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Premium Member Revolutionary Story
They called their gang The ReVolutionaries,
my Father Sun and Mother Earth drew time with them,
but they often called themselves Yang and Yin,
respectively and mutually respectful
yet privately erotic,
not so much politically and economically
where Yang could not...

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Categories: restrained, health, humor, joy, life, love, political, psychological,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Premium Member Caregiving Stories Continued
Wounded Sacred Dementia

My last foster care-provider
and -receiver story
is also a sad story
of my last special needs adoption
of bipolar born,
and oppositionally reared,
alcoholism.

My BiPolar Wounded Child
turned an auspicious five
on the day I first saw her,
and promptly rejected...

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Categories: restrained, caregiving, health, humor, love, parents,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War
The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrained, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Canto Xix Hell Translation
Simon wizard, you poor under his sway
That all things of God, which then of good will
Must be always brides, and you birds of prey

For gold and silver adulterate still,
Now it's time that the trumpet sounds...

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Categories: restrained, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
A Gardening Expose
With these lines I’ll relate an intriguing tale of dubious accuracy
For I Hope to unveil sordid affairs of more than one conspiracy!
Be warned, that though you might be disturbed by the facts I relate?
They are...

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Categories: restrained, garden, word play,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dante's Divina Commedia Translation Canto Viii
I tell, to follow, that long trait before
We reached the  back foot of the tower tall,
Our eyes went up to the top core

For two little flames we saw install,
And another responding from so far
That...

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Categories: restrained, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member Terror Bugs: Part 3 - A Freezer Mice Adventure
[Continued from ‘Terror Bugs: Part 2 - A Freezer Mice Adventure’]
__________

London’s streets resembled an al fresco mausoleum 
They tracked a trail of body parts which led to a museum
A thousand Terror Bugs were massed, in...

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Categories: restrained, adventure,
Form: Narrative
A Poet of a Thousand Words
A poet of a thousand words
The pen garnished by the flame
Like a sea no desire knows
And love becomes the same
As poet to my love for thee
I confess between the lace
Of time and every sorrow made
I...

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Categories: restrained, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member By the Sea
As she saw it.


The mountains and the meadows were always so beautiful this time of year.  It seemed as if a fresh new world always came to life. The high cliffs turned sharply downward....

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Categories: restrained, beautiful, body, desire, grandmother, imagination, me, mother,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Learning To Recreate Health
From Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking: Creativity Step by [NonHierarchical] Step

Summary

The emphasis in education has always been on logical sequential thinking which is by [deductively analytical academic] tradition the only proper [true, good, and pretty]...

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Categories: restrained, creation, culture, health, humor, nature, power, psychological,
Form: Prose Poetry
Recluse By Dint of Circumstance
Recluse by dint of circumstance

Proud anonymous troglodytes 
forerunners of mine
confronted threats less horrific
than forty fifth commander in chief
of United States of America.

He/him (matted hair, ratty, scrawny, 
and tetchy ugly villain)   
scurried into dark...

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Categories: restrained, adventure, america, angst, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
GREEN DAY revisited
	GREEN DAY – revisited
     Although the following poetic/prosaic material written January eighteenth two thousand and eighteen, I came across these encapsulated, enclosed, encoded, and encrusted with barnacle clad body electric of...

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Categories: restrained, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Syria Reconstructed
It is in our fragile, nearly broken, exposure
that we are most available for love
and remedial gratitude,
rather than the louder applause
of our full-blown ballistic glory.

While exercising restrained patience breeds tolerance,
giving pregnant reign to co-empathy compels timeless...

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Categories: restrained, deep, earth day, health, love, mother, power,
Form: Political Verse
Ah Tis Nothing Greater Than
Ah... tis nothing greater than...

malfunctioning heater 
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
regarding following reasonable rhyme.

While scrolling thru 
poems crafted yesteryear,
I chanced to jog my memory where
there
occurred power outage necessitated 
more than divine...

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Categories: restrained, 12th grade, angst, dark, environment, faith, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Anguish And Admonitions Of Eve
No! you weren’t born
to be beaten
raped
chained to a life  bloodstained  ingrained with pain
wordless  worthless  voiceless  choiceless  

No! you can’t live
being beaten
raped
chained to a life  profaned  restrained ...

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Categories: restrained, abuse, conflict, courage, perspective, society, violence, women,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Letter To My Father
*LETTER TO MY FATHER*

 
Dearest Father
With heart ripped into rags and shreds I write ? to you tonight
Trembling hands and ink made of tears and blood
Teary ?? eyes and bloody heels like a defeated soldier
Lost...

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Categories: restrained, betrayal, depression, emotions, fairy, father son, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recounting Wounding Costs
I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.

I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given, when LeftBrain verbally requested,
yet without RightBrain capacity
to feel even the...

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Categories: restrained, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings, humor, parody, voice,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member punked
We’re on October break, which is a 6-day weekend. For the last two weeks, everyone’s been making plans.
“What do you think of Cancún?” Sunny’d asked me.
“The only people going to Mexico are on the cheap...

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Categories: restrained, friend, fun, humor, new york, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Long Journey POTD
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                           ...

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Categories: restrained, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Losing Anastasia
Detrimental, this situation...so detrimental
Why, why do I even persist; why do I even bother to contend
to be a contender, the defender in this pointless game
Am I the pretender, pretending nothing affects me
like a contagious infectious...

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Categories: restrained, anger, anxiety, betrayal, heartbreak, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Light Systems
It was Economic Earth
Gaia who taught WinWin me
Yin-diminished Taoism.

It was ego/eco-centric Permaculture Designers
WinWin DNA-with-RNA CoGoverning HealthCare Workers,
and not so much
Competitive FIGHT-MAKES-RIGHT retributional politics.

Instead, restoration
redemption
resiliently healthy love
WinWin GoodNews theology
deep listening with inside Sacred Ecology
of YangGod with...

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Categories: restrained, caregiving, environment, gospel, health, integrity, power, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Sequel Swear It Was the Moon
An entire week I handled it-
The teasing and the taunting and
Every night the moon shone down-
Was really very daunting.

Judge John squinted his eyes at me,
T'was approximately mid morning.
Cleaned his ear with his finger-
"Am giving you...

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Categories: restrained, humorous, moon, sun, word play,
Form: Rhyme
The Birth of Death
Let me narrate how Death came ‘pon this Earth, 
Said sage Vyasa to Yudhishthir, shattered
By Abhimanyu’s death, ‘Oh vain my birth 
Should a young dream die and lie scattered’.

A story it is from a Golden...

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Categories: restrained, death,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Light Mindfulness
The number and weight of facets
consciousness breaks light into
influences how these parts look,
not together as global Green and Red and Brown EarthTribe,
but separately,
deductively,
without interdependent relationships.

"I belong where I am"
is not only a psychological light transactional...

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Categories: restrained, blue, earth, green, integrity, light, psychological, red,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member lake of life
life is an     inconsistent choreographer
   shielded  in stainless symphonies
          composed with erratic patterns
curating colors seized    ...

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Categories: restrained, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things