Virginia Woolf
...Have you read the note?
It speaks of the doom of the liquid element.
An inclement weather, grey, and with the fuss of a bleached lightning,
Besieges the tick of the clock.
Must have been a bland ...
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Categories:
invidious, eulogy,
Form: Ode
POISON
...Invidious verdancy, a violaceous poison,
Stains sanguine accord,
Casting elongated shadows,
Across the geopolitical terrain....
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Categories:
invidious, war,
Form: Free verse
A Marriage to Disparage
...
Perfidious tied the knot with Insidious
Offspring, twins ~ Hideous & Invidious
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Categories:
invidious, children, horror, marriage,
Form: Couplet
Palatable Conversations at Night
...We,
with the geometry and evening
balance of our midcentury hands—gently
lower the cloche over the day between us. It is a
nightly ritual, gravity-driven, habit built over time, the g...
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Categories:
invidious, extended metaphor,
Form: Concrete
Refining Consciousness
...People who crave as much leaping as birds
Those who are angry and seem to be furious
And those with a vulture's appetite for wealth
Drawn ones react similarly to owls when lured
Pride...
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Categories:
invidious, analogy, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: Sestina
Our Long Time Catered Chef
...Our long time catered chef...
prepared a meal fit for (psst... me) a king
Actually professional cook
(trained since infancy)
long a staple of our family
since... oh way before
my bubba's zayd...
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Categories:
invidious, adventure, celebration, father, food,
Form: Free verse
Love's Difference
...What is the difference
between an anti-theist
and a pro-humanist?
What is the difference
between a terrorist
and a terrific zest?
What is the remainder
when subtracting NonZero-Sum WinWin ...
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Categories:
invidious, community, culture, earth, education,
Form: Political Verse
The One Otherzone
...Permaculture Design,
like any health restoring process,
begins with listening to each ZeroZone client
speak about deeply held goals and underlying values
they would like to share with their OneZo...
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Categories:
invidious, earth, environment, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
First Amendment In Jeopardy
...Lifeblood of democracy hemorrhaging
ousting the "FAKE" president only recourse
to staunch impending grim demise,
since forefathers drafted
United States Constitution
ratified more'n two centurie...
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Categories:
invidious, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Ode
Time For Reflection
...Time for reflection
May I not rue, when life draws to an end,
Invidious, mean words which bring distress
Nor sigh, that precious time I did misspend
On frivolous pursuits of happiness.
Rather ...
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Categories:
invidious, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Zarathustra Gave Me the Green Light Part One
...“Query”
from a word miner non-trumpeting
Beatle browed quarry man.
One emailing digital commoner bemoans assiduous,
zealously yearning xing worthy values undergirding
the storied renown quin...
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Categories:
invidious, bullying, environment, fear, grave,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Childhood
...“Childhood only exists”
“While its innocence lives”
“In time, it is stripped away”
“By what, our invidious reasoning gives” WIZDUMBs by JA 223
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Categories:
invidious, betrayal, blessing, growing up,
Form: Narrative
WeedPatch Therapy
...What words do we choose to express our ultimate accomplishments,
achieving our healthiest goals,
measuring our most successful outcomes?
Why do these words,
and our feelings about these choice...
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Categories:
invidious, beauty, deep, earth, environment,
Form: Political Verse
See No Evil
...See No Evil
Let not your vision be distorted by the green eyes
of jealousy that raises its invidious ugly head,
overflowing with cynical thoughts,
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Categories:
invidious, evil,
Form: Free verse
Make Us Weep For More
...Why is digital form always binary functional?
asked the student of bilateral self-surmise.
Why is polynomial information
always binomially self-reflective?
asked the student
of Me/We synergetic...
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Categories:
invidious, identity, introspection, math, nature,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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