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Deducting Poems - Poems about Deducting


Premium MemberTom, You Shouldn’t Be Here

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“Tom, You Shouldn’t Be Here”
New Years Day 2017
Miracle Man
10/2/2024

At birth God assigned me
an unknown expiration date.
God has seen fit to bless me
with my date coming late.

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Categories: deducting, death, god, health, heart,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberFaith In Green Communion

...He said,

Your faith community's secularizing problem
is too much dogmatically intolerant rigidity.
You reek of green political correctness.

She replied, indefinitely concluding,

You are un...
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Categories: deducting, earth day, green, life,
Form: Political Verse



Imagine

...If we had electric cars
we could have parking meters
that charged those cars 
well shopping or at work

deducting the cost 
automatically from our banks
allowing electric cars 
to be charged ...
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Categories: deducting, creation, humanity, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative

Entitlements

...Oh yes indeed,
 how entitled I am
 to receive Social Security and Medicare;
of course for fifty odd years
 governement saw no problem deducting
 the coverage it now wants to cut;
and the senate...
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Categories: deducting, angst,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberKindness Between Lovers

...Cooperative kindness to others
is a fake kindness
if this liberating word or freeing action
compromises your own integrity,
which is disintegrating thereby,
an unkindness
to your own healthy Eg...
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Categories: deducting, education, freedom, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium MemberHave You Ever Become

...Have you forever come and gone
turning on your identity trail
to face a wall of YangFlame
dissonance?

Standing
and sitting
and sleeping
and Yang/Yin in-between
insideEgo and outsideEco know...
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Categories: deducting, birth, deep, destiny, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberMs Liska

...When I was a FreshPerson in a new higher school,
our English Literature class was delighted
to meet a new to our area Ms. Liska,
who was a beautiful teacher
both outside
and in,
and so we all l...
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Categories: deducting, death, humanity, humor, life,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberGathering Roots

..."Gathering roots holds up a mirror between the map in the earth 
and the map of our minds."
          Robin Wall Kimmerer "Braiding Sweetgrass"

Permaculture Design
is about landscape shaping pr...
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Categories: deducting, happiness, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberFullcolor Revolutions

...We might
we must
we mightily engage color's radical invitation
toward democracy,
in which black camouflages equal opportunity,
creolizes equivalent enculturations
of diversity's tones and hues
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Categories: deducting, color, community, creation, culture,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberBreathing While Thinking

...Yang unveils landscapes of textured thought
while Yin brings climates of swelling and ebbing feelings.

Together,
yin affective unconscious
with yang deductive conscious labels and language of n...
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Categories: deducting, caregiving, corruption, growing up,
Form: Prose Poetry

Emergence Dying

...Emergence dying

Emerging crying feeding moving lying
Growing crying feeding crawling
Seeing hearing crying feeding trying
Walking talking falling crying trying
Learning reading writing playing tryin...
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Categories: deducting, death,
Form: I do not know?

Banks

...Chorus
Banks! Banks! Let us all do away with banks
And their dirty tricks and their silly pranks
Banks! Banks! They mean very little to me
If I was the king all banks will be history
If I was the kin...
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Categories: deducting, political, satire,
Form: Lyric

Taxing Dilemma

...Rich ones get richer from our wages.
Middle man paid with too many pages.
We continue on path.
Hiding outrageous wrath,
Revolved in political stages,

Taxes, taxes, what will be the due.
Deduc...
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Categories: deducting, funny, history, life, parody,
Form: Limerick

Easy Practitioners of Another Voodoo

...Easy Practitioners of Another Voodoo

While I was counting the cost of steak
And while depressed about her over weight
He was counting grains of rice
She was forced into a life of vice

And wh...
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Categories: deducting, allegory, angst, food, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

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