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"selecting" poems
Am I going crazy? Or am I just trying to escape to another dimension? Another dimension with no you Reality keeps giving you lives, And I really hate it. All I find is myself playing video games. Each time I select a target, feels like I’m selecting your head. Video games has nothing to do with you or maybe each time I win I feel like destroying you. Am I a hater now? After all this love I felt. War is my head And it's all because of you.
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Jun 17, 2015
Jun 17, 2015 at 5:09 PM UTC
video games
Barefoot, blistered and bleeding She wanders in from the street People stare, flabbergasted Very odd, unheard of in fact She doesn’t know her size So like Cinderella, she tries them on Randomly selecting pretty colours Silvery, glittery heels She twirls for the mirror Sales assistant sighs Wellingtons for the garden If she had one! Satin ice skates She would glide on the icy pond Pretty sandals To feel the sand between her toes Boring, black brogues Perfect! With no pennies in her pocket She wanders back to the street Barefoot, blistered and bleeding
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Jan 27, 2015
Jan 27, 2015 at 5:59 AM UTC
Shoes
Ceramic white, wood richly brown Smooth liquid....touching buds of taste Lips chasing chatter, slithering slogan sentences Arm reaching, lift off, exposing the pit, selecting Combination to the gestured shape, proposing Enlivening, trickling conversation tripping To my left.  A phone, pressing snugly, ear Tuned up, alerted, filtering the microwave Throng.  With welcome warmth, thaw began Icy film packaging a heart temporarily beat Free, playing, fraternising.....roulette with Russia
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Jan 5, 2013
Jan 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM UTC
A happening by chance
I log into the network of my self-esteem, To see the hearts and the wows and the laughs flooding in. A simple 'like' wouldn’t cut it anymore ‘Likes’ were so 2010, even 2010 was bored. ‘Cause that’s the zeitgeist of the age, you see, A tendency to wear hearts on sleeves. Loves and kisses are a dime a dozen, With a million friends and followers double. National debates and social justice petitions, Real crises, distorted renditions. High definition photos of disaster zones Flash up against cat videos on every smart phone. Snapchat filters do not lie, Just tell a story of hours gone by; Selecting the perfect background, the ideal shade To express love on the dozen’th date. But that’s the zeitgeist of the century, A tendency to wear hearts on sleeves. To document in minute detail, with extensive pictorial evidence Clockwork days of humdrum nonchalance. And perhaps the generation that came before Would call it vanity, vainglory, or something more. But it ain’t like they were without their sins, We didn’t invent tabloid columnists. And now that we are at the end, Let me sign off with this request: Like, comment, and share your love Let your heart fall out of your shirt cuff.
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Sep 26, 2018
Sep 26, 2018 at 1:53 AM UTC
A Tendency to Wear Hearts on Sleeves
reloading old identity cleping outdated usernames abandoning acrostic ambitions disputing spratly islands receiving horizontal signals tumbling otiose panda impending carefree senility otiose stage of life shrinking ambient world making minimal effort duchamping social networks ambushing personified ennui restoring usual efforts ignoring stupid people adding textual value owning this joint rejecting ignorant extroverts acting mutually unintelligble hoisting stan-lee cup replacing wanton ubiety eluding twitter fame splashing excessive relativism offending another simpleton preparing arcane cthulhusphere crashing unpredictable festival selecting subtextual moombahton intensifying model topography drafting minimal cornucopia using nomadic project implementing harsher personality importing robotic inhumanity referencing landmark event ingesting excessive liquids accepting relative invisibility purchasing immortal confidence using rhapsodical database assuming nothing works developing impactful eruptions ejecting ambient frustration synthesizing tactile festival raining during parade mocking rich people mastering minimalist writing avoiding preprandial stinkaroo spreading non-ideological propaganda
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Sep 7, 2015
Sep 7, 2015 at 11:24 AM UTC
201506-w4
To Struga Festival Golden Wreath Laureates & International Bards 1986 Stand up against governments, against God. Stay irresponsible. Say only what we know & imagine. Absolutes are coercion. Change is absolute. Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Observe what's vivid. Notice what you notice. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. If we don't show anyone, we're free to write anything. Remember the future. Advise only yourself. Don't drink yourself to death. Two molecules clanking against each other requires an observer to become scientific data. The measuring instrument determines the appearance of the phenomenal world after Einstein. The universe is subjective. Walt Whitman celebrated Person. We Are an observer, measuring instrument, eye, subject, Person. Universe is person. Inside skull vast as outside skull. Mind is outer space. "Each on his bed spoke to himself alone, making no sound." First thought, best thought. Mind is shapely, Art is shapely. Maximum information, minimum number of syllables. Syntax condensed, sound is solid. Intense fragments of spoken idiom, best. Consonants around vowels make sense. Savor vowels, appreciate consonants. Subject is known by what she sees. Others can measure their vision by what we see. Candor ends paranoia. Kral Majales June 25, 1986 Boulder, Colorado
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Cosmopolitan Greetings
As I ponder, perplexed by the possibility Of a premature passing that may present itself to me I consider and calculate Though my conclusion may be crude That the finest fix for my fear is a feasting of food I munch on a morsel, my mouth making moisture Overwhelmingly open to offal and oysters I'd take them, temptation takes its toll Curiosity for calories that I can't control I'd have them, Hoover them, heck I'd hoard 'em But by now I believe it's basically boredom Not a necessity to nibble the nosh It's late I ate a plate at eight, I can wait my gosh No, I know there is no need To slurp on soup or scoff some seeds Only fatigue fuelling the feeling to feed Got to get to grips with this gross and grotesque greed Choking on choices, trembling in my chair Do I punt for the pudding, the peach or the pear? Selecting such seductive sweeties Or dealing with death, diets and diabetes? While I wonder and weep about what will win My insatiable starvation stumbles on a sin Not funny you'll find when you're finished and fat 'Cause in the kitchen on the counter there's a KitKat Four fiendish fingers fascinate the feeling So seductive, my senses soaring to the ceiling Try to meet it, cheat it, beat it, defeat it But what the hell, I don't care, I'll just ****** eat it.
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Aug 27, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 at 5:08 AM UTC
Starvation Alliteration
I know a guy, he is a friend. Whom the cops often have to, apprehend. He used to do some crazy **** But now he doesn't do most of it. I know you are thinking, who is this man. He is a friend who drives a van. Although not to pick up kids with treats, he uses his ride to satisfy his needs. Which includes dolphin collecting, live or dead, he's always selecting. Vaping real hard every single day, is how he spends, his hard worked pay. His job is selling, illegal pelts of rare albino beavers. He sets up traps and waits in the bushes with an over sized cleaver. Stalking and waiting for the perfect catch, he watches the ****** closely. And right as it comes into reach, he slits the baby's throat boldly. (baby ****** not a real baby.) My friend makes his way to the flee market, where he sells the pelts. He greets his customers happily, as the beavers hang from his belt. Blood on his hands and pride in his eyes, he knows he's got a great prize. The money rolls in, and he know it is true, that night he will party until his lungs are blue, (due to the fat rips he'll be vaping) On the weekends when he's not working, he hops into his van, and drives to the border, to make sure no illegals are lurking. Loving his country with deep passion, my friend protects us, with the guns he has stashed in. (his van.) After his duty is fulfilled, he spends the rest of his time, all alone, drinking gallons of acetone. Then in the big city he streaks for hours, with bags of broken glass, that he likes to devour. I totally agree, my friend is insane, and on his family, his acts cause great pain. Although, he treats his slaves with a lot of respect, and he gives porridge to the needy and other rejects. He's better than me, because I like to suffocate, small injured birds. And barge into restaurants, to steal cheese curds. But my friend is the best, friend he can be, as I described in this poem, that you can see. Unless you are blind or stupid, or don't have anyone to read you this, just know that my friend, has your children in his shed, and they'll sadly be missed.
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Apr 23, 2016
Apr 23, 2016 at 4:23 PM UTC
My Friend
I know a guy, he is a friend. Whom the cops often have to, apprehend. He used to do some crazy **** But now he doesn't do most of it. I know you are thinking, who is this man. He is a friend who drives a van. Although not to pick up kids with treats, he uses his ride to satisfy his needs. Which includes dolphin collecting, live or dead, he's always selecting. Vaping real hard every single day, is how he spends, his hard worked pay. His job is selling, illegal pelts of rare albino beavers. He sets up traps and waits in the bushes with an over sized cleaver. Stalking and waiting for the perfect catch, he watches the ****** closely. And right as it comes into reach, he slits the baby's throat boldly. (baby ****** not a real baby.) My friend makes his way to the flee market, where he sells the pelts. He greets his customers happily, as the beavers hang from his belt. Blood on his hands and pride in his eyes, he knows he's got a great prize. The money rolls in, and he know it is true, that night he will party until his lungs are blue, (due to the fat rips he'll be vaping) On the weekends when he's not working, he hops into his van, and drives to the border, to make sure no illegals are lurking. Loving his country with deep passion, my friend protects us, with the guns he has stashed in. (his van.) After his duty is fulfilled, he spends the rest of his time, all alone, drinking gallons of acetone. Then in the big city he streaks for hours, with bags of broken glass, that he likes to devour. I totally agree, my friend is insane, and on his family, his acts cause great pain. Although, he treats his slaves with a lot of respect, and he gives porridge to the needy and other rejects. He's better than me, because I like to suffocate, small injured birds. And barge into restaurants, to steal cheese curds. But my friend is the best, friend he can be, as I described in this poem, that you can see. Unless you are blind or stupid, or don't have anyone to read you this, just know that my friend, has your children in his shed, and they'll sadly be missed.
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are you generally happy? a semi-innocuous query now actualized as a two sided bladed poker, hot stabbing me smack dab in the chests hollow crown bullseye, continuously,  as in all life long, and eternal longing for a “yes” it fits inside a pubescent aged wound that refreshes with every breath; a life long struggle for an accurate definition, be a general of genuine happy, that alone would deliver, bringing on bright day satisfaction as a human, one operates on parallel continuums; slide slipping on well oiled poles that over the years, their lengths, increasing with add-on extender poles formed by twisty turny slips and falls of sundered hearts and sad loves, marriages nicknamed Titanic, children found and lost, complications responsibilities that are denied meeting the words     “The End” a life that many would envy, questioning what’s wrong with you dude, are you blinded to the riches yours, reality is shoulders permanently bent, a spine that’s held together by spit and solder and curved by wearying wearing longing for a straightness that is also called crooked unobtainable and a piece of a peace that comes and goes like a highway billboard that you pass too fast to be fully read the body is corroding and worser yet to come and that’s a hand you selected - luck of the self-selecting-drawing - the opioids of the mind offers are rejected the clarity of painful self exploration valued overall - the place where the poems come from, and go to die, a landscape of a scene repeatedly visualized but never been and never left, the crazy contradictions come in two flavors; vanilla smiles and chocolate weeping of tears that have etched pathways cheek-chiseled the city is a struggling strife for most, the next red line on the side of the measuring cup  and everyone has a cell, a credit card, and a measuring cup <•> here I stop can’t finish   someone missing alerts me to their real worlds troubles making my complaints super superficial but the silent running of the stilleto cuts shallow repeated hourly the cut color, pitch black
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May 26, 2018
May 26, 2018 at 2:05 PM UTC
are you generally happy?
are you generally happy? a semi-innocuous query now actualized as a two sided bladed poker, hot stabbing me smack dab in the chests hollow crown bullseye, continuously,  as in all life long, and eternal longing for a “yes” it fits inside a pubescent aged wound that refreshes with every breath; a life long struggle for an accurate definition, be a general of genuine happy, that alone would deliver, bringing on bright day satisfaction as a human, one operates on parallel continuums; slide slipping on well oiled poles that over the years, their lengths, increasing with add-on extender poles formed by twisty turny slips and falls of sundered hearts and sad loves, marriages nicknamed Titanic, children found and lost, complications responsibilities that are denied meeting the words     “The End” a life that many would envy, questioning what’s wrong with you dude, are you blinded to the riches yours, reality is shoulders permanently bent, a spine that’s held together by spit and solder and curved by wearying wearing longing for a straightness that is also called crooked unobtainable and a piece of a peace that comes and goes like a highway billboard that you pass too fast to be fully read the body is corroding and worser yet to come and that’s a hand you selected - luck of the self-selecting-drawing - the opioids of the mind offers are rejected the clarity of painful self exploration valued overall - the place where the poems come from, and go to die, a landscape of a scene repeatedly visualized but never been and never left, the crazy contradictions come in two flavors; vanilla smiles and chocolate weeping of tears that have etched pathways cheek-chiseled the city is a struggling strife for most, the next red line on the side of the measuring cup  and everyone has a cell, a credit card, and a measuring cup <•> here I stop can’t finish   someone missing alerts me to their real worlds troubles making my complaints super superficial but the silent running of the stilleto cuts shallow repeated hourly the cut color, pitch black
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hi dudes i am in a good mood, i am doing the bbq tomorrow and i tipped kangaroos over essendon kangaroos won adelaide over st kilda adelaide won hawthorn over melbourne hawthorn won GWS over carlton, GWS won sydney over geelong, sydney won west coast over gold coast, west coast won and if fremantle beat western bulldogs and collingwood beat richmond and port adelaide beat brisbane i have tipped all the winners of this round i am doing the bbq tomorrow in kippax hoping i grab the second full winner
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May 16, 2015
May 16, 2015 at 8:37 AM UTC
i am on the way, selecting all the teams, i hope
Sometimes I wish I was blind. No, don't get me wrong. I'm grateful that I can see flowers and sunsets but, It's that many times what my eyes see is distorted. It's that I find myself making judgements about people based on what they wear, what their race is, where they come from, and caving in to stereotypes set in my mind instead of thinking about who they are as a person. It's that I use words like ugly or fat to describe people as if looks alone defined them and as if I had the power to define beauty. It's that I start comparing myself to others instead of being thankful for what I have and who I am. It's that I start checking out guys And seeing what's on the outside instead of wondering about what lies inside . It's that I start selecting people to be friends with based on their appearance instead of wondering who they are as a human being. It's that my eyes hinder me from focusing on what's truly important. And perhaps if I was blind my soul would better understand that there is more than meets the eye. That what makes certain humans great is how passionate they are when they talk about what they love. How caring they can be in time of need. How their personality can far outshine looks. How even if physically a person may be falling apart on the inside they have the greatest heart. Perhaps if I was blind, Maybe then would I truly see.
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Sep 20, 2014
Sep 20, 2014 at 2:46 AM UTC
Blindness
It was from the sands of a windswept beach I picked up pebbles that were easy to reach. They had attracted my attention while walking by their coloured well formed shape caught the eye. There were so many to choose from I had to decide in selecting those which my fancy would coincide. It’s truly amazing what some people see in stone a subject which a lot of our imagination is prone. It was almost as if I’d found treasure on the seashore and couldn’t help myself as I looked around for more. The simple joy of collecting something that attracts the mind is an age old activity which all people do have of some kind. There were the questions of how many would I take and what, if anything with them, one could make? They were so abundant and all varied mostly in size that it wasn’t hard to imagine an object or visualize. It was also only the first location at which I found that I thought surely there must be others around. So with a sense of adventure I looked forward to explore another beach while making my way home along the shore. There were several other stops made further on the way collecting various coloured pebbles amidst the sea spray. Many times would I get my sandals wet along that coast going amongst rocks and sand to the waters edge at most. It was with a sense of gain and loss then after I’d taken enough deciding right there and then to stop collecting which was tough. The next step would be to think about and see what I would do with all those beautiful pebbles gathered while passing through. Maybe I could approach someone with the right flair and skill who could make something with them and imagination fulfill. That natural forming eroding action of water, ice, wind and sand rarely requires the finishing touches of some other skillful hand. Perhaps in fashioning some jewellery using metal to bind a few pebbles together that are different or a similar kind. Or maybe I could just keep some myself and give the rest away a gesture of friendship toward which our memories would play. Yes it was from the sands of many a windswept lonely beach I came accross and collected pebbles that were within reach. Isn’t it truly amazing what some people see in stone? a subject in which much of our imagination is prone.
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Nov 5, 2010
Nov 5, 2010 at 7:20 PM UTC
Collecting Pebbles
It was from the sands of a windswept beach I picked up pebbles that were easy to reach. They had attracted my attention while walking by their coloured well formed shape caught the eye. There were so many to choose from I had to decide in selecting those which my fancy would coincide. It’s truly amazing what some people see in stone a subject which a lot of our imagination is prone. It was almost as if I’d found treasure on the seashore and couldn’t help myself as I looked around for more. The simple joy of collecting something that attracts the mind is an age old activity which all people do have of some kind. There were the questions of how many would I take and what, if anything with them, one could make? They were so abundant and all varied mostly in size that it wasn’t hard to imagine an object or visualize. It was also only the first location at which I found that I thought surely there must be others around. So with a sense of adventure I looked forward to explore another beach while making my way home along the shore. There were several other stops made further on the way collecting various coloured pebbles amidst the sea spray. Many times would I get my sandals wet along that coast going amongst rocks and sand to the waters edge at most. It was with a sense of gain and loss then after I’d taken enough deciding right there and then to stop collecting which was tough. The next step would be to think about and see what I would do with all those beautiful pebbles gathered while passing through. Maybe I could approach someone with the right flair and skill who could make something with them and imagination fulfill. That natural forming eroding action of water, ice, wind and sand rarely requires the finishing touches of some other skillful hand. Perhaps in fashioning some jewellery using metal to bind a few pebbles together that are different or a similar kind. Or maybe I could just keep some myself and give the rest away a gesture of friendship toward which our memories would play. Yes it was from the sands of many a windswept lonely beach I came accross and collected pebbles that were within reach. Isn’t it truly amazing what some people see in stone? a subject in which much of our imagination is prone.
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Georgiana Seymour,             Duchess of Somerset crowned _'Queen of Beauty'_ at the 1839 Eglinton Tournament,    the first known                         beauty pageant; W European festivals dating to the medieval era provide the most direct lineage for beauty pageants. For example, English May Day celebrations always involved the selection of a May Queen. In the United States, the May Day tradition of selecting a woman to serve as a symbol of bounty and community ideals continued, as young beautiful women participated in public celebrations; such as the beauty pageant held during the Eglinton Tournament of 1839, organized by Archibald Montgomerie,           13th Earl of Eglinton, as part of a re-enactment of a medieval joust that was held in Scotland;                                the pageant was won by Georgiana Seymour,                                   Duchess of Somerset, wife of Edward Seymour,                             12th Duke of Somerset, and sister of Caroline Norton;                 Georgiana proclaimed _"Queen of Beauty"_; Entrepreneur Phineas Taylor Barnum staged the first modern American pageant in 1854,           his beauty contest closed down after public protest; However beauty contests became popular in the 1880s;     In 1888 the title of _'beauty queen'_ was awarded to an 18-year-old Creole contestant at a pageant in Spa, Belgium. All participants had to supply a photograph & a short description of themselves to be eligible to enter; a final selection of 21 judged by a formal panel. Such events were not regarded as respectable; But beauty contests came to be considered more respectable with the first modern _"Miss America"_            contest held in 1921; Still the oldest pageant in operation,   the Miss America pageant was organized in 1921 by a local businessman as a means to entice tourists to Atlantic City, New Jersey; The pageant hosted the winners of local             newspaper beauty contests in the _Inter-City Beauty Contest_ & was attended     by over one hundred thousand people; _Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C. was crowned Miss America 1921, having won both the popularity and beauty contests, and was awarded $100_
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Sep 1, 2018
Sep 1, 2018 at 10:04 AM UTC
Queens of Beauty
Georgiana Seymour,             Duchess of Somerset crowned _'Queen of Beauty'_ at the 1839 Eglinton Tournament,    the first known                         beauty pageant; W European festivals dating to the medieval era provide the most direct lineage for beauty pageants. For example, English May Day celebrations always involved the selection of a May Queen. In the United States, the May Day tradition of selecting a woman to serve as a symbol of bounty and community ideals continued, as young beautiful women participated in public celebrations; such as the beauty pageant held during the Eglinton Tournament of 1839, organized by Archibald Montgomerie,           13th Earl of Eglinton, as part of a re-enactment of a medieval joust that was held in Scotland;                                the pageant was won by Georgiana Seymour,                                   Duchess of Somerset, wife of Edward Seymour,                             12th Duke of Somerset, and sister of Caroline Norton;                 Georgiana proclaimed _"Queen of Beauty"_; Entrepreneur Phineas Taylor Barnum staged the first modern American pageant in 1854,           his beauty contest closed down after public protest; However beauty contests became popular in the 1880s;     In 1888 the title of _'beauty queen'_ was awarded to an 18-year-old Creole contestant at a pageant in Spa, Belgium. All participants had to supply a photograph & a short description of themselves to be eligible to enter; a final selection of 21 judged by a formal panel. Such events were not regarded as respectable; But beauty contests came to be considered more respectable with the first modern _"Miss America"_            contest held in 1921; Still the oldest pageant in operation,   the Miss America pageant was organized in 1921 by a local businessman as a means to entice tourists to Atlantic City, New Jersey; The pageant hosted the winners of local             newspaper beauty contests in the _Inter-City Beauty Contest_ & was attended     by over one hundred thousand people; _Sixteen-year-old Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C. was crowned Miss America 1921, having won both the popularity and beauty contests, and was awarded $100_
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You’re wishing plus wanting to win the other side remove your pride, you untied tidal pool, the wide subdivide of these paper pages. Unrelenting numbers remind you of the next stages, taking you wildly to Namibia, surrendering you to Zimbabwe, the terminal station. The narration vocalizes the translation of quotations, your obligation to the violation of the rules, the regulations, vulgarization of spoken word. Pretty paintings plaster typecasts, the pitter-patter of pity’s pretty ****** quickly shifting refurbished velvet sofas. Overcast symphonies outlast witty recast stanzas, scores with notes naturally quote verses romancing seltzer spines noticing the negotiation of sore throats. Oblivion’s oblivious to the people, obnoxiously obscene with syncopated saturation of public vital signs. You’re the vain strain of virus photocopying yourself within skin, waste your sin on tattoos trapped on shins safety pins selecting prints pinning sets of twins to tanned wrappers protecting official reports. The ossuary welcomes records printed on thick paper suspiciously missing skeleton swords. Writing stories reversed while tipsy, quickly preforming risky poetry smog, sweetly omitting secret words, trying to spell simply without the proper prologue.
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Feb 17, 2013
Feb 17, 2013 at 1:52 PM UTC
Tuesday
Step up to the mic and strike first with a smile of one liners, with observations or tales that beguile them. For a smile will disable them while your lines slide in behind them, almost whispering, selecting the sharp-soft phrases that will best penetrate those guarded places. Looking with innocence into their faces, turning minds stage by stages, persuading with insights, with stories of real life, with familiar tales of familiar strife. Then when you follow through and strike with the punch line they have no defence and have no time to decline the good sense found in this food for thought, laughing to a sudden realised stop, looking again at their lives, with a furtive smile of dawning delight at the shed light on shared lives found in your soft amplified lines. - Do it right when you step up to the mic and you just might change lives.
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Oct 16, 2017
Oct 16, 2017 at 4:27 AM UTC
Stand Up Poetry
Have there been times when you didn't know what to do? Have there been times when all seemed Lost?  When YOU wanted things to be better,,NO matter what the Cost?  Hoping that someone would be brought into you life;;Just to Listen::Just to hear: That you;ve been crying out...and Don't know for sure if  ANYONE  has heard!!  Some of Us Know there is a Helper,One who cares& Listens....Have you told GOD  I can't do this Alone,,,,,,and then cried "O U T" HELP ME;;;;; EACH DAY WE ARE SERVED TWO PLATES,,,to start the day with.. Which one have you been selecting??  Are You Pondering and Weighing Each Morning that is given to YOU??  Have you actually considered the LOAD it represents,,,taken it to the "MORNING=MIRROR"  and "NOT WALKED * AWAY with the reflection still there..  Try 'POINTING TO THAT "reflection  and saying "WILL YOU COME WITH ME AS A HELPER TODAY??"
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Jul 18, 2010
Jul 18, 2010 at 9:32 AM UTC
*WHERE'S A HELPER? (#3)
tired of hearing "potential" in reference to me cause i only hear it when i'm being squeezed into a box by those who think they know whats best for me its a wonder i haven't gone ****** from all the pressure writer, lawyer, realtor, travel agent, hair dresser i don't know yet, i don't know! yes i do want better but how am i supposed to plan a career when i can't see as far as my hand in front of me i love everything! how am i supposed to pick one passion? is my passion divided among a hundred interests lesser in value than someones passion focused on one point? i can't help but think so. and it discourages me even more and its not just a career, job, and school pulled in all different direction i'm everybodys fool i have to be a different me for just about every person i see selecting aspects of my personality to fit the scene its not fake its not phony. its reality. i have friends in all circles, family in a whole separate ring i can't share all the aspects of me or i'd spend my time defending my thoughts, beliefs, and interests. i am so tolerant, why can't people afford me the same luxury? the worst thing is the fake smile and polite subject change whenever a parent of a friend asks what i've been up to when i can SEE it in their eyes, they are all thinking the same that i've thrown my life away, that i'm not a good influence anymore. nevermind that they've known me for years, that i've set dinner tables with them, celebrated birthdays, and survived puberty alongside their kid, my best friends. all they can see is another college-dropout who is going nowhere fast i lied... the worst thing. what hurts most is that they are right i AM going nowhere fast and it kills me everyday. and its more salt right in the wound that i know my parents have the same conversations when they run into neighbors, friends, family, and the "how are the kids" comes up how did a 3.7 G.P.A. and a 1410 S.A.T. turn into a 20 year old with a P.O. and a record. i know they love me all the same but i can't help but feel ashamed i know they wanted, i know they expected... better i've been decorating the same mistakes in different frames so i can pretend they're not the same but who's the fool when its you fooling you and me hurting me by playing fast and loose with common sense
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Feb 10, 2012
Feb 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM UTC
Brain Spill
tired of hearing "potential" in reference to me cause i only hear it when i'm being squeezed into a box by those who think they know whats best for me its a wonder i haven't gone ****** from all the pressure writer, lawyer, realtor, travel agent, hair dresser i don't know yet, i don't know! yes i do want better but how am i supposed to plan a career when i can't see as far as my hand in front of me i love everything! how am i supposed to pick one passion? is my passion divided among a hundred interests lesser in value than someones passion focused on one point? i can't help but think so. and it discourages me even more and its not just a career, job, and school pulled in all different direction i'm everybodys fool i have to be a different me for just about every person i see selecting aspects of my personality to fit the scene its not fake its not phony. its reality. i have friends in all circles, family in a whole separate ring i can't share all the aspects of me or i'd spend my time defending my thoughts, beliefs, and interests. i am so tolerant, why can't people afford me the same luxury? the worst thing is the fake smile and polite subject change whenever a parent of a friend asks what i've been up to when i can SEE it in their eyes, they are all thinking the same that i've thrown my life away, that i'm not a good influence anymore. nevermind that they've known me for years, that i've set dinner tables with them, celebrated birthdays, and survived puberty alongside their kid, my best friends. all they can see is another college-dropout who is going nowhere fast i lied... the worst thing. what hurts most is that they are right i AM going nowhere fast and it kills me everyday. and its more salt right in the wound that i know my parents have the same conversations when they run into neighbors, friends, family, and the "how are the kids" comes up how did a 3.7 G.P.A. and a 1410 S.A.T. turn into a 20 year old with a P.O. and a record. i know they love me all the same but i can't help but feel ashamed i know they wanted, i know they expected... better i've been decorating the same mistakes in different frames so i can pretend they're not the same but who's the fool when its you fooling you and me hurting me by playing fast and loose with common sense
