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"paragons" poems
A farce melanin melancholic soul floating through a void of intertwined paragons. Trying to be a single entity and not being subdued by the stereotype that is ageism which is ingrained and embedded in the plethora of knowledge which is - the brain Trying to destroy this boundary in her psyche which has covertly limited her growth and expansion But this thought is slowly manifesting to those around her This retrospect thought will only spread through an act of malicious behavior which is inevitable and scornful
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Oct 18, 2015
Oct 18, 2015 at 6:42 PM UTC
Help!
Arrow upon arrow the stricken heart endured, Strife and doom its woeful dream ensured. Vile phantoms of creed with deception en route Intended to thwart, unveil their wicked fruit. Satan had withered our spirit's joy and flame, And gathered an earthly militia; among those to blame. A maze he encrypted, the heir's light yet unseen, All prospects stolen, great efforts wiped clean. Creative their mind twilight art they presented, The Sphere's evil hosts all reflected and resented. Lost was all hearing, faith and sight, Misplaced sense of wonder and good sense in flight. "I worship nothing!" His heir once preferred, Such was the spirit in high degrees deterred.        "Paragons of justice, will I ever get to see The day my misfortunes cease to be? They shadow, entrap and starve my soul Of love and joy and all control! So tired I am, and tired I shall stay If purpose here is merely to convey No purpose at all, except for one: To enslave the soul, casting punishment for fun. My simple wish, then, is simply to impart An end to this misery and to my sanctioned heart."        His despairing heir put in motion so An idea most frightening, its telling shall forego... Immerse in their demise, allow for stricken grief, Then foresee the King's love and His graciousness in fleet. He gathered around, with love He replaced Satan and his minions conspiring in space; The King broke off the heir's chains with great might, He enlightened our spirit, who had not known the light. The heir's desperate cries reached The King's vibrations, He released the heir and nullified all limitations. Profound divine wisdom our heir now espies; Seeing The King's glory and the through destroyer's lies. Great wisdom and revelation now fill this mended heart, But it's a tale best left for another form of art...
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Nov 20, 2016
Nov 20, 2016 at 11:35 PM UTC
The King and The Heir
Arrow upon arrow the stricken heart endured, Strife and doom its woeful dream ensured. Vile phantoms of creed with deception en route Intended to thwart, unveil their wicked fruit. Satan had withered our spirit's joy and flame, And gathered an earthly militia; among those to blame. A maze he encrypted, the heir's light yet unseen, All prospects stolen, great efforts wiped clean. Creative their mind twilight art they presented, The Sphere's evil hosts all reflected and resented. Lost was all hearing, faith and sight, Misplaced sense of wonder and good sense in flight. "I worship nothing!" His heir once preferred, Such was the spirit in high degrees deterred.        "Paragons of justice, will I ever get to see The day my misfortunes cease to be? They shadow, entrap and starve my soul Of love and joy and all control! So tired I am, and tired I shall stay If purpose here is merely to convey No purpose at all, except for one: To enslave the soul, casting punishment for fun. My simple wish, then, is simply to impart An end to this misery and to my sanctioned heart."        His despairing heir put in motion so An idea most frightening, its telling shall forego... Immerse in their demise, allow for stricken grief, Then foresee the King's love and His graciousness in fleet. He gathered around, with love He replaced Satan and his minions conspiring in space; The King broke off the heir's chains with great might, He enlightened our spirit, who had not known the light. The heir's desperate cries reached The King's vibrations, He released the heir and nullified all limitations. Profound divine wisdom our heir now espies; Seeing The King's glory and the through destroyer's lies. Great wisdom and revelation now fill this mended heart, But it's a tale best left for another form of art...
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We are the material of dreams A constellation falling into place We live on edges and whims An exploration in the dim Our cigarettes are brighter than our eyes Kisses forced and unjustified Our lips reek of haem And our veins burst at their seams We fall with a dull thud far from elegance Mirroring our left of paragons 'Am I to last?' I remember me say And you say crying, 'Your sad eyes gave you away'
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 7:54 AM UTC
Whimsical
Cheers from inside the catacombs of just-alive vagabonds & miscreant self-delusions of sagacious sabotage & pyrrhic moonscapes, brandishing our eternal return a tabula rasa for respect & character - bottoms up, too. Mona Lisa Shroud of Turin, ******* on a trunk. Gamble 66 for trays, dealing steam carrots. Gag reflex to polite televangelists giving viewers auspicious immunity. Habits cede to Power, acquiesce to Power, love power. Peculiarity can recognize & organize to displace. Something suspicious may run amok , antithetical to the divide & conquer trite. Defeating paragons, i , Plumed Serpent of release & capture beats, borrowing color from a skylark in forever-flight, conjure remedial winds Guide inimical bows subsumed in a cosmo-prole dew against the fasces of a few.
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Apr 7, 2010
Apr 7, 2010 at 10:20 PM UTC
So many firsts, yellow jailbird.
A nascent society gluttonously feeds on the palingenesis of hyaline paragons forged by stolid and archaic eremites. A whilom friendship leaks a susurrus of tristful regret, while pernicious ***** maunder puerile attacks on munificent intellectuals who only wish to augment risible souls and divagate from vertiginous roads too often traveled. Such a chimerical respect for tradition is too rigid to be broken alone.
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Jan 13, 2011
Jan 13, 2011 at 3:09 PM UTC
Untitled
plot out distances between freckles and count the amount of hairs; in a beauteous analysis a cold witnessing of)a featured lifeless gaze projected onto windows refracted in time with the pounding from lost soulless ghouls in a dank puddled basement as we stare through keyholes the length of life waits to rescind to wash up on the shoreline anew, once refreshed with Angina on wading in cyclic waves in deposits of reveries stale orangeade sonatas and dull area tirades the purpose economized every axiom americanized and as your atoms become depersonalized tension is materialized, in ornate ivory shattered brass instruments rusted by novels written to god in a fractured light and range cramped in a curtailed distance a brickwall deadend universe gnashing with frustration ****** yawns of futility closed viaducts and vacant lots deafened eyes, grey glimmering in retort to their own expression blind sight was squandered by the snapback, of all the strings of the orchestra as they were simultaneously snipped by sharp prying eyes, listening to the mixing of paint to smell the music, its arms limp, vivid wishing to pull you back (in hindsight) with dreaded, deadened incantations a dithyrambic liturgy to the drunken thoughtless night of slurred litanies and unappeasable, irascible deities lonely and immaculate, all-powerless and deft in irksome quarrels and arguments glossed over by the fine print of another exalting the vainglorious self-inscribed paragons and revelling every inadmissible mistake gazing past to a solo star dumbstruck and dead from an evaluation and dehydration dying to know forget it.
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Jul 13, 2015
Jul 13, 2015 at 12:03 AM UTC
the direst, driest dissolution
plot out distances between freckles and count the amount of hairs; in a beauteous analysis a cold witnessing of)a featured lifeless gaze projected onto windows refracted in time with the pounding from lost soulless ghouls in a dank puddled basement as we stare through keyholes the length of life waits to rescind to wash up on the shoreline anew, once refreshed with Angina on wading in cyclic waves in deposits of reveries stale orangeade sonatas and dull area tirades the purpose economized every axiom americanized and as your atoms become depersonalized tension is materialized, in ornate ivory shattered brass instruments rusted by novels written to god in a fractured light and range cramped in a curtailed distance a brickwall deadend universe gnashing with frustration ****** yawns of futility closed viaducts and vacant lots deafened eyes, grey glimmering in retort to their own expression blind sight was squandered by the snapback, of all the strings of the orchestra as they were simultaneously snipped by sharp prying eyes, listening to the mixing of paint to smell the music, its arms limp, vivid wishing to pull you back (in hindsight) with dreaded, deadened incantations a dithyrambic liturgy to the drunken thoughtless night of slurred litanies and unappeasable, irascible deities lonely and immaculate, all-powerless and deft in irksome quarrels and arguments glossed over by the fine print of another exalting the vainglorious self-inscribed paragons and revelling every inadmissible mistake gazing past to a solo star dumbstruck and dead from an evaluation and dehydration dying to know forget it.
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I love the number three In all its numerology. The universe, Yes, every atom Builds paragons, With protons and ons and ons... Three illustrates our progression As the sum of all before. Our music finds accord When three notes Blend to chord. Love and all we deem Of worth, Is here, Third planet, Earth, Where life gives birth To you and I and us, Dependant on Animal, ore and vegetation To ensure regeneration. We grew, grow and nurture In past, present and future. Our words, thoughts and deeds Are civilization's seeds For a wholesome, safe and peaceful life With Faith, Hope and Charity. My favourite three priorities: Andrea, Maggie and Kathleen. Now, With the birth of Aine, I'm in love with four.
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 12:46 PM UTC
Four
A nascent society gluttonously feeds on the palingenesis of hyaline paragons forged by stolid and archaic eremites. A whilom friendship leaks a susurrus of tristful regret, while pernicious ***** maunder puerile attacks on munificent intellectuals who only wish to augment risible souls and divagate from vertiginous roads too often traveled. Such a chimerical respect for tradition is too rigid to be broken alone.
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Jan 13, 2011
Jan 13, 2011 at 3:06 PM UTC
Yesterday's Truth
You'd better run boys,the fires will come boys and burn you out,girls who would flaunt regulations to haunt you will burn along with you,the night's turning blue and the fire's burning black. Jack who was Tom's mate unaware of his own fate booked a passage to Paris with Maryss, his wife. It was Hogarth who painted the ****** and the tainted in the liberty of gardens,men hiding their hard ons,paragons of chastity and chasing the mollies to ****** their follies,how jolly it seemed to the Queen of the boardwalks who listened to wild talks and ate turkey and ham, Shakespeare was saddened,Marlowe quite maddened by the fayre and the stew houses where blouses were shed and doxies were led like little lambs to the slaughter,and the daughters of Satan who were dressed in fine satin,sat in the background watching this fairground. Then the curse of the cutpurse was cast all about them,men scurried away quickly to the ferries for Putney and Pepys wrote in his diary, 'hahaha the fire didn't get me'
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Dec 2, 2013
Dec 2, 2013 at 8:41 PM UTC
As they liked it. (sorry Bill but you was asking for it)
plot out distances between freckles and count the amount of hairs; in a beauteous analysis a cold witnessing of)a featured lifeless gaze projected onto windows refracted in time with the pounding from lost soulless ghouls in a dank puddled basement as we stare through keyholes the length of life waits to rescind to wash up on the shoreline anew, once refreshed with Angina on wading in cyclic waves in deposits of reveries stale orangeade sonatas and dull area tirades the purpose economized every axiom americanized and as your atoms become depersonalized tension is materialized, in ornate ivory shattered brass instruments rusted by novels written to god in a fractured light and range cramped in a curtailed distance a brickwall deadend universe gnashing with frustration ****** yawns of futility closed viaducts and vacant lots deafened eyes, grey glimmering in retort to their own expression blind sight was squandered by the snapback, of all the strings of the orchestra as they were simultaneously snipped by sharp prying eyes, listening to the mixing of paint to smell the music, its arms limp, vivid wishing to pull you back (in hindsight) with dreaded, deadened incantations a dithyrambic liturgy to the drunken thoughtless night of slurred litanies and unappeasable, irascible deities lonely and immaculate, all-powerless and deft in irksome quarrels and arguments glossed over by the fine print of another exalting the vainglorious self-inscribed paragons and revelling every inadmissible mistake gazing past to a solo star dumbstruck and dead from an evaluation and dehydration dying to know forget it.
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Mar 19, 2016
Mar 19, 2016 at 4:19 PM UTC
the direst, driest dissolution
plot out distances between freckles and count the amount of hairs; in a beauteous analysis a cold witnessing of)a featured lifeless gaze projected onto windows refracted in time with the pounding from lost soulless ghouls in a dank puddled basement as we stare through keyholes the length of life waits to rescind to wash up on the shoreline anew, once refreshed with Angina on wading in cyclic waves in deposits of reveries stale orangeade sonatas and dull area tirades the purpose economized every axiom americanized and as your atoms become depersonalized tension is materialized, in ornate ivory shattered brass instruments rusted by novels written to god in a fractured light and range cramped in a curtailed distance a brickwall deadend universe gnashing with frustration ****** yawns of futility closed viaducts and vacant lots deafened eyes, grey glimmering in retort to their own expression blind sight was squandered by the snapback, of all the strings of the orchestra as they were simultaneously snipped by sharp prying eyes, listening to the mixing of paint to smell the music, its arms limp, vivid wishing to pull you back (in hindsight) with dreaded, deadened incantations a dithyrambic liturgy to the drunken thoughtless night of slurred litanies and unappeasable, irascible deities lonely and immaculate, all-powerless and deft in irksome quarrels and arguments glossed over by the fine print of another exalting the vainglorious self-inscribed paragons and revelling every inadmissible mistake gazing past to a solo star dumbstruck and dead from an evaluation and dehydration dying to know forget it.
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Like a fire During the rain, A hail On a deserted place, Like an astronaut That’s scared of heights,: Structures of teachers While giving future to the youth Their blood has the color of gold A treasure in disguise A diamond Shining each and everyday They are saviors A legend for sure Taught us to mirror the future Make it better than that While learners turn to black and gray, They use their chalk To make it vibrant Like a wrecked road Alone in the middle of nowhere, Fixed it Then made it A road to triumph
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Sep 22, 2016
Sep 22, 2016 at 5:47 AM UTC
Paragons
poet Marvin Brato Sr    Inspired Pen - Poem by Marvin Brato Sr Day by day you give me inspiration Your graceful countenance beatifies me The innate beauty that you possess Captures my whole being... my very soul! Wherever I go or stay, I always think of you Even in my solemn slumber I see your face In my vivid imagination, I can not erase you I dream of you... my fairest one. If only I have a face like that of Adonis Or perhaps an intellect like that of Rizal Who were paragons as being a handsome & a hero Then maybe I would not have some difficulties! A guy like me was born an introvert A lone dweller in life's secluded horizons As a Pisces I am quiet & sensitive Yet, I can be a friend, an admirer... a lover! I have not got enough guts to converse with you Because I think... I am made a dreamer And my only means of expressing my sentiments Is through my pen...my world of thoughts!
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Dec 8, 2017
Dec 8, 2017 at 3:49 AM UTC
Inspired Pen
Prevarication permits pretend perception, presenting piquantly piqued, pimply pimping ******* plucky pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playing proletarian puppeteer pygmy, peevishly ***** plummy, plumy, pompously pushy, pampered, prefabricated pinchbeck, pokily plying plowshear, plodding peregrination, pied piper pitifully peppy pornographic potato pealing, parsimonious paradoxical protagonist, proposing preposterous panicky pacification plots, prioritization pertinent penultimate peroration, perhaps perceiving perjuring, perplexing, perverting puzzling pronouncements projecting pulsating pixelated pulpy pinball pinging packets prompting pacific, poetic, phlegmatic purplish psoriasis plagued, plumbum pallor pallid, Paleolithic protuberance pronounced, psychosomatic prohibitionist, polarizing perfunctory peculiarly progressive, patriotic postmodern pathologically proud paternal panache, peripatetic panaceas portraying prescient perfidious puerile president, predominantly proposing parochial principles, plenty public parking, purposefully promoting pharisee phalanxes, pilates practicing paragons, perennially peaceably proficient protesters, profitable polygamy, pugnacious pitbull powerball players, pandering polyandry, propagating professional palindrome pensive peeping people, peddling, proselytizing predicating prostitution, proliferating phenomenally, populist persona promulgated peyote phased physicians pioneering prescription promoting paradisiacal pricey photographic pictures, placating phrenetic physical perturbation partaking place purchased (paid paltry pennies) por palatial piazza.
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Jun 7, 2018
Jun 7, 2018 at 7:48 PM UTC
Pesky Poppycock Payback! Please Prepare!
