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Zywa Sep 2020
School boards choose
education on a scale
from craft to treadwheel

With your diploma, you look
from time to time for a place
that fits exactly you

This goes on and on
because everything has to run
on fewer and fewer people

The computers calculate
with virtual attention
how it can be done

Artisans have become volunteers
in museums of entertainment
for everyone who wants something other

than the treadwheels
in which you must run faster and faster
to stay upright

between the grinding mouths
the pounding legs and
the lashing tails
Collection “Mosaic virus”
Big Virge Sep 2020
Now The Learning Curve...
Within THIS WORLD...

When It Comes To How We Live...
Is A..... SERIOUS THING..... !!!

You Might THINK You Know A Person...
But It’s Clear That HIGHER LEARNING...
Means You Need To Be OBSERVANT... !!!

Because People Tend To Show...
What They WANT You To Know... !!!

Because What They Hide...
About Their Lives....
Could DENT Their PRIDE...
When What You FIND...
Is HOW MUCH They LIE... !!!

So This Is A Line Built For The WISE... !!!

You Really DON’T Know...
What You THINK You Know... !!!

And Are NOT As SMART...
As You Might THINK You Are... !!!

See I’m A Man of Verse...
And... Poetic Words...
So You’d Think That I Know...
An ABUNDANCE of Words... !!!

Well Today What I Got...
Was A Comment That SHOCKED...

Because The Word...
..... “ GROKKED “.....
Left My Head In KNOTS... !!!

Because My First Thought WAS...
Had They Spelt The Word WRONG... ???

Because It Didn’t Look Right...?!?
But I Figured That I...
Should Just Look This Word Up... !!!

And To My SURPRISE...
What Did My Eyes FIND... ?

That This Word Exists...
And Simply Means THIS...

“To Understand DEEPLY...
And Have Empathy...
That Feeds Intuitively... “

Which Was News To Me... !!!

Cos’ It’s A Word..
That I’d Never Heard...
And Had Never Ever Seen... !!!

Until This Persons Comment...
Came From My Poetry... !!!

The Poem Is Called... " DEAL "...
And This Comment Made Me See...

How LITTLE That I Know...
Even Though I’m One Who Reads...
And Has Good … Literacy... !!!

Well At Least...
That’s What I BELIEVED... !!!
You See Knowledge Is DEEP... !!!
Like The OCEAN's SEAS... !!!

And Knowledge Indeed Has So Many Seams...
And Different Levels Within Our Mental...

That It’s IMPORTANT NOT To THINK...
That You Know... EVERYTHING... !!!

And To Be More Humble... !!!
Before You Stumble...
Upon Something...
That Makes You Think...
That You Are... STUPID... !!!

Because Maybe You ARE... ?!!!?
To Think That You CAN'T GROW...
Even When You Get OLD...

Cos I’m... Fifty Now...
And Have Seen A Lot of Towns... !!!
As Well As LOTS of Clowns...
Who Have Run A LOT of Mouth... !!!

About How Much They Know... !!!
From... Women To Men...
And Even Some Children... !?!
Have... PLENTY of Talk...
That Seems... ASSURED... !!!

But Is DEEPLY FLAWED...
And That’s For SURE... !!!

I’ve Heard Too Many Make CLAIMS...
That Are... CLEARLY INSANE... !?!

About Relationships...
And... Historical Links...

When There’s SO MUCH To LEARN...
And Indeed DISCERN About This World...
And How It Turns That Requires RESEARCH... !!!

NOT Words With NO WORTH...
That CLEARLY DON'T Serve...
ANY DEPTH of Purpose... !!!

UNLIKE This Word... GROK...
That’s Inspired This Verse....
That Made Me Jot This Set of Words...

That Have PROVEN To Me...
That EVEN At... FIFTY... !!!!!

With ALL The Things...
That I’ve Lived To See...
And Indeed OBSERVED...

That NO MATTER How WISE...
You See Yourself As Being...

That There Are Things In This World...
That You May NEVER See...
So Show... HUMILITY... !!!

When It Comes To This Thing...
That Is... DEEP And STEEP... !!!

That’s DEFINED By These Words...
AMAZINGLY... Just Three...
That Are... Simply THESE...

“ The Learning Curve “...
You're never to old to learn about more things, that help you grow.....
ju Sep 2020
I grew up hidden.
it was easy-
no one really looked.
Mum cut my hair,
to be more like them-
and teachers
shamed my voice
into silence,
before I’d even found
my words.
Dave Robertson Sep 2020
Mushroom promises swell into existence,
flim-flam miracles,
pristine plump “truths”
when uttered, swelling proud
alongside peach-keen
endorsing smiles

But the treacle of decay acts quickly
so even the casual observer
sees the rot before the ink dries,
smells rank mould,
and we decry ad infinitum
Carlo C Gomez Nov 2020
Holy Roman Empire
and its Hakenkreuz.
I hear it in my spirit,
It starts to fall,
Flake even.

In open areas of sylvan and pastoral jazz.

On the iron plating of
Spandau, situated at
The confluence of the Havel and Spree.

Along the rails of "we the children from
Zoo Station."

Inside the books about
Katharina, the burned out postmaster.

And at no daylight, no time frame
—the Final Solution, Auschwitz.

I hear it in my spirit,
It starts to fall,
Tell me how I fear it.
Do we buy hatred for our health?
Is it really worth the taste?
Hakenkreuz [ hah-kuh n-kroits ] : a *******, especially that used as the emblem of the **** party and the Third *****.
azzan Jul 2020
it's always the case of
"what do you want to be?"
yet never the question of
"who do you want to be?"

my physical form
my identity
calculated and measured up
to the value of my degree?

now I understand
you want what's best for me.
your journey through life,
your family tree

is what defines your
desires, your plans for me.
any plea I make, any way
to justify

that this life is for me, and for me
I'll aspire
to build on this life
you intended for three.
posted jan 15th
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