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Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me Succor
Where art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?

Ah... methinks legal tender 
could be a boon to help me bolster 
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential 
commodities sabotaged 
at the altar of...

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Categories: restricted, 8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Adam and Eve - Part One
Year One -

Tell me Eve,
does this Garden have everything we need,
do you think the walls are too tall,
are the gatekeepers reasonable, tolerable, right about it all,
what did Lilith know, where did she go
far past the...

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Categories: restricted, art, creation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Bilateral Creative Thinking Sequel
Last half of Edward de Bono's Lateral Thinking Summary, pp. 298-300, with bicameral ecological supplements [informed by Gregory Bateson] in brackets:

In ordinary traditional thinking we have developed no methods for going beyond the [suboptimally reasonable]...

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Categories: restricted, culture, earth, education, happiness, health, humanity, language,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Ego Speaks For Yangyin History
Most 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: restricted, creation, earth, humanity, identity, love, psychological, sun,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close EM’s pamphlet collection: Faithful Private, GENERA editions by Colin Simms,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restricted, england, poetry, political, power,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Failures of Integrity
I feel like a high school civics class dropout.

So much confuses me,
to this day, you see,
about democratic constitutional legal equity,
which feels like it should have WinWin original empowerment intent,
about public and private rights, unbent
protected against...

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Categories: restricted, community, culture, health, humor, money, philosophy, racism,
Form: Political Verse
I Celebrate You My Friend
The year that is about to make its last appearance 
before it dies and is buried to be only given a place 
in the history of our existence has brought  ?e joy, 
l° shall...

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Categories: restricted, adventuregod, people, god, love, people, time, perspective,
Form: ABC
Premium Member The Permacultural Brain Surgeons
Honey,
please don't even try to get me interested
in your Cranial Ontology Department.
You know how the name itself
puts my brain to sleep.

Yes I noticed your tendency to snore
when I am thinking out loud,
with tender thoughts about...

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Categories: restricted, caregiving, culture, deep, health, love, psychological, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Mooku: Haikus On the Moon: With Cliff Notes
1. Lunar Perspective #1

month long day and night
also sees earth wax and wane
no season penchant


2. Lunar Perspective #2

moon's sun mimics earth's
earth pirouettes on star stage
sun’s smile Cheshire Cat


3. Lunar Perspective #3

moon turns once per month
lunar...

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Categories: restricted, life, love, moon, science, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Our Ship Arrived
m                 m
       m          ...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restricted, adventure, analogy, appreciation, boat, celebration, sea, travel,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member A Long Journey Potd
"a long walk to reach my destination. 
                           ...

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Categories: restricted, journey, life, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom the Conclusion
BEING ABLE TO SEE 
MY OWN ENERGY, 
MY OWN FREQUENCY
FROM INSIDE OUT 
AND OUTSIDE IN
AT THE SAME TIME,
FELT AND SEEMED NORMAL.
I COULD FEEL THE ENERGY.
I WAS THE ENERGY.
I AM THE ENERGY, THE FREQUENCY.
I AM WHOLE,...

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Categories: restricted, identity, imagery, imagination, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member She - Epitome of Erotic Love
An Ode to Femininity and Romance -

The background music of this delicate poetic arrangement is intended to be played softly as you sit back and reminisce on romantic memories while creating new ones - Perhaps...

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Categories: restricted, love, romantic, sensual, sexy, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pepperman and the Ancient World of Wisdom
I PRESENT YOU THIS BOOK.
IT TRULY HAS POWER.
IT'S NOT VERY LONG.
YOU CAN READ IN AN HOUR.
I WON'T GUARANTY 
IT'LL MAKE YOU REAL SMART.
BUT, IF YOU CAN READ,
IT'S A VERY GOOD START.
YOU MIGHT READ IT TWICE,
TO...

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Categories: restricted, analogy, creation, inspirational, philosophy, spiritual, symbolism, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cooperative Health Expectations
We might expect LeftBrain deduced beliefs and monoculturing values
to develop a discontinuously co-arising energy and information base,
becoming  dualistically dysfunctional,
degenerative
of Earth's limiting fossil-fuel declining energy,
and yet with more reclining information supporting slow-growth
of recycling resources
such as...

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Categories: restricted, destiny, happiness, health, love, peace, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Pepperman and the Line Between Life and Death
IT'S NOT A SECRET THERE ARE MILLIONS OF DOORS 
IN THE UNIVERSE. 
WITH VARIOUS SHAPES , SIZES, DEPTHS, PERCEPTIONS AND DIMENSIONS.
SOME ARE LOCKED, RESTRICTED, REPELLING AND REPULSIVE.
OTHER'S UNLOCKED AND OPENED WITH CURIOSITY.
SOME DOORS LEAD INTO...

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Categories: restricted, future, imagery, perspective, places, science fiction, society,
Form: Narrative
The Hurdles
THE HURDLES: 

Explain this won't be a devour,
As all this while you considered a diva.
He'd set hurdles, Eva...
Which's breeding woes and fever.
I know you understand that's not trivial,
From the university of life, I have become...

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Categories: restricted, abuse, discrimination,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member God's Over-Flowing Love
I remember being your age, and at times it was impossible                        ...

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Categories: restricted, god, love,
Form: Free verse
My Home Town
MY HOME TOWN
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS	
Time moves on never stands still
It changes the outcome no matter the will
Of the dreamers who hold on to and then
Each moment happens once then never again
I had a feeling this...

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Categories: restricted, america, community, emotions, feelings, future, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Pepperman In a Cyborg World
I OPENED A DOOR
AND FOUND MYSELF
IN FRIENDLY SURROUNDINGS.
QUITE DIFFERENT FROM
OTHER ADVENTURES.

I WASN'T SO INVISIBLE OR
OR SHALL WE SAY UNSEEN.
I WAS NOT THE OBSERVER
THIS TIME AROUND OR WAS I.

IN FACT THIS ADVENTURE
WAS PECULIAR IN A WAY.
I...

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Categories: restricted, adventure,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Limited Freedoms of Speech
You may have noticed the Michigan Catholic farmer
claiming his First Amendment rights have been infringed
to speak his mind
about the degenerative nature of same-sex marriage
when the nearby East Lansing operated Farmer's Market
determined his farming operation
was not...

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Categories: restricted, community, destiny, discrimination, freedom, gender, health, rights,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Fugitives of Justice
Thank god I finally was caught and cited
for doing something that I didn't do.

Just think how much worse I would feel
if I actually had done it,
as I have done so many stupid thoughtless things
without getting...

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Categories: restricted, community, health, hope, humor, rights,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end of a story
the potential   the inevitable
life finite ...

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Categories: restricted, death, fate, life, lost love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Visitor
Once upon a night so bleak,
frozen silent laid the creek --
air of death, pushed, swore
and swore...as if were fists
pounded the frail, wood door;

shutters noised, bolting and
banging; metal hinges oddly
clanging – cupboard glasses
adding more tumultuous tang,...

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© Joe Dimino  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restricted, dark, fantasy, gothic, halloween, imagination, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
A Tattered Call of Life Treasure
"Hello, can you hear me?"
"Yes, I can hear you. Speak forth to my ears."
"Now drop your ears to my mouth and hear, brother"
"Ok, here they are"
" I have been betrayed at the backyard and only...

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Categories: restricted, africa, art,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs