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View from a Sanctuary
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
integrity, age, america, change, health,
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Avoiding the Elitist Within
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
culture, health, history, integrity,
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Strong-Rooted Thesis
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
integrity, earth, environment, health, home,
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Earth Goddess Gets Riled
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
integrity, conflict, culture, earth, god,
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Virtuous and Vicious Cycles
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
integrity, color, culture, earth, environment,
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SURROUNDED
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Line Gauthier
| Senryu |
betrayal, bullying, endurance, integrity,
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Growing Grace
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
integrity, earth, gospel, green, health,
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Power's Price
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
integrity, caregiving, earth, environment, health,
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NOT ENOUGH TO BELEIVE IN
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Allan Terry
| Ballade |
betrayal, break up, integrity,
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LOVE FROM ABOVE
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Line Gauthier
| Rhyme |
confidence, inspirational love, integrity,
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Undetected Infinitesimal Changes
by matthew harris
No matter by
Adam and the Ants,
this inquisitive mind
doth wonder...
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Categories:
integrity, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Word Production Systems
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Producing large quantities of words
cleverly without considered substance,
Unveiling my needy novel entertaining intentions
yet not revealing news or even pretensions
about who I today am
becoming
or tragically have...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
confusion, integrity, trust, truth,
What's The Problem
by Gerald Dillenbeck
What's the problem with homelessness,
other than the violence from which it comes
and toward which it further travels?
Why not ignore
and grow tolerance
for the inevitability of...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
health, imagination, integrity, love,
Inconvenient Lives
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Self confident
I would feel inconvenient
to be dead,
Yet relieved in freedom
from trimming toe
and finger nails
and receding hair
advancing down wrinkling neck
and softing shoulders.
Although not confident
I could grow
satisfied...
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Categories:
integrity, age, beauty, destiny, health,
Battle of the Coaches
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Keep winning
with your same old competitive erection,
said the life coach,
To avoid future losses.
What are the key ZeroSum capital investment opportunities,
asked the financial coach,
That keep Business...
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Categories:
beauty, caregiving, health, integrity,
ONLY IN KENYA
by Lemayian Leksat
The wages of sin is death, they say
But in Kenya, the wages of sin is power without say
The more you sin, the more powerful you...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
betrayal, character, corruption, integrity,
The Seductive Heckler
by Gerald Dillenbeck
I remember
as a grade school child
an outside voice greeting me
each morning's reweaving.
The Heckler was school morning alarming.
The Seducer waited to deliver daylight vacation greetings.
The Heckler...
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Categories:
earth, health, integrity, love,
Stone Soup Sages
by Gerald Dillenbeck
If all the green-blue world
is a RightBrain stage
while all the LeftBrain map
remains red and yellow and blue and green
and black and white textualized two-dimensional
with...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
culture, health, humor, integrity,
Great Shakespearean Stage
by Gerald Dillenbeck
It has been said
by Shakespearean wit
All the world's a stage.
And so it is, I actively and fluidly suppose,
One Great Transitioning Stage
of diverse seasons
and eons of...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
integrity, destiny, dream, green, health,
Earthy Empathy
by Gerald Dillenbeck
You've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."
I love healthy humanity--
it's just wealthy and/or snooty people I can't stand
I love cooperative...
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Categories:
integrity, caregiving, gospel, health, humor,
Health Pathologists
by Gerald Dillenbeck
A healthy domestic economy
for a pathologist
is war elsewhere,
not within,
shipping back remains
to study,
report observations,
analyze
hypothesize
abstracted stories of what needs healing
elsewhere,
but not within.
Terror and mayhem prophets
fervently hope to...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
integrity, anger, caregiving, green, health,
Opposite Day
by Gerald Dillenbeck
It's Opposite Game day
says JayJay
to on-screen enthusiastic friends.
I have no adult time or patience
to see or hear
right as not not opposition wrong
Right, like left,
only...
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Categories:
childhood, humor, integrity, language,
The Truth Shall Set You
by Rico Leffanta
Donald Trump can tell every lie
And leave us all wondering why
The facts are quite clear
But Trump has no fear
That Russia will vote him, "Bye bye!"...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
betrayal, character, corruption, integrity,
Three Colored Pigs
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Once upon a ZeroTime
we suffered great terror and loss.
People,
animals,
and plants
refused to speak kindly with each other
because of a Big Bad Wolf
named Ms. Climatic Change
by...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
integrity, dream, earth, health, humanity,
Complexities
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Life feels too complex for mere words,
she curiously said aloud
anyway.
I see health differently, more confluently,
and yet your complex experience feels familiar,
he summarily replied.
I would not...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
integrity, confusion, creation, happiness, health,
In the Company of Kings, You Will Be
by Lycia Harding
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QuEe NQ uEeN
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Shape |
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Categories:
integrity, career, celebrity, cinderella, inspirational,
Make Me A Good Man
by Trevor McLeod
Give me a good man
not a smart man.
Make me a thoughtful man
not a politician.
Take me to rich land
not a poor land.
Make me a stronger man
not...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
integrity, allusion, appreciation, image, inspiration,
Feeling Better
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Systems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative...
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Categories:
earth, health, integrity,
Pride and joy of his family
by Vijay Pandit
Having lived on earth for some time now
Impatiently he dwells, harboring self doubt.
In face of impediments he loses his mind
Acquiring dispositions like hate and lies,
Hosting...
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Verse |
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Categories:
integrity, life, men, people,
Straining Toward Sanity
by Gerald Dillenbeck
I see, and fear, a trumpian landscape,
usually, and more casually, outside any safe inside sanctuary.
Infrequent glances inside windstorms
and rivers of underground currents
surreptitiously culture shape
mold
transform vertically...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
integrity, anxiety, depression, environment, health,