A Boastful Mountain
..."Arrogance, a harmful disease,
Never keeps human souls at ease
And afflicts men with a false sense
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Categories:
salutary, extended metaphor, mountains, pride,
Form: Concrete
A Shining Afterglow
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A Shining Afterglow
we have rambled together
along the Ganges river
just you and me
gazing at each other
we have trodden together
the streets of Bombay
through narrow
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Categories:
salutary, feelings, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Without Words Which May Displease
...How then shall I show love for our sisterhood?
Our mother’s baby birthed on this joyous day
A festive time with wishes ‘happy’ and good
No balloon filled room, cake, gifts on display
Bel...
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Categories:
salutary, appreciation, birth, birthday, sister,
Form: Ottava rima
We the missus and I kvell for Katz TOASTER PASTRIES
...We (the missus and I) kvell for Katz TOASTER PASTRIES!
I prefer to craft a poem
for no rhyme nor reason
expressing heartfelt pleasure
to our highly refined palate
versus presenting tasty, yumm...
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Categories:
salutary, america, appreciation, blessing, family,
Form: Rhyme
Move on over ole Joe
...Move on over ole Joe...
and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.
You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice ...
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Categories:
salutary, america, anger, anxiety, care,
Form: Free verse
Minus Identity Who I Am
...Plagued by incandescent ferments I grapple zealously,
with tower blocks of titan topsoil myriads,
and melange of eccentric foibles,
considered by some to be a minus,
but without this composite...
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Categories:
salutary, character, deep, endurance, fate,
Form: Haibun
Outside the Livestock
...Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, three precious ideals, blinded by the darkness of xenophobia.
The Republic, democracy and human rights are the pillars of a just society, but in the depths of Mari...
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Categories:
salutary, 1st grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
salutary, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Bounteous Mass Media Mechanizations
...Bounteous mass media mechanizations...
generate fixation spurring sexual exploitation
evidenced courtesy adulation
particularly regarding young females,
whose seductive poses
linkedin selling (...
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Categories:
salutary, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Strange Vampires
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"Strange Vampires"
all those years
ago, when conspiracies
flourished around
did we or didn’t we go
to the moon, when we
were once human,
proved to be lies,
whicheve...
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Categories:
salutary, humanity, muse, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
A Good Feeling Inside
...I’m a firm believer in setting goals in life,
Then striving for attainment every day
Avoiding undue petulance and strife,
Balancing time between work and play.
Looking to a future of ...
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Categories:
salutary, feelings, pride, self,
Form: Rhyme
Memories of Egypt
...I miss her, Mother Egypt
and those friends I left behind,
timeless history, marvels and mysteries
etched in stone by her own scribes.
Longing for the waters of the nourishing
River Nile and su...
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Categories:
salutary, allegory, allusion, christian, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
Therapeutic Climate
...EarthMother grows impatient,
despite her curiosity driven
cooperative inviting polyculture
reconnection with SunFather's Great White
monotheistic climate
of Patriarchal-Capitalist classroom acti...
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Categories:
salutary, culture, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Bookish Bound Man Obsessed For Knowledge Crafts Long Poem
...1.
This hunger artist cannot read
volumes of printed material fast enough
to satiate an immense appetite
and unquenchable thirst
to acquire learning from
the millenniums gushing fount of
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Categories:
salutary, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Wisdom From Trees
...Nestling in my realm, as you host a daydream,
Reveling in breeze of my splendor evergreen,
I welcome you to my domain of rhythmic trills
Where roam the blue jays, robins, and crossbills
Feeding o...
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Categories:
salutary, nature, tree,
Form: Personification
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