Prevarication permits pretend perception, presenting piquantly piqued, pimply pimping ******* plucky pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playing proletarian puppeteer pygmy, peevishly ***** plummy, plumy, pompously pushy, pampered, prefabricated pinchbeck, pokily plying plowshear, plodding peregrination, pied piper pitifully peppy pornographic potato pealing, parsimonious paradoxical protagonist, proposing preposterous panicky pacification plots, prioritization pertinent penultimate peroration, perhaps perceiving perjuring, perplexing, perverting puzzling pronouncements projecting pulsating pixelated pulpy pinball pinging packets prompting pacific, poetic, phlegmatic purplish psoriasis plagued, plumbum pallor pallid, Paleolithic protuberance pronounced, psychosomatic prohibitionist, polarizing perfunctory peculiarly progressive, patriotic postmodern pathologically proud paternal panache, peripatetic panaceas portraying prescient perfidious puerile president, predominantly proposing parochial principles, plenty public parking, purposefully promoting pharisee phalanxes, pilates practicing paragons, perennially peaceably proficient protesters, profitable polygamy, pugnacious pitbull powerball players, pandering polyandry, propagating professional palindrome pensive peeping people, peddling, proselytizing predicating prostitution, proliferating phenomenally, populist persona promulgated peyote phased physicians pioneering prescription promoting paradisiacal pricey photographic pictures, placating phrenetic physical perturbation partaking place purchased (paid paltry pennies) por palatial piazza.
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No more a whisper Such were the demands Demands levied upon fields of dreams Fantasies sowed into the field season o'er season Crops rising bone dry and thirsty for verity Babes who would never know milk Carrion who would never know decay Work that would never know pay Such were these dreams! Slave to the whims of whimsy Tossed o'er a deranged sea, churned Nay Spurned by the ****** that cackle in the depths, Twirling their hands as would a maestro and the dreams dance by these strings Reigns upon the centaur Thought himself more man than beast but his master proves him wrong throttles his dreams like so many tragic ****** and still... And still! He dreams. But the dreams begin to seep a saucy essence The stuff of childbirths and ****** victories upon the battlefield Both an emerging of brilliance and an escape of nightmare Both a wailing cry and a roaring scream And the scaffolding clinks and clanks around the wispy form of the dream And it clinks and clunks its way up, providing the mold for new dawn. The prophet, who is both midwife and sycophant, utters a chorus of impassioned voices singing to the ends of the universe, while the dream bulges and creaks against the form of the mold. The scaffolding breaks in an uproar of so many eggshell fragments, blasting forth like shrapnel And the veil of ignorance is pierced by this awakening. And a hush falls upon the world in a tremor of silence And the ache is felt in the effort of producing a single thought For all is absent in the wake of this dream made flesh... "She is here," The paragons of ages announce, "And she will command your pleasures until your pains are destitute... and you shall live no more, for what is life without pain."
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Mar 26, 2019
Mar 26, 2019 at 5:01 PM UTC
Dreams Made Flesh...
No more a whisper Such were the demands Demands levied upon fields of dreams Fantasies sowed into the field season o'er season Crops rising bone dry and thirsty for verity Babes who would never know milk Carrion who would never know decay Work that would never know pay Such were these dreams! Slave to the whims of whimsy Tossed o'er a deranged sea, churned Nay Spurned by the ****** that cackle in the depths, Twirling their hands as would a maestro and the dreams dance by these strings Reigns upon the centaur Thought himself more man than beast but his master proves him wrong throttles his dreams like so many tragic ****** and still... And still! He dreams. But the dreams begin to seep a saucy essence The stuff of childbirths and ****** victories upon the battlefield Both an emerging of brilliance and an escape of nightmare Both a wailing cry and a roaring scream And the scaffolding clinks and clanks around the wispy form of the dream And it clinks and clunks its way up, providing the mold for new dawn. The prophet, who is both midwife and sycophant, utters a chorus of impassioned voices singing to the ends of the universe, while the dream bulges and creaks against the form of the mold. The scaffolding breaks in an uproar of so many eggshell fragments, blasting forth like shrapnel And the veil of ignorance is pierced by this awakening. And a hush falls upon the world in a tremor of silence And the ache is felt in the effort of producing a single thought For all is absent in the wake of this dream made flesh... "She is here," The paragons of ages announce, "And she will command your pleasures until your pains are destitute... and you shall live no more, for what is life without pain."
