Legalistic Poems

Sympathy For Peace

...Zionist
for Israel, but
I don't invest,
in WAR...
I'm a pacifist...
For Arab 
as for any other people
being legalistic
without exclusivist predilection...
for peaceful solution
no arms race...
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Categories: legalistic, extended metaphor, inspirational, peace,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium MemberReavaluated My Spokenword

...Anchored stricken;
Home grow religion;
Borrowed freedoms;
Who? Said they had the keys to the kingdoms;

Spiritual warfare Merited Men heaven stormers 
Legalistic?

Arithmetic context;
...
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Categories: legalistic, analogy, forgiveness, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberSmall Powers Everywhere

...This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

Wide and longing
for committed dialogue
not surrounded
by elitist debate,

Win/lose games,
Zero-sum asinine assumptions
requiring ego-infes...
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Categories: legalistic, anger, beauty, fear, health,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberMemorial of a Loved One Ct

...Memorial of a Loved One

In Memory of My Mother, Irene!

Some memories so terribly painful be, 
and will not leave my memory.
I took care of my bedridden Mom
for five years and then..
On that...
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Categories: legalistic, anger, death, how i
Form: Free verse

Fault Line

...I never could have predicted
That I would leave in such a way
Circumstances brought me to a place
Where I could no longer stay

The legalistic rules
All of them, hypocritical fools

In all of...
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Categories: legalistic, growth,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberHealthing Voices

...Personal identity,
like politically empowered/disempowered identity,
evolves within EgoSpirited voices

Exchanging feelings
with EcoSoul's outside co-relational serenity,
anima mundi
uncoverin...
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Categories: legalistic, health, integrity, nature, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberRestoring Earth

...How do we get to restoring democratic energy justice
for all EarthTribes?

Especially when those not originally enfranchised
in our GoodHealth Constitutions,
like slaves
like non-patriarchal
n...
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Categories: legalistic, america, celebration, depression, earth,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberThrough Thick and Thin

...I think it might be John Rawls
who writes about
thick and thin justice sandwiches.

Thick justice
may be more deeply embedded, richly spread
in regenerative pursuing time,
producing and servin...
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Categories: legalistic, analogy, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Premium MemberHealthy Ways and Wealthy Means

...Educational Competitions:
"You/We are not motivated to learn
how to take care of yourself/ourselves."

And,
We are, together, motivated to learn
how to give and receive
personal and social,
p...
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Categories: legalistic, caregiving, change, community, creation,
Form: Free verse

Born One Hundred Years Too Late

...My co-worker posed a theory to me
That our boss was born one hundred years later than she was supposed to be
Neither of us could exactly put our finger on why, but I had to agree
No makeup, unbrus...
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Categories: legalistic, absence, change, home, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Real Question

...Most significant agreements or treaties
Employ important legalistic terms like
  Inspections
  Verifications
  Notifications
  or Null-and-Void immediately

Yet considering, O Pundits,
The wi...
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Categories: legalistic, leadership, trust,
Form: Rhyme

Considering Conditions

...There are users, abusers
And bitter accusers
In the World of negative thought
There are legalistic, ballistic
And increasingly sadistic
In the World of righting the "not lot"

~On the other si...
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Categories: legalistic, growth,
Form: Rhyme

Heart Check

...Long dress… CHECK!
Natural Hair… CHECK!
Bible… CHECK!

I have on my CHURCH CLOTHES!
On the outside I look really Christian,
Like Judas- Everyone thinks my walk with Christ is real,
Deceiving m...
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Categories: legalistic, spiritual,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberUnderstanding Reconciliation

...Sometimes fundamentalist Christians
Give the expression “to be saved”
All you need to do is “repent”
Meaning to give up your sinful ways

This sentence from the Gospel of St. Mark
May seem to s...
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Categories: legalistic, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDon'T Miss Out

...Father Christ’s encounter with the Pharisees never fail to entertain.
Almost everywhere He preaches
A few people would show up
Trying to compromise His ministry

To catch Him in violation of cus...
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Categories: legalistic, black african american, christian,
Form: Light Verse

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