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Premium Member Watering Gaian Grace
One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating  

Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements

Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom

Is to explore together
how and...

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Categories: direct, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Warrior
“Warrior” 

When the Argonauts, came across 
the abandoned Starship, they 
found within the wrecked 
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message. 
It took several attempts to 
reactivate, but when opened, 
the following was translated: ...

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Categories: direct, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Declaration of Interdependence
When in the Course of Earth’s climatic events, 
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands 
which have connected Her with human nature, 
and to assume among the powers of Earth, 
separate and equal...

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Categories: direct, freedom, health, independence day, life, peace, political,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Positive Political Psychology
I question my own interplay of psychology and political science.
Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?

Intersections of sociology and psychology are at least academically commonplace.
I have a friend with...

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Categories: direct, culture, health, political, psychological, religion, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto Translation
Premise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task. 
I expect criticism.

When just the midway of my...

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Categories: direct, dream, poems,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member God's Return Ticket
God's Return Ticket

Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...

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Categories: direct, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Terror Bugs: Part 5 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 4 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________

A water cannon screeched around the corner on two wheels
Four and twenty Terror Bugs were nipping at its heels
Their acid blistered paint work but it...

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Categories: direct, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Polyculturing Education
Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [ecopolitical] future.

Although I recognize the value of formal...

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Categories: direct, culture, deep, destiny, earth day, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Beast of the Cave
When I was young, and adventure routine,
With excitement and newness still unforeseen
I was eager to spread my wings to the world
And seek more adventures as those wings unfurled

Within my long travels I happened to meet
Two...

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© Jack Clark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direct, adventure, dark, death, evil, scary,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Today's Journey Through Covid-19
As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...

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Categories: direct, africa, baptism, beautiful, christian, courage, poems, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member God Sees It All - the Tanka Style
~ God  Sees  It  All  ~
( Double Tanka   )


~O~


God just sees it all
You can be sure He sees you
He sees you and me
God knows everything  you do
Your lifes...

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Categories: direct, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Child of the King
I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...

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Categories: direct, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Two

Rosalia’s Instruments of Evil and Debauchery
Rosalia needed certain tools or instruments of evil and debauchery to successfully pursue her nefandous plans of bringing the people...

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Categories: direct, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love Like His - the Whitney Style
~ Love  Like  His  ~
( Whitney )


~O~


Saved by Grace
Inspired by God's 
Love, Word, restores
My soul each day
Love like His
No other compares
Lord  guides  life with Love, Faith, Hope


 
~O~



 Dorian Petersen...

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Categories: direct, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member MY Collaboration with Actor, Singer: Ricky Nelson in the Mid Winter of ''80: PART I
MY Collaboration with Ricky Nelson in the Last Days of 1980

The eventful news of that day about what was found on board that crashed plane, won't replace that particular memory of Mr. Rick Nelson's hearty...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direct, appreciation, celebrity, girlfriend, imagery, lost, peace, wife,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in, does its work and leaves.

...maybe it's been a while since...

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Categories: direct, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inside the Great Halls of Us
“Inside the Great Halls of Us”



Inside 
The Great Halls of Us,
there resides a ghost 

IT hides in plain sight,
waiting quietly, alone, 
in our dark

there, IT holds ITs light,
to draw us further in,
we nervously laugh IT...

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Categories: direct, i am, science fiction, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the  back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core

For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...

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Categories: direct, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Rosalia - the Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Five
Rosalia - The Evil Black Witch of the Harz, Part Five

The Monseigneur knew that they must be successful in this venture as the “Lord’s Madmen” or face the very real possibility of eternal damnation, if...

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Categories: direct, allegory, evil, halloween, horror, magic, mythology, scary,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
                         ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direct, religion, spiritual,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Listening For Firestorms
Always respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of fertile dopamine.

They, like you,
co-arise of and from the landscapes
in which...

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Categories: direct, absence, blessing, happiness, health, humanity, nature, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Most Courageous American President For the Ages
A Most Courageous American President for the Ages

I thought it would be most appropriate for me to take a moment to
share some of my reflections on the life and distinguished public
service of the late 41st...

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Categories: direct, america, celebration, character, inspiration, patriotic, political, tribute,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Megan's Quest Part 5of7
At that moment an explosion of mud filled the air
    as their tension was now largely increased.
They tried to gather their wits but all took to stare
    as for...

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Categories: direct, adventure, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Queen of England
Queen Elizabeth Alexandra Mary ll
Her seemingly eternal monarch--God has now beckoned
Balmoral Castle, reigned over the United Kingdom
"God Save The Queen" The British national anthem
21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022

“We are all visitors to this...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: direct, appreciation, celebration, grief,
Form: Clerihew
What Remains Within - Reverse Rejection and Recycle Reassurance Again
They weren’t thinking things all the way through as I weren’t able 
They took me for granite and used me in the wrong way possible 
I need some reassurance tonight to get through this plight...

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Categories: direct, angst, courage, emotions, fear, hope, longing, moving
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs