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Summer Solstice 2025

...Summer Solstice 2025

Friday, June twentieth
at 10:42 Post Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Earth's North Pole tilted
closest toward sun. 

This demarcates
most daylight hours of the...
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Categories: predecessors, adventure, anniversary, appreciation, beauty,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMulti-Di-Minstrel Message, Reprised

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Salutations!

Are we all just a footnote in God’s mental thoughts? 
He’s gotta BIG BANG Universe to run, does He not? 
He’s the most masterful, magical, mystical, mathematical Magician....
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Categories: predecessors, dream,
Form: Spoken Word



Premium MemberOur Love Remains

...In our Hearts Burn…A Love of God and Country that...through it all...has not diminished! We Press on, Amen!


There comes a time when…we…

must pause to diligently survey

our history!

When...
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Categories: predecessors, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLight That Lights All Llghts

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Primordial begs a question. Precursor answers,
prior request. Clarity necessitates perspective
anchored. Pre-Genesis /\ Chapter 1: Verse 1 of
 it being OUR EARTH-- /   \ Verse 3 is the F...
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Categories: predecessors, death, destiny, mother son,
Form: Concrete

RICEPUBLIC

...Tell them we are working hard
They will soon afford to buy rice
Show them our graphic evidence
Of rice pyramids. We are self-sufficient.

When they complain of hardship
Give them rice!

When ...
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Categories: predecessors, betrayal, corruption, humanity, leadership,
Form: Free verse



The Daily Star Thursday issue

...The Daily Star Thursday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2024
regarding purr ray zing planetary earthlings
paying obeisance to god/goddess of the sun 
Thursday, June twentieth
at 4:51 Post M...
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Categories: predecessors, anniversary, beauty, celebration, june,
Form: Free verse

Doomed Generation

...We are the doomed generation
Addiction runs through our veins
The burden of being the generation to solve climate change 
The tumors of self-loathing are embedded in our deepest parts 
We are the...
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Categories: predecessors, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

SHE IS A LEADER

...Steady as a rock, firm faith she carries
The embodiment of strength, girl power!
She reads out her mind like a political novel
Confidence is her hidden name and she lives it
For she believes it.
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Categories: predecessors, leadership, woman, women,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRevolution

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   A myriad of steps we will take
     to correct our predecessors’ mistakes...

   So busy will we be
     our own foibles we’ll not see
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Categories: predecessors, change, history, irony, satire,
Form: Couplet

Twenty first century civilization gone I askew

...Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty ...
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Categories: predecessors, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe newest generational great divides in America part one

...What is causing the very latest generational great divides in America?
The division is between the older generations: the Silent Generation,
the Baby Boomers and Generation X.  And the younger gene...
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Categories: predecessors, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Phenomenal Woman

...screams and tears on a starry night
a child is born, a woman of light
celebration for she is a blessing 
given to the world to teach a lesson
innocent and pure she is 
obedience and love she bre...
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Categories: predecessors, appreciation, beauty, bible, blue,
Form: Rhyme

The Daily Star Tuesday Issue

...The daily star Tuesday issue...

announces Summer Solstice 2023
regarding ray zing planetary earthlings

Wednesday, June twenty first
at 10:57 Ante Meridian
Eastern standard time
will find Ea...
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Categories: predecessors, age, angel, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Elusive Ephemeral Ethereal Expansive Eye I Witness Timelessness

...Elusive ephemeral ethereal expansive eye (I) witness timelessness

Analogous to Möbius strip -
measured passage of existence
seems to defy any beginning or end
(unless Artificial Intelligence
s...
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Categories: predecessors, absence, africa, animal, birth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaddy

...Paddy

His name is Padraig Torrin McWheaten of County Cork, esq. – Paddy for short!  He is Celtic mischief with deep brown eyes the color of Irish sod, a big, black gumdrop nose and a wavy wheat co...
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Categories: predecessors, dog,
Form: Prose

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