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Premium Member Resonating Rightbrain Politics
Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...

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Categories: self defeating, beauty, environment, health, political, psychological, religion, trust,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Social and Antisocial Capital
Hybrids,
like a good creole stew,
are amazingly viral cooperators,
competitively so,
reacclimating tastes toward richer anticipations.

We have all heard of social capital
and natural capital,
of social democrats as antisocial plutocrats
and cooperatively-owned capitalist corporations,
including bipolar republics, perhaps.

These are all forms...

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Categories: self defeating, culture, earth, health, language, love, religion, science,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Sinai Campaign, 1967
Sinai Campaign, 1967

“Operation Focus” sees Israeli jets streaking, 1
Attacking Arab fighter jets and air force bases, 2
Thus attaining dominance over Middle Eastern skies,
While IDF ground divisions launch into action. 3

Israeli tanks (Pattons, Shermans, and Centurions)
Blitzkrieg...

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Categories: self defeating, education, history, jewish, war,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Anyone For Humiliation
  anyone for humiliation

                   do even the best cringe
in shame
      ...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self defeating, abuse, angst, courage, life, moving on, vanity,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Laws of Deepening Gravity
Laws of co-gravitation
are more like mutual invitations
originating with NewBorn memories
wombed by MotherEarth's DNA
WinWin empty Reed of Paradise potential.

Vocational streams of gaming wealth
held in healthy mindbodies
WinWin revering
and LoseLose fearing
co-incarnate journeys toward ever more healthy integrity
and wealth-cooperative...

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Categories: self defeating, appreciation, courage, culture, deep, education, health, history,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member A Modest Proposal To the Universal Dilemma of Human Melancholy
What is it to dwell in the realm of melancholy? Is it merely a cloak of desolation that we wear, or rather a wave of sorrow that engulfs us, rendering us incapable of envisioning a...

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Categories: self defeating, depression, encouraging, hope, motivation, perspective, philosophy, proposal,
Form: Prose
Beautiful Blue Butterfly
Beautiful Blue Butterfly 

In life we go through changes and we all start out as an egg, later down the line we grown into a larva in order to grow we had to eat and...

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Categories: self defeating, anxiety, black african american, butterfly, i am,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words Aloud
I've never been a coward
I've never been named Howard
I'm not a doctor but I'm like a doctor
Struggling with patience
And I hate this and how I debate this
Delete this, delete that
Like I delete fat off my...

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Categories: self defeating, encouraging, how i feel, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Obscurity
Our lives are but a breath

     so minuscule in the vastness

of time               and the cosmos

that insignificance ...

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Categories: self defeating, bible, judgement, life, remember, society, truth, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Peace Resonance
At first we had traumatic stress
just being born
and later shock of near death,
physical and mental,
natural and spiritual,
lack of health 
and unsafe, messy wealth.

Then traumatic cultural stresses
grew up into a global syndrome
of sad neglect
toxic fueling chronic...

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Categories: self defeating, culture, green, health, integrity, peace, power, religion,
Form: Political Verse
A Question of Balance
...a tribute to Hermann Hesse and his novel 'Narziss Und Goldmund.'

                        ...

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Categories: self defeating, tribute, writing,
Form: Quatrain
A Question of Balance
...a tribute to Hermann Hesse and his novel 'Narziss Und Goldmund.'


Two friends in early childhood when their lives were worry free,
each pursued his own direction to fulfill his destiny.
One was tempted by the devil to...

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Categories: self defeating, dedication, philosophy, happy, prayer, happy, time,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Homage To Integrity
Mental and physical health
require,
and contribute to,
Integrity.

Integrity has two faces,
internal and external,
climates dominant and subordinate,
cultures poly-inclusive and mono-segregated,
bilateral frames of reference
dipolar
co-arising
appositional.

Internal integrity
anticipates left with right hemisphere confluence
and is anxious when diverse left v right experiences
unfold cognitive/affective...

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Categories: self defeating, earth, environment, health, integrity, political, power, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
In the Flesh
Life in the gutter
the metaphor ive become
suffer for you to string me along
step by step
showing you mans plans test for god
in the flesh
showed up for his mistake
walking circles in happiness
too busy to do this for...

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Categories: self defeating, confusionmetaphor,
Form: Free verse
Perhaps
Do you think it possible to smash stone cases with a pillow?
You would be wrong because stone vases can be knocked from high places.
It's the same with our facade halls of celebrity and wealth.
Leaders leading...

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© Ryan Tyler  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self defeating, change, conflict, deep, emotions, encouraging, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To Sylvia
So, you wish to continue your pissing contest with me.
Very well, send more foul comments my way. Please feel free.
You're only exposing to all your dirty laundry,
revealing as well your obvious insecurity.
You know in your...

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Categories: self defeating, slam, life, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Unformed Until the End
Woodland dells, giant trees
Swallows swoop, defying breeze
Jump to sailors and tattoos
What part of time is a ruse
The fact a tree, outlives a man
But cannot hope or devise a plan
Has no say on where it stands
Can...

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Categories: self defeating, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
This Child of Yours
Oh Lord, this child of yours often forgets who you truly are... 
forgets to believe in all that you are.  You are the Master... 
I am the student.  Show me all the gracious...

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Categories: self defeating, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Endurance
The first time you tried to walk you fell,
look at you now staying up right so well,
often the first attempt at the unknown
is simply "chance" with luck thrown,
tough times challenge and cause stress
the first time...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self defeating, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When the Butterfly Flutters
The clouds of turmoil spread on the dank sky
cast shadows congealed in the closet of life…
dark inside for it encases the moonless winter night.
I know it’d try and try till the last star fades away
to...

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Categories: self defeating, analogy, butterfly, life, romantic love, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Filling Up My Spaces With Words
Some have this wrong conception of me...
being separated from society,
and it may seem strange or naive
that isolation is what I choose;
and they deride me with malevolence!
Am I someone so maleficient...
that they fear me so obsessingly,
or...

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Categories: self defeating, inspirational, nature, people, philosophy, social, uplifting, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Victim Or Victor
I wrote these five rules which grew out of some uncomfortable ‘life experiences’.  Because of these rules, I am not a victim.

Rule 1.  I will not bow to the mindset that feeds me...

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Categories: self defeating, anxiety, bible, christian, evil, faith, future, humanity,
Form: Prose
Shameless Self-Promotion
Here they go again.
anything to win,
indulging
in shameless 
self-promotion.
layin’ it on thick, 
	makin’ sure it sticks,
		slappin’ it on like lotion.

“click my stuff,
and I’ll click yours too.
wanna feel like the best 
even though 
it ain’t true?”

back n’...

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Categories: self defeating, angst, art, business, friendship, happiness, hope, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Isolation Consolation
wash up and lock our doors

overnight we’re told to stay indoors
while mankind is under attack
it’s the best we can do to win a war
against our invisible common enemy

time caught in a meaningless loop
like everyone I...

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Categories: self defeating, appreciation, confidence, humanity, introspection, life, war,
Form: Free verse
Hilarity At Hillary Popularity
Hilarity At Hillary Popularity

Heard they were having much hilarity
With Hillary and all of her popularity
With appearances that are populating 
And her challengers are all hesitating.

They will blatantly need an antidote
No one for them does want...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self defeating, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things