Long Reasoned Poems
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The Amistad MutinyThe Amistad Mutiny
Slavery, a dirty word no matter how it’s pronounced:
Abducted and herded to the slave fortress of Lomboko1 for trade.
To be tossed in chains below deck on the Portuguese ship Tecora,2
Sailing the Atlantic Middle...
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Categories:
reasoned, africa, america, history, racism, slavery, world,
Form:
Verse
Superior Courts of Ecological JusticeWhat evidence do we have that businesses receive financial as well as other nutritionally healthy benefits,
by co-investing cooperatively within health-developing community cultures?
What are financially healthy benefits for cultural communities
both internal to corporate identity,...
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Categories:
reasoned, culture, earth, health, humor, judgement, political, race,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Tiny Town Events - 1st Half -- Text With IllustrationNOTE: THIS IS ONLY THE 1st half of this piece-- its 2nd half is posted separately due to Poetry Soup's poem-lengths-limitation. Be sure to check out the balance of this poem = "Tiny Town Events"...
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Categories:
reasoned, love,
Form:
Narrative
A Chance Conversation At Osmers Hill 1999 Part 1On a typical English day late June Joe travelled the above country road, his buisness was in the construction field, and this day he was estimating work as per customer enqiriy, this being the case...
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Categories:
reasoned, appreciation,
Form:
Narrative
Social Privyjustice
What does this vastly misunderstood word mean to you?
Too what ends?
May we seek?
Who(m) may guide us?
Endless deliberation (spiss spiss spiss)
Debated and glorified by us all
Beloved; instilled among (a) core...
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Categories:
reasoned, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure, allusion, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse
Cooperative Pirate SchoolStudents conservative of body-health care
invest as necessary
in bowing and submitting subservience
to orthodox heterosexual vampirate mentors,
fundamentalist badnews evangelicals
sucking on pre-meditated rapture
of Heavenly bloodsucking EarthNatures.
To meet conservative RightWing
LeftBrain patriarchal
student membership classroom requirements
of monoculturing monopolistic
indoor health-safety classrooms,
research...
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Categories:
reasoned, care, education, green, health, heaven, school, society,
Form:
Political Verse
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...
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Categories:
reasoned, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Ego Speaks For Yangyin HistoryMost everything I learned about the history of evolution
feels colored by Julian Jaynes' theory of language
and culture
and history
and icons of ecological systems and functions,
forms and frequencies,
rhythms and ironic, ionic
dualdark cosmological bicameral transparency.
This is not...
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Categories:
reasoned, creation, earth, humanity, identity, love, psychological, sun,
Form:
Narrative
Future Self Among OthersFuture selves recycle past dynamic imaginations,
Greek Gods as muscular Yang athlete images
evolve from older internal messianic bodhisattva Yin,
double-edged incarnations of power.
It is in this coincidentia oppositorum,
claims Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,
that the peaks,
the Taoist Tipping Points
of wu wei...
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Categories:
reasoned, christian, culture, earth, health, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Let's Be KinderIn his essay "Let's Be Reasonable"
Rev. Todd Eklof [The Gadfly Papers]
reduces reasonable to logical;
This is a common left-brain dominant error,
confusion between deductive premises
and coldly reductive conclusions
calculated assuming cause v effect linear formulas
more than feedback...
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Categories:
reasoned, health, humanity, integrity, math, political, power, relationship,
Form:
Political Verse
Drunk Tank ShankI once spent a week in the drunk tank
couldn't handle the spirits that I drank
the cuisine wasn't half bad
we even had a few laughs
but I had to guard my butt with a shank
……………………………………………………………………….
It used to...
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Categories:
reasoned, drink, joy, tribute,
Form:
Limerick
Great Recycling RetransitionIcons are funny things,
she thought.
Heaven feels like a warm light circle
when we are thriving
and more like a cold dark triangle
of weaponed tipping points
against me
and mine
competitively not communicating
when we are barely surviving
above the mortally terrifying bottom
of...
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Categories:
reasoned, health, identity, integrity, psychological, religion, wisdom, woman,
Form:
Political Verse
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 17
Erlenkönig pulled the chair out beside Aisling's and sat on the side of the table. A large, luxuriant and ornate chair headed the end of the table,
several places down from where he sat...
