Beauty Reclaimed Poem
I want a lived-in face—
a body that curves and stretches,
each line a crease carved by laughter,
grief, survival.
I love life etched into skin.
We are the narrators of our days,
our bodies the pages,
our faces the margins,
annotated by time.
We are art—
life’s sculptures—
one arm or two,
too thin, too wide.
What old lies we’ve swallowed
about beauty’s mould.
Perfection?
That polished cage—
stitched with
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Categories:
empowering, beauty,
Form: Free verse
The Village's Hope
In a village, where hearts entwine,
A girl's potential starts to shine.
The community's embrace, so warm,
Nurturing her, safe from harm.
With gentle words, and a loving hand,
They guide her steps, in this new land.
The village's hope, she's meant to be,
A shining star, for all to see.
They share their wisdom, stories told,
Of strength and courage, brave and bold.
The
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Categories:
empowering, children, courage, education, girl,
Form: Rhyme
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR EMPOWERING US TO OBEY HIS VOICE
August 23 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 42-44
Key Verse – Jeremiah 42:6 Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice of the LORD our
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Categories:
empowering, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Women Charting New Epochs and Reforms
Spiders kept weaving their webs,
Dust knocking on closed windows,
Within closed books and cupboards,
Coolness settled in.
Among the stacks of dozens of books,
Mosquitoes turned like ascetics,
Taking residence in the classroom's walls,
As the clock on the wall continued ticking.
At last, I embraced transformation,
A revolution was imperative,
For women's existence,
In the evolving fabric of society,
And for the ultimate triumph -
Where
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Categories:
empowering, beautiful, blessing, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Empowering Voice
It seems to me,
declared the preacher
to the distracted music Teacher,
that sacred MonoTheism
smugly explains
and exalts AnthroOwner Privilege
to ordain,
buy and sell
Earth's health-care rights.
It may sound to we,
sang the woke musician
refraining
and training Her preacher,
that rabid AnthroSupremacy
explains
and expects a cooperative
bipartisan resolution
to colonizing historical problems
of Straight
as patriotic nails
Monotheistic
monocultural
monopolistic
White privileged
WealthCarelessness
about Trust
and Integrity
and Compassion
across social
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Categories:
empowering, black love, god, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Harmonizing Hope: a Choral Verse For Empowering the Hopeless
Verse 1:
Amidst the darkness that surrounds,
And hopelessness that abounds,
Our hearts yearn for a light to guide,
To show a way we can abide.
Chorus:
Inspire us with a glimmer of hope,
A shining ray in our despair,
Help us rise above the darkness,
And find a path that leads somewhere.
Verse 2:
When life feels like a constant fight,
And all seems lost in
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Categories:
empowering, confidence, heartbroken, hope,
Form: Free verse
Empowering Peace
All my favorite on-line EarthJustice
and Transformation
and Compassion
and Global Peace resources
are scientifically
and inter-religiously sure
we have all the information
and physical resources needed
for optimizing global healthy wealth,
polyculturally
and multiculturally
resilient.
Yet, at yesterday's municipal youth and family services
community advisory board gathering
I was not clear
that anyone else in this squared circle
thought we might better empower youth
with or without mindfulness
movement
music
ecotherapeutic practices
to learn,
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Categories:
empowering, health, nature, peace, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Empowering Meditation
A problem with breath-focused sitting
eyes hooded
closed down sensory receptor meditation,
in my peak omnipotent mindful experience
This inside passive form of seeking resilience
presumes we consistently care
about furthering our
health care vocations,
organically sacred to some,
merely biological to more chronically traumatized
emotionally challenged
by histories
of neglect
and/or multigenerational mysteries
of emotional/verbal
physical/nonverbal abuse
disregard
bullying
The opposite of nonviolent communication
to restore egojustice
and repair trauma damage
to panentheistic
yintegral
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Categories:
empowering, games, health, humor, muse,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Empowering Dusk
This darker side
of dusk's sacred
empowering mystery
Unlike enlightened ecospheres
more urgent dawn emergent
pink yellow anticipations
of matriarchal
cooperative history
Not consciously felt
yet pre-traumatically imagined
and hallucinated
back through preverbal mammalian time
emerging AnthroRidiculous
moralistic elitism
This darker side
of dusk's sacred mystery
co-empowering
not unlike enlightened bio/ecospheres
returning from dark embrace
more climatically urgent
history
Climate health/wealthy dawn
green anticipations
polytheistic sacred imaginations
also secular polypathic
win/win investigations
Thought experiments
bicameral
darker side
of panentheistic mystery
resisting monotheistic his-story
EnLightened Mythos
EmPowering Logos
NonZero
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Categories:
empowering, dark, day, deep, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
My God, Thank You For Empowering Me
October 20 Scripture Meditations Based on Acts 1-4
Key Verse – Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
MY GOD, THANK YOU
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Categories:
empowering, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Empowering Love
I try to escape the prison inside my weary mind.
Attempting to find a love devine.
When i leave that cell you are ever omnipresent.
Looking for your life to reinvent.
Everywhere I look you are there,
Smiling back with a devilsh glare.
Everything I hear, its your voice speaking.
As clear as the syringe that enables a tweaking.
And
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Categories:
empowering, addiction, beautiful, destiny, longing,
Form: Rhyme
My God, Thank You For Your Empowering Help
April 4 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 23-25
Key Verse – 2Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle: God shall make thee fall before the enemy: for God hath power to help, and to cast down.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EMPOWERING HELP
Thank You for Your empowering help-assistance
That handles
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Categories:
empowering, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Empowering Healthy Teachers
Why do partisan social activists preach
so much about growing a more equitable society
while doing Business As Usual
While environmental activists student teach
with us
to develop a more synergetic EarthTribe?
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Categories:
empowering, earth, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Empowering Growth
sun burst through exploring the early soft warm day
emerging its stunning crown from behind the stage
moving slowly on the river's narrow runway
mid my feet with poetic fine-spun dreams in tow
evolving a rough diamond brilliance within me
8/22/2021
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Categories:
empowering, strength,
Form: Free verse
Bloom
Like a sunflower reaches for the sun
I reach for the light of a full moon
When no one watered me
I planted my feet in the grass
and prayed for rain
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Categories:
empowering, deep, encouraging, endurance, flower,
Form: Free verse
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