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"rashness" poems
After all, poetry is a savage calling. -Edel Garcellano Let poetry be an interstice. Say, an intervention to the gap of loneliness. Depressive. Let bitter medicines dissolve or, madness will make its ultimate call. Convulsive patterns of mental spasms. Schizophrenic impulse hitting the nerves. What is known to be rational flees. Enough to learn from the burning of its wings and Youth. Say, pulling a magic trick under the hat. You know you are being fooled but why enjoy such spectacle or, better enjoy than masking the truth. Say, a glimpse through an interstice—from Whitman’s poetry. An intervention to the rashness of day. An intercept to the chaos of the soul. A reminder that we are not assemblages forever desiring. A poetry fumbling to the course, enough to welcome the rain of sad realizations. “The task is heroic. Poetry is a minor matter” (E. Garcellano) – an intervention/interstice, the negotiator to the ultimate task of poetry. We are savage gods. We feed on the detritus of truth, those are, lies. Consider this poetry as an epitaph. To the disremembered victims of El Sidro. We dealt the cards of fate. We intervened to live. We pierced our stones to their hearts so cold. Darwin’s prophesy always reminds us that in every epoch there are some interventions we cannot avoid. After all, we are his favorite animal. We are gods feeding on loneliness. We are agnostic souls entangled in caves of shadows. Say, are we forever trapped in the compulsive dimensions of ourselves? In love, for example. To answer this question is the task of poetry. Let poetry be an interstice.
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Oct 1, 2016
Oct 1, 2016 at 7:46 AM UTC
Interstice
After all, poetry is a savage calling. -Edel Garcellano Let poetry be an interstice. Say, an intervention to the gap of loneliness. Depressive. Let bitter medicines dissolve or, madness will make its ultimate call. Convulsive patterns of mental spasms. Schizophrenic impulse hitting the nerves. What is known to be rational flees. Enough to learn from the burning of its wings and Youth. Say, pulling a magic trick under the hat. You know you are being fooled but why enjoy such spectacle or, better enjoy than masking the truth. Say, a glimpse through an interstice—from Whitman’s poetry. An intervention to the rashness of day. An intercept to the chaos of the soul. A reminder that we are not assemblages forever desiring. A poetry fumbling to the course, enough to welcome the rain of sad realizations. “The task is heroic. Poetry is a minor matter” (E. Garcellano) – an intervention/interstice, the negotiator to the ultimate task of poetry. We are savage gods. We feed on the detritus of truth, those are, lies. Consider this poetry as an epitaph. To the disremembered victims of El Sidro. We dealt the cards of fate. We intervened to live. We pierced our stones to their hearts so cold. Darwin’s prophesy always reminds us that in every epoch there are some interventions we cannot avoid. After all, we are his favorite animal. We are gods feeding on loneliness. We are agnostic souls entangled in caves of shadows. Say, are we forever trapped in the compulsive dimensions of ourselves? In love, for example. To answer this question is the task of poetry. Let poetry be an interstice.
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Ignorance quashed the feline, Rashness foiled the canine, Cowardice cost the equine, Greed consumes each swine, Slothfulness traps the bovine, But me? I'm doin' just fine!
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Jun 20, 2024
Jun 20, 2024 at 4:07 PM UTC
Ol' John Henry
I used to believe in happily ever after, I thought falling in love would be forever. I used to believe love was an emotion, that would naturally lead to actions. I didn't know that love, was not just about emotions, and actions, but determination. I didn't know that love, was not just having a companion, receiving and giving affirmation, but also commitment. I didn't know that taking things slow, and being cautious in the relationship, was a form of love and protection. I thought taking things fast meant passion and that he was deeper in love. I didn't take it for what it was, immaturity, rashness, and a lack of self control. I believed him when he said he liked me before he really got to know me. But he really liked me more knowing me less. And when he knew me more, he liked me less. He didn't like me, he liked perfection. He liked me out of ignorance. Ignorance of how I was flawed.   Imperfect. Just as he was. And now I know, that true love isn't meant to be perfect, but true love is demonstrated, in the ability to love imperfection, as if it were perfect.
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Oct 17, 2014
Oct 17, 2014 at 1:41 AM UTC
Perfect Love.
