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"sanctions" poems
Manning up in Texas Geldof overdose needles at the bed stand starlet comatose California dreaming killer meets demise hurling in a taxi puke fee on the rise Fighting in the Gaza Jordan's holy war rebels on a mission Jihad underscore The North Korean riddle pales in grand design crisis on the border planes fall from the sky Cooking on a deadline tempting tapenades herbs are in the spotlight wines that give a nod Google maps the body DOW at record highs Uber comes to market corn is on the rise Apple on its earnings Caterpillar dead European sanctions banks have **** the bed Clippers threaten boycott Longhorns follow purge Lynch is out of training camp James is on the verge Leinart taking *** shots coughing up a lung lions take a licking fans are throwing dung Another day in Vegas Primm from A-Z rolling out an ankle a flying SUV Quiet tempting spaces made better by design multi color pea coat silence fuels the mind Stabbing in the subway goat caught in a well apes are selling tickets (but leave behind a smell) Puberty on trial a man without a head teachers feel alone lets take them to the shed! Jonah's tomb destroyed wreckage in Mumbai Sugar Daddy sites Freedom 85 The immigrant debate Russia's mounting toll unions on a mission heads are gonna roll Beaches for the nudists hotels on the cheap the best generic brands a list you have to keep! Planning your estate questions from the camp a mansion up for sale where once they filmed The Champ Midwives threaten action aboriginal act truckers want concessions that train has left the track Sharks are found in Fundy a prized but perilous catch food we love to hate the most an irrefutable batch A family on the brink I want my kids to fail! politicians drains all hope a ban on Israel Follow out each headline let the columns be your guide all these things did happen the day that Newhouse died
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Aug 2, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 at 10:29 AM UTC
The Day That Robert Newhouse Died
Manning up in Texas Geldof overdose needles at the bed stand starlet comatose California dreaming killer meets demise hurling in a taxi puke fee on the rise Fighting in the Gaza Jordan's holy war rebels on a mission Jihad underscore The North Korean riddle pales in grand design crisis on the border planes fall from the sky Cooking on a deadline tempting tapenades herbs are in the spotlight wines that give a nod Google maps the body DOW at record highs Uber comes to market corn is on the rise Apple on its earnings Caterpillar dead European sanctions banks have **** the bed Clippers threaten boycott Longhorns follow purge Lynch is out of training camp James is on the verge Leinart taking *** shots coughing up a lung lions take a licking fans are throwing dung Another day in Vegas Primm from A-Z rolling out an ankle a flying SUV Quiet tempting spaces made better by design multi color pea coat silence fuels the mind Stabbing in the subway goat caught in a well apes are selling tickets (but leave behind a smell) Puberty on trial a man without a head teachers feel alone lets take them to the shed! Jonah's tomb destroyed wreckage in Mumbai Sugar Daddy sites Freedom 85 The immigrant debate Russia's mounting toll unions on a mission heads are gonna roll Beaches for the nudists hotels on the cheap the best generic brands a list you have to keep! Planning your estate questions from the camp a mansion up for sale where once they filmed The Champ Midwives threaten action aboriginal act truckers want concessions that train has left the track Sharks are found in Fundy a prized but perilous catch food we love to hate the most an irrefutable batch A family on the brink I want my kids to fail! politicians drains all hope a ban on Israel Follow out each headline let the columns be your guide all these things did happen the day that Newhouse died
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i smoke a little bud because i am drowning take a shot of liquor because i am drowning face it i aint sober because im drowning everyone needs little relief to save them from drowning i am drowning drowning government eats while the people are bleeding so they're drowning system is shady wont compensate for the drowning all alone with nothing to eat because we're drowning the world is full of hatred so bitter we drown in it we drowning drowning feed the homeless people because they drowning where's our human rights because Africa is drowning resuscitate all Africa because she is drowning you'redrowning drowning we don't deserve the sanctions because we are drowning maintaining your pollution so we drown in it we can't stop drowning drowning we crave stability because we're drowning still fighting for equality because we're drowning give me back my identity and prevent me from drowning diminishing the role of an African Queen to watch her drowning drowning drowning stand up for ubuntu because abantu is drowning
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Jun 18, 2021
Jun 18, 2021 at 10:46 PM UTC
Who is the life-guard
a pentagon study determined that putin is an anti-social control freak kind of vermin (really? this required a genius kind of keenness? really?) darpa should stick to cool things like the internet and invisibility cloaks and drones armed with pork parts a rodina rodent in the grain needs spankin' with more than just sanctions cuz knocking out their incisors doesn't make them any nicer - a rat with no teeth is still a rat.
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Feb 9, 2015
Feb 9, 2015 at 9:15 AM UTC
putin syndrome
_Standing with Marshal Gebbie_ No trumpet sounds.   No banner bleeds.   Just the quiet hum   of satellites watching   what we dare not name. Power does not sleep, it drips   from trade routes,   from whispered sanctions,   from the tremble   of a diplomat’s hand   hovering over the red phone. We are not at war,   but we rehearse it   in algorithms,   in tariffs,   in the way maps   shrink and swell   without consent. The empire is hungover,   but still it walks, barefoot through proxy fields,   cloaked in plausible deniability. And we,   the breathers between borders,   write poems   on the backs of embargoes,   sing lullabies   in contested airspace,   and pray   that silence   is not mistaken   for surrender.
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Sep 14, 2025
Sep 14, 2025 at 6:51 AM UTC
Between the Flags
You should do this, You should do that, Why these diktats I do not understand. Are we living our life to comply? Are not we here to supply. Why we are to be part of some creed, When in reality we all are from the same seed. We are stuck in a whirlpool of sanctions, And I do not know how to come out of this expansion. Expectations are defining our life more than existence do, And the biggest question humanity is asking what should I do? We are blaming history for our misconceptions, Naming presumptions as The inceptions. How we are going to move ahead, When we are becoming a body with just a head, Shedding our humanity for a mere piece of bread. We are the creation and creators of our world, All of us is an existence a real thing, Our creativity is our ability to think. Then why should we be like someone, When we could be anyone. I want to holler out at the world with this answer Yes, we can Because we are not endowed with a taste We have a whole Selection.
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Sep 11, 2018
Sep 11, 2018 at 2:43 AM UTC
EXpectations
Swimming through deep water Heading for the Holt? Stop and pause to pray or prey? Opportunistic? Jean van jean? In the forest there are no sanctions Just life and death and hibernation In the urban forest The place we call the office Or the Learning Zone There is so much more risk Classes clash; personalities clash; Priorities clash; authorities clash! The mob rules The bullies rule The demands/needs of the customer; the consumer; the learner All must be met Where am I in the urban forest A tree shrew A thorny owl A wild Ottter Or an Osprey with a mountain view Soaring high above the issues of the urban forest Far travelled wild Osprey I yearn to be yew
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Feb 7, 2014
Feb 7, 2014 at 5:42 AM UTC
urban forest
Explosions in the sky That certain rush of words covered with ideas I am not so afraid of That simple touch of a pen poets picture as their current heaven And heaven lies within the lies where real people exist and in-concrete dust flies And flies surround the inner spaces between my heart and yours Those inter dimensional cracks that keep us alive together Yet those same cracks cause the Explosions in the sky When a million thoughts tremble under shattered glass And glass becomes rain over a nation That had no occupation A station Where all the emotions find a leak Where all the leaks lead to leisure The flood of blood narrated to form a spring out of Arab's fall And freedom is attained with the sound of Explosions in the sky When betrayal becomes the living scenario of a very normal human being Who believed that his sanctuary is in unison with his sanctions Strategies structured his not so subtle approach And after that he fell into her Explosions in the sky When a man loses his vision upon a mild smile When a cry for help becomes an invite for suicide Come…help me be the Portrait of clay you'll form with your delicate hands Shape my image And imagine a shape for my form Form a set for me to follow Follow my moves for if I fall of your track Track me back to the first point The playstation of life saves checkpoints Yet my life is full of glitches… For when I look at you I am supposed to be looking at you But all I'm seeing is Explosions in the sky When a trouble-free man becomes the complex notion of a firework Those little pieces of fiery smoke Grabs it And smokes the last buds of life out of his people The governor governing the covers he created To alienate the truth I found in your eyes And I shall never be mislead Instead I shall be steadfast and ready For you I shall be ready for you And your Explosions in the sky When a poet has no words left to write In the right time Literally the speaker is speechless He's too busy wondering in total observation The explosions… The explosions we create The skies that unveil And that little feeling of satisfaction With the last bits of an ink written Poem.
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Jul 19, 2013
Jul 19, 2013 at 7:09 PM UTC
Explosions in the Sky:
Explosions in the sky That certain rush of words covered with ideas I am not so afraid of That simple touch of a pen poets picture as their current heaven And heaven lies within the lies where real people exist and in-concrete dust flies And flies surround the inner spaces between my heart and yours Those inter dimensional cracks that keep us alive together Yet those same cracks cause the Explosions in the sky When a million thoughts tremble under shattered glass And glass becomes rain over a nation That had no occupation A station Where all the emotions find a leak Where all the leaks lead to leisure The flood of blood narrated to form a spring out of Arab's fall And freedom is attained with the sound of Explosions in the sky When betrayal becomes the living scenario of a very normal human being Who believed that his sanctuary is in unison with his sanctions Strategies structured his not so subtle approach And after that he fell into her Explosions in the sky When a man loses his vision upon a mild smile When a cry for help becomes an invite for suicide Come…help me be the Portrait of clay you'll form with your delicate hands Shape my image And imagine a shape for my form Form a set for me to follow Follow my moves for if I fall of your track Track me back to the first point The playstation of life saves checkpoints Yet my life is full of glitches… For when I look at you I am supposed to be looking at you But all I'm seeing is Explosions in the sky When a trouble-free man becomes the complex notion of a firework Those little pieces of fiery smoke Grabs it And smokes the last buds of life out of his people The governor governing the covers he created To alienate the truth I found in your eyes And I shall never be mislead Instead I shall be steadfast and ready For you I shall be ready for you And your Explosions in the sky When a poet has no words left to write In the right time Literally the speaker is speechless He's too busy wondering in total observation The explosions… The explosions we create The skies that unveil And that little feeling of satisfaction With the last bits of an ink written Poem.
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Another year, another Paddies day, Here in New York, hope for sun to play. So the Irish celebration, takes winged flight, Green is the color in everyone's sight. Parade in the street, down fifth avenue. The master of ceremony, we don't know who? But the master this day, stands as St. Pat, Clad in green, with a leprechaun's hat. Hear the bagpipes, the drums pounding loud, This is the Irish day, to stand and be proud! A Catholic holiday, dietary sanctions they lift, Eat meat and drink alcohol, is the Popes gift. What are we celebrating?  Let's take a closer look, Power up the computer or crack open a book. St. Patrick was born under English rule, His family was clergy, formally educated in school. Kidnapped by the Irish, and held as a slave, To journey back to England he must be brave. He returned one day to the Irish shore, About the eternal Trinity, the Irish learned more. A bishop now, native clove he did use, To teach the Irish, about celestial clues. About the father and son and the holy ghost, The three leaves on a shamrock, they will forever toast! The three leaves of a shamrock, and it's circular shape, Are the same as God's Trinity, the logic you can't escape. This is why the shamrock is so highly revered, Wear one on your vest, or tucked into your beard. Enjoy the day, celebrate with family and friend, Toast to St. Patrick, may his legacy never end! Visit poemsbypaul.com
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Mar 13, 2013
Mar 13, 2013 at 12:56 AM UTC
Shamrock
A bill becomes a law through a process not unlike wet clay curing in the sun, seasonal labor filling the fields in springtime, a drop of sweat absorbed thirstily into a towel, a stain spreading across a tablecloth. A bill becomes a law eventually, but often, not in time. A bill often fails on the floor, as do some people, as does, just as often, the attempt to revive them. The attempt looks an awful lot like a senator's face, energetic and gray and doomed and looking for any advantage when the needed advantage is in the ether and still immaterial until the tenth of February. I notice the bumper stickers, and I've deputized a Google Alert to tell me that the popular mass is wakening. I can also tell when it yawns, or prods a rib for a pain that wasn't there yesterday. I can tell when the popular mass has slept funny. I can tell when it would rather not wake up at all but the light is streaming in through the window and the house is full of the sound of the dishwasher. Pain on both sides, in both ribs, ignored because sometimes it just happens - pain, that is - and is a part of getting older, like how you can't put peppers in your chili anymore now that they don't grow on this side of the planet, and there's nobody left to tend them. I would like somebody to tend me, too, but the law that sanctions that workforce is still in committee, and mired in a dispute about who deserves love. This one goes out to all of those lying on their kitchen floor once everyone is out of the house, lifting their legs and placing them on the countertop, listening to their heart ticking and trying to discover if it reaches everywhere, if they can hear it in their ankles. This one goes out to their savings accounts and their kneecaps. Here's hoping they make it.
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Aug 25, 2018
Aug 25, 2018 at 4:08 PM UTC
A Poem For Those Who Die Before a Bill Becomes a Law
A bill becomes a law through a process not unlike wet clay curing in the sun, seasonal labor filling the fields in springtime, a drop of sweat absorbed thirstily into a towel, a stain spreading across a tablecloth. A bill becomes a law eventually, but often, not in time. A bill often fails on the floor, as do some people, as does, just as often, the attempt to revive them. The attempt looks an awful lot like a senator's face, energetic and gray and doomed and looking for any advantage when the needed advantage is in the ether and still immaterial until the tenth of February. I notice the bumper stickers, and I've deputized a Google Alert to tell me that the popular mass is wakening. I can also tell when it yawns, or prods a rib for a pain that wasn't there yesterday. I can tell when the popular mass has slept funny. I can tell when it would rather not wake up at all but the light is streaming in through the window and the house is full of the sound of the dishwasher. Pain on both sides, in both ribs, ignored because sometimes it just happens - pain, that is - and is a part of getting older, like how you can't put peppers in your chili anymore now that they don't grow on this side of the planet, and there's nobody left to tend them. I would like somebody to tend me, too, but the law that sanctions that workforce is still in committee, and mired in a dispute about who deserves love. This one goes out to all of those lying on their kitchen floor once everyone is out of the house, lifting their legs and placing them on the countertop, listening to their heart ticking and trying to discover if it reaches everywhere, if they can hear it in their ankles. This one goes out to their savings accounts and their kneecaps. Here's hoping they make it.
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At the Saudi Arabian Consulate, In Istanbul, Turkey, I hear Something dreadful happened, although Details are as yet unclear. Saudi born Jamal Khashoggi, Journalist for the Washington Post, Entered the consulate knowing that It might not be a welcoming host. An Apple Watch might seem useless. Khashoggi's Watch, nevertheless, Recorded his brutal beating and ****** According to the Turkish press. But was it an Apple Watch, or had Turkish authorities bugged the room? Whatever the case, people are certain That that’s where Khashoggi met his doom. We know he entered the building whole. We're waiting to hear more news releases, For many fear that the journalist, Exited the building in pieces. When asked if he'd condemn the Saudis If they had committed the ghastly deed, Trump at first appeared reluctant To criticize them or intercede. The Saudis pay billions of dollars For weapons, he said, to the USA. And what's-his-name wasn't even An American citizen anyway. Later, Trump admitted that We need a thorough investigation. But sanctions involving money? No, That would severely hurt our nation. Meanwhile, the Saudis **** innocent Yemenis with the weapons they buy, And rectitude falls by the wayside As bank accounts multiply. -by Bob B (10-13-18)
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Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 11:44 AM UTC
****** at the Consulate
In the Church, I met a woman so old Bending under the weight of years I wonder what made her steal my attention Was it her struggle to hold back her tears? In spite of her frail stooping figure She seemed to have an indomitable will Defeating all infirmities of age, she stood With a face though sad, yet tranquil and still Strange enough, she recalled to me The determined, but decrepit old man beside the pool Whom Wordsworth had once encountered Gathering leeches so scarce, but resolute and cool I watched the woman humbly prostrate And feebly rise and straighten her aged form Surrendering herself at the feet of God Imploring grace for life’s little tasks to perform In her gnarled hands, she firmly held a prayer book With the other supporting her frail figure on a staff And with a sigh of relief, she left the church As if her afflictions were reduced to half As the Congregation dispersed in all directions She feebly walked to her accustomed haunt At the rear side of the church was a Cemetery unkempt Where the ancestors slept, devoid of earthly cares and want Among all the tombstones in marble and granite Erected in memory of the kindred dead There was a newly dug up grave That stood aloof as a heap of mud I watched the old woman approach this spot Where she knelt down with a calm demeanor Her withered hands clasped together in piety And her eyes closed in silent prayer With a convulsive motion of her lips She rose up and once more knelt down As if searching for a face so dear Whose memory she could never ever drown Within that mound, slept her only son Who died in his prime, a month before Leaving his widowed mother behind To brave the shafts stinging, so sore As Time by seconds and minutes ticked away The bereaved mother stood up at last And heavily yet quietly walked away Leaving the one who was once her own part *** *** ** While the wounds of the young are quickly closed and healed And their ductile affections entwine around new passions The aged withdraw to the silence and desolation of life Once when deprived of the love that life no more sanctions!
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Jul 20, 2016
Jul 20, 2016 at 7:09 AM UTC
Frozen Grief
In the Church, I met a woman so old Bending under the weight of years I wonder what made her steal my attention Was it her struggle to hold back her tears? In spite of her frail stooping figure She seemed to have an indomitable will Defeating all infirmities of age, she stood With a face though sad, yet tranquil and still Strange enough, she recalled to me The determined, but decrepit old man beside the pool Whom Wordsworth had once encountered Gathering leeches so scarce, but resolute and cool I watched the woman humbly prostrate And feebly rise and straighten her aged form Surrendering herself at the feet of God Imploring grace for life’s little tasks to perform In her gnarled hands, she firmly held a prayer book With the other supporting her frail figure on a staff And with a sigh of relief, she left the church As if her afflictions were reduced to half As the Congregation dispersed in all directions She feebly walked to her accustomed haunt At the rear side of the church was a Cemetery unkempt Where the ancestors slept, devoid of earthly cares and want Among all the tombstones in marble and granite Erected in memory of the kindred dead There was a newly dug up grave That stood aloof as a heap of mud I watched the old woman approach this spot Where she knelt down with a calm demeanor Her withered hands clasped together in piety And her eyes closed in silent prayer With a convulsive motion of her lips She rose up and once more knelt down As if searching for a face so dear Whose memory she could never ever drown Within that mound, slept her only son Who died in his prime, a month before Leaving his widowed mother behind To brave the shafts stinging, so sore As Time by seconds and minutes ticked away The bereaved mother stood up at last And heavily yet quietly walked away Leaving the one who was once her own part *** *** ** While the wounds of the young are quickly closed and healed And their ductile affections entwine around new passions The aged withdraw to the silence and desolation of life Once when deprived of the love that life no more sanctions!
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in their disguised self-centered ways, the faithful are obsessed with going to Heaven and staying away from Hell 1 all the faithful, these holy believers, they all fear this address: No.1 HELL, OUTSIDE UNIVERSE, POSTAL CODE: 0001 all the faithful want to avoid this place like, well, hell! *the non-believers just take it easy; they have no such obsessions* all the faithful, the holy believers they all aspire to this place: ONLY 1, HEAVEN, DIVINE UNIVERSE, POSTAL CODE: 0001 they all try and get there and with their narrow True Only One Way they think they'd get there anyway easy as if you'd googled for Heaven *the non-believers just take it easy; they have no such obsessions* 2 *and well, if the faithful are always imagining what God sanctions and says, I don't see why their opposites can't also imagine what this Grand Supposition says* and in their aspirations, to reach ONLY 1, HEAVEN, DIVINE UNIVERSE, POSTAL CODE: 0001 the faithful ***** the planet earth with all their doctrines and their aggression and their violence and their narrowness and bigotry and their holiness and their obsessions and creating constant divisions and so I can sympathize with their supposed God becoming sane and thus declaring to the faithful: *Oh no, I'm not letting you ******** in as surely you'll make a Hell of Heaven; I'd rather let in the non-believers here anytime at least they don't have your hang-ups and perversions* conclusion well, the poor faithful then, the holy faithful wholly excluded, they'll have to content themselves with Googling for Heaven, and viewing the streets of Heaven on Google Maps of the Divine World
