Long Retiring Poems
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The Bartender
Twenty two years had passed by
She blinked, and a lifetime had passed
She started this job as a lark
She never thought it would last
Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar
The husbands...her clients all...
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Categories:
retiring, america, community, family, heart, society, strength, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Restoration Towns
I was skeptically listening
to a retiring social researcher,
and problem-solving imaginer,
from the American Enterprise Institute;
An Institute
I usually find more destitute
of bicameral consciousness than not,
and thereby with less healthy resonant imagination
than more pathological dissonance.
But, I found...
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Categories:
retiring, community, culture, earth, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Be Embarrased By Arms
Be Embarrased by Arms
The right of a person to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon when in a
well-regulated militia necessary for the security of a free state. In other words, if
you...
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Categories:
retiring, encouraging,
Form:
Blank verse
And Still I Drive - Part One
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
And sadly...i start to drive.
Through the unremarkable village with its tall
Georgian Bay window panes, lightless,
devoid of visages; outwardly staring back at my
Abject countenance with detached contempt and...
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Categories:
retiring, heartbreak, places,
Form:
Rhyme
Theories of Every Big and Little Thing
Key CapitalistYang/CreolistYin EcoHistoric Concepts
I find a fuzzy irony in this morning’s early search for a new journal notebook, having filled my last from what had been, five years ago, an inconceivably high pile of empty...
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Categories:
retiring, culture, earth, health, history, political, science, trust,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Hymn To Farewell
Why does my multicultural applauding message,
my polycultural cheerleading,
sound so monocultural chant, rant,
a passionless litany of redundant verse?
Who would have it said of their voice
It remains both too rich
and yet wandering on far too long?
Even resonance
can...
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Categories:
retiring, bullying, earth, education, health, humor, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Foggy May
This foggy sky
darkly and relentlessly rains
especially for an early May morning.
He is not prepared for darkness
seeping through new-born leaves,
not yet full grown into this year's trunk-lacing dress,
soaking up from saturated soil,
slurping into his compassionately
empathic...
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Categories:
retiring, age, culture, depression, destiny, earth, health, rain,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Grit and Guts On the Gridiron - 1
Mud and leather
dirt and nerve
bloodied laughter
collision to serve,
distance, drive and demolition
battle axe ambition in the wild air
muscle and mind joined in steeled instinct,
a stitched pigskin ball, the grail of the Fall
to fumble it means...
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Categories:
retiring, america, sports, war,
Form:
Epic
Things I Forget To Ask
What does it feel like to wake up into your skin?
Your day?
What do you feel first most days?
Is it in any way influenced by gratitude,
or totally given over to worry,
anxious
or, worse, anticipating
shortness of healthy...
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Categories:
retiring, dream, earth, health, identity, integrity, nature, religion,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
And Still I Drive - Part Two
Stars fall under failing skies...stars fall...stars fall...
But stars do not cry.
Into Ochs valley, through the Vale of White Horse...prancing
besides a Dragons Hill;
It was here that a Roundhead - did a Royalist Cavaliers blood in...
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Categories:
retiring, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Reflection On An Aging Nomad
I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be home
to personally walk them on,
harness them in,
and wheel them back...
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Categories:
retiring, age, health, integrity, relationship, religion, retirement, river,
Form:
Political Verse
Mobile In Alabama
Those were such happy days, for I had lately been deeded a farm,
My aunt and uncle were retiring, so tillage had lost its charm.
Since they were childless, and to a retirement community bound,
It seemed I...
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Categories:
retiring, beauty, dream, home, imagery, night, sleep, travel,
Form:
Couplet
Inside Outdoor Voices
Just as honesty plants seeds of integrity
so too
vulnerability plants seeds of honesty.
My primary vocation
in this my gay grandfatherly retiring age
is to parent mindbody challenged adolescents
of diverse colors
as ecotherapeutically as possible
to optimize their and our wealth
of...
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Categories:
retiring, environment, family, health, love, mental illness, parents,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Exit Strategy
To prepare for final cosmic breath
exhaled
echoing first breath
inhaling
waiting to exhale
silent sacred pause
for Earth's final soliloquy
Terminating all humane
and inhumane futures,
healthy
and disturbing relationships,
elegantly excruciating ecstasy
Leaving hell
without receiving Heaven
Surrendering commitments
to health
and lack thereof
Future obligations
and past assets
Resigning...
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Categories:
retiring, age, appreciation, death, grief, health, integrity, loss,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
The Village On the Water VII
Raised Stone-Tablet eternally abiding under
Towering Heavens endless span; and in its
Solititude...charts the migrations of our
Highest Lord's cestial rockets.
Because of Stone-Tablet, bestowed unto us, we...
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Categories:
retiring, appreciation, imagery, places,
Form:
Free verse
The House of Doors
My friends and I were out strolling, in a lush park one day,
Just enjoying the scenes of the afternoon, as time flew away.
Sun kissed blooms blushed and swooned, under pale lazy clouds;
And nature was lush...
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Categories:
retiring, fantasy, friend, house, imagery, magic, nature, summer,
Form:
Couplet
The Driving License
Which are your points for living
if we all die into cold leaky stink or ash anyway?
What's the point of dying
if we could otherwise live continuously?
Heading down the river
on AAA rite of ritual passage.
Six years since...
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Categories:
retiring, age, death, earth, health, humanity, humor, life,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Just Show Up
Basic Attendance,
listening deeply to the sounds
and functions
flows and forms of nature's voices,
human nature's moving choices
evolve from panentheistic roots
toward win/win co-empathic,
vulnerably transparent
nondual dark energy
Equivalently empowering/disempowering identity
of not-yet-full synergetically integrating
Other/Selfing
pregnantly individuating Time,
equivocating re-incarnating
personal space
through sacred communal time
Positive
protonic...
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Categories:
retiring, culture, leadership, peace, philosophy, political, race, racism,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Toni the lady with red dreadlocks
The lady with red dreadlocks Toni Townsend
Johnson henry she was one rasta Andrews female
drug dealer from the devils triangle in Tampa outside
USF where I received mental health treatment for
my severe anxiety...
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Categories:
retiring, allah,
Form:
Naat
Supine, Looking at the Sky
Supine, Looking at the Sky
...
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Categories:
retiring, feelings, god, heart, heaven, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
Invoking Sacramoments
Sacred communion,
said the retiring priest,
feeds and waters my good news vision
Gazing deeply within
and beyond
what is in front of,
and behind,
my bilateral balancing
co-invested eyes
And ears
rehearing a moment apart
from what has gone before
and whom we will sacredly become
More...
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Categories:
retiring, christian, culture, earth, games, health, humanity, peace,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
ReVisions of SugarPlums
Could we see and hear and feel and think better
more ubiquitously and cooperatively
and inclusively
if DreamTime speaks in naturally eco-logical language
of motion as emotions
co-empathically accessible
to all RNA/DNA informated
integratively regenerative
co-arising ecosystemic Ego-programs?
In our dreams
we all speak the...
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Categories:
retiring, culture, destiny, dream, earth, language, nature, time,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Glad to Make my Escape
I loved my school counseling job
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Until they moved me to another school part time.
One week school A - my home school.
The next week school B- a school that loves...
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Categories:
retiring, work,
Form:
Narrative
From Loving My Job to Glad to Make my Escape
I loved my school counseling job
Loved it, loved it, loved it.
Until they moved me to another school part time.
One week -school A - my home school.
The next week school B- a school that loves...
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Categories:
retiring, school, teacher,
Form:
Narrative
Retirement Planning
Retirement planning
may feel like civilian re-entry planning
as from-above ballistics continue heavy incoming
so persuasively my objective is not to win outside
but to get home safe again inside,
although I sadly know
home will never be that home of...
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Categories:
retiring, earth, health, history, humanity, integrity, love, retirement,
Form:
Political Verse