Best Counteracting Poems

There once was a picture that wormed itself into my reverie
On a gray, cloudy morning, whilst it was raining and cold.
In this one picture were four slices of toast and five beverages.
Three glasses held tea the color of honey, and two were raspberry tinted.
Somehow it...

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Perpetually I am thrown in the pulse of mourning against the wall
With sincerity I ask lord if you indeed subsist, apprehend my soul through it all
From the immoral ways accumulated in yesteryears
I am accustomed to transcending from suppressed fears
Repercussions in distance range persevering to be
Father...

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Fire rekindle as the old ashes are still burning
The flame in ones soul ignites
The soul awakens as there is a new yearning
In your own world was born a new light
Overflowing passion with ones mind interacting
All your thoughts and memories seemingly far away
The past experiences present...

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"Invisible"



Trapped
within 
4 Walls 
A ghost 

escapes
it's prison 
through 
unlocked door

beyond
freefall
a bird
now soars

The Ocean 
calls the wild
Sargasso in
Me

Rochester’s 
Mirage 
ecstatic 
Bacchae
 
Maenad 
possessed 
submerged
Blue-Green

(Ladylabyrinth/2020)
for my daughter, 
Georgia






“Come Near Me” / Massive Attack – Ghost Poet
https://youtu.be/KY0TZQTwwbk






“There is always another side, always.”
(Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea )








“There is...

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when one stands up against injustice
when one spits in the face of those that oppress &
shows not one ounce of fear in their eyes
often, if fortunate, standing amidst others who have come to
the same conclusion,
at first, it is like a joke being told at a...

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Then void the footprints so demur,
wherein once walking, my feet pure
now doomed to stalking, faith as cure
the vise I deemed as caulking, minus stir ~

My country, silence balking
truth to serve
retreat while there is lacking
moment's lure!

What then is counteracting
what reserve
the led are never leaders
pretense verve!

To keep...

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Conscientiously Combat Contamination:
  Pass punitive laws policing polluters
  Keep chemicals from killing crops like corn
  Plink and plunk pests with pure, perfect panaceas
  Segregate and shun smokers of cigars and cigarettes

Contradictorily, Contribute to Contamination: 
  Permit and protect pernicious ***********
...

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Elvis has left the building.
West Berlin, a significant place
Where life was lived at a frantic pace.
Me and Old Elvis together through the night
In those days when I saw things
In stark black or white,
And me and Old Elvis Singing The Blues
As I got pretend stonked on...

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circular entitlements / circulatory retirement i'm not
kidding (yet) my sweetpreciousdarling        pet,
now sit & shut up. wince & shudder / shutters closed
yet peepholed like a __sponge [drip.drip] 
snip said the scissors said the pissers & the moaners
rage against the...

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Please quit being such a witch
Take your attitude and itch
It away from your meanness streak
Or it's looking very bleak
For you to have any friends
This kind of attitude just sends
A picture of you violently
Attacking all kind souls like me
Who just want to spread good cheer
Your bad...

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Parenting defiant trauma
attached to both hurt child
and wounded parent
needing to continue
co-invested relationships,
positive and constant,
without breaks
in healthy communication,
direct
and, if possible,
playful

Counteracting fear
that both TraumaChild
and I
will pressure ego-me
to choose a Win
for Self
to lose relationship 
by distancing from Other;

To choose Me
over We.

I want to choose both Defiance
and Deep Listening
playing...

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From some quiet moment, I can mirror
some knowing thee art with me, as its wear
does chasten its summation in its where ~
'tis you, beside my causing, my hope clear.

As pictures of your grace are ever near
so destiny in trace, not souvenir
is from the spirit's sought,...

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From some quiet moment, I can mirror
some knowing thee art with me as its wear
does chasten its summation in its here
its you beside my causing, my Hope clear!

That pictures of your grace are ever near
so destiny in trace, not souvenir
is from the spirit's sought, its...

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poison 
                    toxic, fatal 
   paralyzing, destroying, consuming 
 venom, arsenic, remedy magic bullet 
administering, counteracting, reversing
       ...

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Please quit being such a witch
Take your attitude and ditch
It away from your meanness streak
Or it's looking very bleak
For you to have any friends
This kind of attitude just sends
A picture of you violently
Attacking all kind souls like me
Who just want to spread good cheer
Your bad...

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