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Oct 23, 2010
Oct 23, 2010 at 6:08 PM UTC
just google for heaven
in their disguised self-centered ways, the faithful are obsessed with going to Heaven and staying away from Hell 1 all the faithful, these holy believers, they all fear this address: No.1 HELL, OUTSIDE UNIVERSE, POSTAL CODE: 0001 all the faithful want to avoid this place like, well, hell! *the non-believers just take it easy; they have no such obsessions* all the faithful, the holy believers they all aspire to this place: ONLY 1, HEAVEN, DIVINE UNIVERSE, POSTAL CODE: 0001 they all try and get there and with their narrow True Only One Way they think they'd get there anyway easy as if you'd googled for Heaven *the non-believers just take it easy; they have no such obsessions* 2 *and well, if the faithful are always imagining what God sanctions and says, I don't see why their opposites can't also imagine what this Grand Supposition says* and in their aspirations, to reach ONLY 1, HEAVEN, DIVINE UNIVERSE, POSTAL CODE: 0001 the faithful ***** the planet earth with all their doctrines and their aggression and their violence and their narrowness and bigotry and their holiness and their obsessions and creating constant divisions and so I can sympathize with their supposed God becoming sane and thus declaring to the faithful: *Oh no, I'm not letting you ******** in as surely you'll make a Hell of Heaven; I'd rather let in the non-believers here anytime at least they don't have your hang-ups and perversions* conclusion well, the poor faithful then, the holy faithful wholly excluded, they'll have to content themselves with Googling for Heaven, and viewing the streets of Heaven on Google Maps of the Divine World
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By: Cedric McClester Don’t say, “Allahu Akbar!” Because the facts are That while God is Great He’s not a God of hate And if you can’t relate You have a second rate Ideology can’t you see It’s clearly blaspheme Don’t say, “Allahu Akbar!” While you blow up a car To maim and **** As if it’s God’s will You won’t reach paradise Because it isn’t nice To harm humanity Read Qu’ran like me Don’t say, “Allahu Akbar!” Who you think you are God doesn’t sanctions you To do the things you do You think it’s heaven sent To **** the innocent And do it in a Name That you clearly defame Don’t say, “Allahu Akbar!” When you know you are Just an insane jihadi Down with al Baghdadi Who’s merely a snake So give me a break Because he’s a viper Worthy of a ****** Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2015. All rights reserved.
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Nov 14, 2015
Nov 14, 2015 at 4:47 AM UTC
DON'T SAY, "ALLAHU AKBAR!"
Sojourn at the hinterlands of a fog casket awoken to be suffocated put to sleep        to dream within a dream                         the nightmare of a mother's fear depression is so easy to slink in so wary of all those palpable sins like being yourself - awoken to be suffocated put to sleep      to dream with a dream                           the nightmare of a mother's fear where pink haired ladies talk about my dissonance within a dream about the nightmare of my mothers self punishment - for birthing me questioning if it was the right decision if I was born to suffer this fate so i wake in the land of dead people who's limbs fall apart as they're names are called out by the concierge to my voice as whisper to my courage bubbling underneath a mother fearful of coming close forgiveness is a blessing and the tears flow out of the eyes of a child onto the cheeks of a woman who's life was molested by other peoples sanctions a woman who stood tall for the voice of others children and elders who encouraged chance meetings to be themselves via magazine clippings and a mother afraid to come close and a child still living the actions of a ghost looming at her with wide eyed slanders of " you ****** up , you piece of **** you **** up at everything" it's difficult to look it's like watching someone be strung up naked tied to posts and the spaces between their fingers sliced their yoni sliced their ******* sliced their heart beating wide eyed screaming silenced. My mother who birthed me whom i respect for all of her showings no matter how ****** up strung up and the vision is blinding. and we're both crying but i don't tell her because it's lunch time and she's ****** up again.
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Nov 22, 2014
Nov 22, 2014 at 4:43 AM UTC
Animated atoms
Sojourn at the hinterlands of a fog casket awoken to be suffocated put to sleep        to dream within a dream                         the nightmare of a mother's fear depression is so easy to slink in so wary of all those palpable sins like being yourself - awoken to be suffocated put to sleep      to dream with a dream                           the nightmare of a mother's fear where pink haired ladies talk about my dissonance within a dream about the nightmare of my mothers self punishment - for birthing me questioning if it was the right decision if I was born to suffer this fate so i wake in the land of dead people who's limbs fall apart as they're names are called out by the concierge to my voice as whisper to my courage bubbling underneath a mother fearful of coming close forgiveness is a blessing and the tears flow out of the eyes of a child onto the cheeks of a woman who's life was molested by other peoples sanctions a woman who stood tall for the voice of others children and elders who encouraged chance meetings to be themselves via magazine clippings and a mother afraid to come close and a child still living the actions of a ghost looming at her with wide eyed slanders of " you ****** up , you piece of **** you **** up at everything" it's difficult to look it's like watching someone be strung up naked tied to posts and the spaces between their fingers sliced their yoni sliced their ******* sliced their heart beating wide eyed screaming silenced. My mother who birthed me whom i respect for all of her showings no matter how ****** up strung up and the vision is blinding. and we're both crying but i don't tell her because it's lunch time and she's ****** up again.
