On the Edge
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It is much too late; the damage has been done.
Our fall from God’s grace has already begun.
The end is coming, we’re standing on the brink.
That last blow will hit us quicker than you think.
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Categories:
privatized, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
PRIVATIZED
...Our nation is being privatized
By selfish politicians
Who are manipulating us
And their hate filled cries.
The question becomes a stark why
We ask the dark unwise
Driving us to laced dimes
Or ...
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Categories:
privatized, corruption, meaningful, patriotic, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Cop26
...Cop26
To Glasgow, they came the high, mighty and the good
tarmacs full of private planes.
They all agreed we have to rescue the world
But first, we have to sell oil and coal
We can´t rely on w...
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Categories:
privatized, anti bullying, creation, dark,
Form: Canzone
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:
privatized, creation, earth, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Civitality's Health Needs
...We need no further
corporate monocultural information
about Donald Trump's degenerative past predicted
and predicated future trajectory,
No further need
to vigorously stir
frantic vengeance o...
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Categories:
privatized, anxiety, caregiving, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
City of Palls
...From dense sleep we emerge.
Realizing our coat,
we seek to cast off this Nessus.
We drank the Jonestown Kool-Aid
and now it’s too late.
We never noticed the circling
vultures despotic desce...
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Categories:
privatized, allegory, america, analogy, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
Holy Windstorm
...These are post-revolutionary gay '20s,
without pre-revolutionary SpeakEasies,
replaced with ListenHard
to global climates of LeftBrain dominant despair.
Margaret Meade encourages
invites
urge...
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Categories:
privatized, culture, health, native american,
Form: Political Verse
Ecological Prosperity
...Growing up on God's impoverishing family farm,
he learned to hide his work
in tissues of unearthly privacy.
Regenerating in Earth's richly resonant nutrition,
she recovered her playful avocatio...
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Categories:
privatized, earth, education, environment, farm,
Form: Political Verse
Wait a Minute
...Did I hear that wrong?
On my way for another appointment
with the vampire bleeding Quest,
big stage conversations on the radio
travel way too fast
for me to stay tuned in
to our nesty mess
a...
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Categories:
privatized, america, caregiving, culture, games,
Form: Political Verse
Winners and Losers
...Kenneth Cloke
historically outlines the widening and deepening
and merging and submerging
of elite/non-elite
publicized/privatized ego/eco-politicians.
Earth's perennial health/pathology conte...
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Categories:
privatized, anti bullying, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Love Hate Comparisons
...I want to live in a healthy place,
at least as mature as junior high school,
where who I reciprocally love,
gay or straight or span-sexually in-between,
is not a political and economic football,
...
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Categories:
privatized, culture, hate, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Through Thick and Thin
...I think it might be John Rawls
who writes about
thick and thin justice sandwiches.
Thick justice
may be more deeply embedded, richly spread
in regenerative pursuing time,
producing and servin...
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Categories:
privatized, analogy, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Getting Deputized
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Round up the posse,
get ‘em vetted Oval Office ganksterized
Appoint the piggy snouts,
then send ‘em out
with metal sidearm power
Ancient oppression done got modernized,
old Egypt Mem...
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Categories:
privatized, allusion, corruption, political, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Flint
...Flint
Within its brilliance gleaming
Cool black in lacquered polished silver chrome
Cranked up pistons bleached in summer’s heat
Hot steam rising as gears thundering
Beyond the crystal liquid c...
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Categories:
privatized,
Form: Abecedarian
Eye of the Tropical January Sun
...Exercising belief about unknowns.
Makes sense to take your best guess.
Using history, numbers, extrapolation.
Getting the trajectory right for re-entry.
Few dissenters left for climate change, ev...
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Categories:
privatized, death, fire, food, innocence,
Form: Verse
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