Defensively Poems - Poems about Defensively

...You are the pickiest eater she said And I thought we were friends There you are playing in your food he said I looked at my plate; it was not playing Do all friends criticize or just my friends......

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...(a holiday vignette) I’m taking a chunk of my holi-days to work on my thesis (So is Lisa). Without classes we can fully devote our minds to them. My senior thesis hangs over me, I can’t ......

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...(a university-life vignette) It’s a Friday night, Leong and I are at a small restaurant close to the dorm called “Ordinary.” We’re in a cozy, pleasantly dark, little red booth—waiting for......

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...Love ain't hate Divine discourse denies degenerative debate, Church ain't State Conserving compassions content obligations contentiously Liberating. I love thinking about win/win co......

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...I had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the fast lane where......

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...Imagine if you would be so kind, join me in striving to become less blind Brilliant God says: Give to your oppressively militarized government weaponized suppressive defensively repressive......

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...This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan. It was mid-morning, we’d done the present thing, and it......

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... We are two souls that the crossroads rigged to meet. There is nothing artificial about your intelligence, your significance, your female caring brilliance. :"Smiles* Like water an......

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...It was the summer of 2014, I was just about to turn 13, spending June of summer vacation with my Grandmère, in Paris. Tonight, we’re at a fundraising benefit for African relief (it’s always *somethin......

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...I’ve been cutting Peter’s hair for a year. When covid lockdown occurred, I learned to cut my brother’s hair - and yes, he still has two ears. When I first met Peter, he had a great thick tangle of un......

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...I can accept love I have time to learn and earn But can I embrace compassion I feel sure appreciates me far more wisely than I have yet earned? Positive passions more pleasant than I co......

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...What could I do? What to do when your biological, and even formerly sober ecological, relationships suddenly veer insanely romantic? Or worse, mistrustful and yet not always distrustful,......

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...You could tell me your differences, beat me down with distortions, in-between fundamentally certain of Either/Or Yes or No Stop or Go; and never "and" You also faithfully know sacred reasons......

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...To faith communities and fraternities, brotherhoods and sisterhoods and sororities, local non-profits and friendly neighborhoods, mediators and counselors, cooperative associations, trauma-......

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...Given as a gift But seen as punishment He clothed them in skin Bound with animal To roam in fear Manifesting man's sin Self-preservation Defensively moving To find a place of rest Knowledg......

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