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PAEDOPHILES RUNNING THE SHOW

PAEDOPHILES RUNNING THE SHOW.

It doesn’t matter where you look
Or anywhere in the world you go,
The only thing that’s guaranteed
Is there is a paedophile running the show.

From ancient times to modern day
Frome a home to the...

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Categories: standard, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal, hate, innocence, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme


Summer Solstice 2025

Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the year 
for people living 
within the northern hemisphere.

Just shy of the supposed...

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Categories: standard, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty, dedication, earth, summer,
Form: Free verse

Fully Employed Now

Humanity keeps looking forward, toward the coming of a birth,
and we’re all deemed as equals on our first day on this earth,
but as the years go quickly by our lives become our own;
we’re seen as...

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Categories: standard, humor,
Form: Rhyme
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Ice Cream Gran 5 - Turbo, We Have a Problem

It’s heading for our planet at ten thousand miles an hour
To stop it all the experts say we haven’t got the power
All the nukes in all the world won’t constitute a plan
So someone said, ‘All...

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Categories: standard, grandmother, hero, space,
Form: Rhyme
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Urbane History Lessons

I have a hardbound copy of
"The City of Hartford 1784-1984"
although most of this coffee table story
of unfortunate events
takes place between 1850 and 1950s,
before and after the UnCivil War,
and,
like the U.S. Catholic Church
and many MainLine Protestant...

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Categories: standard, caregiving, city, health, integrity, meaningful, universe,
Form: Political Verse


Warrior

“Warrior” 

When the Argonauts, came across 
the abandoned Starship, they 
found within the wrecked 
command console, a DNA code
with encrypted message. 
It took several attempts to 
reactivate, but when opened, 
the following was translated: ...

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Categories: standard, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
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Wonderland VIII: Conclusion

it feels good to escape
with authors and poets
and dream up new places
with tales that are spun

but sometimes what's real
and sometimes what isn't
encroach on each other
and read just as one

such are the worlds
of rhyme but no...

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Categories: standard, 10th grade, emotions, literature, world,
Form: Narrative

Smooth Big Cat

"Smooth Big Cat"



He was one of those guys you just knew would be a dud. "Be nice", she said to herself.

She met him on the upswing from the abyss of a dismally closed final chapter....

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Categories: standard, adventure, muse, mystery, romance,
Form: Narrative
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Working With Theories

I'm working on this Systems Theory

All existing formal religious traditions
and informal spiritual experience 
of Great Sacred EcoLogical Transitions
[e.g. Holocene to 
Green AnthroScene;
HolySpirit to
Whole Holonic Natural Communion Systems]

Originally,
through our divine monotheistic
and/or polytheistic
and/or atheistic naturalistic branches
shared as...

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Categories: standard, anxiety, appreciation, culture, health, integrity, peace, religion,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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Beary Tales Episodes 25-33, Poet's Notes

Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved footnotes...

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Categories: standard, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form: Rhyme

Perhat Turson: Elegy Translation

Perhat Tursun

Perhat Tursun (1969-) is one of the foremost living Uyghur language poets, if he is still alive. Born and raised in Atush, a city in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Tursun began writing poetry...

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Categories: standard, brother, eulogy, magic, prison, spiritual, violence, wine,
Form: Free verse
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Retire V Retread

What I have for you today is not so much about re-treading an outdated fuel-based system--
little bit like reshuffling the chairs to fix the decay 
of a segregating Country Club.

No, this is addressed to economic...

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Categories: standard, earth, giving, nature, philosophy, poverty, religion, science,
Form: Free verse

The Daily Star Thursday issue

The Daily Star Thursday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun 
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This...

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Categories: standard, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june, star, summer,
Form: Free verse
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The Interview - For Contest

This situation has no basis in reality; in fact, it is ludicrously unreal. However, the likes and dislikes shown of its author are completely true!

Scene: A comfortable office where Andrea Dietrich is finishing up with...

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Categories: standard, fantasy,
Form: Prose
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Living With Uncertainty, Chaos and Corruption

The world is constantly changing 
People are steadily rearranging 
Life seems to be a gigantic nightmare 
Keep moving, but never getting there 

This country was built on the backs of slaves 
Our ancestors buried in...

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Categories: standard, confusion, corruption, spoken word,
Form: Free verse

The Daily Star Tuesday Issue

The daily star Tuesday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. This demarcates

most daylight hours of the year for
people...

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Categories: standard, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful, creation, england, summer,
Form: Free verse
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Whole Earth Patriotism

What is patriotism?

Pride of and for national, and maybe cultural, superiority.
Maybe superior health caring integrity?

What is nationalism?

Usually positive values about monocultural 
monotheistic
monopolistic
monochromatic identity,
but I guess national health charism
could also include negative evaluations,
begging for more international...

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Categories: standard, beauty, culture, growth, happiness, health, prejudice, racism,
Form: Political Verse
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Territory Trample

Headlights messaged through midnight windows 
Curtainless glass unable to subdue the urgency 
Car obtained in street nearby was theirs temporarily
Three hour drive to ship leaving island next morning

Two sixteen year old girls barely registered surprise...

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Categories: standard, 11th grade, change, conflict, for teens, journey,
Form: Bio
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Fr Time's Curious Ambiguity

Fr. Time, are you a monopolistic universalist?

Yes, but also a polycultural evolutionist.

Are you an outgoing kinda Yang guy?

Yes, but in an out/integrity balancing kindness
of an in/outgoing co-passionately healthy communicator
way,
Easier to share life's co-operative win/win 
comprehensively...

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Categories: standard, destiny, earth, humor, identity, nature, political, time,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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So Many Questions

(A both serious and fanciful encounter with God)          

1. There are so many questions that I have for God, 
Oh my love, don't you feel the...

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Categories: standard, religion, universe, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
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Colin the Caped Cabbie

Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to...

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Categories: standard, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
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The Scorpion's Touch

“The Scorpion’s Touch”

Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath 
like insects running around 
frantically out of time
we are magnified 
in our tight enclosures

internally observed
the external turns away
two heart...

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Categories: standard, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse

My X-Mas Wish To Santa, My Letter To Santa, Keep the Worst Buddy

SONNET 1
                         MY CHRISTMAS WISH TO SANTA
    ...

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Categories: standard, appreciation, blessing, christmas, forgiveness, friendship, giving, truth,
Form: Sonnet

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...

that clenched another win today
February 20th, 2024 
(eight hundred and ninety yesterdays ago 
since June 13th, 2021)
original crafting date of following poem,
when yours truly 
single handedly trumped computer, 
for umpteenth time,
which saw...

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Categories: standard, 12th grade, 8th grade, adventure, age, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
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Lost In the Mists, Parts I-Iv

Lost In the Mists Parts I - IV

                           ...

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Categories: standard, mystery, spiritual, visionary,
Form: Free verse
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