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"critique" poems
Success never came without critique & hate No matter friend or foe, they'll close down their gate. The smile will turn into a smirk The eyes will change into a lurk Some may even walk on to the other side But that's when you'll know you're doing it right Your light maybe blinding to some and some may even turn to ash but don't give heed to the glare, whispers and oh all the gnash. Dance on your victory, you've made them so proud, the ones who love you; so bring down the shroud; of darkness and dullness & shout out to call, your strength and beauty that some may appal. Cause' you are a diamond that shines oh so bright, but some may not see it, so why don't you guide. Cause' you've got it right So stand tall with pride Cause' you are the light and you shine so bright. A.S.
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Sep 4, 2018
Sep 4, 2018 at 11:52 AM UTC
Shine Through.
Hi, below I copy a humorous hiabun, which I shared as an exercise to mentor enquiring and inspired poets to learn, so they might adopt and try different techniques and then give critique together with awesome comments... Yes, I used the words *** ****** and **** for context the rest was left to an individual imagination as in good poetry! It included reflective commentary encompasses innocent classification terminology used in the critique, reading, examining, appreciating, understanding and writing of poetry for example: POETIC DEVICES (enjambement, duality, keriji, images, collocation, semantic, oxymoron, repetition, listing etc.), STORY (personification, characterisation, subject, context, voice etc.), IMAGERY (synaesthesia), STRUCTURE ( lineation, breaks, syntactic etc.), SOUNDS (syllables, rhyme, alliteration, pace, musicality, phrasing, beat, assonance, onomatopoeia, mouthed rhythms, patterned) and WORDS (preposition, determiner, verbs, adverbs, lexical, nouns, adjectives) used by poets, critics and academics... And here it is : **** tongue-in-cheek haibun - a reflective commentary on writing a popular tanka Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality! Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite **
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May 2, 2010
May 2, 2010 at 7:10 PM UTC
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITIQUE v SOMETHING WORSE
Hi, below I copy a humorous hiabun, which I shared as an exercise to mentor enquiring and inspired poets to learn, so they might adopt and try different techniques and then give critique together with awesome comments... Yes, I used the words *** ****** and **** for context the rest was left to an individual imagination as in good poetry! It included reflective commentary encompasses innocent classification terminology used in the critique, reading, examining, appreciating, understanding and writing of poetry for example: POETIC DEVICES (enjambement, duality, keriji, images, collocation, semantic, oxymoron, repetition, listing etc.), STORY (personification, characterisation, subject, context, voice etc.), IMAGERY (synaesthesia), STRUCTURE ( lineation, breaks, syntactic etc.), SOUNDS (syllables, rhyme, alliteration, pace, musicality, phrasing, beat, assonance, onomatopoeia, mouthed rhythms, patterned) and WORDS (preposition, determiner, verbs, adverbs, lexical, nouns, adjectives) used by poets, critics and academics... And here it is : **** tongue-in-cheek haibun - a reflective commentary on writing a popular tanka Eye lashes flicker a shared urgent interest parting - dancing smile My first inspiration was *** passionate life squeezing screaming *** the thumping wall musicality of *** exhaustingly inventive sweaty and wet. I wanted to make it a senryu but for duality the female characterisation demanded two more lines each extending to seven syllables.   Arousing images captured her moaning splashing loneliness in unusual collocation. I was first excited by the placement of a hovering extended enjambement to give life to my final line, whilst also considering the satisfaction in using noisy mouthed rhythms.   I believe I easily hid the wet aroused context with a watery semantic field, that suggested she would choke and drown. So in my last line I had ‘pleasures’ as a cutting keriji to make clear the dominating ****** context, having previously used a preposition and determiner to maintain duality! Exhausted shivers in windowed naked currents unfolding sinking then surfing vital wavelets drowning screams - pleasures wet bite **
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Staunch masculinity I have hair on my chest I drink whiskey I work out I like Karate I drink beer I like heavy metal Let’s fight Lets **** I smoke I stay out late I win I read (ie: I’m smarter than you.) Let’s **** Sometimes I lose ….but I learn I don’t care That’s my job I had steak for lunch Do you want to **** I provide I take care of business C’mon let’s **** I build I take I teach I preach Let’s **** I’m happy Don’t cut me off in traffic I lead I challenge How about we **** I yell I critique I solve Are we going to **** I drive a sports car I save money I spend money I make money I brag I show off I really really need to **** I said I drive sports car I drink…. did I mention that. Let’s **** **** Yeah **** I wait I wait I’m patient I drink I smoke I emote We aren’t going to **** are we? I work out I compete I shoot guns I ride a motorcycle I’m cultured Don’t make me beg for it ***** I judge I **** I love I ponder I create I scheme I think you are really special Let's **** I can lift heavy boxes I can hang pictures I can drive you around I can buy you dinner **** **** ****
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Jan 18, 2014
Jan 18, 2014 at 1:24 AM UTC
Staunch Masculinity
It doesn't matter how hard I try I never seem to get away Cause after all you did to me I fear these feelings will always stay *Your lies I believed were the truth beneath The pain recedes but the heart bleeds My instincts were right all along I’m just a part of your love song* You see, I live my life in fear Fear I won't succeed And every small critique I get Makes me once again recede *My Iloveyous to you were inevitable Like the sun emitting his ardor Despite the moon in slumber’s nocturne He shines brightly with fervor* I live my life, always afraid That I am not on the right path And if I take one small misstep I'll have to face somebody's wrath *Time consumes me while I waste it away Like grains of sand as I clenched and ran Only to lose it Again and again* I am eternally scared That all my judgments are wrong And if I ever meet someone They'll only like me for so long *But then I met you out of the blue You were trying to forget someone too We sparked like fireworks in the night sky But the fire burnt out and our colors faded hue* I live my life in constant fear I fear that you were right I simply am not good enough And I will not be alright *Thank you for proving me right That we were not meant to be How could you love another light When I was the one your darkness pleased* But even worse than all these things Is my terror that someday I will meet someone else like you And not be able to get away. *You complete me &* You destroyed me
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Apr 3, 2015
Apr 3, 2015 at 2:38 AM UTC
Philophobia (Collab with Erenn)
She says she doesn’t have the strength within herself to write poetry. Yes, her. The one who so often nourished me with song til my soul began to learn how to hunt for itself, whose word carried weight in leading me to pick my own instrument, albeit one of a different tone, as the key in keyboard became prominent for the first time and the sound of purposeful fingers upon it could be considered, only in the right light, synonymous to the plucking of strings, just as rooted in emotion. Yet she's the first to say that she herself can't do it. Thing is, I suppose we’re politely at odds on the matter. She favors poetry that’s sharper, with a cleaner cut, that’s message is immediate and jarring as a conduit running from soul through skin, or a loose-lipped diary finally freed from lock and key. And when she declared it, I started to consider what my poems seem to me: Blackberry bushes (but kinder, I hope) that snag and immerse just long enough to make me feel I’ve had an effect. I’ve used writing to expel my most gnarled feelings to any passerby who’s maybe felt the same. Like crying in a mirror: alarming, but oddly refreshing, and an indefinite reminder that our aches are never only our own. Still, I'm not sure why it blows my mind to hear that even the most glamorous hearts, who wear confidence as a summer breeze that's always in their favor and who inspire, from beau gestures to sleight of hand, are included in those who find themselves pacing back, back and forth, begging curbside at the dime store for a scrap of the same feed that convinces a heart to pump ink. But she says that any art that's enjoyed is worth it. So while she seeks out words that bare the bones, I’ll stay and make a meal of the marrow, hollowing them so that the poetry may have a rightful place to reverberate as hymns in a universal monastery. But hell, like I’m any old soul. I dress nicer than I otherwise would, turn to the mother who told me I don’t meet her lowest standards, and ask for a critique. All for the moment when she greets me at the door with a legendary G#. ...Now please, could you spare a dime?
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Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 2:27 PM UTC
This Just In: No Showboat's Without a Few Leaks, Either
She says she doesn’t have the strength within herself to write poetry. Yes, her. The one who so often nourished me with song til my soul began to learn how to hunt for itself, whose word carried weight in leading me to pick my own instrument, albeit one of a different tone, as the key in keyboard became prominent for the first time and the sound of purposeful fingers upon it could be considered, only in the right light, synonymous to the plucking of strings, just as rooted in emotion. Yet she's the first to say that she herself can't do it. Thing is, I suppose we’re politely at odds on the matter. She favors poetry that’s sharper, with a cleaner cut, that’s message is immediate and jarring as a conduit running from soul through skin, or a loose-lipped diary finally freed from lock and key. And when she declared it, I started to consider what my poems seem to me: Blackberry bushes (but kinder, I hope) that snag and immerse just long enough to make me feel I’ve had an effect. I’ve used writing to expel my most gnarled feelings to any passerby who’s maybe felt the same. Like crying in a mirror: alarming, but oddly refreshing, and an indefinite reminder that our aches are never only our own. Still, I'm not sure why it blows my mind to hear that even the most glamorous hearts, who wear confidence as a summer breeze that's always in their favor and who inspire, from beau gestures to sleight of hand, are included in those who find themselves pacing back, back and forth, begging curbside at the dime store for a scrap of the same feed that convinces a heart to pump ink. But she says that any art that's enjoyed is worth it. So while she seeks out words that bare the bones, I’ll stay and make a meal of the marrow, hollowing them so that the poetry may have a rightful place to reverberate as hymns in a universal monastery. But hell, like I’m any old soul. I dress nicer than I otherwise would, turn to the mother who told me I don’t meet her lowest standards, and ask for a critique. All for the moment when she greets me at the door with a legendary G#. ...Now please, could you spare a dime?
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Snaking down my wrist, beside pulsing, blue-green veins Were obnoxious scars that left their mark As if I needed another reminder of how some wounds could never heal. This wrist of mine weathered more harm Than a house in the eye of a hurricane It bore the brunt of raw, undiluted, out of control anger And frustration that my reflection brings. As I stare back at the mirror, I try to decipher the meaning behind beauty And wonder if I could ever be like her. But as my reflection cries and I see the swollen, red-rimmed eyes I know only that I am not attractive Not enough for you to think of me as worthy. The angry welts and slashes are not merely scars But ashes of the remains of my feelings, the aftermath third degree burns After you were done with your self-justified critique. After you took away my light and peace. That day I did not lost only you But pieces of me I thought was mine. You burned everything I thought I knew; In the flames of doubt and insecurity, I lost my mind. I lost my foothold and you let me fall down the darkest abyss Into my own version of hell Straight out of my worst nightmare When I saw a glimmer of light again as a breathing corpse, No more than a frankenstein fixed together with thread I saw the masterpiece of red on my wrists And I saw that I was no longer whole. All I know now is that I am afraid Of being left behind by my own shadow In this darkness I know now.
