Infernal Prison
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We dance beneath a carousel of blood
Tears flowing from the eyes causing a flood
We're just damned by our own intentions
Brewed by our interpersonal tensions
Lightning lances lively, and we...
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Categories:
defusing, corruption, dark, death, evil,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes People Share
...Sometimes pandemic people share
pieces of our unspeakable personal story
That no health care worker,
sex therapist player,
or green resonant systems organizer
wants to hear,
much less smell,
...
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Categories:
defusing, abuse, god, health, muse,
Form: Political Verse
An Awful Harvest
...An Awful Harvest
I went a hike up to Wawa in Montalban and up the mountain roads. Here I was to go past the peaks of Mt Parawagan, Susong Dalaga and Mt Lagyo plus others. The road had been improved ...
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Categories:
defusing, adventure, military, nature,
Form: Verse
Sympathetic Shoulder
...Seeking safe waters to harbor my thoughts,
I found a confidant that calms my soul.
Despite the deafening sound of silence,
I heard your voice above the rigmarole.
Supplying comfort and ...
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Categories:
defusing, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Quatrain
A Gift Worth More Than Gold
...She was enrapt by the glow and mesmerized
by what appeared to be some sort of orb,
bright faceted amber that was crystallized.
She struggled to comprehend and to absorb
the meaning of such a gild...
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Categories:
defusing, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Lazy Millennial
...Lazy Millennial
Give the Lazy Millennial a damn job
He just plays Mobile Legends all night
And sleeps all day long like a cat
I’ll give the Lazy Millennial a goddamn job
Here’s a shovel son ...
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Categories:
defusing, satire, teen, work,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Shape of Jazz To Come
...Is war coming? Are we headed for another crazy cataclysm?
My sons, draft age. Only now can I appreciate the pain
so sharp it drains the color from one's eyes, your reason
for living gone in a spas...
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Categories:
defusing, crazy, fear, history, pain,
Form: Verse
Converting Christians
...It has been asked,
sighed Gaia,
if I would convert Christians
to Taoists.
So, what did you say?
I suspect better Christians,
Christians with more humble gratitude
for God's actively loving...
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Categories:
defusing, christian, creation, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Good News With Bad News
...The Gospels share a negative understory,
thematic across all four.
However diverse these four voices may be
in describing and delineating Messianic love,
and political-economic priorities for p...
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Categories:
defusing, bullying, culture, destiny, gospel,
Form: Political Verse
Politicians Are Refusing
...Politicians Are Refusing
To do things, politicians are refusing,
And like time bomb needing defusing;
Always on break;
For goodness sake;
This is highly alarming and not amusing.
Jim Horn...
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Categories:
defusing, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
I Want To Thank You Jesus
...So many Blessings have You sent my way I have lost count
It seems like each and every single day an endless amount
From all those little things to the things that were so great
And the Joy Your Lo...
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Categories:
defusing, blessing, jesus, thank you,
Form: Rhyme
Spontaneous Regenerations
...About eighty generations before Jesus of Nazareth,
Zoroaster predicted the continuing
virgin birth
of Earth's Savior.
Could he have foreseen you
as our CoRedeemer,
as he was part of this same...
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Categories:
defusing, culture, health, history, math,
Form: Prose Poetry
Coffin Trash
...Instigating violence instead of defusing a situation. Shoot me in the face and get a month's paid vacation. Celebrating death down there at the station. The ones you've killed will watch you as you s...
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Categories:
defusing, abuse, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Not Done Yet
...I am not done yet
Thy that is there unseen,
Told by preachers anger toward my ways,
That i would be wrapped soulless awake,
anbandone with my full-grown-basket.
Please hope I am not been d...
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Categories:
defusing, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Struggling Love
...I know
you know
you stole our property,
our mutual possession,
our sense of co-ownership,
of belonging together
to grow our health forever.
I know
you took it for your sole ungrateful posse...
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Categories:
defusing, integrity, loss, love hurts,
Form: Political Verse
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