Best Retrained Poems

I shouldn't have looked into wondrous eyes
to find a reason to comply and stay
and dance with romance beneath stars that sigh
in a fragrant-scented night, I'll obey
that your eyes so tender could hold me chained
with delicate passions burning desire
I become a prisoner that's retrained
freedom is granted...

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re-jargon re-emancipation re-align re-alteration, by design despair intended, no fear with the

truth deflected, relagate remove re-tie, retrained in rejection to observe a "new" (religion) 

the temporal (love) that grows again from former things, and a past inglorious decidley mean

rewind rewind ligature will bind, search (religeon)...

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In Colchester, CT,
and possibly in your town too,
we have a LongTerm ReCoVery Committee
looking at 20/20 prevision
for post-pandemic climate health revisions
for wealthy local and global EarthJustice.

So, what have I noticed
that might be economically
and ecologically win/win useful?

In a post-pandemic
post-Trump StraightWhitePatriarchal-capitalist cabal,
post-BusinessAsUsual monoculturing economic climates
of All-Or-Nothing
Either-Or
Win-Lose competitive health-care,...

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Ago I watched a woman coax
A fellow back from death.
Sand clung to the drowned
Man's shoulder, briny fluid
Dripped from clustered hair
Breath pushed lung to throat

In that moment inelastic life
Crashed back upon the dead
like a shadow tsunami
A curl of pale and bilious gas
Fumed from chimney nostrils
Solidified in...

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I know that I’m addicted Although it’s self inflicted Life is not what I depicted To this I am convicted I don’t want any help I want to do it myself My efforts are in vain It’s impossible to abstain Even when I try distraction...

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To deal with the pain
I?ve retrained my mind 
Every time I have a memory of you
Every time I have a dream about you at night

I will visualize a red button that says delete
Just like when you press play and record at the same time
I will...

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I long to see you       become forever well
filled with life and happiness  that from which we fell
I love you for the character               things in...

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It appears to be inevitable,
    That conflict is renewed.
Where passions outweigh the passive,
    Becoming arrogant and rude.

When the diplomats are silent,
    With nothing more to say.
Our youth take up the battle,
    Trained in...

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Once Upon A Time
Once upon a time there was a young boy
He sent an orchid to a fresh young girl
He wanted to break through the walls of troy
The prize he won and he took his new pearl

Running down the winding and leafy lanes
Hand in hand...

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People are robotic programs are installed...
Some will read my words and some what get appalled...
Media streams info that they want you to know...
It's all this grand stage and we're part of the show...
Listen to this savior that looks almost like you...
Because he is your color...

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It started on his first day of school
I was promptly labelled dunce and fool 
For being a lefty guess I wasn't cool
The yardstick across the fingers 
Left bruises to the heart that still lingers
Learn to write with your right or you get another zinger
How can...

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My boss thought he was so clever
not giving me a raise for extra responsibility

‘Twas in the wonderful days when jobs
were in abundance but that worked both ways

Promptly gave my notice and he was ecstatic 
to announce he was giving my job to a university grad
A...

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End my mind pollution


I know that I’m addicted
Although it’s self inflicted
Life is not what I depicted
To this I am convicted

I don’t want any help
I want to do it myself
My efforts are in vain
It’s impossible to abstain

Even when I try distraction
My demons say time for action
I...

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A life spoken of too much
locks the museum door behind it.

If you write it all down
eyeballs will skate over the
rambling litter.

Many claim to have a book in them
one worth telling to all.
Nod and agree, then flee.

A life underdone is best,
not too hard a boiled egg...

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Having seen and so known our quintessence,
that made in God’s image, we’re living light,
aflame in our heart, as our core essence
and though we’re enraptured in bliss delight,
strangely we yet fear darkness of the night.
What we have imbibed has not been ingrained,
perhaps because our heart is...

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