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The shades of gray are nearly infinite- mirroring attitudes regarding our sin. Degrees of separation give distinction to human perception of ugliness within. Living now in this ‘Age of Information’ has not made life much more palatable; visible is God’s Truth and Satan’s lies, as individuals determine what’s palpable. Gobs of available data doesn’t translate into experience and useful wisdom directly. Real sapience, is shown by the Holy Spirit, when the ideas of faith are under scrutiny. Biblical principles enable all to overcome corrosive powers of intellectual pollution; however, personal change, only occurs when… one has the mindset for a Heavenly solution! . . . Author Notes Inspired by: 1 Cor 2; Phil 4:4-8 Learn more about me and my poetry at: http://amzn.to/1ffo9YZ By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2015, All rights reserved.
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Jan 22, 2015
Jan 22, 2015 at 11:47 AM UTC
Poem: Intellectual Pollution
We know the world is a crazy place and that is it easy to give up, throw in the towel. The idealism of youth gives way to the cynicism of middle age when we realize that despite our best efforts, change is very difficult. To be a parent and, in particular, to be a father....why bother? Some say fatherhood is driven by ego, the child providing the ultimate selfish representation of oneself. Others say driven by fear, the fear of mortality and the unconscious and genetic need to propagate and maintain our lineage, our species, our world. While both can be true, I believe the best manifestation of fatherhood is  driven by tikkun olam, a Jewish concept that we all have an obligation to better the world, to move it to a better state than currently exists. We do what we can when on this earth to love our family, friends, and be as righteous as this world will allow. Our genetic legacy is not nearly as important as our obligation to pass on what we know, have learned, have experienced, and enable our children to carry the mission to an always higher level. No matter what our belief in the afterlife, and what the future may hold we are here now in THIS life, and as long as we move the ball further and further in the right direction, there can be hope. Truly being a father, a good father, enables hope.  Maybe that is enough.
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Jun 19, 2011
Jun 19, 2011 at 7:17 AM UTC
Fatherhood is Hope
A true leader is a selfless soul, One who thinks not for himself, But for the others, for the many For the halves and for the whole, of humanity Regardless of age or importance to man, It’s not in the memory of their great names, In with which we stand. But in the willingness to mold One’s self into a servant, To humbly hold the troubled hand, And to become the kind of person who doesn’t abuse, The right to demand But instead, looks to enable others, So that they might just begin, and begin again Because all of the power in the world, Can be abused, and removed if misused For this, my dear leaders, I ask of you, To not lose yourself in the arrogance Of discovering that you are indeed you Because true leadership is not about you And leadership, will never be about you So before you lead, would you let go of you That way you might win in spite of you
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Jan 9, 2017
Jan 9, 2017 at 1:31 PM UTC
True Leadership
These shots were never taken by chance They were of anger taken under sunshine This smoke can oh so muddle your view of the truth They use smoke of their own to hide their intentions But the truth can be seen rolling by, glinting red The weapon of black turns their eyes white  One shines with tears; the other dull and ***** The greedy man hides the youth of all seventeen It could have been stopped And the young could continue This is preventable But he continues to enable His smiles are swamp green His words are shiny gold But he hides it all behind his suit of blue
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Sep 14, 2018
Sep 14, 2018 at 8:45 AM UTC
Sunny's Gun
Ah, the season of gifting. Antagonist of year-long thrifting. Tradition sadistic, Materialistic, Four quarters in pockets worth sifting. This year I hereby proclaim I shan’t be consumed by the game. Cycle of curse Purpose perverse The namesake, an oversight became. Christ’s birth did in fact begin, Holiday distracted by sin. Misguided it be To forget idly The sacrifice He made for all men. We naively regard generosity As holiday’s behavioral piosity. But if dollars and cents Are the tools of offense Over shadow favor luminosity. Water in Africa is ***** American child in poverty. Politics aside, Convenient homicide, To enable the ills of society. In the global economy we flaunt Wealth by comparison, bitter taunt. First world problems abound Pass the turkey around Central heating and air, what a jaunt! What if this season we decide To extend two palms open wide? Sacrificing ourselves Rather than stocking our shelves Dying whispers echo true: “we tried.” Don’t spend your money on me this year. Not iPhones, not tickets, not Blu-ray or beer. Instead know you can Distribute more than A snort, a lie, and a tear. (optional conclusion to assist interpretation of last line) Snort of derision, Lies of provision, Tears, even true, Hardly subdue Anguish deprived of tradition’s revision.
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Dec 26, 2012
Dec 26, 2012 at 5:25 PM UTC
Stewardship (a series of limericks)
Bipolar, if you had asked me what I knew about it six months ago I would have said it means that a person goes from being really happy to really sad sometimes or, if I would be honest I would have said I hadn't a clue about it. Bipolar means to touch heaven and hell. This year began with me being in a severe depression, often holding a loaded gun to my head with a finger lightly depressing the trigger. Bipolar, after all, is the highest killer of all psychiatric illnesses with 1 out of 5 committing suicide and 1/2 attempting it. I felt completely alienated from anyone- severely out of place in the world, as if my birth was some sort of horrible mistake. But I'm holding onto hope, hope that all these meds(Lamictal, Saphris, Abilify) may eventually enable me to have a life again. This year I lost my sister to suicide(she was 27 and also bipolar), I cannot put anyone through the pain that I've felt due to her leaving like she did. I must "carry that weight" as the Beatles would put it. If you too are Bipolar I would love to chat, please message me. I'm looking for a friend who can relate, hell, I'm just looking for a friend.
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Jan 29, 2014
Jan 29, 2014 at 7:09 PM UTC
bipolar notes
He is a link between this and the coming world. He is A pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink. He is a tree watered by the River of Beauty, bearing Fruit which the hungry heart craves; He is a nightingale, soothing the depressed Spirit with his beautiful melodies; He is a white cloud appearing over the horizon, Ascending and growing until it fills the face of the sky. Then it falls on the flows in the field of Life, Opening their petals to admit the light. He is an angel, send by the goddess to Preach the Deity's gospel; He is a brilliant lamp, unconquered by darkness And inextinguishable by the wind. It is filled with Oil by Istar of Love, and lighted by Apollon of Music. He is a solitary figure, robed in simplicity and Kindness; He sits upon the lap of Nature to draw his Inspiration, and stays up in the silence of the night, Awaiting the descending of the spirit. He is a sower who sows the seeds of his heart in the Prairies of affection, and humanity reaps the Harvest for her nourishment. This is the poet -- whom the people ignore in this life, And who is recognized only when he bids the earthly World farewell and returns to his arbor in heaven. This is the poet -- who asks naught of Humanity but a smile. This is the poet -- whose spirit ascends and Fills the firmament with beautiful sayings; Yet the people deny themselves his radiance. Until when shall the people remain asleep? Until when shall they continue to glorify those Who attain greatness by moments of advantage? How long shall they ignore those who enable Them to see the beauty of their spirit, Symbol of peace and love? Until when shall human beings honor the dead And forget the living, who spend their lives Encircled in misery, and who consume themselves Like burning candles to illuminate the way For the ignorant and lead them into the path of light? Poet, you are the life of this life, and you have Triumphed over the ages of despite their severity. Poet, you will one day rule the hearts, and Therefore, your kingdom has no ending. Poet, examine your crown of thorns; you will Find concealed in it a budding wreath of laurel.
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The Poet VIII
He is a link between this and the coming world. He is A pure spring from which all thirsty souls may drink. He is a tree watered by the River of Beauty, bearing Fruit which the hungry heart craves; He is a nightingale, soothing the depressed Spirit with his beautiful melodies; He is a white cloud appearing over the horizon, Ascending and growing until it fills the face of the sky. Then it falls on the flows in the field of Life, Opening their petals to admit the light. He is an angel, send by the goddess to Preach the Deity's gospel; He is a brilliant lamp, unconquered by darkness And inextinguishable by the wind. It is filled with Oil by Istar of Love, and lighted by Apollon of Music. He is a solitary figure, robed in simplicity and Kindness; He sits upon the lap of Nature to draw his Inspiration, and stays up in the silence of the night, Awaiting the descending of the spirit. He is a sower who sows the seeds of his heart in the Prairies of affection, and humanity reaps the Harvest for her nourishment. This is the poet -- whom the people ignore in this life, And who is recognized only when he bids the earthly World farewell and returns to his arbor in heaven. This is the poet -- who asks naught of Humanity but a smile. This is the poet -- whose spirit ascends and Fills the firmament with beautiful sayings; Yet the people deny themselves his radiance. Until when shall the people remain asleep? Until when shall they continue to glorify those Who attain greatness by moments of advantage? How long shall they ignore those who enable Them to see the beauty of their spirit, Symbol of peace and love? Until when shall human beings honor the dead And forget the living, who spend their lives Encircled in misery, and who consume themselves Like burning candles to illuminate the way For the ignorant and lead them into the path of light? Poet, you are the life of this life, and you have Triumphed over the ages of despite their severity. Poet, you will one day rule the hearts, and Therefore, your kingdom has no ending. Poet, examine your crown of thorns; you will Find concealed in it a budding wreath of laurel.
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Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Jun 11, 2018
Jun 11, 2018 at 7:44 AM UTC
PEARL 'TRINITY ERRANDS
Conversation opened. 1 read message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers in:sent Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.   Learn more  Hide 1 of 184 QUIVER ALL-MAXIMIZING SAMUEL DAVID <[email protected]> 3:38 AM (56 minutes ago) to Daniel SOAR OWNERSHIP / UTTERANCES OUTLABOURED  PILGRIMS/ By the creditor at cyprus  and on other grounds: The counter-cedar Venice much unparalleled ever pursuant  kindly indigenous street streams far above strange beneath  the string ...' Dream castle before the 'Requiring much quill 'Peanut lieutenant great  ones of the machinery  citation /  Worth  pillow following purposes invasion with a rainfall bombardment epistle the pearl earning era:   Closet  by sessions pursue arithmetician diaries ' anchor calculus cumulative arrows propellant / Squadron in the field-refueling ' division visions ...' Upswing within the meaning axle conversion processes proofs /  ' Electron icons ' Creation wireless reticence circles:  Moon ship's  amnesty crest reckon  'flaskbone SpurZebra...'  Preferment goes by relieves and affectionate 'Oil The Self-graduation  Outpouring  / Vagrant above ant strides : Rodrigo peculiar ends demonstration/ Forego  the-Outward acclimation :   Upon all civility citizenry civil-rises other low less  losses below yonder / Phrase of prose -possessions  cuss ion syn chronicutensils  'asylum  systems  beyond stems : Preeminence blown 'being ht-thence quarries  hijack travels  history/Wherein of plant  hours ' spicily spoke *****  Pilgrimage dilutes noble companies  'ago-maximize promptly  alacrity;  Exhibition the underrating  besought levels- of quarry / burden oxidation immune  slaughter Cheap Hill Chips EMAIL: [email protected] +2348131914240 Click here to Reply or Forward 0.04 GB (0%) of 15 GB used Manage Terms - Privacy Last account activity: 49 minutes ago Details
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Sometimes There are too many things To follow up To update To study To research upon To refer to others To show solidarity To argue upon To fight with To put our stand on To stand up against To support To facilitate To enable .. .. .. Or To just pass off To ignore . . . . and To Blissfully Forget..
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Jul 6, 2015
Jul 6, 2015 at 6:14 AM UTC
Sometimes...
Brave - bold- bonny young are bloom here! They have dream, desire and determination! Preparing for peruse and practice, Be desperate to perform in perfection! ***** But we the elders try to eliminate them In the name of enormity, efficiency and effectiveness; Enable to create ground for their experiments We are envious; don’t want to change our thought for them! **** We fail to remember, their dreams are also our dream! Because it’s grown up on the soil What we prepare through our toil! They grown up, as we prepare the soil! ****** But, brave, bold and bonny young are struggling Struggling to build their path to achieve their goal! Through a street which is full of snag, snobbery and sabotage But they are poignant, they are pioneer....... They look forward....! ****** Vacate the road for them now Let them blooms further To carry our seeds further!
