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Premium Member A Greener Bodhisattva World
This 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: literacy, beauty, green, health, humor, psychological, religion, trust,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark

We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...

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Categories: literacy, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Schools are Changing
Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mathematics,
wheels spinning stories across threshold stones.
Breakfast...

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Categories: literacy, appreciation, books, care, change, children, education, school,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great Transitional Liturgy
Creativity opens doors to learning
to read our own, and others’, compelling literacy,
beautiful truths.

We are not an isolated supreme species creating nihilism,
self-serving ego hedonists;
or, rather, we are,
but within an open sesame systemic potential
for also becoming more...

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Categories: literacy, beauty, body, community, education, health, life, love,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Do You Wanna Know
Do You Wanna Know?

Do you wanna know if there was an actual beginning of this universe?
Do you wanna know if there will be an actual ending of this world and our universe?
Do you wanna know...

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Categories: literacy, adventure, allegory, allusion, psychological, surreal, truth, visionary,
Form: Lyric



Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal feted as savior incarnate
Ordinary married sexagenarian mortal fêted as savior incarnate...

Courtesy a plethora of marriageable females
dogging, hounding, and lowing the living daylights
forcing yours truly to go undercover and into hiding 
within the heart of darkness
at a remote undisclosed...

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Categories: literacy, absence, adventure, allegory, analogy, angel, appreciation, humorous,
Form: Free verse
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading
Irrational exuberance at respite from reading...

(on a rainy May thirteenth
two thousand and twenty five)
as a balm against ennui
becoming engrossed, immersed,
and lost in space of orrery
regarding the universe created courtesy
Nora Roberts well crafted novel Montana Sky
perusing...

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Categories: literacy, adventure, america, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, sweet love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Love With a Nerd
1. Too fired up
he exaggerates every niggle
and squashes every chance to assuage our boils.
He acts without a lode star
putting everything under weigh
and exhibiting ignorance with flames of literacy.
Reading without play decorates stupidity
I play the cheap...

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Categories: literacy, appreciation, art, beauty, boyfriend, caregiving, change, cute
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Earthfirst Communities
He thought they could build
a healthier multinational corporation.

She felt we could grow
a wealthier multicultural
sacred cooperative network.

He led a hierarchical Council
for World Class Communities.

She bled and blended sacred incorporated cooperatives:
Green STEAM neighborhood cafes,
Green STAG (science, technology,...

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Categories: literacy, earth, green, health, heart, integrity, science, technology,
Form: Political Verse
Somnambulant Schlemiel Schleps and Says Shalom
Somnambulant schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...

to anonymous readers March 22nd, 2022
(blustery and chilly Tuesday)
reminiscing about mein kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.

Into lonely senescence -
more'n three plus decades 
plus three extra orbitz 
around...

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Categories: literacy, absence, adventure, america, angst, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Free verse
The Land of the Brave
Drink the Namibia Countryside 

Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland 
With most stunning landscapes in Africa, 
with acres of ocean shores, woodland...

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Categories: literacy, addiction, animal, beautiful, beauty, ocean, travel,
Form: Name
Schlerotic Schlemiel Schleps and Says Shalom
Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...and says Shalom...

to anonymous readers March 6th, 2021
(blustery and chilly Saturday)
reminiscing about mien kampf,
when precious irretrievable youth
frittered away within
emotional wilderness of mine.

Into lonely senescence -
three plus decades already elapsed
trepidation, hesitation, abdication... unbearably
tugging, shouldering,
remonstrating...

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Categories: literacy, absence, books, boy, destiny, growing up, introspection,
Form: Free verse
I Died Before My Birth
I went to rivers. Rivers asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to oceans. Oceans asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to pebbles. Pebbles asked me, "Do you know we're...

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Categories: literacy, humanity, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch
KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

King Alfred the Great (c. 849-899), arguably the first great king of England,  may have done more to lay the groundwork for English literacy and literature than any...

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Categories: literacy, england, leadership, literature, poetry, power, war, words,
Form: Free verse
Learn
Strong exercise of your brain take,
The stronger money you can make,
Weak exercise cause money to shake.

Proper physical exercise increase your health,
Proper mental exercise increqse your wealth,
Laziness decrease both health and wealth.

True learning fear usually dissapear,
Passion...

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Categories: literacy, 2nd grade, business, creation, education, encouraging, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
FORMULA
Strong exercise of your brain take,
The stronger money you can make,
Weak exercise cause money to shake.

Proper physical exercise increase your health,
Proper mental exercise increase your wealth,
Laziness decrease both health and wealth.

True learning fear usually disappear,
Passion...

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Categories: literacy, 10th grade, business, change, conflict, confusion, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reentry Commitments
1. To develop
and to maintain
resilient cooperatively-owned integrity
of services given and received,
ego/eco-therapeutic interventions,
and democratic peer health supports
that mutually coordinate
climate pathology prevention programs
and projects,
policies and proposals,
MeToo resilient procedures,

And integrate early PositivEnergy dis-ease interventions
in our families and climates,
and...

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Categories: literacy, deep, education, environment, integrity, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Indices of a Loon
GOODLUCK

Gutless muffled monarch wooed millions to the poll, 
Our feeble lord enforced by pathetic speech of poverty (I once had no shoes) 
On congruent grounds of pain we forced him, though we hated his coterie....

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Categories: literacy, corruption, crazy, culture, heartbroken, history, leadership, parody,
Form: Alliteration
Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading
Book cause I spend an inordinate amount of time reading...

out loud.

As a hypothetical argument 
yours truly doth not aim
to be unfortunate recipient
of misguided, misjudged, and mislaid blame,
nevertheless I make dubious claim
and baldly recede (ha –...

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Categories: literacy, addiction, adventure, age, appreciation, best friend, books,
Form: Rhyme
Florida's Racist Policies
In the land of sunshine and sandy shores,
Where palm trees sway and seagulls soar,
There lies a state with a troubled past,
A place where prejudice was cast.

Florida, a jewel in the Southern crown,
But beneath its beauty,...

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Categories: literacy, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Coiners of Mouthyfax
misprision of Treason the contemporaries                              ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literacy, allegory, creation, inspirational, satire, spoken word, words,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Injustice, Survive -- and Thrive
Those who today loudly voice their complaints
   Might do well to study a people most quaint
The Jewish People for 3,332 years has survived
   Despite pogroms and holocausts, still quite alive

A former...

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Categories: literacy, discrimination, hate, inspirational, jewish, life, , western,
Form: Verse
Convene from Keepers Rebellious Gallery
Brother. O Brother.
   O when when we were callow 
	In days young  Shakers  of the movement before 
gray & silver turned our locks we held in idol 

	Spree even damned were...

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Categories: literacy, 11th grade, conflict, integrity, irony, meaningful, moving
Form: Rhyme
Schlerotic Schlemiel Schleps
Schlerotic schlemiel schleps...

Into lonely senescence -
three plus decades already elapsed
trepidation, hesitation unbearably
tugging, shouldering,
remonstrating accumulation
of "baggage" thumb

of right hand thrust out
silently raving, quaking
cursing ultimatum parents
(soffit to fascia in)
saw fit to fashion
and hammer home

red hot poker rage
their...

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Categories: literacy, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure,
Form: Bio
What Am I
Back in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ, 
Don't matter what the time is 
Even wrote for the great poets known as the vikings...

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Categories: literacy, adventure, art, dark, deep, mystery, poetry, writing,
Form: Narrative

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