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Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part i
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis, high bred poiet?s of mine

     ("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered 
after assassinating Julius Caesar.

     Alternatively...

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Categories: literal, 10th grade, adventure, allah, anger, appreciation, birth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Open Oceans
"Open Oceans"



Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys

praying
preying

hungry hearts
count the days 

wasting away
in all that preying 

for prayers 
to be answered

children become
strangers

reading 
strange words

finding 
themselves puzzled

genuflecting to a deity
they do not know, nor wish to

fumbling
mouths closed,

swallowed hole
in the...

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Categories: literal, journey, love, mother daughter,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Red and Green Christians
Let's start with a fundamental flaw of fundamentalist Christianity,
a literary flaw within literal non-interpretation of historical creation
and sacred development.

This is true of radical jihadist Muslims as well,
although we both know you think you're more special...

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Categories: literal, addiction, bible, hate, health, love, peace, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and Gaoled
Self destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...

with kidnapping little boy 
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.

The deadly scourge of  
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.

Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia 
nadir of onset 
diagnoses...

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Categories: literal, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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Categories: literal, absence, adventure, africa, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Artifacts of Destiny
Each ego identity,
whether of busy bee
or slacker sloth,
recreates its uniquely sacred eco-Other,
mutually capable of Win-Win intentional experience
and memory
toward appreciating capital investments
in further living, not deadening, artifacts
through each personal life 
both cooperative and competing
so far.

So
every shrinking...

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Categories: literal, destiny, humanity, identity, integrity, psychological, , western,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Week 2 - Brian's Poet of Note - 'Herman Hesse'
Brian’s Poet of Note – ‘Herman Hesse’ Week 2

This week I thought I would discuss translating poetry from another language. I just finished retranslating from German this poem ‘Stufen’ from Hesse’s famous novel ‘The Glass...

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Categories: literal, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Didactic
Doing absolute zero endeavors
Doing absolute zero endeavors

Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
other wearing out rugged groovy
Tuesday (three day) experienced...

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Categories: literal, absence, adventure, angel, angst, humorous, joy, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slow-Cooked Conversion Stories
I was raised in one of those white nationalist churches,
passing itself off as a Christian evangelical Bible church,
where "evangelical" meant fundamental
and "fundamental" meant we did not interpret scripture
but accepted it as God's literal trans-historical Word
of...

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Categories: literal, childhood, christian, earth, faith, health, integrity, senses,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Aching Souls
I once had a treasured mid-western friend who                           ...

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Categories: literal, christian, community, confusion, family, grief,
Form: Free verse
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk
Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...

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Categories: literal, abuse, analogy, angst, anxiety, boy, fate, grave,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted,
nor linkedin with potential livingsocial folk,
thus...

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Categories: literal, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holier With Thou
My continuing impatience problem
with smug fundamentalists
self-asserting holier than thou moral positions,
is that Christ's main point is not
Holier Than Others, like Chosen People
but Holier With Thou,
as one interdependent EarthBound BodyMind.

British King James monotheistic readers
digest at AntiLiteraturist...

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Categories: literal, culture, god, imagination, integrity, love, psychological, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Omnipresent lurch toward authoritarianism
The views and opinions herewith extemporized to spur discourse with me, or to be mindful when exercising the right to vote in the country of your existence, which expressed intimation predicated upon read reliable publications...

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Categories: literal, abortion, abuse, america, anger, bereavement, emotions, history,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Paradox of Time Reborn

The sun, resplendent in its blazing might,
Burns fiercely o'er a barren, lifeless waste,
A desert dry and vast where earth is scorched
By searing radiation, deathly bright.
No sign of life but one lone phoenix flies,
Soaring precarious, close...

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Categories: literal, allegory, creation, death, destiny, fantasy, fate, symbolism,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Radically Conservative Revolutions
Radical conservatives are cooperatively embracing a culture war.
Our battlefield is our ecologically evolving brain.

At stake is what Earth and Earth's hosted tribes become.
Our cooperative vocation is to radically co-arise nondual human development
to fit conservationist moral...

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Categories: literal, body, bullying, creation, culture, earth, health, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Literal Sense
LITERAL SENSE :

This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.... 
VERSE 1:
This ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES.... 
Concrete counterintuitive ratioed for looser and Leader;
Interim arguments to know who's worst and best person,
Makes no sense either.
Itemised unique personalities need no prejudice session. 
Sparked...

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Categories: literal, inspiration, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Why Should I Believe In God-There's No God-
What is the meaning of the bold assertion, “There is no God”? 
Commentators rightly maintain that the statement 
Is not a literal denial of the existence of God what!
The “wicked hotly pursue the poor” 
And...

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Categories: literal, abuse, analogy, anxiety, atheist, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Solivigant
Solivagant
                                  ...

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Categories: literal, absence, abuse, addiction, anger, child abuse, deep,
Form: Rhyme
The Debate
A Debate

The Atheist
I see no reason for a god
Indeed for any type of god at all
I look around at all the churchmen
The pompous richly dressed ones
And wonder what their founder would have thought
And then at...

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Categories: literal, philosophy, god, god, universe, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
Mine Psyche Riddled With Dybbuk Haint No Joke
Mine psyche riddled with dybbuk - haint no joke

Thru emerging adulthood awareness awoke
within noggin of average baby boomer bloke
catastrophization toward risk taking I evoke
positive growth experiences throughout vast
number of orbitz around sun never kickstarted
nor linkedin...

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Categories: literal, abuse, body, dark, family, food, grave, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Categories: literal, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Booth Made Famous On April 15th Mdccclxv
Booth made famous on April 15th, MDCCCLXV... 
Sic semper tyrannis ad mortem
("Thus always I bring death to tyrants").

Ever since early forerunners 
of twenty first century
mankind (sprinted 
across trackless expanse extant
upon planet Earth), 
modern Homo Sapiens...

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Categories: literal, animal, confusion, family, fear, hate, history, men,
Form: Free verse
Ongepatshket Torqued Skewed Reflection
Ongepatshket torqued skewed reflection

drawn courtesy lots of byte size chalk.

When e'er I summon fat chance
to empower me self with courage 
and steal a passing glance
in the mirror then instantaneously 
hairline fractures appear
than 'afore long 
snap,...

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Categories: literal, 12th grade, adventure, america, celebration, confidence, february,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 38
“It is not the deer's tag.  We do not use tags.  These deer are free to come 
and go as they wish.”
     “Oh, alright then!”  He turned quickly...

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Categories: literal, christmas, fairy,
Form: Epic

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