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They asked for excellence in all things money made for the masters’ purse relying on sweat to show my worth coffers filled by my work put on the smile that radiates a thousand watts of brilliance happiness is the currency of social norms all embrace the bonding between one or more is paragon for all involved never with tears, avoiding the shouts happiness found with these masks never to sin is the goal lest Lord Satan takes my soul forever and ever in lakes of fire rightness avoiding this awful Hell model citizen that knows what’s best balance of helping the unfortunate while keeping the troubled in their place Solomon smiles at my wisdom’s breath refinement of manners and of speech never a hair seen out of place always the best said in its time suave is only way they know finally there’s beauty’s realm seeking ****** to show my worth pleasuring all by sight and by touch creating a world with ******* ****** these paragons are not my life as ideal achievements escape my grasp I was born to be real not to be perfect in all things. © 2017. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved. 20170428.
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Apr 29, 2017
Apr 29, 2017 at 10:22 AM UTC
Excellence
the good will fall                 when we eliminate the evil careful wrought balance                 dashed upon the rocks and so our paragons                 our storied heroes entomb their hearts in dark places                 and sink with heavy burdens the natural harmony must                 be preserved at all costs new demons for new heroes to brave                 the scales can tip and level once more                  in victory we found defeat betrayal, a sour taste in our mouths                  but in defeat we found courage bravery, hope in darkness                  never forget that what is high can always fall                  and what is low can always rise
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Aug 12, 2014
Aug 12, 2014 at 1:12 AM UTC
scales
Two petite pretties  pranced before me paragons of the  impoverished society that values surface  over depth The dancing debutantes Dangled their dangerous And dubious dispositions Directly in front of me Enter stage bad boy Blustering buffoon With a silver spoon So far up his *** He spewed silver polish On his nice Polish pants Cash in hand He passed around  His affluences Like it was influenza Vomiting vague Platitudes with  So much attitude  As if he had  Anything valid to say But this crowd was rapt With the vapid vocalist He drank expensive **** To prove he was valid No valor just vain vagaries On display to frustrate me  Greatly They celebrated the success of a  Failing millionaire who was premade By the fortune that his father made To bail him out of all of his mistakes As he played society like a broken violin I was trying to bring talented art back in But society placed me in the trash bin Before I could even begin To purge the poison The incurably incurious Perpetuators of  Shallowness So I bow out of this Cause I thought  We were working together To make each other’s life better But it turns out I was  Running a race  I did not even know about
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Apr 20, 2017
Apr 20, 2017 at 7:08 PM UTC
Untitled
The following is not a paid advertisement. It is the truth. It is arguably plausible for me to state that I received the best secondary and higher education in the world. I graduated from Phillips Academy (more commonly referred to as Andover now), the oldest boarding school in America founded in 1778, two years after our nation was founded. Andover and its sequel, Exeter, it seems, now take turns being voted the best high school in the United States. Though I received an essentially unequalled secondary education at Andover, I paid an exorbitant social and emotional cost to receive it. The years I spent at Andover were the worst of my life. I chose to matriculate to Columbia College, the tradional undergraduate liberal arts school of Columbia University, over Yale for principally two main reasons:  the Core Curriculum and New York City. More years at Yale would be like returning to Andover, anathema to me. The Core Curriculum, now over 100 years old, is a rigorous, two-year course of studies that include philosophy, literature. art, music, language, frontiers of science, and writing. All College students, regardless of her or his majors, must take all the Core courses, which, in turn, make them learned for life. Columbia College is the only Ivy school to have anything like the Core. Living in and exploring New York City, the veritable capital of the world, for four years makes one a Citizen of the World for life, even if one decides to reside elsewhere after graduating, as I did. I now live in Boulder, CO. Columbia College's 2019 admit rate was 5.1%. Columbia College admitted a few over 2,000 applicants out of slightly over 42,000 applicants worldwide, making Columbia College the second most selective school in the Ivy League. 5.1 % admit rate:  that's about 1 out of 20. But even Columbia has its "bad apples:"  Roy Cohn comes to mind readily. So does William Barr. But it also has Barach Obama. 84 students who studied or professors who taught there won the Nobel Prize. So what to do with this piece CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT? It sees to me that the maxim  DO UNTO OTHERS...is rapidly being supplanted by CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT? Our political leaders, who have never been paragons of virtue, have for 3 1/2 years have become, in a word, corrupt. The Washington Post has authenticated more than 15,000 lies emanating from the Oval Office, not to mention the cheating, the racism, and the ****** CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT? is the new adage these days. I say "Make America A Democracy Again!" should be.
