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A Woman Ribbed — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Ah, borne from man’s ribs. Woman — preemptively scorned. O daunting the pain! Man — dominating… A woman second fiddle. Nature offended! Ribbing...	461 views Rate it
Africa in Tears — Karl Constantine FOLKES	The people mourning. Their ancient art are removed. Robbed, stolen, and gone. Gone from Mother Africa. To European countries. Gone from Africa. To...	457 views Rate it
The Human Condition: A Fractured Soul — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Human nature screened: Inherent rascality! So says Dr....	457 views Rate it
One Drop — Gisela Vigil	Like an eerie peacefulness riding on the skirt of turbulence within the eye of a storm, there is a lull that goes unnoticed. I hear it as I stand...	452 views Rate it
Stand Against the Wind — Paul E Wells	When brooding clouds grow angry, When threatening skies lash out, When thunder jolts the heavens, When tempests drift about, When driving gales...	449 views Rate it
Grave Epitaph — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Blowing in the Wind — A corpus turned to ashes… Life is...	441 views Rate it
The Semiotics of Markedness — Karl Constantine FOLKES	In linguistics class. I learned this some years ago. Thing called “Markedness.” Sign of Signified. Coined by Roman Jakobson. Semiotician. The...	440 views Rate it
Through a Nation’s Looking Glass — Karl Constantine FOLKES	With public officials frequently on trial. The Republic is admittedly livid. So ambitiously unethically daring. Deceptions are “righteously”...	439 views Rate it
"Women work" — Maya Angelou	I've got the children to tend The clothes to mend The floor to mop The food to shop Then the chicken to fry The baby to dry I got company to feed ...	438 views Rate it
Eons of Nowness (EON) — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Time is relative At the north and the south poles Eyed by the viewer It’s observer-dependent In a global universe. It can be zero Or any other...	436 views Rate it
Waka Poetry Chiming — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Voices chanting sutras, Hymnic lyrical sutras. Other voices weaving, Weaving Kama sutras. Cherry blossoms ripening, Youthful eyes — delighting. ...	435 views Rate it
Bird Of Paradise Sonnet — Marie Helen Abramyan	Bird of Paradise, feather among leaves, To the earthy soil I am bound and tied. Anchored by claws of roots and weighty sheaves, My spirit flies...	434 views Rate it
Man’s Subjective Mind — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Is “Nothing” zero? Some ask Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Astrophysicist. Whether there is a nexus Of science and religion. Tyson denies this. “Objective...	432 views Rate it
Time Spawned by Eternity — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Time so temporal. Eternity a measure. As a unity. Time so illusive. Let us now consider time. Time so relative. Time as a measure. Measuring...	430 views Rate it
Reading Research Limitations — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Phonological. Language processing schema. Is far from “Reading.” Without semantic input — Deep structures...	426 views Rate it
The Russian Bear in Arms With the Ukraine — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Putin and Hitler. Two European warlords. Birds of same feathers. Waging dangerous warfare. One checked, the other unchecked. Hitler and Putin. ...	423 views Rate it
The Moon Rises over Los Angeles — William He	The Moon Rises over Los Angeles By William He In the twilight Interchange, Going both ways in the night city belly, The passage of light end to end....	422 views Rate it
Wisdom of TAO Te Ching — Karl Constantine FOLKES	THEME of TAO : “The emptiness of the circle ⭕️ is the fullness of its expression.” Use of languages, a lexicon artifact, with syntactic rules, ...	416 views Rate it
Who Can Answer My Question? — Karl Constantine FOLKES	If all that exists must have some kind of ending, what is to say of Time? Is Time a mirage? Can Einstein quantify it? Is it relative? I want to...	412 views Rate it
Foggy the Cat — Robin Loving	Needing escape from the mournful howls, The smell of death; the human growls I grabbed my things and decided to leave When a soft little paw, snagged...	408 views Rate it
José Martí: Un Hombre Sincero — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Without a word, the pompous muse He set aside and understood: From such a withered branch he chose; To hang thereby his doctoral hood. He knew when...	406 views Rate it
Alluring Andaman Sea — William He	Alluring Andaman Sea By William He The tails swirling and bows bending, Kites tethered to surfers gliding true, Like giant hawks arcing high, ...	406 views Rate it
Jung-Einstein Conjunction — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Synchronicity: A-causal space-time model, of Jung and Einstein. Two different models: Psychology and physics. Two different minds in sync from...	403 views Rate it
Be Spiritually Healed — Karl Constantine FOLKES	A place for healing. God’s healing sanctuary. Come, all ye faithful. Receive your consolation. Be healed now of all your wounds. God bids you...	402 views Rate it
Word's Great Battle — Barry W Smith	If war was only words fought in the dark of night Then the pain would go away in the morning light But the strength of the battle is in the lack of...	401 views Rate it