Roads
...Roads
When it was over we had to go.
There was no turning back and for a brief moment
there was a void between the past and the future.
Our paths lay before us as many long roads each demandin...
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Categories:
networked, perspective,
Form: Free verse
AI - A Cautionary Tale
...A happier couple, you could never see.
One blessed day, they would be three.
They'd enjoy a picnic in a park or beach,
Joe and his wife, Molly, a lovely peach.
I would say their lives were very...
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Categories:
networked, humor, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Green Resilience Theory
...I've been warmly remembering
your peak solidarity experience
joyfully shared
When you suggested
in a state-wide wisdom circle
that our cooperative advocacy
might feel more robust
and become ...
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Categories:
networked, earth, earth day, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Rebuilding Paradise
...Paradise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciat...
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Categories:
networked, earth, eve, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Interesting Times
...We are winded and on the ropes.
Backwater banjo boys
strum against us,
clouds prey upon our minds.
Bad days for going out
or staying in.
A time to be sleepless
to be dazed by the pal...
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Categories:
networked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Still Life Without Green
...lines
through the past
confront
the
eyes
a hidden reality
a revelation
of simplicity
an essence
of purity
geometric parallels
vertical
horizonta...
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Categories:
networked, art, tribute,
Form: Ekphrasis
A Cultural Anomaly -- Prose-Poetry
...They were Hollywood farmed; the girls, the pink and blond feathers-
shoes on their heads, but when they began to give birth to human
chickens there was a national outcry. Cops cordoned off each ho...
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Categories:
networked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Another Racism Forum
...Our Black Lives Matter team was hosting
another monthly forum on racism,
as regularly scheduled,
anti-patriarchal business as usual.
The facilitator opened with a question,
asking for a show o...
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Categories:
networked, anti bullying, culture, green,
Form: Political Verse
These Liberating Truths
...I'm musing with Jill Lepore,
historian (Harvard feminist, but definitely within brackets of general interest),
through eight hundred pages of These Truths
telling an other U.S. herstory.
She st...
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Categories:
networked, freedom, health, history, slavery,
Form: Political Verse
Driven Mad
...Alice Neuman, the last human who could drive died
Spread rapidly on networked news platforms that never lied
To the twelve billion populous that could not
Because of the AI developed when she was ...
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Categories:
networked, car, death, depression, science
Form: Couplet
National Narcissism
...Nationalism,
like other faces of narcissism,
multicultural cynicism speaks in ways devoid of integrity,
authenticity,
global transparency,
empathy,
active power and authority of and for,
from ...
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Categories:
networked, bullying, community, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
What's Your Hope
...What's your hope?
Your great green
or white
or black lives matter
and otherwise conscious culture
of full color
wheeling
reeling love?
To reduce today's competitive pathology,
grasping...
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Categories:
networked, gender, gospel, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Ignoble Harness Gummed Facebook Ethics
...dubious churning benevolent altruism
this anonymous beastie boy boilerplate endeavors:
(instagramming literary maven) questing user yawps
critically griping knowing personal tidbits xeroxe...
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Categories:
networked, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Political Verse
My Sons
...
Nay,
You are not uncouth;
There is something I never taught you:
When my mother told me to play tennis at school,
And advised me to swim at school,
When she networked me with the best...
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Categories:
networked, son,
Form: Alexandrine
Virtual Truths
...Without doubt true,
and yet too redundantly lectured,
especially to our young of body and mind,
the virtual world is not reality.
And yet,
Elders seldom hear
when youngsters po...
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Categories:
networked, culture, education, health, history,
Form: Prose Poetry
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