IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
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IN AND OF CREATION’S RESPONSIBILITY
(A Tanka 3 For The 6 and 7 days Given You & Me)
God simply whispered,
“...Be light…”! And here we all are:
All engaged in war!
A world created in love...
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Categories:
waring, allegory, life, peace, perspective,
Form: Tanka
IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
...God simply whispered,
“...Be light…”! And here we all are:
All engaged in war:
A world created in love;
Peacefully from up above:-
Why can’t we not see,
A world given you and me,
to live in ...
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Categories:
waring, allegory, god, gospel, life,
Form: Tanka
OF HEARTS AND MINDS
...1
Hearts cultivate love,
Minds tend to cultivate war;
War fruits are bitter:-
Let hearts cultivate sweetness,
Producing ripe fruits of peace:-
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While you’re sitting there...
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Categories:
waring, allegory,
Form: Free verse
IN AND OF CREATION'S RESPONSIBILITY
...God simply whispered,
“...be light…”! and here we all are:
all engaged in war:
A world created in love;
Peacefully from up above:-
Why can’t we not see,
A world given you and me,
to live in ...
...
Continue reading...
Categories:
waring, allegory, creation, life, love,
Form: Tanka
Mirror morgue
...Haunted eyes stare through me,
Searching, longing, lost at sea,
Soundless cries echo within,
A prisoner in her own skin.
Hidden traumas itch and gnaw,
While the circling buzzards caw,
hands ...
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Categories:
waring, death, depression, fate, gothic,
Form: Quatrain
THE WORD vs THE WORLD
...THE WORD vs THE WORLD
Wise words wield weapons versus woeful worldly woes.
Wondrous words wage war against woeful worlds
Wielding wisdom, wit, and worthy worth.
Words weave witty wisdom, wardin...
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Categories:
waring, 1st grade,
Form: Alliteration
cat astrophes
...The pre-dawn rang
as cat choirs sang
in waring gangs
sharp and rank
before they sprang
with claw and fang.
Isn’t it an overweening piety
to think that diverse cat societies
would address co...
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Categories:
waring, cat, conflict, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
cows and ants
...When a class is boring, the air can feel close and rebreathed - not a comfortable feeling for a COVID child. When the class is finally over, it’s like you’ve escaped something.
Did you know an hou...
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Categories:
waring, class, humor, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Keep It Simple
...If you tell me what you need we can work out a plausible deal, if you tell me what you want we can solve this historical debacle in an unprecedented miracle.
You have been running around the wor...
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Categories:
waring, appreciation, arabic, business, change,
Form: Narrative
I Rise
...I Rise
I open the windows of my humble adobe
I breathe in the mountain air
I make a pot of coffee
Then read the News...
Recession, inflation
Homeless, addiction
Waste on our streets
Men...
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Categories:
waring, addiction, depression, emotions, good
Form: Free verse
We Need Better Monsters, Part I
...It was quite a surprise to us
when monsters came out of the night,
the beasts and bad guys of legends
who for so long gave us a fright.
We thought they lived on movie screens,
pulpy books, and...
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Categories:
waring, abuse, conflict, corruption, dark,
Form: Narrative
Acts of War V: Mother Russian
...Hay now, now sing this corrosion
Of winter wastes and Red stars white nights
And waring tribes a bully on the block
To kick you when your down
The ones meek and mild
But can stand tall n ...
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Categories:
waring, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
The Slow Suicide Called Life
...Incredibly numb are the hours of every nightmare within a nightmare within someone's awake reality. The fundamental Wonder and magnificence in it's beautiness the world, life and all in between such ...
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Categories:
waring, baptism, betrayal, dark, environment,
Form: ABC
Tonight
...Tonight I will write
no profound verse,
nothing negatively terse –
alternately worse,
I will only, in my reconsidering mind
and multi-chambered, often corrosive heart,
rehearse my better,...
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Categories:
waring, meaningful, night, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The Trifecta of Reality
...Slowly an eyelid opens droggy still trying to focus to see
If yesterday's hell is today's surprise. What agony the subconscious
Endures so that society can feel safe all while still Being able to...
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Categories:
waring, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Other
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