Long Mattering Poems
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Employment Trauma
My protagonist today,
a Gay Black Religious Mature Male,
not quite ready for silver-grey Obama temples
Is off this morning
to a new full-time job,
8 to 5,
Monday through Friday.
He has been out of his calming,
regular custodial collared routine,
for over...
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Categories:
mattering, betrayal, caregiving, culture, health, prejudice, religion, work,
Form:
Political Verse
Greenpower Dreams
Last night I dreamed.
I dream--
sometimes too athletically,
fertile regeneratively,
viral, positive and negatively
and in-between sub-climax performing
some wins and some perpetual losses
more ambiguously back and forth, up and down, in and out,
and not nearly sensual...
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Categories:
mattering, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Interdependent Americans
"I do not see what right any one would have
to object to calling this part
[the South American mainland],
after Americus
who discovered it
and who is a man of intelligence,
Amerigen,
that is, the...
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Categories:
mattering, earth, health, history, humanity, independence day, mental
Form:
Political Verse
Categories:
mattering, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor, introspection, life, snow,
Form:
Free verse
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because
Approbation Deeded Gratuitously Just Because...
(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)
Incumbent upon me own
purring impetus, a sincere
desire arose NOT to ask
...
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Categories:
mattering, 11th grade, farewell, father, father daughter, giving,
Form:
Elegy
Capital Investment Problems
A cold and calculating problem
I see
is finding resonantly warm motivation
for resilient employment
by following mere capital short-term acquisition norms
for sacred vocational gravitas,
and maybe a smidge of gratitude--
where "smidge" is warmly defined
as the opposite of cold hegemony.
Back...
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Categories:
mattering, appreciation, caregiving, community, engagement, health, humor, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 17
“The Lord will show Me,
Has shown me, where your mind lies….”
I began to wonder if I was lost in that statement to him,
That fear and desire had blinded me to rush such an assertion
Upon...
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Categories:
mattering, anxiety, beauty, conflict, courage, growth, longing, love,
Form:
Epic
Eating Words
Eating Words
On my way to the gym to shape my well nourished body
I travel a whole Universe of madness from leafy suburbs
high walls electric fences barbed wire marble statues and
well manicured lawns a distasteful reminder...
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Categories:
mattering, humanity, poetry, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Poems For Non Poetic People
That ugly duckling face of yours
resembles the back end of a horse,
that second face you have a gory sight
a clogged lavatory orange bright,
both worthless to the human race,
so I’ll tell you...
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Categories:
mattering, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother Spider Webbing Days
Co-empathic passions
like hearts with flowers,
mothers with soft sunny spring shower days,
Develop interdependent webs
of both/and intimacy,
like bodies with loving minds
wrapped around loving partners
and cooperative vocational co-owners,
Regenerating love life
lived win/win optimally well,
like an organic ecofeminist farmer
dancing nutritional...
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Categories:
mattering, earth day, health, integrity, mental illness, mothers
Form:
Political Verse
Black Life Shatters
My oldest son,
one of the few Earth-mattering
Earth-shattering
Black lives
I was made to protect
to guide
by eco-righteous WinWin acts
and co-passioning words,
Felt, and therefore was, disempowered,
worthless,
like helpless prey among predators
who listen to the same rap,
same urban Earth writes,
same...
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Categories:
mattering, black african american, bullying, conflict, culture, health,
Form:
Political Verse
An Everything
Mind and soul of heartfelt joy disperses into words
Healing longtime wounds of old, releasing them like birds!
Every word I absorb from verses are seen throughout the skies
They flutter across the sunlit haze and caress my...
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Categories:
mattering, adventure, allegory, art, childhood, dedication, devotion, world,
Form:
Rhyme
Wet, Vast, Slow, Open
What lies between my legs
Takes, far more than it gives.
Turns my body from an
Open palm to a closed fist.
This battlefield between my thighs remains a
Bleeding hole all of the worst things
About myself have escaped...
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Categories:
mattering, endurance, gender, girl, grief, hope, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
Hiding: Wounded & Broken
When you look into his eyes
You must look ever so closely
Past all the cover ups
to an even greater distress:
A stormy & raging sea
If you can look beyond all the hurt and betrayal,
Mistrust & denial
You may...