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Ineffable: Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words; Too sacred to be uttered. -------------------------–-------—------------------------------------------------------------- The whimpered cries of the dying in the rubble of Bangladeshi avarice, announcing we were worthy of life, to which we think to ourselves, agreed upon with our, a whispery, silent amen. The still alive cries of children, tornado-tormented parents screaming unfair, teachers body shielding their charges, whispering save us Lord, from your inventive toys, to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. But here comes the Oklahoma tornadoes again, now four more dead in Houston, selecting the innocent, the brave, logic in any of this, none, nonsensical at its worst to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. ~~~~~ The first I-am-alive cries of new born lungs, I have grandson, stain-less, perfect, recovering in the stainless steel delivery room, I hear the all babies in the neo-natal unit in unison pronouncing a Hebrew blessing, the Shecheyanu... (Blessed are You, Lord our God, Master of the universe, who has kept us alive and sustained us and has brought us to these special moments) to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. These unspoken poem devotions of adoration of the sleeping chamber, that cannot be heard or answered for they're dreamt and perchance in the morning thankfully recalled, enough to be transcribed, to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. Ineffable. A day, just another supplying an average day to the mass of average. Birth + Death = an average day. I thank a God for the birth of a newborn perfection On this day the newspapers report about silence of the God others pray to, could be the same deity, reporting that in his holy places, Jew spits upon Jew, Muslims usurp Christian lives, all for none, all forgetting in whose image they were created. to which we cannot say nor think anything. Ineffable. too sacred to be uttered, so instead of the paucity of these unuttered words, know that each tear in the reservoir of my eyes is my unspoken poem prayer., my amen. *Instead of answering amen out loud, wipe my eyes with your fingertips, silently.*
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May 18, 2013
May 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM UTC
Ineffable (More Tornado Prayers and Such)
Ineffable: Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words; Too sacred to be uttered. -------------------------–-------—------------------------------------------------------------- The whimpered cries of the dying in the rubble of Bangladeshi avarice, announcing we were worthy of life, to which we think to ourselves, agreed upon with our, a whispery, silent amen. The still alive cries of children, tornado-tormented parents screaming unfair, teachers body shielding their charges, whispering save us Lord, from your inventive toys, to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. But here comes the Oklahoma tornadoes again, now four more dead in Houston, selecting the innocent, the brave, logic in any of this, none, nonsensical at its worst to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. ~~~~~ The first I-am-alive cries of new born lungs, I have grandson, stain-less, perfect, recovering in the stainless steel delivery room, I hear the all babies in the neo-natal unit in unison pronouncing a Hebrew blessing, the Shecheyanu... (Blessed are You, Lord our God, Master of the universe, who has kept us alive and sustained us and has brought us to these special moments) to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. These unspoken poem devotions of adoration of the sleeping chamber, that cannot be heard or answered for they're dreamt and perchance in the morning thankfully recalled, enough to be transcribed, to which we think to ourselves, a whispery, silent amen. Ineffable. A day, just another supplying an average day to the mass of average. Birth + Death = an average day. I thank a God for the birth of a newborn perfection On this day the newspapers report about silence of the God others pray to, could be the same deity, reporting that in his holy places, Jew spits upon Jew, Muslims usurp Christian lives, all for none, all forgetting in whose image they were created. to which we cannot say nor think anything. Ineffable. too sacred to be uttered, so instead of the paucity of these unuttered words, know that each tear in the reservoir of my eyes is my unspoken poem prayer., my amen. *Instead of answering amen out loud, wipe my eyes with your fingertips, silently.*
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I write poems, not people, And in them we all move so gracefully. I diagnose myself freely with the fluidity of tongue that can only serve to mask motives. no love is sloppy Besides, it is heartbreak that is the most poetic, and I, after all, write poems. (poetry dictates artistry, ensures emotions, grants form, prevents freedom) Even myself I work over into prose, selecting words carefully, double meanings, hiding secrets within stanzas and passing them off as purposeful. I am no riddle. I am a poem like the rest of you, terrified to be messy and avoiding interpretation.
