Best Malady Poems

Suddenly
when melancholy arrived,
she engraved the words 'sad' 
deep into my manic mind.
Then abandoned me in 
a pit of sinister silence.

Who turned out the lights
inside the moon?

Now the horizon looks like tar 
and the voices become louder.
Every morning is a miserable melody
in this malady of heavy...

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Pouring rain for days

              Pools of water all around

              Scarce drinking water!...

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TATEIAN WHEELS OF LIFE


Twenty Dora-band aids barely cover one of my scars across my chest.  It's my stomach this time. But one hour of reading James Tate makes my mouth curled upward, with an outward breath and smile. Though as morning ended, I thought,...

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The heavy lead blocks
Feeling completely spavined
Ineluctable

Zymotic gulf like nihilism
Hollow skull starved
Explodes wherein of itself

The wells enlarge
And vomit happy
Under sunken stars

As Baryshnikov they
Perform deep under laps
Enveloped lightly and kingdom come

Pallid as an interwar prostitute
The ball in the stomach floating like a foetus
Intense maladies and ulcer-bile-black night...

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She pretends to care
Written emotion lies to all
The core of her is rancid
Her center made of fantasy

She tries to impress all
With saccharin sickly prose
The woman turns a blind eye
Her true intentions revealed...

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Blackened and twisted,
she spews words full of hatred
in her cries for help...

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A malady of the mind
Dominates the will
As the surging river
Overruns the mill

Omnipotent craving
The bullpen cannot hold
A temptation unremitting
Annulling principle

No affection or reason 
Or threat of penalty
Can possibly deter - or -
Potentiate the will...

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The proverbial all pervading calm and inner peace,
Stability is what we choose to call it- to earn greens,
To eat them, to share it or to control it. So escapable
Yet, always avoided. The veil of contentment ever
So fallible.

Moving from thatched roofs to brick and mortar,
Crawling from...

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"But love's a malady without a cure. ~ John Dryden"

Love is indeed a malady, greatest malady of all
Since birth we all whine for love
And exclusive love we want from others.
All for love wars have been fought,
endless crime happens
Acids are thrown, rapes occur, murder is done....
Many...

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Can’t function without it
The conjunctional life
And punctures confounding
A subjugal strife

My endurance depleting
My inevitable fallacies
Determined to beat this
Chemical malady

but

Deep down in the ditch
Is where I feel safe
Weak in the grips
Of insanity’s embrace

You can’t lift me out
Try as you may
Insipid, I pout
Is this where I’ll stay?

(Written 09/17/2018)...

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I walked into a room full of sinners and saints
and saw a dozen representations of me
Some were shackled by the same temporal constraints
from which the rest were utterly free
Together, they constituted one greater whole
that encompassed the essence of man
Like letters on the papyrus of an...

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Listen to this naysayer, 
Where thee never meets his course, 
Deny deny deny, 
Nein nein nein as the Germans say, 
His heart is hard like a stone, 
He battles with his own emotions,
That lead his head topsy-turvy, 
He's ill tempered, 
Loathsome bipolar they call him,...

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No ladies, these bugs, not quite.
Asian lady beetles
Little thugs: they like to bite!


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An American 767, like a haiku, and must include a reference to a bug...

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From where so a fault comes to call,
There from hint comes how to forestall: 
Boils and blisters that burn,
Back by hot foments turn,
From ailment does its cure unroll.    
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Translation |11.01.2025|  

 Poet’s note: Sanskrit has thousands of verses of wisdom called...

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Human Malady

Everything has it's time 
When an event is ripe
Nothing can elude it
As the chiming of a clock
Designates a specific time of day
So events in our lives 
Yesterday is history 
Today is here, alive with us
Tomorrow is pregnant,  unknown 
No matter our escapade, ...

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