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"insouciant" poems
The diamonds shone like broken glass Upon the midnight street And all atop the walls were wet Their white eyes glint & sleek Then from afar a gnome appeared An angel flashed on furry feet The boulevard became a river While waiting crowds began to quiver I was in a motel watching Whiskey in my hand Her breath was soft, the wind was warm Someone in a room was born ~~~ Accomplishments: To make works in the face of the void To gain form, identity To rise from the herd-crowd Public favor Public fervor even the bitter Poet-Madman is a clown Treading the boards ~~~ Cold electric music Damage me Rend my mind w/your dark slumber Cold temple of steel Cold minds alive on the strangled shore Veterans of foreign wars We are the soldiers of Rock & Roll Wars ~~~ Whether to be a great cagey perfumed beast dying under the sweet patronage of Kings & exist like luxuriant flowers beneath the emblems of their Strange empire or by mere insouciant faith slap them, call their cards spit on fate & cast hell to flames in usury by dying, nobly we could exist like innocent trolls propogate our revels & give the finger to the gods in our private bedrooms let’s rather, maybe, perhaps, get ******* out in the open, & by swelling, jubilantly Magnificently, end them.
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The Connectors -2
we've been playing for months, yet i am no longer the master of my own game. i sit and wonder, "how did i get here?" without ever truly questioning myself. simply because i knew. it is as though I am currently without a name. considerably since "This" is no longer Me. who I am, who That is,                 I am no longer certain. I have simply become a replica of Its impression on Self.       "tick tock, tick, tock." the arrogance of time refuses to stop, and "now" becomes a fleeting "then" as My life slips through "Her" into a dazed, drunken phase. time only lingers in the present for those who are truly Present. Her time is lost, so what is My time when the days blur together? "Her" memory sanitized and wiped cleaned. ***** cleans wounds, right? Dissociation to self,  the insouciant desire to care. an erratic, chaotic, tumultuous torrential downpour. I'm theatrical sure, but passionately so. "Passion," i'll drink to that.                    "Pain" has me pouring another,                                                     and another. "Reward me," and we'll cheers to the clear liquid that warms my throat with each increasing gulp. "Relax." you worked hard, take one or two.               Six deep, Seven's the magic number,                           plus, what's one more? yet one will never be enough.    "sleep or shoot."                                          don't forget to swallow.                             you know you love it. stop saying no when You can say "yes," and stop holding back, when I'm telling You "NO."                          stop fighting...                                                 ...succumb to the misery.     besides, just one pour will make it all better.
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Feb 1, 2022
Feb 1, 2022 at 2:23 AM UTC
my desirable, liquidized infatuation:
we've been playing for months, yet i am no longer the master of my own game. i sit and wonder, "how did i get here?" without ever truly questioning myself. simply because i knew. it is as though I am currently without a name. considerably since "This" is no longer Me. who I am, who That is,                 I am no longer certain. I have simply become a replica of Its impression on Self.       "tick tock, tick, tock." the arrogance of time refuses to stop, and "now" becomes a fleeting "then" as My life slips through "Her" into a dazed, drunken phase. time only lingers in the present for those who are truly Present. Her time is lost, so what is My time when the days blur together? "Her" memory sanitized and wiped cleaned. ***** cleans wounds, right? Dissociation to self,  the insouciant desire to care. an erratic, chaotic, tumultuous torrential downpour. I'm theatrical sure, but passionately so. "Passion," i'll drink to that.                    "Pain" has me pouring another,                                                     and another. "Reward me," and we'll cheers to the clear liquid that warms my throat with each increasing gulp. "Relax." you worked hard, take one or two.               Six deep, Seven's the magic number,                           plus, what's one more? yet one will never be enough.    "sleep or shoot."                                          don't forget to swallow.                             you know you love it. stop saying no when You can say "yes," and stop holding back, when I'm telling You "NO."                          stop fighting...                                                 ...succumb to the misery.     besides, just one pour will make it all better.
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All alone, again Feeling meloncholy and captive Within a cloud of intentional isolation As each thought comes and goes without an answer. Memories flicker in the crime scene of my mind. My perception is clouded by questioning every suspicion. As I try to stay unemotional and rationally make doubt my enemy. This day has now ended and I have not made a decision. Wondering when indecision and fear have intersected in my life. Have I become so insouciant that I am blinded? As I grow old and in my final hours, could this be my biggest mistake? I am unwillling to dwell in the present and find happiness again? Hours spent suffocating myself with regret Tried to harden my heart to the point of no return But, I perservere and try to rise above the abundancy of pain. Licking the salt from my tears as they drip to my lips. I now lay down, so silent that even my breath is quiet Asking if the pain is worth the possibility of a true love that will last. Will he crush my heart with unintentional love for another? A chance, I guess, I am willing to take. Or too soon? I can only pray that the right answer will come during my slumber And it will be within the will of my creator Praying that my dreams will be filled with the answers that I seek And tomorrow will be full of love, trust and loyalty.
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May 29, 2015
May 29, 2015 at 1:12 AM UTC
MY OWN WORST ENEMY
I once was told In Broooklyn New York I had a lackadaisical attitude. It was the first time I was hearing That whimsical adjective ! So lackadaisical I was ! Looked like an illness The way they said it It seemed I could contaminate. So I stopped a few seconds to think  and dissect the word Lackadaisical I lacked a daisy somewhere ! Sounded like I lacked a fuse in my brain ! Next thing I know I was checking the word In my reminiscences of the Oxford English Dictionary Or may be it was Webster's And  it said in black and white ferns I lacked purpose I wasn't properly lazy, I just lacked directions I lacked enthusiasm, stamina I was devoid of zest I was blasé Insouciant Careless. Translated into  more French I was nonchalant and better said Jemenfoutiste. It was during an encounter group And they threw that lackadaisical attitude ******** to my face And guess what i did ?! I just kept on smiling Jemenfoutiste to the extreme. And they kept saying See what I mean, you 're so ******* lackadaisical , man ! You're so pathetic !  You're so apathetic ! It was Winter in America like Gil Scott-Heron would say And it felt so good, so warm, As far as I could see, To be called lackadaisical And not laconical. I not only lacked a daisy I lacked a bunch of tropical flowers indeed ! Like bouganvillea, orchid or hibiscus Anthurium, jasmine or bromeliad I lacked sun and sea Strange as it was Even though I was near Atlantic Avenue, Coney Island So I was lackaseacal and lackasuncal But what I didn't lack was ants in my pants And until today they make me dance My forever lackadaisical dance.
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Aug 27, 2019
Aug 27, 2019 at 12:59 AM UTC
Lackadaisical
I once was told In Broooklyn New York I had a lackadaisical attitude. It was the first time I was hearing That whimsical adjective ! So lackadaisical I was ! Looked like an illness The way they said it It seemed I could contaminate. So I stopped a few seconds to think  and dissect the word Lackadaisical I lacked a daisy somewhere ! Sounded like I lacked a fuse in my brain ! Next thing I know I was checking the word In my reminiscences of the Oxford English Dictionary Or may be it was Webster's And  it said in black and white ferns I lacked purpose I wasn't properly lazy, I just lacked directions I lacked enthusiasm, stamina I was devoid of zest I was blasé Insouciant Careless. Translated into  more French I was nonchalant and better said Jemenfoutiste. It was during an encounter group And they threw that lackadaisical attitude ******** to my face And guess what i did ?! I just kept on smiling Jemenfoutiste to the extreme. And they kept saying See what I mean, you 're so ******* lackadaisical , man ! You're so pathetic !  You're so apathetic ! It was Winter in America like Gil Scott-Heron would say And it felt so good, so warm, As far as I could see, To be called lackadaisical And not laconical. I not only lacked a daisy I lacked a bunch of tropical flowers indeed ! Like bouganvillea, orchid or hibiscus Anthurium, jasmine or bromeliad I lacked sun and sea Strange as it was Even though I was near Atlantic Avenue, Coney Island So I was lackaseacal and lackasuncal But what I didn't lack was ants in my pants And until today they make me dance My forever lackadaisical dance.
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Her syllogisms repose trust in her adept beleaguering of unworthy opponents. Constantly in a state of lassitude for this desultory, inure world of the insouciant youth which dwells upon it's cathartic terrain, she engages not in lachrymose nor is she crestfallen for the hope of romance and it's everlasting ineffability. She is a fugacious moment of frisson embodied in a human form; a juxtaposition of the serendipitous moments that ever constantly come one after the other in a fickle wheel of steep highs and deep lows. All her life, this girl will lilt through the crossroads of her obstacles and show the world the efflorescence of her beauty. Hush don't speak lest you miss hearing the mellifluous music of her voice of fail to hear the lagniappe that is her name. She is the cynosure of human attention, the goddess and we are but her humble servants. She is innocence most rare, love most coveted. She is infinite. She is peace.
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Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 10:25 AM UTC
She walks in callipygous beauty
Rue the unlettered nugatory inequity of insensate dishabille narcosis and the insouciant clandestine ravish perverse of durance's constraint. AUSTRALIAS CODE GREY IS A HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION. MENTAL HEALTH ARE RAPISTS. PUT AN END TO FORCED INJECTIONS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS UNCONSENTING SEXPLOITATION OF THE MENTALLY ILL!!!!. NO FUNDING FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND THEIR ****** REGIME!!! MENTAL HEALTH LAWS ARE MENTALLY ILL!!! ''the pride of women will never be laid in the dust"- Gaelic Proverb. MENTAL HEALTH ARE RAPISTS. LYING ******* ****** DOGS!!! SAY NO TO BUTTOCKS INJECTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nov 9, 2012
Nov 9, 2012 at 11:53 PM UTC
Mental Health Doff.
We are all oblivious in our own attentive way. A babylon of fanaticisms call, in a dark song you must pay. We are all content in our own entangled day. A bravado of neologisms appall, in a stark verity you have kept. I'm removed from society, in insouciant splendor, I wept. A creation of serendipitous intent, in a dream impending you have crept.
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Apr 20, 2010
Apr 20, 2010 at 11:46 PM UTC
Ambiguous Lines of Discontent.
weaving these paths with a lost sense of compass insouciant stroll when leaves crunch under toe earth and dirt, green smell the sign says no horses and an arrow points up the sun's fingers comb dry wood and ask: what is complacency? 'Lost self-sense,' J said; eyes drooping, Hoku mind heavy if the turtle wants to feel the spirit then he must walk slow ride the current from Indonesia to Ngulu Jamming in the name of the Lord like Robbie does and identify renewed, redemption song let us praise the Lord the jungle is cleaning her feathers she says: My favorite I say: My pleasure Laugh and pause-- no unheard cause feel the light happening through you and rebuild your pieces ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Written by: Vince Chul'theg, MasikaniCorcodile and CrackPipeKenny (SpiderManJump)
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Apr 17, 2013
Apr 17, 2013 at 11:23 PM UTC
When You Get Lost [Hoku] (Shelton-Narnia, CT 4/5/13)
in my child's eye... it is possible, for a frog, to choose to fly. a dog to dance and cats to swim. it is possible, to build a castle, up into the sky. to converse with stars. for elephants to drive, tiny cars. it is possible, that the world, is without sin and washed clean, each morning, which is to be met with an insouciant grin. it is possible, to befriend the child you just met.... no matter what creed or colour. it is possible, to forgive and live, without regret and to sleep at night without any stress. it is possible, at that age, to know .... a dollar found upon the sidewalk, is a treasure of great proportions, if made into, lollies and shared, with friends. it is possible... that fish can write stories and possums delight it is possible to count a monkey as a friend. it is possible to ride kangaroos and adventure to Timbuctoo it is possible, to love spaggetti as much as your mother. to make the new kitten, your brother. it is possible, to love your dad even when he is silly or mad... all this is possible... ....and much more when you are just, one year, past four... ...and you have a sunny, lovable disposition and the world has yet to find the time, to revise the freedoms of your amazingly beautiful mind... it is possible.... and in many ways so very probable...
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Dec 31, 2014
Dec 31, 2014 at 7:02 PM UTC
all things are possible
Progress by Michael R. Burch There is no sense of urgency at the local Burger King. Birds and squirrels squabble outside for the last scraps of autumn: remnants of buns, goopy pulps of dill pickles, mucousy lettuce, sesame seeds. Inside, the workers all move with the same très-glamorous lethargy, conserving their energy, one assumes, for more pressing endeavors: concerts and proms, pep rallies, keg parties, reruns of Jenny McCarthy on MTV. The manager, as usual, is on the phone, talking to her boyfriend. She gently smiles, brushing back wisps of insouciant hair, ready for the cover of Glamour or Vogue. Through her filmy white blouse an indiscreet strap suspends a lace cup through which somehow the ****** still shows. Progress, we guess, ... and wait patiently in line, hoping the Pokémons hold out. NOTE: This poem is almost entirely fiction. There was a Pokemon craze when my son Jeremy was a little boy, and I did see birds and squirrels foraging in parking lots from time to time (and sometimes fed them myself from my car’s window), but everything else is fiction. On the rare occasions that I went to a Burger King, I would go through the drive-in, so I wouldn’t have known who the manager was, or how much time ***** spent on the phone. I think the poem probably started with the image of birds and squirrels squabbling for scraps of food in a parking lot as I waited in a line of slow-moving cars, then evolved as I imagined the hassle of going inside to “speed things up.” Keywords/Tags: America, Americana, American, culture, society, vanity, youth, progress, fast food, video games, Pokemon, MTV, music videos, glamour, models, supermodels, fashion, transparency, see-through, bra, breast, *******
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Apr 30, 2020
Apr 30, 2020 at 9:43 PM UTC
Progress
Progress by Michael R. Burch There is no sense of urgency at the local Burger King. Birds and squirrels squabble outside for the last scraps of autumn: remnants of buns, goopy pulps of dill pickles, mucousy lettuce, sesame seeds. Inside, the workers all move with the same très-glamorous lethargy, conserving their energy, one assumes, for more pressing endeavors: concerts and proms, pep rallies, keg parties, reruns of Jenny McCarthy on MTV. The manager, as usual, is on the phone, talking to her boyfriend. She gently smiles, brushing back wisps of insouciant hair, ready for the cover of Glamour or Vogue. Through her filmy white blouse an indiscreet strap suspends a lace cup through which somehow the ****** still shows. Progress, we guess, ... and wait patiently in line, hoping the Pokémons hold out. NOTE: This poem is almost entirely fiction. There was a Pokemon craze when my son Jeremy was a little boy, and I did see birds and squirrels foraging in parking lots from time to time (and sometimes fed them myself from my car’s window), but everything else is fiction. On the rare occasions that I went to a Burger King, I would go through the drive-in, so I wouldn’t have known who the manager was, or how much time ***** spent on the phone. I think the poem probably started with the image of birds and squirrels squabbling for scraps of food in a parking lot as I waited in a line of slow-moving cars, then evolved as I imagined the hassle of going inside to “speed things up.” Keywords/Tags: America, Americana, American, culture, society, vanity, youth, progress, fast food, video games, Pokemon, MTV, music videos, glamour, models, supermodels, fashion, transparency, see-through, bra, breast, *******
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There's a blank sheet of paper I hung on the wall My mother suggested to after a fall A fall of inspiration, Dead of true life, Hope prancing, leaping, dashing, In the light of unconventional thought beyond all comprehension, Of dancing on cloud floors, declining haze of the forests, While insouciant specks of light, similar to glowing pointillism Can sharply puncture one's un-anticipating boredom And infect with a communicable virus of Celestial inspiration. I always look back on that paper and perceive, Beyond my tantalized body and anguishing mind Through it's blankness, it's empty slate, It's disgusting plainness, piercing my hope, It's beauty in its... Lack of anything, null, nought, nothingness-- An array, plethora, profusion, superfluity Of inconceivable courses of actions Breathtaking inspiration.
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Jun 10, 2014
Jun 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM UTC
That Blank Sheet of Paper Hung
I placed my lips on your neck, curved away from me, looking out the window your soft hair stood up but you said nothing, silent as the green countryside passing by. "Where are you going?" "I don't know", you said. It wasn't dismissive this time; it had been in the past when we were still laughing on Princes Street and window shopping like all the other tourists. Your insouciant smiles soothed that sinking feeling that was beginning to grow in my chest. It was premature then but it had ripened now. All that careless energy evaporated. I wanted to look into your eyes but I had to make do with their ghost on the glass, looking not at me but somewhere else, or some time else perhaps. Your hand fell on my lap warm and still. For a moment I felt like a man on the execution block wanting desperately to stretch out time, by some alchemy turn a single moment into an eternity. The hills no longer racing by but only passing slowly helped fuel my desperate wish. An electric pre-recorded voice announced what I already knew it would. You looked at me finally granting my wish. Your big brown eyes like still oceans. I could no longer sail in them; I was drowning. You smiled a sweet smile and kissed me on the lips. "Where are you going?" "Away," I was too weak with sadness to embrace you, and I knew you knew. You got up, your soft curls brushing against my cheek. "Goodbye Andrew." I counted your footsteps to the end of the car as if a number could give me power over them. The train started up again, but I felt emptier than the car I was now sitting in. A solitary hot tear fell down my cold cheek while I sat watching my Gypsy lover disappear into the distant green hills.
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Sep 26, 2013
Sep 26, 2013 at 11:23 PM UTC
The Last Stop
I placed my lips on your neck, curved away from me, looking out the window your soft hair stood up but you said nothing, silent as the green countryside passing by. "Where are you going?" "I don't know", you said. It wasn't dismissive this time; it had been in the past when we were still laughing on Princes Street and window shopping like all the other tourists. Your insouciant smiles soothed that sinking feeling that was beginning to grow in my chest. It was premature then but it had ripened now. All that careless energy evaporated. I wanted to look into your eyes but I had to make do with their ghost on the glass, looking not at me but somewhere else, or some time else perhaps. Your hand fell on my lap warm and still. For a moment I felt like a man on the execution block wanting desperately to stretch out time, by some alchemy turn a single moment into an eternity. The hills no longer racing by but only passing slowly helped fuel my desperate wish. An electric pre-recorded voice announced what I already knew it would. You looked at me finally granting my wish. Your big brown eyes like still oceans. I could no longer sail in them; I was drowning. You smiled a sweet smile and kissed me on the lips. "Where are you going?" "Away," I was too weak with sadness to embrace you, and I knew you knew. You got up, your soft curls brushing against my cheek. "Goodbye Andrew." I counted your footsteps to the end of the car as if a number could give me power over them. The train started up again, but I felt emptier than the car I was now sitting in. A solitary hot tear fell down my cold cheek while I sat watching my Gypsy lover disappear into the distant green hills.
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The heron spreads his wings and preys. His stony stand a beachhead sloughing The salt sea, a sepulchered wading. Leaven the broken bred, unshell The teeming waters, a fisher of mermen Unlordly low this lying father, His wings are palms, His rock a mount, his wings a bay, And deafness, tears in the outer shores And exaulted seas the forgiven waves, Swells the briny blood and kelp. Vains are streaming to the fisher king, Lordy he lands the lying father His wings are psalms. A tiny flood that arcs the sky Marks lord in miniature, a King Fisher flies, His wings are The waters calmed. The otters bask and preen, mermen Jostle in the laddered rays of the sun They mark their surf, insouciant play, Wavering the fisher of men, he sways, Simply they circle in song singing hours, Dancing as do the murmuring waves, Their strokes are psalms.
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Dec 10, 2013
Dec 10, 2013 at 2:34 PM UTC
Heron Preys
caked on makeup, lyrical lash lines, clear thoughts for the first time; trying so hard to type out the right words to make the world stop spinning ten times too fast in the wrong direction. can't you see it's making me ill, the way you casually can't decide and lean on calves of glass and card towers of achromatizing dust? I am a kaleidoscope of many other ashes to ashes to dust; cut across from rib to rib and leeching out the clear air you breathe. I am perennial, the one to clean you up when you fail to break the mold and fall back on type- casted stereotypes of who everyone else thinks you should be. still, I am the one who doubts and falters, often has the idea that we are erased and quick forgotten the moment our idiosyncrasies peter out and dust replaces bones we came to know. I am shrill, and I talk too loud at all the wrong times; I can never clear the plates I stain with blood and pile high with subtype after subtype derivatives of things I should do and glean vivification from carefully, anxiously. you have this lean skin and enviable, insouciant lilt to your walk towards me at ten o'clock when I can't see straight anymore, can barely type the last letters of my poems. your eyes are clear and you're free of that indestructible and obliterating dust that clogs my lungs and makes me feel so ill so often. shallow peaks of your shoulder blades, time at a standstill when I merge into highways of veins and clean breaks from responsibility, softly tracing jawbones that clear my head for just a moment; hands that tremble to fasten the world back onto my hollow aches and faltering nervous system. I dust off your window sill and think maybe you're the type that complements an irrational daydreaming messy busy type- writer kind of lover. you know, the kind that hates to pay the bill on time because that's another deadline to miss, who lets dust fly around because vacuums interrupt abstract art and lean cuisine, who likes cats and very, very often misplaces her phone somewhere on your clear floor nothing like the type she has, like the type I have, like the way I lean toward your infrastructure to hold me still; darling, you brighten my mornings of habitual stardust and glass not quite clear.
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Nov 25, 2012
Nov 25, 2012 at 6:21 AM UTC
shimmer
caked on makeup, lyrical lash lines, clear thoughts for the first time; trying so hard to type out the right words to make the world stop spinning ten times too fast in the wrong direction. can't you see it's making me ill, the way you casually can't decide and lean on calves of glass and card towers of achromatizing dust? I am a kaleidoscope of many other ashes to ashes to dust; cut across from rib to rib and leeching out the clear air you breathe. I am perennial, the one to clean you up when you fail to break the mold and fall back on type- casted stereotypes of who everyone else thinks you should be. still, I am the one who doubts and falters, often has the idea that we are erased and quick forgotten the moment our idiosyncrasies peter out and dust replaces bones we came to know. I am shrill, and I talk too loud at all the wrong times; I can never clear the plates I stain with blood and pile high with subtype after subtype derivatives of things I should do and glean vivification from carefully, anxiously. you have this lean skin and enviable, insouciant lilt to your walk towards me at ten o'clock when I can't see straight anymore, can barely type the last letters of my poems. your eyes are clear and you're free of that indestructible and obliterating dust that clogs my lungs and makes me feel so ill so often. shallow peaks of your shoulder blades, time at a standstill when I merge into highways of veins and clean breaks from responsibility, softly tracing jawbones that clear my head for just a moment; hands that tremble to fasten the world back onto my hollow aches and faltering nervous system. I dust off your window sill and think maybe you're the type that complements an irrational daydreaming messy busy type- writer kind of lover. you know, the kind that hates to pay the bill on time because that's another deadline to miss, who lets dust fly around because vacuums interrupt abstract art and lean cuisine, who likes cats and very, very often misplaces her phone somewhere on your clear floor nothing like the type she has, like the type I have, like the way I lean toward your infrastructure to hold me still; darling, you brighten my mornings of habitual stardust and glass not quite clear.
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The heron spreads his wings and preys. His stony stand a beachhead sloughing The salt sea, a sepulchered wading. Leaven the broken bred, unshell The teeming waters, a fisher of mermen Unlordly low this lying father, His wings are palms, His rock a mount, his wings a bay, And deafness, tears in the outer shores And exaulted seas the forgiven waves, Swells the briny blood and kelp. Vains are streaming to the fisher king, Lordy he lands the lying father His wings are psalms. A tiny flood that arcs the sky Marks lord in miniature, a King  Fisher flies, His wings are The waters calmed. The otters bask and preen, mermen Jostle in the laddered rays of the sun They mark their surf, insouciant play, Wavering the fisher of men, he sways,  Simply they circle in song singing hours, Dancing as do the murmuring waves, Their strokes are psalms.
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Jul 30, 2012
Jul 30, 2012 at 1:28 PM UTC
Heron Preys
the ubiquitous screen that we all have seen for myriad hours has magical powers it brings us tales of suffering and woe but allows us to vicariously go to lands without menacing misery with a simple tap on the remote but when we think we've gotten our couch potato ***** far from the palpable pain of the muddied masses we see the ads for... feline cuisine tasty, tempting morsels in delectable sauces what little kitty could resist yes, what little kitty could resist while billions struggle to simply exist like monkey'd maggots on rotting meat they don't care if their meal is a treat only that their aching guts are at least half full while cat lovers are caught in the insouciant pull of ads for the "cat chef's" royal feasts for their most noble of beasts who purr and play with ***** of yarn for our delight and allow us to forget the interminable plight of the muddied masses who have no magic screen and couldn't give a **** about cat cuisine
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Aug 22, 2012
Aug 22, 2012 at 5:11 PM UTC
not for cat lovers
Some are so very good at it. Others, not so much. Those so carefree about it,   cheaters, who's to trust? Swindle me, my lover. It's happened a few times before. My "don't give a **** proponent has kicked in, that's for sure. Being nonchalant, about it, is all that I can do. For I've lost all trust, don't doubt it. I'm as insouciant as you. Is why we're made for each other, on this we can both rely. It frees me, from anxiety, how we both do cheat and lie.
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Jan 28, 2016
Jan 28, 2016 at 7:58 AM UTC
Insouciantly
insouciant — adjective free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant. Can barely pronounce it, Vaguely recall it. When I was twelve, Lived by the Atlantic Ocean, On my red cycled steed, Disappeared, roaming for days. My parents were not insouciant, Tho I surely was, by definition. Perhaps Someday, Will feel that way again, Recognizing the carelessness of living life Without regrets, worries, all kinds of bills to pay, Re-collecting payments made From my freedom, my early days. But I wonder to you, H. If my life was indeed insouciant, Would my poetry be any good?
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Nov 3, 2013
Nov 3, 2013 at 7:41 AM UTC
Insouciant: A Commissioned Poem
. The heron spreads his wings and preys. His stony stand a beachhead sloughing The salt sea, a sepulchered wading. Leaven the broken bred, unshell The teeming waters, a fisher of mermen Unlordly low this lying father, His wings are palms, His rock a mount, his wings a bay, And deafness, tears in the outer shores And exaulted seas the forgiven waves, Swells the briny blood and kelp. Vains are streaming to the fisher king, Lordy he lands the lying father His wings are psalms. A tiny flood that arcs the sky Marks lord in miniature, a King Fisher flies, His wings are The waters calmed. The otters bask and preen, mermen Jostle in the laddered rays of the sun They mark their surf, insouciant play, Wavering the fisher of men, he sways, Simply they circle in song singing hours, Dancing as do the murmuring waves, Their strokes are psalms.
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Jun 16, 2016
Jun 16, 2016 at 2:30 PM UTC
Heron Preys
*a poetic collaboration with Elizabeth Squires, (thank you for the privilege)* high in the infinite skies, above the clouds. where no, naked eye can see  particles in the ozone layer, bounce around. in a manner, most carefree.  these minute, wee, little things, e'er bobbing and moving, so happily.  we on the ground, would delight, in their existence of joy. but we're tied to the prosaic, daily grind working, in our nine to five, coalface coal mines. with axe and pick, we chip and hack away... whilst our minds delight, in front-lobal play. of waxed wing-ed flight, of acrobatic, aerobatic display. whilst working, in the cramped and dubious spaces we inhabit.... we dream, of spaces, blue, boundless and arcing-wide, forgeting, forgoing, forgiving the mindless, daily grind... we leap, with fragile hope, into fledgling flight.... up to the ozone, up toward the light... there, in the freedom, of this spacious playground, we're at no command, of employer's tools, of work. on our faces, we'll wear  those  effervescent, unfettered smirks hopping in rambunctious  fun  in the ozone's air, upon the weary brow of labor release, is found. in it's mirthful atmosphere, which eliminates, our obligations, to our bosses. we then farewell, with liberating tosses. and so we soar in insouciant grace, unfettered,reckless,feckless  freedom, sliced and pared, away across our wings and faces, joy ungaurded, is this moment's prey unbidden, unbound. no longer hearing, the sound of the grinding axe.... at play we soar eagle high... we soar to the sun's eye but we are not made for such undulterated bliss our wings of feather and wax.... become, around us mist   and to the ground we do spiral.... into our adult occupations, where there is little time. for us to be engrossed, in exuberant glee. we're shackled  and yoked to, our heavy work day shrouds. but our dreams of play, with those ozone particles, seem too impractical. happy little vegemites we'd be, if our days were free. take heart, our days off, are nigh and on the lounge we'll sigh,  a well earned sigh.
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Jun 11, 2014
Jun 11, 2014 at 7:58 PM UTC
bound
*a poetic collaboration with Elizabeth Squires, (thank you for the privilege)* high in the infinite skies, above the clouds. where no, naked eye can see  particles in the ozone layer, bounce around. in a manner, most carefree.  these minute, wee, little things, e'er bobbing and moving, so happily.  we on the ground, would delight, in their existence of joy. but we're tied to the prosaic, daily grind working, in our nine to five, coalface coal mines. with axe and pick, we chip and hack away... whilst our minds delight, in front-lobal play. of waxed wing-ed flight, of acrobatic, aerobatic display. whilst working, in the cramped and dubious spaces we inhabit.... we dream, of spaces, blue, boundless and arcing-wide, forgeting, forgoing, forgiving the mindless, daily grind... we leap, with fragile hope, into fledgling flight.... up to the ozone, up toward the light... there, in the freedom, of this spacious playground, we're at no command, of employer's tools, of work. on our faces, we'll wear  those  effervescent, unfettered smirks hopping in rambunctious  fun  in the ozone's air, upon the weary brow of labor release, is found. in it's mirthful atmosphere, which eliminates, our obligations, to our bosses. we then farewell, with liberating tosses. and so we soar in insouciant grace, unfettered,reckless,feckless  freedom, sliced and pared, away across our wings and faces, joy ungaurded, is this moment's prey unbidden, unbound. no longer hearing, the sound of the grinding axe.... at play we soar eagle high... we soar to the sun's eye but we are not made for such undulterated bliss our wings of feather and wax.... become, around us mist   and to the ground we do spiral.... into our adult occupations, where there is little time. for us to be engrossed, in exuberant glee. we're shackled  and yoked to, our heavy work day shrouds. but our dreams of play, with those ozone particles, seem too impractical. happy little vegemites we'd be, if our days were free. take heart, our days off, are nigh and on the lounge we'll sigh,  a well earned sigh.
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Insouciance It drives reckless souls Out into the night Spreading their unruly plight Knowing nothing of fear, only of fight Irresponsibility is a term Those of this heart know well As it's screamed from rickety back doors It's reek seeps through cracked floors Gets pounded deep in their cores They are taking over this world
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Mar 7, 2015
Mar 7, 2015 at 10:27 AM UTC
Insouciant Adolescents
The heron spreads his wings and preys. His stony stand a beachhead sloughing The salt sea, a sepulchered wading. Leaven the broken bred, unshell The teeming waters, a fisher of mermen Unlordly low this lying father, His wings are palms, His rock a mount, his wings a bay, And deafness, tears in the outer shores And exaulted seas the forgiven waves, Swells the briny blood and kelp. Vains are streaming to the fisher king, Lordy he lands the lying father His wings are psalms. A tiny flood that arcs the sky Marks lord in miniature, a King Fisher flies, His wings are The waters calmed. The otters bask and preen, mermen Jostle in the laddered rays of the sun They mark their surf, insouciant play, Wavering the fisher of men, he sways, Simply they circle in song singing hours, Dancing as do the murmuring waves, Their strokes are psalms.
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May 25, 2013
May 25, 2013 at 2:51 PM UTC
Heron Preys
The heron spreads his wings and preys. His stony stand a beachhead sloughing The salt sea, a sepulchered wading. Leaven the broken bred, unshell The teeming waters, a fisher of mermen Unlordly low this lying father, His wings are palms, His rock a mount, his wings a bay, And deafness, tears in the outer shores And exaulted seas the forgiven waves, Swells the briny blood and kelp. Vains are streaming to the fisher king, Lordy he lands the lying father His wings are psalms. A tiny flood that arcs the sky Marks lord in miniature, a King Fisher flies, His wings are The waters calmed. The otters bask and preen, mermen Jostle in the laddered rays of the sun They mark their surf, insouciant play, Wavering the fisher of men, he sways, Simply they circle in song singing hours, Dancing as do the murmuring waves, Their strokes are psalms.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 1:48 PM UTC
Heron Preys
Tik tok tik tok,   We look back,   To the people that we've met, To the places we went,   To the events that touched our soul,   Tik tok tik tok, As time passes by,  Some travel against the current,  Refusing to let go,   Unwilling to consign them to oblivion,   Hopelessly trying to salvage what was lost,   Reticently denying the future, Tik tok tik tok, As the clocks turns forevermore, We realise that lost times will never come back, What has been done can never be effaced, The only thing to do is to be maturely insouciant, As there is no such thing as a panacea, Tik tok tik tok, The voices of future past deafens us, With every tik of the clock, It seems to grow rambunctiously,   Thoughts run endlessly, Of paradise on earth, That we may or may not achieve in our lifetime.
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Nov 17, 2015
Nov 17, 2015 at 10:52 AM UTC
Tik Tok
Falling, falling, falling,                                   forever or is this                                      G                                    N                                   I                                 T                               A                              O                             L                           F towards a shimmer in the distance like a wind that carries a dead leaf whispering through the chimes that fall upon deaf ears as if the message was sent and it just wasn't heard No, this is f                      a                        l off                    l     the                  i precipice             n                                g as I watch the sky march round in a funeral procession of our history F L O A T I N G in this disorienting gravity S E D U C I N G in this magnetic propinquity T E A R I N G in this psychosomatic schism every storm proceeds an epoch                                               of pleasure as if pleasure                     is an Grecian artifact                         in the backdrop of Ovid The caterpillar                        of Like                        of Love                        of Hate cocoons into insouciant                                       vicissitudes                                        Y.                                     A                                  W                                 but refuses to fly A
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Oct 22, 2019
Oct 22, 2019 at 11:48 AM UTC
Disorienting Gravity
Falling, falling, falling,                                   forever or is this                                      G                                    N                                   I                                 T                               A                              O                             L                           F towards a shimmer in the distance like a wind that carries a dead leaf whispering through the chimes that fall upon deaf ears as if the message was sent and it just wasn't heard No, this is f                      a                        l off                    l     the                  i precipice             n                                g as I watch the sky march round in a funeral procession of our history F L O A T I N G in this disorienting gravity S E D U C I N G in this magnetic propinquity T E A R I N G in this psychosomatic schism every storm proceeds an epoch                                               of pleasure as if pleasure                     is an Grecian artifact                         in the backdrop of Ovid The caterpillar                        of Like                        of Love                        of Hate cocoons into insouciant                                       vicissitudes                                        Y.                                     A                                  W                                 but refuses to fly A
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