ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, culture, depression, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Karmic Kismet
...When the Goddess of aroma
graces my caffeinated soul,
her milky quartz crown
shines in shades
of ineffable pleasures.
Invigorating arabica stars ...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Health Kick
...He's on a health kick,
Running until he's feeling sick.
No alcohol or flavoured vapes,
Sleeping eight hours with closed drapes.
Chopping up veggies with brown rice,
Drinking green smoothies w...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, confidence, endurance, happiness, mental
Form: Rhyme
The Bubbly
...I need the satisfaction of a cold carbonated cola
it smooths my stomach with a burp, love that soda
I drink diet caffeine free don't need empty calories
Like the Coca Cola gold and white label Pep...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Cream Pie
...“Cream Pie”.
We never took a chance,
We wouldn’t make the time.
And I just didn’t care if you were mine?
No now you’re here,
and now I'm there.
You took his love, and his name,
then you marr...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, allegory, angst, betrayal, bible,
Form: Free verse
Once Within a Moment
...Once within eternal Time
a coffee ground
of full-spectral
spacious consciousness,
Might sink in cold water cups
Yet rise to surface in warm oil sublime
joyously buoyant juice
Happiest to ...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, analogy, earth day, health,
Form: Political Verse
Decaffeinated Men
...There was a time when freedom
was found outside the dictionary,
in the hearts and minds of men;
we wrote our songs, sang and
danced, proud masters of well-tuned
instruments and pen – how I long...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, christian, evil, freedom, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Monoku Monday - Jan 2021
..."2020 Hindsight Collaboration" Posted 4 Jan 2021
new year's resolutions things that go in one year and out the other
I resolve to avoid all fatty and unhealthy... ...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, new year,
Form: Monoku
Winged Winter's Watch
...When I wash dishes
I look out at my bird feeder,
noticing which political species are best at cooperating,
easy democratic process,
remaining focused on collective nutritional energy gains,
"we'...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, appreciation, bird, conflict, health,
Form: Political Verse
Deadbeat Side
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O Aphrodite,
Grecian fertility goddess
Matriarch idol of the womb,
your wise children love not reproducing
— Ancient Zion chant
heard in the echo chambers
of the caverns along the Aegean ...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, perspective, religious, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Ode To Coffee - Collaboration With Claudia Polydoro
...First steps, every morning, not taken lightly
I move slowly with closed eyes and hands outstretched
Stumbling, mumbling
Like the decaffeinated zombie that I am
CO---FFFFF---EEEEEEE
The...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, funny, giggle, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Healthy Conversations
...Life as active love
evolves toward more polycultural communication,
across both species and time,
within Earth’s Solar EcoSystemic Universe.
While this conversation includes human natured comm...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, culture, earth, health, heaven,
Form: Political Verse
All Alone
...ALL ALONE
She’s alone with a new life inside of her and no where for her to bring it home she feels isolated like one who’s head has been decaffeinated why is she floating a stray oh yea because he...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, betrayal, birth, body, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
The Button-Back Nurturers
...THE BUTTON-BACK NURTURERS
…. debt-ridden emotions and emotion-ridden debts –
Oscar Wilde on the Irish
Mothers and matriarchs, you toy the gutted room
Where sensibility is decaffeinated l...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, age, anti bullying, depression,
Form: Sonnet
My Mum Served Me Coffee
...Since I was three my mum served me coffee
I was her first child so she was merely experimenting
I bounced to and fro and spoke faster than she
By the time I was four she switched me to decaf...
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Categories:
decaffeinated, childhood, funny, mum,
Form: Rhyme
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