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Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a character 
in The Impertinent Curious Man, 
a story within a...

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Categories: problematic, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form: Rhyme



Letters For People Part 4
Dear people, 
    (Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare, 
to perfect, before performance, …?
    -sure hard to try...

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© Matt Godek  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: problematic, america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Watering Gaian Grace
One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating  

Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements

Well fed and watered
to empower and enlighten interfaith
action and reflection,
song and dance
liturgical and fire-circle
contemporary-indigenous wisdom

Is to explore together
how and...

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Categories: problematic, caregiving, community, earth day, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Empathy As Green Democracy
I don't think it's just me.
I find myself challenged to change LeftBrain cognitive beliefs,
languaged abstractions of personal knowledge,
perhaps because it is not possible to change Right Brain's
Elder feelings of co-empathic trust
where dipolar co-arising mutual immunity
raises...

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Categories: problematic, education, health, history, integrity, political, racism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Chapter 111 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Worries Orchestrations Population Disintegration
Molly sat on the backyard porch 
Watching the kids play when Dolly 
Emerged from the doorway and 
Sat with her. "Hey sis how's it going 
Girl! Dolly seemed jovial. Molly 
Replied, "I guess it's going...

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Categories: problematic, color, daffodils, family, good morning, home,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:

In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...

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Categories: problematic, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member God's Return Ticket
God's Return Ticket

Did you ever wonder about the Almighty’s criteria or selection process for reincarnation of souls back on Earth? Just think some famous politician, movie star, sports figure,criminal, dictator, and so on could use...

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Categories: problematic, beauty, creation, earth, emotions, god, heaven, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Polyculturing Education
Polypathic conversation with David Holmgren:

Today it is common to hear the suggestion
[cooperative] education and [therapeutic] training
is the [mindful] key to allowing people to contribute
to a more sustainable [ecopolitical] future.

Although I recognize the value of formal...

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Categories: problematic, culture, deep, destiny, earth day, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Terrorist Deserts Into Bountiful Rivers
I'm continuing to read Jane Anna Gordon's "Creolizing Political Theory"
although now with Antonio Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind: Constructing the [WinWin Creolizing-Bilateral] Conscious Brain."

Right now,
Dr. Gordon is discussing various academic attempts,
and some of them actual...

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Categories: problematic, africa, body, culture, health, mental illness, psychological,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Optimal Wins
What words do we choose for maximizing our ultimate accomplishments,
achieving our healthiest goals,
measuring our 100% successful therapeutic outcome projections?

Why do these words, 
and our feelings about these choices 
wave in and out of optimal happiness...

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Categories: problematic, beauty, deep, earth, environment, health, peace, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Bothyang and Alsoyin
It's hard to think in Either-Or Deductive,
while speaking and acting in Both-And Inductive.

For example,
If my Brother is kind and loving
(and he usually is),
and really not all that judgmental and condemning
with his wife and kids especially...

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Categories: problematic, christian, earth, family, health, history, humor, usa,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member 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: problematic, culture, education, health, integrity, peace, religion, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Chapter 76 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Cruel Ball Plans and Birthday Celebrations
Average affluent Almost Afternoon 
11:30 morning time.  Damian was
Still asleep as were DJ and 
Amadeus. Molly and Dolly were 
In the kitchen planning Barrington 
And Godfrey's birthday party.
"Come sis are we baking this cake...

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Categories: problematic, environment, family, father son, girlfriend, house, july,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 102 -- Damian Delilah Mallory Dj Damali Cj: Trinidadian Vacation Relations
Date:  June  2045

Dolly asked rubbing Damian's 
Back  "My big bear, how are
We going to celebrate Joshua's 
Birthday? Hmm?"  Damian said,
"Maybe take him and the kids to
An amusement park."  
"Yeah okay,"...

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Categories: problematic, allusion, business,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Chapter 60 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen X
During the days before the 
Vacation began FIRST: there
was a thunderous knock on
The door of Damian Hakim's 
Residence. Damian Junior ran
To answer the door.  But
Damian was disturbed in his
den by the omenous knock.
Damian asked...

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Categories: problematic, beach, business, child, confidence,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Pope Francine's Transfiguration
If Laudato Si'
were written by Pope Francine
and not me
replacing Pope Francis's
root anthrosupremacist choices
with similar
but more nuanced
and multiculturally inclusive choices,
cooperatively healthy premises
might further enlighten
to resolutely empower
a rather more transubstantially engaging
creolizing catholic haute cuisine.

#110.  The LeftBrain...

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Categories: problematic, creation, earth, health, humanity, humor, integrity, meaningful,
Form: Political Verse
Remorseless Sweaty Palms
Remorseless sweaty palms

despite being prescribed glycopyrrolate.

Though the angst riddled psyche of mine crafted youth, long since receded, ebbed in the past, infringement, impingement, and indecent wracking wrath of mental illness, that even as a middle...

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Categories: problematic, 12th grade, anger, blue, care, crazy, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chapter 52 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family Seventeen Iii
The children called Damian into
The foyer to inspect their
Achievement. Damian came
Down the staircase and looked
Around. Pleased with the
Organization skills of his
Offspring, he Loosened his 
Belt. And asked, "what do you
Think of yourselves, you think
You did...

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Categories: problematic, birth, father son, wife, woman, women, youth,
Form: Alliteration
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots V
Spawned from the loins that 
Perpetuated the loyal serfs mongrel
Seed:-
These peoples of a conditioned and
"Resigned-To-it-all" breed.
Born into the enveloping tedium
Of interlocking days...Interwoven
With interlocking days -
Victims of stark circumstance
And vague promises unmade.
Gregariously living out their lives
When...

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Categories: problematic, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Tainted Thrill
Shame on you for trying to kill my thrill
Shut the hell up and be my friend for real
Stop acting so arrogant and such a pill
You know I need your shoulder to lean on…
It’s really no...

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Categories: problematic, angst, emotions, fear, grief, passion, stress, youth,
Form: Free verse
Memorial Day May 29th, 2023
silently wailing analogy to Moby Dick 
regarding how yesterdays 
prurient laced introductions 
to rhyme in retrospect embarrassingly blows.

Herewith to enliven anecdote ever further,
I inject humorous tidbit
just gimme moment to unload and reach
into psychological metaphorical knapsack
particularly...

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Categories: problematic, absence, america, angel, anger, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form: Free verse
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang
Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang

Ever since a young lad
irritable bowel syndrome
in my humble pinion wracked
lower abdominal area 
gurgled and ballooned gastrointestinal tract
(similar to following Colonoscopy preparation
slated for January 24th, 2024
at Phoenixville Hospital)
posterior...

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Categories: problematic, 9th grade, angst, anxiety, birth, crush, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member almost showed off
(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)

I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).

I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny New Haven afternoon. It was as if they’d opened up...

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Categories: problematic, home, humor, student, travel, write, youth,
Form: Free verse
Simulations and Symphonies
Simulations and Symphonies

Discussing life inside a simulation
Amalgamating strife with signs of humiliation
Confronting life with positive configurations
An enchanting wife that doesn’t need invitations

Caring for what others naturally overlook
A watchful parent, a well written book 
Beauty that...

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Categories: problematic, corruption, courage, integrity, international,
Form: Rhyme
Desolation Row
Kids of today, we here them say, no respect, what do you expect
Always hanging around on the streets, doing nothing and nothing to do
Is it their fault in this decaying society or should the blame...

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© John Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: problematic, kids, drug,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things