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Premium Member Random Excerpts From Ice In My Eyes, Smoke In Yours - a Novel
"Hey, you philosophysing Hindu. Give me a break, Buddy. I was just pulling your leg. [...] I want the rest of the story. Really, I mean it.” Theson said nothing. [...] “I can see you’re...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self sufficient, fantasy, growing up, lost, nature, religion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sacred Energy
Fascism lives in tension with holy optimism,
as hatred fades in presence of mutual love,
as WinLose evolutionary models
give way to WinWin sacred Energy
stories and songs and dances,
as patriarchal colonization
gives way to matriarchal creolization.

Fascism,
synonymous with Totalitarianism,
as written...

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Categories: self sufficient, anti bullying, caregiving, education, health, integrity, parents,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Enabled Empathy
It's weird
and sometimes wild
living with a non-LeftBrain verbal dominant
aspiring child,
now young adult

I find myself waiting for him
to nonverbally connect
and correct me
about my patriarchal domineering
economic and political ableist sins
of felt omission from commercial value
and, perhaps worse,
my...

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Categories: self sufficient, culture, health, humor, identity, love, peace, relationship,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a self sufficient domicile,
where thrum of the central heater...
automatically activated 
upon...

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Categories: self sufficient, adventure, appreciation, april, community, courage, desire, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Which Paradise Is Not the Elusive Chimere
Which paradise is not the elusive chimère?
	 	 
…how long does it take to live one life…learn the lessons of a lifetime…find the time to live…find the time to sort things out…know what you did...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self sufficient, heaven, innocence, myth, paradise, symbolism, truth, universe,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Am Me, Set Me Free
I am given to you by Creator Himself
My Limbs long to grow straight and tall
Bathed in sunlight from above, paying homage
Fulfilling my God given task
From the dawn of creation, in the Holy Books I’m told
A...

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Categories: self sufficient, cancer, creation, environment, health, inspirational, nature, planet,
Form: Ode
My Clear Window
The world outside my window

I view with one eye open 

while laying on my pillow

Birds are chirping and singing their songs

perched upon their tree of choice 

they know where they belong

I smell the coffee brewing...

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Categories: self sufficient, appreciation, blessing, community, encouraging, environment,
Form: Rhyme
My Clear Window
The world outside my window
I view with one eye open 
while laying on my pillow
Birds are chirping and singing their songs
perched upon their tree of choice 
they know where they belong
I smell the coffee brewing...

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Categories: self sufficient, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Shame Full Travesty Regarding Fourth of July Celebration
Sham(e) full travesty regarding fourth of July celebration

American independence day
linkedin severance from English crown
Continental Congress representatives
parlayed courtesy thirteen original colonies
yielding Declaration of Independence
immediately rendered null and void
established vassalage courtesy British rule.

Fast forward two hundred and...

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Categories: self sufficient, 12th grade, america, anger, appreciation, betrayal, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Bring On the Rejection Slips
Bring on the rejection slips...

and/or try distilling my spirits
at losing gamble
if curious (by George) proceed
reading reasonable rhyme,
I guarantee the following words ramble.

Though flush with good humor
pun one mock two yields negligible
true cash equivalent value won
dirt...

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Categories: self sufficient, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, absence,
Form: Free verse
Electric Lies
Sore testicles
isopropyl never dried
pan to the head
thank the splatter web
for the psychosis of this muse
vopour transmission
liars for friends
come one come all
come again
double fudged sunday
Electric lies
how was i to know the chemistry underneath all the stains
why...

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Categories: self sufficient, computer-internet, education, health, hopeme, drug,
Form: Free verse
Apparition
We were a poor Yacht Club, lacking prestige, but with knowledgeable sailors who believed in one another and more importantly, our club.  We also had the best boat.  A 65'  two masted...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self sufficient, boat,
Form: Free verse
Bring On the Rejection Slips and Or Lost Wager
Bring on the rejection slips and/or lost wager

Though flush with good humor
pun one mock two yields negligible
true cash equivalent value won
dirt poor offspring privileged as prodigal son
pockets bursting with legal tender,
where just yesterday I had...

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Categories: self sufficient, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
Is Spirit of God Like a Genie, To Be Used By Pastors
I
Yesterday, I began to share a deep anguish I have as to how some churches use the Holy Spirit as a magician, almost as if they control this THIRD PERSON of the Holy Trinity and...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self sufficient, angst, betrayal, bible, dark, faith, jesus, judgement,
Form: Didactic
Purple Majesty
We had saved our precious stock of grandpa’s grape
prepared the ground and amended the soil.
After laying out the orchard, we planted cuttings with our own hands.
Fed the young vines with love and creek water
and waited...

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Categories: self sufficient, family, life, work, work, rain, birth, giving,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member America, the Prodigal
*Long long ago there was a very rich father who had a very large family.                    ...

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Categories: self sufficient, america, christian, faith, god,
Form: Prose Poetry
Incumbent Onus To Stem Tide of Global Warming
Plethora of humans (think overpopulation)
directly linkedin to planet Earth dire strait
re: environmental catastrophe, née debacle
teeters along brink tipping point inevitably
pitching civilization headlong into oblivion
Homo sapiens (minus those living off grid)
admirably self sufficient unto themselves,

perhaps ecological...

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Categories: self sufficient, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form: Free verse
The Perfect Place To Live
The sun shines its a beautiful bright star,
As i drive my car its along the bitumen tar,

The trees sway and the bushes breathe,
I want to move to the country i want to leave,

I want to...

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Categories: self sufficient, community, green, growth, nature, peace, political,
Form: I do not know?
Black Days of History
(10/25/12)

The black days of history that many do not know
And many refuse to accept - of how the black man
Helped AMERICA to be the greatest country yet.

They was brought here as slaves because the 
Color...

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© Louis Rams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self sufficient, black african american, family, hair, me, race,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thankful
A man of few words, my father taught by example.
The best thing he showed me
was to set my standards high
and to be my own judge - 
always modest never defiant or arrogant.

If something needed doing...

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Categories: self sufficient, appreciation, father, games, introspection, life, society, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Ice Age Cometh Moot Point 1st Glacier
No matter unseasonably
blustery March like weather
prevails across my neck of the woods
(Southeastern Montgomery County, Pennsylvania)
and across the main body
of these United States of America
particularly original Thirteen Colonies
global warming alive and well
and promises to return
with a...

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Categories: self sufficient, adventure, analogy, anger, appreciation, april, beauty, break
Form: Free verse
Lightening the Dark
Where would I be if the light shines that seeps the darkness to the trunk of a tree, corner of the road where wayfarer stops to rest where would I be if the building of...

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Categories: self sufficient, corruption, dark, philosophy,
Form: Alliteration
Dear Hearer
Do you think your okay? do you have a need unknown to even you? does the 
world close in on you and do you feel like it's falling all around you? I mustn't let 
you...

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Categories: self sufficient, devotion, faith, forgiveness, happiness, life, love, visionary,
Form: Prose Poetry
They can take their Big Battles with them
Green Peace or Hunt for the Royal Sun-
trying to get off a planet poisoned by hate and greed-
warlike ideologies armed to the rotten teeth 
hoping to find a New World out of here-out there
hanging waiting...

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Categories: self sufficient, earth, future, hope, introspection, science, space,
Form: Free verse
A Special Place
If I could improve the world
one space at a time I'd do it
immediately I'd begin with love
Banners and flags unfurled
shouting out love and peace with it
.
I'd buy some land to build upon
Five acres would do...

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Categories: self sufficient, courage, dream, hope,
Form: Rhyme

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