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Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”
Spurred by mother dearest
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.
Back in the day
quaint...
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Categories:
formerly, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form:
Rhyme
Feeling BetterSystems,
ecosystems,
and ego body-systems,
patriotic systems
and feminist systems
mutually improve,
grow more robust,
resilient,
resonant when WinWin relationships
between diversely paradigmatic elements
within said system
and between unsaid systems
improve,
grow more healthy wealth together
well-greased co-operative channels
and web-structures
WinWin overwhelming WinLose
competing smaller self-centered investments.
Capital small-self promotion tends...
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Categories:
formerly, earth, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Professor Glory's Active HopeThe title of this talk today,
"Win-Win Politics of New Feminist Economics"
suggests questions,
more than emasculating
definitively deductive
reductive
answers.
Would you imagine
a minority-identified Buddhist,
more likely as a feminist
or culturally comfortable
with political and economic Left-brain domination,
monopolistic competing toward total self-consuming
reiteratively...
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Categories:
formerly, creation, culture, deep, environment, feelings, love, political,
Form:
Narrative
People of FaithIt's hard to say where and when our town's People of Faith Cooperative started.
After all,
we have all emerged together,
and are still emerging
people of TaoGod,
right?
Our faith includes defining our still humanizing species
as among those not capable...
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Categories:
formerly, culture, earth day, education, health, humor, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Contract Against GreatnessIn Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold ZeroSum accounting Souls.
If the perfectly powerful pure patriarchal patriot
were your...
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Categories:
formerly, culture, health, integrity, mental illness, peace, philosophy,
Form:
Political Verse
Messages For Regenerating TimeThis revolutionary message
is brought to you by
the
TransMillennial EarthTribe CoOperative,
your international ecopolitical sponsor,
speciating Earth's New PostMillennially Silent EcoLogical Majority.
We think we begin to both comprehend,
in a B. Fullerian metaphysical sense,
and co-empathically trust,
in an economic and...
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Categories:
formerly, culture, health, humor, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
Is a New Day - the Linked Style~ Is A New Day ~
( Linked )
~O~
Is a new day
I
Day to thank God
S
God praise for all
A
All...
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Categories:
formerly, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form:
Free verse
Naked Redmeat EmperorsRE: Continuing RedMeat Only,
much less any Green Leafy Salads
Abraham Lincoln thought it politically unhealthy,
and probably economically unwise,
to disinvest his Cabinet,
much less his entire Constitutionally incorporated population,
from ecopolitical diversity.
What is politically healthy,
probably not an all RedMeat...
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Categories:
formerly, anti bullying, body, emotions, health, loss, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Miklos Radnoti Translations of Holocaust PoemsPostcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain ridges, rebounds, then ebbs into silence
while here men, beasts, wagons...
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Categories:
formerly, death, grave, holocaust, horror, humanity, memorial, world
Form:
Free verse
A Greener Bodhisattva WorldThis is the third time
I've read Beyond Religion:
Ethics
[non-sectarian, non-partisan, non-violent]
for A (not "The") Whole World
[ZeroZenZone Universe, psychological and politically eco-logical].
In the second, of two, sections,
the Dalai Lama discusses,
in most excruciating therapeutic detail,
emotional positive v negative...
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Categories:
formerly, beauty, green, health, humor, psychological, religion, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papaApril 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and file of...
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Categories:
formerly, absence, age, anniversary, april, bereavement, death, father,
Form:
Rhyme
Inxs of Poison From Iron Maiden Scorpion Mamma and Ac Dc Charged Aries PapaInxs of poison from iron maiden scorpion mamma and ac/dc charged aries papa
Although gainfully unemployed
(fate now finds me receiving
social security disability –
for approximately
the last baker's dozen years -
the yeast divine intercession...
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Categories:
formerly, 12th grade, abuse, anger, anxiety, atheist, bullying,
Form:
Free verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 8He awoke to the sound of lightly crunching ice. As he opened his eyes the boy stood looking at him, then with one fluid motion he stepped forward and stretched out his hand,
...
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Categories:
formerly, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Raid Versus WoeRaid versus woe
Black flag(s) show up
on social media platforms
when potential homicidal maniac(s)
communicate(s) intent to strike
with ambush and ready
read - able, eager, and willing
to embark upon murderous rampage.
Prospective killer armed to the teeth
usually a young bucking...
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Categories:
formerly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form:
Rhyme
Those Who ListenIf we,
especially in China, Russia, and USA,
were more cooperatively in charge
among our EarthSouled selves,
and less about competitively charging at,
shooting at each other
and our homes
and gardens,
less rapacious supremacy
against formerly extended cooperative family farmlands
and forests;
Punishing each...
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Categories:
formerly, age, america, health, integrity, mental illness, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
In America June 14th Equals Flag DayIn America June 14th equals flag day
and in Pennsylvania a federal holiday.
"...I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands. One nation under god...
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Categories:
formerly, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form:
Rhyme
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging AdultInferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades
during...
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Categories:
formerly, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form:
Rhyme
Notes From a Unitarian ChildOnce upon a time,
an eight year old
Black and Green and Brown and Red and Blue Lives Matter
ultra-nonviolent kid
wrote an ultra-violet note to him/herself
about stuff s/he needed to full-rainbow recall
if and when s/he ever became
a worn...
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Categories:
formerly, age, childhood, culture, earth, health, religion, wisdom,
Form:
Political Verse
To God Be the Glory - Great Things He Has DoneTo God be the glory - great things he has done.
‘I am Eddie Rowlands, I became a Christian in 1985, at that time I also experienced evil opposition toward me, to the extent of being...
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Categories:
formerly, god,
Form:
Narrative
April 9th, 2023 Birthday Poem For Dearly Departed PapaApril 9th, 2023 birthday poem for dearly departed papa
Borne aloft into the netherland
the body bearing thee soul
of Boyce Brandon Harris
birth name given to my late father
buoyed aloft united with spirit
of mine late...
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Categories:
formerly, age, anger, anniversary, appreciation, april, bereavement, birthday,
Form:
Free verse
Chief Garbage Taster As Fifth Grade Halloween GagChief garbage taster as fifth grade Halloween gag
at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
interestingly enough landed me a grubhub grab bag.
I rooted thru poetry anthology of mine,
and came across an unpublished poem
by one obscure poet (me),...
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Categories:
formerly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 5th
Form:
Rhyme
Earth HuggingWhat could I do?
What to do
when your biological,
and even formerly sober ecological,
relationships suddenly veer insanely romantic?
Or worse,
mistrustful
and yet
not always distrustful,
or not,
maybe deeper sadness
and occasional manic gladness
emerging inclusively wider questions
of approach and/or avoid
Both romantic
and yet...
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Categories:
formerly, health, light, passion, peace, power, romantic love,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Island NationsIn a sense
each person capable of understanding these words
and those who speak diverse languages together
are island nations
splitting in two
by love
or fear
or both.
I have been concerned about the U.S. island of fundamentalist Christians,
formerly part of the...
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Categories:
formerly, christian, health, hope, islamic, love, peace, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Treasuring the EducatorA former friend of mine
tricked me into becoming
something I am not
The volunteer President
of our condo association,
a position I clearly cannot afford
midst trifling disassociations.
We were starting our Autumn tradition
of arguing about next year's budget
which typically continues
until...
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Categories:
formerly, education, health, humor, integrity, peace, political, power,
Form:
Political Verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iii - Miklos RadnotiWorld War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - III - Miklos Radnoti
Miklos Radnoti was one of the greatest of the Jewish Holocaust poets. He died on a Nazi death march, shot to death in cold...
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Categories:
formerly, holocaust, murder, race, racism, war, world, world
Form:
Free verse