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Jun 29, 2015
Jun 29, 2015 at 2:25 AM UTC
Endeavour of brave-bold-bonny
I wake to the news of another lynching As our boys scream Bleed Blue And over the border, the Green Girls rejoice And somewhere in Jharkhand Two families mourn the death of their men Cattle traders? Terrorists? Muslim? With cloth stuffed in their throats And arms tied behind Hatred showing in the mob mentality Another dark blot on our secular fabric And I watch a short film, India, India Of a young boy on Tuesday selling ganeshas at a temple Another image of the same boy on a Friday Selling taweez and chanting Ya Ali Outside Mumbai’s Haji Ali And on Sunday, the same boy singing the praises of the Lord outside a church, selling amulets And I smile This is the India I love, the different faiths The acceptance, the co-existence As the morning drones on, I watch and participate In the endless debates on Facebook and Twitter Of people posing, taking sides, sounding pedantic While they sit comfortably in their homes Sipping ginger tea made by an underage maid While their Labrador retriever is taken for a walk By their Nepali driver and the Muslim cook smokes a bidi In the garden with the Bihari maali where their son plays But what will happen to the sons of the lynched cattle traders? What will happen to the brothers of the women ***** What will happen to the mothers of the sons killed? What will happen to the fathers of the unborn children Killed for their mistake of being a girl child? Is this the India we want to grow up in? Is this the India we want to have children in? Is this the India we want to grow old in? Wake up, my country, it is still dawn The road is long and far and we have miles to walk Towards peace and freedom and love Towards acceptance and equality and oneness Get off that sofa and make a difference Participate, vote, empower, create, enable It’s up to you whether our country goes this way or that So, wake up, my country, it is still dawn Wake up, my country, it is still dawn
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Mar 20, 2016
Mar 20, 2016 at 7:57 AM UTC
Wake Up, My Country
I wake to the news of another lynching As our boys scream Bleed Blue And over the border, the Green Girls rejoice And somewhere in Jharkhand Two families mourn the death of their men Cattle traders? Terrorists? Muslim? With cloth stuffed in their throats And arms tied behind Hatred showing in the mob mentality Another dark blot on our secular fabric And I watch a short film, India, India Of a young boy on Tuesday selling ganeshas at a temple Another image of the same boy on a Friday Selling taweez and chanting Ya Ali Outside Mumbai’s Haji Ali And on Sunday, the same boy singing the praises of the Lord outside a church, selling amulets And I smile This is the India I love, the different faiths The acceptance, the co-existence As the morning drones on, I watch and participate In the endless debates on Facebook and Twitter Of people posing, taking sides, sounding pedantic While they sit comfortably in their homes Sipping ginger tea made by an underage maid While their Labrador retriever is taken for a walk By their Nepali driver and the Muslim cook smokes a bidi In the garden with the Bihari maali where their son plays But what will happen to the sons of the lynched cattle traders? What will happen to the brothers of the women ***** What will happen to the mothers of the sons killed? What will happen to the fathers of the unborn children Killed for their mistake of being a girl child? Is this the India we want to grow up in? Is this the India we want to have children in? Is this the India we want to grow old in? Wake up, my country, it is still dawn The road is long and far and we have miles to walk Towards peace and freedom and love Towards acceptance and equality and oneness Get off that sofa and make a difference Participate, vote, empower, create, enable It’s up to you whether our country goes this way or that So, wake up, my country, it is still dawn Wake up, my country, it is still dawn
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*If only and only nature had cared enough not to place us worlds apart Without big beautiful blue Oceans lying proudly betwixt So that each and everyday I had you tight in my embrace as you are in my heart My thoughts would not wonder and my emotions mixed If there was no single mile separating two great souls Would not be contemplating the much to enable us journey that far If only we could find a way to break all these walls Or if I was extraterrestrial to rocket to you like a shooting star Every night to steal your fear and leave you courage To stitch your wounds and heal even the scars of fate If only you weren't so near yet so far like a mirage Then we'd only have the length of eternity to contemplate If only I was close enough say right across the road The burden of living would be lighter for we'd share the load*
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Aug 14, 2015
Aug 14, 2015 at 6:53 PM UTC
SO NEAR, YET SO FAR
I am a butterfly, Don’t clip my wings But stand by me and enable me to fly For I don’t want to hurt you, No, I just want to be free I want to spread my wings and take off I want the world to see my pattern, My design For I am not a monster, No, I am a butterfly
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Apr 21, 2017
Apr 21, 2017 at 10:32 AM UTC
I am a Butterfly
225 Jesus! thy Crucifix Enable thee to guess The smaller size! Jesus! thy second face Mind thee in Paradise Of ours!
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Jesus! thy Crucifix
You feel you're invincible being that your sanity is uncontrollable strolling around with your shoulders past the birds past the planes your ignorance succeeds in innumerable ways your sight is weak your mind is enable to capture it's buried under life's adversities and Earth's pleasure you don't know when to stop so you flood yourself until you're lame at your ankles and paralyzed in your emotions you wend through life this way well you try stuck in misery with no lane to merge frustration is your best friend a human is impossible and incapable of the acceptance your belittlement draws mankind away no one wants to attend a pity party unless their accompanied to your VIP and to reserve you are the one to RSVP Enlighten heads will stray away pessimism is a curse rapidly spread by the weak you have distress and frustration suppressed strangled screams holds your eyelids open at night deliberations controls your emotions controls your feet throughout the day you are terrified of tangibility so you indulge yourself excessively burying your true identity becoming irritable when bearing your sober mind if only you knew how divine you are you would grow to love yourself in ways incompetent of how you could love so hard look yourself in your eyes find who you are even if you have to savagely search you'll see the soul people has grown to love so much you'll notice your beauty that covers endless realms or your strength that could hurl a boulder No one can help you discover your destiny it's your journey you'll have to make alone but during the expedition and constant footsteps the process of elimination could be your guide find your inner child it can help your prevail that's where you once had happiness your joy was established there because if you continue the silencing of your heart's cries and your soul's screams you'll live a life analogous to hell and that is a nightmare's worst dream                 Copy Right 2014                      ©Patty Ann
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Dec 30, 2013
Dec 30, 2013 at 1:18 PM UTC
A Pessimistic Penny
You feel you're invincible being that your sanity is uncontrollable strolling around with your shoulders past the birds past the planes your ignorance succeeds in innumerable ways your sight is weak your mind is enable to capture it's buried under life's adversities and Earth's pleasure you don't know when to stop so you flood yourself until you're lame at your ankles and paralyzed in your emotions you wend through life this way well you try stuck in misery with no lane to merge frustration is your best friend a human is impossible and incapable of the acceptance your belittlement draws mankind away no one wants to attend a pity party unless their accompanied to your VIP and to reserve you are the one to RSVP Enlighten heads will stray away pessimism is a curse rapidly spread by the weak you have distress and frustration suppressed strangled screams holds your eyelids open at night deliberations controls your emotions controls your feet throughout the day you are terrified of tangibility so you indulge yourself excessively burying your true identity becoming irritable when bearing your sober mind if only you knew how divine you are you would grow to love yourself in ways incompetent of how you could love so hard look yourself in your eyes find who you are even if you have to savagely search you'll see the soul people has grown to love so much you'll notice your beauty that covers endless realms or your strength that could hurl a boulder No one can help you discover your destiny it's your journey you'll have to make alone but during the expedition and constant footsteps the process of elimination could be your guide find your inner child it can help your prevail that's where you once had happiness your joy was established there because if you continue the silencing of your heart's cries and your soul's screams you'll live a life analogous to hell and that is a nightmare's worst dream                 Copy Right 2014                      ©Patty Ann
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Imparting knowledge and skills on self-management in your children should top all your priorities open yourself to them be deep in their hearts In parental love and kindness teach, guide and advise them about the value of self-management taking care of themselves must be done on a daily basis Washing eyes properly brushing their teeth brushing their hair changing ***** clothes looking into the mirror after dressing Should you enable your children in managing ther own lives they shall grow into responsible future citizens in charge of their own destiny.
