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"conflation" poems
I slept with her, my rapacious pen, took me in quiet vengeance in full on conjugation raken and taken, me, her overlording me now, her authorship, so long held in my maledom abeyance, a kept imprisonment, unleashing at last, a tongue lashing~leashing, de-spite my un-desirous craven lying supplications, excuses of innocence and accident, coincidence and conflation, ashes, ashes, denials incinerated, all fall down she wrote/stabbed upon my heartless chest, in the cheap crudités colors of a prisoner’s inking, “user of words mine, all mine” gathered up my innards of loose words, speculative notes & titles yet to be, born and kept hid in password protected silent back labor files, now hers, leaving me sputtering, unable to create, a homeless mute citizen, possession-less, helplessly hoping her hovering harlequin might relent, without any shelter, even a glimmering, a single aleph or bet she celebratory cackled and clawed, professed her reclamation ownership of all my poems predecessors, zola j’accusing that I, ripped from her forcibly, with no granted permission, her womanly touché of my scribing, warning of no more global warming for my unprivileged hands, daren’t try for pretenses of stolen legal guardianship, warning of a new, forced caining inscription, a tattooing of  “thief” upon my 5 knuckled right ****** “plagiarist” boldly inked in back & blue upon my left palm I, predator, she, victim, of my now self-professed, admitted confess, she, my single victim, of a decade long serializing criminal coverup her parting poem a threatening, herein issued in this very verse, damning all who would falsely credit themselves, to suffer shame and an unimaginable curse, this, the newborn eleventh of ten commandments parting, she kissing my lips, even my emptied apertures, with warning bitings, she knew all my my numerous noms de guerre, no dead scrolls caves to hid in, and to be discovered some future day, and if ever marked as copyrighted, ’twas no tunneling escape, the exposed truth to be over-stamped upon all, upon each, in every language, ”copied right from the tongue of a woman!” and she would be wright...
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May 23, 2019
May 23, 2019 at 10:10 AM UTC
slept with my rapacious pen (she, full on conjugation)
I slept with her, my rapacious pen, took me in quiet vengeance in full on conjugation raken and taken, me, her overlording me now, her authorship, so long held in my maledom abeyance, a kept imprisonment, unleashing at last, a tongue lashing~leashing, de-spite my un-desirous craven lying supplications, excuses of innocence and accident, coincidence and conflation, ashes, ashes, denials incinerated, all fall down she wrote/stabbed upon my heartless chest, in the cheap crudités colors of a prisoner’s inking, “user of words mine, all mine” gathered up my innards of loose words, speculative notes & titles yet to be, born and kept hid in password protected silent back labor files, now hers, leaving me sputtering, unable to create, a homeless mute citizen, possession-less, helplessly hoping her hovering harlequin might relent, without any shelter, even a glimmering, a single aleph or bet she celebratory cackled and clawed, professed her reclamation ownership of all my poems predecessors, zola j’accusing that I, ripped from her forcibly, with no granted permission, her womanly touché of my scribing, warning of no more global warming for my unprivileged hands, daren’t try for pretenses of stolen legal guardianship, warning of a new, forced caining inscription, a tattooing of  “thief” upon my 5 knuckled right ****** “plagiarist” boldly inked in back & blue upon my left palm I, predator, she, victim, of my now self-professed, admitted confess, she, my single victim, of a decade long serializing criminal coverup her parting poem a threatening, herein issued in this very verse, damning all who would falsely credit themselves, to suffer shame and an unimaginable curse, this, the newborn eleventh of ten commandments parting, she kissing my lips, even my emptied apertures, with warning bitings, she knew all my my numerous noms de guerre, no dead scrolls caves to hid in, and to be discovered some future day, and if ever marked as copyrighted, ’twas no tunneling escape, the exposed truth to be over-stamped upon all, upon each, in every language, ”copied right from the tongue of a woman!” and she would be wright...
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To be imbued with the conviction that empathic listening is a panacea, by the surreptitious, murmurous harbinger and his mellifluous words, provoked brooding that my comprehension of his susurrous eloquence was a mondegreen, when this scintilla of sagacity left a fetching ingenue crestfallen. By the surreptitious, murmurous harbinger and his mellifluous words! I adopted a propinquity to this furtive, ephemeral epiphany, but when this scintilla of sagacity left a fetching ingenue crestfallen, I discerned this lagniappe beleaguered our dalliance. I adopted a propinquity to this furtive, ephemeral epiphany. When she became inured to petrichor I knew my method pyrrhic, and when I discerned that this lagniappe beleaguered our dalliance, I vowed to rectify the imbroglio for my quintessential cynosure. When she became inured to petrichor I knew my method pyrrhic, and I ruminated that her insouciance was only forbearance. I vowed to rectify my quintessential cynosure of the imbroglio, and fabricated a denouement to return her to halcyon incipient. I ruminated that her insouciance was only forbearance, until hearing her state our conflation made each a moiety of our own panoply. She fabricated a denouement to return us to the incipience of halcyon with ineffable felicity, and I remembered with ebullience my inamorata's words. Hearing her state our conflation made each a moiety of our own panoply provoked brooding that my comprehension of her susurrous eloquence was a mondegreen. With ineffable felicity I found ebullience in my inamorata's words and was imbued with the conviction that empathic listening is a panacea.
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Nov 26, 2013
Nov 26, 2013 at 4:58 AM UTC
Our own language
To be imbued with the conviction that empathic listening is a panacea, by the surreptitious, murmurous harbinger and his mellifluous words, provoked brooding that my comprehension of his susurrous eloquence was a mondegreen, when this scintilla of sagacity left a fetching ingenue crestfallen. By the surreptitious, murmurous harbinger and his mellifluous words! I adopted a propinquity to this furtive, ephemeral epiphany, but when this scintilla of sagacity left a fetching ingenue crestfallen, I discerned this lagniappe beleaguered our dalliance. I adopted a propinquity to this furtive, ephemeral epiphany. When she became inured to petrichor I knew my method pyrrhic, and when I discerned that this lagniappe beleaguered our dalliance, I vowed to rectify the imbroglio for my quintessential cynosure. When she became inured to petrichor I knew my method pyrrhic, and I ruminated that her insouciance was only forbearance. I vowed to rectify my quintessential cynosure of the imbroglio, and fabricated a denouement to return her to halcyon incipient. I ruminated that her insouciance was only forbearance, until hearing her state our conflation made each a moiety of our own panoply. She fabricated a denouement to return us to the incipience of halcyon with ineffable felicity, and I remembered with ebullience my inamorata's words. Hearing her state our conflation made each a moiety of our own panoply provoked brooding that my comprehension of her susurrous eloquence was a mondegreen. With ineffable felicity I found ebullience in my inamorata's words and was imbued with the conviction that empathic listening is a panacea.
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My compass has no arrow, no markings north or south I've a map without a key, with markings I can't read. Maybe a friend would do, someone to share my doubt A soul-mate of some sort, with a knack for topography I dream of her, beaming radiant smile Eyes so bright, face full of life But it's naught more than a faint fleeting flash Of fantasies in my head that taunt and tease Hopes and dreams of when there was a chance Are now gone as an evanescent dalliance These foolish flimsy thoughts seep like sewage Polluting what was youthful optimism From vivid imagination to dull ruin So I brood my path The conflation of desire and reality But now I realize, This map makes a bit more sense to me.
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Nov 16, 2012
Nov 16, 2012 at 11:51 PM UTC
Lost
aesthetic is etiquette is: what is & isn't either: yet is both: in that they are the same: disparaging meanings... nouns: the source of ultimate meaning, crux words... and the source of the thesaurus... i wasn't looking for a mathematical conflation of grammar either... but... aesthetic ≠ etiquette... but... it does! to keep up with the formality of norm, of power, then (the) aesthetic = (the) etiquette, but there is no "the" to begin with... yet... if the aesthetic ≠ the etiquette... why, either?! dumb questions usually prescribe a continued willing to perpetuate: unquestioned... hence the dumb questions... my dumb question lacks any elaborate ploy to topple the status quo for the sole reason that... my alternative matches no genius of the originator basis... wordings are not simply chanced to be worth debating a miscarriage of implementing the averted coin-flip... (funny, how the articles prop up, miraculously)... etiquette? a macabre variety of aesthetic... nothing more... but... etiquette is still subordinate of aesthetic... isn't it? hardly: etiquette is still subordinate off aesthetic... is it?! a month spent in a monastery of a novel... cradle these words unto a course of nullification... if i'd utter them in a clutter of sparrows: i'd be a equivalent to a mute stone... if i'd utter them in a lion's harem: i'd be a cat's meow (if not less)... if i'd utter them in the crow's shamanism of all shadows... i'd still be less the croaking hark of a voice that might dictate: obey... so... so... ah... was kommen: was ist... und alles was: ich, ich sterben... ich war geboren? ich war nie sein: geboren.... ich war sein: sterben!
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Jan 17, 2019
Jan 17, 2019 at 8:33 PM UTC
the shortest true sentence
aesthetic is etiquette is: what is & isn't either: yet is both: in that they are the same: disparaging meanings... nouns: the source of ultimate meaning, crux words... and the source of the thesaurus... i wasn't looking for a mathematical conflation of grammar either... but... aesthetic ≠ etiquette... but... it does! to keep up with the formality of norm, of power, then (the) aesthetic = (the) etiquette, but there is no "the" to begin with... yet... if the aesthetic ≠ the etiquette... why, either?! dumb questions usually prescribe a continued willing to perpetuate: unquestioned... hence the dumb questions... my dumb question lacks any elaborate ploy to topple the status quo for the sole reason that... my alternative matches no genius of the originator basis... wordings are not simply chanced to be worth debating a miscarriage of implementing the averted coin-flip... (funny, how the articles prop up, miraculously)... etiquette? a macabre variety of aesthetic... nothing more... but... etiquette is still subordinate of aesthetic... isn't it? hardly: etiquette is still subordinate off aesthetic... is it?! a month spent in a monastery of a novel... cradle these words unto a course of nullification... if i'd utter them in a clutter of sparrows: i'd be a equivalent to a mute stone... if i'd utter them in a lion's harem: i'd be a cat's meow (if not less)... if i'd utter them in the crow's shamanism of all shadows... i'd still be less the croaking hark of a voice that might dictate: obey... so... so... ah... was kommen: was ist... und alles was: ich, ich sterben... ich war geboren? ich war nie sein: geboren.... ich war sein: sterben!
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In the crevice of conflation the planets watch,   In awe as the worlds collide Each solar system fusing as one To create a world unlike any other Being pulled into a hole in the universe Darker than the empty night sky And the lack of stars The constellations pulled apart Like strings being snapped When in an instant It all stops For a few mere seconds everything is calm Until BAM The self destruction of the colliding worlds Was a beauty to be marvelled at Each system seemed to explode And paint the dreary sky Creating an array of colors Forming new strung stars, Reshaping the old ones And starting a new life for everything That once was
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Oct 6, 2015
Oct 6, 2015 at 12:20 AM UTC
Black Hole
The walls cry-out as they burn. A tumult of roars wreathed in the crackle of blazing matter. Which is louder?   Perspective will tell. The one who assaults, Or the one assaulted? The roar, or the crackle? The giver, or the receiver? Pleasure in two forms, two-faced gratification. One hand for dispensation, One mouth for sublimation. And do we not all sublimate? Base impulses, rank ideas, On the surface, vindicate? The residue of consequence Brusquely scrub and expiate? Perspective will tell. We espy hedonism, unbridled delight, And may envy those who bathe in these muddied pools, Focusing our most ephemeral sense on dazzling cacophony, Ignoring the estranged husband of hedonism, Shunning the divorcée of delight. Which is truly louder?   Perspective will tell. In Oscar Wilde’s Salome the moon is thus described: “She is like a woman who is dead.  She moves very slowly.” Pandemonium in the hall, the howling of wild beasts, But she remains “a woman who is dead,” And “she moves very slowly.” The divorcée of delight, A pitiful coming-down. The remnant of misuse, The scarring of abuse. One reads on a stone: The hardly-lovéd daughter of overuse. And the one who gazes overlong is warned:   “You look at her too much.   It is dangerous to look at people in such fashion. Something terrible may happen.” The walls cry-out as they burn, And they cry in desperation. What we see is conflagration. The light:  A brilliant exultation. The crackle:  A herald of termination. But when ash is blown in silence, It is dangerous to look at what remains: Scar tissue. Slow death. Residue. The head of John. The bones of Salome. Broken glass. Wilted flowers. Cracked foundation on hollow cheeks. Red lips the stain of blood on ivory cloth. Festering flies. The beating of vultures’ wings. The snoring of satiated beasts. The stumbling home. Apologies. Sublimation. Conflation. Expiation. … One’s well-mannered pause until the other’s end, So that the one may pause… And begin again.
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Mar 4, 2017
Mar 4, 2017 at 9:37 PM UTC
Even the walls cry-out as they are burning
The walls cry-out as they burn. A tumult of roars wreathed in the crackle of blazing matter. Which is louder?   Perspective will tell. The one who assaults, Or the one assaulted? The roar, or the crackle? The giver, or the receiver? Pleasure in two forms, two-faced gratification. One hand for dispensation, One mouth for sublimation. And do we not all sublimate? Base impulses, rank ideas, On the surface, vindicate? The residue of consequence Brusquely scrub and expiate? Perspective will tell. We espy hedonism, unbridled delight, And may envy those who bathe in these muddied pools, Focusing our most ephemeral sense on dazzling cacophony, Ignoring the estranged husband of hedonism, Shunning the divorcée of delight. Which is truly louder?   Perspective will tell. In Oscar Wilde’s Salome the moon is thus described: “She is like a woman who is dead.  She moves very slowly.” Pandemonium in the hall, the howling of wild beasts, But she remains “a woman who is dead,” And “she moves very slowly.” The divorcée of delight, A pitiful coming-down. The remnant of misuse, The scarring of abuse. One reads on a stone: The hardly-lovéd daughter of overuse. And the one who gazes overlong is warned:   “You look at her too much.   It is dangerous to look at people in such fashion. Something terrible may happen.” The walls cry-out as they burn, And they cry in desperation. What we see is conflagration. The light:  A brilliant exultation. The crackle:  A herald of termination. But when ash is blown in silence, It is dangerous to look at what remains: Scar tissue. Slow death. Residue. The head of John. The bones of Salome. Broken glass. Wilted flowers. Cracked foundation on hollow cheeks. Red lips the stain of blood on ivory cloth. Festering flies. The beating of vultures’ wings. The snoring of satiated beasts. The stumbling home. Apologies. Sublimation. Conflation. Expiation. … One’s well-mannered pause until the other’s end, So that the one may pause… And begin again.
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The same Cricket has been outside my window for 5 endless nights. I stay awake and think about all of the dark ones I stayed up until 4am trying to find some sort of light. I never found the light. If I recall, you were the one who searched for it. And now this has got my ever disquieting mind reeling- Did you find me light? Or was it false hope?A flashlight with dead batteries? That's how I feel now- Like a car with no engine, Empty under the hood. I don't know why I trusted anyone anyhow. My heart feels like lead, A deadweight in my chest, Broken from the drop off the cliff. Of course you advised it to jump. This same cricket has been here making the same ******* noise - almost like how my mind tells me consistently how naive I was to trust. It hasn't shut up in 6 hellish nights.I can't stand these ******* fights. But you told me I must believe in the lies. Not in so many words- I was supposed to trust the "truth" I guess it was a part of my demise. Leave me to think I had the light, But when I went to use the power it is mysteriously out of service Right? You obviously don't realize how far you push me down into the water. How close I've been to drowning over- Over and over again, only to barely claw my way back to shore. The cricket is still outside and I have tried to smother his sound with the conflation of sad songs, But that's just not fair. He sings of his sorrows just as well as I. The cricket is outside my window and I let him stay now For we both know this feeling Update: I killed the cricket- he knew too much.
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Jul 7, 2015
Jul 7, 2015 at 2:55 AM UTC
Jiminy Cricket
The same Cricket has been outside my window for 5 endless nights. I stay awake and think about all of the dark ones I stayed up until 4am trying to find some sort of light. I never found the light. If I recall, you were the one who searched for it. And now this has got my ever disquieting mind reeling- Did you find me light? Or was it false hope?A flashlight with dead batteries? That's how I feel now- Like a car with no engine, Empty under the hood. I don't know why I trusted anyone anyhow. My heart feels like lead, A deadweight in my chest, Broken from the drop off the cliff. Of course you advised it to jump. This same cricket has been here making the same ******* noise - almost like how my mind tells me consistently how naive I was to trust. It hasn't shut up in 6 hellish nights.I can't stand these ******* fights. But you told me I must believe in the lies. Not in so many words- I was supposed to trust the "truth" I guess it was a part of my demise. Leave me to think I had the light, But when I went to use the power it is mysteriously out of service Right? You obviously don't realize how far you push me down into the water. How close I've been to drowning over- Over and over again, only to barely claw my way back to shore. The cricket is still outside and I have tried to smother his sound with the conflation of sad songs, But that's just not fair. He sings of his sorrows just as well as I. The cricket is outside my window and I let him stay now For we both know this feeling Update: I killed the cricket- he knew too much.
