Best Humorless Poems

Eye witness they, O my mother, rag less I am.
You are the price maker but guilty I am;
So much needs, chastity at deal
Shameless crying, robbed...

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I am sick of excuses to avoid responsibility
and I am, today, sick with excuses to avoid responsibility
with "I'm just a mortal human. I make mistakes.
I...

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Depression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair 
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by...

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Everything that is created
disguises a hidden purpose....
A calligrapher writes out his lines
not just for the exquisiteness of the script
but to also convey a meaning.
 ...

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It is known throughout Earth's anonymous
unanimous Commons,
Systems are hard to change.

The more macro-competitive,
Yang-strong,
The more difficult of all conversion stories

Over pernicious decades,
We tend to add "isms"
to...

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Everyone's great cause
projects them as our future's therapeutic hero.
So all against our health-intending causes
reject us as potential victimizers,
ostracizers,
impeachers,
disenfranchisers,
excommunicators,
criminalizers.

The trick is to see antagonists,
sources of trauma,
as...

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George Washington an Old Fuddy-Duddy?

By Elton Camp

What image of Washington comes to mind?
In with your money is the one you will find
Right there George is,...

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World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - VI - Chaim Nachman Bialik, Erich Fried

After My Death
by Chaim Nachman Bialik
translation by Michael R. Burch

Say this...

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To the edge of wonder we’ll blithely roam,
Map an enchanted place of passion born, 
In the far reaches of love we’ll find home.

Over gold-dusted peaks...

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Good Humors Create Healers

Humorless weaponed officials
applying laws
to challenged and challenging
unarmed natures,
is like expecting a rabid rattlesnake
to advocate with and for patience,
understanding through merciful listening,
to apply...

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LITHIUM EQUILIBRIUM

“All Apologies” to Kurt Cobain
this drug is decidedly an undeserving
 song depicting a drug you avoid to obtain
 logically-- wisely your ‘sanity’ preserving

People and...

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Am I unhealthy and unsafe oppressed,
suppressed,
repressed,
right-brain negatively depressed?

Not really all that:
competitively left-brain impressive,
first through last impression 
newsworthy,
enticingly marketable,
profitably commercial,
slickly corporate,
predatively intelligent

More camouflaged
unnoticed and undefined
unrefined
and, frankly,...

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Sweltering Monetary Slump

Torrid atmosphere
Spent as a humorless mock
Bare heat funds replete

																							Sunshine Williams...

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I coming back from a desert place
O dry it was and waterless
The drought rose up and strangled me
With cracking fist, and humorless
The thing like a...

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Scratch Trump Off My List

Trump's home has become
A catacomb, while on his
Head wears an orange dome.

Trump thinks that he is
Such a sweet thing, and to...

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