Long Alternatives Poems
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Christian Evangelical-Charismatic RepublicansI grew up with rural Michigan white red-neck evangelical root systems.
These did not always feed my multicultural self/other liberation of the GLBTQ subclimatic root system
for regeneratively healthy instincts,
yet I learned to survive within this fundamentalist-alien-straight...
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Categories:
alternatives, beauty, christian, gender, health, political, rights, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
With God's Help - the Goblet Style~ With God's Help ~
(The Goblet )
~O~
I'll just put on my best
Face and a nice Smile
Be Strong...
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Categories:
alternatives, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My RecoveryTRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc
I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting,
Finally a nurse...
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Categories:
alternatives, addiction, child, cry, emotions, evil, growing up,
Form:
Free verse
WalterHe stood and aimlessly watched the parade of patrons and volunteers that wandered daily past his kennel. All so familiar, so ordinary. Just like every other day he mused. Nothing new. ...
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Categories:
alternatives, animal, care, dog, friendship, hope, joy, loneliness,
Form:
Narrative
Transformational CuriosityThat's queer!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time flow
Sometimes,
OK, really too often,
I could use more courageous exercise
But, Other times
I'm more content, inviting...
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Categories:
alternatives, culture, earth, health, peace, senses, sensual, sexy,
Form:
Political Verse
Lost In the Mists, Parts I-IvLost In the Mists Parts I - IV
...
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Categories:
alternatives, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form:
Free verse
Bodyminds of ChristMy gay white boyhood
struggled with the theological problem
of personally appreciating heterosexual superiority
sacred stories
and multiply mistranslated word-choices
of Jesus Christ
Within a Christian
monotheistic
evangelically triumphalist doctrine.
This personal mindbody intimacy problem
may be iconic
unveiling my transparent
and vulnerable Savior's distancing
of...
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Categories:
alternatives, christian, earth, environment, health, peace, religion, senses,
Form:
Political Verse
Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and ParentsOnerous task confronted teachers and parents
As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.
A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...
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Categories:
alternatives, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Free verse
Choosing Where To Hang OutWhat lies between extremes of boredom and bliss
for you
and those you most love to work and hang with?
If your Business As Usual day
sends messages within
redundantly reiterating how life is always coming too fast
too needy
too deprived...
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Categories:
alternatives, beauty, education, games, health, political, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Words and PoetryAbout Bill Posters and Bill Greenwell
Words not to use in poems
In 1993, I (Bill Greenwell) went on a three-day workshop with the poet Peter Sansom, who co-edits The North, and runs the Smith/Doorstop imprint. He’s...
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Categories:
alternatives, education, poetry,
Form:
I do not know?
Polypaths Toward Warmfelt MetaphorA childhood memory warmly reminds
A game of Where's the Thimble,
hidden by a gang of siblings,
or just one strategic sister,
left for me to rightly find
as I wander through our living room,
following bilateral fractal cues,
You're cold,
freezing really.
Now...
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Categories:
alternatives, community, earth, health, integrity, love, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Dear Fellow Facilitators of LifeWhen Einstein was asked, by a journalist, how he came up with the theory of relativity,
he had no audience for talking about his use of Thought Experiments,
more or less what a group discernment facilitator...
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Categories:
alternatives, body, health, identity, language, political, science, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Never Say NeverThere are moments when troubles enter our life’s
And we can do nothing to avoid them
But the one's we can
They look convoluted unless we demystify
But we think they are byzantine
As we think the mysteries in them...
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Categories:
alternatives, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
Flowing Through QuicksandMeritocracy is nurtured through discerning differences
between regenerative and degenerative information.
Aristocracy is controlled and maintained
against revolutionary change
by both regenerative and degenerative energy patterns
of historic entitlement.
Merits and demerits
are nurtured and avoided.
Aristocrats and slaves are controlling and controlled
primarily...
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Categories:
alternatives, anger, conflict, corruption, courage, culture, health, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
A Healthier PatriotismMy own patriotic U.S. extended family,
historically,
and currently
remains StraightWhiteMale privileged
in our collective memories,
if not imaginations,
of spiritual communion
with all the more privileged saints
present,
past,
and future
But, we have also suffered
from rather too much faith in capitalism,
which, like democracy,
is frequently...
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Categories:
alternatives, games, gospel, health, passion, political, power, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Escapees: Accommodating AdversitiesEscapees: Accommodating Adversities
The subjective state of those who are well in
...
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Categories:
alternatives, appreciation, solitude,
Form:
Narrative
adsThe school year’s ending. ‘Spring Fling’ is tonight (Saturday) the biggest event (concert) of the year, and next week - final exams. It’s hard to believe that I’ll be a senior in about 2...
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Categories:
alternatives, future, humor, places, school, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Seeking 2020 VisionMy son, nearly twenty,
living at home while attending community college,
without prospects of healthier, more robust, alternatives,
believes it is now past time
for pollsters to cast aside their neutral professional agendas
and play a more positive role
in educating...
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Categories:
alternatives, earth, health, parents, patriotic, political, son, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
spring breakageUniversity midterm periods bring early mornings charged with energy drinks and espresso shots. Evenings are spent trading quizlets in Bass Library or in late night cram sessions in the common room. After several days of...
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Categories:
alternatives, boyfriend, feelings, humor, school, together, vacation, weather,
Form:
Free verse
Happy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn September twenty secondHappy two thousand twenty fourth birthday Autumn - September twenty second
But first etymological climatological meteorological esoterica:
The word autumn (/'??t?m/) is derived from Latin autumnus, archaic auctumnus, possibly from the ancient Etruscan root autu-and has...
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Categories:
alternatives, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, color, earth, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Tom Cunninghams Cunning Marmite Conspiracy - An Ice Cream Gran SpecialIt’s dreadful, a disaster, it’s a terrible calamity
Housewives going frantic for the thing they seek but cannot see
Supermarket workers helping those who shout the most
Try their best to find a jar of spread to spread...
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Categories:
alternatives, cat, grandmother, hero, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Communique From GethsemeneThe pretext of my residency here seems to have exhausted itself. I now find myself in need of offering an explanation for the immediacy of my departure. No doubt certain obvious reasons will come unprompted...
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Categories:
alternatives, allegory, dark, solitude,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Hindsight 20 20
I was coming up on 60, when I found a lump in my left breast.
One day of anxiety turned into two weeks of tribulation
as I returned again and again to the hospital for tests.
At last,...
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Categories:
alternatives, cancer,
Form:
Narrative
Freedom Beats Equality, Part IIt seems there’s lots of talk these days
about finding equality,
but little talk of what that means,
at least it seems that way to me.
People with jealous intentions
so like to throw around that word,
use it to justify...
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Categories:
alternatives, freedom, how i feel, meaningful, philosophy, society,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflections On My Seventieth Birthday
...
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Categories:
alternatives, birthday, emotions, introspection, life, mythology, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme