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Premium Member Superior Courts of Ecological Justice
What evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits, 
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?

What are financial benefits for faith-in-health communities 
both internal to corporate anthrosupremacist monocultural...

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Categories: delaying, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Procrastination
The invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...

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Categories: delaying, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form: Free verse
Procrastination
The invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...

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Categories: delaying, dedication, destiny, dream, fear, happiness, success, work,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Execution Style
Sonny hid behind the melons 
In a busy Asian marketplace,
Near the plantains and the mangos 
Where the shadows could obscure his face.  
He inhaled the air around him 
And enjoyed the fragrant scent of...

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Categories: delaying, adventure, allegory, corruption, murder,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Birth of a Swan
Out 
of the darkness

star-lanterns’ beam finds an awakening dream - 
a strewn snowy stream 
gracing the depths of the black swan night


Earthbound

from the realm of the pulsing Polaris 
   ..traveling through time zones...

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Categories: delaying, birth, december, love, mother, night, spiritual, winter,
Form: Free verse



The reign and rain of terror
The year ends on saddest notes
of crying, dying babies in Palestine 
and obstructed efforts 
to throw them a lifeline 

They ought to have long halted
this ethnic cleansing 
of the indigenous inhabitants
Stop the cruel bombardment
of their...

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Categories: delaying, horror, violence, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member almost
downsizing was meant to become
a tool for freedom and devotion
yet it remained a passion unfulfilled
crowded in cherished possessions

they call me a hoarder although 
I prefer to be seen as a
distinguished collector
stylish hunter and gatherer
connoisseur of...

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Categories: delaying, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Prophetic Exit
I woke up today and gave my life a reflection 
The problem, the sorrows
The failure that follows 
Each day feeling my hopes are empty 
Feeling ashamed and guilty 
When I see my results crumpled and...

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Categories: delaying, education, god, inspirational, school, student, success,
Form: Rhyme
My Friends, My Faith, My Hope
My Friends, My Faith, My Hope

My friends infuses our time spent together
As musk from a perfume seller,
Time spent in their knowledgeable company priceless,
Positive demeanor, manner, sincerity, such bliss
Mashing my cobwebs with threads of awareness
Instilling vitality...

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Categories: delaying, analogy, faith, friendship, god, inspiration, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Extract 11 From What Changes
This change is the only thing that I had no control over
What I discover now is that I never had nor ever will have any control over it
That the stillness was always there
That there was...

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Categories: delaying, blessing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Where's Sam
Mary Davis dwelled on a fruit farm, adoring the company of animals.
Most beloved was sociable Sam, who made her giggle, like bubbles!

Whereas Mary was seven-years-old, Sam, her lamb, was still a baby,
Given to Mary by...

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Categories: delaying, children, fun, nature, nursery rhyme, pets, school,
Form: Couplet
Voice of Nothing
Here we are
a title of a song, a transitional statement with no meaning
does it really serve a purpose
delaying the inevitable train-wreck these words will incur
I concur
words are meaningless, disastrous
If they were of any help 
citizens...

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Categories: delaying, violence, words, world, write,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Like a Ray of Sunshine
Little Susie was everyone's favorite. She usually caused people to smile;
Like bouquets received from yesterday, traveling on mauve, Memory Aisle.

Susie Partridge was loved by all, since she was indeed sugar and spice;
Like honeycomb riches of...

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Categories: delaying, fantasy, girl, growing up, joy, nature, nursery
Form: Couplet
Stolen Heart
I am falling
I have fallen for you
Hear me calling

Every night and day
I try to forget about you
But unknowingly
I day dream
There you are
In front of me 
Confessing your love for me
You call my name
And I remain...

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Categories: delaying, best friend, black love, boyfriend,
Form: Blank verse
The Live-in -- Part 1 of 3
Six months gone now since that dark night, I was kitchen-bound for a bite
Hoping I in icebox there a slice of pumpkin pie could score –
While I searched, I heard a ringing, an insistent ding-a-linging,
Louder...

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Categories: delaying, fun, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Jolly the Good Friend (Inspired By True Events)
It all started on a sunny afternoon 
while precious’s mother was taking a shower 
she left little Precious(her baby girl) on the couch 
unknowing to her 
little Precious, the good manoeuverer 
had crawled out of...

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Categories: delaying, on writing and words
Form: I do not know?
Hey Mitch Mcconnell
Hey Mitch McConnell...
about all this talk (I hear) about indefatigable (Phila/ Philly-buster)

Police sirens wail doth punctuate the air
ear splitting soundclouds blare
another typical arrest
(guilty until proven innocent if ever)
so much for Black Lives matter protests
biased accusations...

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Categories: delaying, abuse, adventure, america, grave, january, leadership, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Emily
“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” - Emily Dickinson

Her soul, composed of poetry
Breathed light and reflected...

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Categories: delaying, appreciation, poems, poetess, poetry, poets, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Catholic
Catholic

Stern but saintly Father Meissen 
scolded the parents for not having 
their baby boy baptized sooner. 
It was April, 1952,
inside the stained-glassed catholic church,
ensconced on sun-split Newlin street, 
avenue of pink oleanders and cracking sidewalks.
According...

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Categories: delaying, abuse,
Form: I do not know?
Go Go Far Away
Go, Go far away towards the sky where you get free
You have the prerogative of your own life
I shall not stop the breeze flowing from my door
Though we might later calculate the price of the...

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Categories: delaying, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Big Man, Is You God Calling
Listen, big man! Listen big man! Listen, it is you God calling;
So, stop, stop procrastinating! Just stop procrastinating!
Have you not been out - of - place and purpose, for too long?
Christ is waiting; willing and...

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Categories: delaying, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Weeping's Comforter
March 12 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 19-21

Key Verse –Judges 21:2 And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices,...

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Categories: delaying, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Prayer Upholder
September 29 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 18-19

Key Verse – Luke 18:1 And he (Jesus) spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to...

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Categories: delaying, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NATURE BOWS TO GOD
Natural

          Nature heeds God’s command, fulfilling His demand. It complies with full might against delaying blight.  Such is shown by rain fall, dropping down along...

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Categories: delaying, appreciation, blessing, christian, creation, god, nature, perspective,
Form: Alexandrine
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Life's Delight
June 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 119:105-176

Key Verse – Psalm 119:174 I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY LIFE’S DELIGHT
				
Lord...

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Categories: delaying, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things