Best Benumb Poems

Knowledge gained liberates or mutilates.
Ramifications of reality’s realm reached
make your insides want to abandon the body ship.
Rocking back and forth as you hurl dry acidic pain
expelled by the force of shell shocked lucidity:
You’re not good enough to be loved.

Breathing in is treason.
Your heart demands release...

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Written: June 25, 2023

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Beguile me, July sun, with your hot, penetrating glare,
A star of careless seizure, I can't avail but stare.
I lust for your soulmate, the one who kindles my desires.
With a kiss that sets me afire, igniting all my fires.

Spread me across the sky,...

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A conversation overheard between Shakespeare and his former muse.

"So many things hath turned to utter folly over the ages.
Hundreds of years since I've penned pages and pages.
What these ancient eyes of mine doth now conceive
plead, 'Return to thy grave, Bard, for here you'll grieve."

"In sooth,...

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Glad you be in grace 
Benumb, in disgrace 
Hearty you be in giving
Broad you be in forgiving.

So much did I hear -
The buzz of moral quotes

Either sung by Gurus or coded in Scripture;
Either floating in the air of practitioners.

Virtue lives in the instincts.
I feel incapacitated...

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Not one, three bowls of lovely pomegranates
Look, the passion incarnate
Love or hate as you like, please don't desecrate
Gateway to glorious ecstasy
Of serene sensuality holding supreme creativity
And the all seeing mighty eyes!
Invitation to the abundant festival of inhalations 
‘Come, honeycombs are ready
Bees throughout eternity, come and...

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Within that rule of thumb
that I am vanquished, yet among
majorities ~ the role's succumb
I cast it not ~ the vote's benumb?

Acceptance core ~ I take the floor
objecting, by what's evermore
the scoundrel's choice, is his rapport
so in my station ~ file encore!

Admonishing by gains restore
the underdog...

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Crumbling worlds before emotional eyes lamenting,
Rumbling ruins through mortified masses repenting…
Abandoned cityscapes amongst vigorous viral venom,
Saddened silenced souls searching becoming benumb…

Within idol isolations irreversible tears turning to rust,
Mortal sin of evil endeavors amidst escalating mistrust…
Pandemic proportions within penetrating potential,
Systemic society enduring ever-evolving exponential…

Calling all upon...

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lightning cracks the sky,

      thunders stun, benumb the brain,

            dance, December rain !...

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I know you think I’m morbid
when I come back from the living
wearing black all along
I’m gone alive and
I’m gone missing
in the air of all sullen mornings
and faraway looks
over the sleepless fields
blur my sight with tears of today
benumb my hearing with
waning voices I used to know
back...

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*VIDEO of Justin Bieber's Talk of his Affliction on YouTube

Justin Bieber's Ramsay Hunt Syndrome

Just in
Justin

Bieber
Tweeter

Likewise
Apprise

TikTok
He talked

About
Timeout

Renege
His gigs

Because
He was

Concerned
He learned

Shingles
Hostiles

Illness
Stillness

Partial
Facial

Benumb
Therefrom

Hoping
Coping

Explore
Restore

Maintain
Unstrain

Renew
Sinew

Routine
Hygiene

Lengthen
Strengthen

Steadfast
Stand fast

Brainstorm
Inform

The signs
Headlines

Contribs
JBiebs

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Justin Bieber announced that he is taking a break from performing after being diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS), a rare shingles-related condition that has...

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fireflies stay hidden,
              to the stars unbeholden
                         ...

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Wherein that Rule of Thumb
that I am vanquished, yet among
majority's, the role's succumb
I cast it not ~ the vote's benumb!

Acceptance core, I take the floor
objecting, by what's evermore
the scoundrels choice, is his rapport,
so in my station ~ file encore!

Admonishing by gains restore,
the underdog of faith's...

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Resolved was I to exercise,
To utmost try to slenderize.
From flabby bod I'd poundage peel
To Grecian god beneath reveal.

But soon my straining torso frail
Becomes complaining, moaning male.
I parts exert unused for years,
Resulting hurt benumb with beers.

To tone my sinews, first I stretch.
Then phone to paramedics fetch.
Just...

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Poet’s Note: Beauty used to benumb beholders. Today’s beauty is simply numbered and indexed. One thousand (mille-Helens) make one Helen, the unit fashioned after Helen of Troy believed to be the most beauteous ever to have walked on this globe. (Why not? Western standards only...

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It began with a single flake of snow
That fell upon my brow so gently down.
Almost  imperceptible, ever so
Subtle and  never making any sound.
I love these silent tiny crystalline
Flakes that now are falling numerously
In front of grateful eyes at wintertime.
I extend my open hand...

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