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"compliance" poems
Munting hiram na buhay,                             When will this rented kelan pa yayaon?                                            lifetime pass? Pina-walang kabuluhan                                Time has taken   ang oras na lumipas.                                      the sense of things. Panahon na sinaksi                                         I have witnessed pawang di akin sarili.                                    what is not mine. Kelan ang katapusan?                                    When will this end? Sa oras ng pagtanggap                                   In accepting ng tinig mo? Irog,                                            your voice? My dear, ika'y aking kamatayan.                                   you are my death. Ano ang pinangakong                                    Where is payapa at galak,                                               peace and joy kung puso'y sumisikap                                   if the heart still toils sa inaasahang pangarap?                                towards it's endeavors? Kelan mabubuksan                                          When will I unlock ang pagkakataon ng pangakong                    the promise ligaya mula sa kamay mo?                              from your hands? Di pa sapat ang pagsunod?                             Is compliance not enough? Asan na ang hinanap pangarap na ligaya,      Where is happiness mula sa pawis, pagnanasa?                               sought with sweat and desire Gawin ang lahat                                                  of risking all                 sa anumang konsekwnsya?                               no matter what? Sino ako? Taong                                               Who am I? so presumptive mapangahas sa sariling kalooban,                 of my own will, ligaw sa ilang,                                                   lost in the wild, lasing sa layaw,                                                  drunk for indulgence, lulon sa kadiliman at kawalan.                        drowned into its depths. ano ako sa Yo?                                                   what am i to You? yapak.                                                                 footprints. alabok.                                                                dust. pinag-duraang basura ng lansangan.            garbage spit in the street. Ginawa mo aking kapalaran,                           You made me thus, palayok at pinggan.                                           as a clay *** Sa yong kagustuhan                                          Transformed and used tadhanang pupuntahan.                                    for what you forge. Aking tanggap                                                    I accept kawalan ng karapatan,                                      lost of rights, pagsuko ng kalayaan,                                       surrendered freedom, layag sa kagustuhan,                                         adrift from wants, yaong kababaan.                                                and lowly. Paglisan ng sarili, bihag                                    when i abandon myself, as Your at lingkod mo,                                                      captive and servant nawa'y malaya sa mundo.                                  may i be free of this world.
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May 7, 2016
May 7, 2016 at 2:12 PM UTC
Bakwit sa Sarili / Refuge from myself
Munting hiram na buhay,                             When will this rented kelan pa yayaon?                                            lifetime pass? Pina-walang kabuluhan                                Time has taken   ang oras na lumipas.                                      the sense of things. Panahon na sinaksi                                         I have witnessed pawang di akin sarili.                                    what is not mine. Kelan ang katapusan?                                    When will this end? Sa oras ng pagtanggap                                   In accepting ng tinig mo? Irog,                                            your voice? My dear, ika'y aking kamatayan.                                   you are my death. Ano ang pinangakong                                    Where is payapa at galak,                                               peace and joy kung puso'y sumisikap                                   if the heart still toils sa inaasahang pangarap?                                towards it's endeavors? Kelan mabubuksan                                          When will I unlock ang pagkakataon ng pangakong                    the promise ligaya mula sa kamay mo?                              from your hands? Di pa sapat ang pagsunod?                             Is compliance not enough? Asan na ang hinanap pangarap na ligaya,      Where is happiness mula sa pawis, pagnanasa?                               sought with sweat and desire Gawin ang lahat                                                  of risking all                 sa anumang konsekwnsya?                               no matter what? Sino ako? Taong                                               Who am I? so presumptive mapangahas sa sariling kalooban,                 of my own will, ligaw sa ilang,                                                   lost in the wild, lasing sa layaw,                                                  drunk for indulgence, lulon sa kadiliman at kawalan.                        drowned into its depths. ano ako sa Yo?                                                   what am i to You? yapak.                                                                 footprints. alabok.                                                                dust. pinag-duraang basura ng lansangan.            garbage spit in the street. Ginawa mo aking kapalaran,                           You made me thus, palayok at pinggan.                                           as a clay *** Sa yong kagustuhan                                          Transformed and used tadhanang pupuntahan.                                    for what you forge. Aking tanggap                                                    I accept kawalan ng karapatan,                                      lost of rights, pagsuko ng kalayaan,                                       surrendered freedom, layag sa kagustuhan,                                         adrift from wants, yaong kababaan.                                                and lowly. Paglisan ng sarili, bihag                                    when i abandon myself, as Your at lingkod mo,                                                      captive and servant nawa'y malaya sa mundo.                                  may i be free of this world.
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Love bears all things - or does it? I don't know how much more I can take - but I love him. I'm scared and weak - I don't know where I stand. Back to the beginning - all over again. Tired of being reassured - I don't want reassurance. I want to reverse our love's senescence - Its death won't procure my compliance.
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Oct 4, 2014
Oct 4, 2014 at 3:08 PM UTC
Love Bears All Things
Biodiversity, an abstract term used in natural science, Meaning diversity of life in a diversity of places. Tonight I really feel all the compliance, With this term occuring in my life in so many cases. I have both positive and negative associations, If I relate biodiversity to my own life. It kind of explains all the complications, On the road to when and where I thrive. When I look at myself in the mirror, I see the diversity in my face. Both soft like a mother and severe like an emperor, And my hair looks like it's from another race. It is curly and it is dark, While my skin is quite pale. Blue eyes which sometimes brightly spark, But other times greyish and frail. Some moments I feel hyper, like I'm going to explode. I talk, walk, jump and stir, and my brain says 'overload'. Other moments however I feel calm and peace, I lay down just quietly watch the sun. Concentrated on every breath I release, A warm ambiance like that of a mum. Some mornings I feel like I'm the sexiest girl on the planet, I take a red dress and let it slip over my hips. Walk on 15 cm heels like my feet are made of granite, And merely hope to use my red coated lips. Other times even my jogging pants don't seem to fit, I feel like the uggliest girl in town and only see disgust. I watch useless YouTube videos infinite, Because everything else feels like a must. I can go on with this poem for a long time, But it makes no sense. It is just that with this rhyme, I put on paper the doubts, thoughts and experience. The biodiversity in me, I like it and I do not. But what I more and more see, Is a swarm of different butterflies rather than an intwined knot. Life is so **** special, Intense and deeply exciting. I think it is crucial, Not to do too much hiding. Enjoy the biodiversity in yourself, Like a beautiful forest on a hill. So many different species, Crowded, changing and intertwined, but together, still.
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Jul 31, 2016
Jul 31, 2016 at 8:21 AM UTC
The biodiversity in myself
Biodiversity, an abstract term used in natural science, Meaning diversity of life in a diversity of places. Tonight I really feel all the compliance, With this term occuring in my life in so many cases. I have both positive and negative associations, If I relate biodiversity to my own life. It kind of explains all the complications, On the road to when and where I thrive. When I look at myself in the mirror, I see the diversity in my face. Both soft like a mother and severe like an emperor, And my hair looks like it's from another race. It is curly and it is dark, While my skin is quite pale. Blue eyes which sometimes brightly spark, But other times greyish and frail. Some moments I feel hyper, like I'm going to explode. I talk, walk, jump and stir, and my brain says 'overload'. Other moments however I feel calm and peace, I lay down just quietly watch the sun. Concentrated on every breath I release, A warm ambiance like that of a mum. Some mornings I feel like I'm the sexiest girl on the planet, I take a red dress and let it slip over my hips. Walk on 15 cm heels like my feet are made of granite, And merely hope to use my red coated lips. Other times even my jogging pants don't seem to fit, I feel like the uggliest girl in town and only see disgust. I watch useless YouTube videos infinite, Because everything else feels like a must. I can go on with this poem for a long time, But it makes no sense. It is just that with this rhyme, I put on paper the doubts, thoughts and experience. The biodiversity in me, I like it and I do not. But what I more and more see, Is a swarm of different butterflies rather than an intwined knot. Life is so **** special, Intense and deeply exciting. I think it is crucial, Not to do too much hiding. Enjoy the biodiversity in yourself, Like a beautiful forest on a hill. So many different species, Crowded, changing and intertwined, but together, still.
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Dear Dad, That’s all I ever wanted you to be. A dad, my dad. I didn’t expect you to be a great dad, or even a good dad, but you never made any attempt to be anything close to a dad at all. You did try to be other things to me though. A dictator, a manipulator, even a ****** partner. You may say that I wanted it, you might even actually believe that, but I assure you that my compliance was not an indication of my enjoyment. Compliance was simply the only option you gave me. I saw the way you looked at me long before you ever put your hands on me, but you waited. You waited until you’d pushed me to the brink of insanity. You made me question my reality so much that I’d believe anything you told me. Then on top of that, you found a way to make everyone in our family question every word that I ever uttered in preparation for the day that I’d tell them what you’d done because you knew that eventually, I would. You planned out every piece of what you did so perfectly. Even after I’d come out with the truth you made sure that the walls around me crumbled before yours did. All I ever wanted was for you to be my dad, but you couldn’t even give me that.
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May 10, 2023
May 10, 2023 at 5:57 PM UTC
Dear Dad
White skin Black blood Devil's curls Eyes that pierce You couldn't pick me from the crowd And say that I was black But I'll be **** sure, you're aware of that I've got a chip on my shoulder With a furrowed brow And vendettas whispered from the graves Silence was compliance Now I'm screaming loud
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Nov 10, 2016
Nov 10, 2016 at 9:16 AM UTC
Biracial Anthem
like a fish out of water walking backwards upstream grand illusion of compliance buying nothing sight unseen respecting their essence detached from their path connected in spirit repelled by all wrath norms without ethics morality sans love passion ever searching a need to rise above heart sinking hatred mind numbing neglect mountain moving greed rarely circumspect not infrequently i ponder how my being was unfurled wondering deeply in my soul if i belong to another world
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Apr 2, 2014
Apr 2, 2014 at 2:40 PM UTC
Another World
Imperialistic meddlers, men of power greed and wealth Western Imperialism not too long ago was once put on the shelf Not too long ago this name was never heard Its name is New Order of DiSoRdEr But still us folk of sanity with eyes wide open we see their compliance lock-step herd vanity In White House spin gone amuck they throw their bolts of anger to all countries on the globe And with more and more displeasure we witness their destructiveness from sea to shining sea But now I hear, see and feel a distant faint rumbling the rising Valorous the rumbling stampeding of democracy by the forceful rightful anger, the free-spirited valiant word a word of truth and dignity, the echo of today, and aaah yes to hear the thundering of the mass To hear the thundering of the mass...
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Sep 18, 2014
Sep 18, 2014 at 5:35 PM UTC
To hear the thundering of the Mass
Two fine films: The Lost City and Blood Diamond. I joined Blood Diamond during a village massacre and said to my wife A gun in every home. Those devils would think twice before razing the village and seizing the boys. A well-regulated militia. The local militia the most interesting moment in a strong film with motive (economic, emotional), action (chases,       fights) and a **** sexless love story. Use of violence by the local militia for a limited purpose: protect the       community, the young from the janjaweed. The crop from the **** Limited scope and defensive posture but armed and coordinated, cooperative, the men (and the women)       side by side. Warriors at the gate, you will not run, you will not bargain. Just violence = limited scope, defensive posture. Great music. Cuba, Africa. The Lost City, when the communists tell the club owner under threat       of violence No saxophones in the band. The saxophone! Invented by a Belgian--Look what the Belgians are doing in the       Congo! When the state's violence is turned against the citizenry for non-violent acts. This quiet neighborhood, July, undergirded by violence, force. That's a given-- any farmer, custodian, EMT will tell you that. Without just violence Gandhi's scope, and King's, might be vanishingly limited, negligible (but not non-existent)?                                                        Regarding King the matter is simple -- he was non-violent but dependent upon federal force to counter the South's violence. No doubt without the larger force, the non-violent would be       overwhelmed by southern violence. Here, non-violence was a tactic, not an ethic. Gandhi, however, had no violent partner to protect him from the       British. Or did he? 1. There was the potential violence of the population, which Gandhi     restrained but could release which the British feared, and 2. It was the restrained (limited scope) violence of the British that     allowed Gandhi to exist rather than be extinguished--this restraint     was a (British) cultural imperative (limited scope) as well as     emanating from Britain's view of India as a protectorate and     valued citizen of the United Kingdom (defensive posture). What about violence or threat of violence to compel compliance with       community as in mortgage foreclosure, driving without license, drug possession. Perhaps it is necessary violence to maintain orderly commerce, the       common space, and preempt bad behaviors associated with       otherwise neutral, private acts. The defensive posture is the common good; the limited scope is       forgoing deadly force. But the citizen, too, must maintain a disciplined, armed non-violence, in case the state (the janjaweed) engages in an unjust, autoimmune       violence. Hence, a gun in every home.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 9:56 AM UTC
A Gun in Every Home
Two fine films: The Lost City and Blood Diamond. I joined Blood Diamond during a village massacre and said to my wife A gun in every home. Those devils would think twice before razing the village and seizing the boys. A well-regulated militia. The local militia the most interesting moment in a strong film with motive (economic, emotional), action (chases,       fights) and a **** sexless love story. Use of violence by the local militia for a limited purpose: protect the       community, the young from the janjaweed. The crop from the **** Limited scope and defensive posture but armed and coordinated, cooperative, the men (and the women)       side by side. Warriors at the gate, you will not run, you will not bargain. Just violence = limited scope, defensive posture. Great music. Cuba, Africa. The Lost City, when the communists tell the club owner under threat       of violence No saxophones in the band. The saxophone! Invented by a Belgian--Look what the Belgians are doing in the       Congo! When the state's violence is turned against the citizenry for non-violent acts. This quiet neighborhood, July, undergirded by violence, force. That's a given-- any farmer, custodian, EMT will tell you that. Without just violence Gandhi's scope, and King's, might be vanishingly limited, negligible (but not non-existent)?                                                        Regarding King the matter is simple -- he was non-violent but dependent upon federal force to counter the South's violence. No doubt without the larger force, the non-violent would be       overwhelmed by southern violence. Here, non-violence was a tactic, not an ethic. Gandhi, however, had no violent partner to protect him from the       British. Or did he? 1. There was the potential violence of the population, which Gandhi     restrained but could release which the British feared, and 2. It was the restrained (limited scope) violence of the British that     allowed Gandhi to exist rather than be extinguished--this restraint     was a (British) cultural imperative (limited scope) as well as     emanating from Britain's view of India as a protectorate and     valued citizen of the United Kingdom (defensive posture). What about violence or threat of violence to compel compliance with       community as in mortgage foreclosure, driving without license, drug possession. Perhaps it is necessary violence to maintain orderly commerce, the       common space, and preempt bad behaviors associated with       otherwise neutral, private acts. The defensive posture is the common good; the limited scope is       forgoing deadly force. But the citizen, too, must maintain a disciplined, armed non-violence, in case the state (the janjaweed) engages in an unjust, autoimmune       violence. Hence, a gun in every home.
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I fear thyself I fear attraction I fear unfamiliarity I fear attention I fear incidence I fear conversation I fear interaction I fear answers I fear questions I fear to tell my story I fear to hear yours I fear compliance I fear conflict I fear benevolence I fear mutuality I fear victimisation I fear change I fear to love I fear to hate I fear significance I fear insignificance I fear the lies we tell I fear the truths we hide I fear imprisonment I fear freedom I fear hope I fear despair I fear old age I fear children I fear intelligence I fear ignorance I fear to take I fear to give I fear to borrow I fear to loan I fear to exchange I fear to teach I fear to learn I fear to laugh I fear to cry I fear to be I fear not to be I fear to be afraid I fear to be brave I fear to die I fear to live I fear discomfort I fear responsibility I fear to gain I fear to lose I fear victory I fear defeat I fear antrophy I fear hypertrophy I fear inertia I fear activity I fear obedience I fear disobedience I fear justice I fear injustice I fear totality I fear poverty I fear embarrassment I fear addiction I fear declamation I fear guilt I fear pride I fear delusion I fear unfulfillment I fear my apathy I fear to be wakeful I fear to be tired I fear my capabilities I fear my incapabilities I fear my dreams I fear my nightmares I fear women I fear men I fear being disabled I fear misinterpretation I fear misrepresentation I fear altruism I fear limitation I fear to endear I fear to inspire I fear to forget I fear to remember I fear self doubt I fear discrimination I fear starvation I fear migration I fear fragility I fear formality I fear banality I fear enticement I fear cruelty I fear judgement I fear to embrace I endure what I fear I endure because I must I endure myself because I fear Endure thyself
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Dec 11, 2014
Dec 11, 2014 at 6:37 AM UTC
Endure Thyself
I fear thyself I fear attraction I fear unfamiliarity I fear attention I fear incidence I fear conversation I fear interaction I fear answers I fear questions I fear to tell my story I fear to hear yours I fear compliance I fear conflict I fear benevolence I fear mutuality I fear victimisation I fear change I fear to love I fear to hate I fear significance I fear insignificance I fear the lies we tell I fear the truths we hide I fear imprisonment I fear freedom I fear hope I fear despair I fear old age I fear children I fear intelligence I fear ignorance I fear to take I fear to give I fear to borrow I fear to loan I fear to exchange I fear to teach I fear to learn I fear to laugh I fear to cry I fear to be I fear not to be I fear to be afraid I fear to be brave I fear to die I fear to live I fear discomfort I fear responsibility I fear to gain I fear to lose I fear victory I fear defeat I fear antrophy I fear hypertrophy I fear inertia I fear activity I fear obedience I fear disobedience I fear justice I fear injustice I fear totality I fear poverty I fear embarrassment I fear addiction I fear declamation I fear guilt I fear pride I fear delusion I fear unfulfillment I fear my apathy I fear to be wakeful I fear to be tired I fear my capabilities I fear my incapabilities I fear my dreams I fear my nightmares I fear women I fear men I fear being disabled I fear misinterpretation I fear misrepresentation I fear altruism I fear limitation I fear to endear I fear to inspire I fear to forget I fear to remember I fear self doubt I fear discrimination I fear starvation I fear migration I fear fragility I fear formality I fear banality I fear enticement I fear cruelty I fear judgement I fear to embrace I endure what I fear I endure because I must I endure myself because I fear Endure thyself
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Looking at myself now, I am not sure that I recognize any piece of who I used to be. Our cells are constantly replenishing and replacing, and technically speaking, I am not at all the person I once was. I understand that I am a collection of my experiences and that everything I have done has led me to this moment. I do not know what has come of the choices I made opposing this. The patches of my skin that only said yes when they meant it have peeled away and are replaced by the fresh tissue of compliance. If I am the sum of my experiences then why are there no scars on my thighs from the times I smiled? If I am the sum of all of my experiences then why is there a fracture in my arm from anger but not from love? If I am really the sum of all of my experiences then why does my body only show my regrets?
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May 1, 2014
May 1, 2014 at 8:53 PM UTC
Body Language
In the divet between mountains Resides a wooden cabin – ostensibly an amalgamation of the scape Adroitly - I - quondam female warrior flit Down massive (ancient) hand-laid, hand-cut carved stone steps Bounding from contingent step onto the dense pad of turned soil Tacit compliance between gravity and soil holds footprints bound A compressed deflating crescendo as pace ignites with bounds Cadences of protuberant wildflowers and grasses erupt from swollen terra A winsome chromatic menagerie, dispersed in ecstatic fistfuls A venerably ancient ritual My nascent clandestine vocation Personally meted out - a beatification for my provisional sanctuary Along glacier-fed stream Lissome fingers shadow inert stalks –plucking dormant beginnings from their desiccated ligaments I am austere and unadorned save for a festoon of pyrite flecks trailing my semblance Residual gilding from my ante-meridian swim taken after requisite gathering of wild blackberries, goose berries, and rhubarb along oft-tamped path The sun, nestling into its requisite apex endorsed my completion I reclined into the hassock of soil, feeling the elements settle about with an embossment of my form Imposing verdure arched subtly as compressed soil beckoned hyperbolic flux As I lay within the basilica of opulent living columns replete with comestible bounty Lingering dew honed inflections of sacrosanct petrichor in unison with piquant clover Wild purple clover buds saccharinely tinted and inundated nestled nerves in mine cribriform plate Birds pitched and galloped through the frond tips and beyond in the lapis expanse Frequently snatching damselfly’s and assemblages of midges from their ephemeral drift Auspicious rays transcended stippled diaphanous gravid clouds Light inundated ether entered humbly into the cathedral oculus Pyrite speckled terrain beneath, and my bare gilded form above Cast a refracted aura about my sanctuary Precipitously the elusive vaporous embankment distended further Ashen atmospheric correspondence inaugurated liquescent sustenance to my mountain abode And I - Lingered beneath the descending gobbets, curls furled in a puddle Fresh topsoil cupping my corporal topographic contours Pressing blackberries into my mouth between smiles
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Jan 26, 2014
Jan 26, 2014 at 9:13 PM UTC
Diaspora Vocation
In the divet between mountains Resides a wooden cabin – ostensibly an amalgamation of the scape Adroitly - I - quondam female warrior flit Down massive (ancient) hand-laid, hand-cut carved stone steps Bounding from contingent step onto the dense pad of turned soil Tacit compliance between gravity and soil holds footprints bound A compressed deflating crescendo as pace ignites with bounds Cadences of protuberant wildflowers and grasses erupt from swollen terra A winsome chromatic menagerie, dispersed in ecstatic fistfuls A venerably ancient ritual My nascent clandestine vocation Personally meted out - a beatification for my provisional sanctuary Along glacier-fed stream Lissome fingers shadow inert stalks –plucking dormant beginnings from their desiccated ligaments I am austere and unadorned save for a festoon of pyrite flecks trailing my semblance Residual gilding from my ante-meridian swim taken after requisite gathering of wild blackberries, goose berries, and rhubarb along oft-tamped path The sun, nestling into its requisite apex endorsed my completion I reclined into the hassock of soil, feeling the elements settle about with an embossment of my form Imposing verdure arched subtly as compressed soil beckoned hyperbolic flux As I lay within the basilica of opulent living columns replete with comestible bounty Lingering dew honed inflections of sacrosanct petrichor in unison with piquant clover Wild purple clover buds saccharinely tinted and inundated nestled nerves in mine cribriform plate Birds pitched and galloped through the frond tips and beyond in the lapis expanse Frequently snatching damselfly’s and assemblages of midges from their ephemeral drift Auspicious rays transcended stippled diaphanous gravid clouds Light inundated ether entered humbly into the cathedral oculus Pyrite speckled terrain beneath, and my bare gilded form above Cast a refracted aura about my sanctuary Precipitously the elusive vaporous embankment distended further Ashen atmospheric correspondence inaugurated liquescent sustenance to my mountain abode And I - Lingered beneath the descending gobbets, curls furled in a puddle Fresh topsoil cupping my corporal topographic contours Pressing blackberries into my mouth between smiles
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at one time, we were all migrants we had a dream and tried to find it the torch of freedom was our light of guidance we might have died if our cries were silenced their dream relies on our compliance we can't decline the reasons behind it hear their cries and let them find an alliance they're just trying to escape the violence
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Nov 28, 2015
Nov 28, 2015 at 8:57 PM UTC
100,000
Among the most necessary things for the survival of intellectual constructs (such as personal rights, privileges, and information in general) is the notion of Satyagraha, as coined by Gandhi: The notion of Peaceful Non-Compliance to the ******** of your time. It is truly Compassion manifest. Civil Disobedience is a Virtue of which you will never hear in our Schools or Churches or on packages at Wal-Mart or from Politicians. Civil Disobedience is the Voice that cannot be taken until your Death. Civil Disobedience is the Music and pulse of a truly living Culture. Civil Disobedience is the respectful denial to conform to the laws imposed and policies enacted by those who are undeserving of such power, or those who abuse the power they so grandiosely wield. Civil Disobedience is necessary for the survival of a thriving popular Democracy, and thus is punished by the Authoritarians who use Democracy as a veil for Totalitarianism. Civil Disobedience is the only vote you'll ever be guaranteed in your life. It is Democracy seeking refuge in Vigilantism, It is Anarchy embodying the greater good. It is what must be done in the face of Oppression by Authority. I most sincerely and personally maintain: Civil Disobedience is a Virtue, Civil Disobedience is a Need, Civil Disobedience is a Philosophy. Civil Disobedience is Peace and Harmony in the faces of Chaos and Tyranny. Civil Disobedience; Peaceful Non-Compliance Respectful Dissent Informed Resistance. Pacifism is not for the faint of Heart. -\- *Then again, the options are few when we couldn't fight back if we needed to.*
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Apr 7, 2013
Apr 7, 2013 at 7:43 PM UTC
Satyagraha [Peaceful Non-Compliance]
Among the most necessary things for the survival of intellectual constructs (such as personal rights, privileges, and information in general) is the notion of Satyagraha, as coined by Gandhi: The notion of Peaceful Non-Compliance to the ******** of your time. It is truly Compassion manifest. Civil Disobedience is a Virtue of which you will never hear in our Schools or Churches or on packages at Wal-Mart or from Politicians. Civil Disobedience is the Voice that cannot be taken until your Death. Civil Disobedience is the Music and pulse of a truly living Culture. Civil Disobedience is the respectful denial to conform to the laws imposed and policies enacted by those who are undeserving of such power, or those who abuse the power they so grandiosely wield. Civil Disobedience is necessary for the survival of a thriving popular Democracy, and thus is punished by the Authoritarians who use Democracy as a veil for Totalitarianism. Civil Disobedience is the only vote you'll ever be guaranteed in your life. It is Democracy seeking refuge in Vigilantism, It is Anarchy embodying the greater good. It is what must be done in the face of Oppression by Authority. I most sincerely and personally maintain: Civil Disobedience is a Virtue, Civil Disobedience is a Need, Civil Disobedience is a Philosophy. Civil Disobedience is Peace and Harmony in the faces of Chaos and Tyranny. Civil Disobedience; Peaceful Non-Compliance Respectful Dissent Informed Resistance. Pacifism is not for the faint of Heart. -\- *Then again, the options are few when we couldn't fight back if we needed to.*
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i feel like a spaceman a displaced alien in a wasteland base plan looking for a face, trying to trace man it's not rocket science with the fights, riots, and sights of violence i'd give my right eye for some silence i'm finding this place never quiets no kindness, or signs of subsidence relying on small minded diets no compliance, alliance, or guidance few ever try to defy the tyrants i feel like a spaceman a displaced alien in a wasteland base plan looking for a trace, trying to face man
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Sep 22, 2015
Sep 22, 2015 at 9:30 PM UTC
spaceman
I'll write everyday Even if I write about nothing but what if.. I'll write everyday Even if it isn't the least bit good but what if.. I'll write everyday Because silence is compliance but what if.. I'll write everyday Because they haven't broken me yet but what if.. I'll write everyday Even if no one reads it but what if.. I'll write everyday Even if it makes you mad but what if.. I'll write everyday Because I need to let you know but what if.. I'll write everyday Because my conscious tells me so but what if.. I will be here no more? #DarkThoughts
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Nov 24, 2016
Nov 24, 2016 at 2:58 PM UTC
But what if?
Hold the universe inside my palms I alone understand it is but a solitary dream Between stars I make out memories Connecting dots, forming images ingrained in my mind I look in the unfilled depths of sky where suns have yet to burn out, remaining eternally preserved in an explosion of beauty lightyears away wondering about humans peering at their ambience through time and space This isolated reflection I witness change in compliance with the predetermined path set in motion by the astrological forces of nature Unstable My hands must be trembling Scared of sorrow and frustration they undeniably confront The fear of the uncertain, the inconsistency of the unapologetic future awaiting Solemn visions of an imperfect outcome, enough torment to push strength a bit too far over the edge Fragile balance of peace and chaos resting within cupped desperate hands Ignorant, the quickness of extinction among synapses in the cavern lighting the entirety of my skull Pinned under familiar self-induced delusions Galaxies silently begging for permanent freedom Such fate to let their wishes dangle ignored Urges within bursting, released That moment I also give in Forcefully close my fingers into a fist Instantly crushing wild constellations scattered around my consciousness A great deal more fragile than realized Once unshakable destiny budged a millimeter by one lone act of rebellion Against a powerful pull the majority pretend is rigid Elusive control by way of self-combustion of life's temporary illusions Proof one touch can fell worlds of fantasy Founded on fiction Or maybe Reality
