Long Personhood Poems

I 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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I (a youthsome, wholesome, jokesome, handsome,...
gamesome, chucklesome, bothersome,
and awesome modest fellow)...
does not deliberately court immortalization,
and wonders what criteria confer elevation,
exaltation, glorification, hero worship,
idolization, veneration, or worship.

I go about a daily humdrum routine
me, a twenty first...

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Our old nemesis,
capitalism,
is much older than democratic theory,
and even older than profoundly resilient democratic practice,
which is rather like Christianity--
often communion preached
and seldom democratically and multiculturally proficient,
fruitful,
viral,
contagious,
multiplying economic loaves
and politically empowering fish.

Capital-rooted values
derive from tribal chiefs,
elite...

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Look no further than the nose on your face...

for Mutualism among Homo sapiens
long thought to be a pipe dream
case in point sited by a couple of recent
purportedly natural events possibly
exacerbated courtesy global warming
namely present conflagrations
include...

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I'm sorry to have to tell you,
but we're laying you off,
effective immediately.
But, please don't feel too badly about this.
It's nothing personal.

It feels personal,
maybe because I'm the person
you're downsizing without.

But it's not personal;
it's just a budget...

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Enclosed around parental safeguard
my personhood was exposed to freedom 
bound by subjection to authorities
which my mind never questioned
since I acknowledged such as the ideal… 

Then my sense of freedom was gripped with skepticism 
when attacked...

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The memory of us makes me smile
The memory of us four
The memory of us three
The memory of us two
And yes, I smile.

I smile because when it was four
He was here, the father I cherished
He kept...

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Perfectly conceived in the Almighty’s omniscience 
she was breathed with life wondrously by the Creator
granted full freedom to accomplish entrusted role
which according to the Scriptures, is “an help meet for him*.” 

As such, what right...

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3, 2, 1 TAG YOU'RE IT!

I remember hearing on the playground at the age of nine
Lord only knows how much I dreaded this game
The boy next to me tagged the other girl to his left
She...

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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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There has been talk of having the famous black abolitionist Harriet Tubman replace Andrew Jackson on the 20 dollar bill. And I think though it does not completely address the problems our country has still...

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“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, 
but have everlasting life.”

Such Bible verse expressed in John 3:16
is etched in all aspects of...

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When I was 24, I would preach the gospel in Chicago projects, fearless and determined.  

And I had a 2 year old, Autumn, that was mine by blood, and 3 boys that I mentored,...

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August 19 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Hosea 1-5

Key Verse – Hosea 2:23 And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not...

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The problem of the inclusive pronoun is still very much a problem for the writer, and needs an accepted solution.  I tried for years with a suggested one of my own, but it never...

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I pray for my last thoughts to prevail with triumphant bliss, vanquishing  regret angst; and verily abounding with thanksgiving for the following:

GOD-ALPHA AND OMEGA of my life: Without* YOU, I’m nothing
since You’re my all-sufficiency...

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A QUARTER OF AN INCH AT A TIME
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I come not to enlighten you 
but in my way destroy; 
embellishment of personhood 
gives me such little joy. 
The dark I bring on wings scarred black 
shall blind the morning light; 
No trace is...

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Though you conceived me against your scheduled time
my tiny parts felt so secure inside your love vessel
I then invoked for your painstaking care
grateful that you chose to keep me--- 
---until my hospital birth exposure.

Though you...

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July 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Song of Solomon 1-4

Key Verse – Song of Solomon 1:7 Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock...

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For this tribute poem, my heart exclaims:

Dad: you’re my greatest human fortress, steadfast indeed
The Almighty I praise for your legacy, thriving with blest breed.

Mom: being the virtuous woman who molded my personhood
You exemplified essence of...

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Mother, you are God’s good and great gift to me indeed
Opening and offering to my personhood … realities’ essence which I need
Teaching and training me well through your word and deed
Hoisting up my mind with...

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