Long Conversant Poems

These are the thoughts and 
feelings of a
plus sized chick,
One who is defined as plump and 
thick,
With chunks of fat and extra skin,
Rounded edges and puffed up 
cheeks.
This is her being raw and real
Saying it...

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Restorative justice programs
empower victims
and enlighten remorseful perpetrators

To become active co-responders
in a partnership
to brighten win/lose
left-brain dominant trespassers
in the win/win grace of forgiving
fore-gifting all us Trespassers
as we forgive our TransPassive exploiters
straight white privileged monoculturists
overpoweringly competitive capitalists
climate eco-extractive...

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There is no part of life mine alone,
If regarding my whole existence.      
What belongs to me is only flesh and bone,
Therefrom this life has subsistence.

Down on the farm I was...

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Sans Whole Body Out Of Country Transplant

hmm...methinks mebbe aye
can empty the ocean
     one teaspoon at time bine bye
and after about
     a bajillion years cry
tears of joy, when...

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she got on about three stops after I did 
I was sure she was conversant in ballet 
by the way she danced up the steps 
and delicately deposited her passage 
into the device next to...

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They said i was not good enough
Good enough to waste a glance on
They claimed i was not strong enough
Strong enough to fight battles alongside them
They assumed i was not brave enough
Brave enough to face their...

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THIRU-VALLUVAR discourses on the duties of the King's Ministers* in the THIRUK-KURAL: AMAICCHU - K633 and K635
[* In presentday context, read as Minister(s) of State, Secretary of State, Special Counselors in the government, etc.] 

K633:...

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Snow Flake And Mountain

A snow flake came down, in turns, in twists, in blizzard company
Never lands, captured in an updraft, lifts up with other plans
A mountain positioned for a collision with the flake
Seemed tall enough...

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Wrinkled, but beautiful still
Even in decrepit apparel and uncombed;
Jagged skin and sensual fragrance lost
But still spongy her touch is and the smell
Only thing I’d miss the most in the universe.

Toiled through hardship and still...

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Feed your goldfish before you leave 
Love them as you love yourself
The bible tells us all fish are created equal 

Some people prefer baby guppies
Because their mouths move slow and oval
They are smaller and talk...

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You're OK
By Michelle Morris
12/12/2022

People look at you and think
You're OK
Just because you seem to
Behave in an acceptable way

Just because you manage
To function and exist
People think you're OK
And don't consider symptoms

But, those who are more tuned...

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I am much aware of the previous records you read
Both bearing my mark and my seal
Carried no good, stocked with vile and deceit
But I urge you brothers and sisters
To think harder, coz I’ve been penning...

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Grateful am I to God for America’s great legacy
wholeheartedly enjoyed with freedom-bliss 
in my country, regarded as the “Pearl of the Orient Seas.”

Joyful am I for America’s great contributions to my personhood:
my being conversant with...

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"Thy wit is quick and capable thy rhyme
Conversant with my heart art thou and sly
Thou giveth words where I have never spoken

I swear against the truth so foul a lie
For pride and reputation hath thou...

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It is always darkest before the light, they say
And for some of us that is most assuredly true
I almost never see the dawn at the break of day.

I am among those who sleep the dawn...

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I am well conversant with the the art of war
how can i not?
Other than the fact that each day is a survival on this planet
My father was a freedom fighter
See!
Sovereignty runs through my veins.
Am fortified.

Beauty...

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Check Mate
By Rick Rucker

Were it not for the most curious turn of Fate,
I would never have met The One, that will be my mate!

The chances were, actually, two hundred to one!
Sorting through them, I had...

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MOSES 
MOSES 
  
A man used to love his flesh made to withstand the caresses of his woman. 
Desert dwelling wrapped in clothing of the linen type. 
His leather sandals were not chapped or...

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A candle of optimism,
a light of expectation. 
Imprinted in the heart,
bounded by faith.

Hope! Very persuasive, 
confronting affronts.
Diligent and patient,
always marching forward with faith.

Hope! The mother of success.
Built in all, manifest in some. 
People achieve with...

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A candle of optimism,
a light of expectation. 
Imprinted in the heart,
bounded by faith.

Hope! Very persuasive, 
confronting affronts.
Diligent and patient,
always marching forward with faith.

Hope! The mother of success.
Built in all, manifest in some. 
People achieve with...

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Up, up, up
Is the atmospheric pressures rise
Innermost static zero-dynamic
Winds do cry
As all wing creatures fly
Up down in the midst of the terrain
Smoke fill island mountains
Brown, green, orange ridged volcano
Smooth trim valleys bronze and gold
Down, down,...

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Oh, how can I love you beautiful,
Reverence
---Alas  for you have a beautiful soul;
Reverence
You’re blossomed spirit, leaves you marigold;
Reverence
As I glaze upon your shadow;
Reverence
It’s so very hard to imagine;
Reverence
That someone so beautiful, soul
Reverence
Could ever be...

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Some sacrificial fonts are filled
with sanctified water
others overflow with blood and bile
all but for the rose petals camouflage
dare we know the difference 

A holy child who in devoice distilled
lest in innocence mayhap confront such sanctimonious...

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A poem should be the candle
that brings human feelings to light;
moving like a stubbled shadow
across the face of tomorrow.

And its rhythm should be inviting;
soliciting raw emotions
from within the depths of your soul,
where both angels and...

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air a voice of no measure
pairs equitably trifling

like an eighty-six patron
vermiso will win out a
majority in favor

consciousness of her fears are
competently conversant
of artsy quiescency

a plague that ails them
whereby its cure is
not immediate

composure that an artist
overripes...

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