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Premium Member Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young Solomons
Damian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed 
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be leaving today...

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Categories: modestly, adventure, birth, business, father son, women,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Dillen's Continuing Dmv Adventures
I wrote a sad but true urban legend called “Dillen and the DMV” last week.
Here follows an update.

Background Review:

One of my health care employees, Dillen, has wicked ADD, borderline intelligence, not qualifying for disability supports,...

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Categories: modestly, betrayal, culture, health, humanity, language, political, race,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Cooperative Feministas
Cooperative Feministas
are not quite so much Competitive Manifestos.

In David Holmgren's introduction to Permacultural Therapeutic Design,
he contrasts "Industrial Culture" with "Sustainable Culture"
kind of like comparing masculine LeftBrain culture
with feminist RightBrain enculturation, nurturance, resonance
over the longer-term scenaria,
rather...

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Categories: modestly, anti bullying, caregiving, destiny, health, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Territory Trample
Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning

Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...

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Categories: modestly, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Prologue
Whether you have come to possess this compendium of doggerel confessions by chance or by choice, should you decide to venture beyond this page, I politely suggest you consider the contents to be nothing more...

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Categories: modestly, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Ah Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep
Ah...Satisfactorily Succumbing Into Salubrious Sleep

Aye sandman, I surrender to yar supreme governance
surreal spectacular soiree gifts subconscious sphere
soothing (analogous to natural palliative), ah...REM
member nought, asper exquisite entertaining cerebral
kaleidoscope replete with nonpareil visual trappings

aesthetically tantalizing unforgettable..., but...

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Categories: modestly, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation, celebration, dance, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Ford's Theater April 15th 1865
Ford's Theater, April 15th, 1865...
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.

I admit to own a passion
for the Civil War in general,
and the life and death of
the sixteenth president in particular
between a hard spot of whiskey
and draughts of arrack;
nonetheless...

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Categories: modestly, absence, age, america, anniversary, april, bereavement, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Utopia
You’re an angel of light (in my sight)
Well, I know you are unforgotten in my memory
And, darling, everything will be alright - You can fly…but I’m incompetent…I am  ashamed to say goodbye! 
Your moonlit...

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Categories: modestly, beauty, confusion, freedom, grief, hope, hurt, moving
Form: Free verse
Spring Equinox Arrives March 20th, 2023 At 5:24 Pm
Spring equinox arrives March 20th, 2023 at 5:24 PM

Despite what outside temperature registers
(even absolute zero), the official arrival
of spring occurs, when thee eel hip tic
of coe phish hunt holy Mackerel
becomes tangential to barenaked ladies 
barren...

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Categories: modestly, 12th grade, appreciation, beautiful, butterfly, celebration, daffodils,
Form: Free verse
Vice President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024
Uncertain if my one man pep rally appeals to thee most amazing, daring, grueling... youngest aspirant to restore Earth in the balance predicated upon uncomfortable truth. The old geezer here would be over the moon...

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Categories: modestly, angel, appreciation, beautiful, birthday, blessing, business, courage,
Form: Free verse
Emotional Fatigue Courtesy Exhaustive Vituperative Harangue
Emotional fatigue courtesy exhaustive vituperative harangue...

Lobbed and unleashed upon the heads
of (yours truly and the missus)
so called selfish "monsters."

The evening of Wednesday April 19th
witnessed us (birth parents of our first born)
weathering blistering telephonic brickbats.

She (unnamed...

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Categories: modestly, 7th grade, abuse, angst, anniversary, anxiety, birth,
Form: Free verse
Husband Feebly Tried To Smite Figuratively
Preface preceding promiscuous philandering peccadillos
undermining energy and time not spent with missus
and mother of our precious progeny,
whereby, yours truly sought, (somewhat assertively, modestly,
and zestfully) to elicit – illicit prurient heterosexual predilections
before dark shadow of guilt...

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Categories: modestly, betrayal, conflict, depression, desire, fantasy, heartbreak, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Should the Levee Ever Break, Act 1, Scene 3, Part 6
John: Sounds like I might like to straddle her equator with my meridian and throw down with a hula hoop on each arm. How soon can I execute my commission?