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Jan 19, 2014
Jan 19, 2014 at 11:00 AM UTC
Frankenstein
There once was a man who lived in a tower He had orange skin and fools gave him power His hands shook with fury at every critique While his family's obligations were to remain chic His head began to swell while his eyes grew smaller But his silly little brain it began to falter This was a man who thought ****** assault was a joke Until Women around the world began to hope that he'd choke Women gathered and rallied and screamed for their rights They took to the streets in ***** hats and tights The man did not like this, how dare they disagree! With the world he was trying to create Full of misogyny
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Mar 15, 2017
Mar 15, 2017 at 4:56 PM UTC
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**** SON I see your name glisten, your heart races And with this multikill you will reach high places scream aloud and build up the streak Listen to fggts as they critique MLG m9, Don't play if your noob hardc0re the only way we do 1v1 m3 if your so tough Il nock you out, im 6ft and buff **** dont even try to stop me Im a genius, im pro, im to mlgee The more you boast, the harder you'll crash *** off m9 your just jealous of my ca$h ******* HACKER **** off scrub you dont even lift Hubris and Pride, condemned and forsaken Act like a god, treated like Satan The game is over, you've won and congrats. I'm sure your more of a man after that. mlg for lyfe yeah right onto the next game because you're alone and need people online to call your own
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Sep 24, 2014
Sep 24, 2014 at 6:55 AM UTC
mlg p03m
Ornery odious ordinate ostensive opulence ornate optimal Motivity meatus meticulous morsel moribund mendacity monstrance Lucidity lingam loquacity longevous licentious lurid languishing Votary volition verve venery vector vauntness vast Talismanically telepathy tantamount terrestrial tellurian transition tractive Idolatry -ics incus ictus ichor icon icky Yogi yowl yore yoni yerk yenta yantra Gimpy gesticulation genre gestational glitch genuflection grandiose Dastardly douceur denouement denigrational deplorable despicable desperate Paltry potentate portentous plagiaristic pandemic plenipotentiary plenary Jouncy jocular jeopardy jettison jurisprudence jaunt juxtaposition Ramify repartee radix recital rectitude rendition repertoire Beastly bartizan bodacious belligerent brusque blatant blasphemously Enmity exigency exacerbation extemporaneous edifice eulogy exoneration Zoolatry zoomorphic zilch Zephyr zoic zygosity zealotry Sultry solace subtlety substantiation suborn subliminal sensorium Unity ultimatum usurping unfathomable uncanny unbridled unary ***** hornswoggle horizon huckster homogeny holistic heuristic Nugatory notch nostrum notorious nihilism nimiety nimbus Wrathy wreak wroth wrought wrest wrangle warranty Artistry autonomy articulation agility acuity asperity acerbity Keeky kangaroo court kowtow kobold kleptomania kinetics kinesiology Xylography xenophile xerophilous xylophagous xylem xanadu xenobiotic Critically credibility critique coercion conjugational conjunctive corporeal Queasy quasi quantum quintessence quagmire quixotic quantify Flighty flippant flamboyance faux pas fornicatious fictitious finite
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Jan 22, 2013
Jan 22, 2013 at 5:31 AM UTC
Iconoclasm
Ornery odious ordinate ostensive opulence ornate optimal Motivity meatus meticulous morsel moribund mendacity monstrance Lucidity lingam loquacity longevous licentious lurid languishing Votary volition verve venery vector vauntness vast Talismanically telepathy tantamount terrestrial tellurian transition tractive Idolatry -ics incus ictus ichor icon icky Yogi yowl yore yoni yerk yenta yantra Gimpy gesticulation genre gestational glitch genuflection grandiose Dastardly douceur denouement denigrational deplorable despicable desperate Paltry potentate portentous plagiaristic pandemic plenipotentiary plenary Jouncy jocular jeopardy jettison jurisprudence jaunt juxtaposition Ramify repartee radix recital rectitude rendition repertoire Beastly bartizan bodacious belligerent brusque blatant blasphemously Enmity exigency exacerbation extemporaneous edifice eulogy exoneration Zoolatry zoomorphic zilch Zephyr zoic zygosity zealotry Sultry solace subtlety substantiation suborn subliminal sensorium Unity ultimatum usurping unfathomable uncanny unbridled unary ***** hornswoggle horizon huckster homogeny holistic heuristic Nugatory notch nostrum notorious nihilism nimiety nimbus Wrathy wreak wroth wrought wrest wrangle warranty Artistry autonomy articulation agility acuity asperity acerbity Keeky kangaroo court kowtow kobold kleptomania kinetics kinesiology Xylography xenophile xerophilous xylophagous xylem xanadu xenobiotic Critically credibility critique coercion conjugational conjunctive corporeal Queasy quasi quantum quintessence quagmire quixotic quantify Flighty flippant flamboyance faux pas fornicatious fictitious finite
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Finite fictitious fornicatious faux pas flamboyance flippant flighty Quantify quixotic quagmire quintessence quantum quasi queasy Corporeal conjunctive conjugational coercion critique credibility critically Xenobiotic xanadu xylem xylophagous xerophilous xenophile xylography Kinesiology kinetics kleptomania kobold kowtow kangaroo court keeky             Acerbity asperity acuity agility articulation autonomy artistry Warranty wrangle wrest wrought wroth wreak wrathy Nimbus nimiety nihilism notorious nostrum notch nugatory Heuristic holistic homogeny huckster horizon hornswoggle ***** Unary unbridled uncanny unfathomable usurping ultimatum unity Sensorium subliminal suborn substantiation subtlety solace sultry Zealotry zygosity zoic Zephyr zilch  zoomorphic  zoolatry Exoneration eulogy edifice extemporaneous exaserbational exigency enmity Blasphemously blatant brusque belligerent bodacious bartizan beastly Repertoire rendition rectitude recital radix repartee ramify Juxtaposition jaunt jurisprudence jettison jeopardy jocular jouncy Plenary plenipotentiary pandemic plagiaristic portentous potentate paltry                      Desperate despicable deplorable denigrational denouement douceur dastardly Grandiose genuflection glitch gestational genre gesticulation gimpy Yantra yenta yerk yoni yore yowl yogi Icky icon ichor ictus incus -ics idolatry Tractive transition tellurian terrestrial tantamount telepathy talismanically Vast vauntness vector venery verve volition votary Languishing lurid licentious longevous loquacity lingam lucidity                                 Monstrance mendacity moribund morsel meticulous meatus motivity Optimal ornate opulence ostensive ordinate odious ornery
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Jan 23, 2013
Jan 23, 2013 at 5:48 AM UTC
Iconoclasm Epithet
Finite fictitious fornicatious faux pas flamboyance flippant flighty Quantify quixotic quagmire quintessence quantum quasi queasy Corporeal conjunctive conjugational coercion critique credibility critically Xenobiotic xanadu xylem xylophagous xerophilous xenophile xylography Kinesiology kinetics kleptomania kobold kowtow kangaroo court keeky             Acerbity asperity acuity agility articulation autonomy artistry Warranty wrangle wrest wrought wroth wreak wrathy Nimbus nimiety nihilism notorious nostrum notch nugatory Heuristic holistic homogeny huckster horizon hornswoggle ***** Unary unbridled uncanny unfathomable usurping ultimatum unity Sensorium subliminal suborn substantiation subtlety solace sultry Zealotry zygosity zoic Zephyr zilch  zoomorphic  zoolatry Exoneration eulogy edifice extemporaneous exaserbational exigency enmity Blasphemously blatant brusque belligerent bodacious bartizan beastly Repertoire rendition rectitude recital radix repartee ramify Juxtaposition jaunt jurisprudence jettison jeopardy jocular jouncy Plenary plenipotentiary pandemic plagiaristic portentous potentate paltry                      Desperate despicable deplorable denigrational denouement douceur dastardly Grandiose genuflection glitch gestational genre gesticulation gimpy Yantra yenta yerk yoni yore yowl yogi Icky icon ichor ictus incus -ics idolatry Tractive transition tellurian terrestrial tantamount telepathy talismanically Vast vauntness vector venery verve volition votary Languishing lurid licentious longevous loquacity lingam lucidity                                 Monstrance mendacity moribund morsel meticulous meatus motivity Optimal ornate opulence ostensive ordinate odious ornery
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And, you left me all alone, left in such a silence that I could't even believe you are about to leave. You left an undefined scar in my soul and my teardrops enchanted those memories we shared together and laughed over them hours. You went away in such silence that all I could do is just NOTHING but hearing you to mourn in such dogma. Tears just drop by my cheeks and I just wish you to come down and tell me,               "I am here, my darling,                Don't you worry child....                I can't ever leave you alone." They said, life isn't fair, life is never trustworthy. Now I see an feel that hard every night. I never felt that I can't hear your voice anymore anytime sooner or later. It all comes and goes.... what matters is the in-between time you spend together by thick and thin holding on to each other. You were lying on the bed when I last saw you and there also you were fighting to get over that period. Remember? We laughed there too when you said you had 26 milk pies and I strictly said, "Get well soon Dadu. After you go home you will be having curd-rice and "Khichudi". ..... And God never wanted that to happen maybe. After that you couldn't go back home, you left this virtual world that very night after suffering so profusely. You were 72 and I was 22; but we never bothered about this algorithm. There were healthy talks over he sunsets, over the pages of my sketchbooks. You were my biggest inspiration and critique for every work; cause you always questioned their existence and morality. You always chanted honesty throughout your life and give me strength, so that I can follow your path. One day, you will be a proud grandfather who will be seeing my works getting recognised all around the world and then we will laugh together... Me, from the terrace and You, from that sky. Come soon, come in a disguise, come as my soulmate, come as my midnight friend..... ....... but come back, please. because Payel misses your presence and laughter. I will weep and bawl on my bed some nights, knowing I can't see you anytime ever. That heart-wrenching pain and undefined scar in my lotus-heart will bloom someday with your desired presence in my success and failure both....    I believe so. I believe in you, I believe in us. Because, God snatched one of my biggest possession without even asking for it. You have to come back..... ... and you will. To those talks and platonic love, you are being missed Dadu. I wish, I had some digits to call you up just to ask, if they are providing you with some spicy food or not. LIVE FOREVER. YOUNG HEART N SOUL.
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Feb 2, 2015
Feb 2, 2015 at 4:17 PM UTC
And..... You left me all alone...
And, you left me all alone, left in such a silence that I could't even believe you are about to leave. You left an undefined scar in my soul and my teardrops enchanted those memories we shared together and laughed over them hours. You went away in such silence that all I could do is just NOTHING but hearing you to mourn in such dogma. Tears just drop by my cheeks and I just wish you to come down and tell me,               "I am here, my darling,                Don't you worry child....                I can't ever leave you alone." They said, life isn't fair, life is never trustworthy. Now I see an feel that hard every night. I never felt that I can't hear your voice anymore anytime sooner or later. It all comes and goes.... what matters is the in-between time you spend together by thick and thin holding on to each other. You were lying on the bed when I last saw you and there also you were fighting to get over that period. Remember? We laughed there too when you said you had 26 milk pies and I strictly said, "Get well soon Dadu. After you go home you will be having curd-rice and "Khichudi". ..... And God never wanted that to happen maybe. After that you couldn't go back home, you left this virtual world that very night after suffering so profusely. You were 72 and I was 22; but we never bothered about this algorithm. There were healthy talks over he sunsets, over the pages of my sketchbooks. You were my biggest inspiration and critique for every work; cause you always questioned their existence and morality. You always chanted honesty throughout your life and give me strength, so that I can follow your path. One day, you will be a proud grandfather who will be seeing my works getting recognised all around the world and then we will laugh together... Me, from the terrace and You, from that sky. Come soon, come in a disguise, come as my soulmate, come as my midnight friend..... ....... but come back, please. because Payel misses your presence and laughter. I will weep and bawl on my bed some nights, knowing I can't see you anytime ever. That heart-wrenching pain and undefined scar in my lotus-heart will bloom someday with your desired presence in my success and failure both....    I believe so. I believe in you, I believe in us. Because, God snatched one of my biggest possession without even asking for it. You have to come back..... ... and you will. To those talks and platonic love, you are being missed Dadu. I wish, I had some digits to call you up just to ask, if they are providing you with some spicy food or not. LIVE FOREVER. YOUNG HEART N SOUL.
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the child of the child of my woman, cries in the night, rooming next door, down the hall and he is all children that cry in the night, but he is more mine by right of quantity numerous are the kisses lavished, this biannual visit upon, his four year old oversized head, (so full of 'bains') his undersized, protuberanced belly body, a combo making him no longer baby, nor a grownup, both states, he denies accurately, maturely in a wobbly voice of utter certainty, but lacking the adjectives of what lies between, he debates his state thoughtfully, until distracted by other more pressing matters of state he is boy, little but vociferous, quiet, pensive, his head a weapon of...confusion and certainty that being four years old, he must perforce be permanently in skeptical awe of the world this is the best position ever, he has ascertained, to filter and behold anything, whatever newness arrives, which is constant, streaming and unending until new is fully digested, analyzed, and classified, as if he were a zoologist in a wild and untamed land only certain of what he knows with perfect certainty, he consults with me still, "you kidding?" such a sophisticated analytic interrogatory, wise in the ways of grownups, who, prone to deceive gleefully his very suspecting mind, so much so, they must be challenged and rebuffed all too frequently he cries in the night, normal tears of discomfort, physical or mental, I cannot tell, for his father his parental hearing more practiced, refined, has preceded me, such, as it should be, and I am dispatched back to my 3:00am bed, left only to ink contemplative ruminations on the state and nation of being four... and sixty, and still uncertain, even more than the little boy of wizened age of annualized four, the child of the child of my woman, on what is real, what is kidding, in a quest unending to better ascertain, the state of my own being and the transitory nature of everything all of what is thought certain, falls aside, under the withering, unwavering, critique of "you kidding?" and in this we are more kin than if our blood was physically shared
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Nov 29, 2014
Nov 29, 2014 at 4:24 AM UTC
On Being Four Years Old
the child of the child of my woman, cries in the night, rooming next door, down the hall and he is all children that cry in the night, but he is more mine by right of quantity numerous are the kisses lavished, this biannual visit upon, his four year old oversized head, (so full of 'bains') his undersized, protuberanced belly body, a combo making him no longer baby, nor a grownup, both states, he denies accurately, maturely in a wobbly voice of utter certainty, but lacking the adjectives of what lies between, he debates his state thoughtfully, until distracted by other more pressing matters of state he is boy, little but vociferous, quiet, pensive, his head a weapon of...confusion and certainty that being four years old, he must perforce be permanently in skeptical awe of the world this is the best position ever, he has ascertained, to filter and behold anything, whatever newness arrives, which is constant, streaming and unending until new is fully digested, analyzed, and classified, as if he were a zoologist in a wild and untamed land only certain of what he knows with perfect certainty, he consults with me still, "you kidding?" such a sophisticated analytic interrogatory, wise in the ways of grownups, who, prone to deceive gleefully his very suspecting mind, so much so, they must be challenged and rebuffed all too frequently he cries in the night, normal tears of discomfort, physical or mental, I cannot tell, for his father his parental hearing more practiced, refined, has preceded me, such, as it should be, and I am dispatched back to my 3:00am bed, left only to ink contemplative ruminations on the state and nation of being four... and sixty, and still uncertain, even more than the little boy of wizened age of annualized four, the child of the child of my woman, on what is real, what is kidding, in a quest unending to better ascertain, the state of my own being and the transitory nature of everything all of what is thought certain, falls aside, under the withering, unwavering, critique of "you kidding?" and in this we are more kin than if our blood was physically shared
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Nobody believes in me. But, neither do I, and that’s OK. But they don’t really know how I am, and if they knew, I am pretty sure they wouldn’t feel the same way. I sometimes feel like coming out of the closet, not because I am gay, but just for my personality. Then, I realize we are all in the closet. Even when you come out of the closet, you search for somewhere else to hide. But basically nobody will get out of the wardrobe, which makes sense, because we judge. We dislike everything. How people talk, dress, look, or even walk. We are so caught up on ******** that we don’t even get to evolve as people. I know I don’t. Could that be part of the system we grew up in? How do we differentiate a critique from simply judging. The critique highway goes straight into judge, or does it not? We might say — this is just a critique, it’s for your own good— but in reality, most of the times, we have already spoken about it to someone else. Why do we always need to get people’s approval to fit into this world, and therefore, are most unpopular “outcasts” really the most honest people to be around. I will never know, because I am as guilty as everyone else. Involved in the society that simply sits in the caffe window watching people pass by as you consider yourself better than them. Whatever. Once again, I am no better. I just find it sad to think that I am always searching from approval by bashing on other people, who have decided to live their life without caring about the dumb girl sitting by the window.
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Feb 29, 2016
Feb 29, 2016 at 9:49 PM UTC
Just thinking today...
Nobody believes in me. But, neither do I, and that’s OK. But they don’t really know how I am, and if they knew, I am pretty sure they wouldn’t feel the same way. I sometimes feel like coming out of the closet, not because I am gay, but just for my personality. Then, I realize we are all in the closet. Even when you come out of the closet, you search for somewhere else to hide. But basically nobody will get out of the wardrobe, which makes sense, because we judge. We dislike everything. How people talk, dress, look, or even walk. We are so caught up on ******** that we don’t even get to evolve as people. I know I don’t. Could that be part of the system we grew up in? How do we differentiate a critique from simply judging. The critique highway goes straight into judge, or does it not? We might say — this is just a critique, it’s for your own good— but in reality, most of the times, we have already spoken about it to someone else. Why do we always need to get people’s approval to fit into this world, and therefore, are most unpopular “outcasts” really the most honest people to be around. I will never know, because I am as guilty as everyone else. Involved in the society that simply sits in the caffe window watching people pass by as you consider yourself better than them. Whatever. Once again, I am no better. I just find it sad to think that I am always searching from approval by bashing on other people, who have decided to live their life without caring about the dumb girl sitting by the window.
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a miscarriage a road to nowhere an ****** a hybrid a chance missed a tarantula's kiss everything's lost a sea of critique a man chained in front of the mirror a priest reciting an unending bible everything's lost because perfection is the goal and failure is the only hope.
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Jul 27, 2013
Jul 27, 2013 at 12:44 AM UTC
Virgo
Writing is the frozen music of an ellipsis, the silent song of a lonesome poet who sings in the dark among howling winds crossing swords in the white shades of unseen things - a winter on the Pole on whose  obverse side there's Rio, and dancing and mirth and the sun's critique of hegemony. © Lazhar Bouazzi, May 31, 2016
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May 31, 2016
May 31, 2016 at 2:57 PM UTC
Writing
you acknowledge a concept no matter how you do and when you grasp onto it so easily you now know it is time to critique the painting to write the song to film the scene etcetera in order to express to one another means to lose what you knew at one point you played around to only discover all harmony but to only tear off a piece and feed that alone to the others once it was mastered was as if everything else was forgotten buried back into the depth's of your heart to never be found again unknown beauty infamous tragedy
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Jul 25, 2014
Jul 25, 2014 at 5:36 PM UTC
art's sacrifice
Searching for perfection is a mad man's game be prepared to lose it all trying to ****** a muse into my brain when inspiration stalls my thoughts are running free they often overwhelm me all I can hear's my own self critique and it's starting a mutiny and now... It's Anarchy between my ears Fighting for control by I am overcome with fear Joyous sadness, well-composed madness, I hold my sorrows dear 'cause it's Anarchy between my ears Now you're at the stake and the mob is going wild you realize that you're alone You did this to yourself- its in your head you crazy child only you can cut the rope my thoughts are running free they often overwhelm me all I can hear's my own self critique and its starting a mutiny and now.... It's anarchy between my ears Looking for some answers but I know I won't find them here sleepless nights, pointless fights, I don't think I can steer because its Anarchy between my ears It's anarchy between my ears hanging by a thread and yes I know the end is near I won't let go, I refuse to take 'no' it's been this way for years... It's Anarchy Between My Ears
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Nov 11, 2012
Nov 11, 2012 at 4:42 PM UTC
Anarchy
Writing is the frozen music of an ellipsis - a silent song of a lonesome poet who sings in the dark between howling winds crossing swords in the white shades of unseen things - a winter on the pole on whose  obverse side there's Rio, and mirth, and dancing, and the sun's critique of hegemony. © LazharBouazzi
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Jul 28, 2018
Jul 28, 2018 at 8:36 PM UTC
Writing
tattoo ourselves in electric ink memorializing calendars, diaries of observantional digits, black on white, no gray, birthdays, anniversaries, dates of passing, starting lines, occasional achievements, departure dates, even glaring failures, sundial mundane records of diurnal habitude…even defining self by, bye, byte marks upon flesh, upon our calendar *not my first trip-tracking, he ruefully rues, wry smiling, many voyages of indeterminate measuring length, leaving litter of arrays of hopeful estimations & destinations, each unequal, any or all possibilities, each day notated, without critique or commentary, the numbers are the gaols (jails) of goals, target, indeterminate determination, terrific, horrific, introspections, inverse images resolve, resolute* a year ago, +/- a few days,, new travelogue commenced, notated but not annotated, just  numerical truths, (sans comments for the divine nature of numbers don’t lie) and today my calculator app informs, that I am now 19.4 % lesser, but that clarifies less than expected naturally this provokes a natty, spirited, self-inquiry, lessened, lessor, for better or for worse? have the physical alterations accompanying this reduction mean exactly what, if, it should be, a greater lesser? here is the hard part. your have always been a mirror~poet, laughing, bemoaning the unvarnished, unshaven AM sightings of a human perpetual dissatisfied, the external never denying the interior “less~than,” a J Peterman catalogue of weathered ****** expressions, counter-parted by multiple Venn diagram intersections, of experiential labeled bits & pieces of emotional empirical less than good, not even close to perfect, so now that I am *gaunt, spare, lean, grayed, narrower, again ruefully rue, the even more visible truth reflection eye~hidden:* I, am the sum of the weight of my history, my deeds, my disbeliefs, murderous deeds, weak choices and that hasn’t changed nary an ounce, no matter many times examined, indeed I am forever a lesser man, there, internal infernal too…
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Apr 9, 2023
Apr 9, 2023 at 2:12 PM UTC
19.4% lesser
tattoo ourselves in electric ink memorializing calendars, diaries of observantional digits, black on white, no gray, birthdays, anniversaries, dates of passing, starting lines, occasional achievements, departure dates, even glaring failures, sundial mundane records of diurnal habitude…even defining self by, bye, byte marks upon flesh, upon our calendar *not my first trip-tracking, he ruefully rues, wry smiling, many voyages of indeterminate measuring length, leaving litter of arrays of hopeful estimations & destinations, each unequal, any or all possibilities, each day notated, without critique or commentary, the numbers are the gaols (jails) of goals, target, indeterminate determination, terrific, horrific, introspections, inverse images resolve, resolute* a year ago, +/- a few days,, new travelogue commenced, notated but not annotated, just  numerical truths, (sans comments for the divine nature of numbers don’t lie) and today my calculator app informs, that I am now 19.4 % lesser, but that clarifies less than expected naturally this provokes a natty, spirited, self-inquiry, lessened, lessor, for better or for worse? have the physical alterations accompanying this reduction mean exactly what, if, it should be, a greater lesser? here is the hard part. your have always been a mirror~poet, laughing, bemoaning the unvarnished, unshaven AM sightings of a human perpetual dissatisfied, the external never denying the interior “less~than,” a J Peterman catalogue of weathered ****** expressions, counter-parted by multiple Venn diagram intersections, of experiential labeled bits & pieces of emotional empirical less than good, not even close to perfect, so now that I am *gaunt, spare, lean, grayed, narrower, again ruefully rue, the even more visible truth reflection eye~hidden:* I, am the sum of the weight of my history, my deeds, my disbeliefs, murderous deeds, weak choices and that hasn’t changed nary an ounce, no matter many times examined, indeed I am forever a lesser man, there, internal infernal too…
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It's in his shadow we plead Under his wrath we bleed His destruction leaks hate into the weak Leaving the unsubstantial reaping his critique His actions scorned through years of neglect It's in his perception only, that we become wrecked Why do we follow knowing wrong from right Pushing those we love away from the light His power is without doubt equal to the greats Although derived from stray minded it opens the gates The gates into the souls of those who are tattered Turning old memories to ones now shattered Although through it all, we have nothing to fear For he is nothing more than a broken mirror It just takes practice to realize his weakness All his power is nothing to the strong but bleakness It's in his own prison he will rot Although it's up to us to become the Juggernaut -Joseph B Schneider
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Aug 17, 2014
Aug 17, 2014 at 10:19 PM UTC
Juggernaut
it's inherent ontology, it's not even necessary to process inherited ontology; inherited ontology can be riddled and lost to abstraction like the invention of crosswords as antidote to the drilling-in of the Bible... but inherent ontology? inherent is a tautological invitation to italicise the word ontology - tautology anti synonym - the doubly stressed, point origin secured, but from two adjacent / adjective angles - well, might as well be a compound, the adjacent-adjective, when language meets math and math meets.... d'uh... or simply arithmetic, because that's how it's easily translated, arithmetic is grey people and math the rich... language the poets and grammar the farts. a shortened critique of pure reason -                                                                   a) based on phenomena                     (things most likely talked about) and                                             b) based of noumenna                                         (things least likely talked about).... i.e.                    a) and the ego implant, and                                                      b) the god implant - likewise the zealots on either side, bleep bleep beep r r e r s.... and muslims... i forgot to mention that Kant forgot to mention the trigonometric foundations as justifying owning a villa or whatnot, the same foundations of having the implant ego secured and willed are the same parameters of the implant god secured and thought the point being dynamic parallelism, mid-way between cosine and sine rigid fluctuation tangents occur, the ridiculous abbreviations, the p.s., and ibis.; you're basically born with ego or you're born with god - there's no woof woof Pavlov chime chime in between - ring-a-ding-ding-surprise? there's no side-winding to create cinema - being born with ego is explained clearly, coerced with monetary affairs; being born with god is explained "clearly", coerced with murderers, lastly - no psychological theory will box-me-in given the lost tribalism and the usage of the trans-valuation of the synonym of thing - with money came slang - and all thorough evils, with slang, synonyms, antonyms, critique of vocab., Arizona in the ******* Amazon - i'm basically saying what Kant said: god isn't uncool or whatever atheism tends to forget, it's an implant of functioning, we can't rid it by argument, and we certainly can't accept it by prayer - unless we're dumb enough to do either for worth of understanding tornadoes; because that's were Seymour Hoffman started for me, filming Twister.
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Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 7:29 PM UTC
a shortened critique of pure reason / adjacent-adjective compound
it's inherent ontology, it's not even necessary to process inherited ontology; inherited ontology can be riddled and lost to abstraction like the invention of crosswords as antidote to the drilling-in of the Bible... but inherent ontology? inherent is a tautological invitation to italicise the word ontology - tautology anti synonym - the doubly stressed, point origin secured, but from two adjacent / adjective angles - well, might as well be a compound, the adjacent-adjective, when language meets math and math meets.... d'uh... or simply arithmetic, because that's how it's easily translated, arithmetic is grey people and math the rich... language the poets and grammar the farts. a shortened critique of pure reason -                                                                   a) based on phenomena                     (things most likely talked about) and                                             b) based of noumenna                                         (things least likely talked about).... i.e.                    a) and the ego implant, and                                                      b) the god implant - likewise the zealots on either side, bleep bleep beep r r e r s.... and muslims... i forgot to mention that Kant forgot to mention the trigonometric foundations as justifying owning a villa or whatnot, the same foundations of having the implant ego secured and willed are the same parameters of the implant god secured and thought the point being dynamic parallelism, mid-way between cosine and sine rigid fluctuation tangents occur, the ridiculous abbreviations, the p.s., and ibis.; you're basically born with ego or you're born with god - there's no woof woof Pavlov chime chime in between - ring-a-ding-ding-surprise? there's no side-winding to create cinema - being born with ego is explained clearly, coerced with monetary affairs; being born with god is explained "clearly", coerced with murderers, lastly - no psychological theory will box-me-in given the lost tribalism and the usage of the trans-valuation of the synonym of thing - with money came slang - and all thorough evils, with slang, synonyms, antonyms, critique of vocab., Arizona in the ******* Amazon - i'm basically saying what Kant said: god isn't uncool or whatever atheism tends to forget, it's an implant of functioning, we can't rid it by argument, and we certainly can't accept it by prayer - unless we're dumb enough to do either for worth of understanding tornadoes; because that's were Seymour Hoffman started for me, filming Twister.
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Dark driveways in muggy weather Look like sand stuck in a feather Ferns and curbs don't go together. Clean, thoughts on it Wrong again Seemed, nope not this song again A misty clip Of winter **** Seemed so soft and fond again. Face the throat and choke the face Wait for boats, critique the wave Answer into sushi dish, 'Was this really once a fish?' You, oh you! Oh you, oh you. True, we knew! Who knew? Not you. Don't begin to read the news Now it's burning rows of twos Ferns and curbs don't go together Runny nose in sunny weather Feel like lakes lassoed and tethered Ferns and curbs don't go together.
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Jan 15, 2013
Jan 15, 2013 at 7:56 PM UTC
Ferns and curbs don't go together
I have not been well lately But I have a secret to tell you It’s a success story: my most secret success You see, I’m very skilled in crafting holes And I’ve punched a massive hole Right through the middle of my life Please, don’t mistake this accomplishment for the result of talent This is a skill and it takes practice to master I went to college and learned to turn theories and ideals from basin to sieve I learned to critique everything hopeful And punched a hole right through the heart of hope I honed my ability to close out creativity I built a track down which to guide concrete linear thoughts And I learned to use said thoughts as a battering ram with which to Knock a hole in the barricaded door to dissatisfaction And, though this skill is often practical As you know, one cannot walk around wearing an open hole So, a corresponding skill has successfully emerged In parallel with nurturing voids I have learned to conceal each and every hole Sometimes with a thick canvass and Sometimes with a paper-thin veneer I may have learned to wrap a package And to tie a bow With the express purpose of packaging The broken gift of life Full of ugly holes And, now, all that is left to complete the perfect ending to this success story Is to grow old in a neatly kept apartment Filled with the unseen haunts of relationships neatly hole-punched and Filed in a hidden mental cabinet Next to a night stand where I keep my phone and glasses And across from the bed There will be a glass trophy case Full of trophies denoting various acceptable successes But, just between you and I The largest trophy denoting the largest success Will be a lifetime achievement award Bestowed for hollowing out what could have been A beautiful life.
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Feb 21, 2013
Feb 21, 2013 at 4:07 PM UTC
Unwell
I have not been well lately But I have a secret to tell you It’s a success story: my most secret success You see, I’m very skilled in crafting holes And I’ve punched a massive hole Right through the middle of my life Please, don’t mistake this accomplishment for the result of talent This is a skill and it takes practice to master I went to college and learned to turn theories and ideals from basin to sieve I learned to critique everything hopeful And punched a hole right through the heart of hope I honed my ability to close out creativity I built a track down which to guide concrete linear thoughts And I learned to use said thoughts as a battering ram with which to Knock a hole in the barricaded door to dissatisfaction And, though this skill is often practical As you know, one cannot walk around wearing an open hole So, a corresponding skill has successfully emerged In parallel with nurturing voids I have learned to conceal each and every hole Sometimes with a thick canvass and Sometimes with a paper-thin veneer I may have learned to wrap a package And to tie a bow With the express purpose of packaging The broken gift of life Full of ugly holes And, now, all that is left to complete the perfect ending to this success story Is to grow old in a neatly kept apartment Filled with the unseen haunts of relationships neatly hole-punched and Filed in a hidden mental cabinet Next to a night stand where I keep my phone and glasses And across from the bed There will be a glass trophy case Full of trophies denoting various acceptable successes But, just between you and I The largest trophy denoting the largest success Will be a lifetime achievement award Bestowed for hollowing out what could have been A beautiful life.
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Fertile earth’s seductive sorcery Like ephemeral effulgence’s effluent effusion Can lead you to believe that it’s not a travesty Like life’s visceral intuitive eternal is not lost in subtle evasive confusion Life’s virile translucence reflects this glow Like an aorist ensemble of interludes transposition Can lead you to believe that you’re in the know Like omnipresence presages omniscience’s ubiquity is existential exigency’s peroration’s exposition Corporeally preternatural metaphysical mystique Like a mirador bartizan tableau panorama Can inspire us to rise above its critique Like spatiotemporal’s telemetry incarnate is creation’s vivid intrepid cyclorama Spectral verve’s liaison’s consortium Like eclectic synectic’s conclave’s fatidic Can leave you lost in germane compendium Like terminus thrall’s apriori inclination is transcendental accession’s endemic mnemonic Monad’s transitional majestic splendor Like residual harmonic vibration’s resilience Can autonomously evoke and vicariously render Like rubato’s actuator’s prospectus revealed is orchestration rendition’s intriguing brilliance Eidetic preterit’s aesthetic amendments Like protractive analyses’ dimensional delineation Can lead to cogent salacious enticements Like phantasmagoria’s fantasia fantastication’s magniloquence is sultry solace’s ostentatious ideation
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Jan 12, 2013
Jan 12, 2013 at 8:07 PM UTC
Verbose
Some have tried to tell me not to write as I see fit; they wish to impose their rules and their taste onto and into my personal expression. My Art. While I do always seek honest and fair critique; attempted Censorship is outright offensive. At heart, I'm a ******* Artist, a slave only to my own Will; not some ******* demagogue merely sacrificing his own Quill. **** 'em, and their illusory book of unreal rules; I'll write as I ******* please: I'll write how I want about what I want as often as I want on what I want where I want when I want, and so can anyone else, *or so I think. It can be so hard to tell..* I really hope I'm not special in that regard. The pen is mightiest when it refuses to compromise. **** 'em and their failed dogmatic domineering. **** 'em and their fake-ass, ego-inspired rules. **** 'em. Once more: **** 'em. And, *lest we forget; **** the living hell out of them!** (Though it would surely take a good while!)*
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Nov 11, 2013
Nov 11, 2013 at 4:33 AM UTC
on Attempted Censorship