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The city's shrouded in smoke today smoke coats my mouth, throat & eyes & I know, I know.        I should be writing in form, in rhyme - villanelles, sonnets, terza rima       some say there's too much free verse, some say, it's like everyone's jumped on the bandwagon        yet the most of the magazines still all want rhyme                  but sometimes this is just the tune                                     your heart sings, a broken smile                                     & the way the images build up                                         waiting to sail like ships in the harbor & besides, should we really be writing in villanelles when we are the Mad & I see now, the best minds of our generation, the gifted, the naked wastrels of the coming apocalypse, talking to lamp posts, screaming of Ginsberg's Moloch & the wrongs they did us, yet not destroyed even as we scream locked behind whitewashed walls in razor-blade glint & halogenic glow of ECT or walk the empty streets at guerilla dawn & dusk, bearing the ample weight of our drugged-up minds like those martyrs of the old Soviet Union & clinging on to memoirs of our stolen, interrupted, spiritual awakening, searching for the redemption of litter in this hobo life,  changing countries like some change bed sheets, others rooted by the invisible chains of familiarity & home, still calling for the road, oh Kerouac, the fallen angels of tomorrow strung out on sweet childhood memories & jazz in starved sunsets, picking themselves up to pick at their scab wounds, spitting at corrupt governments, bitter with alcohol, writing poems of unrequited love to poets far better than us, while Elvis croons in the background & a Baboushka spits sunflower seeds in the Russian town of my ancestors & an open air film plays in black & white & this colorless summer is nearly over & they still haven't lifted their sanctions them with their stone gods of war & psychiatry, always lining up the next undesirables : you could be next, yes you with the rainbow eyes you the believer, you the dreamer of visions Oh pity them, the children of smoke, blind to the vagabond, the poet, the lover lost children always seeking out the same roads the city is shrouded in smoke & I wonder if it's not always been there & if we're living amongst blind men ones that never read poems or else how could all this happen
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Aug 9, 2015
Aug 9, 2015 at 11:22 AM UTC
Smoke
The city's shrouded in smoke today smoke coats my mouth, throat & eyes & I know, I know.        I should be writing in form, in rhyme - villanelles, sonnets, terza rima       some say there's too much free verse, some say, it's like everyone's jumped on the bandwagon        yet the most of the magazines still all want rhyme                  but sometimes this is just the tune                                     your heart sings, a broken smile                                     & the way the images build up                                         waiting to sail like ships in the harbor & besides, should we really be writing in villanelles when we are the Mad & I see now, the best minds of our generation, the gifted, the naked wastrels of the coming apocalypse, talking to lamp posts, screaming of Ginsberg's Moloch & the wrongs they did us, yet not destroyed even as we scream locked behind whitewashed walls in razor-blade glint & halogenic glow of ECT or walk the empty streets at guerilla dawn & dusk, bearing the ample weight of our drugged-up minds like those martyrs of the old Soviet Union & clinging on to memoirs of our stolen, interrupted, spiritual awakening, searching for the redemption of litter in this hobo life,  changing countries like some change bed sheets, others rooted by the invisible chains of familiarity & home, still calling for the road, oh Kerouac, the fallen angels of tomorrow strung out on sweet childhood memories & jazz in starved sunsets, picking themselves up to pick at their scab wounds, spitting at corrupt governments, bitter with alcohol, writing poems of unrequited love to poets far better than us, while Elvis croons in the background & a Baboushka spits sunflower seeds in the Russian town of my ancestors & an open air film plays in black & white & this colorless summer is nearly over & they still haven't lifted their sanctions them with their stone gods of war & psychiatry, always lining up the next undesirables : you could be next, yes you with the rainbow eyes you the believer, you the dreamer of visions Oh pity them, the children of smoke, blind to the vagabond, the poet, the lover lost children always seeking out the same roads the city is shrouded in smoke & I wonder if it's not always been there & if we're living amongst blind men ones that never read poems or else how could all this happen
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She abides in her circular chamber, prophet to the oracular God. Perched delicately a top a three-legged mount, engulfed in a haze, an hallucinogenic cloak. A mystic figure, clutching branches of laurel in her Delphian hands, a bronze bowl of water cradled consciously in her lap. Her hair as dark as the fates she acquaints. A cape of red flows like the blood of those who perished from her manic counsels. Aberration is evident in her dazed eyes. At times her body thrashes with apparent anger and confusion. Her limbs then go limp. A painted smile bleeding across her face, delirium manifested. A warning set in stone: “Know thy self.” Pay no attention to the opinion of the masses: advice to be heeded. The hollow-horned shivers from head to hoof. Sacrificed for knowledge of the future yet unknown. Her hysterical beauty sanctions the nonsensical prophecies. “My wife is with child, if I contend with the enemy, will I return to my family?” She stares into the water, her face distorted, for the reflection she sees is not her own. "You will go, you will return, not in the battle you will perish." Her red cape became more prominent in colour. Her ambiguity brought a child into the world without a father. "You will go, you will return not, in the battle you will perish."
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Jun 9, 2013
Jun 9, 2013 at 12:14 AM UTC
The Pythia
Night shifts into jet black city escapes if it's not insanity, we don't have an answer at stake. this product of you and me was never an accident. love at its peak signaling and S.O.S. you've bought me in a surface. we don't now yet. analog fluctuations I wanted you and I cant forget. Sanctions we break, with metal palms we punch. limitations act as walls our thirst  keeps me quenched. My passion, your fire. will get us above the wires ambiguous insights to the past. Passion and fire, you ignite.
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Jul 1, 2013
Jul 1, 2013 at 8:15 AM UTC
Cold Electric, hallucinogenic
The defendant approaches the bench And gently removes the dust from the bible. The courtroom looks in confusion. “I’m not putting my hand on that filthy thing,” the defendant says. “I’d be lying if I were to declare that a book that was written by someone who never knew me is something I can put my faith in.” The jury, judge, plaintiff, and television viewers were astonished. The defendant was asked simply to defend the case And was already not looking very innocent. But who are these strangers to judge anyway? The defendant was brought to the court because of refusal to comply with Orientation Sanctions. Insert snicker here Orientation is a path. Whether you believe it’s God-given, Hell-driven, Or some spiritual la-di-da pinning people’s noses upward in the air, Orientation is an unavoidable path. Finding it may take some time for one, And it may have lit someone’s way like a clear day from birth for another. But no one can deny that each human being’s compass Has a magnetic pull North. Some are just not looking for Santa Claus. Some are still looking for how to get Atlantis to resurface Because everyone knows That the depths of the sea Are not always the best places for Deep Dark Secrets. “Someone’s not getting very many presents this Christmas!” Court Transcriber types: Defendant rolls eyes.
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Jun 10, 2012
Jun 10, 2012 at 4:18 PM UTC
Innocent Until Proven...
You are, Beyond the boundaries, Of beauty. You have, Surpassed the sanctions, Of sexiness. You are, Past the present idea, Of perfection. There is only one thing, That you may not always be, And that thing is being belonged by me. So stay with me, For I love you and you love me, I want you to be apart of my, Family.
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Sep 7, 2011
Sep 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM UTC
You
Black tidal waves encompassed by the wall of lipstick, releasing steam becoming inhaled from the mouth that sleeps. Black curvatures sped along the ghostly lines to ease the tick, relapsing legs touching to the web that weeps. No winged-beast, no unpredictable mind, to lullaby the creator of both the invisible and the translucent. Slowly suffocated to the echo of the riled up rhyme, slowly spitting out the guts of red paint. Freedom flown, fists formed, molding white pieces into scattered clouds. Head hung, heart hummed, wailing teary notes into ripped wedding gowns. Cycle of the eaten, and the uneaten, all must gallantly fall; however births ripples. Sanctions of the needed, and the unneeded, all must dauntingly call; however pictures simple.
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Jun 21, 2013
Jun 21, 2013 at 3:19 AM UTC
Head hung, Heart hummed
As far as wars go It's a bit of a bore, But we are at war. Trade war tariffs: Monetary missiles, Cyber attackers: Heat-seeking hackers. Yes, hot wars are so passé. Cold wars, So-called Star Wars: All in the past. Silent battlers Not sabre rattlers. Keyboard warriors No F15s nor Harriers. Masters of Sanctions Not Masters of War. Expelling diplomats And tit-for-tats. It's a new World War, But it's a bore, So pay attention, Don't get complacent, The war drones on.
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Dec 5, 2018
Dec 5, 2018 at 6:43 PM UTC
A New Kind of World War
We want and need the acceptance, We are the LGBTQ+ or Black Community, We want and need the acceptance, We always put up a resistance, We lack the power to communication, and to educate, to debate, We are the communities, that feed the war machines, open the sacrifice that has just begun, we aim for your daughters and first born sons, that has mistakes or use a gun, We are your catastrophe, We love all the hate, all the lies and the heresy, We love how divine that every time we hide in denial, Becoming suicidal kings, We want and Need the acceptance, We are the LGBTQ+ or Black Community, We want and need the acceptance, Remembrance and repentance, We hate the bible freaks, Homophobic Religious geeks, We hate the bible freaks, We are not ********** creeps, We hate the bible Freaks, Homosexuality is a Sin, Screaming back at them with an evil grin, while the family next door could have been, Homicide or suicidal, inform the next of kin. We are religious, We believe, We are the LGBTQ+ Community and we don't believe, We are the Black Community and we are here still in disagree, Obsolete, decease and retreat, We are Religious, We seek love and peace, We are the LGBTQ+ Community, we seek acceptance and your release, We are the Black Community, We seek Acceptance but we still justice against the peace, We are Religion, the LGBTQ+ and Black Community, searching for love and peace, Coming to blows, hatred and deceased, with no love and peace in sight, We are the offended, snowflake generation, We are the, Hatred growing, Breeding, As our armies mounts, keep increasing, Dead and bleeding, no concealing, The hunger is real, yet no ones seeing, You can promise, but the dreams are all dead, as the rivers still blood red, No more lessons to learned, We can't educate so don't try and reach us, We want to foster the future, Not nurture the land, We want the stitches and sutures, and visions at our own hand, We want the Mass sanctions, and the execution of this land, It's our time to scream, let stand for something, But refuse to walk hand in hand.
