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Premium Member Positive Political Problems
My fundraising problem with positive psychology,
said the good health doctor,
it is too social science squishy,
not leftbrain dominant enough,

Suspiciously ecofeminist
for natural science pathologists
Straight-White privileged proctologists
urologists
bicamerally challenged cardiologists.

I must concede
not ecopolitically erect enough
correct indeed
said the nervous 
trauma...

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Categories: downplaying, addiction, caregiving, health, integrity, mental illness, political,
Form: Political Verse



Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman Told To Ye
While on the topic 
of blood kith and kin,
I relate another 
fabricated poem about 
blimey bloke of a fisherman. 

Trawl tale of a fictitious seaman told to ye...

Courtesy webbed whirled wide net wit
cursing thwarted life,...

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Categories: downplaying, 8th grade, adventure, animal, appreciation, destiny, fish,
Form: Rhyme
Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
tweaked to pass inspection broadcast on the double
(alternately titled snafu: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive)
finds me bleary eyed stupefied
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Hyundai Sonata Malfunctioning Brake Caliper Blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
vehicular repairs (prohibitive) 
finds me bleary eyed stupefied 
and countenance grizzled with prickly stubble 
collapsed amidst virtual rubble).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gotta quench mine...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel,
Form: Free verse
What Happened To the Giants, Part I
You may have heard folks speak about giants,
it certain circles that some call ‘plain nuts!’
among cryptozoological types
they’re speculated upon rather much.

And every few months on the internet,
at least if you’re into that type of thing,
you...

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Categories: downplaying, conflict, history, myth, people, perspective, science, time,
Form: Epic



Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
My grandfather Hymie 
     spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands 
     and ruddy complexion re
     enforced non verbal body language...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, art, character, deep, god, memory, solitude,
Form: Ode
Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres
Bonanza of shamrocks will soon blanket Green Acres...
where Lassie free to run across petco junction 

All across the webbed
wide esse Scott's landed wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold
burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold
wishes if...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, appreciation, april, beautiful, color, creation, green,
Form: Rhyme
Trawl Tale of a Fictitious Seaman
(scoured from dregs of me muss held head)

I shore up a vignette to free 
my ("FAKE") grandfather Hymie,
whose scrunched countenanced 
evinced beetle that of browed monkey
he spent his entire life at sea
his thick calloused hands

and...

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Categories: downplaying, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th grade, 9th
Form: Narrative
Schwenksville Pennsylvania
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
Earthdate/starttime: 11/04/19 01:10:26 AM
Earthdate/endtime: 11/04/19 02:55:46 AM

Poetic snapshot regarding immediate
actual, physical, spatial... environment
pertinent, relevant, salient... yours truly
commenced within fleeting electronic

date/time stamp indicated above bereft
attempts to describe character sketch,
whereat I sit within Apartment B44:
taking immediate...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, father,
Form: Free verse
Bar None No Shortage of Soap Shampoo, Nor Detergent
Bar none, no shortage of soap shampoo, nor detergent

Courtesy food pantries
Saint Eleanor's Saint Mary's,
Our Daily Bread,
the missus and yours truly (her spouse)
well stocked with good n plenti of
soap, shampoo and detergent.

Spongebob squarepants
would be in seventh...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, appreciation, beauty, care, devotion, humorous, image,
Form: Free verse
Verizon Router Won'T Connect To Internet Blues
Verizon router won't connect to internet blues
(alternately titled: ma bell heave hubble
telecommunications gone south).

Best sung courtesy rotten dull liver:red worst
after words which, I gotta quench mine thirst
whereby think Botox lips zipped and pursed
hence impossible linkedin...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Blindsided To Craft Eye Catching Title
(alternately christened great insight
to those who Braille)

Ah.... so glad thee did ask
summoning poetic title
tis most daunting task
if lucky forthcoming praise
will yours truly to bask

and bathe with short lived,
while I quaff vintage
amber liquids out the
golden silver...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Memory Laws In The US
I was reading on the so called memory laws or a state-approved interpretation of history. There have been states (Idaho, Oklahoma, Virginia etc.) to name a few, that have passed their own type of memory...

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Categories: downplaying, america, gender, race, racism,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Disaster Flirting
1. They said the meeting point
between your traits and swagger
has dislocated 
and your newly acquired awful image
is beyond reversal.
But hey! I do not fall for obscurantism
on your honor, my senses are on sentry duty
even when...

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Categories: downplaying, abuse, adventure, betrayal, devotion, emotions, slavery, spoken
Form: Lyric
A Poet's Dozen An Invective Contest
the sticks and the stones                              ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: downplaying, fun, humor, humorous, introspection, poets, wisdom, word
Form: Free verse
Shamrocks Blanket Green Acres
All across the webbed wide esse Scott's wold
emerald green Trifolium
carpets harbor untold
burrows of tiny Leprechauns clover
(leaf) ways grant trifold

wishes if captured might
divulge pot of gold
at rainbow's end, and e'en mend
yar shoes, whence re: souled,
thence tread...

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Categories: downplaying, adventure, blessing, cute, environment, green, magic, march,
Form: Dramatic Verse
How So Humdrum
How So Humdrum...
Being A Nonpartisan Author

One path of literary renown striving
     to craft belles lettres
     versus another aim
ming to inject castigation,

     fulmination, and...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Canoodling Within Cyberspace
Squarely conscientious, I unwittingly
sanction selfhood acutely triangulate
courtesy webbed geometry jeopardize,
galvanize pluck nudging contrived arc,
virtually courting temptation aware,

sans impetuousness compromises an
anonymous commingling, nonetheless
electronic fraternization enthralls mine
plucky chutzpah possibility intrigues
yours truly sporting impish grinning

smile across world wide...

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Categories: downplaying, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, angel,
Form: Free verse
A Moment In Time
By Fatima Abdul Aleem

The blossoming buds fill my eyes with delight,
As the aroma seeps through the air,
Showcasing a picturesque scene depleted of fright,
A life of beauty and a day so rare,

A gentle breeze runs across...

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Categories: downplaying, appreciation, creation, day, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Orson Welles and the Martians
Orson Welles and company put on a show
which was broadcast in 1939 over CBS radio.
It was based on a book written years before
by H. G. Wells whom many readers would adore.
Martian invaders landed in Grover's...

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Categories: downplaying, history,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs