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Constructive Critism
There's consequences in all we say and do 
Go forward and walk your walk and I'll go ahead and talk my talk 
Quite distraught due to the fact that you're too good to be true
I...

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Categories: what if, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought
Once firm with reason 
now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes 
a threadbare fading strand,
A quest for wisdom 
in this digital land.

Sage:...

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Categories: what if, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological, truth, wisdom,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Chapter 48 -- Damian Delilah Mallory and Damian Junior
Year 2031 would soon come
To a close. Everyone will be
A little wiser. 
Damian Junior wanted a 
Girlfriend and he was soon to
Be 13. Amadeus and
Desharah will both turn 10.
The oldest kids had a desire to
Add...

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Categories: what if, beautiful, birth, black love, business, cute, emotions,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Flash Mob Application
I'd like to apply for a permit
for a protest march
on the Washington Mall.

Lovely idea.
But, we're only issuing Mall permits
for Song and Dance Events.

I think this might be a violation of my Rights
to Free Speech.

I see...

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Categories: what if, america, culture, health, humanity, humor, integrity, music,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Earthy Empathy
You've heard that self-unfulfilling prophecy?
"I love humanity--
it's just people I can't stand."

I love healthy humanity--
it's just uppity and/or snooty people I can't stand

I love cooperative humanity--
it's just overly-competitive individuals I can't stand.

Not so distant from,
I...

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Categories: what if, caregiving, gospel, health, humor, integrity, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse



Premium Member Revolutionary AnthroMatriarchy
Those who get,
get more widely.
Those who want,
want more deeply.

Normal slow-grown inter-religiously co-invested evolution 
is not survival of the wealthiest and strongest species,
but thrival of the deepest win/win fit 
with least panentheistic disruption required
within,
whether we speak...

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Categories: what if, health, integrity, love, political, religious, science, wisdom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
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: what if, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member 2020 Revolution
Numbers, numerals,
like words,
combinations of letters,
mean something,
sometimes more secular,
sometimes more sacred ecological.

Numerals and letters share sacred iconic human-intelligence root systems
within a bicameral ecology of mind-body nonduality,
both RightBrain matriarchal empowering flow of integrity (Czikszentmihalyi)
and LeftBrain patriarchal Yang...

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Categories: what if, beauty, culture, earth, health, math, trust, truth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Have Faith - the Egg Timer Style
~ Have   Faith  ~
( Egg  Timer )


~O~


Lord wants you live right
Have Love Faith Hope
Enjoy Peace
Always
Too
Too
Always
Enjoy Peace
Have Love Faith Hope
Lord wants you live right


Just Believe in God
Love with all heart
Worship Pray
To Him
Too
Too
To...

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Categories: what if, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member List of limericks and other funny tricks

A young woman from Glascow named Myrtle 
was as strong as the shell of a turtle.
Once, when an intruder snuck in,
she bare knuckled his glassy chin, 
then floored him with her iron girdle.
I asked this...

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© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what if, crazy, funny, giggle, howl, humor, silly,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Brain Damage
Pain settles in quite instantly your senses 
are totally unprepared for this graveness
the notion to sleep sets in like an energetic 
twilight phase the injury abruptly strangles 
thought my ears are always ringing with this...

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Categories: what if, allah,
Form: Munajat
Premium Member FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION CRISIS TEAM OF CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCES
CRISIS TEAM : HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP 

AGENT BROWN: I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT IN TOTAL FEAR FOR MY SAFETY AFTER WEARING WIRES PREGNANT BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FEARING FOR MINE AND MY CHILDREN...

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Categories: what if, america, analogy, anxiety, forgiveness, hero,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member 1969 Abraham Lincoln Tomb Springfield Illinois
My first grade field trip begin Joseph Medill school of journalism Chicago my first grade class sang African American spiritual hymns performing at the Schubert theater the museum of science and industry the museum of...

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Categories: what if, allah,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member MY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
BLINDING FLASHES FROM MY EYE SOCKET BEING CRUSHED MY NASAL ARCH NOSE FRACTURE RHINOPLASTY SURGERY HELPS WITH MY AIRWAYS THE SEVERE TRAUMA ON IMPACT SEVERE CAR ACCIDENT TWO MEN ON A LADDER ADJUSTING THE STREET...

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Categories: what if, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member 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: what if, adventure, appreciation, best friend, blessing, innocence, love,
Form: Rhyme
Xenophobia Pt 1
TITLE:
       Xenophobia

Heed the warning
This isn't for the faint of heart
Verbalizing my deepest yearnings 
They're bound to be a bit tart...

Because where I'm from is called the Bible Belt
Where folks...

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Categories: what if, america, anxiety, prejudice, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member But Just Where Is God
(Musings of a poet with huge doubts and a fragile faith)

Introduction: Is God A Joke Or Human Vanity?

When close friends die and other’s thoughts are suicidal,
When mankind’s soup du jour is loneliness with anguish	
When mental...

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Categories: what if, god, mental illness, perspective, , atheist,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member querulous
( A university-life vignette)

It’s Saturday morning. Lisa, Leong and I were in the common area, lazing about. “This is what happened to us (Lisa and I) last night.” I said, beginning to explain last night's...

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Categories: what if, abuse, anxiety, funeral, humor, music, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member BLACK AUDI PARKED REMIND ME OF ALICIA HILTON MY ABUSIVE HUSBAND STRIPPER
THE LAST TIME I SAW A BLACK AUDI IT CUT US OFF PARKED THE SMELL OF DEATH WAS BREWING FUNNY HOW MANY TIMES I SCREAMED HELP SOMEONE IS GOING TO HURT MY CHILDREN AND I...

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Categories: what if, allah,
Form: Naat
Phoenix
  I feel so damn trapped in rage 
Like a rainbow lion in a cage 
I feel so much pain in my brain
And it's driving me quite insane

Numb my solace shame
Get me feeling more...

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Categories: what if, 11th grade, 3rd grade, 6th grade, 7th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
Tell me, my friend,  
does infinity not unsettle your reason,  
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?  

Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—  
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you...

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Categories: what if, beauty, christian, easter, faith, longing, science, universe,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Sublime Terror
Let's say I am an antro-privileged terrorist.

What would we be saying? 
And is human nature supremacy
over all other less sacred nature/spirits
as monotheistically redundant
as anthro-industrious militarism?

If you are a HolySpirit panentheist,
is "religious terrorist" as oxymoronic
as using...

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Categories: what if, earth, earth day, fear, identity, peace, political,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Found and Safe
Close your eyes
Explicit shame sheds rage in my eyes
I’ll be alright in the morning light and the night’s so bright
Open up your eyes
Sharpen me like your pensive pencil……
Begin with me, thinking I’m not thin
Paper thin,...

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Categories: what if, words,
Form: Free verse
10 Things I Hate About Me
1 - I can't be alone

I struggle to be by myself because my dark thoughts come
But when I'm with people my heart is numb
On top of a lot of pain is what I built my...

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© Alex Duffy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: what if, deep, emotions, encouraging, growing up, growth, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Procrastination
The invaluable dream you had in mind
Yesterday, you said you would take steps on achieving it tomorrow,
Yesterday's tomorrow has come today, so you still postpone it to tomorrow.
When will you stop procrastinating!
What is the connection...

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Categories: what if, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, work,
Form: Free verse

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