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Premium Member Regenerate Intelligence
I often fail to notice
nuanced distinctions
between ethics of punishment,
retribution, on right hand
and boycott,
shunning revenge, on my left;

Between reigning down further abuse
and more quietly raining temporary neglect,
social 
economic
political distancing.

Punishment is a tool
for privileged narcissists,
win/lose competitors,
colonizers,
for fake-righteously...

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Categories: all work and no play, earth, extended metaphor, health, heart, integrity, political,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Weighty Eighths
Weighty governance,
to optimize bicamerally Timeless Truths,
integrate bilateral Ways,
to health-grow binomial ego-eco
in-out
Life,
was RNA elder
and remains DNA
fractal stuff
of ZeroZoned Taoism,
4D RealTime Zen,
FourSeasoned Permaculture Design
Four spiraling ecosystemic points
in Work and WinWin Play That ReConnects
healthy systemic-game restoring justice,
local with...

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Categories: all work and no play, education, environment, health, humor, math, planet, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Flood, Christ's Death
(Necessary, Sufficient – Why? How?)

Was the ‘Death of Christ’ needful? Can ‘Mind of God’ change?
Might the rainbow then signal ‘Repentance,’ a sign
God does grow and responds too, to changes wrath wrought?
Were there souls saved by...

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Categories: all work and no play, faith,
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: all work and no play, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Freud Attacks
I seem to have forgotten
the purpose of civilization
we are to animals 
as animals are to a basket of forks
C.J. Jung as the UFO pilot
in "Freud Attacks" a talkie
a flaming romp through the hubs of hell
hI...

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Categories: all work and no play, how i feel,
Form: Free verse



Rainbow Garden
I Was off work not feeling too well
When covid 19 came along there was no time to dwell
I came back to work and sat in the huddle feeling nervous but I knew  no hugs...

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Categories: all work and no play, inspiration, poetry, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
No On Should Hang Their Head In Shame
'>I feel a little poem story coming along.  You might as well share it now, as it would take me ages to put it in my book 10 of poems.
It was written today, 26th...

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Categories: all work and no play, adventure, break up, bullying, freedom, happiness, thanksgiving
Form: I do not know?
The Dream

I write to tell the world I'll be alright,

For I'm stuck in this box I'm in,

Daze for days when amaze when I pour out my heart for a crave,

Night I numb the real pain I...

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Categories: all work and no play, how i feel, me, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Al Bundy
Put your toe inside my mouth, I wanna feel you 
squirm, there're lessons to be taught tonight, I feel 
you're gonna learn,

to let yourself be serviced in the many ways that 
come, I love bare...

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Categories: all work and no play, passionme, work, me, time, work,
Form: Rhyme
The Thousand Year Reign I Wonder
I wonder and ponder what will the thousand-year reign look like?
The saints from the great gathering /harvest of souls will be there.
The saints that come out of the great tribulation will be there.
All the saints...

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Categories: all work and no play, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry
All In the Name of Progress 1st Addition
The wrecking ball long since
     demolished boyhood house zen
located at 324 Level Road,
     a once rural residence,
     which soulful yen
I called home
 ...

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Categories: all work and no play, 10th grade, 11th grade, 8th grade, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Fleet Hands of Earth
If hands of God could become
icons of energy democracy,
humane feet might cooperatively race 
toward sacraments nurturing nutritional polypaths.

If pilgrim feet
are icons of nutritional democracy at work and sacred play,
bicameral brains
skull-wombed symbols
for holonic self-transforming octaves,

DoubleBound fractal...

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Categories: all work and no play, earth, education, freedom, health, inspirational love, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Law and the Low
The low suffer most the blow of the law 
And no better do they fare with its flow:
From injustice to injustice it carries them
But none ever calls this a flaw.
For like that, perhaps, she can’t...

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Categories: all work and no play, class, power, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The World We Live In
The World we Live in
As from the window i look out
Killings and maiming
Can they all be devout

What religion, has the right to say
Who lives or dies's on any given day
Whether Islamic or Hindu, Catholic or...

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Categories: all work and no play, death, life, loss, people, places, sad, social,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Together Till We Part
Cells work is play
to resiliently thrive
only in organic systems.

Individual yolked cells
each with her own ego-governor
survive healthy together
and divide tragically apart

More like symbiotic regenerations
of surfing cantilevers
than degenerations
outside predations
storming waves
of colonizing cancers.

Transgendering 
transubstantiating
transitions can be both

Too hard...

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Categories: all work and no play, creation, depression, fear, health, integrity, loss, love,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Imagine
If we had electric cars
we could have parking meters
that charged those cars 
well shopping or at work

deducting the cost 
automatically from our banks
allowing electric cars 
to be charged at work, home and play

Desalination plants 
could...

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Categories: all work and no play, creation, humanity, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative
Live Life To the Fullest Before Its the Final End
The sands of time are falling away
Make sure to make the most out of each and every day
Release all of your hate and conqueror your fear
Don’t have regrets and have time for cheer
Treat everyone around...

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Categories: all work and no play, inspirationallife, family, family, life, love, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 'dirty Laundry'
'Dirty Laundry!'

Tell me why hearts compose when all poems are born
in a world full of wastrels (where weakest get slain?)
There are bloodstains besmirching blank sheets we would use
for bleached pulp comes from trees that won't...

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Categories: all work and no play, faith, life,
Form: Rhyme
A Conversation With Jack Torrance
"Good day sir, I've been travelling and looking for a place to stay,
but I heard the Overlook Hotel is dull, all work and no play?"

"Come on in there's lots of rooms, more beautiful here than...

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Categories: all work and no play, horror, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Our Polluted Earth
I pondered what I could write of
As I looked around this world,
For everywhere I looked I saw
Wrong things get done by man.

Big banks…like men… display their greeds,
And polluters still pollute, 
Police brutality still shows 
On...

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© W.C. Hull  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: all work and no play, pollution,
Form: Free verse
Her Final Destination
“Her Final Destination”
8/28/2019

Don’t cry for me now I’m finally free
No more crying, or hiding the pain I did not want you to see
I’m following my final destiny that God planned for me
I took my mother’s...

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Categories: all work and no play, farewell, sister,
Form: Free verse
Manual On Parenting
Give a child life at birth
Make it a C section or natural
Feed them warm mammary milk
Give them two parents when possible
Cloth them in cotton and wool
Give them a bath because children stink
Teach them to think...

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Categories: all work and no play, children, dedication, devotion, education, identity, parents,
Form: Didactic
The King's Reflection
There’d better be something, or what’s it all for?
I’ve preened my importance, reached my high rank,
Aspired to heights, while many men sank.
All of it, just to be kicked out the door?

“It’s there in plain sight”...

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© Rob Walker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: all work and no play, anxiety, death, wisdom,
Form: I do not know?
Lamentations of a Proletariat
Lamentations of a proletariat 

Loaded to the brim, withouted in a pack of "obersver-non participants"
folded like a wrap, yet forced to lack in the ranks of "server-run-anticipants"
dare to pass a comment and... a knife to...

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Categories: all work and no play, anger, betrayal, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Childhood and Games Edited
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy'
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Kids studying in my son's class
After school attend tuition class

Back home there is double work
Both school and tuition homework

They also attend  some other special course...

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Categories: all work and no play, children,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs