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Premium Member The Search
... This should be read as though sung as a Country Western song I searched the junk food aisle And the basin of a bowl (looked real, real hard there) I learned that the whiskey bottl......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, life, song,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Peace Dividends
...Asked an NPR journalist of U.S. soldiers damaged in Afghanistan direct fire for one hundred everydays, "Was it worth it?" "I can't answer that question." She asks more hesitantly again ......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, america, anxiety, culture, earth,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Liber Novus
... “Liber Novus” Life is read it bleeds continually we simply need to stop and breathe forgive ourselves for tripping over misspent thought too caught up and enrapture......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, birth, dark, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Clumsy Oaf
...in her people’s wisdom, The author said, "No Native language has a cognate for “human” as separate from other beings." The NPR interviewer sighed and became excited by the unity of all things ......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, angst, anxiety, nature, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It Was I
...…thirteen miners… …only one survived… …still clinging to life... ...with a history of violations... It wasn’t West Virginia. It was I. And I’m taking the day off. I know it won’t rhyme, ......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, allegory, death, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member Poetry Is Awful
...Damn poetry is awful! I had to turn off that show on NPR when the poet got round to the line, "Literature is the ashes under the playground set" spoken in such earnest. If there was a god, poets who......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, humor, poetry, poets, satire,
Form: Prose Poetry
Now Wash Your Hands
...Hands across the pond to the NPR, When you give power to the truth It's a beacon from afar, We've got a message from the UK Coming at you, forsooth, So now feel me when I say, From the Morning ......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, america, anti bullying, freedom,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Disempowering Viral Violence
...I am struggling to avoid that "I told you so" mean and self-congratulatory voice. I do feel under-appreciated but I don't feel any happiness about the Virus as vindicator of my beliefs abou......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, america, community, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member A Life of Leaves
...My friend and I were talking about the weather and how it relates to his business. He said, "This time of year, my life is all about leaves". I said, "That would make a great poem title". He inform......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, america, autumn, business, friendship,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Coming Courageously Home
...I'm returning home from a bag it yourself grocery, and listening to an African-American novelist respond to questions, actual open-ended real NPR questions, like old school inquisitive journalis......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, conflict, courage, health, hero,
Form: Political Verse
Zapata Flies
...Zapata flies no grand illusion channel disappears Note:https://www.npr.org/2019/08/05/748219809/this-time-franky-zapata-makes-it-across-the-english-channel-on-a-hoverboard......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, flying, magic,
Form: Senryu
Behind the Scene At Npr
...Behind the Scene at NPR On the roof again A code we send out every now and then When someone’s life is almost near the end We say that he is on the roof again On the roof again Let’s start wr......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, age,
Form: Lyric
Damn Divisive Demagogic Derelict
...Das Don doth debilitate democracy driving a collateral wedge deliberately dividing differences collaborating, collapsing, and collaring disparity amidst ever increasing homogenization extant ......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, america, conflict, grief, howl,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Democratic Poverty
...I was listening to NPR yesterday on my way to small green group ministries, when I heard post-millennial Republicans favor apartheid while the contemporary urban-green Democrat favors laziness. ......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, caregiving, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member The Dilettante Diaries: In Stasis, Black Iris
... The Dilettante Diaries: "In Stasis, Black Iris" Oriental Lily's Stamen bleeds blush ochre dust like icing sugar duelling tongues sweet cap......Read the rest...
Categories: npr, art, freedom, imagery, psychological,
Form: Romanticism

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