I Ain't No Good
...I ain’t no good, I don’t do the things I should,
My woman tells me ‘bout it all the time.
What I do wrong, well the list is mighty long,
But my woman seems to know it all by heart.
She got her ...
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Categories:
monetized, books, education, funny love,
Form: Lyric
THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
...They sowed chaos to claim their peace.
A few wars to realize their dreams.
They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise,
Spitting laws applied only to the weak.
They paint bombs in the colors of...
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Categories:
monetized, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Terms and Conditions May Apply
...We cured death on a Tuesday,
launched the trial on a Thursday,
by Friday, 14% of the test group
was gnawing on the janitorial staff.
Still, the press was kind.
“Remarkable resilience,” they wr...
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Categories:
monetized, dark, horror, humor, life,
Form: Free verse
The Future Has No Eyelids
...
The future won’t arrive with trumpets—
no brass echo to herald salvation,
no golden scroll unrolled beneath a bleeding sun.
It will leak,
like soft radiation through the seams of our sleep,...
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Categories:
monetized, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
...
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, n...
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Categories:
monetized, death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Paying To Play
...Imagine
if you would be so kind,
join me
in striving to become
less blind
Brilliant God says:
Give to your oppressively militarized government
weaponized suppressive
defensively repressive...
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Categories:
monetized, community, culture, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Children
...They may want to bring back,
the selective schools.
Simplify a complex reality,
the underlying relationship of keenness,
wherever it comes from.
Persisted,
portraying the label,
develo...
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Categories:
monetized, allegory, allusion, betrayal, dark,
Form: Free verse
Compassion Stories
...What
to my LeftBrain appears
but Santa CapitalistClaus
and his eight domesticated
and monetized octaves
of neuro-sensory reindeer
To my LeftBrain
appears to not be
much of a healthcare givi...
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Categories:
monetized, change, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Pope Francine's Transfiguration
...If Laudato Si'
were written by Pope Francine
and not me
replacing Pope Francis's
root anthrosupremacist choices
with similar
but more nuanced
and multiculturally inclusive choices,
cooperativ...
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Categories:
monetized, creation, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Transformational Curiosity
...That's *****!
said transculturing Curiosity,
peering out Her sacred big-boxed window
panes of misty white fog
gently covering her view
of upstream tiding River's
mysterious grey
reverse time f...
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Categories:
monetized, culture, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Sacred V Corporate Cultures
...What is your opposite
for SACRED?
for sexually unscared
unscarred
unscrambled?
SECULAR, I suppose.
Secularization
sounds like desecration,
As sanctification
sounds divinely cooperative...
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Categories:
monetized, culture, earth, health, power,
Form: Political Verse
Dancing Meditations
...Dancers
and health therapists,
meditators
and educators,
speak of an embodied
listening
and teachable "CORE."
We need,
on bad days,
and want,
on better days,
To exercise,
stretch,
fi...
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Categories:
monetized, health, peace, philosophy, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Bread Is From Earth
...Deep warm-blooded
Dark brown
Multigrain Manna is from Heaven.
Sometimes,
OK, most times,
I'm not actively building a cooperatively co-invested
residential
and environmental health system,
...
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Categories:
monetized, community, earth, health, home,
Form: Political Verse
If I Were She
...If I were S/He
I would look downstream
for a power so high
this mythic enlightenment feels sacredly deep
and widely therapeutic
mystical in feeling,
practical in application.
If I were She
...
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Categories:
monetized, health, heart, integrity, military,
Form: Political Verse
Pandemic Nerves
...Not wanting to make anyone nervous,
pandemics can be unsettling enough
without economic and political surprises,
inconvenient systemic insights,
more expansive circles of empathy
positively impr...
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Categories:
monetized, health, integrity, judgement, peace,
Form: Political Verse
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