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Premium Member Contract Against Greatness
In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.

If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...

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Categories: acquiring, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Cooperative Feministas
Cooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.

In David Holmgren's introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts "Industrial Culture" with "Sustainable Culture"
kind of like comparing masculine LeftBrain culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather...

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Categories: acquiring, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa

The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...

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Categories: acquiring, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form: Rhyme
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated 
upon...

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Categories: acquiring, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form: Rhyme
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again updated
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again - updated

Steely Dan sing queen (me)
outdid himself on sixtieth anniversary 
after Grahame Wood 
determined to meet 
the evolving needs of the community 
opened the first Wawa Food Market 
in Folsom,...

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Categories: acquiring, america, anger, anniversary, april, baptism, birthday, humorous,
Form: Rhyme



April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
April 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul   
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...

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Categories: acquiring, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form: Free verse
April 9th 2021 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed Papa
April 9th, 2021 birthday poem for dearly departed papa

Elysian fields embraced dada's soul
which rocketed into aerospace
(courtesy General Electric satellite)
just a tad more'n six months ago,
nevertheless melancholy
still plucks mine heart strings.

Mine psyche still situated awry
placid countenance...

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Categories: acquiring, absence, angel, april, bereavement, birthday, dad, death,
Form: Rhyme
Inextricably Rooted With Hair Fixation
Inextricably rooted with hair fixation

As a lad in grade school,
yours truly, (a diminutive, intuitive,
oversensitive, and vegetative potato head kid,
whose voice exhibited
a severe nasal twang)
felt envious at other boys,
especially those young bucks
who sported budding antlers
plus thick...

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Categories: acquiring, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th grade, 6th
Form: Rhyme
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Categories: acquiring, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... 
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").

Ever since early forerunners 
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted 
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth), 
modern Homo Sapiens...

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Categories: acquiring, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation
The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest where he met three beasts. 
Now he is going to...

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Categories: acquiring, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

The following poem tweaked 
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.

Now circa August 20th, 2122, 
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted 
drafting id est feeble...

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Categories: acquiring, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Liberal Leftwings of Flight
It has been said
Charles Darwin was not happy
with leftbrain's Survival of the Fittest
without rightbrain's ecosystemic health roots
in Thrival of the Fit-in-ingest,

Which Bateson,
and other systemic ecologists, 
would later call interdependent co-acclimation,
and Jane Gordon politically theorizes
rare histories...

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Categories: acquiring, appreciation, art, health, integrity, peace, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse
Loving My Refurbished Fifteen Inch Mid 2015 Macbook Pro
Loving my refurbished fifteen inch mid 2015 Macbook Pro

A lightning fast machine
purchased three days ago
now comfortably nestling with
said technological wonder,
where outside a cold wind howls
measuring windchill factor of five below
allowing, enabling and providing me
an opportunity...

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Categories: acquiring, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...

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Categories: acquiring, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With Commentary
K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given to scant regard for documenting history in a systematic manner...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acquiring, fate, life, nature, people,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bread Is From Earth
Deep warm-blooded
Dark brown 
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.

Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
or even a local family-safe 
multiculturally resilient community

Because I am too capitalistically infested
with buying and selling
highest and...

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Categories: acquiring, community, earth, health, home, paradise, wisdom, women,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member If I Were She
If I were S/He
I would look downstream
for a power so high
this mythic enlightenment feels sacredly deep
and widely therapeutic
mystical in feeling,
practical in  application.

If I were She
I would declare a new Wisdom:
National superpowers corrupt
toward fundamentally polarizing...

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Categories: acquiring, health, heart, integrity, military, passion, peace, power,
Form: Political Verse
Anticipatory Anxiety Fosters Catastrophization
anticipatory anxiety fosters catastrophization...,

especially bombardment of online scare tactics
courtesy fiendish insidious loathsome sinister oafs
rubbing their hands at aggrieved party;
punch drunk cyber thieves ecstatic
acquiring by hook and/or crook
sought after precious, priceless, and proverbial data
after loosed ransomware...

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Categories: acquiring, 12th grade, anger, computer, cry, evil, grave,
Form: Rhyme
All In the Name of Progress
All In The Name Of "Progress"

The wrecking ball long since
demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
a once nonagricultural,
pastoral, rural residence,
which soulful yen
I called home while
veritably sequestered, quarantined, positioned...
sprawled atop spaciously shingled roof
countless years (B)efore...

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Categories: acquiring, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Captain Kuni-Lemel Graduate Strikes Again
Captain kuni-lemel graduate strikes again

Even when iron not red hot, 
I implement non customary quarks 
regarding foreigner rather cold as ice
namely delinquent outsize credit card debt 
mandates yours truly, 
a cheesy survivor who rem: members...

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Categories: acquiring, adventure, age, best friend, character, destiny, education,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Norwick's Head Poobah
I was interviewing the Head Poobah
of our Norwick Public Utility CoOperative
and asked him
Where did the 22 percent goal come from
for acquiring renewable energy?
As compared to 78 percent from nonrenewable
and guaranteed increasingly costly electricity sources
like burned-out...

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Categories: acquiring, earth, environment, green, health, humor, trust, truth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Fashion Modeling With An Eye On Footballers - Xxvii
Unquotable quotes: Fashion modeling with an eye on footballers – XXVII

Isn’t “haute couture” like “cordon bleu cuisine”? Both equally edible? You still have to pull the shrimp scales apart to get at the meat.

What do...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acquiring, allegory, beautiful, fashion, football, humorous, soccer,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Flying High
in loving memory of my nephew, Eric
Jones, who is now flying with the
angels


I was a professional kite flyer, and had won big contests and tournaments,
As the one who has glimpsed a dream, and hasn't ever...

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Categories: acquiring, career, fantasy, flying, imagery, nature, sky,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Anglo-Norman Arising
the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
  old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: acquiring, england, history, identity, immigration, language, people, social,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs