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The Argument in The Street
What is the argument in the street that is stirring up the heat?  What is the argument in the street that makes people hissing their teeth? The motion to live or die has been...

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Categories: litmus test, appreciation, beautiful, birth, business, confidence, culture, encouraging,
Form: Narrative



Angel of Mercy Please Intercede
Angel of mercy please intercede

Weakest most lame specimen
among human breed
control of my life I willingly concede
wordless son of a gun fires off 
following capricious poetic deed 
done dirt cheap while 
traveling highway to hell
the speed...

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Categories: litmus test, 12th grade, adventure, angel, atheist, blessing, december,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Fourth Principle
The Fourth Principle of cooperative ecopolitical design (D. Holmgren):
Apply self-regulation and accept feedback.
One might read this as an implied corollary
of the Golden Rule.

Why?
The sins and blessings of the patriots and matriots
are revisited by and with...

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Categories: litmus test, culture, destiny, earth, earth day, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Encomium For Cumulative Collection of Trash
Encomium for cumulative collection of trash

The pyromaniac within yours truly
beckons sacrificial ritual
mine burning (man's)
sacred plastic bags
of rubbish (comprised of: hairs combed,
ditto trimmed from dead head,
filthy lucre - ha, phlegm
wrapped in tissue paper,
snips and snails,
and puppy...

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Categories: litmus test, absence, america, appreciation, bereavement, emotions, father, fire,
Form: Free verse
The Promise
somewhere along the way
s/he lost track of themselves---
perhaps it was because they had been
hurt before & swore to never go into
anything full swing again,
or perhaps it was out of a genuine 
dislike of themselves---
either way,...

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Categories: litmus test, life, words, life,
Form: Free verse



The Litmus Test
The girl stood by the window,
Her head turned slightly  to best observe the dreaded finger,
When it walked into the room.
The finger that which by its very actions would seal her fate.

Would this finger seemingly...

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Categories: litmus test, allusion, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, culture, dance, emotions,
Form: Dramatic Verse
While Shuttered Up Inside
While Shuttered Up Inside... ©ozy
Snug Air Conditioned Demesne...

Analogous to my boyhood
     cosseted and bereft, I assay
to poetically elucidate how majority
     of mine years found me
  ...

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Categories: litmus test, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, crush,
Form: Carpe Diem
Consummate Exemplary Graduate Invites Kudos
Nonetheless suicidal ideations severely
whipsaw punctuate, lacerate, assassinate
frescoed fiasco failure grimly livingsocial
ah...that dull cutlery eyed with temptation
one painful thrust hemorrhaging, whereby
carpeting permanently stained blood red,

(security deposit forsaken) cremation ought
not outrageously expensive, I subsequently
chickened out imposing eternity...

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Categories: litmus test, 12th grade, adventure, celebration, emotions, father daughter,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Pig In a Poke
Although gay women are attractive,
Can their love be counted on,
A chemistry that’s non-reactive,
Oligarchs of Amazon?

They face perhaps same traps that we do
Think of men as only drone,
An inverse baby kind of voodoo
Makes weak labeled sex...

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Categories: litmus test, life,
Form: Rhyme
Aye Writhed With Agony
Aye Writhed With Agony...

Unbeknownst to any
     innocent onlooker, aye
underwent extreme internal
     torture with silent cry
ying whimpers, whence,
     (either left or

   ...

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Categories: litmus test, 12th grade, desire, i am, longing, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Therapeutic Sciences
The academic position that political science
becomes too didactic for scientific neutrality
when political scientists are too pro-democracy
v theocracy, plutocracy, etc.
too cooperatively enthusiastic about economic health,
too positive about empathic trust as our ecopolitical vocational polypath
toward politically inclusive...

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Categories: litmus test, beauty, health, humor, love, science, sick,
Form: Prose Poetry
United State of Denial
El Presidente don’t Tennessee 
nothing bad coming,
tho’ the global orbitals
saw viral things very differently

Happy talk tongue taters
do eerily 
Idaho ear mash liquor please

Delaware drunk on denial,
so Iowa unaware
that the body litmus test
is gonna crimson cost...

