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Jan 2, 2012, 4:48 am
They emanate from big beautiful brown eyes.
Innocent eyes that have seen too much,
and want answers. Eyes that beg to relax during sleep.
He has my eyes. Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 1:01 am
A vital part of the Good Men Project is to model the behavior we espouse and discuss here, safe within the confines of our “Project.” It is all smoke and mirrors or bullshit if we don’t. Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 10:30 pm
I continued work during treatment while fighting incredible and
sometimes debilitating side effects.
A few weeks before I completed treatment. I was laid off.
Insurance was canceled and access to Doctors stopped.
Treatment never completed. No followup medically done. Comment - Like
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Oct 8, 2011, 8:48 pm
Rachel Rabbit White believes that both protests are fighting a similar evil; of the same generation. “A generation who want better. And who are out doing something to get it.” Comment - Like
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Oct 4, 2011, 1:40 am
A Description Of Day One In an 18 x 80 Foot Dormitory For A Youthful Offender in 1980 – A Broadside Poem By Jack Varnell - Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 3:15 am
I loved you enough to not understand.
I could not fully relate or sympathize.
I did not really want to, even if I could have.
Whatever he, -or they, did with you, -or to you,
will die with you, though it lives, churning in you now. Comment - Like
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Sep 29, 2011, 6:08 pm
So you say you are a poet?....A writer? ...A fucking revolutionary ? Prove it.
Occupy Wall Street: Is It Really Happening? from Amy King
** AND JUST WHAT IS IT? MEDIA BLACKOUT? YOU TELL ME. **
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* Poets Occupy Wall Street and Next Phil... Comment - Like
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Sep 19, 2011, 3:23 am
The Good Men Project seeks to open up the discussion about what it means to be a man in the 21st century. We think Michael Rothenberg, and the 100 Thousand Poets for Change Movement, are a pretty good example of what that means. Comment - Like
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Sep 14, 2011, 4:06 am
There was no spin. No angle then.
They had no press secretaries,
ad agencies, or need for image consultants. Comment - Like
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Sep 11, 2011, 1:52 pm
Jack Varnell wonders, “Has our kick the ass of the world, Billy Bad ass, macho attitude contributed in some way to where we are now?” Comment - Like
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Aug 31, 2011, 1:24 pm
If you have your finger to the pulse of the on-line poetry scene you may already be familiar with poet Jack Varnell. It is also possible you are familiar with the works of The Emotional Orphan. What you might not know is that Jack Varnell is The Emotional Orphan. Comment - Like
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Aug 8, 2011, 3:37 am
If you love poetry you need to read this book. If you wrote off poetry, you need to read this book. If you don't know anything about poetry, you need to read this book. There are lessons to be learned, and an emotional roller coaster waiting to be ridden in its pages. Comment - Like
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Aug 5, 2011, 5:56 am
I hate the way the world is.
I hate the cheaters prospering.
The liars being seen as the way. Comment - Like
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Jul 28, 2011, 8:34 pm
A sour demeanor
barely concealed
by a well practiced smile,
gives me away every time. Comment - Like
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Jul 15, 2011, 3:04 am
Seek out ultimate sin in Sinless City.
Or go away quietly.
There is nothing left for you
Where the flat-lands meet the mountains. Comment - Like
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Jul 8, 2011, 1:18 am
I close my eyes.
It hurts to see so clearly
Finally I sleep.
The invisible man remains,
never to be seen again. Comment - Like
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Jun 30, 2011, 4:52 am
Secrets and lies coded into these words.
Never explain them.
Blood from my fingertips against plastic
Print screen... that's how they got here. Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2011, 6:33 am
In this way the collection vigorously eschews the navel-gazing all too familiar to modern poetry. It
exalts, most of all, in communication, in establishing a connection between the writer and the
reader and shocking the latter from their passive art-imbibing complacency. Comment - Like
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Jun 23, 2011, 6:22 pm
A collection of contemporary broadside poems. Focused on
paying homage to the age old printing tradition of broadsides
as art and literature. Comment - Like
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Jun 10, 2011, 1:37 am
No need for words, their boring report,
because the news was good.
Expertly crafted for,
and dually purposed to wash brains. Comment - Like
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May 30, 2011, 5:12 pm
houses always folding
back in to the land,
belying their henge composition,
their ancient bog-anatomy Comment - Like
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May 28, 2011, 3:43 am
Dont be stupid…buy this book…It will make up for your silly obsession with the Royal Wedding.
Flatrock by Fran Lock | Little Episodes.
‘Fran Lock uses words as tools, or sometimes weapons, to aid her personal journey of inner exploration: a brutal but str... Comment - Like
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May 28, 2011, 12:58 am
Gil Scott-Heron, Poet And Musician, Has Died : The Record : NPR.
Gil Scott-Heron died Friday afternoon in New York, his book publisher reported. He was 62. The influential poet and musician is often credited with being one of the progenitors of hip-hop, and is best known for the... Comment - Like
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