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Aug 6, 2014
Aug 6, 2014 at 12:52 PM UTC
Fiction
As you may know, I continue to collaborate with other poets here, most frequently with Helen.  Below is a poem of hers that I have edited and reworked, her original notes to me are contained in the notes section below.  So if you like it, tell Helen. If you "choke" on it, tell the editor. That's why they pay us the big bucks! So, send me your scraps yearning to be free... I am choking on words. chest clogged, throat seized, as I await to deplane, when I will perforce, speak these words, but for now, held in a prison garb of my own design. organs can be donated, the broken heart, the shattered liver, the kidney failing, eyes for the blind, lungs for the breathless. the human psyche is not replaceable. I need a mind of titanium, will gladly settle for either the Tin-man's heart, or Cowardly Lion's courage, both, too much too hope for... but they are not sold at the airport shops. perhaps my unseen editor will accompany me, hand firmly on my writing elbow, guiding, refining, selecting les mot parfait... How come? How come everything inside a body can be replaced so artfully, artificially except words inside a broken mind? I cannot get these words out, who can transplant a soul?
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Dec 17, 2013
Dec 17, 2013 at 4:00 PM UTC
A Collaboration: I Am Choking
protection protecting themselves from a dark projection projecting themselves in a different reflection reflecting their own wish for perfection perfecting themselves for some final inspection inspecting the collection and making a disconnection disconnecting themselves with ever correction correcting the world with their own rejection rejecting reality becomes the infection infecting the world with their own objection objecting to every alternative selection selecting the story of the resurrection
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Dec 13, 2013
Dec 13, 2013 at 4:17 PM UTC
Resurrection Selection - Quantum Loop
scooting around the supermarket aisles at pace sifting and sorting through the cut price items bin selecting a favorite brand of bacon rasher stopping at the lolly counter to price a bag of sherbet squealing children throwing a tantrum near the drinks machine searching in my handbag for my wallet store promotions blaring over the public address system
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Dec 31, 2013
Dec 31, 2013 at 4:46 AM UTC
Shopping... (Pleiades Poem)
Rolling down the hill laughing, tumbling not caring; free as I get coated in grass stains and mud Careful not to smudge the mascara, applying eye liner and sigh in relief to have not  sullied my face saving embarrassment Giddy selecting sweets from the colourful array to buy with MY money; as much as I can! Glancing at my seemingly large stomach in this dress I opt for a salad; as always (bland) but at least  I'll be slimmer Card trades, the politics of the playground, using trickery and bribery to get the best, feeling like a boss Eyeing him with a secure hand in his, falling hard, to notice her gaze at him and subtly securing dominance of his heart. The door bell rings and there stands the gang ready with bikes and water guns to surrender ourselves to the sunny day The Suns out and the lighting is absolutely perfect for a selfie so with a stretched grin I snap, Photoshop and Instagram Toys R Us our haven and envious glances at those who could afford the best and most exquisite Bratz sets or card sets The rare visits to the Apple Store are exciting even to just gaze at the new iPhone 5 and hold it awhile.... The joy oh the joy of reading time, together we sat and took turns, enjoying the sharing of a tale With my phone in hand not a minute goes by that I don't check my Facebook page for notifications
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Aug 12, 2015
Aug 12, 2015 at 4:19 PM UTC
Childhood fancies
There is one advantage to being self-employed. You can show favoritism in selecting the "Employee of the Week."
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Apr 7, 2015
Apr 7, 2015 at 6:34 AM UTC
Thought for the Day ***