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"quandary" poems
Life is a lifelong Balancing act Time that's wasted Never comes back But hear my quandary It's really quite queer What happens when my job Conflicts with my career? What happens when my schooling Disrupts my education? When federal government policies Keep me from graduation? What happens when my GPA Keeps me out of universities? What happens when what I need to do Conflicts with my responsibilities?
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Jun 3, 2014
Jun 3, 2014 at 5:27 PM UTC
Responsibility
the people whose job is to understand the multiverse can't figure this world out rid·dle                      ˈridl/noun: riddle; plural noun:   riddles 1.                                 | a question or statement intentionally           phrased so as to require ingenuity     in ascertaining its answer or meaning,                typically presented as a game; a person, event,   or fact that is difficult   to understand or explain. "the riddle of her death" [puz·zle ˈpəzəl/verb: puzzle; 3rd person present: puzzles; past tense: puzzled; past participle: puzzled; gerund or present participle:                                              puzzling 1.                          cause (someone) to feel confused because              they cannot understand or make sense of something: "one remark he made puzzled me" synonyms: perplex, confuse, bewilder,        bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound;         faze, stump, beat, discombobulate "her decision puzzled me" perplexed, confused, bewildered,        bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded,                              nonplussed, at a loss, at sea;              flummoxed, stumped, fazed, clueless,              discombobulated "a puzzled look on her face" baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic "his explanation was rather puzzling" antonyms: clear think hard about something difficult                    to understand or explain; "she was still puzzling over this problem                      when she reached the office"      | [      ] think hard about, mull over, muse over, ponder, contemplate,                                      meditate on, consider, deliberate on, chew over,                     wonder about "she puzzled over the problem"   solve or understand something by thinking hard; synonyms:                       work out, understand,    comprehend, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of,    make head(s) or tail(s) of, unravel, decipher; informal:                figure out "she tried to puzzle out what he meant" noun: puzzle; plural noun: puzzles 1. [                 ], [           ] (                 ); a game, toy, or problem designed     to test ingenuity or knowledge; short for jigsaw puzzle                    (see jigsaw) a person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma: "the meaning of this poem will always be a paradox" synonyms: enigma, mystery, paradox,        conundrum, poser, riddle, problem, quandary;                      "the poem has always been a puzzle"   late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin: synonyms: puzzle, conundrum, brainteaser, problem,       unsolved problem, question, poser, enigma,                        quandary; informal:       stumper "an answer to the riddle"                    verb/archaic verb: riddle; 3rd person present: riddles; past tense: riddled; past participle: riddled;          gerund or present participle: riddling 1.             speak in or pose riddles. "he who knows not how to riddle" solve or explain (a riddle) to (someone). "riddle me this then" Origin Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’;   related to Dutch raadsel,    German Rätsel,      to read
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Jul 23, 2018
Jul 23, 2018 at 12:19 AM UTC
1. [Linear Z]
the people whose job is to understand the multiverse can't figure this world out rid·dle                      ˈridl/noun: riddle; plural noun:   riddles 1.                                 | a question or statement intentionally           phrased so as to require ingenuity     in ascertaining its answer or meaning,                typically presented as a game; a person, event,   or fact that is difficult   to understand or explain. "the riddle of her death" [puz·zle ˈpəzəl/verb: puzzle; 3rd person present: puzzles; past tense: puzzled; past participle: puzzled; gerund or present participle:                                              puzzling 1.                          cause (someone) to feel confused because              they cannot understand or make sense of something: "one remark he made puzzled me" synonyms: perplex, confuse, bewilder,        bemuse, baffle, mystify, confound;         faze, stump, beat, discombobulate "her decision puzzled me" perplexed, confused, bewildered,        bemused, baffled, mystified, confounded,                              nonplussed, at a loss, at sea;              flummoxed, stumped, fazed, clueless,              discombobulated "a puzzled look on her face" baffling, perplexing, bewildering, confusing, complicated, unclear, mysterious, enigmatic, ambiguous, obscure, abstruse, unfathomable, incomprehensible, impenetrable, cryptic "his explanation was rather puzzling" antonyms: clear think hard about something difficult                    to understand or explain; "she was still puzzling over this problem                      when she reached the office"      | [      ] think hard about, mull over, muse over, ponder, contemplate,                                      meditate on, consider, deliberate on, chew over,                     wonder about "she puzzled over the problem"   solve or understand something by thinking hard; synonyms:                       work out, understand,    comprehend, sort out, reason out, solve, make sense of,    make head(s) or tail(s) of, unravel, decipher; informal:                figure out "she tried to puzzle out what he meant" noun: puzzle; plural noun: puzzles 1. [                 ], [           ] (                 ); a game, toy, or problem designed     to test ingenuity or knowledge; short for jigsaw puzzle                    (see jigsaw) a person or thing that is difficult to understand or explain; an enigma: "the meaning of this poem will always be a paradox" synonyms: enigma, mystery, paradox,        conundrum, poser, riddle, problem, quandary;                      "the poem has always been a puzzle"   late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin: synonyms: puzzle, conundrum, brainteaser, problem,       unsolved problem, question, poser, enigma,                        quandary; informal:       stumper "an answer to the riddle"                    verb/archaic verb: riddle; 3rd person present: riddles; past tense: riddled; past participle: riddled;          gerund or present participle: riddling 1.             