Long Mandated Poems
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Sins of Supreme SuppressionNot to play any blame game,
in this our new co-evolutionary capacity
for LeftBrained Language CommunioNation
long become YangDominant associated
with monotheistic 'civilization',
aristocratic anthrosupremacism,
including Earth's newer colonizing history
of evolution by Orthodox Moral Elitism.
Processes of GodWord supremacy
became belligerently associated
with...
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Categories:
mandated, earth, health, language, math, religion, science, sin,
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:
mandated, caregiving, earth, health, humor, nature, trust, truth,
Form:
Political Verse
Still wrestling with impasse to contentmentStill wrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along outer limits of
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking...
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Categories:
mandated, abuse, adventure, beauty, body, christmas, desire, father
Form:
Rhyme
Wrestling With Impasse To ContentmentWrestling with impasse to contentment
Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic...
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Categories:
mandated, abuse, adventure, age, anger, betrayal, black african
Form:
Rhyme
Number forty seven White House occupant against all oddsNumber forty seven - White House occupant against all odds...
regarding President elect
Donald John Trump.
As a cruel joke to self,
I imagined myself as a Republican
for that one glorious day
voting for the candidate
who clinched the nomination
as...
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Categories:
mandated, abuse, america, anger, anxiety, betrayal, depression, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Giantvillism and City of the Bean People Part 2JAKE’S PLAN OF APPROACH
Once Jack awoke, he began to plan his approach. As he was doing this, he noticed many things about the environment that surrounded him. He paid close attention because these things...
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Categories:
mandated, appreciation, best friend, birth, business, celebration, courage,
Form:
Ballad
Self Help Addict Needles Unsuspecting ReaderSelf help addict needles unsuspecting reader
Expounded late today April 27th, 2023
since being written
countless years ago
maybe a baker's dozen
as thee doodling cock doth crow
scouting about for carrion
scavenging for dead animals
and rooting about...
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Categories:
mandated, 12th grade, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety, april,
Form:
Rhyme
Connected To Last Entry
...while true feminists say that they are feminists because they care for the well-being of women, the modern feminist group, True/Active Feminism does exactly the opposite. They use the form of "dis-pair"...
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Categories:
mandated, art,
Form:
Other
Though no political pundit, neverthelessThough no political pundit, nevertheless...
I trumpet the withdrawal
of democratic contender from out the presidential race.
Breaking headline news story
courtesy rumor monger premieres
showcasing emphatic groundswell
against feeble minded incumbent.
Extraordinary turn of current events
immediately enlivens the United States populace
injecting...
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Categories:
mandated, america, anxiety, blue, dark, fear, heartbroken, november,
Form:
Free verse
To a Superior JudgeI could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice
against restorative healing.
I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correction officers'
routinely criminalizing vocations,
and courtroom injudicious levying of fines
against...
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Categories:
mandated, anxiety, blue, bullying, culture, health, racism, society,
Form:
Political Verse
No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a dayNo matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day...,
not one drop of sweat
(especially on hot humid and hazy days)
less than a gallon
exudes forth from my pores
but nevertheless
I...
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Categories:
mandated, 12th grade, angst, endurance, fate, humorous, mystery,
Form:
Free verse
Ironies Within IroniesThe morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research journals like abandoned promises, their spines...
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Categories:
mandated, education, irony,
Form:
Haibun
I Posit Picayune Propensities Prevail Among Pesky ManagementI posit picayune propensities prevail among pesky management
Most favored renter status imposed on us
i.e. meaning myself;
(one tarnished prince of Highland Manor)
and the missus, his princess consort
who must abide by rigorous writ
of tidiness, whereby
every flat surface...
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Categories:
mandated, abuse, america, angst, anxiety, blessing, community, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
The Days of COVID and Roses 2020
There once existed, upon this lovely earth.
A people, happy~ not possessed with dearth.
Depravity, destruction of cities, murder by injection,
Became a way of our lives!
Then~ an evil being and his unkind, infected mind!
With full knowledge, arrogant,...
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Categories:
mandated, angst, anti bullying, confidence, feelings, health, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
Eminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Maternal grandfather of mine
long since passed among the living;
He left his Motherland
before onset of Holodomor,
a policy of the Soviet Union
aimed at the destruction
of the Ukrainian nation,
the 1932–1933 genocide...
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Categories:
mandated, abuse, age, anger, bereavement, bullying, corruption, grandfather,
Form:
Free verse
WhistleblowersI have watched enough doctor's on video give warnings, brave nurse whistleblowers coming forward about what is happening at THEIR hospitals, videos of harmed patients, videos from victims who are harmed or lost loved...
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Categories:
mandated, angst, death,
Form:
Narrative
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So Manageprimary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.
Aforementioned physiological malady
the bane worse than death
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably,...
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Categories:
mandated, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
I Cannot Single Handedly Rightly So ManageI cannot single handedly – rightly so - manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
despite taking Glycopyrrolate
2 MG Tablet three times daily.
Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence...
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Categories:
mandated, 11th grade, 12th grade, allegory, anxiety, body,
Form:
Free verse
Eminent Domain, Manifest Destiny, UsurpationEminent domain, manifest destiny, usurpation...
Russian soldiers in general
and Vladimir Putin in particular
perpetrate outright injustice
against Ukrainian population.
Impossible mission to comprehend
the mindset of belligerent, egotistical,
indignant, NeoNazi, tsarist
self anointed totalitarian zealot.
Gross violation of human rights
blatantly carried out
courtesy diabolical...
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Categories:
mandated, abuse, anger, conflict, death, discrimination, evil, hate,
Form:
Free verse
SequestrationI never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation with an industrial generator.
But I’ve graduated from the torment.
My...
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Categories:
mandated, death, loneliness, longing, pain, political, repetition, sick,
Form:
Free verse
I Cannot Single Handedly ManageI cannot single handedly manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis
Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and unwonted figurative
(metaphorical) beast of burden
linkedin with matrix constituting mine
corporeal essence genetically
gifted to yours truly,
invariably, objectionably, and unquestionably
afflicts, impacts, and upsets
emotional (mental) health
diagnosed with schizoid...
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Categories:
mandated, angst, birth, dad, fate, grief, me, pain,
Form:
Free verse
Seal fin de siecle with unheard celebrationSeal fin de siècle with unheard celebration
though two thousand nine hundred
will be here in seventy five years,
a mere blink of the eye
never to early
to think about fêted occasion
which marks the beginning
of the 22nd century.
if not...
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Categories:
mandated, america, anniversary, betrayal, cry, dark, environment, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Miracle Ova Fertilized CellMiracle ova fertilized cell...
Yielded pink bundle of joy
self determined autonomous millennial
relocated University of Pennsylvania
Engineering graduate class of 2019
calls Oakland, California home
(employed at Certified B Corporation)
lives with her lovely beau,
and two beautiful tortoiseshell cats.
December twenty second
two...
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Categories:
mandated, adventure, angel, anniversary, anxiety, beautiful, birthday, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
The Best Day In the WorldNeedles and pins.
Needles and pins.
When you grow up I hope you have twins.
Yes, this was written into my mother’s slam book when she was 12,
Setting her up to have twins at the age of...
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Categories:
mandated, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form:
Free verse
Shana Aubrey Harris - Part Oneborn two days
after ole Punxsutawney i.e. the Doctor Phil -
of woodchucks Latin Name = Marmota Monax
nest resembled Rastafarian hair weave,
which creature rattled with ire and peeveishness,
when rudely roused from his...
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Categories:
mandated, beauty, blessing, butterfly, celebration, change, courage, cute
Form:
Ballade