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The Inception: the Dark Side of Me
I’m broke without your love to repair me…

My young heart breaks into two and you push on the brakes…

Three strikez…you’re owt…. Get lost….that is my only plea

Our lives were at stake and we were taking...

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Categories: definitions, beauty, betrayal, how i feel, kiss, life,
Form: Free verse



No Part of the World
NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)


Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?

Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD, just as I am no part of THE WORLD"

What could...

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Categories: definitions, bible, christian, god, gospel, hate, humanity, truth,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Fr Time Commentaries
A few words about my good friend, Fr. Time, perhaps over-invested 
in developing this language and these dialects of evolution.

Not to blame someone for doing too good a job,
but why shine so much light on...

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Categories: definitions, earth, god, health, light, nature, time,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ms Liska
When I was a FreshPerson in a new higher school,
our English Literature class was delighted
to meet a new to our area Ms. Liska,
who was a beautiful teacher
both outside
and in,
and so we all loved her,
and knew...

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Categories: definitions, death, humanity, humor, life, philosophy, student, teacher,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Weird Word Is Wyrd:
The word Wyrd is Old English and means 'destiny'. From the same root comes Urd, one of the Norns, and the Germanic words Werth, Warth, and Wurth, which mean 'become'. The root word means 'to...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: definitions, mythology,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Advent of Other Happy Endings
Throughout 2016 I have been reading Rob Brezsny's Pronoia
Is The Antidote For Paranoia
now ending before I reach 2017.

This postmillennial bible of multiculturalism
ends with several questions or statements
with space to write in my responses.

I am about...

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Categories: definitions, destiny, earth, health, humanity, humor, political, power,
Form: Political Verse
The Truth Of This Magnitude
The Truth Of This Magnitude”

Obstinate defiance from an indignant child 
Consummate reliance on the spirit of the Wild 

Intricate compositions of meticulous art 
A syndicate of derision that is waiting to depart 

The honorary commemoration...

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Categories: definitions, creation, humanity, life, truth,
Form: Rhyme
2071 - Big Brother Watches From On High
2017 - year zero

They loaned to the poor, who cannot repay.
They stole from the old, who cannot recover.
They sold our future, for better or worse
and made our children pay.
They schooled arithmetic to be feared.
They tutored...

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Categories: definitions, corruption, humanity, pain, parody, political, truth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Instincts of Innocence
I reflect upon a word -
   Innocence
To understand more fully what it means,
I think of what it conjures up for me -
childhood times -
 those times when I believed all I was taught
from...

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Categories: definitions, innocence, religion,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Living With a Myth
Living With A Myth

How dares one to speak of disability and live with it to tell the story narrate 
               ...

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Categories: definitions, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Speechwriter
Not too many decades out of college
I finally landed my first full-time job,
as a White House speech writer.

I know,
you would expect
I would not start at the top
and then claw
and grab
and snatch my way to the...

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Categories: definitions, earth, freedom, humor, integrity, patriotic, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Platitudes of Exactitude
Platitudes of Exactitude

Platitudes of exactitude redefining my whole attitude 
Don’t want to seem rude but I can’t help but conclude 
That the truth will protrude 
From a form that just wants to be misconstrued 

Everything...

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Categories: definitions, international, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Proposition For the Old Pagan Gods
Spring flowers you grow & bloom, watered and snuggled within our bed
I knew that my skull was filled with cogs that spun together in my head
I knew early on I made a series of promises...

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Categories: definitions, girlfriend, women,
Form: Quatrain
Huffing Paint In the Mini-Van
Baby birds tweet as their long skinny necks stretch towards blind faith. Somewhat frantically; newly born; next to dead; fragile existence; protected with life. Regurgitation from the same embodied mouth that an egg came from....

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Categories: definitions, imagery, innocence, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
What Is the Nectar
Most of us can feel,
A disturbing pain of
Negative empotive ache
In some form
In our lives.

This can happen to us so much.
Eventually you may be
Annoyed, bored, deppressed
From that disturbing ache.

Than we say:
"Life is painful, boring, bad."
Don't be...

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Categories: definitions, dedication,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Research and Design
PermaCultural InFormation/ExFormation Research and Design

Introduction:
Zero SpaceYang gratefully greets YinBiLateral Time,
after several science and math collateral cooperations,
over and through and beyond metaphysical and special case physical centuries,
appear to favor cooperative dipolar appositional health
over ecopolitically competitive bipolar...

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Categories: definitions, caregiving, happiness, health, humor, integrity, love, wisdom,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Analogous Definitions
Defining Analogies

Natural/Spiritual Religion:
Our cooperative ZeroSoul-owned green sanctuary system
for extensively restoring interdependent outcomes
to and for healthy ego co-invested lives
transubstantiating Earth's wealthiest ecocentric WinWin Peace.

Why do you qualify Religion with "natural/spiritual"?  
Is there some other kind...

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Categories: definitions, caregiving, culture, health, integrity, peace, relationship, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Degenerating Democracies
ReGenerating MultiCultural Ecologies

Our unwhole Uniting States'
degenerative republic governing system
was designed by white patriarchal representatives
to expand our polarizing divide
between what a true European Native USA Representative
Senator
CEO supremely looks like,
resonantly sounds like,
resilient health feels like
competing WinLose defensive...

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Categories: definitions, america, community, health, integrity, math, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Monoku Monday - Jan 2021
"2020 Hindsight Collaboration"  Posted 4 Jan 2021

new year's resolutions      things that go in one year and out the other

I resolve to avoid all fatty and unhealthy...   ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: definitions, new year,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Poet Identity
Poet Identity

In conversations,
In biographies,
In resumes…all poets are writers,
    but not all writers are poets.
On a careful look into the mirror, when not looking
    for wrinkles, but staring deep into...

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Categories: definitions, character, desire, destiny, humanity, inspiration, simile, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Democracy On Fire
In "On Fire"
Naomi Klein reminds us
win/lose capitalism invites a cooperative action vacuum
and abhors restrictions on money-accumulating freedom,

But Earth,
healthy global climates,
wealthy ecosystems
invite regenerative win/win climax
of cooperatively nurturing health systems
and abhor inhumane definitions of "wealth"
as privately-held and...

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Categories: definitions, earth, engagement, health, integrity, political, psychological, social,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Lazarus Heart
“The Lazarus Heart”



In the moment 
time stops:
suspended; seen
in solitary confinement
the heart of a soul
silent light weighted 
in the dark, rebellious
is the meaning of a name
Mary waits four days
in the flux
The Lazarus Heart
kick starts bedevilled 
by...

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Categories: definitions, dark, death, heart, i am, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kindness and Resiliency
children look forward, adults look around, elders look back

     looking back, I remember a long-forgotten accident I had. While riding my bicycle with no hands, I closed my eyes, daring myself...

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Categories: definitions, adventure, blessing, care, education, inspirational, remember, thanks,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member - You Are the Giver -
We are now facing the biggest
                             ...

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Categories: definitions, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Humanity Is An Ocean
I sit and stare at the skies hoping an
infusion will change my snares of
confusion. Deep down our hearts we all
yearn for positivity in all aspects of our
lives. It is not a walk in the park...

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Categories: definitions, art,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs