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Dr Time's Dipolar Rant
What's up?
Thanks for this interview,
old man.
You are either blind or confused,
but probably both.
Well, thanks,
and I appreciate you as well.
Now, I understand you want to talk about human consciousness.
We comprehend your language as limiting human consciousness.
Now...
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Categories:
oftentimes, anger, culture, fear, language, love, nature, time,
Form:
Narrative
Part 2 You Have To Whistle
Neither Tray or I take any guff from adults, especially adults in authority; it’s a result of having had the belt when you are young, thus learning you cannot trust your care-givers or anyone else.
In...
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Categories:
oftentimes, child abuse, giving, i love you, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Translation With Commentary of On Est Les Oublies By T Wignesan
Translation of « On est les oubliés » (They/We are the neglected and forgotten lot)
by the songster-poet Gauvin SERS
(For the last two years, this young unassuming Frenchman, full of verve and disarming airs has been...
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Categories:
oftentimes, 4th grade, anger, children, city, school, song,
Form:
Free verse
Inspirational Blessings and Greetings For the New Year
Greetings to each of you my dearly beloved brothers and sisters. Please read these seventeen blessings rendered for you in God's grace:
I. May God’s love for the new year grant you joy and inspiration overcoming...
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Categories:
oftentimes, bible, blessing, devotion, inspirational, jesus, love, wisdom,
Form:
Pastoral
The Present and Future Madame President
On a magnificent morning, in the fragrant month of July,
I was heading to a new job, amidst the golden butterflies.
For I had been hired by Nasa's, Langley Research Center,
To work on new projects, and to...
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Categories:
oftentimes, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, imagery, political, time,
Form:
Couplet
Kitchens Are Dirty
It was dark out. The stars shone dimly, and the horizon blushed faintly as the birds sang, too cheery for the hour. A chill swept the edges of all the outside world: not cold enough...
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Categories:
oftentimes, absence, cry, depression, home, loneliness, lonely, silence,
Form:
I do not know?
Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard
Lost dexterity since fingers tap away at qwerty keyboard...
since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use proves
quite aware that finger muscles atrophied
veering off on a tangent...
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Categories:
oftentimes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, age,
Form:
Rhyme
Thank You
Thank You!...
It's Black history month, so we come to celebrate,
all the hues of brown that made our nation great!
From Fredrick and Harriet to Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, because of the stance they took,...
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Categories:
oftentimes, america, celebration, culture, humanity, leadership, pride, tribute,
Form:
Ballad
Gifted By God
I am just a nobody with no fortune and no fame,
But rich in ways many others wouldn't ever think to claim.
Among His many blessings, I'm blessed with a Gift to create,
To share with and touch...
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Categories:
oftentimes, blessing, faith, god, inspiration, love, perspective, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Escapade
I never cared to do the dangerous things, and liked to play it safe,
But the strict bonds of ordinariness, can oftentimes start to chafe.
I always preferred to cover my bets, for I hated the idea...
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Categories:
oftentimes, adventure, fantasy, friendship love, imagery, mountains, nature,
Form:
Couplet
This May Seem Odd
I’m going to reveal a fact about myself some of you may find odd…
It’s that I am not religious…but I do believe in God.
My God has given me a brain, a heart, a soul and...
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Categories:
oftentimes, god,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetry Soup Anthology Part 2 Inspiration To Write
Woven are these pages in poetic verse,
With bare threads of our deepest feelings,
You will find laughter, tears and remorse,
and words of wisdom, prayer and healings.
What compels their pens to shed poetic ink?
What forlorn moment inspired...
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Categories:
oftentimes, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
The Symphony of Me
This is the story of my life,
So filled with joys and strife;
This is the story of my days--
Through countless doorways!
This is the story of my dream--
And of my shimmering moonbeam.
This is my brief tale of...
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Categories:
oftentimes, history, joy, life, memory, nature, sad, self,
Form:
Rhyme
Bane of Dyschezia
Bane of dyschezia
Constipation spoilt rare visit
with eldest daughter
(yesterday - November twenty sixth
two thousand twenty two)
currently housed near
Rittenhouse Square, Pennsylvania.
Less than twelve hours
after a cocktail comprising
handful of prunes,
four psyllium husk capsules,
plus three dulcolax.
Myself and missis
privy to...
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Categories:
oftentimes, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, angst, birth,
Form:
Rhyme
Some Final Thoughts for 2024
It has occurred to me that as I grow older and use my life experiences more, everything means more than it did before. So, here I am, at the end of another year soliloquizing about...
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Categories:
oftentimes, age, appreciation, introspection, philosophy,
Form:
Prose
The Rose of the Heart
Every soul has a garden and in the garden's center
Is the beating heart, made porous for to enter
The good or the bad, each with seeds of.
We must choose to plant seeds of hate or Love.
When...
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Categories:
oftentimes, beauty, encouraging, heart, love, perspective, rose, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Advice From a Child
We try to raise our children with kind and generous traits that we hope become inherent…oftentimes forgetting how your children are also raising parents…
With that in mind, I shall yield my pen to the chid...
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Categories:
oftentimes, child,
Form:
Rhyme
My Son John
My son, John, was an engaging fellow, who was barely ten years old;
And liked frogs, marbles and playing ball, in luscious, noontime gold.
My son, John, was rather a dreamer, like the lazy cloud, sky features.
My...
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Categories:
oftentimes, character, color, fantasy, nature, nursery rhyme, son,
Form:
Couplet
Secret Love, Two Searching Eyes
*Secret love, two searching eyes*
I
The early morning's languorous mild sun
Seemed jaded from a nightlong tiring jog,
And liked dawn's dew-mixed mirth nor glee of smog,
Nor some stray passing clouds' hide-and-seek fun,
Nor yet was...
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Categories:
oftentimes, childhood, feelings, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Sing, Lyre: Sappho Translation
Sappho, fragment 118
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Sing, my sacred tortoiseshell lyre;
come, let my words
accompany your voice.
"Quoted by Hermogenes and Eustathius. Sappho is apparently addressing her lyre. The legend is that Hermes made the first...
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Categories:
oftentimes, Lullaby, muse, music, song, sound, spoken word,
Form:
Epigram
Red Pill Poem
You say we’re all one thought away
from seeing a woman and having a rape,
then proclaim we’re patriarchal monsters
if we act like gentlemen on a date.
You say that you have no need of us,
that it’s a...
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Categories:
oftentimes, anger, culture, meaningful, men, relationship, society, women,
Form:
Rhyme
New York
Each single morning on my way to work
I fantasize what happens in New York
If I were to spend a long weekend there.
I'd ask you out of the blue, not despair.
Once passionate lovers, can we be...
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Categories:
oftentimes, adventure, fantasy, love, lust, new york,
Form:
Rhyme
Laughing Into 2023
Laughter is the shortest distance between the joker and the listener:
My friend got robbed today, they took away his girlfriend Valentine's gift. Now, he rehearsing how he will explain to his girlfriend, how he got...
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Categories:
oftentimes, education, feelings, humorous,
Form:
Burlesque
Treasured Memories
I adored being out on the immense, rushing sea, and I had myriad dreams,
Like slumbering, yellow days of summer, with its vibrant, gorgeous themes.
My dream was for a great sea adventure, when the blush was...
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Categories:
oftentimes, adventure, beautiful, fantasy, happiness, memory, sea, travel,
Form:
Couplet
Unhinged Power
Unhinged power grasps, its hold so tight,
Unyielding, unchecked, chains corrode the soul.
Distorted truths, concealing in plain sight,
In shadows lurk, devouring the whole.
What slips unheeded, slipping in the dusk?
With eyes wide shut, we stumble through each...
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Categories:
oftentimes, history, perspective, philosophy, power, wisdom,
Form:
Free verse