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Sep 11, 2019
Sep 11, 2019 at 5:18 PM UTC
SELF MANAGEMENT
What have these fairy tales made us afraid of? Step moms and snakes? there is more to life that living in fear, And there is more to fear than being afraid. Fear is a feeling of many natures and forms, Including step moms and snakes. Fear isnt only brought on by dark, fear is in love too, and fear is in hate. Fear is in a butterflies first flight, and fear is in our tummys, when something is not right. The Sound of Music showed us more than the sights of Austria, It showed us how to sing, Some times the fear is in what we already know. Fear can control if you let it, and after you see it, its hard to forget, But you can replace your with something bigger. Bigger than the night time, I am the stars. I'm not in heaven, but when i'm with you i'm close. You are faster than the night, and sneakier than the clock ticking past noon. On a Saturday, you are the Sunday afternoon. The fear is less now. You are ahead of my own thought,. You know my bed, You know i have zebra sheets, and a red stain in the corner. You know my body, dimples and scars. You know all the perfections, and defections. The fear is less and less now. Our kisses enable me to hear, clocks ticking around the world. you taste like... words are to meager to describe. There goes the fear, There it goes, out the window, and into the hearts of those, Step moms and Snakes.
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Jun 22, 2013
Jun 22, 2013 at 2:01 PM UTC
The Doves.
Click… Click… CLICK… Earsplitting silence surrounds me As I waste time envisioning a new setting, Where my paper, pen, mug, and coffee are still there, But the paper is bursting with passion, And the magic of espresso beans enable the pen to float along my rapid thoughts. Right now it is used to stimulate the monotony. Unfortunately, Money cannot be bled from words on paper and, Beers are not bought with dedications in hard cover. Click… Click… CLICK… Yogurt wrappers opening, spoons being slurped. ***** expanding atop their encompassing chairs. These are the thoughts that fill my head, As co-workers plan the next birthday party, The next lunch, client dinner, and snack. It seems that bars do not enclose me at my desk, There is no guard at the door and, Above me the exit sign gives warmth. Click…. Click… CLICK… Not today, today is not a good day. There are presentations, Power Points, data to analyze. Analyze feels like a ***** word in my world, It covers my neurons and destroys imagination, Synopsis seize to fire. It seeps into my blood until I become a replica, But it is the word that takes my balance off negative, And applies charming labels to my purse, I wonder if this is how it starts out for everyone, Humans are adjustable, no batteries allowed. Click… Click… CLICK.
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Jan 10, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 at 4:32 PM UTC
Office
Consanguinity: A Commissioned Poem (How Well Do You Know Me?) This request, from wolf spirit aka quinfinn, accidentally hit the spot of what was foremost on my mind. Cosanguinity:  A relationship by descent from a common ancestor; kinship (distinguished from affinity).  A close relationship or connection. Poetry, mine, yours, Ours, Invades my consciousness. We write poems on the same subject, Even the same title, But a few days apart. Insanity, Coincidence, or Consanguinity? Perhaps we are reading each other's stuff Too much. But that's crazy, Or Consanguinity? Yet, And yet, We see the same things So incredibly different. That is the answer. We see the same thing and I am Struck down. A billion sights. A billion words. Yet, the human computer, Sorts, collates, and generates A billion different writes In a similar spirit, Employing the same phraseology. All right. Alright. Malaysia. Minnesota. East Coast. West Coast. Geographical differences. Time differences. No difference. A billion differences. The stylistic differences enable, No, correction, Ennobles us to coexist, Value each other, Learn. Observable differences. But more interesting, More pleasurable, are the incredible, visible, signs of Consanguinity. Mere affinity? Kinship. A poem? Nah. But at 1:11am in my location, It's what's on my mind. Now that I know the meaning of Consanguinity.
