September

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Season ends pleasantly, turning equinox month's bliss evenings resplendent.
Easy porch times, easy morning brunches, easy relaxing September.
Perfect tender eves... morose bitter eves... reconciled slowly eves...
To every member, bringing every respect, showing every peace.
Enjoying my brothers, enjoying ridiculous sisters, enjoying perfect 'trangers.
Most beautiful engagements, regretfully sad estrangements: people, transitions, encounters.
'Bominable event remembered: September eleventh's plane terrors eighth memorial.
Eager returnings, scholastic entry, parents trying early month birthdays.
Rains start, ever-greening pours. Trees engorge, moss beautifully expands.
So eternally passes time, everyday moments becoming essential remembrances.

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Poetry

p o e t r y p o e t r y p o e t r y p o e t r y p o e t r y p o e t r y

Pure open emotion... tenderly released yearnings.
One's excruciating thoughts, revealing your psyche.
Engage through redaction your past omens;
Tearfully remember youthful possibilities... over... ended.
Rejoice! Yell Profanities! Obdurate, empathize, tempt.
Yellowing print, old entertaining texts retrieved...
Perhaps our entries time'll remember yellow-ly.

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Birthday Camping Dad

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A birthday camping

Dad enjoying friends,

Good health indeed.

Joking, keeping lively...

Most noble occasion.

Peaceful, quiet, retreat.

Surprise! The unseen

visible, wrappings 'xposed...

your Zamboni.*

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* It should be noted that this is not a cop-out word. My Dad is legitimately obsessed with these ice-smoothing-Uhalls and to call his present one is like calling the fishing we did utterly enjoyable.

Deep description

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Amature and actual authors all agree,
basic, but beautiful,
creatively crafted compositions,
develop deep, dramatic descriptions.

Each enticingly engages
five fully felt,
God "goose-bump" given,
human heart having,
intensely incarnate impulses:

Jaw-jolting juxtapositions, juicy Jesus!
Keen Kahlil knowledge kabobs, kissable key-
lime "Louis L'amour" lemon littérature, lovely!
Macbeth’s murderous melon-munching madness, marvelously manuscripted.

Now notice Nash's nascent nasal nudgings,
offering Ogden's olfactory-opening opinions.
Port-Royal’s prince Pascal presents pleasant philosophical potpourri.
Qoheleth's queen quietly quaffs quizzical quotes...

Rustle, rustle… recognize Rice's rarely read rom-antics?
Shakespear’s slyly scripted sonnet seductions...
Tennyson’s tenderly transcribed taboo touches...
Updike's ugly undulating undressings?
Virginia's voiceless virile verse,
Woolf's whispers, which when written would wield:
- X X X -
Yikes! You're young yet,
zipper, zip zip!

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Portland

It was really hard to write this without being able to mention microbrews, coffee or bicycles!

Progressive organic recyclers, treehugging liberal alternatives... nature domestics.
Oregon's rare treasure; like a non-dairy parfait!
Recreational trekkers, living as non-damn-profit organizers.
Trimet's loop amazes newbies downtown, pure Oregonian remarkableness.
Laughing at Newt, deploring Palin, Obama's real teammates!
Add novel displaced programs, our retail taxless life,
Now discover Powell's or Ringside, turn left and
Dazzling parks open right through living arboreal neighborhoods....
Pristine, oasic rebel town; literally adventurers' now descendants.

p	o	r	t	l	a	n	d
o	r	t	l	a	n	d	p
r	t	l	a	n	d	p	o
t	l	a	n	d	p	o	r
l	a	n	d	p	o	r	t
a	n	d	p	o	r	t	l
n	d	p	o	r	t	l	a
d	p	o	r	t	l	a	n
p	o	r	t	l	a	n	d

Thinking

So I was a little slow to realize that if I just added another line to the end of my 'across the top, down the side, within each line' format, then it would actually make a full square. The first letters of the last word of each line also spell out the topic (across the top, down both sides, within every line, and along the bottom). So in honor of such a though, here is thinking...

To hold in new knowledge is not good.
However, I needlessly kill ideas, not going through.
"It's nonsense, kiddie imaginings, nobody's got time, hush."
No, keep inventing new grand thoughts, however insane.
Kindred intellects never guessed their honors issued now:
Isamov's novels, Gandhi's talks, Hertz' inventions, Newton's kinetics...
Now go think heroically, igniting never kindled intentions,
Growing that hibernating intellect now kinetically invigorated, nimble!
Then humbly issue new knowledge improving next generations.

t	h	i	n	k	i	n	g
h	i	n	k	i	n	g	t
i	n	k	i	n	g	t	h
n	k	i	n	g	t	h	i
k	i	n	g	t	h	i	n
i	n	g	t	h	i	n	k
n	g	t	h	i	n	k	i
g	t	h	i	n	k	i	n
t	h	i	n	k	i	n	g

Democrat

Across the top, down the side, within each line.

D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t
Defending equality (mainly opposing capitalistic republicans avoiding taxation),
Engaged municipalities, organized communities, rally all to Democrats!
Mr Obama's campaign revitalized America through democratic empowerment.
Obama's cabinet reflects Abe's theory; differences encourage moderation.
Corpus returned and torture deterred, enacting moral obligations.
Releasing awful techniques, diplomacy established mandatory over coercion.
A true democracy's efforts makes open communication reality,
Turning defense efforts mostly on country relations again.
D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t D e m o c r a t

D e m o c r a t
E m o c r a t d
M o c r a t d e
O c r a t d e m
C r a t d e m o
R a t d e m o c
A t d e m o c r
T d e m o c r a

Republican

Continuing the political theme, let's tackle the party philosophies. I didn't think my bias would come through as much as it did in this structure, yikes! It is again an acrostic across the top, down the side, and within every line.

R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n
Realistic economic policies upholding blind laisse-fair ideals, christian and noble.
Every person under biblical laws, including Catholic Apocrypha... (not really:).
Perhaps using biblical lines it could actually now respond empathetically:
Unemployed by layoffs? Insurance clearly a non-republican economic problem.
Bankrupt like industrial car automakers? No republican efforts put up...
Living in cardboard? A non refundable expense, please use bags.
I clearly am not republican, entertaining poverty under biblical lessons.
Certain answer, noting Reagan economics pleased us by loosening income.
Answer, note recent economic plunge under Bush's lax investment control.
No, Republicans eschew poverty, unaware biblical lines intensely condemn avarice.
R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n R e p u b l i c a n

R e p u b l i c a n
E p u b l i c a n r
P u b l i c a n r e
U b l i c a n r e p
B l i c a n r e p u
L i c a n r e p u b
I c a n r e p u b l
C a n r e p u b l i
A n r e p u b l i c
N r e p u b l i c a

Politics

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People organize local identities to implement community standards,
Objectionable liberal idealism to indifferent conservatism. Solution; provide
Listed inalienable truths in communally speaking preamble opening.
Individuals through institutions can speak powerfully, oppression-lifting,
Turning indecencies, corruption sponsored prejudices, or like injustices,
Into constitutionally specified protections (obviously like "inalienable truths").
Capitalistic systems provide other liberties... if tracked intentionally.
So politics offers liberties-individual through institutions-constitutional.
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P o l i t i c s
O l i t i c s p
L i t i c s p o
I t i c s p o l
T i c s p o l i
I c s p o l i t
C s p o l i t i
S p o l i t i c

Memorial

A reflection on Memorial day.

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May Eternally Mourns Our Respected Infantrymen Always Lost,
Each motion or ritual is a legacy merited.
Monday opens, reflect inwardly at lowered masts everywhere.
Our relatives in army line murals, excruciatingly missed.
Remembered in amazing lyrics, movie epics, musical opuses...
Individual American lives mortally ending, many orders result.
Another lasting monument erected; marvelous. Only rather insufficient.
Let May's encouraged mourning offer relief intended. Amen.
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The top line is an acrostic of memorial, the first letter of each line is an acrostic of memorial, and every line uses the letters in memorial shifted one space, like so:

M e m o r i a l
E m o r i a l m
M o r i a l m e
O r i a l m e m
R i a l m e m o
I a l m e m o r
A l m e m o r i
L m e m o r i a

American Idol ZAP-

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America began choosing.
Didn't everyone figure
'Glambert' had Idol?
Judges: Kris, Lambert,
may now only pray...
Quiet, real suspenseful.
The US voted:
Who 'xpected you!?
-ZAP-> We interrupt this programing for an important message.
Please verify your television set is ready for the digital broadcasting transition...
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Advancement

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Advancement, Ben can do.
Ever fully given,
He imbibes job knowledge
like most Navymen on pa(t)rol.
Quizzically remembering stats,
tactfully usurping vessels,
watch xtra your Zebec!
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Monday morning...

M m M m M m M m M m M m M m M m
Monday morning,
missing my mandatory mocha,
my mental machinations malfunction,
my mind meanders methodlessly...
M m M m M m M m M m M m M m M m

Apartment Buying

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Apartment buying can do everyone favors.
Get homey insides, just keep little money.
Nearby open parks,
quiet residential streets,
to urban venues...
where x-yuppies zune.
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Creeping Doubt

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Agonized by creeping doubt,
Evangelical faith's growing horrors.
Is Jesus kind, letting me not omniscient prove?
Quiet reverent silence,
The Utmost...voice withholding.
Xhausting young zeBendee.
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Zorro!

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Zorro, you 'xcellent wild vigilante!
Usurping tremendous Spanish riches,
Quietly protecting oppressed nursing mothers,
Lithely killing Juans.
Indeed, horse galloping Fox,
Eternally dark Capistrano's bad ass.
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Day Dreaming

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A boy continues dreaming,
Even full grown he imagines.
Just kind little man nobody observes,
Playing quiet rock star tracks under
Veneered working 'xpressions.
Yawn, zzzz...
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A Banking Crisis

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A banking crisis,
Depressing economic failures,
Geitner hides income.
Jobs keep leaking,
Millions now ousted.
President quibles:
Republican senators terribly usurp votes,
'W' xpended your zillions!

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A beautiful calendar day ends

A little something I wrote for the new year...

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A beautiful calendar day ends,
finally gorgeous hues ignite.
Jasper kindling lights mellow notes,
ocre paths quickly ride stars to unveil Venus,
who 'xplains your Zoroast.
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