Labor Intensive
...First day of Lab,
we sat as assigned.
She wrote one word
across the board:
'Laboratory’
She turned and said
"This is a laboratory.
Let’s have more of the first five
and less of the last ...
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Categories:
labor intensive, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Grook
Thanksgiving Investment
...LeftBrain benefits of WinWin cooperative exchange
reversing competitive capitalist BusinessAsUsual:
Less expensive opportunity costs--
LoseLeft/LoseRight conservational health emergencies,
mut...
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Categories:
labor intensive, beauty, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Planting Tree Therapy
...Why do we aim hot hate at each other
causing further cracks and craters in dried-up deserted Earthers,
when we could choose to heal and recreate
formerly fertile forested and grassland soils
to r...
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Categories:
labor intensive, blessing, culture, earth, evil,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
A Robin's Eggshell Color
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Never looking up to see the sky
A "Robin's eggshell" color
Nor noticing or appreciating
The sun's golden hue
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Categories:
labor intensive, life,
Form: Free verse
La Historia 101
...La Historia-101, 2011
Vickie M. Ortiz Vazquez
Imagine, I cannot
To feel their lost
Longing for the return home
Rejoicing behind closed doors
Criminal act
Propagate servitude with miserable p...
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Categories:
labor intensive, angst, history, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Huckleberry Pie
...This has got to be the best pie in the world..
It is a meat eaters pie,abounding with tart flavor
which explodes in your mouth with each bite.
It is not a subtle or beautiful pie, no fancy
deco...
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Categories:
labor intensive, food
Form: Narrative
Super Quiz and Other Bell Bull
...Shar- sorry, vacuum is not correct, although I sure could use one for my home!!
Thank you Jaime- I will read your works tonight.
Shar- re Kitchen Perfume- I admit , baking bread from scratch; flour...
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Categories:
labor intensive, caregiving, family, father, food,
Form: Prose Poetry