speak in or pose riddles. "he who knows not how to riddle" solve or explain (a riddle) to (someone). "riddle me this then" Origin Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse ‘opinion, conjecture, riddle’;   related to Dutch raadsel,    German Rätsel,      to read
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I’m a barbarian in a woman’s shape. I stomp into discourse with heavy steps. Driven by impulse, twisting like switchbacks. There are so many narratives... With one hand, I hold a megaphone to my mouth. With the other hand, from my heart, from my head, I pull out jagged digressions and awkward arguments. If I could weave just one logical thread to see a common perspective, to stop interpreting… I would stand tall on the pedestal of thorny incidents, inept appointments, yet proud that I would finally catch myself. I know, I can only dream of patiently knitting rushing words together. I can’t stitch these threads into a colored, beautiful patchwork, that could give some warmth to the quandary, or as a cover for chronic nostalgia. Meanwhile, within the conventions of social dreaming I tilt my head from side to side Asking myself with incredulity, How is it possible that the voice screaming inside me sounds so weak and dull?
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Feb 23, 2025
Feb 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM UTC
Barbarian
Distance traveled time spent's dynamic progressiveness, existentially transcendental's clairaudience clairvoyance.  Metaphysical mystique’s  evolutionally metamorphic futurity's fatidic incarnate.  Due yesterday’s retrospectively retroactive.  Protractive analyses' dimensional delineations.  Enigma entity’s dexterously tactile acuity and coordinated agility on the identity crisis.  Cerebral cortex’s ****** matrix to synaptic syntax semantics.  Prospectus perplexity surreally sublime.  Quagmire quandary’s poshly plush.  Who am I to think I can conception of the infinite supply?  Even the syntactics of eclectic synectics pale by compare to the atrociously impetuous impudence in pugnaciously audacious.  Impromptu innuendo's juncture.   Imagination’s immaturities are psychic clarity’s entelechy to evolutional tenants élan vital.  Fiduciary principle's financially responsible fiscal policies.   Mercenary mendacity's plenary plenipotentiary.  Innocuous noumenal verity, mystic symbiotic’s chicanery dynamism fealties.  Proximity parameter’s perimeter peripherals, vicinity victuals to vigilante villain,   propinquity habitation’s harbingers of harangued.  The question remains on the tribal:  how can I stand next to the person I’m standing next to if I’m carrying on right through them.  It’s the trajectory extant in spatiotemporal's telemetry tactician.  Well graspy greedy on the stingy frugal to mingy minion and paw flaw laws claws on it.  Get a glove, objectified manifest’s diminutive minutia iota’s of self-inductive interstitial extrapolation.  Detinue perfective.  Traveling down this obtusely overt contusion in my vehicular contrivance convection convolution.  Nimbus nimiety exorcism’s aura roan to rainbow mare.  Unicorn railway nails.  Swarthy ******** swath swizzles on the sweaty swelter swerve to verve.
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May 28, 2019
May 28, 2019 at 12:10 PM UTC
Astral Projection's Existential Hubris
Distance traveled time spent's dynamic progressiveness, existentially transcendental's clairaudience clairvoyance.  Metaphysical mystique’s  evolutionally metamorphic futurity's fatidic incarnate.  Due yesterday’s retrospectively retroactive.  Protractive analyses' dimensional delineations.  Enigma entity’s dexterously tactile acuity and coordinated agility on the identity crisis.  Cerebral cortex’s ****** matrix to synaptic syntax semantics.  Prospectus perplexity surreally sublime.  Quagmire quandary’s poshly plush.  Who am I to think I can conception of the infinite supply?  Even the syntactics of eclectic synectics pale by compare to the atrociously impetuous impudence in pugnaciously audacious.  Impromptu innuendo's juncture.   Imagination’s immaturities are psychic clarity’s entelechy to evolutional tenants élan vital.  Fiduciary principle's financially responsible fiscal policies.   Mercenary mendacity's plenary plenipotentiary.  Innocuous noumenal verity, mystic symbiotic’s chicanery dynamism fealties.  Proximity parameter’s perimeter peripherals, vicinity victuals to vigilante villain,   propinquity habitation’s harbingers of harangued.  The question remains on the tribal:  how can I stand next to the person I’m standing next to if I’m carrying on right through them.  It’s the trajectory extant in spatiotemporal's telemetry tactician.  Well graspy greedy on the stingy frugal to mingy minion and paw flaw laws claws on it.  Get a glove, objectified manifest’s diminutive minutia iota’s of self-inductive interstitial extrapolation.  Detinue perfective.  Traveling down this obtusely overt contusion in my vehicular contrivance convection convolution.  Nimbus nimiety exorcism’s aura roan to rainbow mare.  Unicorn railway nails.  Swarthy ******** swath swizzles on the sweaty swelter swerve to verve.
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i'm sorry but im going to devour you like toast with butter and jam let go to me lose your self in the exaltation of suffering albeit a difficult pleasure feel me ruin you with every strike and stroke blister tear and pierce a quandary of liberation bleeding take more then whats dished ill turn you into a gushing river of squeals and filthy verse i'm in love with your **** colored almost purple like a wild mouthed poem make it kiss me let it eat my face its more beautiful then an Hawaiian sunset more tender then a baby lamb your sweet lipped ***** a buttery sticky bun its drools liquid diamonds i'm sorry i hit your **** so hard but they bounced and bounced and it drove me near mad so gorgeous bruised and bleeding casaba torrents all hot stings and sweet you stand glorious between beauty and annihilation your mouth swollen from being slapped so hard nose bleed and mucous your eyes enormous wombs like fingers touching me oh baby im sorry your tears imploring pleading and drunk on hair pulling frenzies curse my brutish rampage of *** gone mad turning your body into clouds and red splash ribbons don't be sorry she said with pursed lips your rabid hunger my own i am an abyss of dark desires a savage wraith i want to kiss you like a lecher all ******* and cherries with legs squandered wide a Halloween grotesque with a ponytail are you going to eat me like a communion wafer okay if it will save you am i not a saint of lust "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends" john15:13 so have your fun at my expense make me your house of horrors greased for the scalding of your whip ill be good please do your worst and ill show you my best promise me pretty please kisses and cries rainbows and ash blistering ecstatic
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Sep 23, 2017
Sep 23, 2017 at 12:56 PM UTC
I'M SORRY
i'm sorry but im going to devour you like toast with butter and jam let go to me lose your self in the exaltation of suffering albeit a difficult pleasure feel me ruin you with every strike and stroke blister tear and pierce a quandary of liberation bleeding take more then whats dished ill turn you into a gushing river of squeals and filthy verse i'm in love with your **** colored almost purple like a wild mouthed poem make it kiss me let it eat my face its more beautiful then an Hawaiian sunset more tender then a baby lamb your sweet lipped ***** a buttery sticky bun its drools liquid diamonds i'm sorry i hit your **** so hard but they bounced and bounced and it drove me near mad so gorgeous bruised and bleeding casaba torrents all hot stings and sweet you stand glorious between beauty and annihilation your mouth swollen from being slapped so hard nose bleed and mucous your eyes enormous wombs like fingers touching me oh baby im sorry your tears imploring pleading and drunk on hair pulling frenzies curse my brutish rampage of *** gone mad turning your body into clouds and red splash ribbons don't be sorry she said with pursed lips your rabid hunger my own i am an abyss of dark desires a savage wraith i want to kiss you like a lecher all ******* and cherries with legs squandered wide a Halloween grotesque with a ponytail are you going to eat me like a communion wafer okay if it will save you am i not a saint of lust "There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends" john15:13 so have your fun at my expense make me your house of horrors greased for the scalding of your whip ill be good please do your worst and ill show you my best promise me pretty please kisses and cries rainbows and ash blistering ecstatic
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<> for the love of friends<> How does one write of one he knew not? the ancillary evidence mounts relentlessly, the double toil and trouble moments edged now, slow vanquished by steady accumulation of the evidentiary a man who lived his life well, will be inevitably, nay, justifiably, deservedly be well remembered... one examines the evidence with eyepiece lenses calibrated to one's own soul, for this is the natural condition of humanity yet wonder, what manner, what scale, does one rightly employ to judge another's   plantings in the soil? rightly judge another? then you hear a woman say, she knew not knew this man Eryc, revealing an honest tertiary, even cursory knowledge of an anecdotal life well lived our shared quandary, yet she solves this judicial issue by asking of herself a question so stunningly elementary, which both asks and answers the double risk you have imposed, to write of one you can never behold, and in doing so, judge thyself... What Would Eryc Do? this crystal rapid current question erodes doubt, the fear to tread where one knows not when a stranger says to another, indeed to many others: heard tell of this young man, and know now to ask myself when I too am junctured, in doubt, What Would Eryc Do? there is no doubt, no juncture, just a provident question a makers's mark of and upon a man, whose future shortened, will live far, far longer than most, if one simple applies a standard to one's own life of What Would Eryc Do?
