Best Necessary Poems

Only those you love can really hurt you;
For those you do not love can't reach your heart,
So when they say or do things that can cut you,
The pain can pierce your heart just like a dart.

Things like this aren't easily forgotten.
When remembered wounds seem fresh...

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Kirk: "Spock, is it possible McCoy is somehow being controlled by an alien presence?"
Spock: "Curiously, I have long believed that McCoy was..."
Kirk: "Not now Spock!  Sheesh.  Sulu, get McCoy up here - on the double!"
Sulu: (snore)
Kirk: "I said on the double, mister!"
Sulu: "On...

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Missing the luxurious lush green of verdant spring.
When autumn chafes against the soul
Reluctant of letting go all that summer had to offer
We do not proffer from resentment 
Find, we may contentment with the season immediately upon the boughs,
The leaves all fallen and secretly feeding unseen...

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take this blade 
and cut your wrists
make escape holes for the devil

let him leave you
through the bleeding
make the world then somewhat level

it's a sacrifice 
most unholy
but for the good of all mankind

so take thy soul
unto the slaughter
and you'll find i'm right in time

sure i'm just...

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Take those necessary steps
In order to take charge of the day 
You have it in you
Let nothing stand in your way
Put everything into perspective 
And be the inspiration
Lift others up
Brighten their sensation...

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"The Necessary Mission"

The heart has pages
that unfurl daily 
out from under 
blankets of
circadian rhythm
like petals stretch
and turn over 
again and again
the reach rich 
forever eternal 
turns inwards
embyronic 
nightshade returns
the necessary mission
when Morning arrives
the heart has pages


(LadyLabyrinth / 2023)
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On this UBI's Day, May 1st, to observe the greatest socioeconomic concept ever conceived.


You can't have all you want
but not having all you need,        
it's a pity, unworthy economic being,
don't expect a man plant
growing grains, fruits and juices,
rise...

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Have you never tasted hunger
Tread the alleys with the stealthy
Cried the tears of someone younger
While you dined among the wealthy
Shuffled through the papers
Through the pages of despair
Embittered by the capers
Neglect, hanging in the air
Step with me through the sadness
Let me open up your eyes
Weave, careful...

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This is not a message to attack my brothers
But it is a message to attract my brothers

Black men we cannot deny who we are
Or the definition of our true color
No matter how we look at our lives
We must recognize that we are poison to ourselves
Trapped...

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Summer’s bleached itself
to bone and stubble. Mirage
is shimmer, false reflection.

First ice on the pond
a mirror of last winter
so coldly perfect, shattered....

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There ain't no substitute for love and compassion
As long as we live, they're always in fashion
Life's necessary stuff
We can't get enough
A life without love, is a life I can't fathom

© Jack Ellison 2015...

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What is necessary
to sacred grace
and secular humane dignity 
of wealthy space--
To life as HealthyRights,
and not so much MonoCulturing Wrongs?

If sufficiently encultured,
embedded,
centered,
balanced--
If vulnerably innocent
RightBrain transparent
with nutritional desire,
active longing,
camouflaged RightBrain belongings,
reactings,
recreations--
We grow interior with exterior
mutual WinWin integrity

Integrity organically old and refined
DNA enculturation
enveloping RNA-rooted selves
with other EarthTribe species...

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On this UBI's Day, May 1st, to observe the greatest socioeconomic concept ever conceived.

UBI, what if I'm missing the necessary.
Solve it, opportunity for statues.
Long version 

This statue down there,
across me, don't know
what hunger is 
and what's to be needy.
No needy left a statue,
at the most...

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Only one stands true.
Everything has to evolve,
Else it perishes....

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long road falls to fog
long day gives in to motion
quitting time prevails...

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