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Premium Member Remembering Radical Relatives
Explain your historical evolution radically, inclusively, expansively, good-humoredly; 
not carefully, deductively, reductively, sarcastically.

We once had a school of thought
among up and coming geneticists and historians
that the precursor to the regeneration of a species,
or even an...

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Categories: instructive, beauty, culture, health, humor, philosophy, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry



Inception: Lighten Up My Load - Collab With Mikey Part 7
I esteem your presence
Glowing with glee 
At times, you do say things without thinking 
I’m the god of distress – 
You’re leaving me breathless 
Cutting me down like I’m some decaying tree
You don’t see how...

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Categories: instructive, deep, freedom, grief, happiness, hope, hurt, words,
Form: Free verse
An Interview With a Sinner
The bar is tacky and unclean. The lighting early modern neon.
dead insects litter glowing tubes.
I found him in the corner nursing an empty glass.

“Are you recording this?”
“Yes.”
“Good, very good”

“Let’s get started then. Are you a...

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Categories: instructive, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The warning
I went to the cop, in New Haven PD
I said I've got a crime story, but it's hard to believe
The cop said cheerfully, "let's hear, try me"
So I took a deep breath, tried a memory...

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© Gem Stone  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instructive, abuse, body, crazy, drug, evil,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Aphorisms- Idiomatic Expressions
*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The Ends Justify the Means” but may.
Many have said “Rules Were...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instructive, satire,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO ENABLES US TO OFFER FOR HIM WHAT IS HOLY
January 28 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 30-32

Key Verse – Exodus 30:37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof:...

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Categories: instructive, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Old sage of the forest
Old sage of the forest



Old sage of the forest, wise inhabitant of Rickmansworth, thy statue and wisdom are true, true and true,

The true existence of the eternal sun, the stone of which is the foundation...

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Categories: instructive, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Scarlet
**** Would like to preface my return, and many apologies to fellow poets who may have missed my absence. Though I did not have much luck in love this past year, this poem was written...

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Categories: instructive, lost love, memory, romantic, spiritual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Peace Endower
October 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 18-19

Key Verse – Acts 18:9-10 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not...

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Categories: instructive, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Well Here We Are
at last he knows what
has been kicking his ass all these years
living a slow trauma smelling of empire
guardians of civilization on strike or asleep
concluding that non-conformists are all alike
but wait I am harsh this is...

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Categories: instructive, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Divine Renascence
Lord, I need the quickening of my soul
…such is divine renascence
only made possible by Your compassion 
for me to be alive with regeneration-touch
while trusting You for my iniquities’ pardon
toward freedom from sin-condemnation
assured with Your eternal...

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Categories: instructive, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Prose Poetry
I'Ve Had Enough
I think I'll signal guru Bob that I've had enough
of his implicit stress therapy as he calls it
I've contacted the hunchback sperm banks
for a safe deposit box until the embrace is ended
with the last flood...

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Categories: instructive, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My God, Thank You For Lightening My Eyes
July 6 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 29

Key Verse – Proverbs 29:13 The poor and the deceitful man meet together: the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LIGHTENING MY EYES

Thank You for...

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Categories: instructive, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO BLESSES US IN ALL THE WORK OF OUR HANDS
March 7 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 24-27 

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 27:19 … The LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
	
FAITH IN GOD WHO BLESSES...

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Categories: instructive, bible, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Portrait of Simon Gelman
Adorning the walls at Brigham and Women's
Head on his hand quite comfortably resting
The subject distinctive in his smiling position
Inspires the asking who is this physician

Over his shoulder an old time sea captain
And over the other...

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Categories: instructive, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Instructive Deconstructions
I was waiting for my discussion circle to show up,
about to conclude our reading of "Sacred Instructions"

When I saw a list above the server
in the library of Unitarian-Universalist wisdom,
Ten Things to Remember:

The past can't be...

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Categories: instructive, appreciation, environment, health, integrity, peace, psychological, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Black Night
"You don't belong here!"
They said. 
They doubted the authenticity 
Of my identity. 
Black night bade me come in, 
Provided I sang a song. 
Paroxysms of regret filled my song; 
The monotonous song from my ektara....

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Categories: instructive, allegory, anger, anxiety, care, emotions, trust, wisdom,
Form: Prose
Time
“ UNSUPPORTED CODE ” ©
Now it’s about time for all to be known
What’s always been there are facts to be shown
Eternal at last it embraces all
And with composure it stands by on call
Time is the...

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Categories: instructive, butterfly, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Grace Is My Name
I’m marvelous, granting victory in every ministerial engagement
securing joy of salvation full of divine contentment
steadfast for spiritual empowerment
sufficing with ready replenishment...
I trust God, my source, for fruitful work-involvement.
 
I’m matchless, granting heavenly goodness greatly
supplying mercy-kindness...

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Categories: instructive, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Personification
Check It Out Yourself
Come to see what I have found out on Poetry Soup
I just found out that ‘Categories’ box has been improved
Wherein more interesting stuffs to choose from have now been included
I just found another one
It’s the...

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Categories: instructive, care, caregiving, community, language, poems, poetess, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Conformity
Social influence that influence ones belief and behavior,
being the sheep idiom in suit of group as inferior identity savior.
Compliances and obedience for the hero or nymph resort,
names and numbers as taste for pleasure of the...

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Categories: instructive, betrayal, discrimination, mentor, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Let the Disco Light Speak
Fun is explosive, fun is basic
joy springs from many hearts to make pleasure orgasmic.

Moving clothes and flesh accentuate the electrifying scene
flashes of darkness, makes crazy come clean.

Changing colours, flowing rhythms, high spirits, there's always a...

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Categories: instructive, celebration, crazy, dance, life, night, youth,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member And We Re Off With a Bang
For I myself,
I sit and watch and wait
as if time were transcendental
as though I can make life’s 
moments move
FAST 
or s l o w.

As if some preconceived and instructive checklist 
were handed to me.
I watch...

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Categories: instructive, allegory, creation, destiny, philosophy, science, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Delightful Mystery
Reading to me is so fascinating
With learning gains, surely liberating
Meeting mind’s search for wonders, never quenched
Enriching heart through counsel, delighting.

Complex process of thinking fortitude
Reading brings me nigh to God’s quietude
As I encamp in His Scriptures,...

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Categories: instructive, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, truth, words,
Form: Rubaiyat
Running the Cycle
You hated that cycle
Stationary, destructive
You would never ride
You would be instructive
...training behavior

The moment she arrived
You held her in purity
Cuddling and kissing
The absolute assurity 
...I AM GOOD

Less than a year, gone
And you found yourself on
That blackened...

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Categories: instructive, love,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things