Ethereal
...ETHEREAL
To explain the unseen without pretention
The aether was once a scientific concept
But recently it’s attracting greater respect
The medium in which memes can connect
Yet it still remai...
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Categories:
pretention, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Equality For All
..."We appreciate the popular democratic intention,"
began the Drag Queen Ball proclamation,
'Equity for All'
We would even more appreciate
a more specific lack of pretention:
'Equity for All Vic...
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Categories:
pretention, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Drawback
...Most if not always
my consequences rest
in lamentation of spirit.
End if not means,
that crime is a call break
of thought bearing geniuses
I guess, if not pretention
That I am a man.
That...
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Categories:
pretention, analogy, beauty, imagination, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Pequot River Land Trust
...Once,
or twice,
maybe thrice,
surely not
not fractal
A clan of crazy ecofeminists
conspired within an 88 unit residential castle
in their historically converted
sometimes hysterically clu...
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Categories:
pretention, blue, culture, environment, green,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Book of Face
...book of face
I see your quick on that trigger. your words are offers on man's flawed self righteous altar
Of the vanity, and sullied grace of ou
The feeble attempt to sacrifice my ego
arpe too,...
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Categories:
pretention, computer, judgement, poetry, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
Happens Everyday
...Happens Everyday
As the lobby door inhale fresh air
They walk in puffing the indoor
Hoping it will multiply their dwindling puffs
A limit imposed by the illness
Pretension turns into wish,...
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Categories:
pretention, health, hope,
Form: Free verse
Splitting Hairs
...Splitting Hairs
David J Walker
If you only knew
How often
I do just that
Splitting hairs to enter
Another dimension
Leaving me both here
And there, driving the streets
Of abstract co...
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Categories:
pretention, analogy,
Form: Rhyme
Splitting Hairs
...Splitting Hairs
David J Walker
If you only knew
How often
I do just that
Splitting hairs to enter
Another dimension
Leaving me both here
And there, driving the streets
Of abstract conv...
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Categories:
pretention, fantasy, imagery, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
They Asked of Her
...And they asked of her,
said unto her:
Why do you write these words,
this ink on an invisible whiteness,
these corruptible scratching’s
as mutable as sand and water?
Surely poetry is but a rever...
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Categories:
pretention, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Making Time For Jesus
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Making Time For Jesus
Written: by Miracle Man
2-19-2019
Like so many, I had no time for Jesus, until,
On one routine day life became a bitter pill.
No avenue was apparent for me to p...
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Categories:
pretention, jesus, time,
Form: Lyric
Apprehension About Pretention
...Pretention is a claim or an assertion
of a claim to or about something.
Use of affection to impress; ostentatiousness.
Maybe he had made another pretention;
When done was with much apprehensio...
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Categories:
pretention, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Still
...default, your domain undisputed,
a challenge to accept,
that we are the exception,
never asking exemption,
this said without pretention,
to come across the fulcrum,
you would know the tension,
...
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Categories:
pretention, moving on, pain, people,
Form: Free verse
Wildly Domesticated Minds
...I wouldn't call Bill Plotkin's WildMind
unmitigated Wild RightBrained,
nor would I call his WinWin therapeutic thinking
with PositivEnergy feelings
entirely LeftBrain domesticated, diminished
...
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Categories:
pretention, bullying, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
The Visitor - a Christmas Poem
...Midnight strikes, the world is sleeping; hours until the dawn starts creeping,
Over hills and trees and rivers, bringing in another day.
In the darkness safe and hidden, a visitor somewhat unbidden...
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Categories:
pretention, christmas,
Form: Narrative
Sorry, Not Sorry
...I owe no apology for me being me
I owe no "i'm sorry" if I offended thee
I will never apologize for speaking my truth
Being sorrowful is uncalled for, for words spoke in youth
Any plea for forgiv...
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Categories:
pretention, destiny, forgiveness, humanity, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
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