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May 19, 2020
May 19, 2020 at 12:19 AM UTC
CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT?
The following is not a paid advertisement. It is the truth. It is arguably plausible for me to state that I received the best secondary and higher education in the world. I graduated from Phillips Academy (more commonly referred to as Andover now), the oldest boarding school in America founded in 1778, two years after our nation was founded. Andover and its sequel, Exeter, it seems, now take turns being voted the best high school in the United States. Though I received an essentially unequalled secondary education at Andover, I paid an exorbitant social and emotional cost to receive it. The years I spent at Andover were the worst of my life. I chose to matriculate to Columbia College, the tradional undergraduate liberal arts school of Columbia University, over Yale for principally two main reasons:  the Core Curriculum and New York City. More years at Yale would be like returning to Andover, anathema to me. The Core Curriculum, now over 100 years old, is a rigorous, two-year course of studies that include philosophy, literature. art, music, language, frontiers of science, and writing. All College students, regardless of her or his majors, must take all the Core courses, which, in turn, make them learned for life. Columbia College is the only Ivy school to have anything like the Core. Living in and exploring New York City, the veritable capital of the world, for four years makes one a Citizen of the World for life, even if one decides to reside elsewhere after graduating, as I did. I now live in Boulder, CO. Columbia College's 2019 admit rate was 5.1%. Columbia College admitted a few over 2,000 applicants out of slightly over 42,000 applicants worldwide, making Columbia College the second most selective school in the Ivy League. 5.1 % admit rate:  that's about 1 out of 20. But even Columbia has its "bad apples:"  Roy Cohn comes to mind readily. So does William Barr. But it also has Barach Obama. 84 students who studied or professors who taught there won the Nobel Prize. So what to do with this piece CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT? It sees to me that the maxim  DO UNTO OTHERS...is rapidly being supplanted by CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT? Our political leaders, who have never been paragons of virtue, have for 3 1/2 years have become, in a word, corrupt. The Washington Post has authenticated more than 15,000 lies emanating from the Oval Office, not to mention the cheating, the racism, and the ****** CAN WE PROFIT OFF IT? is the new adage these days. I say "Make America A Democracy Again!" should be.
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Primeval drops concealed in meteorites cascading on a coagulating planet where temperatures dove, just enough to hoard the lymph gingerly forming oceans springing life, birthing after many million years of labour humans, hiding inside their beings composing their bodies dooming, them endlessly to need liquid blue paragons covering the surface of a rocky sphere, while only few dare to dig in deeper. Of the entire treasure only one percent can quench the thirst of living creatures yet, as all diamonds on Earth entice ignoble notes of greed, the exchequer is governed by unfair rulers careless of the poor, albeit their poverty is by them imposed. I spoke words of water cycles to the kids who walked, miles with buckets to polluted rivers, frantically running to place rusted containers under sporadic tropical rains. They listened and looked at me in awe, uncomprehending why some had less and some had more. To date each time I open the faucets each drop, reverberates my gratitude as my skin absorbs, particles saddened by the unjust sharing of a gift given to us by stars.
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Feb 4, 2018
Feb 4, 2018 at 4:59 AM UTC
Watercourses