This is my modern English translation of the poem "Stages" by the great German poet Hermann Hesse from his novel "The Glass Bead Game." "Stages" or "Steps" by Hermann Hesse from his novel The ......

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Categories: creaturely, courage, death, flower, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Out My Window Contest
...the ghost - stitched, fused, tethered haunting! creaturely shadow, darkness entrenched cast on paving, stairwell, at my heel relentlessly matching step for step beyond slivers of glass, separat......

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Categories: creaturely, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rhythm Innate Chanso
...Diamond due droplets Adorn fresh flowers Calm comely comets Flowers nectar filled Sway in Zen Zephyr Petals curl furl frilled Zen Zephyr scent wafts Tempt the tender buds Taunt the tough ......

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Categories: creaturely, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Creaturely
...Rough hands upon her, not near, there, or where, nor the seashell tip of a fingering care or other lack-lustering lapping's but the groundless clubfooted grasping ......

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Categories: creaturely, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Soul
...Age has brought it nearer. The more I acknowledge it the closer it surfaces. It does not care for the cosmos, for bright flowers, or sunsets. Its eats all that stuff - chews them up into word......

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Categories: creaturely, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Grief
...grief a blinding, blurring, dizzying pain, a refiner’s purifying fire it scrubs us clean, like hard sand, re-opening old wounds as needed, so the new, the healthy, can grow again......

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Categories: creaturely, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wandering Sacred History
...I wonder about wandering into sacred history Back remotely far in collective memory before humanity, When EarthTribe regenerativity was all compassionately gifted divinity, Panentheist......

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Categories: creaturely, culture, health, history, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Congratulations
...It is not too late to be human, to realize the simple in the complex, to see the endless states of reality, the bounding expanses of worlds within worlds with a child’s eye knowing that all is p......

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Categories: creaturely, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Casualty Or Cause
...Casualty or cause? A question where we’ll pause: war’s chicken/egg conundrum with the truth. Employing logic flawed, inadequately awed, thus, Lucifer brought war to the Most High. He sought......

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Categories: creaturely, truth, war,
Form: Tristich
Premium Member Difference In Opinion
...Issues, like mushrooms, spring up when two or more humans meet, Issues start from how you are and what size is monkey's feet; And thus my friend and I, like nail and flesh - same age - once met, ......

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Categories: creaturely, life, philosophy, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Too Short
...Life's too short to spend it as a lion Go out and carry the banner of peace Life's too short to spend it as a mole Go out and enjoy bright light with all Life's too short to spend it as a hye......

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Categories: creaturely, allusion, analogy, imagery, leadership,
Form: Couplet

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