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A Free-Verse Epic
Thus it begins—
A free-verse epic
Into the mind of
A writer and an idiot—
A romantic and, 
Often a pessimist
Conjoined in arbitrary glory
Are the thoughts and words 
Of one overly-worked mind—
Charismatic and, of course,
On the pushover, pitiful
And usually...

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Categories: arbitrary, beautiful, confidence, conflict, courage, deep, freedom, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Permaculture Design Operetta
This Permaculture Design Operetta
comes out from within you
with universally acclaimed Grand Patriarchal Earth Rights
to sing in reverse harmonic rhythms and blues
with Full-Octave Matriarchal Earther Feminists Wronged,
marginalized in pre-millennial peace-maker roles
postmillennially re-inheriting the Good Society's climate...

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Categories: arbitrary, destiny, health, humanity, humor, political,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Let's Be Kinder
In his essay "Let's Be Reasonable" 
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;

This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...

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Categories: arbitrary, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Margins of Pandora
Tim’s father had been a refugee once he put down his fight and his gun

The story is that he embarked on the very last ship leaving East Prussia

Under siege tanks and bombs from above fireworks...

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Categories: arbitrary, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Spouse Cannot Forget Mine Suppressed Flatulence Upon Our First Date
Spouse cannot forget mine suppressed flatulence upon our first date

While yours truly sat here 
at the desk housing MacBook Pro,
pondering his next idée fixe apropos
for gamut of anonymous readers,
he unexpectedly, noisily and effectually
exploded out rear...

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Categories: arbitrary, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Rhyme



Dead Man Tales
Dead Man Tales
shards of glass pearl the emperor's rise,
his arms embracing upon our sins and lies, 

do not deceive yourself , my friend.
in the twilight of our beings our corruption merges and blends.

there is no...

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Categories: arbitrary, conflict, corruption, emotions, freedom, sad, sin,
Form: Classicism
While Daydreaming About Timepiece Inventors
While daydreaming about timepiece inventors...
as the figurative curtain closes on 2022

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the passage of time,
and I would be hard pressed
to differentiate one moment
from the next without the...

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Categories: arbitrary, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, creation, december,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sinai Campaign, 1967
Sinai Campaign, 1967

“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3

Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...

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Categories: arbitrary, education, history, jewish, war,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Healthy Learning Climates
It appears that Feyerabend presents a more accurate normative gestalt
for RightBrain epistemology,
how RightBrain solves chaotic puzzles,
while Popper is better for LeftBrain deduction,
diastolic evolving unfolding
of syllogistic logic.
Together evolving toward a dipolar truth
of balancing flexibiity
trending toward regenerative...

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Categories: arbitrary, earth, health, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Fraught With Ibs Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Fraught With IBS Irritable Bowel Syndrome...

today – late morning of November 4th 2022
sudden onset experienced whereby
whooshing waste naturally flushed out
ala mine body electric performed colonoscopy
diarrheal gangbuster instigated
maybe Machiavellian microbe
with powerful rectal surge
analogous to invisible plunger
forcing...

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Categories: arbitrary, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
             ...

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Categories: arbitrary, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
1.
This hunger artist cannot read 
volumes of printed material fast enough 
to satiate an immense appetite 
and unquenchable thirst 
to acquire learning from 
the millenniums gushing fount of 
cumulative chance revelations, 
(or deliberate intent to...

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Categories: arbitrary, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction, adventure, books,
Form: Free verse
I Ask Myself a Rhetorical Question Regarding
I ask myself a rhetorical question regarding...
the durability, longevity, and tenacity of Homo sapiens,
after screaming headlines report one after another atrocity.

How did the human species manage to survive
with many means
of self destruction at their disposal?

Atomic...

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Categories: arbitrary, africa, america, anger, april, black african american,
Form: Free verse
We Are All Nameless
We are all Nameless



What else is there to do
but to tell you who I am,
but most of all,
what I wish to find.

I am not the cavalier of the sun, 
but the caveat of phantasm.

I do...

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Categories: arbitrary, introspection, world, light, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- Ii By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - II by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arbitrary, america, angst, drug, emotions, future, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
March 8th International Women's Day the World Over
March 8th - International Women's Day The World Over

Down to the wire, before this
calendrical occasion doth expire,
though arbitrary twenty four hour
time set aside for guide
ding hand of the supposed/purported
fairer gender, yet human race, yet hide
bound...

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Categories: arbitrary, appreciation, beauty, daughter, hero, husband, inspirational, tribute,
Form: Elegy
Wonderment at existence mine
Wonderment at existence – mine

a sixty four year old married bloke
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign in general,
and January 13th in particular
who dons online personage
with custom (think 
swiftly tailored harried styled) 
made poetic raiment cloak.

With...

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Categories: arbitrary, adventure, age, animal, celebration, character, creation, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Sase
Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope

Horrid tin on wet paper. Coastal fragments of an empire twilight. Nonsense to corners in a deck along the warped cabin. Would you be silent for a moment? Afraid it seems, all these...

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Categories: arbitrary, friendship,
Form: Prose
Wonderment At Existence Mine
Wonderment at existence - mine
born January 13th, mcmlix
under Capricorn sign.

With my scrunched  
and bushy furrowed brow
I often ponder precise circumstances 
that linkedin yours truly to be born
tracing back lineage of self 
or arbitrary individual...

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Categories: arbitrary, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- I By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - I by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arbitrary, america, angst, art, friend, writing,
Form: Free verse
As a Resident of Schwenksville Boro For Five Plus Years
As a resident of Schwenksville Boro for five plus years...

Intersection upon adventitious
encounter, when first seed of genocide planted
unsuspecting subsequent rapid usurpation
quickly eradicated rightful breed
of what coalesced into thee Americas. 

I experience stir of echoes haunting
Perkiomen...

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Categories: arbitrary, abuse, adventure, age, america, anger, betrayal, crush,
Form: Free verse
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum
Sebaceous glands connected to follicles secrete an oily substance called sebum

With a title deeply rooted
in subject matter iterated above
invariably makes for hair raising poem,
though I immediately attest said material
constitutes atypical topic
the writing process (with intent
to...

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Categories: arbitrary, 12th grade, 9th grade, age, anger, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways
1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and there is nothing like that first kiss.
2.
and it is not...

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Categories: arbitrary, love,
Form: List
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's Krim: Autobiography To September 1989- Iii By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s KRIM: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY TO SEPTEMBER 1989 - III by T. Wignesan

( This poem is from the collection, ESTUARIES: Poems 1989-91. Twickenham: Solaris, 1992, 62p. Pub. by Yasmin and Peterjon Skelt. Back...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: arbitrary, america, angst, character, conflict, future, howl, sick,
Form: Free verse
Wonderment At Existence
With scrunched and bushy furrowed brow
   I often ponder the precise circumstances
   that any thing 2 be born this way
   as a poker face
Tracing back lineage of self or
...

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Categories: arbitrary, allegory, allusion, analogy, celebration, crazy, fate, imagination,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs