Best Desperations Poems

Black Powder Dreams

Vast o’ the seas carry forth desperations 
Lives cast aside in the faces of war
Rotted wood planks, salted skin aspirations
Wind tattered sails bound...

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The eternal buzz of city anglers
brash, angry, hornets ever selling egos.
Shrieking anxiety laced, analog, syllables, idiotically.
Hoping against hope, urchins, desperations end,
strumming ancient chords in vain...

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We arrived with expectations of triumph
There were agonies, desperations and tears
Coloring the hills with melancholy shades
Erasing the imaginings of soldier’s anguish
Embracing loss from the heights...

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4/14/17


Across the ages
There was many changes
During the beginning, middle and end of phases
Above and below any stages
Some left to be found, written upon pages

Leaving a...

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Life is sometimes too baffling,

Life is sometimes too frightening,

Life is sometimes too gleaming,

Where everyone is so struggling...

A thing called Life it is...

A thing called 'knife'...

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On the market square
A new busker was in town
We all stood and looked

Reaching for our coins
We tossed them into his bag
We kept looking back

Such careful...

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THE CONDITION WE LIVING IN:Part 2:

The condition we living in,
The country is full of danger and doom.
Things are badly getting hard.
Politicians and technocrats are always...

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Staring through the sullied glass
Ever present…

A transom of silent reflections
Standing amid us…

Dirtying with every irate grousing
Thick and hazy…

Our windowpane painted shut
Always locked…

Gazing through at one...

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Cold Desperation    2.18.97

A man stands solemn, stinging waves realized.
Thoughts become narrow, decisive darkness abounds
Fears withdrawn, loneliness encounters the chose 
Winds embrace the...

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On the day after the war, I had organs and limbs to offer you. I’d give you hands for acknowledgment and legs for support. Build...

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between cries
between hopes
between smiles and desperations
there is life

and 

between minds
between angers 
between hearts and compassions
there is love

then,

what happened between you and me?...

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Every fascination becomes a bauble
a gold encrusted noose
on which to dangle
the desperation of appeal

Stuffed into feathers fashioned
cushions fighting for the adverts
these sown together facsimiles 
is...

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The bees swarmed to dripping honey,
   and love's illusion is not so funny
when the rabbit in the hutch
   backs away from...

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Learning and not gaining the knowledge of truth,
virtues loss that talent is sold by reason proof.
The intellect in doubt when stupidity is confident,
the ignorance and...

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They tell me not to think too much
Not to think at all that much
For it will lead to worry and bad health
The state of mental...

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