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Among the mountains and oceans we claimed,
Environments we no longer know,
Starvation from the knowledge lacked.
Strange men of unknown origin push us away
With feathered spears and their spirits
Flying above us like the angels we seek.

The spread of our culture like margarine
Angers the earth it's ancestors tread on;
War and thievery. Disease and infection
Was wildfire in a land containing no such
Immunities to the harshness.

First cities died as infants, stillborns
Of history and freedom, yet
They survived in their determination.
james nordlund Oct 2018
Since our political system has been laid bare, after RumputiN was installed
in the Blackhouse, it's beautiful complex of lack of complexity, in a word,
conspiracy of conspiracies, has moved me and "...we(e),..." to have as a few
of my favorite things be far more reaching questions, out of necessity. Like,
without acknowledging, and demanding others do the same, that it's been
purposely engineered to be a criminal injustice system instead, how can one
even have a real conversation that would lead to potential for real change
of it taking place in reality, if you don't know who you were, where you've
been, how on God's green Earth can you expect to know who..., where you are
and what's going on, necessary to start thinking about changing anything,
even yourself, as well as directing who you will be and where you will
be going, etc.?  Swine slaughtering lower-middle-class to poor men en masse,
mostly of color, instead of just doing the usual liquidation of their ases
and assets, are just serial murderers masquerading as cops, and what goes
around comes around, no?  If you're not taking bullets you're making them.  
Also, people are fed up with felonious RumputiN and his rootin' tootin'
organized crime family spree from the Blackhouse, which should be prosecuted
using the RICO Statute instead of just being elaborately covered up by Mueller
for he's not using it and he's handing out immunities like soldiers candy to
Iraqi kids, duh.  I would add some salient pointless points, beyond the 'empty
boat' of Zen, and 'useless tree' of the Tao, we can understand the burden
placed on our shoulders by our ancestry not exercising their responsibilities
as they should have, and thereby it's Siamese twin sisters, their freedoms,
Withered like unused muscles as well, as a panultimate challenge, saving
humanity, literally. Also, understanding Jung's "80 % of all actions, thoughts,
feelings we have, that we acknowledge, or don't, perceive or don't, are
compensatory towards our pasts", necessitates an integral understanding of
Satre's existentialism' meaning of angst, as experience integral to life, not
opposed to it, but, rather, central to it, and a nexus of it.  This is more
than an embracing of gestalt's, Perls', moment, now. Moving away from sophist
perspective, we also experience the meaning of life is struggle, which comes
through all our meaningful work, succinctly. Further, what is life beyond that
foci is also, the where, when, who, how, and sometimes why too (but never Y2K)
of life; beyond our masks and ego fulfilling stories, schtick, lines, etc..
Do we struggle, not just as lifelong students, with the impossible, not just
the improbable.  Yet, it's actually more layered than that in a much larger
dimensional paradigm than 4 dimensions.  Yes, the effects of our causes in any
action usually have effects that undo our causes as we act them out, intend,
present them, etc..  Yet, those more superficial, linear, first conclusion
layers are not less effective, per se, as the complexity of Karma, Dharma are
beyond our normal comprehension. What is the root of thought, feeling, the root
of feeling, being, the root of being, the extent to which we struggle with what
it is, no?  For, as the following twig of poetree gleans: Soul//
As my breath
is the one, prana,/
And the life's pulse, pala,/
Reaching angelic source, sura,/

So is this mind, manas, a
/  Flowering unfoldment,
/ Unendingly touching
/ The eye
that would it see,/  
Unbeckoning unto thee./
As well, this Bodhi, a temple,/

