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10 Reasons My Niece & I Attended Local #MarchForScience

23/4/2017

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None of them were particularly...
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none were particularly political...
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Reason #10
All my colleague's slogans were positive
Reason #9
All the art and designs my niece added to the slogans were positive...
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Reason #8
My colleague and I had a serious conversation about whether or not to use sticks for attaching posters...
Reason #7
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We decided - sticks are too distancing...
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Reason #6
Without distance - we hold our ideas...
Reason #5
Holding ideas makes them real...
Reason #4 Real ideas require dialogue...
Reason #3
​In dialogue, everyone becomes visible...
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Reason #2 ​Visibility moves us from conflict to conversation...
#1 Reason...
We marched for
​CONVERSATION not conflict
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Sisterhood: a poem because I say so

12/4/2017

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Sisterhood...
See it (check).

Sisterhood...
Think it (check).

Sisterhood...
Wear it (check).

Sisterhood...
Do it (uhh, umm)...
See, what had happened was...
I heard - "when you know better, you do better."
However, I didn't realize there was
so much space between
knowing AND DOING.

​Sisterhood...
I didn't know
"doing" was like ALWAYS capitalized

​Sisterhood...
I didn't know
I had to
Experience it.
and/or

Feel it.
and/or

Share it.
and/or

Receive it.
and/or

​Believe it...
Enough to absorb enough space
For me to
Know it AND Do it.

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Day 8: National Poetry Month

8/4/2017

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This One Ain't Mine: It's JoeAnne's from Facebook, Yesterday at 12:18AM

So. . . We answer horror with missiles. . . Hitting an empty airbase.

The ersatz president twirls his nuclear pistols and preens in front of lights and flashing cameras.
A grotesque performance of empty men and meaningless shadows.
​
The children are still dead.
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What Do You Think About Thinking?

8/4/2017

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Day 6 & 7: National Poetry Month

8/4/2017

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Yelp! I missed posting on day 6 because time moved faster than I could.

However, I missed posting a day 7 poem due to unexpected melancholy caused by a variety of issues like coming up with a brand new poem to just give away for free!
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Day 5: National Poetry Month

5/4/2017

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Pop Haiku

Fault not Pepsi/girl
Thinking they speak for our world
​It's "American"


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Day 4: National Poetry Month

4/4/2017

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Prodigal

This is a story
only for fathers and God.
Mothers rarely save their wealth
as after death gifts.
If some mothers hold it all till the end
they've learned this practice from men.

In the story of mothers and God,
we give all to our daughters
shingle by shingle
faith they become
women
fortified in character,
mighty and strong,
with reserves to rebuild
after meeting prodigal sons--
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Day 3: National Poetry Month...

4/4/2017

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A Yevtushenko dashed off, just to mark an occasion poem:

Nemesis for Hire

Greetings My Friend!

Feeling forlorn in a life that’s untorn?

Are your emotions flatlining?
Your food tasteless while dining?

Do you have a Dad and/or Mum?
But the relationship’s not bum?


When you talk to others, do you walk away understood?

Are you a boy or a girl or not sure in this world?

Still, you’ve never had an issue?
Never or rarely in need of tissue?

Are you wondering why you stay in one spot?
Questioning where greener grass grows while yours seems to rot?

Nemesis, my friend.
Everyone needs one.


You know, something to beat,
rage against and defeat!


Oh of your luck, to happen upon me!
A complete free agent, born to circumstance.
A nemesis connoisseur;

I‘ve experienced a slew.
And would love to be nemesis for you!

My resume - more than show and tell
it displays variety as well.

the grandeur of my flighty foes:

Religion and gender and poverty and slights
from elementary school to all sort of professional fights!
Rejections from lovers, acquaintances, colleagues children, and friends,
But my point was not to write a list with no end...

I’ve had intimate sessions with aggressions
Designed by Micro and Mac

Ask those masquerading to "know" me
But really the culprits providing the whacks!

I've lost many battles, but tend to win wars.
It’s the journey my friend,
the end always bores!

But everyone loves you, damn-it: let’s cut to the chase.
I'm a nemesis for hire.
I’ve all you need to sire
a challenging move

And get some flavorful food!

As for your lack of of ambiguity
I'll target your mum -
And develop for you
A graphic-like model, epic Shakespearian feud

You know, the kind,
Only
death soothes
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It's day 2 of Poetry Month, so here is a poem:

3/4/2017

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Title: Remembering the Future


Sitting on the deck built for an outgrown life, the sun moves over head from the east to rest its sinking westward - directly opposite you.


Its roundness spreading; its color smudging into a setting that pulls water from your eyes.


Through blurred vision - welcome the surprise sadness that comes from remembering the future.


By Mursalata
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