Long Mainstream Poems
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Victories For LoveThe problem of military reactions
to territorial control issues
is not merely that violence breeds further strategic development
of violence,
although this is no small,
nor amoral,
concern.
This primal problem of militarism by historic default
is that it is an intrinsically...
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Categories:
mainstream, health, history, integrity, love, mental illness, military,
Form:
Political Verse
My White House InterviewI was nervous about my newest client.
Not every Permaculture Designer gets a contract
with the WhiteHouse.
But, when the President called,
or twittered,
for an intake interview,
I guess it felt like an obligation
to at least show up,
although perhaps about...
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Categories:
mainstream, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Hymn To FarewellWhy does my multicultural applauding message,
my polycultural cheerleading,
sound so monocultural chant, rant,
a passionless litany of redundant verse?
Who would have it said of their voice
It remains both too rich
and yet wandering on far too long?
Even resonance
can...
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Categories:
mainstream, bullying, earth, education, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Mr ContradictionBy definition, Mr. Contradiction asserts the contrary or deny the truth of something. He admittedly is hypocritical and controversial, and most often, he refuses to surrender. He fights until only death or doom defeats him....
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Categories:
mainstream, america, change, community, courage, discrimination, society,
Form:
Personification
Speaking With Donald JohnI was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
and otherwise dead already?
Except perhaps health services...
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Categories:
mainstream, earth, education, faith, health, integrity, psychological, trust,
Form:
Political Verse
Power: Love V WhateverWhat might it take for love to conquer anger
fear
hate?
How is holistic compassion already more contagious than a-holistic self-hatred,
we-hatred?
There is more than one way to hear a**holistic here,
but they all have to do with sectarian divides,...
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Categories:
mainstream, happiness, health, humanity, humor, integrity, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Staying FocusedI know 'True Americanism' when I SEE it. ...
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Categories:
mainstream, america, christian, god, race, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Herstory from Battlefields to LaboratoriesHerstory from Battlefields to Laboratories
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
Beneath stardust's scattered gleam,
Her-story, a comet’s tail, blazing across time.
Through seasons it molds
...Once hushed now bold
We rise, a chorus harmonizing,
...In this vast, of an eternal fold.
I am...
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Categories:
mainstream, freedom, girl, history, literature, march, rights, women,
Form:
Narrative
Go DeepIt was deep in the 1980s, and I was deep into my late 30s. ...
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Categories:
mainstream, christian, god, relationship,
Form:
Verse
Occupying Revolutionary ZensoulWhat is wrong with deficit-growing expenditures
to continue supporting LeftBrain industrialized secular present
and past well-financed war-mongering threats
against nations
and people
and plants
and planet?
And nuclear ballistic arm-building,
and a Hummer and automatic defense rifle
for every Red, White, and TrueBlue household,
But...
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Categories:
mainstream, earth day, education, health, integrity, light, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Virtue… as I child I heard these words by Immanuel Kant from my late Dad
over and over again …’you must act in a way that if everybody did it
your thinking and deeds could be the...
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Categories:
mainstream, character,
Form:
Free verse
Hypothetical Lust CollabHypothetical Lust
...
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Categories:
mainstream, allegory, crazy, growth, lust, mystery, wisdom, words,
Form:
Epic
Flying Manual For PoetsThis is meant to be a manual, a set of sober instruction
that you can use, once you get past this lengthy introduction,
as a “how to” for learning to feel what it feels like when you...
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Categories:
mainstream, flying,
Form:
Rhyme
The Difference In the Stories We Want To TellOhh I could have sat with my heart
--elevated with dribbled echoes--
ahhhhhh until it yet exhaled the tarnished seams
capturing only the quiet current lapping
and soaking dirty steel embankment
along the river’s edge beneath the...
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Categories:
mainstream, death of a friend, music, nostalgia, river,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Finis Sing Touches ToucheThe finis sing touches touché
Knead dull brows knitted;
belief system I cogitate
gearing thee ordinary bipedal hominid
acquiesces to deck the halls
of the mountain (dew) king with boughs
of sister golden haired
sprinkling angel...
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Categories:
mainstream, 12th grade, allusion, appreciation, blessing, creation, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme
Watching the HenhouseOnce upon Trump time,
Free-range,
organic,
totally uncaged hens
brown
and black
and even white
and all things in-between
prepared to vote for more green climate health
growing indoor/outdoor good-egg chicken family values
planning to optimize healthy wealth
green ecoschool henhouse natural-spiritual remodeling
for deep and richly...
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Categories:
mainstream, betrayal, children, community, conflict, health, mental illness,
Form:
Political Verse
Ironic RevolutionsInteresting
is it not?
Not so Grand Children of immigrants from Europe,
seeking religious freedom
and economic advantage
and almost certainly of self-examined HAVE-NOT status,
Because, if not of personally
and economically
persecuted persuasion
and unenlightened neglect
and politically disempowering abuse.
then why would these wise...
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Categories:
mainstream, culture, health, heaven, history, integrity, psychological, red,
Form:
Political Verse
US Health Warning New Virus AlertEPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox
ORIGIN: First detected in insane asylums and faculty lounges across America.
TRANSMISSION: Pathogen mostly attacks highly sensitive unhinged...
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Categories:
mainstream, sick, society,
Form:
Free verse
The Age of Thrill SeekersEmartra Van Doyle, II was a powerful leader.
As a powerhouse, he knew this was his golden age.
He formed leaders and defeated procrastination.
He prepared them for the world to come.
A connection of minds he was assembling.
Amass...
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Categories:
mainstream, absence, abuse, age, anger, angst, appreciation,
Form:
Epic
Smartest Thing Obama Ever SaidPREAMBLE
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What I witnessed on October 7 was indefensible. Just to be clear, Hamas are not militants or freedom fighters as many in the mainstream media would have you believe - they are terrorists. Israel is...
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Categories:
mainstream, evil, hate, islamic, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Hit ListsThere have been many times in my life
when I heard about hit lists (kill lists so to speak).
Sometimes these death threats against others
even make it onto international news.
I’m reminded of the prize-winning author ,
a certain...
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Categories:
mainstream, murder,
Form:
Prose
Honest OnesHonest Ones
By Franklin Price
06/10/2020
What happened to the honest ones?
Ones who'd rather die than lie.
Been replaced by the dishonest
Makes the truthful want to cry
The rich, the high, the mighty
Use their bucks to buy the power
Power produces...
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Categories:
mainstream, america, political, power, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Anchors of Sin(This is all just my opinion,
what I glean from the internet,
Mainstream News, and my imagination –
do your own research. If there is any
truth in my observations, this write will
definitely not make me a...
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Categories:
mainstream, integrity, political, power, society, truth, violence, wisdom,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Peroxide Dreads (Edited To Fit)dousing your non-kinky hair
with peroxide in hopes of forming curly kinks
and without manipulation
the matted strands
finally intertwine
except your Peroxide Dreads
don’t resemble mind
limp and still...
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Categories:
mainstream, black-african amer
Form:
I do not know?
Anti Establishmentarian Hashtags Himself As AntitheticalAnti Establishmentarian - hashtags himself as antithetical
The following poem crafted
not quite thirty months ago,
when severe bad hair day
found yours truly self sequestered
toying with notion
to coif, primp, and tease, his limp locks,
(whose hirsute trademark...
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Categories:
mainstream, absence, allusion, anger, betrayal, fate, feelings, hair,
Form:
Rhyme