Oxpecker: "Impala, may I offer my services to you? I can clean you of your ticks and insects; They must cause you great discomfort! I'll eat them and keep you free of unwanted parasites. I'll also clean your ears of wax and dandruff, helping you hear your predators approach." Impala: "Oxpecker, I would be grateful for your services, it sounds too good to be true! What's in it for you?" Oxpecker: "Impala, I only want to help you with your troubled condition. I see your suffering, I want you to be happy. Your smile of relief will be my payment. In order to carry out these burdens of care, will you grant me permission to perch upon your back, watching over you, for your future well-being of course." Elephant: "Impala, don't believe the tick birds lies. He'll feed on your pests and then on you! His motives are sinister and self serving." Oxpecker: "Elephant, you spread malicious lies about me, all because I refused a seat on your back! You don't suffer as much as the impala, he needs me more than you do! YOU'RE a jealous, spiteful creature!" Oxpecker: "Impala, the elephant's trying to trick you so I'll take a seat on his back and care for him instead. I know YOU'RE smart, don't fall for his deceptions." Impala: "Elephant, you won't trick me with your duplicity! You want the oxpecker all for yourself! I'll accept the oxpeckers invitation at once so you no longer try and steal him away. YOU ARE a jealous, spiteful creature!" Elephant: "Impala, remember this day! I warned you, you chose to ignore me! You've made a decision based in fear. You take the word of a creature that eats other creatures, you'll suffer for your rashness!"
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Sep 20, 2016
Sep 20, 2016 at 5:18 AM UTC
The Oxpecker and the Impala
Oxpecker: "Impala, may I offer my services to you? I can clean you of your ticks and insects; They must cause you great discomfort! I'll eat them and keep you free of unwanted parasites. I'll also clean your ears of wax and dandruff, helping you hear your predators approach." Impala: "Oxpecker, I would be grateful for your services, it sounds too good to be true! What's in it for you?" Oxpecker: "Impala, I only want to help you with your troubled condition. I see your suffering, I want you to be happy. Your smile of relief will be my payment. In order to carry out these burdens of care, will you grant me permission to perch upon your back, watching over you, for your future well-being of course." Elephant: "Impala, don't believe the tick birds lies. He'll feed on your pests and then on you! His motives are sinister and self serving." Oxpecker: "Elephant, you spread malicious lies about me, all because I refused a seat on your back! You don't suffer as much as the impala, he needs me more than you do! YOU'RE a jealous, spiteful creature!" Oxpecker: "Impala, the elephant's trying to trick you so I'll take a seat on his back and care for him instead. I know YOU'RE smart, don't fall for his deceptions." Impala: "Elephant, you won't trick me with your duplicity! You want the oxpecker all for yourself! I'll accept the oxpeckers invitation at once so you no longer try and steal him away. YOU ARE a jealous, spiteful creature!" Elephant: "Impala, remember this day! I warned you, you chose to ignore me! You've made a decision based in fear. You take the word of a creature that eats other creatures, you'll suffer for your rashness!"
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your tenebrous image enraptures me future’s heat brands me with you your silhouette fills my vision but all your features are hidden calling to me in a voice I know but have not yet heard a shout made a whisper you are so many years away always I have known you sensed you by your absence I chafe and fret, anxious and expectant of your arrival believing it imminent eagerly I shut my eyes to what little I know of you trusting as only callow youth allows that no more is needed than my open arms I see you everywhere impetuously I give my heart only to find no synchrony even the lineation was wrong each time it is not you you are still far from me yet I am wrenched forward I lurch undiscerning, heedless pressed forever into rashness by all consuming urgency for you endless, fruitless searching confusion and despair my constant companions lost in a torrent of nothing like one freezing in lingering polar night to stop is to die, helpless I stumble towards providence
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Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 11:29 PM UTC
With Bated Life
I have forgotten forgiveness. Releasing regrets, relented rashness. so don't bother empty excuses. expect exemption? its All aimless air anyway.
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May 15, 2016
May 15, 2016 at 5:34 PM UTC
Excuses
The hands of grace sometimes fall unseen lifting you up to where you've never been. Blessed are they on whom it descends, being worthy, they are ready to ascend. For such a long time most people have been caught by ignorance, struggling and ignoring life's taught. Their ego is usually arising through clashes forsaking its identity with all by its rashness. To gather more experience and to impress its own existence apart from all of the rest. Impossible though that will forever be regardless of what appears or is to see. We are all of one substance existing within its domain of Infinite Being always playing a very illusory game. The descent of grace is experienced as bliss the likeness of which one should never miss. All one's troubles seem to get dissolved away having existed only under an imaginary sway. Towards God-Realization is the extent of the place of all those worthy who have acquired God's grace.