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Categories: litmus test, america, death, leadership, sick,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Eternal Bliss
Tranquil heart, the way to eternal bliss
We abide then in our natural state
God plants on our crown, a paternal kiss
Soul breezes easily through heaven’s gate
Consciousness distanced from fear and desire
Chooses in staid stillness to vaporise...

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Categories: litmus test, god, joy, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Supreme Court
Can the world be made better by stacking our Courts
With immoderate friends that we trust share our views?
Is Court’s dignity served, are its verdicts revered,
Does it mean I’m ‘supreme’ when a fluke helps my side?
Is...

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Categories: litmus test, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Overdark
The Uniforce
turned through our faces 
we watch a clock to keep the meaningful places 
running, turning hands amok - 
in small space while we stand still..... 
we used this cold embrace of urgency 
to till...

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Categories: litmus test, absence, birth,
Form: Free verse
Passion and Desire
Passion or Desire is not pure potential seeking manifestation.
It is the manifestation of Life's flaming sword, runic capital letter of the sacred word. 
A spark that has been sparked,  
the flint that struck it's...

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Categories: litmus test, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shame On Us
Shame on Us
By Franklin Price
9/30/2017

Shame on us for losing sight
Of what is wrong and what is right
Of who does what, no matter why
To get the one who makes us sigh

That's not the way it should...

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Categories: litmus test, hope, political, , cute,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Restoring Supreme Healthjustice
My litmus test question
for supreme and more everyday justice makers
organic bakers
RealTime fakers:

Have you read research results
comparing retributive justice unhealthy outcomes
to those of good-faith restorative
cooperative
justice processes?
Repairing green reparations
rather than locking up long-held repressive sexist lies
and throwing...

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Categories: litmus test, caregiving, forgiveness, freedom, health, passion, peace, usa,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member One Couple
Most coupling is no safe bargain,
Unhinged by disappointments past,
           sun rays lost to unbottled complaining

But we're two currents that flow in tandem,
Well aligned smart people...

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Categories: litmus test, anxiety, celebration, devotion, encouraging, future, inspiration, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Football Manager
Translating ideas through energetic muscles
and calculative minds
is his doing
knowledgeable tricks and wise options
converted to the physical for the honour and glory
is his aim.

The one at the top of the chain
possesses his own repertoire.
A personality with...

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Categories: litmus test, football, soccer, sports,
Form: Narrative
Litmus Test
Litmus Test 
Litmus test 
 
In this medical testing world we live in this strang new millennium they give us 
sickness not unto Death but eye am still afraid sometimes to take the test they...

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Categories: litmus test, caregiving, confusion, education, health, me, me,
Form: Free verse
Intuition
Intuition is a skill to master,
For  it helps to get what we are after

It’s our intuition that manages,
Ourselves before their are damages 

Because it can sense out something wrong, 
But also suggest if we...

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Categories: litmus test, character, confidence, image, success,
Form: Rhyme
Once Again
once again the wind will blow cold
the ice will come with months of snow
that restless feeling fills your soul
where is that place you need to go?

dreams that wrap around your mind
of mountains and starry summer...

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© Jo Bien  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: litmus test, introspection,
Form: Monorhyme
Ann Romney's Blouse
Mitt Romney’s wife was criticized
(Though she was not defensive)
Because she chose to wear a blouse
Considered quite expensive.

She wore it on a TV show
So she would look her best,
But journalists decided that
She’d failed the litmus test.

All...

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Categories: litmus test, people, political,
Form: Rhyme
From River to the Sea: Part Six
When the big bombs explode,
witnesses on distant hills shudder, and breath in awe
of the spectacular collapse of tall buildings, reduced to rubbles instantly.
One day, when peace blooms and rebuilding begins, they must design new building...

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Categories: litmus test, anger,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs