Long Commonalities Poems

I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme 
Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems 
Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions, different schisms 
Joining the dots together, one picture emerges, extremism...

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Winter came with its usual cold, rain, ice, snow, and pain.  By late Winter                    ...

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In Ulzana's Raid,
the Native- and European-American concepts of property ownership
      and rights
are incompatible and irresolvable. McIntosh
had no illusions about that. He said hating Apaches for killing whites
is like hating the...

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I
 I the great leader of Africa, 
A true revolutionary of the pan African struggle
The acquitter ’s blood I enjoy, in the tears and sweat
Of the peasantry, I stroke and baptize all descendants
I the great...

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Things confuse me easily these days 
it might be age or some kind of rare 
oncoming dementia preparing me for 
a difficult but joyous passage of elder 
time fulfilling my wildest dreams or perhaps 
a...

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UV rays soak into my skin,
                          browning it slightly
 ...

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I woke up rested this morning
And kinda excited too
Sending out text notifications to
A few friends for a review.
One in particular from so far away
I spoke with at length.
A few hours ahead in time
He spoke to...

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A beauty holds onto character
The true nature of humanity
For love not defined but put to act
Seeing within mind's outer intention
Inner circle persuading pleasant passion

A tree:-  South, North, East and West
Driven by disturbing breeze yet...

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"I never travel without my diary, 
One should always have something sensational to read . .  ."  
So, I like Oscar Wilde, 1891, write my thoughts
Journaling my ramblings, today's joyful deed.

“Face the wall”...

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Self-Portrait, 2011
v. Ortiz Vazquez


4’9” or 5’0”, never quite knowing which
Brown eyes, black Afro hair
She Hercules strength within
34 years old wondering where times has gone
A second, minute, hour; days, weeks, months
Young morena, carded at times
Few gray...

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Throughout the animal kingdom, 
There are commonalities, don’t you think?
One of the strongest among them
Is an inborn maternal instinct.

She wouldn’t leave her litter
To go outside and save herself;
Instead she stayed beside them
And barked and howled...

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Christmas Tree, Menorah Meet-Up





A Christmas tree and a Menorah,woke one morning right next to
one another!
Both were shocked to be so placed, thinking this was such a total 
disgrace!
Well, being immobile there was nothing either could...

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When you look at me, what do you see?
When you look at me, what do you expect?
When you look at me, what do you need from me?

May be, I may not be perfect,
May be, I...

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Where does it begin?

Is it in the DNA?

Is it in the foundational structure?

Is it through skin conformity families?

Is it through children's cartoons? 

Is it through confirmation bias?

Is it through popular music? 

Is it through the...

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lead my hand o' dear life

lead my hand
on this land
o' dear life, 
until the end

o' dear thought
of comfort

seed my life
feed me not in strife
bleed me joy from nine to five

lead me a journey of phases
a...

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The wood is stacked for winter.
One way out of the mind's limitations
is through other minds' contemplations.
The books are stacked for winter.

Yet even that cannot satisfy.
Failing to hold still for meditation
my teacher smiles, makes this observation:
The...

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Allowed for his glory.
The bound burden seems so heavy,
So brutal as if to chastise,
Though that is not its purpose.

To peel back the sinful man,
And replace with divine scars.
To wrench such commonalities,
And replace with a tempered...

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I have a mind, a body, a sense that I am one
I am a husband and father, but first I was a son
I do have faith, but I question, the many times I’m tried
As, that...

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in Love and Luck
there's only Fate
there is Will and Way
to shape each day
there is who we are but not
is the question in play

not defined by Power or Roles
But Deed

Or facial Expression
or solemn Confession
but Intent thru...

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face to face 
inevitably doing this to
kill time doing this to 
find a place outside the moment to 
reside doing this to bend the
will of a foe doing this to
see into another equally 
coming to...

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