Depreciating Poems

Are we into a recession ?

...Ladies and gentlemen,

Let’s take a moment to reflect on what happened in Venezuela. In the blink of an eye, everyone became a **multimillionaire**—not because the economy was thriving, but because...
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Categories: depreciating, absence, adventure, africa, age,
Form: I do not know?

The Basement of Delusion

...I had a silly thought.

What if my parents…

Locked me in the basement? 

It doesn’t make sense, because that’s illegal! 

It doesn’t make sense because they are supposed to love me.

What ...
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Categories: depreciating, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse


The Making of Peace

...The making of peace,   
A rejected road,
A crumbled mould.

The making of peace,
The heart yearns,
The body learns.

The making of peace,
The world desires,
The promise of the Messias.

T...
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Categories: depreciating, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberClassified Ad a Satire

...*** Classified Ad — “Position Wanted” ***

  ((The following is from ad details written on the ad draft form submitted by the ad’s purchaser, who, while here was briefly helped by clerk ES Slinger,...
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Categories: depreciating, fun, humor, imagery, joy,
Form: Narrative

Silver Assurance

...I am not certain that I can be prepared to handle a depreciating cost.
That the paper I carry isn't worth anything aside from using it as kindle.
So I take a chance, with one of two colors, that ar...
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Categories: depreciating, money, perspective,
Form: Concrete


I Breath For Living

...I breath for living 
Intoxication is certain 
In hard world 
Where humans has turned so evil
With hearts full of selfishness
And greed 
In a world where care keep
Getting lesser and lesser
Hu...
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Categories: depreciating, africa, courage, freedom, humanity,
Form: Epic

Bodies of Work

...Bob Dylan has sold his body of work,
Bruce Springsteen
sold his body of work
Mozart sold his body of work.
Poets try
but money never sings to them,
their bodies not getting any younger
and alw...
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Categories: depreciating, poetry,
Form: Free verse

An Old Bachelor

...A fast depreciating currency, 
Pity arousing like an emergency 
His low earning not an excuse 
For a now irritating celibacy 
 And choice of a lifelong recluse, 
Whose quitting ought to have bee...
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Categories: depreciating, absence, appreciation, change, people,
Form: Rhyme

Depreciating the Young

...Grammar school speculators
charlatan math
trading the currency
of borrowed youth
optioning the investment
in forsaken dreams
hedging their futures
with diminished returns
margining interest
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Categories: depreciating, corruption, teacher, youth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMulticolored Houses

...I find multicultural capital investment
socially healthier
politically wealthier
than more win/lose capital competitions.

Sociologists
may call this deep social communication capital,
so why ...
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Categories: depreciating, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium Member2020 Graveyard

...Clare Graves,
from beyond our 20/20 graveyard
for sinister climate climax
spoke systemically
to Washington's Future Feelers
Mediators
ReGenerators:

That very moment,
when we chose to 20/20 ...
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Categories: depreciating, culture, endurance, environment, games,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberReasonable Balance

...A rational frame of reference
for multicultural Taoism,
preferred by UniversalYang
and deferred with UnitarianYin,
regards experiences of systemic racism
and white straight male privilege
not o...
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Categories: depreciating, community, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberEmpowering Communicators

...I'm not against left-brain
right-wing dominance
so much as I am for
right-brain
left-wing prominently appreciating
depreciating left-brain
right-wing dominant economics
and political disempowe...
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Categories: depreciating, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberTransitions a T S Eliot Tribute

...symbolism
   of the metaphysical
self-depreciating
                     &deep
in a voice
of consciousness
so
intense&compelling

memorable    
           lines
over
    the passage
    o...
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Categories: depreciating, poetry, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberLonely Nest

...Loneliness,
of individuals,
like me,
of families,
like mine,
of uncommunioned communities,
and nation-states,
like ours,

Loneliness leads insufficient capacity
to prophecy everyone's colle...
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Categories: depreciating, health, integrity, loneliness, political,
Form: Free verse

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