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Premium Member Factoidman and Shallowman - Part 1
[Well, ShallowMan’s ne’er at a loss
for voicing shallow thoughts that gloss.
With trenchant wit he reaps the dross
when seeking sense in applesauce.

But to his aid flies FactoidMan
who always has a Fact at hand;
with him, who needs...

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Categories: restrictions, society, truth, universe,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Letter To Poetry
"A word like a river flows through the mind"                          ...

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Categories: restrictions, poetry,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Finally Saved Part 2 - Translation From Rabindranath Tagore
This is the Second Part of the Translation from Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel-Laureate Philosopher Poet from India. 





Father only smiled; thought, "women
are emotionally heated balloons! 
Life is a difficult  salvation, they don't have that knowledge", 
After...

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Categories: restrictions, father daughter, love, marriage, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prizes For Ultimate Sacrifices - Part One
Prizes for Ultimate Sacrifices


    prizes for the abstemious  for abstinence  chastity ?
                 the countless...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrictions, howl, inspirational, metaphor, passion, satire, spoken word,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Origin of Christianity
Origin of Christianity

(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)

It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary were Jewish, both from the tribe of Judah, in the...

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Categories: restrictions, bible, christian, faith, history, jewish, religious, truth,
Form: Didactic



Premium Member Variations On a Harmonictheme
Children are Fundamentalists

Children are literalists,
fundamentalists.

When they hear
“You’re filthy and you stink!”
the younger they are,
the less likely to hear as a mature adult might,
“You have a sour smell on you.
Please go bathe,
and use some soap and...

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Categories: restrictions, health, love, peace, philosophy, political, poverty, power,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Sacred Spacemaking
Dear Neighbors,
community co-investors,
sharing an outdoor green riverside Commons
and an indoor
historical CommonSpace

Both, and all, sacred
to panentheistic me
and probably more mundanely secular
to monoculturing LeftBrain dominant
verbally rationalistic
you

And yet, co-relational lives of thought
and feeling always matter
to cooperative
effective communication resilience
through...

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Categories: restrictions, community, culture, health, integrity, power, relationship,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Once Pawn a Time
Once pawn a time...

About four plus weeks after
frazzling fiasco from friggin fraudsters
white knight still mourns swindled money
Lynne Costello Senior Civil Investigator
(assistant to Philadelphia attorney general)
unable to recoup forfeited funds.

While holed up in castle keep,
(albeit fetchodit...

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Categories: restrictions, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Human Rights Charter For Australian Aborigines By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
La Charte des Droits de l’Homme pour les Aborigènes - Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Aboriginal Charter of Rights by T. Wignesan


Nous avons besoin de l’espoir, pas de racisme,
La fraternité, pas d’ostracisme
Du progrès pour les Noirs,...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrictions, 3rd grade, abuse, discrimination, humanity, language, slavery,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Faithful Thought Experiment
Imagine your favorite faith community,
whether sacredly vocationed,
or, more prosaic, secularly employed,
is also home to your local Green Freedom Party,
intentionally multipartisan.

This community intends to remain compassionately faithful 
to short-term local
through long-term global
public and climate health
of all...

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Categories: restrictions, green, health, integrity, political, power, religion, senses,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Cautious Optimism
Human foot-traffic is flowing along slightly faster than 2020,                          ...

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Categories: restrictions, world,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Letter To Future Me
A LETTER TO ‘FUTURE ME’

              Dear ‘Future Me’
              ...

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Categories: restrictions, how i feel, inspirational, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Tainted Vision
Conditioned since birth by customs, family, society and ego
We go about with a clustered mind 
Complicating our simple life with our thoughts and self-imposed restrictions
We don't see a human as human rather we attribute adjectives...

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Categories: restrictions, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Hear He's a Winner
Bolsonaro was president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023.
Former army officer and right-wing nationalist who revered Brazil's 1964–1985 military rule.
Jair Bolsonaro sought to arm a disarmed nation.
To a place where gun ownership meant freedom.
Anti-establishment populism...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrictions, analogy, bereavement, celebrity, international, political,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Now I Am a Poet
Letter to a novice poet:

(What modern poetry is for me)

Welcome to the family of budding poets, who pen passion and
meaning or anything life holds for them. Enjoy. Buds will sprout
and blossom over time. No buts...

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Categories: restrictions, adventure, courage, inspirational,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Through the Ears of an Eye Witness
So take your rose colored glasses off
And see this battle for the withered tulip it really is
There is no leaving this town,
It's got the best heights to fall from 
And the best milestones to lose...

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Categories: restrictions, analogy, conflict, health, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Faith As Poetry
If you have ever wondered what side of the fence you should be on consider this...

1.	Christ would never not buy a gun to avoid the temptation perhaps that he might use it in fear or...

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Categories: restrictions, life,
Form: Free verse
The Ever Shifting Patern of Life
The Ever Shifting Pattern of Life by
Terence David Cooper. June is wife's
name and they are Basildon,  Essex, 
England.

As children we learn lessons clear
Broadly defined lines we hold so dear
Constants to which we can easily...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrictions, allegory, analogy, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Customs To Getting Old
abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,

Customs To Getting Old  ©


There are very ingrained customs noted when getting old
Getting accustomed to old age is not one of them
One has to be blessed with 65...

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Categories: restrictions, abuse, age, discrimination, health, introspection, lonely, old,
Form: Epic
Premium Member In Her Shadow
In her shadow,
I knew the meaning of comfort
The whisper of grace
The joy of acceptance
The miracle of a place
Where silence knew deliverance
And kindness knew the way
To make my heart beat with hope,
Breathing light into the safety
I...

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Categories: restrictions, appreciation, christian, hope, jesus, love, mom, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Touching With Kindness
Some parents and cooperative school teachers
and classroom and bus aides and drivers
are discussing government regulations
restraining transportation providers
from providing therapeutic touch,
because of an over-compensation
for emotional dysfunction behaviors
leading to appallingly irreverent touch.

Toxic touch critical events
predict long-term non-lifegiving,
non-wellbeing...

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Categories: restrictions, anti bullying, caregiving, children, community, discrimination, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member For a Friend
For a Friend

Deep in the forest of your dark Spanish eyes
Past the gaudy shops and glaring street signs,
There is a dim distant glow,
You think it is far, but look: how steady it shines
And though small,...

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Categories: restrictions, beautiful, blessing, courage, friendship, light, prayer, woman,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wonders
The wonders of our heavenly Father are immense
Some moments that hold the most awe of His presence
Whisper soft intimacies, like a caress against naked skin,
Welcoming joy that comes from the blessed hope
Of a heavenly home...

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Categories: restrictions, blessing, christian, god, gospel, heaven, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Islands In the Storm
Let the storms of rage pace us by my friends, for we have our islands
Of friendships resting in calmer waters, shelter coves of treasures devotions
Never to be rocked away, or relinquished!
Admits tidal shifting, know I’m...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restrictions, boat, devotion, feelings, friendship, love, spiritual, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Democracy On Fire
In "On Fire"
Naomi Klein reminds us
win/lose capitalism invites a cooperative action vacuum
and abhors restrictions on money-accumulating freedom,

But Earth,
healthy global climates,
wealthy ecosystems
invite regenerative win/win climax
of cooperatively nurturing health systems
and abhor inhumane definitions of "wealth"
as privately-held and...

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Categories: restrictions, earth, engagement, health, integrity, political, psychological, social,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs