Best Rationalizations Poems

I am writing to you because I know you have a wish.
I have been thinking diligently about your wish. It is not
going to be easy...

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Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light

Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment

Scattered in...

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Written: September 23, 2023
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What was I thinking, I pondered alone,
As my mind wandered my thoughts were thrown.
Lost in a whirlwind of doubt and despair,
I yearned...

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There is a beat to the world,
it burns and bites, it can calm & comfort,
it will arouse and it will anger, it is a romantic...

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Its been a while,
Since iv'e smiled
You remind me of her.

That sounds bad, 
But don't be mad 
Because your heart is more pure.

Its hard to love...

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i dreamt
i moved into a apartment
with an old brick wall
and its decaying face
the old light hanging from a thread
swings on the open breeze
from the window
time...

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"Years” and “Distance”, phantoms of the dark that do their evil
in the quietude of the everyday, coming and going without so
much as a footprint or...

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My emotions swarm, clouding all rational judgement. My pain is a storm in my heart,  my suffering the rain that pours down. I wish...

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Ignominious consecrations - Arise. 
Through tainted, synoptic eyes 
With condescending erroneous lies 
Despicable temptations - tease and denies 
My nemesis creation, 
insatiable appetites are no...

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The East Meets West Philosophy Association
had their annual 2020 conference in Rio,
when and where anything multiculturally lusty
is more likely to happen,
especially between sunset
and sunrise.

Coincidentally
and existentially
and...

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It probably won’t matter
Whatever I say you crush
The know-it-all refuses to listen
The conceit of a fool is so rigid
Unable to admit your arrogance
Positive advice is...

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He sat alone,  inside his own bubble of quiet,
indifferent to the scurrying sounds, the muted bustle 
of people huddled around their departure gates.
I thought...

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Words betray me
Abandoning in the time
Of their need
Thoughts escape
Unfaithful thoughts, evaporate
I panic
Memories, sweet memories
Please come rushing back
I need to recall
I have to narrate
Emotional blackmail
Whatever it...

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FORMAT

Life is full of expectations regulations-- evaluations

Rationalizations

Poetry provides perfect protection-- preventing

Pre-empting

Facilitating fanciful feelings--fictional

Fascinations

FORMAT—WHERE IS THE FREEDOM IN THAT?...

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Quiet is the eve with ire I passed among the dead.
Yet, Still… are the thoughts that banged around within my head?
So peaceful rests the fear,...

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