Young Rebel
You placed yourself in harm’s way.
I hated that you would join the fray.
Now you bravely faced and fought
the devil I had stupidly bought.
It was unwise, absurd from the start,
Foolish and silly to be in my heart.
You said, “No. Let’s not do this.”
I said, “Yes.” and gave you a kiss.
You staunchly stood in
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Categories:
unthinking, bullying, conflict, courage, friend,
Form: Couplet
Free Course: Unthinking Skills and Lateral Thought During Covid19
I Babies Had IT
Before the tomb, we must understand the WOMB
Where as babies we are ONE with our environment
It took time to assert, "Me and mine," creating "others"
Sadly, babies had no power, or voice, to teach a parent
OCEANIC thinking, not boxes-thinking, so-called science
That destroys to understand: dissect, dissect, dissect
Even past the atom, there's more unknown
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Categories:
unthinking, 12th grade, atheist, baby,
Form: Prose Poetry
Never Had a Name Before
Identical twins. Never having a name.
Referred to as the Tone Twins. Hey, Twins! Twinsie.
Assumed to be one person for the first eighteen years.
Until one could get away, leaving fast, chased by the other.
Twin A is independent, likes being alone, seeks solitude.
Her identical-looking sister draws a crowd, likes attention.
Twin A is a creator, forming poems, cartoons,
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Categories:
unthinking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Unthinking
Earth was sending a long
shadow on the moon.
A great night for both of them.
*
A city of dreams
lies still. A divine path
opens for the erring earthlings.
*
A night falls
surreptitiously on the lake.
The moonlight was trapped by waves.
Satish
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Categories:
unthinking, art,
Form: ABC
Unthinking
as age creeps up
so does self-awareness &
as self-awareness taps one’s shoulder
so comes the cloak of
scrutiny---
meticulous, unrelenting,
self-scrutiny,
floods into focus &
begins to complicate
every
move,
with a kind of idiosyncratic meddling
that never seemed to bother a person
before,
but now, now
it is all that one can bear---
every action gets questioned &
based on its merit in the
past, present & future,
it may
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Categories:
unthinking, life,
Form: Free verse