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Nov 4, 2020
Nov 4, 2020 at 2:45 PM UTC
Refuse to Walk Hand In Hand
We want and need the acceptance, We are the LGBTQ+ or Black Community, We want and need the acceptance, We always put up a resistance, We lack the power to communication, and to educate, to debate, We are the communities, that feed the war machines, open the sacrifice that has just begun, we aim for your daughters and first born sons, that has mistakes or use a gun, We are your catastrophe, We love all the hate, all the lies and the heresy, We love how divine that every time we hide in denial, Becoming suicidal kings, We want and Need the acceptance, We are the LGBTQ+ or Black Community, We want and need the acceptance, Remembrance and repentance, We hate the bible freaks, Homophobic Religious geeks, We hate the bible freaks, We are not ********** creeps, We hate the bible Freaks, Homosexuality is a Sin, Screaming back at them with an evil grin, while the family next door could have been, Homicide or suicidal, inform the next of kin. We are religious, We believe, We are the LGBTQ+ Community and we don't believe, We are the Black Community and we are here still in disagree, Obsolete, decease and retreat, We are Religious, We seek love and peace, We are the LGBTQ+ Community, we seek acceptance and your release, We are the Black Community, We seek Acceptance but we still justice against the peace, We are Religion, the LGBTQ+ and Black Community, searching for love and peace, Coming to blows, hatred and deceased, with no love and peace in sight, We are the offended, snowflake generation, We are the, Hatred growing, Breeding, As our armies mounts, keep increasing, Dead and bleeding, no concealing, The hunger is real, yet no ones seeing, You can promise, but the dreams are all dead, as the rivers still blood red, No more lessons to learned, We can't educate so don't try and reach us, We want to foster the future, Not nurture the land, We want the stitches and sutures, and visions at our own hand, We want the Mass sanctions, and the execution of this land, It's our time to scream, let stand for something, But refuse to walk hand in hand.
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This ceremonial façade is likened to an ancient folklore which has been dipped in forbidden secretions, even though my arts are sincerely darkened to unfathomable depths of surprised and ambidextrous naiveté. I have constructed the choreography of this metaphysical dance, which lingers on the brink of sociological pronunciations, and where the liberty of gargoyles spew their fluid projections from lofty heights across the four directions of our moralistic city walls, where magnetised needles ***** my soul with the earth-shattering clarification of true north. I love to sit in the dark and to be enlightened, as the eerie silence bellows her validity across trans-national sanctions, where the fallacy of liberation is juxtaposed with a socio-political and fetishistic confinement. I believe that classical infidelity is like a beautiful Gothic cathedral where silent rage has an ebb and flow which is not easily ascertained amongst our sub-cultural and contemporary cohorts, where dynamic equilibrium truly encapsulates the co-existence of opposites, which are said to attract. So, as we gather in the menacing serenity of the dark forests, where geography marks her ancient alignments from sunrise to sunset; can we now pray and give homage to the spirits of history, in this underground finesse of paradoxical equilibrium? I love democracy, as she gyrates her sensual community wantonness on this conveyer belt, where the vital functions of our organism slink into sleepy cessations of universal structures where causality releases her excitatory expressions of organic physiology.
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Sep 12, 2015
Sep 12, 2015 at 3:05 AM UTC
Origins of the Point
This ceremonial façade is likened to an ancient folklore which has been dipped in forbidden secretions, even though my arts are sincerely darkened to unfathomable depths of surprised and ambidextrous naiveté. I have constructed the choreography of this metaphysical dance, which lingers on the brink of sociological pronunciations, and where the liberty of gargoyles spew their fluid projections from lofty heights across the four directions of our moralistic city walls, where magnetised needles ***** my soul with the earth-shattering clarification of true north. I love to sit in the dark and to be enlightened, as the eerie silence bellows her validity across trans-national sanctions, where the fallacy of liberation is juxtaposed with a socio-political and fetishistic confinement. I believe that classical infidelity is like a beautiful Gothic cathedral where silent rage has an ebb and flow which is not easily ascertained amongst our sub-cultural and contemporary cohorts, where dynamic equilibrium truly encapsulates the co-existence of opposites, which are said to attract. So, as we gather in the menacing serenity of the dark forests, where geography marks her ancient alignments from sunrise to sunset; can we now pray and give homage to the spirits of history, in this underground finesse of paradoxical equilibrium? I love democracy, as she gyrates her sensual community wantonness on this conveyer belt, where the vital functions of our organism slink into sleepy cessations of universal structures where causality releases her excitatory expressions of organic physiology.
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Sometimes the sins laugh frolic chuckle and gasp, whenever wrath sits there calm and tranquil, unending care. when Pride takes precious time, to look up and face humility, to remove the thin veil, to observe another person and care. when slender lust embraces for another, soothing the soul creating safe sanctions - free of sale. when      g r e e d      gives        to       charity,                providing,       safe          havens, when sloth feels the urge to work, forging iron bars and even making emotions and life time scars when gluttony shares his fries, and full course meal when envy faces the sins - and says ‘it’s okay that lust is more curvy, I know I’m happy’ This is all a façade of course. envy said it with morose. gluttony? He had another meal, and another meal right after that. Mirrors reveal the real corpse. sloth daydreamed the dream. greed? what else but the space he took? How can we be something else. lust has lackluster snide, snark and *** Pride? He has a deeper veil - one that escapes his avail. Sometimes the sins want to be sinful. And sometimes wrath wants to be wrathful.
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Sep 14, 2014
Sep 14, 2014 at 12:57 AM UTC
Even the sinful laugh
I’m exhausted Drained by superficialities That mark a women’s worth. Pondering questions asked By those who fear to answer Because they know the truth. Ridiculed by baring gifts from God, A slanted nose or fumbled hands. Exhaustion are those who embrace; Embrace scared sanctions from Others who demonize their faults; Faults-a rare gift from Mother Nature herself. That is our testimonial kiss
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Dec 5, 2011
Dec 5, 2011 at 1:13 PM UTC
Disorder