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POEM: Gordian Knot — Owed To Mother Hope

Reality can be a mother Halving given Cynicism wide berth Big brother Too hope A mist Crying incessantly And the crapping of won’s pants Entrapped Flanked by sterility and fertility Fenced buy utility and futility Until something Something all inspiring … Continue reading

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ELECTION POEM: Democracy Takes A Dive

Like that Mourning do After a cold night Looking over That nasty bluff When the populace says jump As if Only culpable Sane How high Falling for everything Accept gravity and physics As mirror opinion Reproving such an eminent nadir … Continue reading

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Friendly Rant: Voting FOR Jill Stein NOT Wielding “Privilege”

Oddly, with the presidential candidates from the two dominant and domineering political parties setting new records for low approval, voting for anyone else is met with bafflingly high contempt.  My friend, local activist, and Green Party Jill Stein supporter, Shannon Frye, … Continue reading

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POEM: Pirate Queen

Wile the sands of time Make some wail and blubber In the aye of the storm You could sea it In the wides of her eyes Shown as bright as a thousand stars Her pupils As deep and rapturous As … Continue reading

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POEM: Rousing Fresh Fortune

To no what is possible Sum look too the passed To undertake certainties Too due dreams untested Some are moved Bye this present Liberating futures seized And undo The knot tied And never tried How Ever prospecting possibilities in awe … Continue reading

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HAPPINESS: Hedonic Happiness Versus Meaningful Happiness

I have long been interested in happiness and happiness research.  I recently stumbled across one of the most fascinating scientific articles of any kind that I have read in recent years: Some Key Differences Between a Happy Life and a Meaningful Life. … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: Pick You’re Genocide

Pick You’re genocide Won side or the other Gun to head Ahead to gun Aliens pervade our atmosphere As whirled wore thee Restless natives no so slight Wear homieland security rules Redcoats and bluecoats Everyday cover ups Of fuzz overruling … Continue reading

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REAL POLITICS, REAL CANDIDATE: Jill Stein 2016 Platform

IF you want a progressive presidential candidate that you can get excited about voting FOR, then Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate is worth serious consideration.  Jill Stein has selected her Green Party running mate, Vice President choice, Ajamu Baraka. … Continue reading

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POLITICAL POEM: Elections Bought and Souled

What due You Know choice candidates Fenced by kleptocrats And undebatable Republicrats Their exclusive promise A system fixed Throwing political parties Incorporations wee trust In-firm ideologies The body politic Under the whether Or worse yet Riddled with ballots Everlustingly powered … Continue reading

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POEM: Elephants Prey: Never Forget

What too due Reguarding Assault weepin’s With prey Open season to ignore Smack in the middle Of the roam Elephants And cons of all sorts In outraged equality And dubious cause As attacks increase Their roil highness And unquestionable ump … Continue reading

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POEM: Never Agin

They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading

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POEM: They Knot His and Her — Owed To Gender Fluidity

They cross that strait When they get two it As engender queer In mirrorly two be Or knot too be This poem is an ode to gender fluidity, to anyone who looks in the mirror and sees a different gender … Continue reading

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POEM: In A Family Weigh

The future looms Sew large As we seam Sow singularly stranded In the present Weave heir A parent With know designs Beyond Sum won ails And grater still The mine wandering Too what end As life goes On and on … Continue reading

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POEM: Enough Awe Ready

He saw The future In have Like sum carnival game Destined to win As if In sane As blown two bits Caught looking Like a fun house mirror Mirror on the wall Axing who is the fairest Of ummm awe … Continue reading

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POEM: Carrots and Sticks

He came from the sticks And had Little taste For carrots He wood Just as soon Beat you As raze the son Those Sunday mournings Long a go This poem is about the vicious cycles of violence passed on from … Continue reading

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POEM: Gift Hoarse

The dumb bell rang As he looked The present Like a gift horse in the mouth And in every witch way Reckon as knot so fine Looking forward and backward Of what might be Only seconds As has been A … Continue reading

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POEM: Going, Going, Gone

Scores of politicians Going for green As peddlers of pabulum Powered buy vicious cycles Going for blue As admirals of addled ad mirers Sailing cynicism Going for red As wore, wore, wore Posing as knew Gone adieu this Until nothing … Continue reading

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POEM: More Than Just, A Tinkle In The Pants

Sum people say Show me the money Only taking That folding Money Maid of paper Illegal to ink for won self You’re money or you’re life Weather helled up Or razing heaven Our soles speak As bodies of evidence And … Continue reading

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POEM: The Rein of Hope

A tsunami of hope is coming Are you preparing such a weigh? Will you be caught looking Through shot glasses Only to be decked out with eyedroppers For blood shot eyes, those cynical vanes Ill quipped to see arose As … Continue reading

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POEM: Beauty Us Aging

There is a beauty In aging A reservoir Of singular moments And glistening years In ignorance passed Belying youth In wrinkled knows At untaut skin In the game Wear even The future rests Just In time As quiet A scene … Continue reading

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