Proportionally Distorted
..."proportionally distorted"
she walked away
sighing so it
seems
it's
all a
big lie
sighs
matters...
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Categories:
proportionally, color,
Form: Free verse
Re-Born Father
...These urgent strangers dressed up in green gowns
Snip rip strip
My dad’s red pants underwear and shirt
From his ancient body
A de-frocked clown not funny anymore
“Oh Bobby, don’t look.” He c...
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Categories:
proportionally, birth, death, father son,
Form: Free verse
Tim Ryerson
...FOOTLES FOR THE BIRDS AND THE BEASTS -
Bad-*** old bear:
Grizzly
Grizzly
Dachshund making critical life choices:
Eenie
Weenie...
Cougar from Arizona:
Yuma
Pu...
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Categories:
proportionally, hilarious, humor, tribute,
Form: Footle
Let Me Count the Ways
...Let me count the ways:
1. He makes me feel as pink as the colors on a cherry blossom tree
2. He sees me without ever having met me
3. He hears me and understands my silent pain. Its like we have...
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Categories:
proportionally, black african american, love,
Form: List
Phi
...she asked
please undress
me and i did but
i did so
slowly that
she asked again
please
undress me
so i did taking
her wig
eyelashes
false fingernails
just a shell
of her perfectio...
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Categories:
proportionally, muse,
Form: I do not know?
O'God Free Me From Myself
...I am An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves
Free your mind
Free your spirit
Free your soul
Proportion-ably
Proportionally
What!!
Help me! Lord
Understandably...
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Categories:
proportionally, analogy, assonance, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Where I'M From-- My Version of George Ella Lyon's Poem
...I’m from the piano in my living room,
from the music and melody.
I’m from the old, shabby couches,
(Placed proportionally,
opposite side from the TV)
I’m from the mirror,
the clear reflection
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Categories:
proportionally, childhood, family,
Form: Narrative
When Life Feels More Right Than Wrong
...How could education about Earth sciences and arts,
much less humanities
of both Yang truth
and Yin beauty,
not also remain consistent
with what is cooperative health v. competitive pathological,...
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Categories:
proportionally, earth, education, health, humanity,
Form: Political Verse
Ode To the Matriarch
...My grandma is the most wonderful person in the universe.
May 30th, 1924 is when this graceful woman entered earth.
She battled through hardships and cried with joy
had one beautiful daught...
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Categories:
proportionally, appreciation, birthday, family, grandmother,
Form: Couplet
Health Optimizing Investments
...If we were to follow a health model
for optimizing both economic and ecological wealth outcomes,
then investment in public and domestic educational systems
for active ecotherapeutic practice
and ...
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Categories:
proportionally, culture, earth day, happiness,
Form: Political Verse
Neoliberal Elections
...Neoliberal Elections
Actually my hyperbolic suggestion is not that new
apart from the vote casting honesty it might pursue
as it is known to democracy with all its respect due
no more veils fro...
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Categories:
proportionally, political,
Form: Rhyme
Proportionality
...
Was I projected when you inversed my motion?
Like gravity you pulled me down to earth
I became relative to your perspective
Prevented denial of my proportional thoughts
In...
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Categories:
proportionally, feelings, love, perspective,
Form: Personification
Poiseuille's Law and the Flow of Love
...F = phi, flow
Flow from me to you, and you to me
The fundament of what love must be
Through the sacred conduit we build
Hearts brought near, desire fulfilled
It assumes our fluid lo...
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Categories:
proportionally, analogy, love, math,
Form: Couplet
Paradigm Shift
...You are the created One who created everything
Who gave us creativity
You are the one who had the date when I would be born
A pin portioned
Just right were I am Now
Wow
You did that just for me...
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Categories:
proportionally, beauty, bible, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Description
...Quickly
Open suggestively
Thought take accusations
Anomalies
Bench faking
Distorted trees
Open baskets
Caskets
Deeply seed
Close proportionally
Who to be
Watched washed criminally
M...
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Categories:
proportionally, black african american, death,
Form: List
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