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Premium Member Judging V Mediating
Judging v Mediating,
like Teaching v Mentoring,
like Win/Lose Retributive Motives v Win/Win Restorative Motivators
like dogmatic Preaching v compassionately Communicating,

As felt
and appreciated by my LeftBrain dominant
RightWing hand
nurturing StraightWhite patriarchal 
overpoweringly privileged
systemically elitist judgment

Branching, colonizing, 
extending up and...

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Categories: retaliatory, community, culture, earth, environment, health, integrity, passion,
Form: Political Verse



I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome
I dread the United States presidential 2024 outcome...

Whereby yours truly presages and doth abhor
nothing short of an imminent civil war
dwarfing insurrection on January 6, 2021
oddly enough even reducing
ordinary decibels to a mute whisper
madding crowd trumpeting...

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Categories: retaliatory, abuse, america, anger, animal, corruption, emotions, fate,
Form: Free verse
I lacked emotions where others concerned
Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder 
if qualified to self diagnose 
mein kampf psychological state...

I lacked emotions where others concerned.

That refrain replayed itself,
when wife picked up 
(like a broken record), 
where parents left off
before...

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Categories: retaliatory, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 36 - Final
" Damn you, let go my gun! "
The morning hasn't even yawned yet
and a terrible tussle is in my sight,
Drouillard is wrestling his rifle from the hands of this Indian thief
and the Field brothers are...

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Categories: retaliatory, adventure, culture, dedication, desire, heart, history,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Health Optimizing Investments
If we were to follow a health model
for optimizing both economic and ecological wealth outcomes,
then investment in public and domestic educational systems
for active ecotherapeutic practice
and developing cooperative, self-regenerative systems,
would become our primary fiscal investment,

While military-surgical...

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Categories: retaliatory, culture, earth day, happiness, health, life, love,
Form: Political Verse



Ronald Rump Reasonably Roasted
Ronald Rump reasonably roasted 

Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety 
rambling reverence regarding “r.”

Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled - 
rickettsia re:itch ruler.

Rapaciously ravaged 
revered reverential rubric.

Radical ruthless renegade 
rapidly riotously ripped rigged ramparts.

Refrained retaining remnant 
redolent...

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Categories: retaliatory, 12th grade, america, betrayal, december, grave, grief,
Form: Free verse
Ronald Rump
repugnant racist republican reviled - rickettsia re:itch ruler. 
rapaciously ravaged revered reverential rubric. 
radical ruthless renegade rapidly riotously rips rigged ramparts. 
refrains retaining remnant redolent regal, resplendent rafters.
riches rudely rupture rooted rectified rights.
ruckus ricochets revenant...

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Categories: retaliatory, allusion, analogy, confusion, crazy, funny, imagination, lost,
Form: Alliteration
Donald Trump Das Fuehrers Braggadocio
Donald Trump Das Fuehrer's Braggadocio

Wrapped up in the Christmas holiday spirit,
I surmise doth allow
nationally collective obliviousness
     to steer ship of state
     (these United States)
to suffer retaliatory browbeat
ting...

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Categories: retaliatory, discrimination, imagination, innocence, night, rights, surreal, war,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Tears After Fears
Tears after Fears….By Kones Kipkoech

The church, the police station,
The mall, the school, the airport,
The bus stop, the market,
Even the State House
Everyone lives in fears,
Which soon turns to tears.

Why murder ?
Is it religion ?
Is it region...

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Categories: retaliatory, abuse, anti bullying, conflict, murder, stress, tribute,
Form: Verse
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris Household
Our own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
   mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...

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Categories: retaliatory, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Horrible Hobgoblins Haunt Harris Household
Our own hagrid (in the corporeal essence of marital relatives) heaves livid rage
like real life harry potter dementors dead set on wreaking havoc
   mainly from the zison matriarch in a mental and physical...

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Categories: retaliatory, angst, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Government Show Shut Down December 2018
Government (show) Shut Down December 2018

Messianic Don found tarnished appeal
trumpeted bluster thwarted
with muted (hip hip hooray) Democratic zeal
played (on microscale) like quashed
ill fated braggadocio big deal

bombast, sans General George Armstrong
Custer's last stand,
viz Little Bighorn, achilles...

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Categories: retaliatory, america, anger, anxiety, grief, holiday, judgement, men,
Form: Free verse
Birth and Spread of Covid19
Neither the clang of swords, nor the rattle of guns
Nor the devastating drop of bombs nor bomber’s motion
But a hush-hush research in quiet laboratory in a far corner
Producing mass-killing virus to infect and spread afar
To...

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Categories: retaliatory, sad, war,
Form: Free verse
Epistle To Barack Obama
this epistle per mine choice of heir apparent presidential throne
composed from one liberal minded non-conformist rolling stone  

prompted awareness that one voice can affect which contestant will win
and occupy the white house after the...

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Categories: retaliatory, dedication, faith, hope, inspirational, people, politicalpolitical,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Maze
A ll of a sudden, a
B ird, dancing down 
C ame to me in my garden, said:

D estined, you humans are, with
E xcellent knowledge gift.

F ar above, among all creatures, you are
G od equivalent, priceless,
H...

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Categories: retaliatory, depression, humanity,
Form: Abecedarian
Missile Poised To Strike
Hidden under crop circle
resembling an ampersand
hides sheathed silo - obscured,
said symbol adorned every armband
of national socialist, yet weapons

of mass destruction) bland
lee, blatantly ignored global pact
prepared from this once (bajillion
years ago) geologic bottomland
repurposed for a bomb...

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Categories: retaliatory, america, anxiety, farewell, judgement, lost, military, power,
Form: Political Verse
Suicide of Jeffrey Epstein Equals Pyrrhic Victory
Rigor mortis cold comfort
defendant need not appear in court
diminishes attendant prosecutorial effort
habeas corpus made superfluous
courtesy just dessert morte
but deadman outflanked plaintiffs sport.

Nonetheless millionaire financier and
accused sex trafficker
found dead by suicide
on Saturday August 10th, 2019
doth not...

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Categories: retaliatory, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Dramatic Verse
Twelve Days of a Modern Christmas
On the first day if Christmas not much of a yield
A false sense of peace over a normally killing field
On the second day of Christmas each peace patrol
Went back and forth from billets in its...

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Categories: retaliatory, christmas, conflict, soldier, war,
Form: Rhyme
Lovely Little Letter
Long time since we talked, stranger
Ordinarily I wouldn’t write you, son of a granger
Right at this moment, however, I think I might
Especially if I’m going to bury memories of nights
Nights, you may remember, where you...

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Categories: retaliatory, abuse, anger, father, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ember Girl

Born orphan, the torture of her stepmother and stepsisters
shaped the fairy tale Cinderella with fire, the ember girl,
who didn’t dream seeing the dormant love bloom,
but seethed within to take the retaliatory revenge.

On the night of...

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Categories: retaliatory, fire, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Twelve Days of a Modern Christmas
On the first day of Christmas a quiet patrol,
Streets almost deserted, we barely saw a soul. 
On the second day of Christmas another easy day
Everybody it seemed keeping out of our way.

On the third day...

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Categories: retaliatory, christmas, military, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Kudos To Barack Obama
yea tis history - that end gin shelled a mesh by mit Romney wailin
such below figurative belt mortar attack subterfuge and constant railin
 per accusations hurled at barack Obama presidential campaign
lobbed like scud missile grenades...

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Categories: retaliatory, black african american, courage, dedication, devotion, rainbow,
Form: Elegy
The Devil Within 2 Leaders
Are we on the national brink
Forcing our view of rhetoric
without having the option to rationalize or think
The other side,for better or worse,can only succumb
to their own paranoia and delirium
The darkest smile and an evil grin...

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© Bart Jonas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: retaliatory, allegory, angst, death,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Rudyard Remix
If you can keep your health when all about
Are losing theirs as ours
and blaming separately sick on you,

If you can trust ourselves when all species doubt
And reintegrate healthy green doubting too;

If you can act and...

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Categories: retaliatory, freedom, health, humanity, humor, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Lateness To School
In the wee hours,
When the wish hours of sleep flowers,
To computer games still sticking
And one’s satisfied lips licking;
A still irrepressible interest in understanding a movie
Or memorizing the lyrics of an American groovy
To the end follow...

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Categories: retaliatory, absence, child, fantasy, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things