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Premium Member Jacqueline Trestrail
On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...

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Categories: 1960s, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose



Premium Member One Thing That Love Is
Everything here is true
Just as stated
because it's already happened
or - it has yet to occur - 
but it's very soon to occur
and I have such strong feeling
that the future will be as I see it
as...

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Categories: 1960s, dog, love, memory, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Populist Politics
When I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,

Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...

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Categories: 1960s, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1960s, england, poetry, political, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parting Instructions For My Oldest
You did not choose to be born,
much less Black Lives Really Should Equally Matter born
into this legacy,
your familial and civil Two-Connecticuts destiny.

I realize that,
And regret perhaps my own choices
in response to invitations for care-giving
and healthcare-receiving
were...

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Categories: 1960s, appreciation, caregiving, health, integrity, love, political, wisdom,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Transgenerate Roots
My grandparents' grandparents,
all sixteen,
digging roots through cultural meristems,
young adults,
adolescents during Time's 1880's,
post Civil War birth of Sir James Crow monoculture.

What would we name this self-hatred,
this lack of compassion and gratitude for help
for human nature's lavish...

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Categories: 1960s, culture, gender, history, nature, philosophy, racism, time,
Form: Free verse
4x10
The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...

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Categories: 1960s, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
4x10
The Killing Field”

Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...

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Categories: 1960s, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Letter to Sam Hunt
Dear Sam, hello it’s me, don’t fret
old friend whom I have never met.
I wrote a letter time forgot,
you may ask why, I ask why not?
A sad meditation of late
on our nation’s new police state -
its...

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Categories: 1960s, how i feel, perspective, writing,
Form: Couplet
Once again, yours truly takes poetic license
Once again, yours truly takes poetic license.

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
before long tête-à-tête escalates in2 Kanipshin
whereby the Army National Guard gets called
World War III...

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Categories: 1960s, adventure, age, america, angel, appreciation, celebration, cool,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Coop
The People's Coop
is a warm inviting place,
for some
a reading and meditation
and arts practice and performance space,
for others
a place to ride sleek bicycles
with self-and-other improvement book racks
while peddling energy into the cooperative Grid,
sheltered by solar panel...

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Categories: 1960s, change, earth, gospel, health, integrity, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Stevie Ray Vaughan Inspiration
Stevie Ray's guitar spurred the 1980s blues boom.
He wasn't like any other guitarist.
Inspired by Buddy Guy, Albert King, and Albert Collins...
He linked blues and rock in the late 1960s.
He ruled the American blues from 1983...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1960s, analogy, appreciation, beauty, history, music,
Form: Bio
Premium Member When I Was a Boy 1960s
I saw one flag raised and another fall
I saw the great lie of justice and equity for all

I saw a crisis that stopped the world
I saw a wall to keep out the cold

I saw a...

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Categories: 1960s, childhood, history, world,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Gordon Lightfoot Inspiration
Gordon Lightfoot was born on Nov. 17, 1938, in Orillia, Ca.
His first concert at Massey Hall in Toronto, encouraged by his parents,
He won a contest for boys with unmodified voices prior to turning 13.
In the early...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1960s, analogy, appreciation, celebrity, history, music,
Form: Bio
Premium Member I Was Born Here
I was born in Sunny Southern California, in the hottest month of the year! cries out my mother.  California is known for its drought season; one we just came out of, it lasted four...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1960s, appreciation,
Form: Prose
The Decline of America
You see it everywhere
The unmistakable signs

That the decline of America 
Is in full swing

As the world leaders turn away
From dealing with the US 

And we have gone past the tipping point
There is nowhere left to...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: 1960s, america, analogy, anger, anxiety, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Helen Steiner Rice - the Blood Quill Style
~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )



Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of  Love, Faith, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister and wife
She fought hard all thru her...

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Categories: 1960s, beautiful, faith, love, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Helen Steiner Rice - the Blood Quill Style
~ Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~ 
 (1900- 1980 )
( Blood Quill )


Lovely lady she shine
She persevered through life
Wrote thousands verses of Faith, Love, Hope
Ambassador Sunshine
Daughter, sister, writer, wife
She fought hard all thru her life...

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Categories: 1960s, beautiful, love, poets, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ode To Helen Steiner Rice - the Monchielle Style
~Ode To Helen Steiner Rice~
(1900-1981 
(Monchielle) 


Lovely lady, she shines 
Ambass'dor of Sunshine 
Daughter, sister and wife 
Upliftin' poems she wrote 
She persevered through strife 

Lovely lady, she shines 
She's famous poetess 
Wrote verses of...

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Categories: 1960s, beautiful, faith, poetess, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Arcola Circa Late 1960s Early 1970s
Arcola circa late 1960's early 1970's...
easy to conjure this idyllic June 8th, 2020

Envision bucolic Currier
and Ives rendered landscape,
or canvas painted
courtesy gifted late Thomas Kinkade
(or substitute favorite creative soul)
how aforementioned illustrious artists drape
mesmerized amateur and/or

art appreciation...

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Categories: 1960s, 11th grade, 12th grade, environment, father, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revolutionary Para-Dimes
A difference between compassion and sympathy,

between co-empathic passion
and unilateral YangPatriarchal-empathic, 
ego-empowering intent,

Compassion matures passion FOR
into shared passion WITH.

This same emergent fluidity
cannot be said of sympathy
for suffering of Other,
who remains another dissociated Other

Exempted from democratic inclusion
in...

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Categories: 1960s, age, creation, earth, health, power, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
The haunted train of Schwenksville
The haunted train of Schwenksville

After dark every Halloween
since living social in Perkiomen Valley
for seven long years,
a shrill whistle train whistle
(often compared to the sound
of a bird's call, particularly
a large bird like a hawk or a...

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Categories: 1960s, absence, adventure, appreciation, autumn, dream, freedom, october,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Intellectual Snobbery
When I was in grade school
I was, already, 
on my leftbrain dominant path
toward acting the intellectual snob.

This, in large part
my best offense,
my trump card, sadly,
against marginalizing prejudice
of our community's non-farmer economic
and political Elite;

The few kids
whose...

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Categories: 1960s, appreciation, emotions, farm, gender, health, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Teenage Love 10: Interracial Teen Couples
Once again, young love has affected the lives of all teenagers, but this time, it's also
affecting the lives of all young interracial young lovebirds. All types of interracial
relationships have been active since the ending of...

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Categories: 1960s, girlfriend-boyfriend, love, on writing and words, romance,
Form: Epic
My Grandma
Her teeth are no longer white
and bright as in 1960s
when she first fell in love with my grandfather.
I blame that BB, because she always has a headache
when she doesn’t take it.

People from all corners of
Bothaville...

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Categories: 1960s, africa, age, blessing, books, break up, city,
Form: Free verse

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