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Harriet Harris, Nee Kuritsky Gave Up the Ghost

Harriet Harris, née Kuritsky gave up the ghost...

~ May fourth, 2005
wedded bliss nearly fifty years
half a century almost
me not most favorite grown offspring,
she (when alive) did boast,
about youngest sister and her family,
unlike me – severely...

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Categories: esprit de corps, absence, abuse, anger, appreciation, bereavement, cry, dance,
Form: Free verse

Stolen Illumination of the Star

STOLEN ILLUMINATION OF THE STAR

This journey has not been a fanciful adventure, 
we're all settlers in  these dynasty of neo-colonialism 
united only by what divides us. Victims, yes 
victims of civilized inducement, 
terms of...

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Categories: esprit de corps, political,
Form: Narrative

Swing Sets and Jungle Gyms

(or swing sets and monkey bars)

A pitch perfect spring day
such as today April 8th, 2022
within quaint hamlet 
of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania
in close proximity within mind's eye
to Lake Wobegon, Minnesota
finds me reminiscing...

When, scads of light years ago
(half...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse

Consonant Like a Vow El

Consonant Like A Vow (el)

Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering 
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua 
(just recently) late John McCain, and his 
surviving family suddenly damning original 
way word odd did see,...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th grade, america,
Form: Free verse

If I Died Today March 2nd, 2020

If I died today March 2nd, 2020...?

No matter unfulfilled dreams never came true,
nevertheless yours truly doth gladly bid adieu,
where repurposed afterlife (mine) atomic brew
reconfigured, reconstituted, and reconsolidated
out maws of madness, no matter any blues clue
(yea...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 12th grade, age, angel, bullying,
Form: Epitaph

I Samson wannabe feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza

I (Samson wannabe) feel aghast at latest turn of events regarding Gaza

Omnipresent grief and horror
abounds toward ceaseless killing fields
impossible mission for me
to summon forth fading magic powers
since Delilah imposter hashtagged,
(and subsequently outed) 
as a mortal...

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Categories: esprit de corps, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement, conflict, crush, howl,
Form: Free verse

Still Binge Reading Bertrand Russell

Still binge reading Bertrand Russell...
9/8/2020

I plunge further into 
erudite epistemological philosophication
courtesy said renown British polymath,
philosopher, logician, mathematician,
historian, writer, social critic,
political activist, and Nobel laureate.

Whew! His treatise
A History of Western Philosophy Quite profound 
grist for intellectual mill
yours...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 12th grade, adventure, age, america, appreciation, growth,
Form: Free verse

Tearing Half Mast Flag, 1 of 2

—Agonizing Moment, the Hour of 0846 and Thereafter, 09/11/2001—
 
When Pearl Harbor sank to the bottom of water
this nation wailed for enormous pain. However, to cure the wound
we all, the men and women, the young...

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Categories: esprit de corps, america, anger, anxiety, day, death,
Form: Epic

54th Birthday 4 Shari Todd Harris

from birth until this moment with your family as supporting team
the journey within your space/ time continuum stream
found trials and tribulations comprising the spool o yar existential ream

some incidents assessed in retrospect might now appear
as...

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Categories: esprit de corps, age, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, blessing, brother, character,
Form: Ode

Mine Doppelganger Complicit As Accomplice In Pecuniary Crime

Disguised as an Apple Computer Technician.

He initially hacked Macbook Pro laptop.

He (alias Harvey Specter)
planted seeds of suspicion
that criminal activity prevailed
within my geographic area in general
or questionable individuals
lurked within or without
Citizens Bank in particular,
and suggested yours...

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Categories: esprit de corps, abortion, absence, abuse, angel, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

Hillary Clinton

(prior to tha ode dee us political stink sans hillary rodham clinton, i scrawled out this poem. her likelihood to grasp to political mantle than considerably greater than  fourteen months when another official will...

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Categories: esprit de corps, conflict, funny, gender, hero, journey, moving on,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Presidential Inauguration 2017 - Poetic Screed - Part3

pioneer esprit de corps front tier brisk.
*     *     *     *     *     *   ...