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Sep 19, 2018
Sep 19, 2018 at 1:29 PM UTC
Universes
Hold the universe inside my palms I alone understand it is but a solitary dream Between stars I make out memories Connecting dots, forming images ingrained in my mind I look in the unfilled depths of sky where suns have yet to burn out, remaining eternally preserved in an explosion of beauty lightyears away wondering about humans peering at their ambience through time and space This isolated reflection I witness change in compliance with the predetermined path set in motion by the astrological forces of nature Unstable My hands must be trembling Scared of sorrow and frustration they undeniably confront The fear of the uncertain, the inconsistency of the unapologetic future awaiting Solemn visions of an imperfect outcome, enough torment to push strength a bit too far over the edge Fragile balance of peace and chaos resting within cupped desperate hands Ignorant, the quickness of extinction among synapses in the cavern lighting the entirety of my skull Pinned under familiar self-induced delusions Galaxies silently begging for permanent freedom Such fate to let their wishes dangle ignored Urges within bursting, released That moment I also give in Forcefully close my fingers into a fist Instantly crushing wild constellations scattered around my consciousness A great deal more fragile than realized Once unshakable destiny budged a millimeter by one lone act of rebellion Against a powerful pull the majority pretend is rigid Elusive control by way of self-combustion of life's temporary illusions Proof one touch can fell worlds of fantasy Founded on fiction Or maybe Reality
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Concrete full of blood Skies, smoke-filled clouds Poison, don't you see INDUCING VOMITING Of every freedom you hold Incubators, landfills For Food deserts Soul Scavengers Bullet and knife showers Parentless parents Starving children Hotbeds for addiction Metropolises Harvesting humans like ants Where democracy manufactures Oppressed consumers out of the masses Majority starving for death Poison, don't you see INDUCING VOMITING Of every freedom you hold Those borders you revere Hijacking your body and mind Legislating no burning of the flag Where they clean their blood-drenched hands on Can you tell what side your on When you agree, they hold a different nationality When can there be actual solidarity? Profets of freedom, alienating OUR power to be When in doctrine, legislature, and policy Hierarchizing who deserves to be free In contempt, not compliance In pain, not numb Reactive, not inactive Burning, boiling, shivering Out of injustice Poison, don't you see INDUCING VOMITING Of every freedom you hold How can you keep suffering, When you face the truth
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Jan 24, 2013
Jan 24, 2013 at 10:21 PM UTC
INDUCING VOMITING (Of Every Freedom You Hold)
Such a good young man, If only they knew the side you keep hidden The side that is darkened shadows that breathe my name So sweet, Indeed you are delicious When fed to me from the depths of my very soul On your knees with no questions asked With a look, you do your job Sweet and obedient Good boys are I keep you at my feet My pretty little princess fair Who dances in my ******* pink How the people stop and stare As from my depths you start to drink Enough! No more frivolity Suit up my pet Bows tied and scented in heaven Dressed in satin and lace All hidden to the naked eye And with every step With every breath You are lost in me
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Jul 24, 2014
Jul 24, 2014 at 2:45 AM UTC
Ordinate Compliance
I know how hard you’re trying: caught between what’s good and what’s right, triangulated by compliance to a routine that leaves you restless. You’ve spent your childhood dreaming of ‘somewhere else’ but now that you’re here, you dream again: of ‘somewhere new.’ You can’t pin down a pilot, and you’re a high flyer with a heart for danger and full of desire from the stardust in your veins and the galaxies mirrored in your eyes. You’re no Harry Potter-- their attention drives you wild, craving counteraction to the demons that followed you from your home planet and have tainted your every breath. *(he’s got stars in his smiles that stretch like galaxies. oh, god, you know what that means.)* Like I said, you can’t pin down a pilot, and you don’t want to be found. You’ll push and push until your heart gives out, compensate and retaliate by breaking the hearts that beat for you. If you’re going down, they will too. You’re a beautiful disaster creating new paths for strength to rise out of, a beautiful disaster caught between cliffs and a hard place. You wanted to touch down on every planet in your system, but you never planned on your engines failing. You can’t pin down a pilot, not until he’s crashing.
