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"inheriting" poems
I recall inheriting my first bike. Solid steel. Pink as a Maritime sunset, only more bright. I remember replacing my sister's bike after two long years of back-n-forths -- two years of childish insults and character building -- as I choose to see it. The thing was invincible -- rain or snow. Save the rust, which had its way. I missed that old bike for a time... It was sentimental, as they say. My next two broke down fast -- they were hardly comparable. When I was able to buy my own, the excitement was unbearable. What a beauty 14", titanium dirt jumper, Canadian made Norco -- Red, it gleams. Even to this day, twelve years downstream. It's too bad it hasn't grown with me Because I'm having trouble giving it away... We've spent a short lifetime together And I know I will rue the day I forsake my childhood And take Three hundred dollars In its place.
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Aug 10, 2016
Aug 10, 2016 at 4:47 PM UTC
My Sister's Bike
It is December in Wicklow: Alders dripping, birches Inheriting the last light, The ash tree cold to look at. A comet that was lost Should be visible at sunset, Those million tons of light Like a glimmer of haws and rose-hips, And I sometimes see a falling star. If I could come on meteorite! Instead I walk through damp leaves, Husks, the spent flukes of autumn, Imagining a hero On some muddy compound, His gift like a slingstone Whirled for the desperate. How did I end up like this? I often think of my friends' Beautiful prismatic counselling And the anvil brains of some who hate me As I sit weighing and weighing My responsible tristia. For what? For the ear? For the people? For what is said behind-backs? Rain comes down through the alders, Its low conductive voices Mutter about let-downs and erosions And yet each drop recalls The diamond absolutes. I am neither internee nor informer; An inner émigré, grown long-haired And thoughtful; a wood-kerne Escaped from the massacre, Taking protective colouring From bole and bark, feeling Every wind that blows; Who, blowing up these sparks For their meagre heat, have missed The once-in-a-lifetime portent, The comet's pulsing rose.
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Exposure
We are the generation birthed into broken homes. Backless. Spineless structures. Faceless fathers. And miracle mothers. Brown boys teaching brown boys how to be men. Brown boys teaching brown girls how to be loved. Loving her like his “main ***** like his “side chick” like his lies. Like his lust. Like his leisure. Like a good **** And she lets him. She has never seen an example of love. So he loves her. Broken. And they reproduce. Broken. Another brown baby birthed into a broken home. With a faceless father and a miracle mother. Women raising boys into boys. Not men but boys. Women raising girls into bitter Girls into ******* Girls into bisexual because there’s no man present. We are the generation birthed into broken homes. Inheriting broken hopes. Boys inheriting the name of a man he’s never known. Inheriting personality traits from a man we’ll never know. We’ll never know white picket fence, We’ll never know 20 year anniversary We’ll never know happy home We’ll never know American dream. We are the forgotten ones. We are the generation birthed into broken homes. With hand-me-down hopes. And Mama’s Spit-shined smiles. They classified us as the broken ones. I am from a broken home. But I am not a broken one. I pick up my pieces, wrote some poems and made peace with it. What’s broken can be fixed. Brother. Be a man. Sister. Be a woman. Be royal. Be raw. Be real. Be you. Be king. Be queen. Be father. Be mother. Be love. Be trust. Be home. Be hope. Be there. Be there. We are not broken. We are the generation birthed into broken homes. We are rebuilding. Either lend us a hand or leave us alone.
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Feb 16, 2014
Feb 16, 2014 at 6:11 PM UTC
Broken
We are the generation birthed into broken homes. Backless. Spineless structures. Faceless fathers. And miracle mothers. Brown boys teaching brown boys how to be men. Brown boys teaching brown girls how to be loved. Loving her like his “main ***** like his “side chick” like his lies. Like his lust. Like his leisure. Like a good **** And she lets him. She has never seen an example of love. So he loves her. Broken. And they reproduce. Broken. Another brown baby birthed into a broken home. With a faceless father and a miracle mother. Women raising boys into boys. Not men but boys. Women raising girls into bitter Girls into ******* Girls into bisexual because there’s no man present. We are the generation birthed into broken homes. Inheriting broken hopes. Boys inheriting the name of a man he’s never known. Inheriting personality traits from a man we’ll never know. We’ll never know white picket fence, We’ll never know 20 year anniversary We’ll never know happy home We’ll never know American dream. We are the forgotten ones. We are the generation birthed into broken homes. With hand-me-down hopes. And Mama’s Spit-shined smiles. They classified us as the broken ones. I am from a broken home. But I am not a broken one. I pick up my pieces, wrote some poems and made peace with it. What’s broken can be fixed. Brother. Be a man. Sister. Be a woman. Be royal. Be raw. Be real. Be you. Be king. Be queen. Be father. Be mother. Be love. Be trust. Be home. Be hope. Be there. Be there. We are not broken. We are the generation birthed into broken homes. We are rebuilding. Either lend us a hand or leave us alone.
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City lamps in clusters of concrete On 18th and Sherman street The cars pass by scanning me Each unsound engine roaring Darting pupils I feel it on my externals On my lips and phalanges Intruding glances cascading over my silhouette Deja-vu-like resemblances, strange Sunken cheeks look bizarre and blotchy as the socket drains something toxic to the veins that's permeated the future in an instant, like a comet, encandescent and shimmering like a scale, the awareness fades Like some dreary mirage I remember those little band aids Vintage carnival tickets discarded on the scratchy ground.. Blue-violet bruises The paradox of pleasure A vague creature in it's discomfort sitting in defiance and quivering my sentences It reminded me of those incandescent bugs that smush into Chryslers With a curled lip, bulging eyes and ******* up tongue... Antennaes intertwined like Twizzlers Making peace with all that's stung as the windshield wipers turn on Some black tar-smack-oil- ****** My generation consists of inheriting environmental destruction and mal-parenting Global warming. Animal extinction. Polluting the oceans. Deforestation. Biting shards off night-time to suffice for the daily pangs Shuffling the dregs of karma to grow roots and vines all about the room It's not Winter yet Under this morning dew I envision it in my mind A crystal ball vision contorting into smoke I caught it in my breath Catatonically hanging A turtle with it's legs bending toward the sky Searching for my tribe and a pulse on this Earth in sentient souls
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Aug 12, 2017
Aug 12, 2017 at 8:18 PM UTC
Twizzlers
City lamps in clusters of concrete On 18th and Sherman street The cars pass by scanning me Each unsound engine roaring Darting pupils I feel it on my externals On my lips and phalanges Intruding glances cascading over my silhouette Deja-vu-like resemblances, strange Sunken cheeks look bizarre and blotchy as the socket drains something toxic to the veins that's permeated the future in an instant, like a comet, encandescent and shimmering like a scale, the awareness fades Like some dreary mirage I remember those little band aids Vintage carnival tickets discarded on the scratchy ground.. Blue-violet bruises The paradox of pleasure A vague creature in it's discomfort sitting in defiance and quivering my sentences It reminded me of those incandescent bugs that smush into Chryslers With a curled lip, bulging eyes and ******* up tongue... Antennaes intertwined like Twizzlers Making peace with all that's stung as the windshield wipers turn on Some black tar-smack-oil- ****** My generation consists of inheriting environmental destruction and mal-parenting Global warming. Animal extinction. Polluting the oceans. Deforestation. Biting shards off night-time to suffice for the daily pangs Shuffling the dregs of karma to grow roots and vines all about the room It's not Winter yet Under this morning dew I envision it in my mind A crystal ball vision contorting into smoke I caught it in my breath Catatonically hanging A turtle with it's legs bending toward the sky Searching for my tribe and a pulse on this Earth in sentient souls
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A rich man's son inherits want with no desire to work hands bare Gives the job to another man to look out from his easy chair A poor man's son inherits grace born of toil and sweat of his brow He adjudged of hard earned merit pushes on what body will allow The rich man's son inherits greed with what malice it may entail Thinking others beneath his station for lack of character he does ail The poor man's son inherits kindness which with all others level stands Then asks the outcast bless his door to share the fruit of his two hands Heir to what is the rich man's son tender flesh that fears the cold To the poor never gives his time nor dare he wear a garment old Inheriting, it seems to me what no good man would wish to be Heir to what is the poor man's son strong muscles and pounding heart Chipped of a marble character beloved by all he touched in part Inheriting, it seems to me what all good men would wish to be Tate This is one of three poems I have converted to a new all video format well worth the look at what I feel is the future of our art. Original all video version http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/aristate/1355765/
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Jun 1, 2014
Jun 1, 2014 at 12:24 AM UTC
Rich or Poor
Its not a matter of your body or your age the truth doesn't carry weight, but sets the stage for the flow of knowledge: wisdomage. To abandon nothing, but reinvent everything including the wheel of your mind; a complete surrender, absent knowing; Inheriting nothing, reinventing nothing including the dreams that you are; a complete surrender to the way thus far. We cherish the day, met humbly without a care, in side and out a tribe in harmony creating together, sans competition: pacific planets orbiting the Sun.
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Mar 24, 2015
Mar 24, 2015 at 2:24 PM UTC
Age of Enlightenment
I am not the black sheep I am not the odd duck I am not the rebel child I am not the prodigal daughter Who am I then? Well...that's a complicated question I am not your archetypes or storylines I am not your bad decisions or projections, your should-s I am I am what I will be I am the technicolor, intergalactic unicorn I am the pearlescent being of divine light I am the Angel of Death of Dead Tradition I am the she-Moses getting out of a desert of lies I am I am what I will be Today, I am choosing today, I am choosing to create me in lieu of inheriting "me" Choosing well choosing better Choosing wiser choosing more joyfully Today, I am the randy interstellar unicorn blazing a neon rainbow trail forward
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Dec 28, 2020
Dec 28, 2020 at 4:22 AM UTC
Choosing the Technicolor Unicorn
So many elements Make up this man Let me open up Show all that I am Take a little insecurity Fill these eyes with some tears Take a little fear Sew them into this skin If I'm gonna show it all I need to let you see everything Open up this heart Cut it in half Let all the love bleed out Just so they have no doubt All I've got is yours too hold Take these hands filled with hope Come inside my mind Where you'll see all these Dreams on display Sometimes this Imagination Runs away There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. Take a little anxiety A pinch of crazy Pour a little jealousy Over me All these little things With some humanization That adds up to this creation I'll walk this world Arms wide open You'll see every inch of me Nothing to hide No disguise No agenda in my eyes There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me. Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. Take a little self-control Inject some humour into my soul Drink down some bravery Fill my warrior spirit through a dance Filled with fire Fill these eyes with starlit skies Feel power building inside A determination to be great Finding a way to new heights Through freedom, Through flight This is so raw, This is so real You're inheriting all that I feel. There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me. Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. Honesty soaks into my skin Revealing truths Layed out before your sights And it comes as no surprise All of these acts that take the stage Are giving there all No time for questioning No time for dismay Only came to display all it is they can be With each opportunity that came there way With belief in their talents shown Audiences left with their minds blown There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. ©2018 Written By Benji James
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Dec 2, 2018
Dec 2, 2018 at 8:45 AM UTC
Sewn
So many elements Make up this man Let me open up Show all that I am Take a little insecurity Fill these eyes with some tears Take a little fear Sew them into this skin If I'm gonna show it all I need to let you see everything Open up this heart Cut it in half Let all the love bleed out Just so they have no doubt All I've got is yours too hold Take these hands filled with hope Come inside my mind Where you'll see all these Dreams on display Sometimes this Imagination Runs away There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. Take a little anxiety A pinch of crazy Pour a little jealousy Over me All these little things With some humanization That adds up to this creation I'll walk this world Arms wide open You'll see every inch of me Nothing to hide No disguise No agenda in my eyes There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me. Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. Take a little self-control Inject some humour into my soul Drink down some bravery Fill my warrior spirit through a dance Filled with fire Fill these eyes with starlit skies Feel power building inside A determination to be great Finding a way to new heights Through freedom, Through flight This is so raw, This is so real You're inheriting all that I feel. There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me. Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. Honesty soaks into my skin Revealing truths Layed out before your sights And it comes as no surprise All of these acts that take the stage Are giving there all No time for questioning No time for dismay Only came to display all it is they can be With each opportunity that came there way With belief in their talents shown Audiences left with their minds blown There is passion There is inspiration There is motivation There is faith Stitched into the fabric of my being Strength and hope, open your eyes And you will see All these things make up you and me Sprinkle some hurt To fill the drive There's a little hate hidden inside Kept in the dark corners of our mind But I choose love, that is where I side Opinions could fly out from these lips But that would be counterproductive I'm just trying to be me The best I can be I'm just trying to see A world in which I can exist And be proud of all I've accomplished. ©2018 Written By Benji James
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History A simple Story To thine own Self Be True The Path Leads Upward There are  many approaches To the Summit. But only One can Attain it at a Time Each must lighten The load to Make it To that Final Place Where Heaven takes Us Up Anti Gravity! Along The Way to Supreme individuality: Collectivities That demand Our First Loyalties be to the Group will Fear and distrust The One Who's First Loyalty is to The True Self So the final Assent leads by way of Crucifixion Christ is the Logo The Icon of the True Self of All Everyone is on The Way. Honor your Mother And Father Raise them Up For Salvation is of The Blood Your Blood It is in the Overcoming of Every Fear that Prevents  Man from Being Good. Towards Love In Love We are all ascending Why?  Because it is Wonderful The Most Wonderful Experience of All To Be Good To Know That You are a Child Of  God...Inheriting Eternal Life as Your Birthright. Bon Voyage -Mes Amis Fellow Travelers It is a Voyage Well Worth Taking Once...You Must Forgive me If I repeat Myself I am of Old First typed while listening to RIck Steves on PBS " Making Travel A Political Act" Thanks Rick
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Aug 3, 2018
Aug 3, 2018 at 11:51 PM UTC
The Way- The Truth- A Life
499 Those fair—fictitious People— The Women—plucked away From our familiar Lifetime— The Men of Ivory— Those Boys and Girls, in Canvas— Who stay upon the Wall In Everlasting Keepsake— Can Anybody tell? We trust—in places perfecter— Inheriting Delight Beyond our faint Conjecture— Our dizzy Estimate— Remembering ourselves, we trust— Yet Blesseder—than We— Through Knowing—where We only hope— Receiving—where we—pray— Of Expectation—also— Anticipating us With transport, that would be a pain Except for Holiness— Esteeming us—as Exile— Themself—admitted Home— Through easy Miracle of Death— The Way ourself, must come—
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Those fair—fictitious People
one frozen tv dinner later, i was sitting on a bus in east athens. going to meet my dealer, going about my business, just like we all were, then. that was before and unfortunately, this is one too many frozen tv dinners later. one too many bottles of whatever was left after i thought i had barely enjoyed it all. this is the step below, the struggle of the common man. this is what our parents didn't want us to see, this is who they really were. we are just inheriting it and will be passing it along soon. and we probably won't even care. last november, it was thanksgiving, and we were tired and hardly thankful. you said it feels like home, i said my food was still a little frozen in the middle.
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Jul 20, 2011
Jul 20, 2011 at 7:27 PM UTC
one frozen tv dinner later (inspired by the wishlist in artifice magazine).
*Bus poems are shorties written on the way home, riding the M31 thru Manhattan. Often silly, often not...* There is a contest that does not involve my P.S.F. (Preferred Sport Franchise) this weekend, truly don't give a good ****** who wins, but that is no excuse to deny me my sir sore-losing, victim status, so richly deserved. A triumvirate of doctor, g.f. and medical tests, have on the field ruled, once a year, a conjugal visit permitted, tween my arteries and chicken wings. there will pigs in blankets demanding attention, potato knishes, and cole slaw juices,  and a foreign dignitary, Sayyid Cous-Cous, lining up along side the quarterback  who will be 'winging' honey and spicy passes to his favorite receiver, this couch coach and impartial observer. This is my Sunday fare. If insufficiently highbrow, for all you poetic aesthetes, have no fear, this athlete gastronomic,, victim of his victuals, will prepare mentally by hanging with King Lear once more, sharing a verbal tasting menu, the day prior, who once called me, at a Giant super bowl party, *“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel ***** one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.”* ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Jan 31, 2014
Jan 31, 2014 at 4:50 PM UTC
Bus Poems: Victuals Victim
*Bus poems are shorties written on the way home, riding the M31 thru Manhattan. Often silly, often not...* There is a contest that does not involve my P.S.F. (Preferred Sport Franchise) this weekend, truly don't give a good ****** who wins, but that is no excuse to deny me my sir sore-losing, victim status, so richly deserved. A triumvirate of doctor, g.f. and medical tests, have on the field ruled, once a year, a conjugal visit permitted, tween my arteries and chicken wings. there will pigs in blankets demanding attention, potato knishes, and cole slaw juices,  and a foreign dignitary, Sayyid Cous-Cous, lining up along side the quarterback  who will be 'winging' honey and spicy passes to his favorite receiver, this couch coach and impartial observer. This is my Sunday fare. If insufficiently highbrow, for all you poetic aesthetes, have no fear, this athlete gastronomic,, victim of his victuals, will prepare mentally by hanging with King Lear once more, sharing a verbal tasting menu, the day prior, who once called me, at a Giant super bowl party, *“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel ***** one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition.”* ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
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We are a generation, Indeed, a nation, Raised upon foreign warring. Scapegoat aggravation. Bushes and ***** Clamoring for horror and hoarding. Conspiring against a population, I watch through youthful aging. With my childlike eyes, I see The target they're blaming: Afghan families having more in common with me, Working class American, Than those transparent heirs With the world's wealth and arrogance, Ordering for the villagers' obliteration Through boys from our nation. We are a generation raised On media sensation Of militarized devastation; Animal exploitation; Technological manifestations Providing privacy infiltration. Material attainments; Mental frustrations; Fiat debt enslavement; A nation entranced by Senseless parading. Tempting decadence and Announcements with no evidence. The September bounty of edifice That fell with no hesitance Still echo its unfounded, Preemptive pretenses. This murderous reign; this senseless parade; Advertisement cyclical in their game of charades; Dog on a chain; Famine causing no pain. Permissible opinions To be solely maintained. The damage, the waste, The heinous race and class chase. Oppression remains thoughtlessly dangerous, As moral responsibility brings no attainments. Chowing down on maimed millions Bellowing from enslavement. Fortunately, elder, Rothschild, Rockefeller, or Those above them whom Remain blackened, faceless: Resistance shall come From all places, all ages. Such as this generation of mine Inheriting increasing complications, With the type of America You wish to keep in rotation. I'll carry the flag containing Your mistakes as a symbol, To remind those behind me What not to rekindle. To the Boomer who stews In your white collar suit, Still refusing to shake Your destructive pursuit, Still asking me to lick Off authority's boot: Growing up in this nation, With childhood innocence, I grew increasingly aware Of the land of such ignorance. I had such thoughts since Early adolescence, I was not blind to larger lessons. Only since supported by Actual, factual supported confessions. To the Boomer tied to his convictions, Now will you see- That isn't going to work For us or for me. I'll bring to this world Whatever I please. Which so happens to be Truth, justice, and peace.
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Aug 9, 2016
Aug 9, 2016 at 1:20 AM UTC
Growing up Dicked
We are a generation, Indeed, a nation, Raised upon foreign warring. Scapegoat aggravation. Bushes and ***** Clamoring for horror and hoarding. Conspiring against a population, I watch through youthful aging. With my childlike eyes, I see The target they're blaming: Afghan families having more in common with me, Working class American, Than those transparent heirs With the world's wealth and arrogance, Ordering for the villagers' obliteration Through boys from our nation. We are a generation raised On media sensation Of militarized devastation; Animal exploitation; Technological manifestations Providing privacy infiltration. Material attainments; Mental frustrations; Fiat debt enslavement; A nation entranced by Senseless parading. Tempting decadence and Announcements with no evidence. The September bounty of edifice That fell with no hesitance Still echo its unfounded, Preemptive pretenses. This murderous reign; this senseless parade; Advertisement cyclical in their game of charades; Dog on a chain; Famine causing no pain. Permissible opinions To be solely maintained. The damage, the waste, The heinous race and class chase. Oppression remains thoughtlessly dangerous, As moral responsibility brings no attainments. Chowing down on maimed millions Bellowing from enslavement. Fortunately, elder, Rothschild, Rockefeller, or Those above them whom Remain blackened, faceless: Resistance shall come From all places, all ages. Such as this generation of mine Inheriting increasing complications, With the type of America You wish to keep in rotation. I'll carry the flag containing Your mistakes as a symbol, To remind those behind me What not to rekindle. To the Boomer who stews In your white collar suit, Still refusing to shake Your destructive pursuit, Still asking me to lick Off authority's boot: Growing up in this nation, With childhood innocence, I grew increasingly aware Of the land of such ignorance. I had such thoughts since Early adolescence, I was not blind to larger lessons. Only since supported by Actual, factual supported confessions. To the Boomer tied to his convictions, Now will you see- That isn't going to work For us or for me. I'll bring to this world Whatever I please. Which so happens to be Truth, justice, and peace.
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I have a first cousin whose son is sick with leukemia not responding to treatment her Dad died earlier this year and she had a brother killed in a wreck at twenty-two I wonder if she is the one who is inheriting all the family tragedies
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Oct 7, 2015
Oct 7, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC
family tragedies
The Riche brothers and sisters compile the remainders of Manchester City programmes from 1958 onwards, rusted staples asides in a shuttered room, Moorhens and crab apple bloom outside keeps their e bay cottage industry bearable, residual poverty waxes and wanes, children always inheriting Granddads' stuff.
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Dec 12, 2012
Dec 12, 2012 at 4:36 PM UTC
Old "N" Gold.
We were once all agog for the journey of life Now just a mouse click leaves curiosity cured Nescience masquerading as artificial cognizance is rife Likes, follows, comments, thoughts and prayers lured A slayer of ambition gave birth to the lazy No will to work, no will to think, just click this link And complain all day about how your life is crazy Stare at the screen as if forgotten how to blink Welcome to Medusa's social media inc. Share every feeling that's on your mind Arachne's weaving web now interlinks A Giger painting has become mankind It's embarrassing It's depressing It's caressing It's inheriting The natural beauty that lies outside Left only viewed through filtered photos Language devolved into hieroglyphic emoji replies Tobler's ambition left reposed Curiosity and ambition subdued A final word Adieu
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Jul 3, 2018
Jul 3, 2018 at 2:37 PM UTC
Erotomechanics VIII
Lady & Lord Dawson presumably lived quite peacefully, until one day- Lady Dawson announced ; " Forsooth" Thy Lord Husband Ti's heavy a heart I bear- I spied Thy self without powder or wig, Not in thy house- Betwixt an-others arms Thy Lord Husband & thy Scullery Maid in thy own barn" Betwixt looks on thee tempestuous pocked face Never rakishly looked to Thee own Lady Wife the same Not Thee be sad Thy heart never break For Thy love never came. Marriage of Thy Parents wishes & Thee inheriting Thy gain! Lady & Lord Dawson " Lived" Quite Peacefully............. (possibly 2 be continued) Always Me Ayeshah
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Mar 13, 2010
Mar 13, 2010 at 3:57 AM UTC
Lady & Lord Dawson LOL (act 1 scene 2 )
If this is the best person I'll ever be without being forced to be better, but being naturally me without practiced speach or promising false qualities without superficial touch ups of exercise, diet and surgery; if this is the best I'll ever become without inheriting a fortune, or every bet won without dotting every I or learning the answer of every sum without begging forgiveness every time I get things wrong; if this is all that I ever am without growing confident and competent with every plan or becoming a hero or a leading man, but just remain being a normal imperfect man, am I enough for you to love?
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Jun 16, 2017
Jun 16, 2017 at 7:55 PM UTC
Enough for you to love
I enveloped the strange emotions which we ping as I eclipsed your world and bid a tearless goodbye but I tanked Yet I tattooed the pig on the green line engulfed in diamonds and drained by your glorious throne I pitched the ****** nightingales a simple truce feeling blackened with scars burning in an ocean of salted lies piped in the shame of your venom as I caked I whispered ocypus I prayed to a bloodied red sky while purple with fear I ran to the bed of the river where I tanked seeing your soul floating about I drained the rain as I pinned your ghost to the wall He raked your existence with a ding crossed the road to burn his ashes and they danced about inheriting a swiped out throne the salt in your tongue rotting with bitter I warned you about the snakes in the bed and the wolf in the closet biting off the head of the lamb I carried on without you over in my dreams and dropped all manner of myself by the hint of a storm fragile peeling off the layers I sigh dogged by the gloom and wheat in your rye I refocus flaked in scars and battles I am boiled in anger cracked with laughter I am beset while enjoying me a white russian
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Jul 23, 2013
Jul 23, 2013 at 2:49 AM UTC
White Russian
You were an heiress, inheriting a life time trust fund from a fortune made manufacturing waxy kid's coloring thingamajigs. Your mother drove you each school day, in a classic powder blue Mercedes coup. She was beautifully coiffed, high bred serene, great skin, And you were blond, blue eyed, smart and smiled. When I saw you I always felt - I felt not worthy of living on your planet. A few years after graduation we met, I had had a few beers so I told you everything. I am sorry for causing you those tears.
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Jan 18, 2011
Jan 18, 2011 at 6:33 AM UTC
You were an heiress
heiress to the strange castle, Francis ascended the high stone stair; her ancestors had lived here from the beginning of the country's history; her family was older, its history vivid in the dark of time to those descendents who were Francis' immediate family all fallen to old age & death except she youngest of the brood; inheriting Frankenstein's Castle the first place she went was to her ancestor's laboratory, long disused, old fashioned & out of date, but flipping the high-voltage switch bringing the whole place to light & life as the thing moved on the table & rose; the doctor's last project before being driven mad in the arctic sea,   the woman, who upon seeing young Francis falls madly in love; Francis seeing the gleam in the monster's eye takes the time to get to know her body & the monster likewise got to know hers; two beauties came out of the gray castle looking like a pair of princesses in the sun broken through the permanent clouds
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May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018 at 11:26 PM UTC
Francis Stein (a new fairy tale)
The joy flashed across your face The saddened creases faded You became whole again in that moment and today was the first day that we believed in remission What has been inheriting your soul has been lifted The reminders have been removed from view You are you once again All that can be asked now is for continuity Let the joy of remission and comfort continue
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Oct 11, 2013
Oct 11, 2013 at 8:21 PM UTC
Remission
This poem is no Billy’s babble, I know this girl who tends to dabble, Dabble with unkind creatures. She’s beautious, dark, and loyalty-tied, Non-gregarious, starry-eyed; Starry-eyed for the inexpedient. Wit is written on skin so fair Eyes like skies, too deep to pare. But pare her idea of ideal men. Challenge, with whom her morals meet, Picks scoundrels, wreaking calm deceit. Deceitful words are hooks to her. Beknownst to all but she herself, These rogues take riches, turned to pelf. Pelf, for she is better than them. Too low they sink below her merit, Her virtue, they could stand to inherit, Inheriting her in return.
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Nov 13, 2014
Nov 13, 2014 at 8:09 AM UTC
Hapless
Portends of heartrending fancy Cast of mind relapsed to one, Image of what could have been Had one completed, all begun. Back through thoughts of distant ventures Collapsed now with fall of time Lost to mist as misadventures, Disavowing child of mine. Stranger still, with mind-set fading Inheriting onset of pain Forgotten now with cost evading That, once proffered, lost to gain. Caustic fortune teller ranting Screaming forth “I told you so” Where, in fact, advice dispersed When, then, I told him where to go! To and fro we swung to compass Spun to reason’s child of chance Life ambition’s lost accomplice Fool adrift in fortune’s dance. M. Taranaki NZ 1 February 2016
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Feb 2, 2016
Feb 2, 2016 at 3:43 PM UTC
Life's Lost Accomplice
Too late now to wake up yearly- depressing-needs as they rise up to modernize for the blind to see. Silent while you’re speaking up, lying when you tell the truth inheriting the empty hands of meaning losing gentle youth while chancing to find what’s sought at last …gone awry. Too early yet to stimulate and leaking like a depressed sieve too blind, alas, to modern eyes, and speaking from a leery silence too true a place for real lies. Meek with no inheritance, while all too kind to find the meaning, seeking, yet can’t find a chance …and clinging. Yearly stem the tide to live to take it in a bit too early, weakening like a depressive whose deeper rest is rising up. Too blind now to modernize when modern eyes are blind to see, you’re speaking from experience your silences, they speak to me …as regrets. Too true to realize you’re lying even when you know the truth. Meek like you are in the trance of inheriting sad empty dances, too kind now to lose the meaning in meaning finding eloquence. Finding when you seek to change that you’re changing just to pass the tests …of our age.
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Jan 7, 2013
Jan 7, 2013 at 5:39 PM UTC
resolution:autoregicide