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He's looking at me again. Eyes fixed like he was insane. Clay pipe propped on lips, pondering, seriously sepia wondering. No name on the severe brown frame. He stares but doesn't see me. I don't see him for what he was. I see a fictional facsimile, conflation of another's fantasies - comic working class - salt of the Earth - his own man - hero or Caliban.
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Jul 8, 2015
Jul 8, 2015 at 9:40 AM UTC
The Sepia Portrait
Conflation groweth between ourn sinews We shalt row upon the island's with canoe's; The eyelet's aloft us shalt sprinkle celestial powder We're long away from civilization, dusk hour's. Fondu pupil's, art the culture to that moment Her hug's, like gods cloak, encases me with a bonus; Snug Creation's forgetting the cares around them The only thing's we thinkest of, art the love's blend. Justice run's through ourn courtship As the scales art finely balanced; None ogre's to looketh over ourn shoulder's Ourn closeness, keepeth them silenced. ©Brandon nagley ©Lonesome poets poetry ©Earl Jane dedication
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 10:57 PM UTC
Closeness, keepeth them silenced
withered eyes a crescent moon of dusk under the pupils red lightning cracking across blank pages born from some unseen space beyond the corners when the head lolls back the neck snaps to refocusing on the unseen nothing in the physical to grasp at looking through all layers of deceit at an inside a center that cannot exist but is always there motion is the mirror the frame the negatives rolling seamlessly teeth and sprockets a perpetual rotation immune to friction faction and conflation singular in its mindlessness just an eye bloodshot with nebulae as everything collapses in on itself at the speed of light passing through the central retinal vein feeding information into the unseen center of all
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Nov 12, 2014
Nov 12, 2014 at 4:52 PM UTC
central retinal vein
*i'm just a conflation of swollen lips and drunken midnights*
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Jul 25, 2016
Jul 25, 2016 at 10:33 PM UTC
i am pain (10w)
Was it I who wondered Sipping on a concrete straw Waiting through the renegade Pondering the diamond before me It was made of paper Defer through me Subvert the Zipf distribution It fades as the cicadas in the leaves The starry nights close in like curtains covering the sun The sky a theatrical production The structure effacing complexity One on hand conflation, projection, fuerza One the other, subversion What is a hand Black dog wanders through the meadow Sing me an odor of the breeze Trolleys carve out ravines in their wake The past has with it this mystique, this ambiguity to understand is to circumambulate
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Apr 8, 2015
Apr 8, 2015 at 9:04 PM UTC
A Walk In Vallejo
A conflation of personalities Two merged into one In a single being Who are you? I don’t know How do you feel? I’m not sure There’s war Inside my head I want everything And nothing All at once There’s so much going on A war inside my mind I don’t who I am I don’t know how I feel All I know is I want This confusion To end
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Jan 23, 2014
Jan 23, 2014 at 8:54 PM UTC
Conflate
And lo! The soul worn thin And so the story begins The words feel swallowed Hollowed by their meaning And with force followed By desperate screaming For purpose and strength To face the wild future Planned for at length And dashed in good measure Errrreeeeeeeumumunumb Nerevum nerum numb Blazed into tomorrow Carrying things to yesterday And accidentally making a point About the illusion of time and the inevitable conflation of meaning in words There are things that words cannot describe And emotions cannot grasp Things that are unbearably simple With depth and meaning vast Things that the poetic form cannot possibly imagine Things so sublime That men fall silent and bow their heads And angels sing in the hearts of noble song bearing birds Where unintelligible jibberish is the only thing that you feel And the words flow freely, feeling as if without will Or manner or flow or ugly grumbling pensive cynicism Where more words are ripped out of the dictionary for affect And boring recursive narration is the only option left As the mind jumps from topic to topic In an unending string of free associations Listening to a man with white hair and beard A young writer blathers impetuously Longing only for sublime novelty And castrate words of biting wit And pure and simple truth And lyrics of pure aesthetic And also fame and fortune **** it all, he wants it all
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May 27, 2014
May 27, 2014 at 7:56 PM UTC
Untitled
A conflation of Hues filled with lush mystery Unmatched artistry.
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Sep 24, 2020
Sep 24, 2020 at 9:16 AM UTC
Ocean eyes.