The One I Want To Become
...If you asked me at age six,
I might've told you
I want to become a doctor, a scientist
or even a hero that saves the planet.
But now I feel so ancient,
like I’ve lived a hundred years
in quie...
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Categories:
lectured, angst, sad, writing,
Form: Free verse
Rather than crank up the heat
...Rather than crank up the heat...
and ratchet up global warming
like bubbling vegetable stew
with tsk... tsk... heard
courtesy Greta Thunberg,
who would utter "how dare you..."
I bundle with...
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Categories:
lectured, adventure, angel, appreciation, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Sings in the wind
...
The rusty swing set
sings in the wind.
It hasn't seen much use
Since we were children.
Nineteen sixty is when it began.
My older sister Flo
is a mentor and friend,
she is twelve and I am...
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Categories:
lectured, childhood, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Gambling
...Sometimes looking back
can be step forward --
being certain of where not
to return -- paths of experience
already traveled. Grass-less ruts
heavily trafficked by self and
loser others -- I se...
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Categories:
lectured, allegory, change, christian, courage,
Form: Free verse
My Social Science Seminar
...I asked my Sacred Arts and Science professor
why seminars work and play better in feminist circles
than claustrophobic minion lines
of lectured from teacher's desk
above
S/he sings
in rings
...
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Categories:
lectured, art, education, green, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Mamba Mentality
...Here's 8 things you need so you don't waste the hours you have every 24
1. Success is as quiet as discipline unseen, wins never scream, and when they do it comes from the mud of humility
2. Dirt s...
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Categories:
lectured, encouraging, endurance, faith, heart,
Form: List
I got rejected so she doesn't love me anymore right?
..."You know uh, I loved you in the past, I was so cringe back then"
I heard him saying, after he could now rest after years.
Even though his face spits smiles, I saw his eyes in fearce.
"No, but you...
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Categories:
lectured, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Disenchantment, a London Lecture in 1933
...Jung lectured of dogma
its strangling of the symbol
the Medieval melted with magma
doubt was born, its smile twinkled
As monks wrote songs of Poliphile
Seeking soul from the external
in the E...
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Categories:
lectured, education, emotions, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
CABAL
...
With factories and private jets, the elite
produces 100, 000 times more carbon
than you or I. (It has gone up to .04 from .03 ppm.
Yet, we are the ones lectured in scare, tactic.
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Categories:
lectured, art,
Form: Free verse
And Make It a L-O-O-O-O-N-G One
...As POTUS he fled from Afghanistan
abandoning our troops in the sand
As VEEP he kowtowed to the Mullahs
sent billions to the sponsors of Hamas and Hezbollah
In Jerusalem today...
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Categories:
lectured, america, humor, leadership, satire,
Form: Couplet
Anonymous Horace
...Republicans’ son, from Kingaroy
Trained as a chef in the big smoke
Drugs and drinking delivered joy
Running thousand acre farm, a joke!
Designer biscuit job was all he spoke
Bulk overtime o...
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Categories:
lectured, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Class
...I’m too old to learn through play.
If only I’d tried to make friends as a kid.
Which I thought was a waste of time.
Now I am in this class.
Drilling it into my head.
Being lectured…
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Categories:
lectured, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Was Saul a Deeply Flawed Intellectual Snob
...Was Saul a Deeply Flawed Intellectual Snob (Perhaps a Prude as Well)?
Does Christ's Protest Still Ring True Today?
Part 1:
I'll state my aim clear...
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Categories:
lectured, faith,
Form: Rhyme
A Lady In Red
...The lady in red
Ah, Cristiane, so tall an elegant you are
Your dress richly red cost more than a pensioner’s yearly pay
Perfect your make-up; did you need help?
Ah, Cristine, you are so stern...
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Categories:
lectured, anger, eulogy, political,
Form: Sonnet
Reasons For Drinking
...The following four lines inspired my own poem, 'Reasons for Drinking'.
If you look it up on the web, it is descriibed as an "anonymous irish toast".
There are many good reasons for drin...
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Categories:
lectured, appreciation, drink,
Form: Verse
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