The Art of the DOGE DO-D-GE
...DOGE DO(D)GE is a game:
Accepting praise - never blame.
It's a dodge all right!
DO(D)GE shifts Left - then Right;
Disruptive through winds of change.
It's a dodge all right!
DO(D)GE bans br...
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Categories:
destabilizing, abuse, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Senryu
Speaking From Felt Experience
...Enjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf
As our bodies adjust
to rocky and pr...
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Categories:
destabilizing, anxiety, community, feelings, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Why People Act Mean
...The sky is blue,
The grass is green
Give me a reason why
People are mean.
Wherever there’s a couple,
There’s a feud.
In front of children,
That’s an example of rude.
It hurts the worst
d...
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Categories:
destabilizing, 4th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Ignominious Cult Leader Best Kept Locked Up
...Our unhinged president,
(a veritable loathsome miscreant)
cannot get away with murder,
nor will mine paltry poetic
(side winding) gambit
help clinch deserved punishment
for leader of free world...
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Categories:
destabilizing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Fine Print
...Public, or even familial, contracts
with predative purposes and rights given and received
move toward more transparency
So local folks
can better monitor
what's extracted from our communities
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Categories:
destabilizing, destiny, discrimination, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
No Longer Free To Go To a Market
...Impecunious news hunters on Oxford Avenue
Craned over newspapers spread on the floor
To gather ammunition about who knew
The last gossip about a politician shown the door
By hacks in his polit...
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Categories:
destabilizing, poems,
Form: Free verse
A Formidable Task
...Often, I fall to the ground in anguish and burst into tears,
not for lack of strength, but to ask for forgiveness;
seldom, I venture down a narrow and unlit road,
fearing the assailant is waiting ...
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Categories:
destabilizing, beauty, creation, emotions, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
Be the Blessing You Desire
...Be the blessing in the way people rejoice
When you bless their day
With compassion and empathy in vivid voice
To wipe away rows of sorrow from their lives every Saturday.
Be the blessing in the...
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Categories:
destabilizing, poems,
Form: Free verse
Family Health Assessment
...I have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not...
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Categories:
destabilizing, earth, education, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Belief V Disbelief
...We believe in truths we empathically
ecopolitically
humanely
nutritionally trust.
We grow therapeutic faith in empathic trusts
too peacefully pregnantly beautiful
to not become true, one d...
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Categories:
destabilizing, beauty, culture, language, love,
Form: Political Verse
The Way We Were
...Once isolated from the world
In tune with nature
Living day to day
Self sufficient
Thrust into a globalized world
New opportunities, open markets
Technological advances
Loss of control
T...
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Categories:
destabilizing, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse