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We were told freedom would make us artists.
We were told freedom would set us free.
But freedom made us consumers—
scrolling, streaming, drowning in plenty.

Peak content.
Peak noise.
Attention—the last currency.
And we are broke.

Then came the machine.
Infinite. Bespoke. Frictionless.
The tribe dissolved.
The story fractured.
Each of us—
a society of one.

Do not mistake this for culture.
Culture bleeds.
Culture resists.
Culture divides.
This is mimicry.
This is slop.
Outliers cribbed, stripped,
and rebranded before the ink dries.

This is the singularity.
Not awakening.
Collapse.
Not tribe.
Not ritual.
The machine as tribe.
Self-satisfaction—tribe enough.

But listen—
creativity still breathes.
Not to be seen.
Not to trend.
But to testify.
To mark the ruins.
To scratch in the stone:

A human was here.

Do you remember?
They say lots of things about love,
They make it seem it is the ultimate desire,
Wanton and wilder than the known universe,
An cataclysmic explosion of two personalities,
Born separate, reborn together,
And yet...
I have loved worse men,
And lost better women than I deserve,
And now my convex chest is as vast and devastated as abbey ruins,
sanctuary,
sacred,
crooked,
ruined,
beautiful,
still here,
After hundreds of years.

Maybe I will live on in my memories,
For there are graveyards in my bones,
Eulogies imprinted on my arteries,
Long lost love letters scarred on my very marrow
For those that I drowned,
And those I saved.
My faith is a moorland hillside war memorial,
An obelisk to reach the very gods,
Your love is but a squall,
My hope is a trickle, a stream, a reservoir, in the deepest steepest canyon and Valley,
Your love is but a rain drop,
My clarity is at the bottom of a whiskey bottle,
Your love is but an ice cube.

Do not ask me brazenly to die for you,
When ******* me is your finest hour,
And I am but a pleasure boat ride for your masculinity to take a trip in,
We are not divine here;
My expectations are as low as your esteem:
A water you paddle in, a toe dipped perhaps,
but you wouldn't swim through, dare to at least,
And yet,
I am a rushing beautiful rainbow of a waterfall on a sunburn induced day,
The haze in the corner of your eye,
When you begin to question,
"is this too good to be true?".
Yes.
We are all but fallacies.

Dip your fingers and cross yourself,
As you wish for clemency.
But still,
Be still,
And know,
That,
I am,
God.
Am I?
Or am I just divine on your tongue?
With a snort
I awoke from a chilly doze
Rubbed my weary eyes
An aching yawn erupted

Christ it’s 2 am
Nothing to show but
This limp little thing
Lying half clothed
On the yellow tablet
A gimp of a poem
One arm missing
One leg too short

Sudden like
She sat ***** said
Oooh, I like Billy Holiday
Let’s dance

NO…let’s not
She insisted took me
In her one arm
Danced me round
Round again the room
Limping
Past the old Sears and Roebuck radio

I admit she was light on her feet
Probably my fault
She was missing a lot
Of words I lost
In the Scotch

She stopped
Saw the jar on the old desk
Gimme a dollar
Shoved it through the lid
I’m dead on my feet girl
Going to bed
Kissed her on the cheek

I flipped off the lights
Left her standing swaying staying
Wrapped by her one arm
In the dark
Nina Simone sang on
Yesterday evening I was browsing the New poetry on the Home Page; something I read gave me the seed idea for this.  It took all night to write, primarily because I kept nodding off.
The stars were not to blame
Nor the ocean between us
Or even that dreadful place
We used to call home

It was only you and me
Always a little too wrong
And maybe just a little
Too late
Stay here with me,
not in the present,
but in that fragile space
between beginning and end.
Where our hearts were wide and unbroken,
and forever felt like it had already chosen us.

Do you remember how we fell?
Not downward, but into something endless.
Every glance, every touch,
was a promise we didn’t need to speak,
a language of innocence
too pure to question.

It was a sweetness deeper than bliss,
a nectar time could not bottle,
though memory still holds the taste.
And I long to live there with you,
in that suspended hour
when eternity leaned in,
when love was still trusted.

Let us linger a while longer,
in the almost of that forever,
where nothing weighs, nothing fades,
where our souls are not
lost and restless,
searching for their answer,
and the world beyond does not exist.
Here, we are infinite.
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A seasoned poet realizes
Through embellished disguises
Marked by complexity
Driven by calculated uniformity
Filled with minute details
evaluate while riding the rails
The goal is to work hard to achieve
A story poem believably perceived

To exaggerate a structured process made
Is when vivid imagery fades
Interesting concepts inevitably played
Muddy clarification  pictures portrayed
Without stress comes blessed
Fantastic lines flourishes
As words nourishes our souls

We build organic sentence structure
from simple ingredients.
Adjectives provide ample sustenance.
As the art of the story is told
embellishments never grow old

Usually, a poet will know
When they’re on a roll
A smile concluded at the end
For a poet, it’s easy to pretend

When did embellishments become bigger than life?
Every subject kernels of nuggets of human strife
With twists and turns as the poet’s story jack knifes
Yet Never seems too deep as they grow old
A well planned story for told

A poet strives for elusive perfection ,
Avoiding at all cost negative rejection
Finding their self in their written word
Their true voice even IF the topic is absurd

Vivid imagery shows leaps and bounds
When a story read out loud has perfect sound
With a basic premise solid as the ground
Fluidity in motion can be found

Their poetry gift establishes imagination
Only limited by their lexicon, word creation 
power required to overcome friction
and the inertia of the moving parts proper diction 

Spy a girl cross the sea
Come sailing with me
Simply beautiful let it be
The love, we will create
Finding our soulmate

My sail boat
roams restless
upon the ocean
Smooth sailing
Poetry in motion

Inspired song
1) Come Sail Away
By Styx 1977

2) Sail Away
By The Oak Ridge Boys 1979
BLT Webster’s Word of the day challenge
August 13, 2025 calculated
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Tonight's clouds hang in the sky
Starstruck? No - part of the evening's performance
Understated. Reflective. Refractive.
Background? No - choir
Spotlighting the solo act.
I see where the inspiration for cotton candy came from.

As she descends into the horizon
The supporting cast takes their leave
The lights go down
The stage goes dark once more
Not by demons, goblins, or ghouls
not with screams of terror
But with happy moments between he and I,
the giggling secret rendezvous
crunching grass where we danced
hidden behind the baseball field and trees
The paths we walked, speaking of the future
The bench where we were lovers in blossom

When you let me go
The weeping willow cried almost as loud as I did
Violent wind ripping her branches to and fro,
setting fire to her roots and burning everything she'd ever known


I still feel you walking side by side in tandem when I go back to it
My local park is haunted by my ex-fiancé
Maybe it's time to move.
Relationship breakup nature exfiance
What shall I see?
What now will Beauty be,
Naked,
Garbed no more in words.
Syllables scattered and tossed,
Language now forever lost?
What of my soul, what of me
Searching for meaning never to be.
What shall I see?
Frontal lobe dementia differs greatly from Alzheimer’s.  It is characterized by early loss of language as well as loss of inhibitions, often leading to unusual new behaviors.
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