Best In Relation To Poems

What it is to be depleted
All my insides might exit through my neck
As thoughts weigh a ton and stem the explosion of self /

Then I stopped to brush my child's hair. 

Consideration of maintaining all things in this moment - something will give and I...

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I've got a fist full of Buddha,
And a fist full of Rand,
A pocket full of Jesus,
And the other's filled with sand,
That's in case I need to make some glass,
As it will proceed my foot in relation to your class,
That's a diametric description of an uncommon...

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Like a velvet skirt with glimmering rhinestones,
The night sky beckons us to lift our eyes
And gaze upon the heavens, so glorious,
So filled with wonder, splendorous mystery --
Where myriads of constellations, light years away,
Continue to remind us of One greater than ourselves.

Like the mysteries in my...

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Memory

I am my memory.
This piece of the world, this brief sprouting
Amongst many thinking radishes, 
Exists only as resonances within 
Lacy neurons; Flanders’ delicate patterns 
Sustained by glial skeletons, 
Beyond the spider’s web or silent
Snowflake in elegant complexity.

I am memory: 
Identity, selfness, the compass of my...

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When I was born in 1949, Harry Truman was the President of The United States.  Of course I do not personally remember him.  Mr. Truman was followed by Mr. Dwight Eisenhower, but I just vaguely remember him.  However, the first President that...

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The value of her name is fading,
Oh mother Ghana, mother of beauty and richness.
Every sector in her government is creating hopelessness.
A place attained from the sweat of passed souls within nationalism and confidence,
Today has appeared in darkness.
Showcasing old treasures with new born acts made out...

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Someone asked me once what exactly is it that separates us from the socially elite or the ruling class,
and the answer she said would require real thought and that until I answered I could not pass.

It also could not pertain to a wise saying people...

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Villanelle: No man can on his own escape written fate

         For Thiru-Valluvar, the “nameless” author of 
the THIRUK-KURAL

Note: In my previous posts, especially on Canto 38, I had expounded
on the man and his work in relation to...

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No hell no fail 
Can't tell ?!?
Criss crossed hands nailed railroad
Nervous nails chewed low 
Crisscrossed knees with broken elbows
Smile on the face 
hanging from the spikes like velcro
Head held up high
just a guy, who wants to make it
Ideas! 
creation!
 in relation to my nation
26 year...

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I have in my possession an object I really prize.
It belonged to two guys whom I really idolize.
'Twas a necessary device when straight razors were the fad.
'Tis the leather razor strop used by my Grandpa and Dad.

Its precise genesis is really difficult to gauge,
But it's...

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Diminishing virtues stripped away
From the flesh
By the fierce brined rods that freely 
Course thy hot crimson blood; 
Dry cracked lips attempting to
Fashion broken words of compliance
That so must needs to be spoken...
But...Ohhh, Meretrix...
My foolish and innocent child -
If you but only could!

Consider, Meretrix,..humility!
To which pleasure...

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~ (~) ~ By design this poem is interchangeable within-and-with-itself either 
way being or which ever Nonet you chose to read firsts, they always recycle 
themselves. ~ (~) ~ 

~ (~) ~ This poem can be read as well, from their final line on up...

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This place is always a little lonely 
At the weekends...no noise and life, 
I like solitude, 
But not in places 
Where's there's recently been 
A lot of people.

Reclusiveness protects you 
From nostalgia, 
And you can be as nostalgic 
In relation to what happened 
Half an...

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“Survival of the fittest or destruction of the unfit”                                    ...

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Gaining more in size, attributes and qualities
Roaming but upwards in a gradual velocity
Older, should be the outlook and appearance
Wiser, should be the attitude and reasoning
Time never stops running, while a change shows, through
Higher levels, measured in relation to the immediate past...

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