Signs of the times Q and A
...Q Did they really make a practice sacrifice of a red heifer on the temple mount?
A There's a great deal of speculation with both parties making their educated
hypotheses: They really did sa...
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Categories:
favorably, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Prose
Mystic Rose
...Forsooth, no Rose
can favorably compare
to our singular Rose
of Soup
how she loops
our hearts into
enchanted bows
perennial of Love’s
eternal garden --...
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Categories:
favorably, inspirational, journey, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
...Sunday February 2nd, 2025 Groundhog Day
Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how many more weeks of winter weather without a shado...
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Categories:
favorably, adventure, animal, anniversary, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translations IX
...Sappho Translations IX
Sappho, fragment 17
translation by Michael R. Burch
Hear me, Queen Hera, as your delightful festival nears,
you to whom the sons of Atreus performed vows,
those dazz...
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Categories:
favorably, god, heart, men, prayer,
Form: Free verse
BROKEN-My SpokenWord
...Somewhat spoken;
Smolding
Broken
For I speak life I am whole
Not Broken BROKEN
I know we are not broken
Yet there were moments Walking on the space covered groun...
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Categories:
favorably, anxiety, blessing, destiny, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Beauty of Fall
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The Beauty of Fall
Fall
frost invites
your favorite sweater
Fall
into hills of cold crunchy leaves
Fall
back in time to
a childhood school memory
Fall
to your knees and tha...
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Categories:
favorably, beauty, nature, seasons, september,
Form: Free verse
Here I am Send me Isaiah 6:8 part fifteen NIV
...If our LORD, God were to ask anyone else these two questions today?
"Whom shall I send? "Who will go for us?" Like the prophet Isaiah,
"Here I am. Send me!"How would anyone of you chose to respond...
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Categories:
favorably, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
...Groundhog day 2024 or Forty one days since 2023 Winter Solstice
Rather than be a day late
and dollar short, I opted
to post poem acknowledging
the second of February,
where eponymous ground...
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Categories:
favorably, adventure, america, animal, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
FICTIONAL BIO:
...FICTIONAL BIO:
The missus asked me
(hitherto known as her bozo)
just mere moments ago
to craft humorous poem to glow
nsync with the shiny nose of Rudolph
keeping syncopated metrical flow
thu...
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Categories:
favorably, adventure, allegory, courage, cute,
Form: Rhyme
Redemptive Economics
...Economies of cooperative redemption,
like taking turns licking
melting ice cream cones,
favorably contrast to
stingier economies of personal private
sticky and prickly ownership
Including f...
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Categories:
favorably, happiness, health, heart, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Crush
...I don’t know how to begin this poem
But I love the way I wrote about you,
It’s amazing and it’s true
Putting so much effort into this,
If I could fly an emoji’s kiss..
Your eyes and smile’...
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Categories:
favorably, character, confidence, courage, crush,
Form: Rhyme
Let the Present Moment Be Pleasant
...After death, we know not the result
What will happen to us? is unknown
But, all must have that experience
None can escape it in any method
Ants die very easily everywhere
Struggle will be inde...
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Categories:
favorably, age, beautiful, birth, celebration,
Form: Blank verse
Sunflower Stud and Suzette
...Suzette was favorably anointed by the sunflower stud.
He was the fairest stallion in the land of love.
They met weekly to plan what the sunflowers would do.
Uplift refresh and delight – men, women...
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Categories:
favorably, fantasy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Groundhog Day 2022 Or Forty Two Days Since 2021 Winter Solstice Part Two
...February second - requires one
with acute hearing to cock, and ear
turnips tickling the nose nostrils
delicate hairs (instagram ideal outlook) subtly,
markedly, lively..., yet gently flair
soon ...
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Categories:
favorably, animal, appreciation, beauty, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Disabling Corporate Culture
...Dynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral...
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Categories:
favorably, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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