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Flint
Flint 
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid city lights
Highways built across the land
In hearts felt pride American...

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Categories: quo,
Form: Abecedarian



The number that died
I used to slit my arms open like I was peeling fruit—careful, slow, watching the skin give way like wet paper. The box cutter blade was dull, sticky from God knows what—maybe dried glue, maybe...

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Categories: quo, anger, depression, emotions, for teens, gothic, hate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Time Is Money
Does your money derive from health-regenerative investments?

Well, what could that mean?

Do you make your money, honey, 
with both light and dark co-arising memory
of midway love and peace intent,
avoiding anger-fear monoculturally competitive
dominant-power relationships,
and struggles against others,
against...

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Categories: quo, health, humanity, money, nature, political, time,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Open To Evolutionaries
Dear Andrew Cohen,

I am riveted 
inside “Evolutionary Enlightenment: 

A New Path 
to Spiritual Awakening.”  

Earth's sacred theme 
that enlightenment need not be limited 
to elitist 
and  orthodox experiences, 
memory, 
imagination

Inviting us to become...

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Categories: quo, culture, health, humor, perspective, philosophy, political, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Straining Together
Our cognitive and emotional struggles against dissonance of all varieties,
and struggles for more resonant love 
and resilient health
work better as decompositions laid out 
in-between EgoMind and EcoBody

As cooperative nondual co-arising partners,
Left and Right MindBody
of one...

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Categories: quo, body, earth, environment, humanity, humor, identity, nature,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol I
Farmer Fred was out in his field making inspection
When I snuck up on him without detection
I stated my greetings with great voice inflection
Which caused Fred to jump in the opposite direction
Then he smiled and made...

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Categories: quo, political,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Journey
Part 1: Catalyst
I recently read a blog that purported to report news
Of extraordinary import to us all,
That the Catholic Pope, with a new encyclical letter,
Announced to the world his conviction that there is no Hell
And...

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Categories: quo, faith, religion,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 4
The Lay of The Best Man - Part 4

I ask you this: Have you ever known a man to ‘buckle under stress’?
Or have you never seen a man have a ‘moment of madness’?
Have you not...

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Categories: quo, bullying, character, corruption, discrimination, men, vanity, women,
Form: Lay
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: quo, money,
Form: Prose
Premium Member 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: quo, education,
Form: Free verse
Beauty has an expectation
Beauty has an expectation.
It can be damaging and filled with infactuation.
Growing up in a world of a certain dedicated beauty, It can be confusing.
Beauty is defined at first in a home.
It is influenced in tribe,...

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© Dena Brown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quo, allegory, beauty, culture, freedom, society, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
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: quo, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 1 With Commentary By T Wignesan
 Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 1 by T. Wignesan

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quo, addiction, america, freedom, political, war,
Form: Free verse
Existentialism Emancipation Proclamation Manumission
Existentialism emancipation proclamation manumission...

Flourishes amidst freedom 
once invisible (alice in) chains shucked
when soul no longer kept linkedin 
to jane's addiction 
with corporeal duty, entity, fealty... 
while formerly shed body electric 
gendered as former googly eyed...

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Categories: quo, allah, angel, appreciation, atheist, birth, body, death,
Form: Free verse
Circa February 12th, 2122 10:30 Pm
Circa February 12th, 2122 ~ 10:30 PM

Equals twenty one thirty 22:30 military time
future time traveler looks back one century ago,
oceanic waterways overladen with green slime,
yours truly attempted crafting id est feeble rhyme
far from madding crowd,...

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Categories: quo, absence, age, celebration, dark, destiny, fantasy, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Future Time Traveler Looks Back One Century Ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

The following poem tweaked 
courtesy original author who crafted
literary endeavor some couple years ago.

Now circa August 20th, 2122, 
or 1930 military time,
yours truly attempted 
drafting id est feeble...

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Categories: quo, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, august, celebrity, crazy, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Grant This Civil Yankee To Doodle Till Lee Gets Blue In the Face
Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face 

blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth 
of the late...

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Categories: quo, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Future time traveler looks back one century ago
Future time traveler looks back one century ago

I exhibit health and virility at one hundred and 
64 years astride planet earth, whereby spouse,
(who remained married to yours truly for about
one century – which elapsed in...

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Categories: quo, absence, adventure, anniversary, birth, celebration, cool, dad,
Form: Free verse
i did not use special characters
Inauguration Day 2025 - Monday, January 20, 2025, 12:00?PM

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The late reverend American minister and activist,
now and forever more immortalized in the promised land
despite his work among...

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Categories: quo, america, anger, angst, anxiety, atheist, humorous, scary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member set apart

 set-apart 
tactical intrusion 
optical illusions
 set in place
 put in place
 it's all in front of your face 
though you can't see
 what you can't see
 yet you can see spiritually 
attracted to attached...

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Categories: quo, addiction, appreciation,
Form: Spoken Word
Bully Me You, I Exemplified Archetypal Scapegoat
Bully me you, I exemplified archetypal scapegoat

Even as an old curmudgeon, aye pucker
and raspily suction, albeit toothless mouth
drawing reminiscent guffaws affecting 
(think feeble attempt 
impersonating plumber plunging - 
unclogging backed up toilet), 
flushed with satisfaction,
now...

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Categories: quo, anger, angst, anniversary, anti bullying, anxiety, august,
Form: Rhyme
Darkness Elementary 226
If out of darkness comes light, then my life must be one ginormous ray of sunshine right about now. Coming out of a 14-year classroom coma, I am now awake, yet I continue to slumber...

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Categories: quo, abuse, children, corruption, dark, dream, education, goodbye,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Nature Valley's Spirit
The Spirit of the Valley never dies.
It is called the Mystic Female.
    The Door of the Mystic Female
    Is the root of Heaven and Earth.
 
   ...

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Categories: quo, earth, identity, math, nature, religion, science, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Humanity Canteen
Humanity Canteen

My restaurant is exclusive and classy no paupers allowed though I
have to declare that I picked up the chef near the township where
on a paraffin cooker in his garden of plenty lots of dishevelment...

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Categories: quo, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Bloodless - Tale of a Hero and the People He Died For
You knew you were going to die. 1
And yet you came, thinking no matter how insane,
the man on the seat of power would never want you dead
… it would be too much on his head.

And...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: quo, change, corruption, hero, history,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things