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Jan 6, 2016
Jan 6, 2016 at 9:26 PM UTC
THE PILOT
*This is a poem for Rachel Corrie. I am not religious, and a far cry from spiritual, but I refuse to imagine Rachel Corrie insentient and six feet under, slowly amalgamating with the soil encasing her. Before her death, Rachel Corrie said “I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my co-workers. But I also want this to stop.” In the words of contemporary Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad “God has a better imagination than all of us combined” in either God's words or my own, I will not imagine in/on the same ground in/on which I maybe soon will be and more words from Suheir “What do I tell young people about non-violence when they can see for themselves how even orange bright and megaphone loud and cameras and US citizenship will not stop your ****** what do I tell young people/anyone even myself about “non-violence” when every single thing I've seen presenting itself/perhaps even masquerading as “non-violence” has been in my face and /rude/harsh/unavoidable and most of all, violent? I do not believe in God and humanity is pushing it's luck, but I believe in Rachel Corrie. This is for Rachel;* I should study a she-wolf's prose she wanted to write about death but life would frequently weasel and wheedle it's way in there’s an overhanging image a smaller yet infinitely larger organism continuously broached by each word I only want to study a caterpillar’s motion backward/forward /onward across arms/legs of this deer/dear [her] surname/ [my] given name/ separated by [semi/totally] circular VOWels ***** blond hair dirtied by dust / rubble / rhyme /reason/ whatever/ in compliance with a rep/RESENT/ative democracy several shades lighter literally figuratively whiter than she need no permission pat benatar would/should croon to your moves every boy and girl friend i will/may/have/had should be yours entomo/insecto/[social] phobias I never would’ve said so I never would’ve/ could’ve told the caterpillar to go
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Nov 28, 2011
Nov 28, 2011 at 8:41 PM UTC
Waggish Recall
*This is a poem for Rachel Corrie. I am not religious, and a far cry from spiritual, but I refuse to imagine Rachel Corrie insentient and six feet under, slowly amalgamating with the soil encasing her. Before her death, Rachel Corrie said “I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my co-workers. But I also want this to stop.” In the words of contemporary Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad “God has a better imagination than all of us combined” in either God's words or my own, I will not imagine in/on the same ground in/on which I maybe soon will be and more words from Suheir “What do I tell young people about non-violence when they can see for themselves how even orange bright and megaphone loud and cameras and US citizenship will not stop your ****** what do I tell young people/anyone even myself about “non-violence” when every single thing I've seen presenting itself/perhaps even masquerading as “non-violence” has been in my face and /rude/harsh/unavoidable and most of all, violent? I do not believe in God and humanity is pushing it's luck, but I believe in Rachel Corrie. This is for Rachel;* I should study a she-wolf's prose she wanted to write about death but life would frequently weasel and wheedle it's way in there’s an overhanging image a smaller yet infinitely larger organism continuously broached by each word I only want to study a caterpillar’s motion backward/forward /onward across arms/legs of this deer/dear [her] surname/ [my] given name/ separated by [semi/totally] circular VOWels ***** blond hair dirtied by dust / rubble / rhyme /reason/ whatever/ in compliance with a rep/RESENT/ative democracy several shades lighter literally figuratively whiter than she need no permission pat benatar would/should croon to your moves every boy and girl friend i will/may/have/had should be yours entomo/insecto/[social] phobias I never would’ve said so I never would’ve/ could’ve told the caterpillar to go
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Head held high, flexing the shell bright lifestyle, I know it too well. It’s a tall tale to tell but its best that you know that things get better at the end of the road Not too long ago, I felt the same way I dealt with demons that crept in the grey And maybe it’s hard enough to ask for help but it’s harder to watch yourself give up once you’ve left the shelf Nah, I couldn’t stomach the pain like a trumpet, I blew the in out of sane. I popped open a vein to paint my blues, violet and threw a pair of cans on to block out the silence. I’m not defiant; I defy any tyrant that tries to buy my compliance. I ride with the giants, stride like Midas minus the greed, all I need is kindness. Spread your wings; shed the ego live amid the kings like a needle. Be your own hero, succeed the sequel take charge, zero in on the easel. Reach for the stars, you are an artist Van Gough goals; erase all the hardships. I may try my hardest but I’m not the smartest but good work ethic leads to a harvest. Reap my carcass, long after I’m gone, brains over brawn, shame on you all for thinking that these walls can hold me in. You get the memo? I’m better than I’ve ever been. Binge drinking is a sickness in itself ***try to **** the pain but the pain kills the help*** as well as low thinking it will **** your brain cells ***if you try to **** the pain, you will **** yourself*** © Matthew Harlovic
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Nov 30, 2014
Nov 30, 2014 at 11:01 PM UTC
Work Ethic
Wanderlust warlock blaspheme rapacity Obsequious diligence pier pair appearance Obstreperously vituperative vociferous tenacity Consortium eclectic synectics concurrence In extremis extremity cantilever capacity Citadel clairvoyance pilaster conveyance Inductive integration interpolative audacity Derivative factor derivational appliance Futurity fatidic’s laconic sagacity Aseity veracity cacophony compliance Accidence ambience aesthetics opacity Acoustical articulation intonational occurrence Apomixes anabolics histophysiological mendacity Epistemological somatalogy syntactics refulgence Refractive reflective semantics complicity Hephestian dialectics Hegelian effulgence                       Linguistic syntax synaptic intensity                                         totally tangential
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 9:10 AM UTC
Kitsch
Let's whinge about homework, Always a fuss, that's what it's worth, I am sure in the Year 9000 AD, Teens shall whinge about it to me, Or even little chicks and dudes, Who gives them homework after school? "Only a challenge!" old chalkies say, I've heard their moans many a day, Always a fuss, or non-compliance, Maybe a non-homework alliance, Yes, I've heard all the whinges today, Whinging's fun, I always say, Moan, moan, homework works both ways, Let's all whinge about homework today!
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Apr 26, 2016
Apr 26, 2016 at 12:49 AM UTC
HOMEWORK!