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"gravitas" poems
Her loneliness wears maroon,                  I am aware," to her yin, my yang," mine in deep purple echoes,                 the density that's her, in my presence. On an island of her own, she sojourns,                  where there is comfortable room for two. A happy recluse she is, ruminating,                  diving deeper in to the sea of consciousness. What does it really mean?                   we are wound around a "KOAN", working on it, wouldn't stop to think,  I flow                     with the insistent gravitas of the current, Through her the dense silence speaks,                      in voices clear,  heard within me. all beyond words, and in a far more                      subtle plane, than this existence.
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Aug 26, 2015
Aug 26, 2015 at 3:10 PM UTC
Koan
Clever minds that stretch The many elements which live as our backdrop Too often everyday is spoiled By unnecessary people, gathering ammunition For climbing invisible platforms of command These are cast aside by simple smiles and welcomes And it was. Even if the task was invisible to me at first My soul felt at home amongst these new work mates My responsible position was underwritten Given gravitas and a freedom to which I wasn't quite used The time was charged with familiar but different It was fraught but strangely healthier in paradox The honest fight was taken with gestures of family proportion Success had waned but the unity of 'knowing' was the strength That continued to support that Company In spite of the turmoil my personal facets were given air To run and to adjust, to temper and to manage Poor communication was completely disastrous The confusion of three currencies And the balance of understanding left us guessing Never mind agreement or translation Through all this, looking back my heart is lifted Not by the freedom or the ability to achieve ...mostly, It is the strength from our leader, That calm, silver haired man When many were distraught you kept us going And fed us with hope and built our confidence, Not always with the obvious But gave us the ability to win through by believing , Believing in us and building back our motivation and teasing out The raw infrastructure of our true capabilities Never before has anyone, apart from my Mother Believed in me as you did. To tackle the toughest of tasks Anything that the industry, the public or our customers Could throw at us, we dealt with it. Sadly you could do nothing at the final demise but take the role Of a father giving news of an aged relative sadly moved by A force greater than yourself I know had you the influence, the power and the funding............ You were always more than a boss Chris Your transparent enthusiasm raised our spirits And in times of worry I hope we lifted yours too. I think of you often, thank you for being a friend After we were no longer professionally connected. I see your generous smile and your warm handshake I can hear your laugh now It's always a treat to catch up over a beer. I now find you in my phone, in my photographs But mostly in my heart for being a great bloke You taught me so much. Speak soon, with love, Max
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Jul 26, 2018
Jul 26, 2018 at 10:01 AM UTC
Living with Gretag
Clever minds that stretch The many elements which live as our backdrop Too often everyday is spoiled By unnecessary people, gathering ammunition For climbing invisible platforms of command These are cast aside by simple smiles and welcomes And it was. Even if the task was invisible to me at first My soul felt at home amongst these new work mates My responsible position was underwritten Given gravitas and a freedom to which I wasn't quite used The time was charged with familiar but different It was fraught but strangely healthier in paradox The honest fight was taken with gestures of family proportion Success had waned but the unity of 'knowing' was the strength That continued to support that Company In spite of the turmoil my personal facets were given air To run and to adjust, to temper and to manage Poor communication was completely disastrous The confusion of three currencies And the balance of understanding left us guessing Never mind agreement or translation Through all this, looking back my heart is lifted Not by the freedom or the ability to achieve ...mostly, It is the strength from our leader, That calm, silver haired man When many were distraught you kept us going And fed us with hope and built our confidence, Not always with the obvious But gave us the ability to win through by believing , Believing in us and building back our motivation and teasing out The raw infrastructure of our true capabilities Never before has anyone, apart from my Mother Believed in me as you did. To tackle the toughest of tasks Anything that the industry, the public or our customers Could throw at us, we dealt with it. Sadly you could do nothing at the final demise but take the role Of a father giving news of an aged relative sadly moved by A force greater than yourself I know had you the influence, the power and the funding............ You were always more than a boss Chris Your transparent enthusiasm raised our spirits And in times of worry I hope we lifted yours too. I think of you often, thank you for being a friend After we were no longer professionally connected. I see your generous smile and your warm handshake I can hear your laugh now It's always a treat to catch up over a beer. I now find you in my phone, in my photographs But mostly in my heart for being a great bloke You taught me so much. Speak soon, with love, Max
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The owl owns silence, it dawns; movements are arrested, as stillness comes alive as owl moments. The condor, gravitas, incarnated, in relentless search, circling around the sky's navel, in a mystical quest, a motif that arrests motions of mind. An owl sits and sees, a visible presence of an invisible absence, on the cosy notch hid by foliage on the  tree of loneliness. Perking up ears inner silence, the faithful watch dog, listens owl's unuttered words, ever echoing, deep within the walls of mind's corridor. The owl and the condor, the eloquence of silence, has two voices speaking in unison.In the secret center they reveal the forbidden, silence rules, the dawn of wisdom bright and spectacular, awaken the fog filled landscape.
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Jan 10, 2013
Jan 10, 2013 at 11:26 AM UTC
The owl and the condor
jaeger. chasseur. foxtail. seduction of fascism in mind, like tumbling autumn leaves ever and always on the steps of a country house. always and ever just outside the aix-les-bains dance hall. his blousy new bride and her old lover aware of his sympathies and   the danger he presents to them. jaeger. chasseur. foxtail. seduction of fascism in mind, ever and always on a deserted alpine road. always and ever one trail of blood, remnant of the preyed upon. she screams against the glass, quiet devil in the backseat haunted by the disorder   of his own mind. eyes opened to his own mutability. alienation is immanent, bred in the bone. a desperate need for gravitas, built upon vaporous credulity. and she is pursued through the woods ever and always, through iridescent fields always and ever, until finally in his crosshairs   she falls. those like him have not suddenly vanished from the earth, but   are merely lying in wait.
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Mar 25, 2022
Mar 25, 2022 at 3:22 PM UTC
Timber Wolf
In God We Trust, For He Invented Reasonable Doubt In Courtroom of the State of New York, Part 62, where the only decoration extant, in gold leaf letters, a magnificent joke, In God We Trust. Words so incongruous to the real time drama, a poorly acted Law and Order episode of which I partake, (as Juror No. 1, ergo you may address me as Mr. Jury Foreman), they stun me into stupefaction every time we enter and the Bailiff pronounces with much gravitas, "Jury Entering" A potpourri of a dozen Manhattanites, with wisdom acquired by the singular virtue of having attained the robust age of 18, noteworthy for being free of criminal record, having been nominated to sit upon the jury that will decide the fate of one Eric B., for what he may have done upon West 11th Street one Summer night in June Two Thousand and Eleven, If adjudged guilty, New York State can take, incarcerate him for up to 15 years of his life Predicate felon by the age of twenty seven, Eric's resume consists of four felonies, two misdemeanors a wife and two little children, and a partridge in a pear tree. Facts turgid and muddy, Eric tells a story one juror calls a confection of lies, no one murmurs much disagreement in the tiny, overheated room we have been sequestered to replay the 2012 version of Twelve Angry Men. But I am not his peer, nor am I a seer, common sense says if appearances are what they seem to be, he aided and abetted in the forcible taking of a nice Connecticut lady's cell phone with his brother who just happened to be released from prison earlier that day A convoluted tale ripe with inanities is told, upshot is our defendant's tale, his robust defense, portrays him as the unluckiest man in the whole world, a good Samaritan, *{chasing after the thief, ** ** his bro}* against whom events have conspired In Manhattan can be a harsh place, where the natives a tough lot, tougher than the Indians from whom they stole it all. Our bridges we sell to out-of-towers, all it takes is one to say, what the heck, reasonable doubt is a ***** to overcome so let him go Jan, 2012
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Sep 17, 2013
Sep 17, 2013 at 4:45 PM UTC
In God We Trust, For He Invented Reasonable Doubt
In God We Trust, For He Invented Reasonable Doubt In Courtroom of the State of New York, Part 62, where the only decoration extant, in gold leaf letters, a magnificent joke, In God We Trust. Words so incongruous to the real time drama, a poorly acted Law and Order episode of which I partake, (as Juror No. 1, ergo you may address me as Mr. Jury Foreman), they stun me into stupefaction every time we enter and the Bailiff pronounces with much gravitas, "Jury Entering" A potpourri of a dozen Manhattanites, with wisdom acquired by the singular virtue of having attained the robust age of 18, noteworthy for being free of criminal record, having been nominated to sit upon the jury that will decide the fate of one Eric B., for what he may have done upon West 11th Street one Summer night in June Two Thousand and Eleven, If adjudged guilty, New York State can take, incarcerate him for up to 15 years of his life Predicate felon by the age of twenty seven, Eric's resume consists of four felonies, two misdemeanors a wife and two little children, and a partridge in a pear tree. Facts turgid and muddy, Eric tells a story one juror calls a confection of lies, no one murmurs much disagreement in the tiny, overheated room we have been sequestered to replay the 2012 version of Twelve Angry Men. But I am not his peer, nor am I a seer, common sense says if appearances are what they seem to be, he aided and abetted in the forcible taking of a nice Connecticut lady's cell phone with his brother who just happened to be released from prison earlier that day A convoluted tale ripe with inanities is told, upshot is our defendant's tale, his robust defense, portrays him as the unluckiest man in the whole world, a good Samaritan, *{chasing after the thief, ** ** his bro}* against whom events have conspired In Manhattan can be a harsh place, where the natives a tough lot, tougher than the Indians from whom they stole it all. Our bridges we sell to out-of-towers, all it takes is one to say, what the heck, reasonable doubt is a ***** to overcome so let him go Jan, 2012
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there are times when the meaning of a word is asked one that has been read and regurgitated used regularly correctly adopted as part of an apparent well-read    or pretentious vocabulary however upon being asked its meaning there is only a blank vacuous addled unable to provide a succinct or even literate definition to save face to re-establish the hubris of this abashed lexicologist analogous alternatives will be offered oversimplified synonyms carrying a little less gravitas a layman's explanation to maintain position on his self-congratulatory podium
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Oct 13, 2022
Oct 13, 2022 at 11:42 AM UTC
it's a lexicon
my hidden shames are an excellent source of moral fibre, nurturing, but not nutritious. we coexist in a quiet  mutual acknowledgment, coexisting but un-categorizable, nonetheless, among my oldest cohorts, their singular coordinated characteristic, they are mine alone, not meant to be shared. But they will someday make an excellent poem. Mon jan 2 2023 6:47am @here ———————————————————- the askew are  my oldest companion, dating back to my naissance, faithful, eternal, but single-minded, with a rueful sense of humor, of course, refer to my relatively plentiful hairs inherited from my mother’ genetics. a morning chore, to return their antics to an adult, dignified pose, plenty sufficient to be be brushed, straight back, the preferred orderly compose, of older men who cannot waste time with foolishness, the excessive vanities of curls, parts and pompadours, and yet, every day they wake me with ridicule, mockery,  by presenting themselves.to me, as if electrocuted, each   hair raising itself pointing to the heaven, whence their true Creator resides. no amount of product persuasive, they do what they must do, akimbo, askew, with inordinate amount of malice aforethought and a venomous sense of hairy (and now hoary) absurdity . a splash of water, a handful of rigorous brush strokes, returns order and the pretense of a serious mien, an adult demeanor. But their purpose accomplished, they have reminded me of the absurdity of human vanity, to humble myself before forces more powerful than human self-aggrandizement by accentuating our human foibles. 7:13am same time & place ——————————————- morning prayers are always a trilogy the rounded evenness of three, provides the necessary gravitas of sufficiency, three being not too short, not too long, not too quick, just three right, to impart the seriousness of gratitude for having gained another day upon earth, with it, many multitudes of chances to share thankfulness, kindness, yes, & love too, and to write, one more poem encapsulating all of the above. 7:35am same day same place, same cup of coffee
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Jan 3, 2023
Jan 3, 2023 at 9:17 AM UTC
Morning Prayers: Hidden Shames/The Askew/ Always a Trilogy
my hidden shames are an excellent source of moral fibre, nurturing, but not nutritious. we coexist in a quiet  mutual acknowledgment, coexisting but un-categorizable, nonetheless, among my oldest cohorts, their singular coordinated characteristic, they are mine alone, not meant to be shared. But they will someday make an excellent poem. Mon jan 2 2023 6:47am @here ———————————————————- the askew are  my oldest companion, dating back to my naissance, faithful, eternal, but single-minded, with a rueful sense of humor, of course, refer to my relatively plentiful hairs inherited from my mother’ genetics. a morning chore, to return their antics to an adult, dignified pose, plenty sufficient to be be brushed, straight back, the preferred orderly compose, of older men who cannot waste time with foolishness, the excessive vanities of curls, parts and pompadours, and yet, every day they wake me with ridicule, mockery,  by presenting themselves.to me, as if electrocuted, each   hair raising itself pointing to the heaven, whence their true Creator resides. no amount of product persuasive, they do what they must do, akimbo, askew, with inordinate amount of malice aforethought and a venomous sense of hairy (and now hoary) absurdity . a splash of water, a handful of rigorous brush strokes, returns order and the pretense of a serious mien, an adult demeanor. But their purpose accomplished, they have reminded me of the absurdity of human vanity, to humble myself before forces more powerful than human self-aggrandizement by accentuating our human foibles. 7:13am same time & place ——————————————- morning prayers are always a trilogy the rounded evenness of three, provides the necessary gravitas of sufficiency, three being not too short, not too long, not too quick, just three right, to impart the seriousness of gratitude for having gained another day upon earth, with it, many multitudes of chances to share thankfulness, kindness, yes, & love too, and to write, one more poem encapsulating all of the above. 7:35am same day same place, same cup of coffee
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Touch You cannot lift or load it, over your shoulder, throw it, to best assay its weight - is it ponderous, full of big *** gravitas or a snack, a parfait desert, a haiku delight? You cannot touch it, but it can touch you, It can grasp both your shoulders, shake you from complacency, put its hands upon thy throat, gasp emit, a scream demanded, paint whimsy lines on thy face, from ear to ear. See With yours eyes, by a mere glance, true reveal its length, stanzas multiple or an itty bitty ditty, but this gives no value clue,   Ogden Nash vs. Tennyson, in two minutes make you laugh, in twenty, make you beg, mercy! Smell Some Poe poems do stink, befouled mushrooms in a dank place, some require nerve to read, but your olfactory be ill suited for poetic deconstruction and criticism. Hear Wake you with kisses upon thy face, inject love poems into thy ears, straight to the brain verbal crack ******* yet even the hearing the whisper of words from my lips, is an insufficient, sensorily speaking methodology, of how a poem, to best comprehend How then? If touch, vision, smell and cursory hearing alone can't essence capture, what then, weary reader, is the supposed Laureate's approved analytical tool? Taste Each letter, a morsel in your mouth, Each phrase, a fork full of pleasure, Each stanza, a full fledged member in a tasting menu, Perfect only in conjunction with the preceding flavor, and the one that follows,  and the one that follows. Taste each poem upon thy tongue and then pass it on, you know how.... Each word, whether chewed thoroughly, or lightly placed upon a bud for flavor, needs the careful consideration of your mouth. Feel the light pressure of the tongues tip upon the roof of your mouth and the exalted exhalations of air rushing past thy cheeks as you messenger breath from your chest to be shared with the world, over the poem's interpreter, your tasting lips. *As I lay each word down, a brick by brick edifice construct of mine own design, I am sated, fulfilled only, when with I see your lips move as you savor my words, my taste you share, and we are closer for it.* ***Deaf, dumb and blind, all such travails can be conquered, assailed, but when I cannot, no longer anymore taste my poems upon thy lips, then I breathe no more.***
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Mar 14, 2014
Mar 14, 2014 at 4:22 PM UTC
How to Read a Poem (Hint: Not With Your Eyes)
Touch You cannot lift or load it, over your shoulder, throw it, to best assay its weight - is it ponderous, full of big *** gravitas or a snack, a parfait desert, a haiku delight? You cannot touch it, but it can touch you, It can grasp both your shoulders, shake you from complacency, put its hands upon thy throat, gasp emit, a scream demanded, paint whimsy lines on thy face, from ear to ear. See With yours eyes, by a mere glance, true reveal its length, stanzas multiple or an itty bitty ditty, but this gives no value clue,   Ogden Nash vs. Tennyson, in two minutes make you laugh, in twenty, make you beg, mercy! Smell Some Poe poems do stink, befouled mushrooms in a dank place, some require nerve to read, but your olfactory be ill suited for poetic deconstruction and criticism. Hear Wake you with kisses upon thy face, inject love poems into thy ears, straight to the brain verbal crack ******* yet even the hearing the whisper of words from my lips, is an insufficient, sensorily speaking methodology, of how a poem, to best comprehend How then? If touch, vision, smell and cursory hearing alone can't essence capture, what then, weary reader, is the supposed Laureate's approved analytical tool? Taste Each letter, a morsel in your mouth, Each phrase, a fork full of pleasure, Each stanza, a full fledged member in a tasting menu, Perfect only in conjunction with the preceding flavor, and the one that follows,  and the one that follows. Taste each poem upon thy tongue and then pass it on, you know how.... Each word, whether chewed thoroughly, or lightly placed upon a bud for flavor, needs the careful consideration of your mouth. Feel the light pressure of the tongues tip upon the roof of your mouth and the exalted exhalations of air rushing past thy cheeks as you messenger breath from your chest to be shared with the world, over the poem's interpreter, your tasting lips. *As I lay each word down, a brick by brick edifice construct of mine own design, I am sated, fulfilled only, when with I see your lips move as you savor my words, my taste you share, and we are closer for it.* ***Deaf, dumb and blind, all such travails can be conquered, assailed, but when I cannot, no longer anymore taste my poems upon thy lips, then I breathe no more.***
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In aloneness all in oneness thoughts trickle never end but never mend these scars The gravitas weight of words push and piston beating heart the rise and fall of chests Cold and candour truths in clamour cresting waves the callous pull in quiet calm the moon And so I gaze in silent praise the constellations glinting stars in tessellation your eyes As I became so garrulous and perilous chit and chatter careless talk to self While I beheld the universe reflected in reverse your eyes the skies
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Jun 12, 2015
Jun 12, 2015 at 7:21 AM UTC
In Aloneness
Quite enticing, plush she is a spectacle, all the same lacking substance and depth. A coffee table book everyone who is someone, curiously grab, turn the pages in a jiffy, just to feel the gloss eye the seductive shine ogle the ostentation, and caress the pictures in opulent colors, then, let go quick without any qualms. Throw it back on the table with a resounding thud in no time and leave without even looking back once!
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Feb 5, 2016
Feb 5, 2016 at 8:35 AM UTC
A spectacle,she is, lacking gravitas
Socrates was a savage son of a gun Waltzing across town with an urbane gravitas, Trumping the pimps and priests that passed His lazy confidence demanded the reverence oft reserved For kings and queens and prime ministers Without a home, the world was a playground all his own He was always gentle, always genial, Because he descried through his one good eye That dregs like me had it rough enough already He was my friend, And then he died, And no one cared but me. While functional American boys were Learning from their fathers, I was learning from that feral cat. Good old Socrates. Good boy, Socrates.
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Jun 9, 2010
Jun 9, 2010 at 8:52 AM UTC
My Oldest Friend
She was a barefoot singer Her toes sliding through the fine, cool earth It was how she drew from the spring of nature She never could hit that high C while wearing shoes Their soles are blacker than ours she used to say Those ugly boots are cutting you off she used to tell me You'll never hit a high C She sang and I played I wore my shoes And I let my hair grow long My savage war paint Smeared across my chest under my shirt Unknown to everyone but me And her, she saw it too We only played outside The earth on her soles The wind in my hair The tortured animus of song How those nights conspired against us The natural warmth of audience and music Our blighted bond, tenuous at best Soared strong on those nights A wind over the mountains A wind that promised rain Her voice was fragile But also eerie in its gravitas It commanded the respect of the dead soldiers and sailors that came out for us It made her younger It declawed and dulled her fangs I would sometimes cry when she hit that high C On our very last number On the very last page The fire would kick up and my fingers would dance And we both believed in the other She in her naked earth Me with my jaguar soul Oh, how those nights conspired against us
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Dec 28, 2012
Dec 28, 2012 at 9:03 PM UTC
She Was A Barefoot Singer
ambiance amplified and gravitas dead inside drink alone, danger zone, shot the Jekyll, saved the Hyde cut my seat belts so my doors wouldn't beep, though I creep with a fleet of conceited banditos to the park, skip some rocks, play the shark, shuffle birds find the narc, go and knock, make it bark, no one heard a million reason to stay awake wide-eyed tonight ninety-nine ******* one problem: you're in my line of sight black & decker woodpecker, fur-trap chop with my power-drill trill wagon, cool dragon flagon of honey mead on the window sill unseen fiends mean for stones out beating streets to smithereens you only live nine times: shake the earth, **** the silver screens pair of sweet, pear-shaped tweets for you to meet in the suite, they can show, you can see that they know how to greet enough throwaways to keep boost mobile open enough light reflecting princess cuts that they think my neck is frozen
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Jan 19, 2015
Jan 19, 2015 at 2:46 AM UTC
Modern Wrappers II, or, When I Die Bury Me Inside the Loopy Spore
If I could send one message back through time, I wouldn’t write to beg words off a writer I admire – be it Dante or Blake, Yeats or Cummings – and I wouldn’t warn away the gazes of a to-be lost love or push the glad hands of not-yet abandoned friends. I would write to my yesterday self, who lazily left dishes for today’s me to do, and I’d rightly tell him: “Please, reconsider the sink- me urge to shirk was. “These are citrus- scented suds, and if you let them, they’ll tickle a memory of 3 too-old oranges forgotten to bother the bottom of a wicker bowl, which in turn will return you to rethink the how of when a younger you grew 5 times in those 10 years before the death, and then you stopped caring for the 20 since.” It’s news of the wee, menial and non-consequential tasks that gives all of these me’s pleasure now.
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Nov 13, 2010
Nov 13, 2010 at 6:42 AM UTC
Zero gravitas, or when I solve the fundamentals of time travel
hard to play the idiot; likened to Mr. Bean taking the role from Angus Daily into a Blackadder hurrah who? ha, ha, ha! my eyes never left me baffled - or washington prone: *** to a stirrup - furthermore, or Rushmore: Atilla with an entourage worthy of Genghis: of prone gravitas - i too santa's little helper and sinatra's five p.m. flamingo strut's worth of martini - when said slavic eye then lessened germanic white-boy fisheyed to boot... i mean less binocular and more concentrate... but there's me as a fifth of Nevada in Siberia that's always the: **** we sold Alaska! Nicolai! oh Nicolai! Alaska! **** or of what was the Crimea, of what is the Kremlin: k, c, k, c, s, c, k, c, k, c, Vlad, s, t, u, v, k, c, s, Rasputin, k, c, k, c, Boney M.... i'm still fidgety about the third ethnicity in europe... i have to gather them attune to being southern slav, or pseudo-turkish, Finns, Latvians and Greeks... sounds like falafel: all guidance to the subsequent reprimands of necessarily tongue-tied whiplash - gravitas with the kink and jeopardy of a gimp fetish on the loose.
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Nov 8, 2016
Nov 8, 2016 at 9:24 PM UTC
realism
If only I could summon the will to banish my daemons; Exorcise the rot that for too long has brought me low; Waged a war unseen and unheard by the outside; Inside, a mutinous cacophony of a ****** battlefield; Where the parts of me unfouled by corruption, weep; Tears of crimson blood run down as flowing rivers rage; Anger, that the current refuses to change its course; Sadness, that I was the one who had diverted destiny; Swept away by tides no mortal man can hope to shake; Trapped, like mighty Atlas, beneath the weight of fate; An unfortunate purgatory of endless indecision; A fear to see myself beyond the scars I have caused; Calloused, my pessimism knows no boundaries; There can be no going back to brighter days; When days are comparable only to the blackest night; Sunrises carry the gravitas of the setting sun, reversed; Life, loses the beauty that once inspired the muse; Leaving me feeling empty, lost on 'oft forgotten seas; Praying for Charybdis to churn and drown my daemons; Finally setting me free from this self imposed slavery; Shattering the chains holding my past to my present
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Jun 15, 2024
Jun 15, 2024 at 1:21 PM UTC
My Daemons
You are the sun in the solar system, Somehow pulling everyone into your orbit. Even passer by asteroids like myself Get captured and entranced By the gravitas of your enigma. Forever stuck in the same trajectory, Always circling back to you. How do you do it?
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Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020 at 11:36 PM UTC
In Orbit
This week I have been mostly petrified, and in between such periods I have been jelly. Do you remember the action of freeze and thaw? Surely you do, it’s the one clear spot in the fogged grey landscape of your old school geography. Well that is the state of me. I am eroding. When this process began I cannot tell, I only know that it continues. I like to think that the fragments of my self are at least collecting somewhere, perhaps in my socks. If I had the will I might tip out the sediment nightly and store it in a glass jar by the bed. I am of course losing weight, though not so much weight as gravitas. Conventional scales won’t register the change as I have tried to explain to my doctor, but he smiles the smile of an indulgent uncle then writes me another little green ticket for little blue pills. When the last essential ballast is crumbled and gone Into that that jar, nicely striped, my substance will rise like a cheap balloon, leaving something empty and indifferent and insensitive. Hooray is what I say! I, or that thing that is I minus self, might at last succeed by blundering on into money regardless, by making the right decisions. Judgement is right because there’s no backchat inside to say otherwise. Bring it on.
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Apr 24, 2012
Apr 24, 2012 at 5:32 PM UTC
Lift Off
Expatriated.... silence swallows whole, enunciated expression: Fists pummel at an empty sky. A voiceless scream tears anaesthetised night. Who needs gravitas, what piety awards accolades; why strike a solemn clarion where dignity and virtue fail to roam, when last breathe approaches? How can we repatriate orphan, edulcerate elocution?
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Feb 8, 2015
Feb 8, 2015 at 4:36 AM UTC
orphaned pages
brewing potion with ritual reciting chants, merely verbal niching these little caviar a mixture of gravitas and war such ladle so long enough to combine a virgin's blood with a spoon of wine perhaps adding a buckskin would suffice this hellcat's hellacious bliss a bushel of a misogynist's intestine, must not forget to hitch gobs of sharks fin, augment a pair of an old man's sight then smatter the hogs' teeth bite sing song this dark lullaby you ought to hear plead and cry smell and smear this fatal brew any life it shall take and shoo death will come and it will reign blood will begrime and it will stain thoroughly toting the daring deathly hex seeking a prey who must be next
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Nov 25, 2019
Nov 25, 2019 at 10:52 PM UTC
witching
How to Read a Poem (Hint:  Not With Your Eyes) Touch You cannot lift or load it, over your shoulder, throw it, to best assay its weight - is it ponderous, full of big *** gravitas or a snack, a parfait desert, a haiku delight? You cannot touch it, but it can touch you, It can grasp both your shoulders, shake you from complacency, put its hands upon thy throat, gasp emit, a scream demanded, paint whimsy lines on thy face, from ear to ear. See With yours eyes, by a mere glance, true reveal its length, stanzas multiple or an itty bitty ditty, but this gives no value clue,   Ogden Nash vs. Tennyson, in two minutes make you laugh, in twenty, make you beg, mercy! Smell Some Poe poems do stink, befouled mushrooms in a dank place, some require nerve to read, but your olfactory be ill suited for poetic deconstruction and criticism. Hear Wake you with kisses upon thy face, inject love poems into thy ears, **straight to the brain verbal crack ******* yet even the hearing the whisper of words from my lips, is an insufficient, sensorily speaking methodology, of how a poem, to best comprehend How then? If touch, vision, smell and cursory hearing alone can't essence capture, what then, weary reader, is the supposed Laureate's approved analytical tool? Taste *Each letter, a morsel in your mouth, Each phrase, a fork full of pleasure, Each stanza, a full fledged member in a tasting menu, Perfect only in conjunction with the preceding flavor, and the one that follows,  and the one that follows.* Taste each poem upon thy tongue and then pass it on, you know how.... Each word, whether chewed thoroughly, or lightly placed upon a bud for flavor, needs the careful consideration of your mouth. Feel the light pressure of the tongues tip upon the roof of your mouth and the exalted exhalations of air rushing past thy cheeks as you messenger breath from your chest to be shared with the world, over the poem's interpreter, your tasting lips. As I lay each word down, a brick by brick edifice construct of mine own design, I am sated, fulfilled only, when with I see your lips move as you savor my words, my taste you share, and we are closer for it. Deaf, dumb and blind, all such travails can be conquered, assailed, but when I cannot, no longer anymore taste my poems upon thy lips, then I breathe no more.
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May 26, 2013
May 26, 2013 at 8:13 AM UTC
Not with Your Eyes
How to Read a Poem (Hint:  Not With Your Eyes) Touch You cannot lift or load it, over your shoulder, throw it, to best assay its weight - is it ponderous, full of big *** gravitas or a snack, a parfait desert, a haiku delight? You cannot touch it, but it can touch you, It can grasp both your shoulders, shake you from complacency, put its hands upon thy throat, gasp emit, a scream demanded, paint whimsy lines on thy face, from ear to ear. See With yours eyes, by a mere glance, true reveal its length, stanzas multiple or an itty bitty ditty, but this gives no value clue,   Ogden Nash vs. Tennyson, in two minutes make you laugh, in twenty, make you beg, mercy! Smell Some Poe poems do stink, befouled mushrooms in a dank place, some require nerve to read, but your olfactory be ill suited for poetic deconstruction and criticism. Hear Wake you with kisses upon thy face, inject love poems into thy ears, **straight to the brain verbal crack ******* yet even the hearing the whisper of words from my lips, is an insufficient, sensorily speaking methodology, of how a poem, to best comprehend How then? If touch, vision, smell and cursory hearing alone can't essence capture, what then, weary reader, is the supposed Laureate's approved analytical tool? Taste *Each letter, a morsel in your mouth, Each phrase, a fork full of pleasure, Each stanza, a full fledged member in a tasting menu, Perfect only in conjunction with the preceding flavor, and the one that follows,  and the one that follows.* Taste each poem upon thy tongue and then pass it on, you know how.... Each word, whether chewed thoroughly, or lightly placed upon a bud for flavor, needs the careful consideration of your mouth. Feel the light pressure of the tongues tip upon the roof of your mouth and the exalted exhalations of air rushing past thy cheeks as you messenger breath from your chest to be shared with the world, over the poem's interpreter, your tasting lips. As I lay each word down, a brick by brick edifice construct of mine own design, I am sated, fulfilled only, when with I see your lips move as you savor my words, my taste you share, and we are closer for it. Deaf, dumb and blind, all such travails can be conquered, assailed, but when I cannot, no longer anymore taste my poems upon thy lips, then I breathe no more.
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humid temperance in your tussled hair you are fair to begin with a more wholesome lust- my ***** could pray too. you give this gravitas - while withholding a miracle of aftermaths. you're spot on. manifest this for me... bring out the outcasts of your hinterlands and small tokens. bring out your fists so that i may comfort them with too warm kisses. let me languish in your paradox swollen with joy totally into it, let me love you like like like like daybreak mending. i'll size you up on a pedestal and catch you like a lover. try me.
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Oct 29, 2012
Oct 29, 2012 at 11:29 AM UTC
Manifest This For Me
Iambic pentameters are quite old As poetry fashions go now, I must say. Tetrameters are sharper, yes, But both are old I must confess. Make any speech, with force, you’ll surely find Iambic rhythms: the power of pulse. Such things are found in common speech for sure. And lines of ten syllables must endure. Poetic structures set in stone are not My way: variety is key I have To say. Some use of rhyme is okay too. So how you write, that’s up to you (my friend). For I prefer to write free verse, To steer away from doggerel’s curse. Longer lines are languid, with gravitas. Short ones clout, It’s as simple as that. Paul Butters
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Jun 24, 2016
Jun 24, 2016 at 11:18 AM UTC
Poetry's Progress
all lips and spit rinds glittering pleasure i'm lean sinew knotting heavy gasps at nails and texture rawly rumples      the divine shale your pertinent flavor strums a tattoo polished on my back upper       sprouted feathers how contracting desperate talons                       grapple cotton bedding shouting mumbles of lipbiting            sweat                          in tremulous arcs of ***** lint                          i gravitas  surreptitiously   the cradle of your spark spitting electric engine gloved in black hard fuzz                                   tickling the moist        tremor of                           my rose petals splitting tongue delivers                               screeching        love
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Jan 8, 2011
Jan 8, 2011 at 12:37 PM UTC
all lips and spit
**casual *** causal** for the voyeurs and titillation-needy, the only *** here is the celestial gravitational undivided divide begging to be crossed over, the pull of desire's mutual assured destruction between Mars and Venus, the war cause, the Casus Belli, of casual *** and that's it, it's a wrap a casual poem about the non-causality, the logic of the non-logicality of *** casual, that breaks all the rules of space, time and the earnest gravitas of anti-gravity, succumbing to light bending dark matter that resides where reason does not and your wonder does this qualify as only love poetry, but you don't wonder for long...
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Jun 14, 2016
Jun 14, 2016 at 4:34 PM UTC
casual *** causal