Are We Safer Now
...Joy in mourning
opens this new eye day.
Am I OK?
Healthy?
Compromised
yet survive able
air inhaling
"Death, tonight,
or some tomorrow,
my life's inevitable
closed,
no longer curious,...
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Categories:
rhythmed, dark, death, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
The rain beats
...Pitter patters foisted wetness on the roofs,
A cat meows noisily to the rain spoofs,
her sweet noise rhythmed the dog's delicious woofs,
The treasure they sang into ears is the proof,
They both h...
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Categories:
rhythmed, cat, dance, dog, rain,
Form: Rhyme
My tanks filled with thanks
...My mouth is just overflown with thanks,
All the love shown just filled up my tanks
Yet none was rhythmed by any band,
It's like mint money out of a bank.
Sweet words made my head too big to swe...
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Categories:
rhythmed, celebration, feelings, humanity, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Play It Again
...If it's not organic
it's not sexy
and probably not all that amusing
either.
If it's up and down bipolar movement
with arms versus legs,
it's Yang male energy,
and potentially horned up
and/...
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Categories:
rhythmed, age, depression, health, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Just a Kiss Away
...Barefoot in the sand I walk the seashore, carefree
taking mental snapshots of you and me;
Living in the sanctuary of your natural agility
I am a womb in you, both beautiful and free.
When y...
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Categories:
rhythmed, appreciation, sea,
Form: Free verse
Rebuilding Paradise
...Paradise
like Rome
is not built
and not rebuilt
and rebuilt
and redeveloped
and healed
and redeemed
in one 24-hour
cycle
and recycle
and revolving
round day v night,
And/or
appreciat...
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Categories:
rhythmed, earth, eve, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Disabling Corporate Culture
...Dynamically spiraling fractions
of potentially integral energy
win/win cooperative
and win/lose disruptive
Against peaceful eight octaves
of eight
is one hundred per day
full-octave spectral...
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Categories:
rhythmed, culture, education, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Restoring Tarnished Virtues
...God's oral,
and Gaia's ancient ****
naturally spiritual laws
are win/win discursive,
not win/lose debating,
when climate polycultural conditions
are democratically healthy thriving
Not blami...
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Categories:
rhythmed, analogy, earth, education, god,
Form: Political Verse
You Do Like Poetry
...Okay, you don’t like poetry
Maybe we can understand
But maybe we can’t
We see you in your car
We were not supposed to
You thought you were in private
But guess what, the world saw you
Driving ...
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Categories:
rhythmed, music, poetry, song,
Form: Free verse
Enchant Me
...ENCHANT ME!
(A Contemporary Animist’s Prayer)
To the shared breath of life:
Enchant me!
Whisper to me in the cadence and rhymes,
the deeper susurrations of this tellurian realm
with its n...
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Categories:
rhythmed, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Sacred Falling Stars
...Once upon a time a gymnast teacher told a girl,
and all her classmates,
to gather round
to spot the student currently bouncing
on the trampoline.
They circled
to volunteer a ring of imp...
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Categories:
rhythmed, allegory, analogy, caregiving, health,
Form: Political Verse
Escape Into Silence
...Escape into silence
moving out in still morning
across pine needle cushioned trails
toward Earth's solitary
murmuring river,
Whispering from where we have come
to quietly slip
drift
ripple ...
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Categories:
rhythmed, health, integrity, journey, memory,
Form: Free verse
Multiculturing Communion
...Our anti-racism, pro-polyculturing health
anti-egopatriarchy, pro-ecofeminist wealth
anti-homophobic, pro-trans-regenerative
anti-injustice Team, pro-restoring peace Organizers
Meet inside a vi...
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Categories:
rhythmed, community, health, history, hope,
Form: Political Verse
Meteorology
...Metrology
The weather plays a big part in me
When the sunshine and the wind is calm
I feel the lightness of being.
When storm blows and dark clouds
My mind gets dark, and I think of suicide...
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Categories:
rhythmed, absence, beach, corruption,
Form: Blank verse
Muse of Blackhistory
...Music ministry
as inviting to blues and jazz,
embracing soulful gospel
as black and brown and white multiculturally intended,
at least on MLKing SabbathDream Days,
feels not yet enough un-privil...
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Categories:
rhythmed, anti bullying, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse
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