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Nov 11, 2010
Nov 11, 2010 at 8:59 PM UTC
Uplifting Grace
And thus we probe a sphere of energy Floating aloft in a void of darkness Radiating a sepia-rayed life Pulsating through the ravages of time Yet in twain it reacts to synergy Alongside an utter orb of rashness And draining thine sphere through malice and strife Down to destruction from all that sublime Thine beauty then lost A terrible cost Absorbed by the void and lake of sulfur. And now we probe a sphere of energy Floating aloft in a void of darkness Illuminating iridescent soul Pulsating through the seen promises prime Yet in twain it reacts to synergy Alongside known substance unseen Yet transmuting all parts into the whole Purifying of moths and rust and grime And ye grow so bright Giving others sight In due time to ascend in a whirlwind.
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Feb 13, 2010
Feb 13, 2010 at 1:34 AM UTC
Battle of Spirit
You are made of stone. Like a two inch wide twenty feet tall sand castle on a raging shore. I watch your sandy atoms scatter home into the oneness of our infinite beachhahhhh I forget you. I watch the horizon brighten And the ocean whisper as I remember You are everything. You rise from the edge of the world form the tide grabbing my ankles You form the tide grabbing my ankles. and in your rashness you blur my past steps so I have no path but forward. No path but forward. Forward. With the occasional glance side ways into your depths. You swell beside me. Sit inside me always Shorely whispering surely everlasting songs of passion passing swift and splashing me in your inspiration. Dawn of myself exists in stationary and centering my universe of me. Seeking to know thee. Thy thoughts lost to drink in the sky Heaven. The spacious... Where my wishes fall from your body forming gracious images I create from the ways you impress me. ********** my whirpool heart. Connecting. And still I forget you. Forgetting.   But then you speak through everything and I can't help listening.   Your voice. The faith with in a choice to take part and heal our separateness. You whisper I remember. And as I see yours. Our body's depth I am terrified or exhilarated by the weight of it. Shake in the waves of it. I have come home to stay. You sit within me no longer. Yeah because where your songs once were now you stir. And sing endless shhhhhhh
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May 6, 2014
May 6, 2014 at 8:51 PM UTC
You are made of stone.
When minutes fall asleep and your ears ring, both eyes grow numb and tire of what they see. Your soul it screams but your phone fails to sing; Endure these times and let all things just be. Forsake your ev'ry impulse; you're not dead, for harm precipitates when Rashness acts. Trust you'll come around and keep your head, save your wicked energy, relax. Don't scan your memory in search of holes; it's easy to reflect, re-run, repeat. Don't wring your hands or pace with itching soles; The nectar of true Patience drowns defeat. Don't fool yourself; quick words may dull the sting, To wait instead is such a precious thing.
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Jun 11, 2012
Jun 11, 2012 at 11:17 AM UTC
To Wait
How does the mountain thank the breeze? How does the ocean sway, A changed direction switched to thee A wave who could not stay Two mere creatures of the dust, And one, by far, the better Deep below the world's thick crust With dreams matched to the letter The icy breeze may hold the truth Which one, unwisely, held The other, so,  had thought, 'forsooth!' The one, too far, compelled A ring, a wrap, of roses neat All thorns and vines and taint Around, around, to near defeat One never was a saint And so one leaves with fear and hate After layers of mistake Some will think it comes too late The other one might break But this was not to spite from one And not in fault of thee Nor in rashness, careless done Mayhap one day you'll see How in this truth, so taught by act The withering may start The found are far more lost, in fact Without a place in heart And so one says goodbye at last To her friend, the other Though space between their lives is vast They'll meet in yet another
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Oct 9, 2014
Oct 9, 2014 at 9:31 PM UTC
What was left
Which is worse? The permanent wonderment With what could've unfolded Or the brokenness of what was For a flash of an instant? I wanted those lanky limbs of yours Wrapped around my heart And they almost were- In the silence you cupped my face With solemnity and questions in your dark eyes I almost let that inquisition tip of over Unto my lips Before reason washed over, Calming my goosebumps Pushing away the rashness of our meeting With hesitancy, your answer eased its way out- "Not yet." Not ever, so it seems. Because the third grade boy, left on the playground Only grew taller. Not braver. He still can't leap Without the fear of falling, Controlling. But dear little boy, Not all falling Hurts. And sometimes It's worth The pain.
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Jun 4, 2014
Jun 4, 2014 at 12:58 PM UTC
Still A Boy
Lay your head on the pillow of my yesterday and hear the whispers in which I say I am sorry for the pain I gave and sorry that I could not save that special thing that you would bring me every night the kissed that tucked me in real tight the stories told under the passing light of the moon which all too soon became the Sun. Mum did I ever say that yesterday was good did I ever say that if I could I'd make it better did I write that to you once in a one off letter Did I write at all? can't remember now don't know how I fell off the edge of the universe don't know if it could have got any worse but now it has passed the rashness of the wildness in the wilderness with me no less becoming grown you had known it all seen the future come to call and leave with me in tow before I go love you Mum.
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Jun 15, 2013
Jun 15, 2013 at 3:45 AM UTC
Eleanor
Alone in the world Wandering eterne I serve no purpose I am always lost Clumsy and unsure You came to my side Bad jokes, sparkling eyes I was all but lost ****** in by whirlwinds And fate's grand scheme Such happy fun times We were beyond lost Dumb fights and distance Distrust and silence Convenient outlets You were, to me, lost In quiet silence Cold beds and regrets Lowly and wretched I have, to her, lost It's better this way Quick breaths and rashness With tear stained eyes shut I am, to none, lost
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Jun 28, 2018
Jun 28, 2018 at 2:14 PM UTC
Lost
He’s a peculiar star he comes from TV ambition is his sphere and his every line is a trick all know him a notorious liar whose business is schadenfreude but many curry his sweet favour for he has the cowards fury and an actors need to be flatter'd He has no quality worthy of entertainment but we must see him every hour for he is an hourly promise-breaker for rashness, superfluous folly and thievery the world has noted, he has no historical equal In moral retreat, he outruns any jockey the treasures of his idolatrous worshipers he straightway began to strip away, by tariff too late their despair they will proclaim but the misery will be well earned . . Fool by bôa TROUBLE (feat. Nikki Williams) by Parov Stelar Who Let the **** out of the Bag by Tape Five
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Mar 4, 2025
Mar 4, 2025 at 11:32 PM UTC
bootlicking idolatry
Emotions are like bullets Hitting faster than thoughts They are fraught with danger and by design cause wars But battles are not won by rashness and impulsion it takes calm and collected thought which wont bow down to coercion feeling this wont help you feel that feeling this means your actions are no act so think if you feel but don't feel cause you think promoting false emotions causes truth to sink did this make you think? or did this make you feel? and if it did both which one was more real?
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Apr 23, 2016
Apr 23, 2016 at 12:43 PM UTC
thoughtfeel
My mind is a blockage, Whose hands are firmly placed on my eyes, Blinding me to the only things I need to see. My mind is a blockage, Whose voice screams, Telling me I will not succeed. My mind is a blockage, Whose eyes stare into me, With more judgment than I have ever received. My mind is a blockage, Whose measuring tape Is too small to even wrap around my body. My mind is a blockage, Whose lips tense When I make any decision that impacts lives. My mind is a blockage, Whose teeth grind When I try to save my own life. My mind is a blockage, Whose arms cross When I think I’m doing what’s right. My mind is a blockage, Whose tongue Rolls off lies like it will save it’s life. My mind is a blockage, Whose foot Stomps me down when I feel alive. My mind is a blockage, Whose shattered trust Makes me feel unsafe when I am alright. My mind is a blockage, Whose tears Make me feel ashamed of my life. My mind is a blockage, Whose shakiness Makes me question my reckless flights. My mind is a blockage, Whose rashness Tells me to jump in and risk my life. My mind is a blockage, And I’m tired Of that being my life.
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Oct 6, 2019
Oct 6, 2019 at 10:33 PM UTC
Blockage
Down we go, down the road; Trees of shade, sun of gold. Life, it is.. and is not. Rashness of young, wisdom of old.
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Aug 11, 2015
Aug 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM UTC
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