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Flint
Flint 
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...

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Categories: bureaucratic,
Form: Abecedarian



Meet On the Upper Floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no poor to clean the floor
What would the rich do without the poor?
If there was no one to guard the door
What would the rich do...

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Categories: bureaucratic, beauty, change, emotions, friendship love, independence day,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan


Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bureaucratic, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
My Thing Is This
As hapless vapors of decay, surround us, suffocating the fecund earth. A blanket of suffocating grey, born from the diseased aspirations of humanity. We, the self-appointed masters of a planet in shambles, gaze upon the...

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Categories: bureaucratic, corruption, education, environment, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest
Precedent setting the stage for kerning and tracking piqued my interest

Just before logging off for the day,
and ready to boogie out of the joint
an email landed squarely in my inbox
cordially inviting me 
into the management...

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Categories: bureaucratic, adventure, appreciation, business, fashion, humorous, nature, writing,
Form: Free verse



Watts Is Burning
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014


Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!

Run for your guns

We ain't backing down
Not this time -

Run through
the
poisoned 
 black smoke,

that
permeates
through
Watts -

Run pass
the
looting,

Run down
the
land mine
streets,

Run pass
the house
that's 
no longer
your home -

Run...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bureaucratic, anger, black african american,
Form: Light Verse
Watts Is Burning
Poet: Ken Jordan
Poem: Watts Is Burning
Edited by: Sparkle Jordan
written: July/2014


Run children run!
Run sister run!
Run brother run!

Run for your guns

We ain't backing down
Not this time -

Run through
the
poisoned 
 black smoke,

that
permeates
through
Watts -

Run pass
the
looting,

Run down
the
land mine
streets,

Run pass
the house
that's 
no longer
your home -

Run...

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© Ken Jordan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bureaucratic, anger, black african american,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Reattaching Liberties
Dr. Sue Johnson,
developer of Emotionally Focused Therapy,
rooted in an Attachment Theory
that organic creatures live healthier
more robust
compassionate
and prosperous lives
when their original womb relationship
and earliest parent/child interdependence
is more warmly attached
and less coldly detached,
and certainly not absent,
stolen for...

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Categories: bureaucratic, anger, anti bullying, destiny, health, humanity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
In the Red Desert of the Rising Sun
In the red desert of the rising sun  
In the surrealness of its silence  
The sky turned grey and ominous  
Amidst the blackened  rain   
As the suns fell into...

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Categories: bureaucratic,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Coming Courageously Home
I'm returning home
from a bag it yourself grocery,
and listening to an African-American novelist
respond to questions,
actual open-ended real NPR questions,
like old school inquisitive journalists once asked
before the polarizing days and nights
of fake right/wrong answer questions
and their...

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Categories: bureaucratic, conflict, courage, health, hero, integrity, peace, racism,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member In the depths of the translucent dusk
In the depths of the translucent dusk,
I think of the dream of our independence, now a distant echo,
For the era in which we were masters of our own fate has faded,
And we awaken to find...

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© Dan Enache  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bureaucratic, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member "a Rose From Heaven Grows"
May we always address dis-complacency, the vacancy,
And remove all opposes, to our roses,............................................................(Acts 18:4-6)
Here at Poetry Soup, completing love’s 100% loop, in our soup,

For an authentic rose, from God it grows, always knows,
It’s own heart,...

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Categories: bureaucratic, allegory, funny, inspirational, lovelove,
Form: Rhyme
Mystery of the Orient
It was an unusual trip that was planned,
stranger still that my Mother-in-law was the reason.
A wonderful woman who was liked by all who knew her,
kind, gentle, hard working, and grateful for the gift 
of reaching...

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© Dan Cwiak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bureaucratic, adventure, celebration, family, firework, memory, mother daughter,
Form: Haibun
Greed (Part Two)
Our Supreme Court
Just allowed corporations free rein,
Unlimited power to effect our popular elections.
This regardless of,
Where stockholders may live or stay,
Corrupting the whole process of our Reps selections.

What this means to you,
Is the next Representative you'll...

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Categories: bureaucratic, politicaleducation, voice, may, money, power, voice,
Form: Narrative
On the Need To Limit Tolerance, Part I
You hear endlessly about tolerance,
as if it always must be heaven-sent,
that all differences we must appreciate,
and to not do so makes us reprobates.

And they’re always pressing for more and more,
must make friends with the folks...

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Categories: bureaucratic, culture, how i feel, meaningful, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Sexual Harrassment Lady, Part I
I groaned when I saw the e-mail at work
for the yearly harassment seminar,
every year the same useless consultant
saying,”Don’t be crude, no matter where you are,
and don’t as a coworker to the bar.”
The company’s effort to...

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Categories: bureaucratic, love, lust, men, relationship, satire, truth, woman,
Form: Narrative
The War That Defies Justification
“The War that Defies Justification”

Redundant billionaires preaching basic information
Incumbent vacant vulnerable  stares looking for personal validation 

Another easily manipulated youth converted to the latest celebrity cult 
While my brothers who deal in only honest...

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Categories: bureaucratic, conflict, corruption, death, discrimination, innocence, race, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Soul Musician
I was gratefully listening
to a theologian musician
repeat a rabbinic tradition
of four levels of resonant soul:
individual (egosystemic),
communal (local),
social (cultural, national identity)
global (Earth,ecosystemic).

A mature musician,
like a wise theologian,
sees these four soul identities
as circular
double-binding octaves,
mutually informing up
and down,
in
and...

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Categories: bureaucratic, community, health, integrity, music, psychological, society,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Relationships Difficult To Imagine
It's difficult to imagine
a liberal hearing "capitalism"
where a conservative fears too progressively individualistic
ego-investments in "liberalism,"

It may be difficult to imagine
too liberal with win/lose secular commodification
of fragmented life,
choosing majority rule democratic process compromises,
sacrifices of disorganized rabblish...

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Categories: bureaucratic, future, games, health, imagination, integrity, passion, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member That Was Then, This is Now
Your paradigm's a relic and yes, 
a plea from data's cemetery
While I sculpt luminaries on screens 
a sable sea.

"Company loyalty!" a myth 
spun in your reverie.
But AI forges kingdoms 
in ephemeral memory.
Survival's a mosaic 
the...

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Categories: bureaucratic, dad, daughter, father daughter, internet, psychological,
Form: Sestina
Smells Like Government

Rancid lemon rope squeeze
around a rotten tomato neck tie,
crooked odor bow hanging out of place 
Acid reflux raisin tax bleed;
dripping spoiled, milquetoast lies
out a sour-twisted, prune puckered face

Tart tongue 
sulfur speak disorderly,
dirty saliva fingers in...

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Categories: bureaucratic, corruption, satire, truth, word play,
Form: Burlesque
Those Who Rely On Government
Anferny was convinced that all
his problems were due to his skin,
he’d been told by teachers, and his mom,
that there was just no way to win.
He grew up believing he was part
of an awful, bigoted nation,
that...

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Categories: bureaucratic, corruption, fate, how i feel, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Opa Rolf and Compressed Time
Rolf was born in Wallertheim, in an optimistic year
Progress seemed to be everywhere, and not much to fear.
Then the reds took Russia, shook the world to the core
Millions killed when in power, a crime you...

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© Gem Stone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bureaucratic, conflict, courage, england, french, history, jewish, war,
Form: Lyric
The Trilogy Ends
The brutalized girl breathed her last in faraway Singapore
She met her fate returning home, a couple of weeks ago
To shift the focus of the masses on an issue so emotive
And moved to a hospital in...

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Categories: bureaucratic, angst, death, girl, girl,
Form: Narrative
Donezetti's Borgeia In the Key of C
black phantom shadows - 
(human beings) 
aromas do float 
but are rarely seen 

check out the scent on the putrid, muted 
breeze - busted-up blood tragedy - so many 
people trapped - flat in the...

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Categories: bureaucratic, image, political,
Form: Rhyme

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