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Premium Member Azure Vistas


"Azure Vistas"

Azure vistas presented themselves to me
rolling inwards the clouds like tumbleweeds
mercilessly bump fallen angels off the map
like torrents of rain falling petulantly on blunt contracts

I glimpsed the sweet refrain of a resurrection
swift upon a...

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Categories: ad hoc, muse, political, spiritual,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member 'continental Drift' - the Metaphor
'Continental Drift' - The Metaphor

In the seventies (1), few people dreamed ‘it’ was true,
guessed by scientists first when rough coastlines compared (2)
matched like parts of a puzzle (a jigsaw), found place
that joined ‘drop-offs’ waves hid...

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Categories: ad hoc, faith, science,
Form: Rhyme
February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...

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Categories: ad hoc, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where is the Shining City on a Hill?
Where is the shining city upon a hill?                           ...

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© Jim Healey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ad hoc, america, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Universe of Powergames
We first GoldenRule regard
each other Ego
as one special natural/spiritual
Left with Right
body/mind
ZeroZone actively balancing case
of co-mentoring WinWin opportunity
to proactively love until we die.

Simultaneously chewing while walking,
RightBrain LoveElders
listen to DNA nurture voices,
watching and feeling and smelling
nutritional golden...

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Categories: ad hoc, forgiveness, games, health, history, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse



Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom
Into the Sturm und Drang fueled maelstrom

Otherwise titled – my poetic impressions of Helene

All la names bespeaking deity froom
Noah Mo' Room India Arc
of Covenant to crypt tick Blood
(sweat and tears) 
of San Gennaro devout wowed,
and/or...

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Categories: ad hoc, analogy, appreciation, beauty, crush, earth, howl, loss,
Form: Rhyme
A Meadow For Autumn
A meadow for Autumn

Forest, I lay me down to rest
upon bed of moss.
 
Eternal sleep immediately overtakes me 
lichen kenning myself 
as Rip Van Winkle 
except being repurposed
as  oldest living species. 

With an estimated...

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Categories: ad hoc, animal, appreciation, autumn, creation, dark, environment, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Struggle To Write
Struggle to write

Witnessed courtesy the following poetic sight
especially when dark shadows foretell edge of night
twilight zone expanding
into outer limits of width and height
obscuring webbed wide world
subsequently where black tentacles alight.

This poetic prologue feeble exercise to...

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Categories: ad hoc, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Wednesday September 2021 At 320 Pm
Wednesday, September 2021 at 3:20 PM...
eastern standard time Autumn Equinox arrives

That seasonal occasion twill arise
when darkness and light doth bring
equilibrium between night and day
raking leaves will constitute exercise
espied and witnessed by observant earthling
namely me who...

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Categories: ad hoc, appreciation, autumn, celebration, destiny, environment, fate, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
The Kitchen Not the Cake
There’s cheap lunches in the Barley Tavern,
each Wednesday, when after one o’clock.
I always chose to eat beer battered fish,
plus mystery cake a little bit ad hoc.
And this Wednesday here in the tavern,
Ted Austin joined me...

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Categories: ad hoc, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Malevolent Maverick Mailer-Daemon
Malevolent maverick mailer-daemon...
wrought maximum monetary mayhem
within mein kampf

Incomprehensible inhumane
inquisitorial imp incarnate injudiciously,
ineffably, indescribably inflicted
inxs inexorable insidious injury.

Snake charmer also known
in the underworld as Harvey Specter
subliminally slithered,
and deftly insinuated himself
into body electric of yours truly
forever remotely...

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Categories: ad hoc, abuse, america, analogy, anger, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Earth For Sale
Sponsored by Lowest Bidders

It interests me
that Hiawatha,
like Jesus of Nazareth before him,
and Mahatma Gandhi after,
taught WinWin cooperative peace
by co-investing in ego/ecotherapeutic justice.

Yet anti-Catholic
anti-Muslim
anti-Jewish
anti-indigenous
anti-First SacredNation
anti-goodfaith-trusting-inclusive-extended-family-cooperativist
Protestant reformists against Nature=Spirit green family values,
now becoming supremacists
of Original Orthodox Scriptural...