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Categories:
reasoned, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Therapeutic TalkingTalk therapy
among braver angels
and curious devilish advocates,
Evolves natural contemplative thoughts
of healthy minds and bodies
felt sacredly neuro-systemic
Organic
dynamic systems
reconnecting sensory consciousness
and mindful sexual experience
with worldviews recombining
Liberal YangTruth and Conserving YintegralBeauty
in co-empathic compassion
Nonviolently hopeful
win/win bicameral intelligence
exploring why
And healthy...
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Categories:
reasoned, health, humanity, humor, peace, senses, sensual, stress,
Form:
Political Verse
Irrational Numbers, With LyricsThe number of folks sitting
on the back porch
waiting
for peace to strike,
like waiting for my garden to grow
without yet having planted it.
The number of people
noticing that chronic victims
suffer from critical victimization events,
minus the number who also...
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Categories:
reasoned, earth, education, humor, love, math, peace, science,
Form:
Political Verse
Dante's Hell, Fourth Canto Translation First Part,Fourth canto (first part)
The deep slumber was broken in my head
By a strong thunder, so that I woke up
As person forced to arouse from bed;
My rested eye I moved around then deep,
Erect uprisen, and also...
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Categories:
reasoned, fantasy,
Form:
Terza Rima
Camellia - Part 1 Translation From TagoreThis is a translation from the poem "Camellia", by Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel laureate Poet from India (1861 -1941) Understandably the story took place in late nineteenth century - early twentieth century Bengal.
Her name is...
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Categories:
reasoned, life, love,
Form:
Narrative
Heavens's Poker GameIn the beginning after God had finished creating this land.
Satan boldly challenged the heavens for the absolute control of man.
Gods’ architectural blueprint stretched for ages across the sky
He watered the...
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Categories:
reasoned, bible, christian, conflict, emotions, encouraging, god, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
Landsbyen -Into the North- An Epic Poem 51“Are you ready, DynDoeth,” the half elf asked?
“As ready as I can be,” was his response. “It is in your hands now.”
They walked across the vestibule and started to enter...
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Categories:
reasoned, christmas, fairy,
Form:
Epic
Farmer Fred Talks Politics Vol IiiOakland County MI Democrats ...
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Categories:
reasoned, political,
Form:
Narrative
PropitiationI had lunch with Randy, between classes today. It was a perfect day. The sky was an infinite, capri blue, the wind was stirring the environment, clouds were wispy and on high - in the...
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Categories:
reasoned, friendship, humor, school, student, work,
Form:
Free verse
The Explorer...and then just as suddenly, constellations appeared in a daytime sky, framed by white pines crawling with multicolored caterpillars. So from this day forward, they would search the sky for more star pictures. They...
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Categories:
reasoned, beauty, color, culture, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Narrative
Knowing God
When I was five, I asked the Lord…
To please protect my mom, my world
He whispered to my soul, “I will”
And went on to protect her from pain
From worry, doubt, fear and depression
From all the things...
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Categories:
reasoned, faith, god, hope, inspiration, inspirational, joy, love,
Form:
Free verse
Fundamentals RevisitedIf it is a premise of fundamentalists,
whether Christian or Islamic or Devil Worshipers,
that Reason is bad, faith is good,
what could anyone reasonably say
that could not be unfaithful to good?
However, as I recall,
there is that oft-quoted...
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Categories:
reasoned, christian, health, islamic, religion,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Empowering MemoriesAs I age into merely spiritual memories
of those sadly/gladly left behind
in less/more egocentrically embodied forms
Co-acclimating/aggressing functions
feel more like contrasting/constrained flows
of positive/negative
sensory-neural energy,
communication systems,
nutrition/digestion networks
of regenerating/degenerating
natural/spiritualized memory.
It does seem
our spiritual advisors
lesson-givers
teachers
scripture narratives
stories
preachers
communities
economies
directors
democracies
theocracies
leaders feature
pathologies of heart
and mind
and...
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Categories:
reasoned, culture, health, integrity, relationship, religion, remember, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse