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Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:
In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...
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distinct, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form:
Prose Poetry
For All That I Remembered
For All That I Remembered
by Michael R. Burch
For all that I remembered, I forgot
her name, her face, the reason that we loved ...
and yet I hold her close within my thought:
I feel the burnished weight...
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Categories:
distinct, desire, dream, memory, remember, sad love, soulmate,
Form:
Sonnet
Legend
Look up in the sky ! It’s a bird ! It’s a plane.
It’s Superman !
More powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. This fearless...
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Categories:
distinct, courage,
Form:
Narrative
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 37
I heard two distinct voices in the night,
Conversing amongst themselves most eagerly
They whispered like children in excitement
Their sardonic mouths sung many savvy tunes
It was Death I could perceive, defending me,
And he, a strange, distant friend
Seemed...
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Categories:
distinct, change, death, gothic, grave, literature, romance, war,
Form:
Epic
Noneastern Family Politics
I began reading Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
from the back toward the front,
as usual,
because if I appreciate where this narrative journey will end,
then I probably will find we start off with similar questions
of...
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Categories:
distinct, culture, health, power, , literature, , western,
Form:
Political 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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distinct, bible, christian, god, gospel, hate, humanity, truth,
Form:
Didactic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 77
“Who...what are you?” His gaze moved from Joulupukki to Lumi. Lumi offered,
“I am an elf of the Village Clan, and this is my companion Joulupukki.”
...
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Categories:
distinct, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
Coincides with first day of fall
and Autumnal equinox for said year,
where colorful splash kindled like tinder.
After I riff flecked about thee August
Autumn Equinox 2023,
this seasonal polymath teached you
fall Equinox...
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distinct, animal, appreciation, autumn, celebration, cool, environment, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 36
They were joined by Ceridfen, Lumi, Gwaldon and several others a bit later in
the day for a late mid-day meal. Seileach, the efficient elf that he was, had already forwarded a letter containing specific...
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Categories:
distinct, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 20
After Bréagán left the courtyard Erlenkönig began his own preparations for the upcoming fight. He did not have time to think of the elf's self apprehension. He knew that because of the chiding...
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distinct, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Increase In Head Size
Increase In Head Size
impossible mission to encapsulate notion
flitting hither and yon, to and fro
within cranium attached to mine body,
whereby irrefutable proof prevails
predicated when yours truly
scrutinizes other people visibly aware,
I a modest married male
blessed,...
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Categories:
distinct, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Phobia's
Phobias
A Bluto is not that Disney dog
It was when a mewling
that I would scream
Should they wet my body
And then apply cream
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Achluo the demon that lurks
In darkened...
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Categories:
distinct, on writing and words, hair, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Deprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed
Glib rhetoric concerned with striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...
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Categories:
distinct, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form:
Free verse
A Memory From The Past
AN ANECDOTE FROM THE PAST...
Names of places and persons have either been changed or omitted to protect identity.
It was a late summer’s night warm and balmy,
Camping we were high in the lofty mountains;
I was lying...
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Categories:
distinct, confidence, conflict, friend, hero, lost love, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
The Stranger
*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.
The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay
Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...
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distinct, allegory, encouraging, faith, meaningful, missing, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022
Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022
sequestered (with the missus)
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd
entertains reckons partition of time
into...
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Categories:
distinct, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form:
Free verse
Last Rose For a Rebel - Part 2
(continued)
She wanted me to re-marry, you see, but I never did.
Oh, I had a few trysts, here-and-there,
just to remind myself the plumbing still worked,
but all it REALLY did was remind me
how much more incredible making...
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Categories:
distinct, fantasy, history, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Love of Our Life
LOVE Of Our Life
Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hidden forces compatibly energize different folks,
Fortifying for...
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Categories:
distinct, desire, emotions, god, love, perspective, relationship, wisdom,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Offpeak Experiences
Send me no more peak experiences.
They are too dear
for my everyday time budget
of liberal
liberated
liberating
resonantly exhausting compassion.
I am too addicted
to conserving resilient peaks,
avoiding dissonant valleys
of mundane anonymity
sometimes winning
sometimes losing
in-between equanimity
integrity
of co-empathic co-arising intent
for more...
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Categories:
distinct, faith, gospel, health, power, relationship, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Stressors
*last winter break*
I woke up abruptly, my chest gripped and tight. My face felt hot but my arms stung as if frostbitten. I gasped for air that wouldn’t come, as if I had a plastic...
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Categories:
distinct, brother, christmas, dream, growing up, sister, teen,
Form:
Free verse
Ten Interpretations of John 1-1
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Take your pick! Or better still, self realise your own insight.
Interpretation of the agnostic:
Original thought is energy created...
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Categories:
distinct, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
David Death
David Death
David Death was strong but handsome,
But he suffered from much discrimination,
Because his beauty was shaded, unlit,
Which found him called ugly and unfit.
He understood why this error occurred,
So always made...
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Categories:
distinct, computer, death, desire, internet, life, nature, self,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
The Hidden Lane
The sun burst out from underneath the clouds
Ploughing through the merry crowd
The impact of nature is closing in
sucking the joy from within
Trucks and cars littered the streets
Adding more pain to the...
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Categories:
distinct, adventure, america, character, community, corruption, pain, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Gone and Hopefully Permanently Forgotten
By Stanley Collymore
Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live, as they’re no longer
around, is the lame and unconvincing excuse
that’s...
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Categories:
distinct, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Racism in the Workplace
Racism in the Workplace**
Racism is a prevalent issue within workplace environments, often manifesting in the interactions among employees. Given that individuals spend a significant portion of their day—typically six to seven hours or more—at work,...
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Categories:
distinct, anti bullying, anxiety, confidence, conflict, corruption, devotion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse