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The pain of not knowing
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A lament of Love? and Loss
In the silence, I hear your voice,
A whispered reminder, of my foolish choice.
I was blind to your needs, and deaf to your pain,
And now I'm left...

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Categories: retrospect, anxiety, betrayal, black love, crush, cute love,
Form: Light Verse



Poem Revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 At 1500 Hours
Poem revised Memorial Day May 30th, 2022 at 1500 hours

Flagrante delict adulterous sordid behavior 
automatically linkedin with Lothario;
an unscrupulous seducer of women, 
based upon a character 
in The Impertinent Curious Man, 
a story within a...

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Categories: retrospect, absence, abuse, adventure, anger, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Spineless In the Running
Was this a bold  endeavour or worst-case high risk plot?
 In one sense I was caught between two poles apart  concerns.
One must never underestimate indeed trivialise a devilish 
difficult decision.
A decision that may...

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Categories: retrospect, age, august, beautiful, care, city, creation, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Bucky and Julian
Buckminster Fuller and Julian Jaynes 
recently reviewed their cultural and scientific influence 
on health and well-being, 
ecological and economic positive outcomes, 
during the current CoOperativist NonDual Transitional Era.

Bucky:
 I wish I had spent more time...

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Categories: retrospect, health, humor, math, philosophy, political, psychological, science,
Form: Prose Poetry
Attempts At Lifelong Friendships and Holy Matrimony
Introduction: once again I incorporate 
my trademark penchant 
to fabricate fictitiously
portions of the following poetic endeavor
can you care to 
discern fact from fiction?

Attempts at lifelong friendships and holy matrimony...

Shot thru with figuratively cankerous nub,
cuz yours...

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Categories: retrospect, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Candy Girl - 2
"Candy Girl" - 2



He had been watching her from the far end of the Ice Bar, where he was sitting propped up on an ice ledge which was cushioned in plush Reindeer hide and Yak...

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Categories: retrospect, adventure, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem, 
where earth, wind, and fire...

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Categories: retrospect, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration, dad, humorous, january,
Form: Free verse
Michael Joseph Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural...

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Categories: retrospect, abuse, addiction, america, angel, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
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: retrospect, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Populist Politics
When I was sixteen
I wanted Robert Kennedy's life,
although I didn't know about his time squandered
in staffing McCarthyism's
Make America as Grotesque as Possible campaign,

Which would have given me pause
in that comparatively naive age
of green longing for...

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Categories: retrospect, bullying, earth, environment, health, integrity, love, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Deprived Of Your Love
Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegrating in rapid spasms,
a longing sated and mutually embraced by two compatible persons...

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Categories: retrospect, break up, courage, cry, emotions, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris

date of conception:?  ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.

A gangly, measly, and scraggly bundle
of lovely bones even as...

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Categories: retrospect, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity, creation, happy birthday,
Form: Rhyme
After Serving Six Long Hard Years At Methacton State Penitentiary
After serving six long hard years at Methacton State penitentiary...

as mini reunion number 
XLV fast approaches 
Saturday, April 30th, 7:00 pm 
until 10:00 pm
at The Trappe Tavern, 416 West 
Main Street, Trappe, PA 19426
regarding graduating...

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Categories: retrospect, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Move on over ole Joe
Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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Categories: retrospect, america, anger, anxiety, care, faith, grave, political,
Form: Free verse
Letter To Taeljejohn
uncomfortableness, and hesitation arose that you might reassess a possibility for friendship or.... whatever with me.

A disappointment set in place in the event that based on some facet of my being (inexplicable flaws within this...

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Categories: retrospect, angel, beauty, devotion, friendship, history, introspection, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unwoven Memories
I grew up and out on a four family-owned,
and cooperatively-organized,
extended matriarchal farm.

Four interdependent 1940s through 1970s patriarchally managed businesses,
without substantial questions about who should wear pants,
yet with a surprising matriarchal cooperative understory.

The boxers outnumbered the...

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Categories: retrospect, culture, family, farm, happiness, health, political, usa,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member 'present'
"Present!"

It's a lackluster answer (1) to simple life question,
"Hi! How is it going Mom? You feel OK?"
She was lonely for sure, saw no chance of a rescue,
She fought for her kids, though art dreams went...

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Categories: retrospect, journey, life, mentor, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Mine Courtship and Marriage With Deadly Obsession
Mine courtship and marriage with deadly obsession...

As September daze will soon arrive
recollections from a 
psychologically checkered  past
loom large recalling  
tragic storied days of mein kampf.

Circa early nineteen seventies:
As a mere slip of a...

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Categories: retrospect, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Botched and Bungled Interpersonal Opportunities Viewed
Botched and bungled interpersonal opportunities viewed...

tonight October  25th, 2022 
terrifically summarily requoting 

poetic outdated iteration,
I share the following lines
echoing in the valley 
of love and delight.
courtesy 20/20 hindsight
October twenty fifth
two thousand and twenty two
admirable,...

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Categories: retrospect, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces
Galley slave to obsessive compulsive disordered behavior announces...

Fore score minus xv orbitz ago
from being centenarian
strong contractions forced me
to pass thru cervix,
buck naked bare lady,
I ranked as only grandson sharing
same surname as Aaron,
(mine paternal grandfather)
me the...

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Categories: retrospect, 6th grade, 7th grade, abuse, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Will wonders never cease!?
Will wonders never cease!?

Alternately titled: Last of the fluff
belonging to a Mohican
Norwegian bachelor farmer wannabe.

Any resemblance between said unnamed individual
and living persons purely coincidental.

Scads of decades back in the day,
not since this sexagenarian baby boomer
happened...

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Categories: retrospect, absence, adventure, analogy, angst, baby, betrayal, birth,
Form: Free verse
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    Pen's Broadcasting Name
     ...

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Categories: retrospect, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, body, life, wisdom,
Form: Epic
Imperfect Storm Ends In a Rainbow
In 1958 Elmer's was the only high school in his county that had been integrated. Basketball was the big sport. People in the little town filled the gym every Tuesday and Friday. They roared when...

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Categories: retrospect, race,
Form: Prose
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024
Pleasant spring like day February 9th, 2024

A scent (and sixth sense predominates),
when apple boughs
and other aromatic flora
laden with blossoms and fruit
gently assail cilia of the nostrils,
aside from aiding distinguishing 
pleasant or unpleasant smells 
additionally incorporate...

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Categories: retrospect, appreciation, bird, earth, february, flower, husband, insect,
Form: Rhyme
Beddie Bye Boo Ski Time For Yours Truly and Or the Missus
Beddie bye boo ski time for yours truly and/or the missus

Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly 
still felt dehydration, physical 
fatigue and soreness,
which possibly linkedin
to using stationary bicycle.

Our bed (mine and...

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Categories: retrospect, angel, december, dream, good night, husband, journey,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things