Best Cogitation Poems

The Front Window Cogitation
By Sy Roth

Observed the others drowning in their tears.
A pasty rain inks the front window
Sad remnants of a broken sky in Kandinsky splashes 
Marked on an ancient, bubble-blown glass. 

Outside cars distorted,
People amble in sodden abandonment, 
Shuffling along with the meanderings of...

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This head is continually exercised, 
The straining of the intellect, 
The wearying of my limbs 
The waves of thoughts rushing like a volcano. 
The glimmering of my eyes,
The flights of imagination, 
I vex the brain to unravel mysteries  
I provoke my heart to go...

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I
Believing ...
(Is not a complete thought, say grammarians, maybe from Gramercy)
KNOWING ...
is better
Listening ...
may be best

II
When did I know
That listening to both male and female
I'd BELIEVE in EQUALITY
eavesdrop on a Galaxy?...

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In conversation
the sounds
of her thinking astounds
logic rebounds
argument confounds
rationale knows not bounds
there's no reasoning
with what she expounds
or justification
in that which she propounds
when all facts fail
and reality surrounds
her point of view
tho' it has zero grounds
piled on in mounds
with absurdity she compounds
adding injury to insult
my brain it impounds
traps...

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