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Premium Member Why Blackwaters Cause Brownfields
If I have this right,
and I almost certainly don't have this Left-Deductively right,
our Environmental Health and Safety Protection Agency
and our Public Health and Safety Education Department
have recently co-invested in BlackWater WinLose EcoPolitical Empowerment
through PublicSector Piracy...

No,...

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Categories: provoking, confusion, culture, health, humor, integrity, peace, psychological,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Child of the King
I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...

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Categories: provoking, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
February 29th, 2024
February 29th, 2024

Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582
the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader
(i.e. essentially paterfamilias among
Roman Catholic flock)
timely maneuvered around calendrical rock
and hard space implementing
viable system tracking years ad hoc
out of sync and...

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Categories: provoking, 12th grade, age, birth, celebration, fate, february,
Form: Rhyme
Accumulating Anger: When the Clock Chimed 9
I took a long, thought-provoking walk
I jumped off the car, never knowing why
I looked out the window and began to talk
Accumulating anger got the best of me - I can't deny

I saw her kiss a...

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Categories: provoking, angst, conflict, emotions, friend, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enabled Empathy
It's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult

I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and political ableist sins
of felt omission from commercial value
and, perhaps worse,
my...

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Categories: provoking, culture, health, humor, identity, love, peace, relationship,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member Jesus Told Me
Jesus taught and lived
Those who follow the Way
Truth
Life, rather than punishing death,
would be known
by our love,
especially for our enemies.

He did not say, or live,
Those who punish themselves and others with death threats
and war planning
and technology...

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Categories: provoking, community, culture, health, history, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Monofilamania
It is so hard to let go of love,
lovingly.

It sharks, 
unpeels more gut more quickly
than reel or reeler ever lost
in all those years of lazy inches
in and out:
casting,
winding in and playing out,
hardly fishing, rarely catching
anything
from...

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© Jack Scott  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: provoking, allegory, passion, woman, memory, sea, fish, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butt Out - Collaboration - Please Join In
I’m lunching with my bestie Mylie
She’s upset and no longer smiley
I ask her what’s wrong
She said in my thong
My bottom is no match for Kylie!

I giggled and said stop your moans
You're perfect not like Bridget...

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Categories: provoking, body, clothes, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Here Once Is a Time
There once was a species
with one sacred EarthTribe Vocation
provoking polyphonic yearnings,
polypathic necessities
responsibilities
authority spaces

There once was a NewTribe health plan
divinely humane for ecodancing,
ego listening cooperative well-said choreography
to sing GoodNews wondrous anthems
of global theological geography
to worship politically...

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Categories: provoking, caregiving, games, green, health, love, peace, red,
Form: Political Verse
Fixated Freefall
Falling away,
Away from your embrace
Day by day,
Washing away my face
In the mirror before me...
I ran the race with determination and fury...
I took the correction that God had in mind for me all along...but yet, I...

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Categories: provoking, corruption, courage, , Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
What Is the Order
I get up to the sound of drilling, banging and speeding cars with sleepy passengers shouting, “a who did a give the order,” and the fading response of another passenger “ a the woman with...

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Categories: provoking, 8th grade, absence, america, beauty, butterfly, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Chalk Dust and Stardust
Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark

We've trudged through dusty classrooms, yearning
For wisdom...

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Categories: provoking, education,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Family Health Assessment
I have watched my youngest son
while nurses give him baths
using diverse models of health optimization 
ranging from PositivEnergy Promotion,
restorative ego-eco
I-Thou therapies,
to lower, not too much NegativEnergy, concerns
for hygienic technology professional management,
anger and fear commercialized insurance...

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Categories: provoking, earth, education, health, humor, muse, music, nature,
Form: Political 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: provoking, culture, death, earth, environment, nature, night, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Routine Rituals
Routine.
New Year
yet the same ritualistic routines,
absent their blissfully celebrating roots
buried in more fertile loves and hope-filled times
and might have beens
if not for this today
with these people
on this sacred nurturing Goddess Earth,

Still making more or less...

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Categories: provoking, blessing, earth, health, myth, nature, new year,
Form: Political Verse
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation
Emancipation proclamation from Samson fixation

Otherwise titled deep into my fiftieth year of passive aggressive rebellious puberty.

Yes, I chickened out getting a haircut yesterday August twenty seventh two thousand and twenty four as stated in a...

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Categories: provoking, 7th grade, 8th grade, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Secret Love
Hidden beneath the hopes and dreams, gentle
Feelings, inspiring me to trust, believe
Fondness this alive isn’t accidental
It feels amazing, just like Christmas Eve,
Joyful and inspired, like a heart afire
Breathing whispers of light over the soul
Remembering the...

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Categories: provoking, love, romance, senses,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Reaping Short Terms Benefits
Reaping short terms benefits...

before marital savings bond matured
as a then quinquagenarian.

Courtesy gerontologists medical practitioners
allowing, enabling, and providing
the elderly population to live
longer and healthier lives.

Linkedin with longevity loosely translates
to resurgent libido spurring
older folks predilection
to participate in...

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Categories: provoking, absence, abuse, adventure, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chatgpt-4 Shockingly Rates One of My Sonnets a 94 Out of 100
“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”

Mental “Masturbation”

(The title...

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Categories: provoking, extended metaphor, satire, sin, smart,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member As I Watch Myself Unfold Without Love
He/I/they/all/we/none knowing sit/sats he/she thoughts he/she witnessed he/she held a behold as to what the hell a corporeal ring of things once unbeknowinest to him/her was about,: thought provoking, yet undeterminate in any reason with...

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Categories: provoking, age, appreciation, grief, remember, sad love, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Vapor Barrier Mastic
Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath of this wreckage, which was constructed-meticulously seeking absolute perfection…; only...

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Categories: provoking, abuse, allusion, betrayal, character, deep, fear, humanity,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Bees Under Milk Wood : a Spell
"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting." Robert Frost 


 
"Bees Under Milk Wood : A Spell"



Spider Web glistens wet 
in the spoilt lies of...

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Categories: provoking, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Correcting Unhealthy Inaccuracies
EarthMother senses a difference
between Political Correctness
and everyday domestic political accuracy.

Political accuracy grows best
and sprouts up healthiest rooted
in directly observed EarthNatured experience

While CapitalInvested Political Correctness
is more shallow sandy shifty rooted
in some LeftBrain dominant
EgoPatriarchal WorldView Theory
of competitively...

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Categories: provoking, earth day, health, mother, peace, political, power,
Form: Political Verse
Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious
Preface: 
On February 4, 1861,
the seven states that had seceded
by this point convened and created
the Confederate States of America
under the leadership of Jefferson Davis.

Just under two months later,
on April 12, 1861, Confederate forces
opened fire on...

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Categories: provoking, absence, america, anxiety, baptism, bereavement, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eighth Grade English
Back in Eighth Graded Class
of StraightWhiteMale English privilege
I learned all healthy narratives
must have at least one
of three tension intentions

Unlike sacred mythic prayer and fable 
multicultures invoking poetry 
flowing soulfully 
provoking gospel primal anthems

Of StraightWhite Man...

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Categories: provoking, culture, earth day, grandmother, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things