Mitchell: Do you like to eat...

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Categories: modestly, allegory, society,
Form: Prose Poetry
Up At Ryder Cup
Reservations are made years in advance of the event.
Provisions from suppliers worldwide are globally sent. 
Sponsors enthusiastically devote their resources spent. 
Attendees eager to share stories of when they went.

Seeing the epic golf rivalry as...

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© Adam Segal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: modestly, appreciation, business, golf, society, sports, success, together,
Form: Rhyme
Fords Theater April 15th 1865
Petersen House, Washington, D.C.  

(i admit to own a passion for the Civil War in general, 
and the life and death of 
the sixteenth president in particular).

between a hard spot of whiskey 
 ...

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Categories: modestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, america,
Form: Free verse
Solitary Rituals of Mourning the Write Way Right
Solitary rituals of mourning the write way, right?

Papa... bless his (your) heart and soul,
impossible mission your second born
sole male heir cingularly communicates,
viz his avocational crafted poem, since
written words, mine metier
write most pained words

with great difficulty,...

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Categories: modestly, 12th grade, absence, death, eulogy, father, memory,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member How Pale the Poem - An Echo Poem
How Pale the Poem!
(An Echo Poem) (1)

Are poems lovely as night's stars?
Aren't all more fireflies viewed in jars?
*
*
Faint points of light man barely sees
now (gift of Science) galaxies,

are strung on necklaces like beads.
Star deaths the...

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Categories: modestly, humor, poetry, science,
Form: Rhyme
Please don't be late for this world's greatest escape part one
"O Please don't be late and seal your fates
O Please don't be late for this ole world's
greatest escape cause you'll all be really
sorry if you just happen to be left behind!

Many of you all are...

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Categories: modestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose
What If Thanksgiving Celebrated 365 Days a Year Part Ii
to dirt poor anonymous guerillas G.I. Jane or G.I. Joe
   who cross paths with each other, 
   even those one doth not know

when ordinary biases, callousness, 
   denigration...doth full...

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Categories: modestly, america, appreciation, autumn, celebration, culture, dedication, family,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Seven Divisions of Womanhood
To Shakespeare I give all due respect,
But the world must be a huge theater I suspect.
Woman’s the major player if not the star,
For she influences all with love from afar.
The main acts of her drama...

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Categories: modestly, family, life, mother, philosophy, sister, wifeworld, age,
Form: Rhyme
Spring Vernal Equinox Arrives March 20th 2022
Spring (vernal) equinox arrives March 20th, 2022 

at 11:33 AM in Northern Hemisphere
though meteorological conditions, I swear
in summer re: temperatures already mild
enough to go outside in your underwear
unless an ordinance would find you
slammed in the...

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Categories: modestly, 11th grade, 12th grade, beautiful, celebration, color,
Form: Rhyme
The Victimized Female
Emotional conviction from a minds depiction
Lays out mind restriction 
But will only bring friction
I can try to explain my explanation
With the utmost diction
Elaborating the reasons for stitching a heart that needs fixing
The slightest concern never...

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Categories: modestly, life, sorry, sympathy, heart, night, heart, night,
Form: I do not know?
No Glory Ft Taint
Taint/
There was a time when I felt like wealth 
all I needed under my belt, 
like why the f*** do I care, 
look at this Gucci I wear, 
like a movie directed by Luci, 
I’ve...

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Categories: modestly, write, writing,
Form: Rhyme
President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez 2024
President Elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez - 2024

Circa...Approximately one month
following her thirty fifth birthday
October 13th, 2024
AOC became the first
female commander in chief,
and youngest person ever

to assume Oval Office
amidst landslide victory
among competing candidates
ousting current establishment incumbent,
elected to...

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Categories: modestly, america, angel, blessing, faith, hero, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Epic
Virility Imperiled Manhood Emasculated Mine
Virility Imperiled Manhood Emasculated (mine)

No sense of accomplishment prevails to date
analogous to kudzu... inadequacy runs rampant
recurring theme extant within poetic endeavors,
and often discussed with assigned therapist (one
among many girls named Stephanie Dodds) do
GOOGLE search and...

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Categories: modestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form: Bio

Book: Shattered Sighs