Long Toleration Poems

"Oak" 

The guardians
stood around and 
shook their heads

great thoughts 
quivering 
from the ground, roots up, 

as if to walk 
confidently 
with great armies

yet hesitation 
was witnessed
in their waving gestures

perplexed 
and touching 
green crowns, 

there they...

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If you would like to have your limerick(s) posted, soup mail them to me.

Ms. Rude is still writing her snide remarks
She sounds like a mad dog who barks and barks
Geeze, lady, give it a rest
Your...

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OK

It’s ok to think I'm disabled, it’s not ok to ignore my atheism;
It’s ok to know I'm firstly an atheist, it’s not ok to assume this has always been obvious; 
It’s ok to understand that...

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That what our baby girls name would have been
But sadly her life will never begin
She lives only in this song and in my heart deep within
Now i look back and imagine her grin and wish...

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The first anniversary since being pelted...

with pistachio shells April 3rd, 2021
sitting in the exact same chair
yours truly sat three hundred 
and sixty five days ago. 

Watermelons, grapefruits, oranges...
lobbed at yours truly ruled out,
hence the missus...

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Pelted with pistachio shells April 3rd, 2021

Watermelons, grapefruits, oranges...
lobbed at yours truly ruled out,
hence the missus dreamt up bright idea
to enfilade me courtesy pistachio shells.

Rather than just hurl one at a time,
(she who unwittingly helped...

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I kind of getting in motion just to control my emotions.
With every condition 
I find nothing but division in every portion.
All positions seem to be out of proposition.
In my proportion I am now in exposition,
to...

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Yolanda? 
You are a stranger, 
weaker than our strength, 
we are too proud for our scientific breakthroughs, 
you are softer than a cotton ball, 
more delicate than a tamed sheep, 
as passive as the most...

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Defining Terms:

Ego--not Eco

Left--not Right


If Ego = not Eco,
as Left = not Right,

Then not(Left) = not(not Right)

If Left hemisphere is Either/Or dominant
as Right hemisphere is Both/And prominent,

Then Either/Or = not Both/And
and
not(Either/Or) = not(not Both/And) logic
and ecologic
and...

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N O T   F O R   C O N T E S T   -   G I S T   V E R I F I E...

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I don't belong or get along, my ways are different from the rest
as hard as I try it just does not fly, I can never pass that standardized test 
I cannot figure on whom to...

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Written: July 28, 2023,               No anchor for Rancour Poetry Contest          
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Australia sings a song of serpents rising up, creating life:
Of rainbow colours pouring out their hope and yet delivering strife.
Came some strangers, brought a Spirit waving truth and love profound,
Freedom banners o’er her flying, raising...

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Miscommunication, is fabrication of reality
When actually it’s a matter of perspective.
She was a standout, with a name similar to yours
With pure intentions, painful convictions but losing to her own dispositions.
Deprivation of her moral mentality structure...

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Thank you, God – for all you’ve done…
Blessings sent down from heaven above,
Beautiful treasures in friendships and love,
Joyous dreams awakened with sweetest hope,
Feelings that can only be described as truly sincere,
The wonders of knowing that...

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Does the utopian human not salute, 
The ideal person, right and sensible?
Which psychologists can easily foster and describe,  
In certain personality models which are not dispensable? 

The utopian human stands to beg, 
The question...

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Fundamentalists have misinterpreted the wise men,
Magnified them and blown up their faith in god,
Claim that the magi had an epiphany, heard from above,
In searching for, analysing and interpreting the nexus odd.

So what’s the real story...

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I Pledge Allegiance
a solemn vow of obedience, from the earliest age of grievance,
when found deliverance, one people, united against tyranny and intolerance,
become the model of democracy and toleration

To The Flag
the symbol of once colonization come...

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Today there's a War of the Words going on
  Today there's a War of the Words.

It's taking place all over this beautiful land of ours
 Polluting our precious air and clear-blue streams
  Muddying...

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The time had arrived to dig my tunnel.
My vision was full now, full and complete.
I knew what to strive for, knew where to reach:
I'd dig a tunnel to Understanding, a vision sweet,
A Tunnel where Friends...

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VERILY I STATE…
     Celebrating enjoying life, I tolerate others’ leisure all the time.
I know people live for the sun to shine.
     I just ask that if I...

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Hear that?... It is the sound of the beat. Of course one may say... but it's all so sweet. Guh - guh - guh- guh... such a rhythmic beat. Not to run on, so from...

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This room with soiled carpet 
and peeling paint,
its a mess like our lives,
but its what we give to each other.

She is naked 
and I can't stand against it,
the wisdom of her velvet skin,
the passion of...

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I'm filled with anticipation, in a new location of accomodation. There cannot always be acceleration or innovation, some times you just need relaxation and rotation. So take note of this notation, my medication; we don't...

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