The Almanac of Power
...There's a story to be told,
That even Hollywood shared in part.
Showing entertainment by its fiction,
Could drown the mind and fill the heart.
Historically, great showmen of the day,
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Categories:
cultish, character, political, power, religion,
Form: Narrative
Men of Freedom
...(Patterned off the famous folk song 'Men of Harlech,' which is in the public domain.)
Men of freedom hear them wailing,
from the truth they’re always quailing,
scared of work or real travailing,...
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Categories:
cultish, america, freedom, men, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme
Cultish Leanings
...Cultish leanings..
There is attachment to
The mysteries of life
Embodied..seemingly in
A pedestaled attraction..
Add beliefs of import and
Shadowed conspiracies..
A religion star...
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Categories:
cultish, anxiety, confusion, i am,
Form: Blank verse
End of Days
...And I for one would like to sleep
but I cannot, because I weep
for lives and dreams and nations lost
We never thought to count the cost
So many are the pirouettes
of running, flailing silhouet...
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Categories:
cultish, god, social, spiritual, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Social Health Practices
...Natural in and out practices,
like breathing
and heart beating,
are unlike distinctively spiritual bad habits
and corrupt missionary customs
and toxic chosen-people rituals
teaching dark powers...
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Categories:
cultish, abuse, addiction, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
It Will Never Be Enough
...They claim that you were ‘outdated,’
old-fashioned and ‘not with the times,’
because you hesitated to
give up traditions of your kind.
They claimed new was always better,
that you weren’t on his...
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Categories:
cultish, abuse, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
To Be God For a Day
...To be God for a day
Wow – what an honor it would be
Changing the course nature
By creating love and harmony
Cast miracles
Excluding all natural disasters in life
I’d heal chronic diseases
Di...
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Categories:
cultish, forgiveness, humanity, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Intrepid Maverick Philosopher Returns
...To aerate, babble and procrastinate
decluttering man cave rubbish
welcoming this temperate
(Billy me) idle March thirtieth
tooth house sand nineteen
eventually to accomplish
sorting thru life...
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Categories:
cultish, betrayal, dark, environment, grave,
Form: Free verse
Timeless Fascination With Youth
...I aged a small number of hours,
none the worse
since posting about Daylight Savings Time,
a radiant playful verse
teasingly succeeded against being terse,
a cogent tangential thread,...
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Categories:
cultish, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Azalia Worship
...Every action Azalia takes out-weights the gravity of god
Fostering the symmetry of worlds, how it must be
A vision of an impenetrable force
Cultish prayer to the true Omni
Covering heaven and hel...
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Categories:
cultish, fantasy,
Form: ABC
Patriotism As Anti-Otherism
...Paul Tillich wrote
"nationalism hates and must always hate Judaism and prophetic Christianity."
When he spoke of nationalistic patriotism
he was thinking of fascism,
as the logical conclusion
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Categories:
cultish, earth, health, history, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Dear Neighbors
...Dear neighbors,
I realize we have not met,
other than the guy next door
but that doesn't really count
cause that was just to put up a fence between us,
and I have met Marvelously Mad Max,
beh...
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Categories:
cultish, baptism, health, heart, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Corporate Conversion
...The corporation offers logo wear
Dazzling subsidized cafes
State of the art fitness centers
They bring the dentist, dry cleaners
And hair stylist to you
No need to leave our campus
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Categories:
cultish, technology, work,
Form: Free verse
Shimmering
...The sizzling legs wait for
an infinitesimal pause
to learn on approaching zero.
I am not cultish:
the egg has walked out
on a dwarf mother.
The dead horse was rising
after eating dirt. Naked
flame...
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Categories:
cultish, art,
Form: ABC
Free Yourself
...why so harshly seek compliance
when the formula is wrong?
all you'll get is my defiance
no dancing to your song.
Freewill has no chance
in your rigid, tiny mind.
some strange and cultish trance
is ...
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Categories:
cultish, courage, freedom, inspirational, recovery
Form: Quatrain
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