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Struggles come and struggles go annihilate each, together with its' bearer regardless if he identifies himself as friend or foe Struggle aims at destruction, and drives you to the floor Remain resilient and savior respiration, for struggle conquering techniques, you shall soon know Struggle fails, yet departs having left a mark For light to shine brightest, we must first experience the dark Embrace your struggles, your battles and daily rumbles For they are fueling you for success, and struggle is your spark
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 9:19 AM UTC
Struggles
One in the know drops a line, there was no A B C to spell, yet it keeps spreading. An animated lingua wraps round the eyeline. All those that get wind of it arise and keep counting. Without a beginning or an end, For it has no 1 or 9, not a mark nor a sign. Speechless, breathless me, turn to mine, the one, superior turned-on mind. And it appeared true, true to that credible nature that identifies indeed the 'name' of the composer! Meanwhile, a bird of time. A giant spell takes no time, eases off in a blink of eye. I start to breathe, begin to revive, again in my native countryside:   some clay-bumps on the river. I can cry, smile, now I can shed tears. Rhyme on the river. What's in a river? 'Lores of time immemorial, an open heart on the move!' Is there anyone out there 'tapped into the running cycle of water, following the rhyme on the river'? One in the know drops a line, there was no A B C to spell, yet it keeps spreading. An animated lingua wraps round the eyeline. All those that get wind of it arise and keep counting. Without a beginning or an end, For it has no 1 or 9, not a mark nor a sign. Speechless, breathless me, turn to mine, the one, superior turned-on mind. And it appeared true, true to that credible nature that identifies indeed the 'name' of the composer! Meanwhile, a bird of time. A giant spell takes no time, eases off in a blink of eye. I start to breathe, begin to revive, again in my native countryside:   some clay-bumps on the river. I can cry, smile, now I can shed tears. Rhyme on the river. What's in a river? 'Lores of time immemorial, an open heart on the move!' Is there anyone out there 'tapped into the running cycle of water, following the rhyme on the river'? One in the know drops a line, there was no A B C to spell, yet it keeps spreading. An animated lingua wraps round the eyeline. All those that get wind of it arise and keep counting. Without a beginning or an end, For it has no 1 or 9, not a mark nor a sign. Speechless, breathless me, turn to mine, the one, superior turned-on mind. And it appeared true, true to that credible nature that identifies indeed the 'name' of the composer! Meanwhile, a bird of time. A giant spell takes no time, eases off in a blink of eye. I start to breathe, begin to revive, again in my native countryside:   some clay-bumps on the river. I can cry, smile, now I can shed tears. Rhyme on the river. What's in a river? 'Lores of time immemorial, an open heart on the move!' Is there anyone out there 'tapped into the running cycle of water, following the rhyme on the river'?
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Apr 6, 2017
Apr 6, 2017 at 9:40 PM UTC
Rhyme on the River
One in the know drops a line, there was no A B C to spell, yet it keeps spreading. An animated lingua wraps round the eyeline. All those that get wind of it arise and keep counting. Without a beginning or an end, For it has no 1 or 9, not a mark nor a sign. Speechless, breathless me, turn to mine, the one, superior turned-on mind. And it appeared true, true to that credible nature that identifies indeed the 'name' of the composer! Meanwhile, a bird of time. A giant spell takes no time, eases off in a blink of eye. I start to breathe, begin to revive, again in my native countryside:   some clay-bumps on the river. I can cry, smile, now I can shed tears. Rhyme on the river. What's in a river? 'Lores of time immemorial, an open heart on the move!' Is there anyone out there 'tapped into the running cycle of water, following the rhyme on the river'? One in the know drops a line, there was no A B C to spell, yet it keeps spreading. An animated lingua wraps round the eyeline. All those that get wind of it arise and keep counting. Without a beginning or an end, For it has no 1 or 9, not a mark nor a sign. Speechless, breathless me, turn to mine, the one, superior turned-on mind. And it appeared true, true to that credible nature that identifies indeed the 'name' of the composer! Meanwhile, a bird of time. A giant spell takes no time, eases off in a blink of eye. I start to breathe, begin to revive, again in my native countryside:   some clay-bumps on the river. I can cry, smile, now I can shed tears. Rhyme on the river. What's in a river? 'Lores of time immemorial, an open heart on the move!' Is there anyone out there 'tapped into the running cycle of water, following the rhyme on the river'? One in the know drops a line, there was no A B C to spell, yet it keeps spreading. An animated lingua wraps round the eyeline. All those that get wind of it arise and keep counting. Without a beginning or an end, For it has no 1 or 9, not a mark nor a sign. Speechless, breathless me, turn to mine, the one, superior turned-on mind. And it appeared true, true to that credible nature that identifies indeed the 'name' of the composer! Meanwhile, a bird of time. A giant spell takes no time, eases off in a blink of eye. I start to breathe, begin to revive, again in my native countryside:   some clay-bumps on the river. I can cry, smile, now I can shed tears. Rhyme on the river. What's in a river? 'Lores of time immemorial, an open heart on the move!' Is there anyone out there 'tapped into the running cycle of water, following the rhyme on the river'?
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The writing on your headstone Identifies your name. It shows dates of birth and death, which are not far from the same. Time has passed our little one. The days have turned to years. But you are not forgotten. We still shed many tears. We come to your grave often, though we know that you’re not here. God took your perfect spirit home so He could have you near. This special spot where you were laid by the headstone with your name, Is a place we’ll often visit ‘Til you’re in our arms again.
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Nov 27, 2011
Nov 27, 2011 at 10:21 AM UTC
A Child's Headstone
"Elegance is the only beauty that never fades....  -Audrey Hepburn I beg to differ... there are many beauties..... such as... the intensely knowing glance of someone who has known you... intrinsically... The glance that let's you know that there are things deep inside of you, that have never changed. It's the look that identifies the links in your histories, and that reveal your very core. The look that says I still see you... with acceptance and understanding... That fleeting momentary look ... whether seen throughout a lifetime. ... or a lifetime ago.... That look, acknowledges a basic truth of who you really are. Acknowledges, that you are truly known...outside of yourself. It transcends decades and inspires both fear and awe in me.... and I think that is beautiful!
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 1:52 PM UTC
"Never Fading ...Beauty"
My eyes see nothing but tears Tears of a million suffering souls Souls that are swimming in the pool of poverty Poverty created by a few egocentric individuals My ears hear nothing but the tone of grievances Grievances blossoming from excessive suffering Suffering because of the alarming levels of idleness Idleness because the lot is controlled by a few My nose smells nothing but pungent poverty A poverty that has become a national disaster A disaster which has become a national emblem An emblem that the world identifies us with My mouth has become a floodgate of lamentations Lamentations that blossoms from excessive pain Pain which has become an inseparable part of everyone Everyone has lost hope of seeing a brighter day
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Dec 13, 2018
Dec 13, 2018 at 7:04 AM UTC
THE CRY OF A NATION.
In the land of Temperature I met Thermostat - Thermometer What does thermometer do anyway? A thermometer tells you the temperature whether it’s cold or hot But it does nothing about the situation it identifies It only measures and whether we like it or not What about thermostat? Thermostats function in a way that when it senses a room is cold, it quickly and quietly starts the machinery necessary to bring the cold room to an acceptable temperature If a room is hot, a thermostat cues the system to cool the room It restores the balance, it assess the situation and make a difference. I named her Thermostat – Thermometer ‘Cause she can be a thermostat to others When she senses there’s something wrong around her She always does something to make it right like a thermostat does Sadly, she can only be a thermometer to herself She knows there’s something wrong with her Yet she can’t do something ‘Cause she also needs a thermostat A thermostat to make it right for her It makes me wonder how many people out there Acting like thermostat to others But they can only act as thermometer to theirselves Hoping that someday A thermostat changes the situation where they are in
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Jul 26, 2013
Jul 26, 2013 at 6:20 AM UTC
The Thermostat - Thermometer
One who identifies too strongly with Words and Names falls victim to the paradoxical quicksand we know as Language. Bound forever by a Name of a concept, One suffers the ******* of Language.
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May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014 at 7:02 PM UTC
******* of Language
If corporate Dems tell me about how 'We all do better when we all do better'... Or about how 'It's not about class, it's about coming out for Dems'... Or about how, 'No one identifies with the working class' or 'nobody wants to identify with the working poor'... I say to you, WE ARE THE WORKING POOR. Look at the stains on their clothes, listen to their words, look at the rugged callous of their hands, who amongst us can last a job loss, or wage cut, or a car blow out? None of us, cept the 1%. We are the precariat class, the proletarian class. I say to you, the working poor and homeless are the 'emarginati', the literal marginal ones, the ones at the edges of society. But who, honestly, isn't at the edge??? The Democratic gubernatorial candidate turned carpet-bagging Congressional goon, Bank of America executive turned-state-CFO Alex Sink embodies the centrist-right neoliberal dogma of 'business-rules', who cares about immigrants besides those who 'clean our hotels and do our landscaping'. Brand-imaging, quaffed corporate Dems are why the two-party system in broken. Both parties are sell-outs to capital, and they think we don't know. We know, and we remember. Neoliberal capitalism of 'Washington Consensus' imposed on the rest of humanity will fall. I just hope we wise up as a republic in the mean time.
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Mar 23, 2014
Mar 23, 2014 at 11:31 PM UTC
Corporate Dem Brand Image VS Emarginati
What’s going on at Capitol Hill The House and Senate have Bills to fulfill GOP and Democrats must connect with will Voting Rights is nothing that should be passed over The Constitution was a discovery giving us that right The American People and Capitol Hill shouldn’t take it light The late Congressmen John Lewis was a true fighter on Capitol Hill for Voting Rights He was the voice that had might We can’t go backwards into time Yet we can reflect Voting Rights can’t be a reject Voting Rights Bill gives the American People assurance having an effect We can’t let the GOP turn America into a Dictatorship We are not Russia nor China in Communism The Constitution clearly states, ‘WE THE PEOPLE” That identifies all people of creeds Capitol Hill must think with understanding Voting Rights Bills must be solid in sustaining Tomorrow could very well be a finale of permanent sundown Suppression having the shine Capitol Hill must show genuine This makes passing Voting Rights so important House and Senate, “I ask that you do what is right” Sign Bills in plain sight Unite with no plight The American People are depending on you PURSUIE
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Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022 at 3:53 PM UTC
WHAT’S GOING ON AT CAPITOL HILL?
SMACK now he's awake Mother rests tight tonight Father has made a wake Marching in like a Lion Filling this room with peace Sister SISTER Sister One sadly deceased Two remembers her ninth Three soon identifies SMACK was spanked for good luck He's celebrating birth As he rips paper up SMACK found DOPE in his vein CHEAT. LIE. STEAL. PUMP. HANG. SLEEP. Three identifies SMACK
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Aug 21, 2014
Aug 21, 2014 at 5:46 PM UTC
SMACK
insidious... the forces that bend us toward self-destruction insidious... the illusions that feed those malevolent forces insidious... the stories that construct those obscuring illusions insidious... the thoughts that metastasize into those deluding stories insidious... the mind that identifies with those detrimental thoughts innocent... the soul that succumbs
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Mar 28, 2014
Mar 28, 2014 at 12:07 PM UTC
Insidious
With baptism, one identifies with The Christ, mirroring His death, burial and resurrection; in this symbolic gesture of Faith, one sees a formal acknowledgment of His gift of Salvation. This practice, instituted by John the Baptist, teaches one to reflect on the sacred sacrifice- that Christ -alone- redeemed all of Humanity and that His unequaled actions will suffice as the second Adam, for our enduring redemption. Even Christ Himself, took this symbolic plunge. Was this a mere watery dunking of His flesh? Or did it prepare Him… to be able to expunge the death penalty of sin for us permanently? Therefore, I honor His act of propitiation- by the baptism of my body before witnesses, as I’m initiated today… into His Holy Nation. . . . Author Notes Inspired by: John 3:25-36 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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Jun 25, 2015
Jun 25, 2015 at 11:43 AM UTC
Poem: Baptism
My eyes weren't burned blind with hot oil I am not a brainwashed cult member I do not think ignorance is bliss And I see lies and truth as night and day Some people speak to me Like I've never walked outside my door As if the truth could **** me "But I'll tell you anyway" We've all heard that one before I know what's happening I know that I am not the only person you're seeing I know that you're vicious in your animalistic ways The animalism that society identifies as "manly" I'm sure others have received the text The phone call The words that make us feel needed The words that make me feel like I am doing something I want to do Even if I don't I know that you're not perfect I know that your mind is obsessive And compulsive And meticulous like neat stacks of paper Or freshly cut grass I still don't know how you value me As a person As an object As a heart As a brain It could be any of the listed above And even though you're not the perfect gentleman I understand that people aren't perfect I'm not blind to your mistakes No one is covering my ears Or hindering my senses The truth is right in front of me You are the truth People look at me As if I am an orphaned child A recent widow Still in denial because of the trauma That life has presented to us I know that you can be horrible Cruel and abusive At the same time I know you can make me feel like the only person who has ever rested in your arms And even if I'm not the only one I know I'm not the only one I accept it Because your presence makes me feel better about myself Your face motivates me to do well in all I do Your body encourages me to run for miles and do hundreds of lunges Maybe I'm using you just as much as you may be using me We're messed up and mortified and scarred "You can do better" they say "You deserve someone who will treat you like a princess because you're intellectual and pretty" What if I don't want that What if all I want is to complacently stay In a place that I don't necessarily belong But it feels right So I do And that's why they think I'm blind Senseless
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Aug 19, 2013
Aug 19, 2013 at 9:28 PM UTC
Senseless
My eyes weren't burned blind with hot oil I am not a brainwashed cult member I do not think ignorance is bliss And I see lies and truth as night and day Some people speak to me Like I've never walked outside my door As if the truth could **** me "But I'll tell you anyway" We've all heard that one before I know what's happening I know that I am not the only person you're seeing I know that you're vicious in your animalistic ways The animalism that society identifies as "manly" I'm sure others have received the text The phone call The words that make us feel needed The words that make me feel like I am doing something I want to do Even if I don't I know that you're not perfect I know that your mind is obsessive And compulsive And meticulous like neat stacks of paper Or freshly cut grass I still don't know how you value me As a person As an object As a heart As a brain It could be any of the listed above And even though you're not the perfect gentleman I understand that people aren't perfect I'm not blind to your mistakes No one is covering my ears Or hindering my senses The truth is right in front of me You are the truth People look at me As if I am an orphaned child A recent widow Still in denial because of the trauma That life has presented to us I know that you can be horrible Cruel and abusive At the same time I know you can make me feel like the only person who has ever rested in your arms And even if I'm not the only one I know I'm not the only one I accept it Because your presence makes me feel better about myself Your face motivates me to do well in all I do Your body encourages me to run for miles and do hundreds of lunges Maybe I'm using you just as much as you may be using me We're messed up and mortified and scarred "You can do better" they say "You deserve someone who will treat you like a princess because you're intellectual and pretty" What if I don't want that What if all I want is to complacently stay In a place that I don't necessarily belong But it feels right So I do And that's why they think I'm blind Senseless
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Is the line under the signifier: a thing not self-originating: And the I that takes a pleasure in watching it identifies with the self watching it happily identify This representation of the self in verbal and then ideal form to be faster, Faster, faster, because Mommy is near and I have wings and can ****** you with my bare hands It's an understanding in an unconventional way: To say that the utterance gives way to strength
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Mar 14, 2016
Mar 14, 2016 at 11:53 PM UTC
The effect of Kirito's yell
As dear young children, remember when we shared beliefs sitting on the swings? and now on park benches, we find solace in the years the season brings. Watching as the souls of the world live as kings, when we were drunk on Halloween. It was that night I realized what beauty was. Our first night in the new apartment, every room still empty. We would get electricity tomorrow, so we used candles. I could see the mosaic glow of your face, and it took me to a brand new place. You were only wearing your underwear and my worn out sweater, lying on the floor, the floor that was covered in wine and scratch-offs. The whispers of candles in the background. My mind was wild, but now misused, my eyes are a child that’s confused. But my love will hold you when you’re sleeping, and caress you when you’re weeping. The season in your eyes, it selectively identifies, my face in the foam on the side of the glass, right next to the episode of cries. I only wish you were near me, but you will never love me sincerely. When will I escape these human emotions? It feels like I only go through the motions. Within that moment, where the heated altercations wither away, where the blazing screams end, and the confessions really begin. Where the funeral is quiet tears and melodic eulogies, suppressed by the far cry of the brain, filled with eternal apologies, never to sustain. Within his final thoughts before he hit the train. Now we hold hands in a Eucharistic reunion, only to steal our emotions from the young ones. Every reflection of the light on the trees, they taunt me with wonder and euphonic memories. You won’t find a flame in my heart, I've never been shown that part. I’m a stranger to myself and that’s okay.
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Jun 17, 2013
Jun 17, 2013 at 3:28 PM UTC
Farewell Stranger, Soon and Hereafter
As dear young children, remember when we shared beliefs sitting on the swings? and now on park benches, we find solace in the years the season brings. Watching as the souls of the world live as kings, when we were drunk on Halloween. It was that night I realized what beauty was. Our first night in the new apartment, every room still empty. We would get electricity tomorrow, so we used candles. I could see the mosaic glow of your face, and it took me to a brand new place. You were only wearing your underwear and my worn out sweater, lying on the floor, the floor that was covered in wine and scratch-offs. The whispers of candles in the background. My mind was wild, but now misused, my eyes are a child that’s confused. But my love will hold you when you’re sleeping, and caress you when you’re weeping. The season in your eyes, it selectively identifies, my face in the foam on the side of the glass, right next to the episode of cries. I only wish you were near me, but you will never love me sincerely. When will I escape these human emotions? It feels like I only go through the motions. Within that moment, where the heated altercations wither away, where the blazing screams end, and the confessions really begin. Where the funeral is quiet tears and melodic eulogies, suppressed by the far cry of the brain, filled with eternal apologies, never to sustain. Within his final thoughts before he hit the train. Now we hold hands in a Eucharistic reunion, only to steal our emotions from the young ones. Every reflection of the light on the trees, they taunt me with wonder and euphonic memories. You won’t find a flame in my heart, I've never been shown that part. I’m a stranger to myself and that’s okay.
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Confined to the minds barrels, trapped inside four white, wooden walls that wash me with light; creating eternity. An eternity where your face is forced forth with splintered teeth, wood grain whispers. Air evades my lungs breathing in, panic, locked away. To stay and rot. My tongue may become a meal; I don’t need words in here. This chambers grand design is an endless emptiness. My mind’s faced with this shameless white graceless space which aggravates my dark creativity. This great sin in me is great and willing me to spill the hate hidden deep. The rays rebound perpetually. The silence perplexes me. Perplexes me. The silence confined to the double barrels. Your face, perpetually, stretching its imprint across these walls. Blurring, screaming terror. Eyes open, burning, comfort in the darkness learning the eyelids inner charms. Not the vastness. Eyes open. Terror. Tear away these fantasies; isolations imagination identifies with my demons. The blank space is filled with cacophonies, agony, smiles in the emptiness stretch beyond capacity. Silence. Whispers, these wood grain whispers splinter my eardrums. No matter how I try to pick (axe) them out, this imaginary pencil doesn’t dig deep enough. I hear no calligraphy. No beauty finds me in here, this box of light holds my plight and creates a world where I know no night. I hold no right, I cannot wrong, there’s nothing left, I hold no rite, there’s no day to escape for sleep, no knight to bring me dreams, no left to take me to the right place, I am so bereft of time. Am I dead? Dying? Lying here in wait, lying to myself, declining in health. Declining life. The silence is hexing, dissecting each piece of what’s left of me. The canvas screams, it wants to know my nightmares, to feel their bloodied paint on its flesh. I’m the worm in the water.
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 1:29 PM UTC
Double Barreled
Confined to the minds barrels, trapped inside four white, wooden walls that wash me with light; creating eternity. An eternity where your face is forced forth with splintered teeth, wood grain whispers. Air evades my lungs breathing in, panic, locked away. To stay and rot. My tongue may become a meal; I don’t need words in here. This chambers grand design is an endless emptiness. My mind’s faced with this shameless white graceless space which aggravates my dark creativity. This great sin in me is great and willing me to spill the hate hidden deep. The rays rebound perpetually. The silence perplexes me. Perplexes me. The silence confined to the double barrels. Your face, perpetually, stretching its imprint across these walls. Blurring, screaming terror. Eyes open, burning, comfort in the darkness learning the eyelids inner charms. Not the vastness. Eyes open. Terror. Tear away these fantasies; isolations imagination identifies with my demons. The blank space is filled with cacophonies, agony, smiles in the emptiness stretch beyond capacity. Silence. Whispers, these wood grain whispers splinter my eardrums. No matter how I try to pick (axe) them out, this imaginary pencil doesn’t dig deep enough. I hear no calligraphy. No beauty finds me in here, this box of light holds my plight and creates a world where I know no night. I hold no right, I cannot wrong, there’s nothing left, I hold no rite, there’s no day to escape for sleep, no knight to bring me dreams, no left to take me to the right place, I am so bereft of time. Am I dead? Dying? Lying here in wait, lying to myself, declining in health. Declining life. The silence is hexing, dissecting each piece of what’s left of me. The canvas screams, it wants to know my nightmares, to feel their bloodied paint on its flesh. I’m the worm in the water.
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There's a frenzy around ID cards when you're fifteen an excitement like trapping bees in an airtight jar which cannot be replicated as an adult although the behavior is the same:      Criticize the picture      Berate oneself for being      A human with height and width and coloration Then there's the barber shop mirror replication of self the meta-selfie of taking a picture of one's ID and posting to      everything . . . ever so you have a sounding board for your self-aggrandizement      enrobed in self-deprecation like      a chocolate-dipped madeleine which will inherently lead to a knitted afghan of praise and adoration which was entirely the point Then there's the dismissal the abandonment into a wallet from which it will never escape living out lifetimes ad infinitum in vain never recognizing the worth of Your student ID 113809 which identifies you but is not you because You could never be so two-dimensional
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Sep 6, 2013
Sep 6, 2013 at 1:31 PM UTC
ID 2089 179 010
Part One We sat on a strange wooden platform Which hung suspended From a strange metal structure. And we kissed in the daylight With cars passing by. It struck me then That I hadn’t kissed anyone in the daylight With cars passing by In over two years. And I’d never before Kissed anyone in the daylight With cars passing by Who identifies as a Marxist. Or who loves Virginia Woolf. Or who takes her sandals off to splash in muddy water without prompting and Without even rolling up her jeans. Or whose love of life captures her in the same contradictions as mine. And I haven’t written a love poem For someone who might also be writing me love poems In over two years But this is it. Here it is. This is it, Here it is, In four days We will live in separate cities And then I might not kiss anyone in the daylight With cars passing by For two more years Or two more after that but Such a possibility strikes me as unlikely. Not because we can commute but because you showed me As we hung suspended on a strange wooden platform Kissing in the daylight With cars passing by (As we braved the mosquito bites in that field that night; As we waded through the creek today While thunder cracked all around us And rain poured down right upon us) That I am someone who someone worth loving Can find worth loving. Part Two Or hang on. It doesn’t have to be like that. It doesn’t have to be like kale soup, Which has been connoted for me as representing the preservation of tradition and community while effecting radical change within the food system. It can instead be like artichokes Which I just like For no ******* reason Other than that they’re good. We each got over 40 mosquito bites because, While we lay in a field under the, like, five stars that decided to show themselves at the peak of the Perseides meteor shower, We were too busy making out to give a **** And it was fun. It was fun, and tonight when we got dinner and you asked me to explain why I liked artichokes so much We abandoned our tradition of narrative, us English majors, and we decided to study Sociology, Because sometimes it’s better to look at how things are Before you even ask yourself why.
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Aug 3, 2015
Aug 3, 2015 at 11:47 PM UTC
Cars Passing By, With and Without Prescription
Part One We sat on a strange wooden platform Which hung suspended From a strange metal structure. And we kissed in the daylight With cars passing by. It struck me then That I hadn’t kissed anyone in the daylight With cars passing by In over two years. And I’d never before Kissed anyone in the daylight With cars passing by Who identifies as a Marxist. Or who loves Virginia Woolf. Or who takes her sandals off to splash in muddy water without prompting and Without even rolling up her jeans. Or whose love of life captures her in the same contradictions as mine. And I haven’t written a love poem For someone who might also be writing me love poems In over two years But this is it. Here it is. This is it, Here it is, In four days We will live in separate cities And then I might not kiss anyone in the daylight With cars passing by For two more years Or two more after that but Such a possibility strikes me as unlikely. Not because we can commute but because you showed me As we hung suspended on a strange wooden platform Kissing in the daylight With cars passing by (As we braved the mosquito bites in that field that night; As we waded through the creek today While thunder cracked all around us And rain poured down right upon us) That I am someone who someone worth loving Can find worth loving. Part Two Or hang on. It doesn’t have to be like that. It doesn’t have to be like kale soup, Which has been connoted for me as representing the preservation of tradition and community while effecting radical change within the food system. It can instead be like artichokes Which I just like For no ******* reason Other than that they’re good. We each got over 40 mosquito bites because, While we lay in a field under the, like, five stars that decided to show themselves at the peak of the Perseides meteor shower, We were too busy making out to give a **** And it was fun. It was fun, and tonight when we got dinner and you asked me to explain why I liked artichokes so much We abandoned our tradition of narrative, us English majors, and we decided to study Sociology, Because sometimes it’s better to look at how things are Before you even ask yourself why.
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you have to understand that death sexually identifies as the homewrecker in every relationship and when i was 15, i did not know what i homewrecker was but i knew how many veins you could see on her hand and how many times she blinked while looking at me and the number of freckles on her thighs. i knew that she looked like nothing death wanted to sleep with.
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Feb 19, 2014
Feb 19, 2014 at 11:16 PM UTC
with all do respect
This Boyhood’s End was mine too, but through its music’s dance, not just Hudson’s farewell to a natural world of exotic flowers and flocks of birds on the great plains of the pampas. In Tippett’s suite of songs I first found that ecstasy of word-rhythm wedded to melodic contour held in place by a singer’s voice, and a pianist’s touch of harmony grafted from a play of parts. Sitting on my bedroom floor ear close to the gramophone, thirteen and already enamored, I listened over and again to this cantata that has for so long held the key to the very door of music . . . Music may be a notion like ‘God’ or ‘love’. Everyone identifies with it, but it is composers who live to fathom its depths and sound out its mystery.
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Dec 4, 2013
Dec 4, 2013 at 3:11 PM UTC
Boyhood's End
No young man believes he shall ever die. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flown-the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures; for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own -- The vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us. Death. old age. are words without a meaning. that pass by us like the idea air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them-we "bear a charmed life”, which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward- Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!-and see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations. nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. we have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. It is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and (our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. Our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. As infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us. we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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Aug 8, 2013
Aug 8, 2013 at 1:00 AM UTC
Have Sense Youth Often in
No young man believes he shall ever die. There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amend for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods. One half of time indeed is flown-the other half remains in store for us with all its countless treasures; for there is no line drawn, and we see no limit to our hopes and wishes. We make the coming age our own -- The vast, the unbounded prospect lies before us. Death. old age. are words without a meaning. that pass by us like the idea air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them-we "bear a charmed life”, which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward- Bidding the lovely scenes at distance hail!-and see no end to the landscape, new objects presenting themselves as we advance; so, in the commencement of life, we set no bounds to our inclinations. nor to the unrestricted opportunities of gratifying them. we have as yet found no obstacle, no disposition to flag; and it seems that we can go on so forever. We look round in a new world, full of life, and motion, and ceaseless progress; and feel in ourselves all the vigor and spirit to keep pace with it, and do not foresee from any present symptoms how we shall be left behind in the natural course of things, decline into old age, and drop into the grave. It is the simplicity, and as it were abstractedness of our feelings in youth, that (so to speak) identifies us with nature, and (our experience being slight and our passions strong) deludes us into a belief of being immortal like it. Our short-lives connection with existence we fondly flatter ourselves, is an indissoluble and lasting union-a honeymoon that knows neither coldness, jar, nor separation. As infants smile and sleep, we are rocked in the cradle of our wayward fancies, and lulled into security by the roar of the universe around us. we quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the more objects press around us, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the strong of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
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we are children treated as adults (or it could be vice versa) with no direction, no hopscotch grid leading to the next stage, shaking hands in place of patty-cake, our no longer sticky fingers cling to paper bills and grasp at plastic and cloth and metal and stones, almost believing they are what identifies us. like new toys, we indulge in touch and feel and romance, and other drugs too, to numb our collective fear of the future. our first day jitters have transitioned to a paralyzing fear of our last days, and our tricycles have lost their training wheels, and we take responsibility, we learn to care more, to care less, we find jobs and alcohol and credit cards but never ourselves, and we grow up.
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Sep 8, 2013
Sep 8, 2013 at 3:45 AM UTC
beginning the middle.
:::::: The faucet is noisy warm water touches the plates, the spoons and forks..........soap suds splash back at my face.............i squint :::::: high above the sound of flowing water, their voices......and mine, take power my mind identifies every face behind me they're just within my reach from the sink, extending a hand...sharing a memory we share all...family stuff, jokes, and chores things become easier....feelings are lighter while washing the dishes indeed...water is therapy :::::: i seem to be at a vantage spot i see, i hear everyone i am the observer :::::: pre and post dinner moments of talks whle sipping wine, are always fun leftover food is kept in the fridge and leftover topics, play in our minds they wait for the next morning... ::::::   our laughter.......our giggles crescendo then fade.....and then die with the jokes shared.......in the cold of every evening :::::: my hearing is clearing talks reminiscent of the past wane tomorrow's plans are favored the dishes are clean.....now drying :::::: Sally Copyright December 3, 2017 rrab
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Dec 2, 2017
Dec 2, 2017 at 10:17 AM UTC
Washing The Dishes
Investors need to stop treating stocks as a ‘beauty contest’ and follow the difficult investment style of Keynes, global pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer said. Data produced in a working paper from the Harvard Business Schoolshowed that portfolios built on firms with a good material sustainability rating outperformed those that had a poor rating, an aspect not considered enough by investors who were caught up with quarterly returns, Ambachtsheer said at a Chartered Financial Analyst seminar in Sydney on Monday. “What I see happening out there is largely speculation – what Keynes called ‘beauty contest investing’, where everybody tries to figure out what the most popular stocks are going to be in six months, buys them and when they become really popular sells them,” Ambachtsheer said. He added the implications of this investment style as an aggregate was a zero sum game, whereas investing should be taking savings and turning them into wealth producing capital. “The key thing is you need to look beyond the next quarter; you look at the long-term sustainability of the business model of the corporation, as well as the people behind it in terms of how it is being managed.” The Harvard Business School (HBS) working paper superimposed the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board materiality map (which identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis) onto 400 common US stocks identified through sustainability metrics from Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics. They examined what effect materiality would have over the long-term (starting from the 1980s) and found the top 10 per cent of firms that scored strongly on material sustainability outperformed the bottom 10 per cent, by nine per cent over a rolling twenty-year period. “The practical question is, can you actually manage money this way in the real world? And the answer is yes, but it’s very hard, because you are doing unconventional things,” Ambachtsheer said. Real-world Keynesianism investors – such as Warren Buffett and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – are in a minority despite outperforming over the long-term. In chapter 12 of his seminal workThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained the reason for this was the essence of long-term investors meant their behaviour would be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. “Most organisations can’t function like this,” Ambachtsheer said, as they were too focused on the present.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/vintage-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/backless-formal-dresses
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Nov 15, 2016
Nov 15, 2016 at 2:31 AM UTC
Stop ‘beauty contest’ and act like Keynes
Investors need to stop treating stocks as a ‘beauty contest’ and follow the difficult investment style of Keynes, global pension expert Keith Ambachtsheer said. Data produced in a working paper from the Harvard Business Schoolshowed that portfolios built on firms with a good material sustainability rating outperformed those that had a poor rating, an aspect not considered enough by investors who were caught up with quarterly returns, Ambachtsheer said at a Chartered Financial Analyst seminar in Sydney on Monday. “What I see happening out there is largely speculation – what Keynes called ‘beauty contest investing’, where everybody tries to figure out what the most popular stocks are going to be in six months, buys them and when they become really popular sells them,” Ambachtsheer said. He added the implications of this investment style as an aggregate was a zero sum game, whereas investing should be taking savings and turning them into wealth producing capital. “The key thing is you need to look beyond the next quarter; you look at the long-term sustainability of the business model of the corporation, as well as the people behind it in terms of how it is being managed.” The Harvard Business School (HBS) working paper superimposed the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board materiality map (which identifies likely material sustainability issues on an industry-by-industry basis) onto 400 common US stocks identified through sustainability metrics from Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics. They examined what effect materiality would have over the long-term (starting from the 1980s) and found the top 10 per cent of firms that scored strongly on material sustainability outperformed the bottom 10 per cent, by nine per cent over a rolling twenty-year period. “The practical question is, can you actually manage money this way in the real world? And the answer is yes, but it’s very hard, because you are doing unconventional things,” Ambachtsheer said. Real-world Keynesianism investors – such as Warren Buffett and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan – are in a minority despite outperforming over the long-term. In chapter 12 of his seminal workThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Keynes explained the reason for this was the essence of long-term investors meant their behaviour would be eccentric, unconventional and rash in the eyes of average opinion. “Most organisations can’t function like this,” Ambachtsheer said, as they were too focused on the present.Read more at:www.marieaustralia.com/vintage-formal-dresses | www.marieaustralia.com/backless-formal-dresses
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someone once said, a negative mind will never give you a positive life, but that is itself a negative thought, which must be the product of a negative mind, if it is true, it's false, and if it is false, it's true, but what identifies a princess is not a tiara but a shoe, or, positively said, a negative mind will give you a positive life, for to live uncritically is indistinguishable from being dead
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Apr 27, 2021
Apr 27, 2021 at 9:46 AM UTC
Positive Mind