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Categories: esprit de corps, betrayal, dark, heartbroken, house, january, me, people,
Form: I do not know?

Bulletin From a Gun Shy Freedom Fighter

easy access and proliferation of firearms,
     now begs a serious hard question
     presenting daunting task,
quite aware that passionate
     stalwart supporters of the NRA,

...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Unshakable Psychic Seizures Quakes Oh Man

(no matter extreme global 
     warming more dire,
then cursing me smoldering 
     infernal languishing spitfire.)

Shade did adolescent
     facade drifts asunder
asper...a major emotional blunder
shielding...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, flower,
Form: Free verse

NIGERIA AND BAD BELLY

Nigerian people let us embrace the truth,
Bad Belly is Bad Belly
It is Bad Belly when your Father beats his chest,
And declares that "he is the giant of Africa," 
But he cannot boast of ordinary twenty...

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Categories: esprit de corps, africa, betrayal, corruption, humanity, integrity, money,
Form: Free verse

Swing Sets and Jungle Gym

When, while a father with two young girls,
ah charming children indeed
both wrapped around mine middle finger,
whose playful rebukes
this papa did heed
(who wished for a son),
he never did breed)
aplomb (fig your at Tivoli) found me

taking their...

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Categories: esprit de corps, absence, adventure, age, daughter, father, growing up,
Form: Bio

Claire Wineland

(whose video powerfully, profoundly, and
positively affected this southeastern residing 
Pennsylvania papa)! 

Afflicted with Cystic Fibrosis since her birth
contagious exuberance, gung-ho,
     infectious jubilance noah dearth
which eye opening (then tearing)
   ...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 12th grade, 9th grade, death of a
Form: Elegy

Pledge of Allegiance, Revisited

I Pledge Allegiance
a solemn vow of obedience, from the earliest age of grievance,
when found deliverance, one people, united against tyranny and intolerance,
become the model of democracy and toleration

To The Flag
the symbol of once colonization come...

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Categories: esprit de corps, dedication, devotion, education, history, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse

No Reason To Complain

Yikes, aside from mental
     health re: psychotherapy,
     which haint the worse
cyst phase of being
     objectionably being called "old man",
    ...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, caregiving,
Form: Free verse

Ansley Piper Dunning

(this written about a baker's half-dozen years ago)

this then stunning lithe oldest teenage niece, daughter of
my younger sister epitomizes a tall drink of water
(similar to the mother at same age)
What with her willowy young woman...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: I do not know?

Long Since Stopped Binge Reading Bertrand Russell

I, (a bookish educated intelligent nerd,
albeit three score plus tres años)
constitutes a novel titled 
The Virgin's Lover
by Philippa Gregory
another writer from England. 

Not so much to boast
yours truly sunk trenchant figurative teeth
into material authored courtesy
aforementioned...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 11th grade, 12th grade, atheist, culture, deep,
Form: Rhyme

Matthew Scott Harris and His Doppelganger

Figuratively tack one hundred 
and eighty degrees away...
where joie de vivre underscores 
poetic theme, no matter every day
brings gut wrenching tearful tragedy, 
thee attention for heart warming 
(powdered milk biscuits 
of human kindness)

doth shyly beg...

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Categories: esprit de corps, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse

Long In the Tooth Skeptic

Long In The Tooth Skeptic,...
Nonetheless Rooted With Gumption

Implicit virtue of humankind
figuratively locked horns with vice,
yet time and again this mortal celibate,
(not by choice) sexagenarian thrice
older father of deux priceless young

women chock full, sans esprit de...

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Categories: esprit de corps, art, celebration, daughter, growing up, husband, leaving,
Form: Free verse

Waiting For Good Dough

No matter yours truly
(potential rising star -
analogous to ascending yeast)
bred for easy street
life of po' witless
mendicant nimbly,

pointlessly, and rhythmically
shuffles (think tramp)
along his poetic little feet
garden variety beastie boy
aimlessly, fortuitously, halfheartedly,
and mindlessly follows

one after another backstreet
revisiting,...

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