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Premium Member Bodhisattva Tease
Do you share my concern 
that your happiness and healthy life 
are too ephemeral,
short-lived?

No! Why? Do you know something I should know?

Not likely.
Just wondering,
awed by your capacity,
your relentlessly positive 
EarthAgapic energy for healthy life,
despite the...

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Categories: civilized, culture, earth, health, history, love, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



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: civilized, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption, judgement, new york,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Ghost Dance, Part I
1.

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Categories: civilized, history, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 164-- DAMIAN DELILAH MALLORY HOLANNYA: The Eventual EVENT
Date:  July  2051

The last day of family gatherings before August. Damian 
Had a limo ride with Jackson
Crysteph Julius Adonis Kyon and
CJ to visit the dwellings which housed homeless citizens and economically deprived People....

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Categories: civilized, allusion, august, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Last Trap of Zulaikha
Zulaikha:
What a bird you are, o red-billed Bird, 
you don’t eat reddish mangoes!
By eating which ash, will you exist then
in this bower of fate?

Yusuf:
That there is any fruit better than the name of God
and any...

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Categories: civilized, dream,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Global Bankers and Me
" Good evening gentlemen, at last we meet.
I am so honored to bask in the presence of your company.
Meeting all of you global bankers has always been my fantasy,
so seeing you all before me now...

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Categories: civilized, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Civilizing Savages
I stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.

The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and savages to Christianity.

Yet this Other Great Commission feels like a...

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Categories: civilized, bible, birth, creation, earth, history, mother, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member War Is a War Crime
Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones. 

The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...

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Categories: civilized, war, world,
Form: Quatrain
An Open Relationship
Social settings have stigma attached to this. 
Atmospherically climactic negative correlations sustain society. 
Civilized individuals are naturally monogamous; serially… 
On the other hand gender segregated facility.

Men and woman,
Penis and vagina,
Birds and bees,
Conditions and stipulations…

A rule...

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Categories: civilized, assonance, relationship, social, society, together, trust, truth,
Form: Didactic
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
Facilities that claim they recycle spew nothing but rubbish
as does yours truly,
whose ecological ethos
goes out the window
into the cold freezing iceland
prompting the following balderdash.

Upon the advent of an unexpected inspection
slated for tomorrow January 24th, 2025
myself...

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Categories: civilized, abuse, adventure, anger, betrayal, crush, devotion, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earth Day Voices
Voices of creation speak Type A and Type B,
and polyglot dialects through Z, 
somehow under what lies in shadow
from B through Z

Anyway, Type A conscious I am alive
in this indoor moment
awake but not directly sun-absorbing...

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Categories: civilized, culture, earth, earth day, health, language, light,
Form: Political Verse
Stolen Illumination of the Star
STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR

This journey has not been a fanciful adventure, 
we're all settlers in  these dynasty of neo-colonialism 
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes 
victims of civilized inducement, 
terms of...

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Categories: civilized, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Haman and United We Fall Together We Stand
In school it was all about Greek and Latin at a stretch it proposed
                     ...

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Categories: civilized, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member the grand masked ball
We’re in Paris, staying with my Grandmère (Grandmother) for a few days around Mother’s day.
Peter (my bf) is getting to know my Grandmère. They’ve started to relax and enjoy each other. This time, when they...

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Categories: civilized, boyfriend, fun, grandmother, mothers day, paris, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Savages Sang Strongly 4
Sometimes faith lives on the edge of a knife
as Sviastoslav the Rus sacker came to know 
the Khazar Khanate knew how to cut a slight
his gilded skull stole the show,
the Vatican went from a marsh...

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Categories: civilized, heart,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member When Them Becomes Us
When does their health
become essential
to our public health system?

When does global human health
become compassionately communicated intrinsic
for preserving
protecting
providing
liberating
conserving
nurturing our climate health-cooperative
biosystem?

When did we LeftBrain max out
opt out of,
give up on,
unhealth unsystemic uncare about
Earth's green democratic conversion...

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Categories: civilized, culture, environment, health, integrity, peace, psychological, spiritual,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Penny For a Poets Thoughts Iii
When they speak up and out about their feelings, 
about our children, stop, telling us to close our mouths and be quiet:
"Shut up" you say... I will never shut up! 

Until I am speaking a...

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Categories: civilized, abuse, bullying, corruption, emotions, immigration,
Form: Political Verse
An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                           ...

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Categories: civilized, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Final Exit
I'm dying and I'm angry because it isn't fair,
and with my family, friends and loved ones this news I will not share.
It's hell for me to be going through all of this alone, but that...

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Categories: civilized, death, suicide, life, me, day, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inspiration From Marlee Bee
Inspiration comes disguised in a variety of ways.  News stories. Flash floods. A crying child in a grocery store.  A person sitting along the highway holding a ‘will work for food’ sign. ...

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Categories: civilized, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hit Lists
There have been many times in my life
when I heard about hit lists (kill lists so to speak).
Sometimes these death threats against others
even make it onto international news.
I’m reminded of the prize-winning author ,
a certain...

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Categories: civilized, murder,
Form: Prose
Monster Poem
[They lived in terror.  A dark cloud seeping inside souls tearing love
and kindness away]

I am lost for words to describe the agony of my reflection inflicted upon me;  the beast born by a...

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Categories: civilized, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Trailer Park
After work at Google, I sat with the guys
I said we were elite, enlightened and wise
We had to censor those in this benighted nation
Who spread disruptive disinformation.

A Venture Cap named Hank said this isn't fair
He...

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Categories: civilized, america, culture, discrimination, humor,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 2
Mitchell: The most expensive working girls employed by this establishment are what I call shielas. Class A shielas include all specimens of female physicality who were blessed to have inherited near perfect DNA, have taken...

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Categories: civilized, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Heckling
Joy and I have been to Melbourne and we’re coming home at last,
From a family get together that I’m glad has come and passed,
It was good to catch up with the rellies who we haven’t...

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Categories: civilized, humor,
Form: Rhyme

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