Of the four and fifth, nur,/  
So entered by atma, a ray of thy sun,/  
Thus being
winged, and
/  As such with wind,/
Flying only in dharma's dance,/
Is returning
to, Brahma, you./  For, there yet, by thy grace, go I./  
We are not who we think
we are, we are, rather, the extent to which we struggle to evolve to be some-
things, spirit, soul, Bodhi, etc., on the path of study that could and should
be one, you, me, forever asked and never answered.  Yet, even if we lived as
prayer, our light only adding to the well of light, our every step in grace,
leaving no footprints that followed none, echoing in all ways, always,
sometimes, like pulling teeth, "...we(e),...", must stalk our words from our
insides 'til we wrangle them, like cats, to the tip of our tongues, no?  For,
"Words weren't meant for cowards..." and we must "be brave...", Happy Rhodes.
We can't allow ourselves the luxury of taking our supposedly 'golden silence'
all the way to the bank, as your average bear does.  These are the end times,
we successfully struggle, to abolish global defacto-slavery by the non-renew-
able energies' corporate structure's machine and it's convolution, against
the global oligarchy's premeditated mass-****** of 7.5 billion people, or
humanity's extinct.  Gandhi, "(supposed) science is the root of all opression"
and, "...we(e),..." must be the change we want in the world".  Is not life
relation, are we not responsible for one another, are not all threads in
the fabric of life needed, as is the evoliutionary ones' mendings, for we
can't allow it to be torn asunder?  If not here, then where, if not now, when,
not you, who? Viva la evolucion.  Indivisible, illimitable you, GOTV.
Please copy, share as you will. this GOTV twig of poetree   :)   reality
Andrew Rueter Nov 2018
The cows graze in their pasture
Subservient to their master
Who doesn’t move faster
To help avoid disaster
So the cows are on their own
To deal with snow
Those all alone
Completely froze
Yet those who know
To use the warm glow
Of company that showed
Survive temperature lows

The cows used to solitary grazing
Now begin embracing
To fight cold air they’re facing
That is life erasing
While frost is lacing
The grass once worth tasting

The winter refuses to yield
As snow builds in the fields
The cows’ cohesion is revealed
As they protect their veal
And forget to steal
To connect and heal
During this ordeal

In times of inclement weather
The cows huddle together
Like someone pulled a lever
That won’t stay locked forever
So eventually ties are severed

As summer comes
The dumber numb
Thinking they won
Soaking up sun
Knowing winter is done
They divide into ones

A flow line
Of the bovine
Slow grind
Shows flies
Grow wise
With no size
They devise
To go for eyes
Cows go blind
In their mind
And cannot find
Their herd in time

Pretty soon the irritating fleas
Give them mad cow disease
As they don’t look to please
But put the good on their knees
While they’re hiding in trees
And biting with absolute ease
Seeing the absence of immunities
From their lack of community

The lost independent
Weather defendants
Become repentant
When they hear encroaching
Thunder clouds approaching
The cows become hectic
From a storm electric
Their formation eclectic
So they feel unprotected
But a fence was erected
So they can’t join the dejected
And this lonely life they elected
Is sadly reflected

The lasso angler
Hassling wranglers
Unmasked as stranglers
Bring the herd together
As they pull a lever
That’ll stay locked forever
As the cows’ heads are severed
And the horns in their head
Stick around once they’re dead
As we eat what they were fed
While they made their own bed
WickedHope Jan 2015
the rim of your beer can
tastes like your stale cigarettes
i choke on the lingering flavor
persistent in my mind
you're overwhelming from afar
if we were closer perhaps
i would build up immunities
to your snares that have me
caught up and falling
head over heals drowning
only at the rim of your beer can
I made it longer. Tada. :P
- - -
Anyone else feel like dying right now, or is it just me?
R L Doe Apr 2015
The feeling inside when you realize something you never had even thought before, and you feel so powerful. Feel so immune to the crushing hand of others. Feel as though no one could ever defeat you or take lead. You see they took something so precious from you, but you’ve forgiven them so easily due to the seeing of joy in them. Seeing that it truly has no face on you. You were not harmed, it had been a gift. You were set free, and you were lead onto the strongest path. You’ve taken the lead, and improved yourself. Become so much closer to success than the others, and had no struggles hold you down. No insecurities or mistrusts. You were forgiven by a Godlike force, perhaps God himself implying his own existence. No longer lead astray to confusion and complexity. With this pure simplicity that has been given from hard work, a good heart, and humility. You have won, and they have no yet reached a joyful mark. So set back by their own minds, so confused and unsatisfied in their own complexities. Knowing you no longer have to struggle with this worry, and dishonor of yourself. You are free to decide your own destiny, set free by them. Do not shield your own immunities.
Spring 2013
Kenya83 Feb 2018
Reading broadens the mind
Opinions, feelings, thoughts entwined
Philosophy, concept, psychology, sociology
A fascinating anthology
Of life, beings, humans, being
Seeing
Further than the horizon
To what you can’t see
And what you don’t understand
A different land
Or a different time in a different place
We all face
Trials and Tribulations
Of the human race
Everything living is designed to survive
So why
Are we determined to end lives
Why does cruelty conflict
When so much tragedy already exists
Why are we conditioned to believe
That love and peace is so naive
Consumed by corruption and greed
When childhood lessons planted this seed
When we were young, when we were free
Before responsibility
I clearly see
I don’t fully understand economy
Inflation is easy
But when it comes to selling ammunition and guns
And murdering toddlers with the funds
Destroying entire communities
Thriving on disunities
Revealing in the privileged immunities
Gaining from murderous opportunities
I simply cannot comprehend
How we just pretend
Out of sight, out of mind
Or conveniently blind
Assigned to monotony
Resigned to the powers that be
You are a product of your environment, you see
I never gave you permission to speak for me
Yo i step into suckas like hammer mc
Bars lovely none above thee fantastically
See me stretching out the kitties
No pity to those who lay in the inner cities
Immunities damaging my community
Black man equals a gat plan demands
Broken from a hidden reprimand
Hands shaking begins a quaking taking
In. All the misery spread love to enemies
Perfect the catastrophe suckas blast at me
But I'll still live eternally watch the fire burn
Suckas loose turn once my rhymes churn
On the microphone lessons begin to learn
Syringed ya brain deadly injected cringe
Binged by the lyrical darts born in the dark
Aiyo once I exit the earth place im replaced
Back up in a woman's belly safe wait
Its a tunnel of light prepared to fight the might
Got my nerves tight cannibis visions
Steel layin' provisions cuz suckas ain't listening
Winds whistlin' move like blades of glass stenciling
Over the Earth's
Paintin' a message withing a message
Viking Savage kin to havoc evils lavish
Lash out the gashes slave masters
We coming after before the rapture capture
Souls colossal rock em into fossils
From the pain that touches like a jostle
Hostile baritone smooth jones on the microphone
Even made the devils step off his throne
I'm feelin' my self guarded my wealth
By twelve queens beautiful cousines sings
Me lullabies as time flies open my forth eyes
Dimension traveler wisdom unraveler
My styles be slicker than a  salamander commander
In the chief heads hanging like a Christ reef
Brought the pans out since suckas want beef
Cooking hooking mad shakes no booking
Central broke the glow cuz of the exquisite dough
Suckas know not to step to this deadly blow
Since hells below can't balance the flows
Gravity weighin' negativity petty pretty
chaos throws nothing but loss floss
Off of the baddest beats three forty fours
blastin' Til my verses fully complete







Aiyo ghost pass me the toast to roast
A fake host smoke the most Snoop coast
Throwing up the dub stand for wins
While others floating in the winds sins
Makes for the deadliest pins religion
Be in my pen inks my Messiah
Let my mind vibrate higher shy dryer
never let it grow cold out for the scold
In with the old back to basics lets face it
**** got a lace it let the smoke retrace it
Sky high all goodie with the mobs bobs
From me rocking this like Nas genesis
First to finishes relentless got em defenseless
Can't match up
Against A1 business craft the sauce
James Brown protege so it  paid me to be a boss
70s hippie though I was born in the 80s
In the back of ambulance Mercedes
Mind's a mercenary pierce the unready
Walking dead look how many heads is fed
Feeding off a vultures instinct
Scared to blink cuz they might sink
in the ground with no water around clowns
be joking but no smiles when the smokes in
Cashed ya cemetery lottos ain't no tomorrow
When ya Die today this is mayday for doomsday
Let the bass take me away when I say
What I wanna say pack the ocean sprays
no delays sitting like predator preys
Lazer eye ya sty patch ya like Rick's socket
The last of the Moor prophets so stop it
You can't insult a demi-god going against odds
Im Moses at the mountains holding the rods
Ten commandments with sticky bandits
Home alone was a kid smoking grown
Most postal than Malone step into the zone
War killin' clones original Jim Jones stones
Over ya capers vapors
Often erase once the seriousness gives taste
Copperhead shootin' venomous waste
Take a step back rebound off my stacks
Twin macks Alex and chad causin' deep impact
Yo i step into suckas like hammer mc
Bars lovely none above thee fantastically
See me stretching out the kitties
No pity to those who lay in the inner cities
Immunities damaging my community
Black man equals a gat plan demands
Broken from a hidden reprimand
Hands shaking begins a quaking taking
In. All the misery spread love to enemies
Perfect the catastrophe suckas blast at me
But I'll still live eternally watch the fire burn
Suckas loose turn once my rhymes churn
On the microphone lessons begin to learn
Syringed ya brain deadly injected cringe
Binged by the lyrical darts born in the dark
Aiyo once I exit the earth place im replaced
Back up in a woman's belly safe wait
Its a tunnel of light prepared to fight the might
Got my nerves tight cannibis visions
Steel layin' provisions cuz suckas ain't listening
Winds whistlin' move like blades of glass stenciling
Over the Earth's
Paintin' a message withing a message
Viking Savage kin to havoc evils lavish
Lash out the gashes slave masters
We coming after before the rapture capture
Souls colossal rock em into fossils
From the pain that touches like a jostle
Hostile baritone smooth jones on the microphone
Even made the devils step off his throne
I'm feelin' my self guarded my wealth
By twelve queens beautiful cousines sings
Me lullabies as time flies open my forth eyes
Dimension traveler wisdom unraveler
My styles be slicker than a salamander
Beat romancer golden voice
Chancellor
Ultimate package shipment ghost
Handler
Haven’t yet missed
Any more opportunities
Just those eluding me
Never discovered
Developed immunities
Foreign to others
Whose ignorance
Shifted
From bedlam
To bliss
As domestically
Terrorists
Click the death wish

So I say again
I haven’t missed
Any chances
To take aim
And place blame
On bandits of bandwidth
Reframing the digital aging
King’s gambits
But can’t reprimand
Can’t command
We clean house
If they’re making us sick
At the click of a mouse

So I reaffirm I
Do not shy
From my duty
Engage civically
But at times
Rather rudely
When only I venture
To censor
The nemesis
Silicon-based
Artificial intelligence  
Clickbait and switch
The code
Ode to dystopian
Cyberpunk’s pulse
To make nervous
The system
And watch it convulse
Delton Peele May 13
Some say, they say....a lot of things,........
Uhh EHHHM...
Ya can we get a fact check
On anyone running their neck please ?
Or did this next gen.......
Receive diplomatic immunities ?
Now we're just supposed to capitulate and be-friend ,
Instead of trying to defend
What we pretend not to know
What is the real reality........
The last sacred theory....  
I hate to say it ........
Will reality withstand
Think of the implications.....
If we let this one slip
There is nothing left.
Not one single thing....
Thought ,said or read .....
That some fool can't debate
Don't hate ,debate or speculate...
Rebuke
But Be kind  ,
illuminate ,
Educate....and rewash the brain washed mind
Don't let the end of times
Find us ignerant.
You see what I'm getting at ....
It's a stupid writ
But you can see what I'm sayin...
(Well obviously cause your reading it I know)
This is real.
Oh it is though...

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