Long Evaluations Poems

What is patriotism?

Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health care integrity?

What is nationalism?

Usually positive values about monocultural 
monotheistic
monopolistic identity,
but I guess nationalism could also include negative evaluations,
begging for more international 
interdependent...

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What remains 
when gratitude for learning
totally evaporates?

I don't know...
Totalitarian senility, maybe?
I guess I don't understand
the source of your question, dear.
Do you feel less grateful for learning
than in more formative years?

No, I don't
but I sense younger...

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Dear Covenant to Empower Children, Inc.

I was in a Potlatch CoHousing Cafe
just the other repair-invested day
for both ego and eco therapy.

Our host introduced
this Potlatch SkillShare event
speaking to himself:

The less I share skills and resources
on cooperative...

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The Conditions of Living

Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation 
Instead of chronic devastation 
Process the abject consternation 
From contrived over-saturation 
And acute mass manipulation 
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...

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During the second century, there were many Christians who were tortured and put to death for being Christian. There was one named Sanctus* who, when tortured, simply answered, "I am a Christian."  By my...

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Tens of thousands of Experts in the Health Profession including:

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya professor at Stanford University Medical School a physician Epidemiologist, health economist, and public health policy expert focusing on infectious decease and vulnerable populations.

Dr....

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When "oppressive"
becomes synonymous with "government"
and when "government"
becomes synonymous with "bureaucracy"

Then "oppressive government bureaucracy"
sounds like a redundant bad-boy platitude,
ungrateful anthro-
elitist attitude,
absence of relationships 
for which I might feel
non-egged on
and non-eggheaded
regular
everyday
humane/divine 
peace mindfull 
gratitude. 

While "enlightened government...

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I'm a simple guy,
I like video games, music and succeeding without trying,
So when a man comes up to me and tell me he can save my life,
Who am I to turn down a free book...

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Virtue and innocence,
                                ...

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This poem was inspired by Mrs. Dianne McGee’s post earlier on Face Book.


It was the very first day of school 
In Mrs. Thompson’s 5th. Grade class 
An untruth came from inside her 
That probably wouldn’t...

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Thumbs Up To The Journey

At the footbridge as it bridges past from present future and perspectives your
feet might be-come and may be-go confused be-fuddled as can your mind before
the shadows rainbows feathered fancy pastel tunes...

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That ADHD got me judged unfavourably, 
impulsive interactions, easily distracted, 
attention bouncing behaviour unique to me, 

the odd one out and always told 
different people, same old... 
self conscious suffering from a lack of control,...

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There are a lot of things that are happening in our life.
Financial stress family problems and a very worried wife.
These last few months between “us” have been hard but our love has grown strong.
Put together...

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A HOUSE IS CERTAINLY N O T A HOME...
CHECK YOUR DOME, WHERE YOU ROME...

MIND & BODY
WORKPLACE & RETREAT TO REVIVE PLACE...

HOW'S THAT SPACE?

LET'S LOOK AT BASIC FUNDAMENTALS,
IS THIS A SAFE, {RESTORATIVE} PLACE
CAN AND SHOULD IT...

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My soul and my destiny were written in the stars,
on the moon and  on the planets that aligned 
on the day and the very hour and minute
I was born.

As a child I wondered why...

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As l look around and gather things for my journey
l realise that l havent reached my tally
As the trials and tribulations sweep me across the valley
l breathed heavily, in and out , as l reach...

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Trump or Hillary - A crucial choice for America
.
Madam Hillary may be moving 
On the road of American election
With a greater speed than Trump
On the cushions of wealthy donations
Provided to her by her rich and...

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I’m in a psychology class and as part of it we filled out several, detailed, personality evaluations. They said these were helpful in forming a psychological profile of the freshmen classes each year and of...

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After the meeting
She no longer returns my calls
She rather hangs up her telephone anytime I call
save a few mistaken times that fell on deaf ears
causing an irreconcilable hindrance
to the constant flow of our conversation

After the...

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I have been fighting a battle
One that I have told few about 
that sent my life into a whirl spin
Something that caused depression 
to rear its ugly head

For the last 7 months I was 
in...

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it is was on my morning stroll 
i first noticed that common
white house dress, pearl buttons
busy in her garden
sauntering on, a most common sight
on subsequent passings 
my evaluations were she was
not of any particular beauty...

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Dr. McNitt’s coming, we were warned. She’s old-school.
Secretly my heart was cheering, this meant strict rules.
Seasoned and sassy, I wisely kept my counsel to myself, 
I am so glad though she is coming back 6...

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      ~~Move the Clouds~
      (A Reason for Rainbows)

When you left, you took my heart!
It was midnight.
You darted out of the house into
that midnight Spring moonlight,
with...

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If you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of God's grace and evaluations
then why don't you allow them to...

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S	Sorriest type of assessment
T	Two answers always sound right; one is author’s idea of more right.
A	Assumes we have identical life experiences, exposed to same words
N	No one likes them- not the students, teachers or parents
D	Do not guess,...

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