Philosophical Rhythmic Duality
...Philosophical Rhymthmic Duality
Imminent calamity collides with structured debate
Virulent profanity confides with punctured ingrates
An insolent generation of insanity resides with a debunked...
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Categories:
deliberating, life,
Form: Rhyme
Gone, But Still Here
...It hurts saying goodbye
never making a phone call again,
never ranting to you again,
never hearing your voice on the other end.
You're gone.
The world is that bit darker without you.
You al...
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Categories:
deliberating, anger, death, deep, for
Form: Free verse
Though no political pundit, nevertheless
...Though no political pundit, nevertheless...
I trumpet the withdrawal
of democratic contender from out the presidential race.
Breaking headline news story
courtesy rumor monger premieres
show...
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Categories:
deliberating, america, anxiety, blue, dark,
Form: Free verse
A Cheap Pleonasm: Make America Great Again
...America has been GREAT, great for the last two centuries.
All right, America has been the greatest among all countries,
For a long time. MAGA is a cheap pleonasm, which just
Won the most contentio...
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Categories:
deliberating, africa, america, black african
Form: Rhyme
MusEcology of Peace
...I would like to see
and hear
and feel a peaceful day
and silent night
When guns
are as rare as typewriters
When partisan hate
is as extinct as flying dinosaurs
When ranting out of anger...
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Categories:
deliberating, earth, health, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
The Whirled In Between
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"The Whirled In Between"
What dreams
in the time of
not thinking
we spent aeons
in conversations
with the unbelieved
deliberating
choices towards
our liberat...
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Categories:
deliberating, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Zydeco House Party
...The bayou sky flies a catfish moon over swamp gators
And cottonmouth vipers. Accordions, fiddles, and rub board vests
Make their ramble through the undergrowth hot on the trail
Of a sultry midsu...
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Categories:
deliberating, allegory, america, celebration,
Form: Blank verse
Paradise In the Tree
...Paradise in the tree is looking down at thee; paradise in the tree has a message for you and me, the stains are dripping from the vine and I have to hold on to what is mine, the wind is blowing in my...
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Categories:
deliberating, courage, dance, endurance, engagement,
Form: Narrative
Struggle To Write
...Struggle to write
Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webb...
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Categories:
deliberating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Two Ravens
...Two ravens in the summer dusk
Were, back and forth, debating
From two phone poles, loud and brusque
They kept deliberating
When one gave their rebuttal
The other answered back
But far be it f...
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Categories:
deliberating, bird, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Sunday Sermon
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In a Sunday sermon…
The preacher told us this –
Listen to the still small voice,
Who whispers peace and grace,
The voice of a Savior, Jesus – the divine,
Who abides in heaven, awaiti...
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Categories:
deliberating, christian, faith, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth
...*Image of The Collection Plate by TPW.
The Epiphany of Three Men of the Cloth
My submission is of an objective accounting that had scintillated at my workplace yond th...
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Categories:
deliberating, character, money, religious,
Form: Narrative
Prayer Stories
...Who we pray to,
what we worship,
these are less important
than what we worship with,
whom we pray with,
and never against.
Yet, who we pray with
feels less important
for global peace
resto...
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Categories:
deliberating, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Deliberating Our Next Step
...The union president is an idiot.
He tossed our rep off Zoom for making suggestions.
We are all angry now.
Going to take our money out of the union.
How dare he toss her out for being assertive....
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Categories:
deliberating, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Grapes of Mirth
...As death mimics love itself and clutch a throbbing heart,
kindling consolation to savor flight, farther and farther
beyond the inner yelps released as vibrating soar easi...
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Categories:
deliberating, death, destiny, happiness, imagery,
Form: Free verse
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