RAIN
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RAIN
When it simply rains,
there is a feeling of spiritual and pictorial peace
IF it calmly refreshes and washes the roof of life...
But when it rains excessively,
it causes a...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, allusion, perspective, poetry, rain,
Form: Free verse
Guilty
...Guilty
You Make It Seem
So Irresponsible
Everything We Do,
Like A Future
Foretold That We
Were Warned Would
Happen, No Matter
What Wrong Choices
We Made...
Or Didn't. We
Irresponsibly D...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, life,
Form: Rhyme
Unconscious Bias
...What a cop out, for one
who always sleeps on their right side
To admit to ignoring the context,
the background and milieu,
which colors your decisions and choices,
and side you lean towards.
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Categories:
irresponsibly, character, conflict, discrimination, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Rain
...If rain were a creature of shapeless form
The taxman would tax some of the jets
That he would regard as beyond the norm
But the tax receipt the rain doesn’t get
It’s a conflict of law and water ...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, fun, humor, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Living Faith March, April N May-Lenten Season
...Father Christ went down to earth from the Heavenly Kingdom
Mother Mary bore Him in a humble manger with animals
He had a presentation at the temple
Mother Mary sad at the loss of Father Christ an...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, christian, god, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For My History Teacher
...I wanted to write
The best slavery poem ever written—
Perhaps win a Pulitzer or Faulkner.
I had every intention of conforming
To the standards
Of modern verse and composition,
Lyrics f...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, assonance, forgiveness, history, holocaust,
Form: Rhyme
Today Is Different
...Today is assiduously
religiously different,
as I review our local RiverEast News.
Every week
Mike Thompson writes a solid Editorial
in a compelling voice.
I expect to only add
my hearty sacr...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, america, health, integrity, prayer,
Form: Political Verse
Democratic Health Images
...Imagine your healthiest body
is a democratic
self/other empowering organism
Ideally,
most nutritionally,
nurtured by an also open,
living,
dynamic win/win preferential,
evolving,
revolving...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, education, green, health, heart,
Form: Political Verse
I'M Fine
...His life felt sick.
Filled with ick
And she was sighing,
inside dying.
Yet, when asked,
her response
entirely unresponsive,
"I'm fine."
puts her compassionate listener
in a double-bind.
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Categories:
irresponsibly, anxiety, caregiving, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Imagination
...Im often fastened to my mental
Thinkin bout what I've been through
Day dreaming bout what could be
I surrender myself to fantasies
I suppose thats why I rush into things
Because I live for mome...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, anger, conflict, confusion, how
Form: I do not know?
Working In Roleplay
...I know this sounds like theater
of the absurd,
but I wonder if healthy role play
might be left-brain's work ethic
inviting right-brain's first and last impassioned word.
We might pretend our L...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, culture, health, integrity, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Jolly Folly
...Irresponsibly jolly
Afternoon of folly
Amusement found
Festivities abound
Lightheaded foolishness
Bouts of happiness
Joyous merriment
Heart’s glorious alignment
posted on March 19, 2019...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, celebration, fun, heart, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Heading Out
...I said My son
you have your house
and sometimes food,
You have your phone
and sometimes fuel,
You have your girl
and sometimes friends
are also fools
But an uninspiring vacation
won't work...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, care, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Abortions of Choice
...It's easy to see
It's more important to be
pro-life
than pro-choice
if one must prefer to choose
to win or lose
robust healthy life.
Are you pro-life
or pro-choice?
Both.
Pro-choosing...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, abortion, change, courage, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Trade Wars
...Authoritarian DonaldJohn
authoritatively, yet irresponsibly,
declares the U.S. has the worst trade deal
in all of colonizing history.
I suppose
under his free autocratic authority
to re-inter...
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Categories:
irresponsibly, culture, gender, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
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