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Eight Men Who Are Doing Quite Well
A notice appeared in the paper recently with the names and faces of eight men who have a combined wealth of $426 billion. According to Oxfam International, in 2015 this would have equaled the amount...

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Categories: proponents, money,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Red Justice But Green Peace
HeteroSapiens have bipolar developed
miraculous capacities
to stretch and blur
legitimate moral peace initiatives
subordinate to licit legal judicial systems

Judiciously approved punishment
for misdemeanors
felonies,
cardinal
and moral
and carnal
and original sins
requiring flat fees
regardless of capacity to pay,
imprisonment,
enslavement,
lynching,
beheading,
burning at the stake,
chemical injections,

Capital disembodied punishments
NOT...

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Categories: proponents, culture, earth day, health, peace, psychological, religion,
Form: Political Verse
The Decline of America
You see it everywhere
The unmistakable signs

That the decline of America 
Is in full swing

As the world leaders turn away
From dealing with the US 

And we have gone past the tipping point
There is nowhere left to...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proponents, america, analogy, anger, anxiety, political,
Form: Free verse
There Are Many Casual Progressive Left Wing Christians
There are many casual progressive left wing Christians in the world today! Who still honestly believe that they are saved! When they are blind guides leading other blind guides Hosea 4:6! 

There is only one...

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Categories: proponents, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
May God's Grace and His Peace Always Abide With Thee
O May God's grace and may His peace always abide with thee.  May He freely grant thee peace, joy love and understanding. O May His redeeming love and matchless grace freely flow through thee....

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Categories: proponents, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative



Dogma Or Mystery, Part Two
It's ironic that 'dogma' simply once meant belief: something we hope is true but aren't certain of, as opposed to a fact. Now dogma means doctrine, something taken as fact and NOT to be disputed....

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Categories: proponents, allusion, analogy, angst, appreciation, mystery, political, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Just a Few Questions, Lord
Lord, why is it that when we see articles about aborting your babies,
we move on to something else ... and even sometimes get angry? 
Why do we argue among ourselves about that?   ...

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Categories: proponents, god,
Form: Free verse
M-Theory Musings
What theory unifies forces, weak, strong,
With gravity— also, to which belong
All the string theories of why and because?
To answer these queries, M-theory does.

Proponents aver it offers clarity
As to the issue of singularity.—
Where there’s a will...

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Categories: proponents, creation, deep, muse, sky, space, visionary, world,
Form: Rhyme
Bulletin From a Gun Shy Freedom Fighter
easy access and proliferation of firearms,
     now begs a serious hard question
     presenting daunting task,
quite aware that passionate
     stalwart supporters of the NRA,

...

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Categories: proponents, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, addiction,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Faith, Rationality and Islam: a Crisis
The world shared some turmoil; what went wrong?
that was the question, deplored the argument;
It’s all about Pope Benedict’s address
given to his old university at Regensburg
in Germany where he had taught –
a number of years with...

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Categories: proponents, faith, history, introspection, life, world, evil, faith,
Form: Narrative
A Bum Rap
proponents of the american justice system
don’t spend too much time on stories about people
getting let out of prison after being wrongly sentenced &
subsequently festering for 25 years in
one of society’s garbage cans as a direct...

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Categories: proponents, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Response To If
Are able to keep your joy when all about you
If you can appreciate another’s view,
But sagely keep advice, inside, anew,
If you can access this vital part of self,
Or you can protect your heart and your...

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Categories: proponents, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
White Washing Tons of American History By George Part Ii
generally not worth a cent                              ...

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Categories: proponents, betrayal, black african american, conflict, crush, dedication,
Form: Free verse
White Washing Tons of American History By George Part Ii
generally not worth a cent                              ...

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Categories: proponents, books, devotion, evil, history, identity, judgement, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Flipped Hourglass
In my vantage-point the vast oceans are warming,
The sea levels are rising, while today is melting,
Cracking thick ice-shields crowning Artic, Antarctic
And ferocious intensity is churning Atlantic, Pacific,
As yesteryear in rear view flashes blunt warnings,
And future...

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Categories: proponents, environment, natural disasters, pollution, time,
Form: Free verse
April 12 Dire Prediction Civil War 2
Civil War 2.0 

Reading the latest polls 
Showing that President Biden
 And Ex-President Trump 
Tied in a dead  heat
In the polls
Particularly in the swing states.

. I realize there is 
Real possibility 
 That Donald...

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© Jake Aller  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proponents, america, analogy, anger, angst, crazy, political, war,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Eat the Rest
When I was coming up
momma and daddy both said
"Finish your plate, son.  Eat the rest!"
More often than not there'd be something
I didn't like, or didn't like enough
and momma or daddy one would say
"Finish your...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proponents, childhood, food, memory, parents, sleep,
Form: Narrative
Pro Predicament
Circuitous circular departures cleverly Sequester and  
embrace Inexpressible  moments of time.

Reexamine status, prevent  consciousness apathy, 
fabricate and reflect acceptance of self. 

precisely propose  to expose fallaciously filtered 
fantastical trickery touched theories.

Turn tasteless translucent tall tales into stable,...

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Categories: proponents, allegory, art, dedication, devotion, faith, fantasy, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tanks
Tanks

"Da Tanks, da Tanks."
The President is not Chairman Mao.  
Come on now!
Gads, what an ungrateful nation!

Perhaps haughty Don Lemon or
that court jester, Jim Acosta,
Two snobby nobodies behind 
a mike, turning brains to mush
every night,
Could please each...

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Categories: proponents, america, encouraging, independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Give a Thought For the Future
A rational person must have thoughts about now; and the FUTURE
The holy book says he must live his life as if tomorrow is RAPTURE
This is the minimum expectation that GOD has for any CREATURE
Relationships that...

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Categories: proponents, blessing, character, courage, creation, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Day
The day had dawned with promises of times good
When the little child was begging for food
Hadn’t seen a morsel in days, still didn’t have it in sight
Would the Gods in heaven pity my plight?

The day...

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Categories: proponents, angst, confusion, deathday, words, day,
Form: Free verse
Uncharted Waters
as Colorado & Washington
have thrown the dice,
the first big step in the direction
of legalizing pot
has made people against the 
measure begin to stir in their
ridiculously naïve funk,
whilst proponents who do not
live in either of the...

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Categories: proponents, life, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Political Insanity
Convictions are won, when a candidate sums
up the ills that need fixing.  Since we're hoping and thinking
of another Abe Lincoln…., but instead we are gettin'
the dumb and the dumber

But, I must mark my ballot....,...

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Categories: proponents, political, power, race,
Form: Rhyme
Burn, Burn, Flog
Burn Burn Down!
The tired torch at the harbor
For water has risen to liberty's throat
We hang by the lips, of her flooding mouth
Praying angelic nudity, will expose her shores
Burn Burn Burn!
The monetized existence, declaring our blood...

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Categories: proponents, america, anger, angst, baptism, devotion, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Message For Whites
You're bracing for 
the hubristic lecture
it's not here

The crux:
unvarnished understanding
of how blacks see
their outlook for life

Only narrow options:
they can give in, go through
or go around - a predicate path

Try to feel what it's like
to be...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: proponents, discrimination, drug, forgiveness, judgement, love, prejudice, racism,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things