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Depletions Poems - Poems about Depletions


Space Buggy

...They built an A.T.V.
and sent it to Ganymede.
It was programmed to go
here and there.

Time passed,
NASA diminished,
there were staff depletions.

The unit sensed
that it had been abandoned...
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Categories: depletions, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Boxes

...Each house is a granite word
constructed
to be locked inside 
a paper mountain. 

Road-rivers curl
and bend around them.
Cars swim in and out.
Voyagers sleep
to raise the living.

Some win...
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Categories: depletions, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Buggy Blues

...In the soon to be future
they built an A.T.V.
and sent it to Ganymede.
It was ordered to go 
here and there,
to dig and scan - it obeyed.

Time passed, 
samples were sent back
for analysis.
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Categories: depletions, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

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...Chapter 1: Deneen's Failed Liberalism (Revised Version)

Developing progressivism
within liberalism
further iterates pervasive presentism
of win/win
past through future multiculturalism,

A h...
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Categories: depletions, caregiving, creation, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse

Clear Lines

...allusive winds splatter metal amok
chasing leaves mark time across
cement jungles of error burn ravishing
imprints across eyes of the innocent

seasons beckon sweeping funnels
bitter rage evacu...
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Categories: depletions, change, corruption, rights, seasons,
Form: ABC



The Presentation

...Life comes through  with delivered packages of hope  
Intermittent struggle but I kept from fallling off the tight rope.
I kept from falling out of sight though.
money not a problem, that's life, ...
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Categories: depletions, anxiety, dark, death, deep,
Form: I do not know?

Nature Turn Sour

...In the beginning,
The flowers blossom
In summers and dance always
In playful gesture at buzzing noises
Of bees that never get wary
Of playing the happy music
To cheer the hospitable host.

Th...
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Categories: depletions, men, nature,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things