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Oct 18, 2014
Oct 18, 2014 at 10:12 AM UTC
For TM: What Would Eryc Do?
Sages and broomsticks   motherless pearls Witches that threaten   fatherless girls Curse of the ages old grudges remain A coven of stages   to hide from the rain The markings of Satan   the touch of the Lord A death plated sunset   and winner forlorn The trap now a quandary   and you must break free As with all soiled laundry   to burn once deceived The truth is not distant   first word never feigned The peace that you’re seeking   inside you unclaimed So let go of the dogma   the medals will melt New songs of arrival   you’ll write most heartfelt But the moment is now   and the moment is clear Once the moment is christened   new joy spins from fear To those who still threaten   with eternity ****** Say:         “Away with your blasphemy,           stop where you stand         These wings have reopened           my eyes looking in         New life has been gifted           —I’m blessed to begin” (Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2014)
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Oct 21, 2018
Oct 21, 2018 at 5:07 PM UTC
Blessed To Begin
Philosophical epistemology strumming adventures Albeit, coherent mental decoding stratifications structured Supposedly our world rests in our minds, revolving knowledge An entwine of conceptual abstract flowing within oneself The mind in the “I” the “I” a reality lived in my experiences George of Leontini, a mine mind approving solipsism exploring innatism Imaginative insights that nothing exists, the secrets secreting secrets The knowledge behind the veils that remains un-communicated A reverse of normality and known existences, moral disposition Hypothesis of depersonalizations, adventures of self internalization Justifications for what lies outside the Medulla Oblongata Skepticism and just alternatives to western philosophy Subjective unapproved experiences only robust in one’s mind Descartes abstraction of inner experiences, reciprocated paradigm Intuitively, perceived lived formulations of "Cogito Ergo Sum" Psychological conscious undoubted individualistic thoughts Berkley explored perspectives that physicality is an embodiment of the mind The mind a decoding visualizer, that encompass the non-existent An idealism marriage of ‘metaphysical’ and epistemological philosophy The intense esoteric “dualism” verses the fiery “monism” reality Mind boggling differentiated truths bleeding with blinking unresolvable hypothesis The jiggered methodological, streamlining the un -logic sequential beats
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Feb 19, 2016
Feb 19, 2016 at 11:56 AM UTC
Solipsism Quandary
When people say they're tired of a person, often a friend— Do they mean, exhausted with the idea of submission to their actions Responding to their preferences Falling prey to all their ways Or hearing them drone loquaciously Putting down disagree-ers gratuitously Speaking of themselves, about very little else Until all hope and faith in them has deteriorated beyond all mercy? I am yet to confirm What is true beyond all else Gone through the Rubicon, Universal to all nations But why must I tolerate a monk That devoutly praises himself to the depths Beyond all fierce comprehension, His devotion remains a quandary
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Jun 28, 2014
Jun 28, 2014 at 12:26 PM UTC
Tired
she wakes early to plot the day makes the bed where he once laid she works out to stay trim curls her hair so she's proper and prim she cleans the living room the kitchen the bedroom the bath the halls the windows the tables the floor she washes and folds the laundry and puts away the dishes with a clatter overwhelmed with quandary pretending the latter doesn't matter only focused on having dinner ready when he steps through the door steady and she does it all yes she does it all with a frown on her mouth and a furrow on her brow yes she's going mad as a hatter perfect makeup mixing batter what's for dinner new lingerie makes her look thinner she's got to please the man she's got to lick his hand petrified things will fall apart if she doesn't play her part she's losing who she is afraid to be a Ms. all day long she thinks of pleasing him humming a caged bird's song for she does this all desperately desperately desperately running from the candle ***** her love just doesn't seem enough doing all she can to keep this man pretending she still has an identity and that she's not just a mechanical thing that she's more than just the desperate housewife.
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Aug 25, 2015
Aug 25, 2015 at 6:01 PM UTC
Desperate Housewife
Push, Pull, Click, Click.........and so the Instructions , so Plainly Printed on the Silky Smooth Paper, *SHOUTED-OUT to the User. The User, Pondering in His Best State of Mind, Glared back at the SHOUTING black letters on the Silky smooth Paper. Are they serious, He wondered ? Should I actually do EACH of these steps in Exactly the Order in which they are Presented ? What would happen if I Suddenly , as if I had been Engrossed in some Deep thought, TOTALLY disregarded the Emphatic instructions? The User, not accustomed to such vivid instructions, was at a Quandary as to what to do ! ! Being an Observer of the Satirical Right, Could the User in such an Abrupt state of Mind, Actually curb his intentions, and TOTALLY ignore the Now Blatantly LOUD Instructions ! SUCH Simple instructions to follow,, OR so the Outline implied ! Simply start at Step #A, then proceed to Step #B and so on and so on.... ALL the way to the End and to the FULL completion of said Task. That's All there was TO-IT ! ! but, the words of INSTRUCTION, Now cut-back at each glance with a much Sharper Edge now, Making the reading a TASK of Monumental effort. Push, pull, click, click.. Just that Simple, Printed right there in Black and White, in BOLD Classic letter style for the user to read and complete. _____WHY were the Words now *SCREAMING? and even *YELLING ? All I simply tried to do, MUSED the User, was to "DO-IT"---"MY WAY"--! But NO, the next thing I know , crowing out his words, Here come these words Screaming and yelling, Just like they DIDN'T have anything better to do ! ! Why Me. the User was now complaining, Why Oh, Why Oh ME? _____"WHY-NOT" Blared out the Instructions on the Silky Smooth Paper ? *As the EXPLOSION ripped thru the building , Shattering windows as far as 3 miles away. He COMPLETED the Instructions, inserted KEY in door and walked OUT to SAFETY ~ Glancing Back , HE GLARED at the Smoldering Remnants of INSTRUCTIONS ,, THROWING OFF SPARKS, "AS IF IN DEFIANCE"___of those who *FOLLOW-INSTRUCTIONS"
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Dec 29, 2010
Dec 29, 2010 at 3:34 AM UTC
* " FOLLOWING-INSTRUCTIONS " * ( #45)
Push, Pull, Click, Click.........and so the Instructions , so Plainly Printed on the Silky Smooth Paper, *SHOUTED-OUT to the User. The User, Pondering in His Best State of Mind, Glared back at the SHOUTING black letters on the Silky smooth Paper. Are they serious, He wondered ? Should I actually do EACH of these steps in Exactly the Order in which they are Presented ? What would happen if I Suddenly , as if I had been Engrossed in some Deep thought, TOTALLY disregarded the Emphatic instructions? The User, not accustomed to such vivid instructions, was at a Quandary as to what to do ! ! Being an Observer of the Satirical Right, Could the User in such an Abrupt state of Mind, Actually curb his intentions, and TOTALLY ignore the Now Blatantly LOUD Instructions ! SUCH Simple instructions to follow,, OR so the Outline implied ! Simply start at Step #A, then proceed to Step #B and so on and so on.... ALL the way to the End and to the FULL completion of said Task. That's All there was TO-IT ! ! but, the words of INSTRUCTION, Now cut-back at each glance with a much Sharper Edge now, Making the reading a TASK of Monumental effort. Push, pull, click, click.. Just that Simple, Printed right there in Black and White, in BOLD Classic letter style for the user to read and complete. _____WHY were the Words now *SCREAMING? and even *YELLING ? All I simply tried to do, MUSED the User, was to "DO-IT"---"MY WAY"--! But NO, the next thing I know , crowing out his words, Here come these words Screaming and yelling, Just like they DIDN'T have anything better to do ! ! Why Me. the User was now complaining, Why Oh, Why Oh ME? _____"WHY-NOT" Blared out the Instructions on the Silky Smooth Paper ? *As the EXPLOSION ripped thru the building , Shattering windows as far as 3 miles away. He COMPLETED the Instructions, inserted KEY in door and walked OUT to SAFETY ~ Glancing Back , HE GLARED at the Smoldering Remnants of INSTRUCTIONS ,, THROWING OFF SPARKS, "AS IF IN DEFIANCE"___of those who *FOLLOW-INSTRUCTIONS"
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The trapeze artist without trapeze, encased within a paper weight, reading through eye glasses crafted for readers astigmatic use. This is the mind set...... this is the end truth....... Being is embryonic, to become, to the pupal larva, a new becoming, Life. II Quantum leaps often end in tragedy when the time traveler ceases to travel The sudden stop! Rapid communication......synaptic calibration......recall all yesterdays. blind intellect one tenth of one second 15 seconds The dimensions split and the bicameral mind appears two lobes right and left, inverted vision adjusted for mythic fusion, creating abstracted convolutions answering to them self. A planet in a galaxy of confusion. III Imagination finding place in the new electronic institution, man made synaptical illustrations from pixilated madness. We take from this..............an illogical extension of our existence that makes some sense. We make it such that it becomes the most told lie we believe without questioning. Till death we do part. IV As I inhale looking at my past...my last past, well in any case the past is where I just wrote past the last time like now PAST. Rationalization is overrated, intellectual ************ is for the cools, and catatonic haze is a new wave drug. It is early in a new society's evolution..... It is late in the face of time...... ergo quantum quandary quid pro quo Ajerry / copyright 2013
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Oct 30, 2013
Oct 30, 2013 at 6:34 PM UTC
Open form; Silent Places
I do not know of WWI Because I know not of drowning on land But what hypocrisy it is to say I Cannot speak on mustard gas But I will design you a bomb That kills for days if not For always Call that genius if you feel the need To me it is the call to arms Every man feels It is the essential want to take to the sea It is the secret urge to make Another man bleed or change the way He gets up in the morning
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Jan 2, 2010
Jan 2, 2010 at 7:46 PM UTC
The Quandary of Einsteinium Physics
What if there was no light, No inclination to fight, Mountains, all feasible to climb; To be in anyplace, and anytime. What if love was a verb, No pitfalls, no feelings to curb, True loves lost in abyss, No one to meet nor miss. What if death was avoidable, and people weren't exploitable, Earth as Eden; No sin, no wrong, even. What if sadness was eliminated, No choice debated, Just action, speaking before thinking, Leaving all people sinking. For death is still a shadow, The bite-mark is in the apple. Love is fate, ships of sadness and pain: Humanity as the first mate. Always surrounded with quandary and question... But one thing yet to mention: Eliminate all questions of "what if" in mind, Then there shall be answers to find.
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Apr 8, 2014
Apr 8, 2014 at 10:01 PM UTC
What If
*i. He told her That mathematics was too Sombre. Too, too Linear To be poetic. She said that He had only seen himself In a mirror, A reversed hologram Of his external self Burned into his retinas with His subconscious filling in the gaps. But she had seen him The rays reflected straight off him Into her eyes; Not some half-assed reflection Off some silvered surface. ii. She said that His jawline was The slope of a curve Pencilled on a graph sheet. His candlewax skin A wavelength Quantifiable on paper. His spine A number line with Dashes, to show real numbers The set of which was infinite. She said that A Fibonacci sketch was A minimalist rose, A post-modern bouquet. And that The reflected pale morning sun In a half finished cup of camomile tea Was a cardioid With fixed coordinate values on the axes And an algorithmic tangent. And he Was a negative infinity A paradox not sorted under Quine's classification system. iii. She had Recorded his heartbeat and blood pressure; Measured the distance between his lips with her own; Tried so hard, so very, very hard To put him down in a numerical form And write him off as an equation. But all she could say was That he was more Than the sum total of his meagre parts And that she Was his reciprocal value.*
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Feb 23, 2013
Feb 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM UTC
A Non-Euclidean Quandary
It’s funny how The universities are still in business Of producing graduates That speak funny English And hardly make invention And the stock market falls Down street tumbles That lets people buy And make profit Like grandpa used to say, True intellectualism died In the year 1929 With the rise in acumen inflation It was then that This Federal Reserve of Ignorance The true villain of this quandary Traces its genesis Hope that explains succinct This universal impotence
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Jun 18, 2012
Jun 18, 2012 at 9:17 AM UTC
Crazy World
Planting excitement upon us, My daughter asks how to thin the beets. "When the plants are three inches tall, Pick the weaker ones and pull them up," I say. "You'll take out two thirds of the young plants So the rest can grow." I see a troubled look upon her face, And realize what I find in myself.... The teacher's quandary: Picking whom to keep, Whom to cull... We put our love into them all. Watching for first and tender shoots, Celebrating as the fledgling leaves appear, Not thinking of a time ahead, Dreaded time to thin.... Teachers are reluctant to cull, Building emotional connection, Providing loving direction, Promising success to all.... Then come the standardized tests, The  team selections, The popularity contests, The invitations to slumber parties, The division of elites, The rising of divas, The rostering of first teams... The separation of pariahs begins, The promise we made to early learners ends, Superiors, exultant, drown out the tears Of those left standing by the fence, Excluded from the chances to advance. Standing in the seedling beds, Spring breezes rustling tender leaves, I turn to Kate.... "It's never easy.... But if we don't  thin the beets, The beets will not develop Beneath the leaves." These damnable analogies arise Infrequently these days, And I am standing in the dirt, Black soil upon on my hands, Wondering about survival of the weak, The treatment of humans and young plants, Pondering humane ways to honor every student In which I am investing... Wishing I could see the end of high stakes testing....
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Jun 4, 2015
Jun 4, 2015 at 12:29 PM UTC
Thinning Beets
Planting excitement upon us, My daughter asks how to thin the beets. "When the plants are three inches tall, Pick the weaker ones and pull them up," I say. "You'll take out two thirds of the young plants So the rest can grow." I see a troubled look upon her face, And realize what I find in myself.... The teacher's quandary: Picking whom to keep, Whom to cull... We put our love into them all. Watching for first and tender shoots, Celebrating as the fledgling leaves appear, Not thinking of a time ahead, Dreaded time to thin.... Teachers are reluctant to cull, Building emotional connection, Providing loving direction, Promising success to all.... Then come the standardized tests, The  team selections, The popularity contests, The invitations to slumber parties, The division of elites, The rising of divas, The rostering of first teams... The separation of pariahs begins, The promise we made to early learners ends, Superiors, exultant, drown out the tears Of those left standing by the fence, Excluded from the chances to advance. Standing in the seedling beds, Spring breezes rustling tender leaves, I turn to Kate.... "It's never easy.... But if we don't  thin the beets, The beets will not develop Beneath the leaves." These damnable analogies arise Infrequently these days, And I am standing in the dirt, Black soil upon on my hands, Wondering about survival of the weak, The treatment of humans and young plants, Pondering humane ways to honor every student In which I am investing... Wishing I could see the end of high stakes testing....
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I'm dubious, I will never know what life brings for me. Some days, I believe in my abilities and Moments later, my other mind will interrogate me. Who am I and what do I bring by existing? I will never know since I'm so doubtful. Doubtful of all the beautiful things in life. Especially love, since I don't exist To love anymore.   If we're not here to love, what are we here for? If we can barley live, why are we living after all. Maybe one day I'll find my path, But for now, I'll continue to be in a quandary. n.n
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Mar 10, 2019
Mar 10, 2019 at 11:00 PM UTC
always unsettled
O Divine Matchmaker, pay heed to my plea. I guard an egress open ajar, crusted by thorns I guard this world against the odium behind it I guard this door, not in service, Matchmaker. My hands, grip on the barbs of this doorway To keep it ajar, for a glimpse of my remittal; Of the extant light of my sole soul so brittle, Anneliese, Blessed with a name so celestial, Anneliese, Cursed with a burden so menial, Placidly fostering the lives behind that door. Anneliese, my only mud-soaked nightingale. O Divine Matchmaker, answer my quandary. Am I to serve this world as an eternal Atlas? Am I to forsake my mud-soaked nightingale? Is our union ignoble to you, O Matchmaker? How many unanswered sunsets remain alas? In distraught, a thousand misereres, I penned In every breath, I pine to pen a thousand more. If only I had a drop of ink left… If only I had a drop of ink left…
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Jul 14, 2021
Jul 14, 2021 at 4:10 AM UTC
Answer us... Avenge us.
One hour after noon in C2 room Jasmine makes a tonless reading Nobody listens Today I choose the Farewell to Arms' final chapter forty one The last extract is alive one more time: "Every thing was gone inside me. I did not think. I could not think... Please, please, please, dear God, make her not die." Yesterday Just the same words passed through myself Nobody knows
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Feb 9, 2022
Feb 9, 2022 at 5:28 PM UTC
Quandary
Circles Where does one start or end in an oval? You travel long and hard to only reach nowhere. Any direction brings us back to starting point, Trekking and swaying to different ends. East to West or North to South it's all the same. Should I say I am ill to cease this wandering, Tracking after love has me frustrated. All efforts seem in relative vain to make, She has me in a quandary as to my next step. © Perveiz Ali
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Apr 11, 2016
Apr 11, 2016 at 8:28 AM UTC
Circles
Distance traveled time spent's dynamic progressiveness, existentially transcendental's clairaudience clairvoyance. Metaphysical mystique’s evolutionally metamorphic futurity's fatidic incarnate. Due yesterday’s retrospectively retroactive. Protractive analysis' dimensional delineation. Enigma entity’s dexterously tactile acuity and coordinated agility on the identity crisis. Cerebral cortex’s ****** matrix to synaptic syntax semantics. Prospectus perplexity surreally sublime. Quagmire quandary’s poshly plush. Who am I to think I can conception of the infinite supply? Even the syntactics of eclectic synectics pale by compare to the atrociously impetuous impudence in pugnaciously audacious. Impromptu innuendo's juncture. Imagination’s immaturities are psychic clarity’s entelechy to evolutional tenants élan vital. Fiduciary principle's financially responsible fiscal policies. Mercenary mendacity's plenary plenipotentiary. Innocuous noumenal verity, mystic symbiotic’s chicanery dynamism fealties. Proximity parameter’s perimeter peripherals, vicinity victuals to vigilante villain, propinquity habitation’s harbingers of harangued. The question remains on the tribal: how can I stand next to the person I’m standing next to if I’m carrying on right through them. It’s the trajectory extant in spatiotemporal's telemetry tactician. Well graspy greedy on the stingy frugal to mingy minion and paw flaw laws claws on it. Get a glove, objectified manifest’s diminutive minutia iota’s of self-inductive interstitial extrapolation. Detinue perfective. Traveling down this obtusely overt contusion in my vehicular contrivance convection convolution. Nimbus nimiety exorcism’s aura roan to rainbow mare. Unicorn railway nails. Swarthy swastica swath swizzles on the sweaty swelter swerve to verve.
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May 6, 2016
May 6, 2016 at 10:57 PM UTC
Astral Projection's Existential Hubris
Distance traveled time spent's dynamic progressiveness, existentially transcendental's clairaudience clairvoyance. Metaphysical mystique’s evolutionally metamorphic futurity's fatidic incarnate. Due yesterday’s retrospectively retroactive. Protractive analysis' dimensional delineation. Enigma entity’s dexterously tactile acuity and coordinated agility on the identity crisis. Cerebral cortex’s ****** matrix to synaptic syntax semantics. Prospectus perplexity surreally sublime. Quagmire quandary’s poshly plush. Who am I to think I can conception of the infinite supply? Even the syntactics of eclectic synectics pale by compare to the atrociously impetuous impudence in pugnaciously audacious. Impromptu innuendo's juncture. Imagination’s immaturities are psychic clarity’s entelechy to evolutional tenants élan vital. Fiduciary principle's financially responsible fiscal policies. Mercenary mendacity's plenary plenipotentiary. Innocuous noumenal verity, mystic symbiotic’s chicanery dynamism fealties. Proximity parameter’s perimeter peripherals, vicinity victuals to vigilante villain, propinquity habitation’s harbingers of harangued. The question remains on the tribal: how can I stand next to the person I’m standing next to if I’m carrying on right through them. It’s the trajectory extant in spatiotemporal's telemetry tactician. Well graspy greedy on the stingy frugal to mingy minion and paw flaw laws claws on it. Get a glove, objectified manifest’s diminutive minutia iota’s of self-inductive interstitial extrapolation. Detinue perfective. Traveling down this obtusely overt contusion in my vehicular contrivance convection convolution. Nimbus nimiety exorcism’s aura roan to rainbow mare. Unicorn railway nails. Swarthy swastica swath swizzles on the sweaty swelter swerve to verve.
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How do I unfurl a truth with the lights out? You confessed the bean spillage This tale is arduous when you are as blind as a bat. It maybe toilsome but I know it is crucial, for your maladroit ways have brought me here. I feel like a duck egg because you have been a **** head Your declaring a newborn heart in past tense This doesn't cure this quandary of trust I don't want to adopt eagle eyes!! I am not a lover of Pandora's box nor any hornets nest
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Sep 27, 2011
Sep 27, 2011 at 4:04 PM UTC
Duck egg
As the ages of my life pass by Like bits of burnt sages I look back at what elapsed Like withered pages of rusty verses Frittered yet sapient in phases And I fondly wonder Of the moments of quandary Whether I flourish or mold blunder Heedless to the end that I shall attend
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Nov 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022 at 6:50 PM UTC
Untitled
The rainbow’s bright colors gazed out of their prism, speculatively, cautiously, almost contrarily, with no wall to paint their patterned pictures on, fading into irrelevance as they vanished into the void . Time ; torturous and tyrannical, toyed with the torrential turbulence, as it’s transitive tenaciousness thoughtlessly, tactlessly, tooled through the torrid tempest . The starry-eyed girl gazed glassily across the expanse as if in a quandary over the night sky . A half human silhouette in a sky filled with thunder heads and birds of prey rooted in a tapestry of alien galaxies and blazing stars playing a melodian . Water glistened on the skin of the naked woman and rainbows danced in the air before her as the waves crashed against the rocks . A young man with a pony tail in the center of the back side of his head played his drum while he danced on the grass .
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Jun 27, 2013
Jun 27, 2013 at 10:51 PM UTC
Rainbow Mare