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Categories:
mattering, life
Form:
Free verse
Country Green
I drive through sultry green-leaved countryside;
so divorced from toxic urban suicide,
I notice a black and white hand-painted sign
emerging on my right side
of patriotic red resolution,
"STAND UP
FOR YOUR COUNTRY"
Which feels aimed against
tall and massive Black
Lives Mattering...
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Categories:
mattering, health, integrity, paradise, passion, patriotic, peace, perspective,
Form:
Political Verse
24 Hr Timeout
She stop mattering much this day----I'm not in the mood at this time----am I betraying the truth of how much she mean to me is the thoughts resting dead on my mind----we are miles apart...
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Categories:
mattering, break up, girl, girlfriend, love, love hurts,
Form:
Free verse
No matter how hard I try
#No_matter_how_hard_I_try;
No matter how hard I try, beyond levels of my abilities where I stretch to reach. No matter how strong I force to be, even when the capacity of my strength have emptied. When bearing...
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Categories:
mattering, courage, depression, emotions, encouraging, endurance, how i
Form:
Free verse
Hubble Superbubble
A ‘superbubble’ called bizarre
by some star watchers from afar
albeit it known as N Four Four
emission nebula with score
or scores of stars midst gas aglow
in Magellanic Cloud’s outflow
with dusty lanes we dreamers stride
inside the Cloud termed...
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Categories:
mattering, earth, humanity, irony, space, stars, universe, world,
Form:
Verse
A Sincere Distrust of Figs
In every apple, an atom resides;
in every Adam, an apple abides.
So it goes and goes, apples
toppling off tables in rhythmic waves,
falling through slits, convincing themselves
they are particles instead.
Whether in a...
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Categories:
mattering, fruit,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Invitations to life
Dive deep if sea seems inviting enough,
Leap in a river, forget swelling flood,
Climb on to that temptingly tricky crest,
Walk down to the valley sloping that go,
Be guest to an unknown nameless forest,
Explore a hamlet...
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Categories:
mattering, adventure, life,
Form:
Blank verse
Muse Without Music
Silent scored
red-hearted consciousness,
feeling empty when noted nonverbal
and then filling up
and out
and over into voices
green positive
and down
and in
and under ultra-violet negatives
doubly anticipating and anxious times.
Silent hearts invisible
blue quaking lines
not invincible
for surviving today's healthiest sung purposes,
Yesterday's
and...
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Categories:
mattering, earth, feelings, health, integrity, music, silence, solitude,
Form:
Political Verse
Back the Black and Blue
What do you do
when you're a black cop
at a Back The Blue protest
with a Black Lives Matter
counter-protest
in front of you,
to left and right,
and possibly pursuing your rear
and career?
Which direction
does your identity choose,
if not to feel...
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Categories:
mattering, health, military, peace, political, power, race, racism,
Form:
Political Verse
Fracta Anima
Maybe instead of life
Maybe I’m the joke.
Maybe I stopped mattering,
So why does this matter?
The shattered pain in my eyes,
Mirrors that reflect only you.
Do you see the cracked smile;
Your laughter is a dagger to my soul.
The...
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Categories:
mattering, confusion, dark, death, dream, grief, pain, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Repercussions of circumstances
#Reppercusions_of_circumstances
Right before our minds tries to capture reality, the very moment, we start to familiarize our warmth, instances of ones soul's comfort, the time when everything begins to form shape and when all its...
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Categories:
mattering, analogy, character, creation, cry, eulogy, inspirational, perspective,
Form:
Free verse
Greenbacked Scenes
Oh the stories I've seen!
of Capital Capitol Green
Of ecocidal mean
homicidal means
mediums
medians
measures
Without theistic meaning
or even humane purpose
Toward tip pointed bleeding
killing
shooting
bombing
exterminating,
forced breeding
Although understoried
and less Capitalized survivalist
Vermin are not so patriarchal
when young families thrive
matriarchally attached
to future's healthy green...
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Categories:
mattering, earth, environment, green, health, integrity, peace, power,
Form:
Political Verse