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Premium Member Transparent Exodus
Imagine we live in an eco-normative story
of competing for wealth-commodities,
cash piled in quantifiable currencies,
collectively blinded to our Win-Win
natural economic,
ecological,
psychological,
biological health and well-being 
nurturing value roots.

One day, our PolyCultural Received View
unveils a co-operatively synergetic evolution 
of...

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Categories: poignant, earth, environment, philosophy, political, psychological, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Who's Crazy Now
I have an outside RightBrain dominant thalamus
to watch and listen to,
to feel confluent and resonant with,
to love,
as parent with child,
yet this is more of a mutual-mentoring of
notsad-notsad sustainable bliss
within our normally limited nutritional sensory environment.

My...

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Categories: poignant, body, dream, health, humor, identity, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Preface
Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art form sui generis....

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Categories: poignant, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I a youthsome wholesome jokesome handsome
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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Categories: poignant, age, appreciation, birth, creation, desire, fishing, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Murder Most Foul
I am having that dream of dreams again
The one that wakes me up in the night
                   ...

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© Jc Hawkens  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poignant, autumn, beautiful, best friend, betrayal, heart, lost
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Farewell Finale
Enjoy our parting day
the young girl child,
now full-grown wise Elder,
reminded me,
the brother she had taught to flex male muscle
without overbearing her Sister Gaia powers.

On this classic sun-baptizing fragrant May morning,
reflecting this same gently caressing day...

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Categories: poignant, age, earth, goodbye, loss, love, sister,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
  MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS 


She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches 
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner Jewel 
 soft it lay cradled  
rhapsodic rubicon...

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Categories: poignant, character, courage, death, emotions, extended metaphor, humanity,
Form: Epic
New Year's Eve 2022
New Year's Eve 2022

Yours truly riddled with social anxiety,
hence (billy me) he will idle away
December 31st, 2022 
sequestered (with the missus) 
hunkered down in his mancave
while madding crowd  
entertains reckons partition of time 
into...

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Categories: poignant, adventure, celebration, dance, december, holiday, january, new
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Poetry, a Catharsis
stared at the two passionate lines for the longest time,
       what I wrote ..I created ... as if in a trance, as if in a surreal dream ..
 ...

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Categories: poignant, inspiration, introspection, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets 1
1.Remembrance

Remembrance of guilt from pages turned brown,
Opened and read inside rooms of my mind.
Written through time with tears sliding down.
I will claim each dung lit cavern I find.
My yesterdays speak of a poignant time.
Holding the...

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Categories: poignant, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Bounteous Mass Media Mechanizations
Bounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses 
linkedin selling (hard) wares
versus advertising males sporting, harkening,
approximating Adonis with remarkable beauty. 

Western civilization commercialization,
commodification, communication 
methodologies adrip with deification,...

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Categories: poignant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 8th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Darwin's Double-Dark Dilemma
Elder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for those YangStrong
while Darwin's Cross and his own eyes
clearly disguised
camouflaged ectosymbiotic...

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Categories: poignant, culture, death, earth, environment, nature, night, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Burning Memories
Crown of Sonnets

Yesterday's poems now pages turned brown
Lay scattered, torn on the floor of my years
Written long ago with words I wrote down
When the ink was used to quell the heart's fears
These words of my...

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Categories: poignant, lost love, memory, poems,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Incident At Milton Creek Silver Mine
Giant balls of tumbleweed were blowing down the main street
And off the Sierra Nevada mountains there blew a fine sleet
It was late December in the old Western town of Milton Creek
Preparations were under way for...

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Categories: poignant, america, christmas, december, memory,
Form: Narrative
The Conditions of Living
The Conditions of Living

Stark organisations of my observations
Respond to beauty with pure elation 
Instead of chronic devastation 
Process the abject consternation 
From contrived over-saturation 
And acute mass manipulation 
That should be in legal confiscation
Truth found...

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Categories: poignant, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Blame
[Non-Fictional Preface: Fictional Old Folks Home/Apparition] "This is the story of two friends, both considered themselves start-up writers, whereas, one who was a bit more of an upstart, was merely known as, Robert Frost. Frost's...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poignant, confusion, death of a friend, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Handicapped By Fear
"Let not your hearts be troubled. Neither let it be afraid". Jesus Christ,      John 14:1               ...

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Categories: poignant, fear,
Form: Narrative
New Year's Eve 2021
New Year's Eve 2021

December thirty first
two thousand twenty one countdown
will transparently and seamlessly stream into
simultaneously linkedin January first
two thousand and twenty two,
whereby the Ball a geodesic sphere,
12 feet in diameter,
and weighing 11,875 pounds.

The aforementioned Ball...

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Categories: poignant, adventure, culture, dance, humanity, inspiration, new years
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Echoes of a Silent Night: The Christmas Miracle of 1914
In a hellish nightmare pit, soldiers stand...
Along the Western Front's cruel, jagged land,
Where blood and tears paint the earth's sad lore,
They mourn their fallen with bitter taste, hearts torn.

They heeded not the cries of pain,
Nor...

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Categories: poignant, christmas, friendship, hope, love, peace, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member That Moment

I awoke early that morning

to an unfamiliar familiar sound.

I rose from the bed with cacophonous singing

ringing in my ears, separated the curtains

with the breast stroke of an Olympic swimmer,

and opened the blinds to the on...

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Categories: poignant, imagery, loss, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ides In Ivy
Oh, these trees, arms reaching as they
      did then, but even wiser ... perhaps I as
         well have learned another thing-or-two
 ...

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Categories: poignant, education, imagery, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member On Being Here Now
Our body is only a cloak,
seek the one who has dressed you,
heed not the dress.
Rumi

My form dresses our shared purpose,
I seek this SuperEco who has formed our cooperative
and synergetic vocational meaning,
not my ego's magically imagined...

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Categories: poignant, creation, earth day, nature, philosophy, science, space,
Form: Free verse
One Most Dramatic Change In My Life
(A recent virtual chat with thine youngest daughter
awakened poignant memories adjusting to 
fatherhood for first time).
     
December 22nd 1996 Bundle of Edenic Joy
Twenty one plus years ago 
   faux...

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Categories: poignant, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, baby,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Hunger Unfed
"Robert Frosts', friend, Edward Thomas was an indecisive fellow, until that one day they took the other road Edward wanted, and of course, Robert's piece was not Edward's choice to say the least, so when...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: poignant, brother, depression, friendship, hurt, missing, poems, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hand-Picked Berries and Sun-Dried Tomatoes 1
The following is a collection of selected critiques of the work of Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench from a variety of media outlets. The views expressed therein 
are entirely unsolicited, uncompensated and unexpurgated, 
representing the...

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Categories: poignant, mythology,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things