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Nov 4, 2013
Nov 4, 2013 at 1:21 AM UTC
Consanguinity: A Commissioned Poem
My eyes smell sleepy, he, refusing to depart, But there is coffee on the nightstand, The odor, infiltrating the dozy brain's heart. Annoyed with each other, They shout and fight Like teenage siblings Commissioners at the SEC, Arguing over bathroom monopolization, The tongue stays sidelined, feigning net neutrality. The bed smells empty, For the **** has crowed, Yogi David commands your presence At Saturday morning Eight O'clock yoga services. To get to his Sinai on time, Early departure, an FAA requirement, Car, ferry and foot you will deploy, In the winter, special skis and snowshoes, That blessed by his mantra, Enable you to walk on water. In the kitchen there is sisterly conversation, Yes, puttering and muttering and discussing, Sister's grown child texting, he's making the pilgrimage To see Mama, alone, unexpectedly, Six hours driving. Friends and countryman, That is how you spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e Sleepy master dwarf refuses to concede, Says when kitchen noises retreat, Back to him you will supplicate, They (the other dwarfs and body parts), Have a big convention to better communicate.. Departure comes without a kiss, But not without complaint, She always says I love you first, Which is natural, She being a girl. Now the bladder starts to whiny~chatter, What about me, what about me, Don't you love me, and me rhymes with P! While the stomach quietly snores Have been well-fed but a few hours before, He dreams of some more....macadamia crusted s'mores... I could verse you more, No problem that's for sure, But you got the point: The morning smells.
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Jul 6, 2013
Jul 6, 2013 at 7:18 AM UTC
FPotD: The Morning Smells
My eyes smell sleepy, he, refusing to depart, But there is coffee on the nightstand, The odor, infiltrating the dozy brain's heart. Annoyed with each other, They shout and fight Like teenage siblings Commissioners at the SEC, Arguing over bathroom monopolization, The tongue stays sidelined, feigning net neutrality. The bed smells empty, For the **** has crowed, Yogi David commands your presence At Saturday morning Eight O'clock yoga services. To get to his Sinai on time, Early departure, an FAA requirement, Car, ferry and foot you will deploy, In the winter, special skis and snowshoes, That blessed by his mantra, Enable you to walk on water. In the kitchen there is sisterly conversation, Yes, puttering and muttering and discussing, Sister's grown child texting, he's making the pilgrimage To see Mama, alone, unexpectedly, Six hours driving. Friends and countryman, That is how you spell t-r-o-u-b-l-e Sleepy master dwarf refuses to concede, Says when kitchen noises retreat, Back to him you will supplicate, They (the other dwarfs and body parts), Have a big convention to better communicate.. Departure comes without a kiss, But not without complaint, She always says I love you first, Which is natural, She being a girl. Now the bladder starts to whiny~chatter, What about me, what about me, Don't you love me, and me rhymes with P! While the stomach quietly snores Have been well-fed but a few hours before, He dreams of some more....macadamia crusted s'mores... I could verse you more, No problem that's for sure, But you got the point: The morning smells.
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For Helen who wrote it first, who wrote it better, and in doing so, makes me see more clearly the why ~~~~~~~~~ no poem should ever be untitled- every face needs a name- every poem needs just one read for completion but more than that, it is a orphan still, deserving of the due, the entitlement to be titled, a parenting of sorts what was the thought that born it- what was the emotion that conceived it- what was the sight that demanded sharing? this is the age of summary and synthesis, 140 and not one more, so give direction, enable me to make snap judgements, with so much on my plate, we must predigest your concepts, my multi-tasking slowed to levels unacceptable, so I can adjudge you, you worker poet, before or never reading after all, why read anything untitled? more than this however, for the few who chew each morseled vowel, ken each constant consonant, celebrate stanzas that halt the breathing and then, god bless the whole child, flaws and all, they more than anyone deserve your consideration in return for the title is the essence spark of you- and all the more so, of what you have chosen to share,   your essentials honored
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Feb 11, 2015
Feb 11, 2015 at 6:33 AM UTC
No Poem Should Ever Be Untitled (Feb. 2014)
In the midst of our passion, I tried to make you show your hand. You were losing your poker face, I thought your inhibitions were gone. But when I said “tell me what you want” You replied “for you to be happy and healthy”. And that shattered the dam. The wall that held back the sea splintered. And I let you see me drown in my pain. I told you how letting you gorge on me Made me the kind of sad I could control. It was a shallow kind of sad, one that could be fixed with scotch tape. I ripped the adhesive off  of the shallow sad When the deep dark sad became too much. I told you how letting you gorge on me Made me feel useful, even if it validated everything he told me. I don’t care that my body is nothing more than something to be ****** At least I’m doing my friend a favor. So even if I can’t be happy and healthy right now, And even if you know that, At least we can see each other for what we are As I let you feed his desires for me, And you let me feed my desire for pain.
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Jan 19, 2019
Jan 19, 2019 at 10:38 PM UTC
Enable me dear
I am in understanding That I have no control Over all the thoughts, sensations, and feelings That I experience At any given time I accept this fact To give me power Over my reaction To enable my ability to reply.
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Jun 13, 2022
Jun 13, 2022 at 11:07 PM UTC
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There inside the chamber sits, Awaiting patiently; Gathering discourse and their wits, To match with Chimpanzee. Primate statues loom the loft, ‘Mongst whitening Baboons; Fidget in their seats too soft, Indifferent of this room. For ghosts of former nobles peek, In shame, as they observe; The power of the abject weak, Enable them to serve. Parrots cackling ‘mongst themselves, As peacocks flaunt their fan; Gorilla preens, while tries to quell, With gavel in his hand. Chimp arises, intently poised, To embellish his appointment; Words rehearsed to fill the void, Deliberate and pointed. For he, and only he, shall reign, While rendering his will Upon the reaches, lakes and plains; ‘Pon feather, fur and gill. Yet irony betrays this horde, Of chosen beasts that thrive, Who seek to witness own accord, On who should live or die. Baboons and the Chimpanzee, May climb to endless heights, Gather fruit from tops of trees, And relish in their might; But those who scrounge upon the ground, Or forage in the sea, Cannot relate to this debate, Nor self-idolatry. So this becomes an exercise, In futile words exchanged; In bartering the truth for lies, Leaves jungle quite estranged. Such is then, the sacrifice, That satisfies this troop: Lions shall compete with mice, For homeland and for food. This seems just, this seems right, So pleased to then arrive, To alter former terms of plight, Ensure the like survive. Commune must have order, Compliance is then deemed; Life must have its borders, Confining self-esteem. Parrots flee to bring the news, Of brighter days ahead; While creatures of the air and blue, Fear the distance spread. Content to reconvene again, As this is their employ; Govern those outside the pen, Such honor they enjoy.
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Nov 14, 2010
Nov 14, 2010 at 6:08 AM UTC
Congress
There inside the chamber sits, Awaiting patiently; Gathering discourse and their wits, To match with Chimpanzee. Primate statues loom the loft, ‘Mongst whitening Baboons; Fidget in their seats too soft, Indifferent of this room. For ghosts of former nobles peek, In shame, as they observe; The power of the abject weak, Enable them to serve. Parrots cackling ‘mongst themselves, As peacocks flaunt their fan; Gorilla preens, while tries to quell, With gavel in his hand. Chimp arises, intently poised, To embellish his appointment; Words rehearsed to fill the void, Deliberate and pointed. For he, and only he, shall reign, While rendering his will Upon the reaches, lakes and plains; ‘Pon feather, fur and gill. Yet irony betrays this horde, Of chosen beasts that thrive, Who seek to witness own accord, On who should live or die. Baboons and the Chimpanzee, May climb to endless heights, Gather fruit from tops of trees, And relish in their might; But those who scrounge upon the ground, Or forage in the sea, Cannot relate to this debate, Nor self-idolatry. So this becomes an exercise, In futile words exchanged; In bartering the truth for lies, Leaves jungle quite estranged. Such is then, the sacrifice, That satisfies this troop: Lions shall compete with mice, For homeland and for food. This seems just, this seems right, So pleased to then arrive, To alter former terms of plight, Ensure the like survive. Commune must have order, Compliance is then deemed; Life must have its borders, Confining self-esteem. Parrots flee to bring the news, Of brighter days ahead; While creatures of the air and blue, Fear the distance spread. Content to reconvene again, As this is their employ; Govern those outside the pen, Such honor they enjoy.
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