Excommunicated Poems

Until

...The Pope is dying,
clinging to life like any other shmuck.

When my mother died,
(bless her excommunicated heart),
she lay in State as serene
as a sleeping cat under a fading sun.

Dogs don't...
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Categories: excommunicated, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe External World of The Internal

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“The External World of the Internal”

when the Internal 
finally woke up,

it was like all the words 
in that book, flew at It 
like flaming arrows, 
an external bar...
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Categories: excommunicated, humanity, muse, satire,
Form: Narrative


Exorcism

...He rolled on the ground erratically, 
as though his body was filled with
embers. Villagers gathered around him, 
some whose mouths were agape.
Another child of the sun 
had been accused 
of int...
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Categories: excommunicated, africa, conflict, culture, deep,
Form: Narrative

Phenomonology

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"Phenomonology"

time drips through
the lens of philosophy 
phenomonology melts
the solid realisation;
was all that time 
spent inconsequential, 
the purpose of it all
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Categories: excommunicated, muse,
Form: Narrative

Letting It All Hang Out

...Below the gray blah canopy
Suffering from bad attitude
and seasonal psychosis
The human race sprints
No finish line required
and Everyone wins gold
Music blaring
Bikini tops daring
Exposed gu...
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Categories: excommunicated, adventure, crazy, drink, fun,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberHell

...boundless firestorm flames
furnace flares unending fumes ---
kitchen in chaos

flesh blood skin and bones
physique and psyche shredded ---
head cut chickens walk 

skulls and skeletons
rippl...
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Categories: excommunicated, death, life,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberNature Nurturing Questions

...Why is misery said to love company
while depression demands solitude?

And
is it always true that nature abhors a vacuum
or 
sometimes true nurture adores expansion?

Misery,
depression,
an...
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Categories: excommunicated, health, heartbreak, integrity, loss,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberDon'T Be a Nazi

...Don't Be A Nazi

Flee the yoke of woke
and unlearn the hate inside
and be a human
reaching out with love to share;
Tell the universe, “I care!”
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Categories: excommunicated, history, perspective, political,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberA Bee

...a bee
invaded our car in
nineteen fifty four
while we were driving
to the jersey shore
flew in my open back window
of our two tone ford custom
pea green top black bottom
hurtling down the hig...
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Categories: excommunicated, beach, care, childhood, confusion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnorthodox Grace

...Unorthodox grace
is not limited to restoring healthy face
that your ***** sexual wealthy place
is not your disgrace;

Deviation from hetero-statistical means
is your sacred gift
from EarthQuee...
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Categories: excommunicated, hate, health, love, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberBetter Be Alienated

...Remember when only
assembly-line workers
were alienated?
  
  Now if you're not
  you're excommunicated...
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Categories: excommunicated, identity, lost,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberMy Rightwing Family

...My RightWing 
all white male dominant
or venus invidiously envious
family

Is way quick to remain gated
away from drug
and alcohol
and automated arms dealers
and users,
black market buyers
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Categories: excommunicated, culture, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems Ii - Bertolt Brecht

...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems II - Bertolt Brecht



The Burning of the Books
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

When the Regime
commanded the unlawful books t...
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Categories: excommunicated, books, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse

My Most Popular Poems On the Internet I

...My most popular poems on the Internet (I)

A number of my poems and translations have gone viral, according to Google, and some have been copied onto hundreds to thousands of web pages. That’s a lo...
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Categories: excommunicated, internet, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberEcosystemic Party Games

...Healthy organic systems
remain resonantly peaceful,
resiliently stable,
exhilaratingly good humored
as they remain easily
naturally
spiritually cooperative,

Nonpartisan played with win/win c...
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Categories: excommunicated, community, games, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse

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