Our Governments Promote Unsustainable Population Growth
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Nations, like tides, rise and fall with the numbers,
A swelling crowd is a promise and a peril.
In youth, the many are labor and armies;
In age, they are a weight upon the state.
Leaders coun...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
For the Story: If I Were Petty - Chapter One
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I'd steal it back—
my poem that she posted as her own.
I'd name her plainly, demand
a public apology—
an admission of hypocrisy
from the one who keeps her hands clean,
grins like a simp...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, conflict, remember, writing,
Form: Free verse
Lao Tzu: English Translations II
...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I
Be Like Water
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch
The highest virtue resembles water
because water unselfishly benefits all life,
then settles, without...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, death, heaven, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Inexhaustible Energy Of A Woman
...You are a spring of living water
That quench the thirst of man's suffering
You are the source of inexhaustible energy
Source of joy, optimism, beauty and light
For your man and for the entire fam...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, appreciation, beauty, character, woman,
Form: Prose
I do not chase what is destined for me
...I do not chase what is destined for me,
for I have felt what it's like to pursue a dream that dissolves on the horizon,
leaving only unfulfilled longings and deep silences,
like a song lost in the...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Flower and The Machine
...He knew the flower to be fair,
but he did not want to wait.
So he turned to the promises of the machine.
It offered quick solutions
-perhaps imperfect-
but they were on-demand.
Scalable.
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Categories:
inexhaustible, life,
Form: Free verse
Refute, Return
...a grieving heart hears the pain
how many times must it echo again
direction askew from days tossed aside
no longer can tragic history abide
time for re-joice to be embraced
sounding the...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, anxiety, society, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Take It All second version
...I will leave my message from the poem,
?hoose what you need from inside.
I took too much I wonder on,
I can't get distribute it beside.
There is intelligence, there is patient in,
There is ...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, life, poems,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Heart Centre
...Seperate roads ever converged
Runways generousos in plentiful serge
Refining aligning elevated themes
Hit the strip with full sun beams
Spur impulsed gleaming freeway
Me at the wheel
The...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, emotions,
Form: Free verse
In the depths of my being, where time loses its shape and thoughts melt into silence
...In the depths of my being, where time loses its shape and thoughts melt into silence,
We desperately seek that something which doesn't obey the ephemeral laws of existence,
Like an old tree extendi...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Under the undulating and mysterious mantle of the night
...Under the undulating and mysterious mantle of the night,
Where stars write their stories in silver ink,
A lost soul seeks infinity in echoes,
Fleeing from the comfort that soothes but does not enc...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
CREATIVITY- PERCEPTION-tenet 1x4
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FOUR TENETS OF CREATIVITY
PERCEPTION PARTURATION PUBLICATION PARTICIPATION
INTRODUCTION
This short eBook encompasses my experiences of the creative in both art...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, education, poetry,
Form: Didactic
Sipping coffee
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Written: December 31, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosti...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse
Teach me, my love, how each moment with you is an entire universe
...Teach me, my love, how each moment with you is an entire universe,
Where you are the star, you are the sky, you are the blaze that never tires of rising;
You are the clear fountain, the inexhaustib...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Got Your Voicemail
...Got Your Voicemail
Inexhaustible frustration
wrapped around righteous anger
stuffed in a jar of aching
unrelenting pain
capped with a lid of
astonished disbelief.
Prayers launched.
N...
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Categories:
inexhaustible, angst, word play,
Form: Free verse
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