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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?

Ah... methinks legal tender 
could be a boon to help me bolster 
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential 
commodities sabotaged 
at the altar of...

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Categories: alternative, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Solo Performance
It had been a hellish week.

On Monday
my lonely and tired AfricanAmerican husband
told me, as gently as possible,
that what I had hoped was a temporary separation
is to be extended into perpetuity.

This separation had been scheduled to...

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Categories: alternative, age, earth, family, health, integrity, nature, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Remembering Radical Relatives
Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly; 
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.

We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an...

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Categories: alternative, beauty, culture, health, humor, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
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: alternative, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One

Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes! 

The Pied Piper, himself, is the man, the myth, the legend.
And they, the so-called incurious lot of...

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Categories: alternative, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form: Political Verse



Still wrestling with impasse to contentment
Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path 
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...

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Categories: alternative, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Earth's Humane Rights To Healthy Climates
In 1968,
a time of great concern for healthy human civil rights
for and of women as well as LeftBrain culturally dominant men,
Gregory Bateson invited a Symposium
not quite a finished Symphony
proposing Moral and Aesthetic Structure of Human...

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Categories: alternative, culture, earth, environment, health, nature, political, prejudice,
Form: Prose Poetry
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...

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Categories: alternative, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Adopting Yua
The dust had all but settled from the sultry morning air when Sergeant Kessler tapped me on the arm to wake me up.
“Gonna be a hot one,” he announced, “a chance o’ rain...and could get...

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Categories: alternative, child, daughter, inspirational, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupings
you were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you

'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey 
there's not really two
the child in the mirror
is only 
an image 
of...

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Categories: alternative, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter, encouraging, faith, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Retire V Retread
What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay 
of a segregating Country Club.

No, this is addressed to economic...

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Categories: alternative, earth, giving, nature, philosophy, poverty, religion, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In This Taoist's View
Could we be doing our best
to invest in Earth's cooperative health markets?
While you sell our most competitive killing machines
to our Saudi Arabian cousins.

Referencing this touchstone as an ecopolitical WinWin,
unlike Parisian multicultural investments in climate health,
as...

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Categories: alternative, destiny, earth, fear, hate, health, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Chapter 47 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Ten
The entire Family moved into 
Their new home. Bigger better
Much more room which 
Everybody needed. As months
Became years, the children 
Thrived and grew.
Damian Junior Was 12 years old 
Damian Amadeus, 9
Damian Justin and twin
Damian Jordan,...

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Categories: alternative, birth, business, youth,
Form: Alliteration
Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment
Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...

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Categories: alternative, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Daughter the Need a Walk From the Dark Side, Into the Darkness
My Daughter

My beautiful Daughter, walks life’s paths alone,
She does so, by design – not of hers – on her own.
She travels heavily !, from place to empty space,
from space to vacant place – in what...

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Categories: alternative, daughter, girlfriend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Therapeutic Work and Play
You mentioned you work with a therapist.  

Has she encouraged you to incorporate centering exercises
and holistic thinking and feeling experiences
healing interior and exterior nondualistic climate events
in your everyday thinking/feeling mutually non-violent practice?

Has she encouraged...

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Categories: alternative, caregiving, deep, earth, education, green, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member False Prophets
Disciples: How will we know True from False Prophets?

Teacher: You will cooperatively discern them
by their polyculturing love.

When does fear that disasters are becoming too relentlessly true,
masquerade as anger that such events and facts and trends
must...

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Categories: alternative, abuse, anger, fathers day, fear, freedom, health,
Form: Political Verse
Call it curiosity
"Call it curiosity"
Does anyone on this app really believe
That somehow or another every one of us
Truly think that one side is meant to deceive 
Or that one side is the one that is only one...

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Categories: alternative, abuse, allusion, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Surviving Chronic Eclipses
I was on my ambivalent fence
about who to watch watch the solar eclipse,
my alcoholic allies
or the designer THC corporate investors.

Wherever it was,
we read excerpts from two permaculture designers,
to get our minds ready for this great...

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Categories: alternative, culture, gender, health, humor, integrity, math, seasons,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member We Are Pure Light and Energy
the biggest obstacle you face today, is not what's outside your door, but what's inside your mind......can you challenge yourself to challenge yourself?  You've fought with life and everyone else all your life......this will...

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Categories: alternative, birth, graduate, humanity, love, science, strength, trust,
Form: Free verse
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month
My jubilant latent, nascent poetic tribute to black history month

Which acknowledgement ought to be year round,
similar to altruistic, humanistic, and philanthropic
unconditional acceptance and respect
crafted with the following words 
mostly written January 23rd, 2023,
cuz I, (a...

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Categories: alternative, abuse, africa, age, america, anger, betrayal, black
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faithful Thought Experiment
Imagine your favorite faith community,
whether sacredly vocationed,
or, more prosaic, secularly employed,
is also home to your local Green Freedom Party,
intentionally multipartisan.

This community intends to remain compassionately faithful 
to short-term local
through long-term global
public and climate health
of all...

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Categories: alternative, green, health, integrity, political, power, religion, senses,
Form: Political Verse
Nascent Poetic Tribute To Black History Month
Nascent poetic tribute to black history month...
crafted before onset when people of color  
got acknowledged for twenty eight or nine days
depending if leap year occurred. 

Though I yam Caucasian,
rightful to honor most bitter
racist genocidal...

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Categories: alternative, abuse, dream, evil, february, grave, hate, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Ungifted
"A gift is different from something you buy, possessed of meaning outside its material boundaries. You never dishonor the gift." Robin Wall Kimmerer

A social gift,
a gift for compassionate verbal
and nonverbal communication,
a healing gift,
is different from...

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Categories: alternative, caregiving, earth day, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Triggers
“Triggers”

  So, you are used to me writing poetry but today it’s more like my thoughts for others to read. I need to clear my head of these constant roller coaster emotions. Today was...

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Categories: alternative, depression, suicide,
Form: Cinquain

Book: Shattered Sighs