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Categories: ad hoc, america, anti bullying, caregiving, christian, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
Fun Net Ticks and Sill Lab Buff Hick Aye Shun
curt hissy Matthew Scott Harris
who wishes ewe well
to make $cents of the following
mumbo jumbo lettered gumbo.

Hip puck crease see
(ad hoc) key hide dee claim
haint how my noggin 
comports itself to take aim,
cuz ear lee aire...

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Categories: ad hoc, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Why Kant You Tell Me the Time
Father time legendarily and Omni potently 
 existentially linkedin, binding cradle to grave 
since advent of homo sapiens, the whiffed bald credo 
 an employee most adhere ta have 
and keep source of income, subtly...

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Categories: ad hoc, change, day, history, philosophy, riddle, space, time,
Form: I do not know?
Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop
Friendliness equals self sustaining positive feedback fruit loop

My humble apology
for inducing thee
to manure yourself 
thru figurative following poop,
best flushed down the toilet 
of the behavioral sink
why yours truly wretchedly reaches out
cuz I never experienced popularity...

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Categories: ad hoc, adventure, anti bullying, appreciation, blessing, courage, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Government Largesse Courtesy Uncle Sam
(Tidbit of trivia: associated with 
businessman from Troy, New York, 
Samuel Wilson, known affectionately 
as “Uncle Sam” Wilson. The barrels 
of beef that he supplied the army 
during  War of 1812 were stamped 
“U.S.”...

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Categories: ad hoc, 12th grade, absence, angel, blessing, celebration, fate,
Form: Free verse
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of Damocles
Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches 
global threat half cocked.

Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times...

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Categories: ad hoc, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, angst, cry,
Form: Rhyme
My On Call Uncle Muse Never Sleeps
My on call (Uncle) Muse Never Sleeps
(aunt that title niece – ???
in this context pronounced nice)

Well...hm...I really did not wanna
     let the cat out of the bag,
    ...

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Categories: ad hoc, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unconscious Bias
Ad Hoc Ad Litem: CHAPTER 1

Conscious/ness is a product of decisive reasoning; a sound mind, and based on scientific averages, a standard knowledge of what is right and, what is wrong.
    ...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ad hoc, analogy,
Form: Free verse
A Meadow For Autumn
when eve doth fall upon summers’ end, 
   a hint of splendor bequeathed arose
upon firmament as changed scenery 
   (this third equinox act since new year) bellows
basses loaded and blasted in...

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Categories: ad hoc, age, allegory, autumn, change, environment, nature, september,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Spring Equinox 2018
this middle aged rue stirring bummer
   haint no stranger to cold,
when dark hen stormy wintry days
   eggs hit from Arctic portal en fold
ding Atlantic Seaboard

   in a blizzard of...

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Categories: ad hoc, 11th grade, 12th grade, appreciation, dedication, muse,
Form: Free verse
2 Terms of Political Office
2 Terms Of Political Office

A political leader of a country successfully managed to extend his term of office...
Brings up the question of the wisdom of the previous curb imposed to 2 terms in office....
Bolehland has...

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Categories: ad hoc, community, future, history, humanity, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones Kristallnacht
Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the Bible
references Armageddon and doomsday
impossible mission to remain
cool, collected and calm.

Whether...

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Categories: ad hoc, abuse, angst, bullying, environment, farewell, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Green Peace Resonance
At first we had traumatic stress
just being born
and later shock of near death,
physical and mental,
natural and spiritual,
lack of health 
and unsafe, messy wealth.

Then traumatic cultural stresses
grew up into a global syndrome
of sad neglect
toxic fueling chronic...

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Categories: ad hoc, culture, green, health, integrity, peace, power, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Smore Sprawling Poppycock
S'more sprawling poppycock

Chock·a·block discombobulated poem
for your reading pleasure
dashed off ad hoc
my final literary endeavor before
hour hand affixed
to intricately carved cuckoo clock
displaying carved leaves, birds,
deer heads (Jagdstück design),
other animals, aquatic militia man,

etc feigns firing flintlock
(announcing onset...

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Categories: ad hoc, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things