Island of Agony
...What feeling gives you a belt of happiness?
As if you had obtained the key to Paradise
But it settles in the heart of darkness,
And your soul is on the verge of silence
Memories of your heart g...
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Categories:
toxically, anger, depression, mental health,
Form: Sonnet
Speaking From Felt Experience
...Enjoying Earth's promised land
of compassionate
multicultural communion,
we share a preference for deep
rich soil
and fertile green-blue
resonating surf
As our bodies adjust
to rocky and pr...
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Categories:
toxically, anxiety, community, feelings, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Twin Heart Rate Monitors
...I couldn’t even stop myself from sacrificing everything for you
How could I be trusted with your last breath?
My recital of a photo albums worth of memories
Induced a coat of water in everyone's e...
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Categories:
toxically, bereavement, death of a
Form: Free verse
More Song and Dance Please
...What to gladly sing
about our global economic politics
and socially inept monoculturing predation?
divinely self-righteous
missionary terrorist zeal
also known as religious
colonization.
Su...
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Categories:
toxically, christian, christmas, desire, health,
Form: Political Verse
Peak Spiritual Communications
...When our religious practice
discipline
dogma
principles
values
unchanging tradition voices
erode out of line,
escape outside the box
within which lies our own spiritual experience,
our ego/e...
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Categories:
toxically, culture, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Designing Healthier Democracy
...Green democratic design,
like PermaCulture Design,
intends polyculturally resilient nutritional outcomes
for global, as for local, interdependently co-attracted ecosystems
composed, in designing ...
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Categories:
toxically, earth, education, farm, garden,
Form: Political Verse
Investing In Green
...Capital investments,
cooperative more than competitive,
socially mediated more than antisocially premeditated
green health more than white wealth motivated,
are remarkably contrasted,
most certa...
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Categories:
toxically, caregiving, earth, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
All About Metube
...I see YouTube
and FaceBook
and other social media platforms
are not so happy
hosting PrivilegeTube
JustOurWhiteFaceBook
and other anti-social messengers.
Free speech advocates
are concerned...
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Categories:
toxically, caregiving, health, integrity, internet,
Form: Political Verse
Poetic License To Heal
...I recently read a politically incorrect prolific poet,
or so I thought at the time,
or more felt than thought,
more truthfully,
integrally,
Who said, If poetry is politically correct,
it cann...
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Categories:
toxically, appreciation, caregiving, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Who I Am Right Now
...Who are you?
he asked perpetually, patiently
because I invited him to do so
until our time for contented me
to discover his diversely integrated/fragmented identities,
empowerment and disempower...
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Categories:
toxically, caregiving, community, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Dear Sue
...Dear Sue,
I am remembering our strong negative responses
to the young woman who surreptitiously read
her aunt's very private diary,
filled with vulnerable statements
of the most intimate natur...
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Categories:
toxically, appreciation, bullying, caregiving, health,
Form: Political Verse
Nudging Recreation Along
...What are fair and effective nudges
for too much freedom of wounding weaponed speech?
Maybe equal freedom to listen nutritionally
and not speak toxically?
What's a fair response
to competitiv...
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Categories:
toxically, celebration, earth, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Perennial Adventure
...Advent,
older, and more pervasive, than Christmas
I presume.
Why so?
Advent's lack of glaring light
feels more of an invite
to prepare for winter's new year planning
by reviewing what went...
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Categories:
toxically, adventure, analogy, christmas, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Speaking With Donald John
...I was speaking with my good friend
Donald John
the Evangelist for AntiChrist
the other day.
And I had to ask,
Donald John,
Why are you so against health care
for all our not yet slaughtered
...
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Categories:
toxically, earth, education, faith, health,
Form: Political Verse
A Disagreement
...Marco Rubio
reminds
marchers against automated gun violence,
their pilgrimage views
oppose
what many TrueBlue Americans
support
as Second Amendment Rights.
Why hide
your own NRA Red suppor...
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Categories:
toxically, america, anti bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
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