Best Rummages Poems

I rummage through old memories 
 like an old woman rummages 
 through a handbag, 
 Searching for a reminder 
 of who I was before. . . 
 looking to find a way back 
 to being me without you....

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Original poem below...after the definition, found on www.google.com: 

"Full Definition of stubborn. 1a (1) : unreasonably or perversely unyielding : mulish (2) : justifiably unyielding : resoluteb : suggestive or typical of a strong stubborn nature  UNSUPPORTED CODE  2 : performed or carried...

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What my eyes dont see...
  Anguishes me, to this harsh society.
As I look to the majestic sky
  I see darkness & destruction in its light.  

How can one, be truly happy??

As we embark on this so.called journey

"selfishly"
those prostitutes, who lurk on the...

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Once wholly stripped 
of its crippling inhibitions
a mind rummages, unfettered
beyond mundane thoughts
delving along beveled edges
of a pensively distorted mirror
as though it sees inside a heart
reflections in purest pigments 
the genuine acumen of art

In deep translucent shadows
the artist interlaces light and dark
revealing with candid strokes
the truths...

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ISALE EKO  (LAGOS)

A rooster of discrete tongues
Culture, tradition
Where,
Zillion specters resonate
Quantum croak.
Cock crow,
Erupts whirl, barge at Alaba
Descry of sea of soul cases
Kibbling in, out as Emmet over nectar,
As husky ell of murk drench dawning,
Eviscerate NEPA's  spasmodic spitfire
To stupor, obloquy.
The hindmost geezer nestling,
Drenched in diaphoresis...

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"Today I will climb to the attic and raise the blind,
Where narrow heat lies thick and stale, confined
In that closed room; and I will jar the window loose
And pitch what is no use
Among those random piles of yesterday's
Right clothes,  knick knacks sold on highways
Claiming...

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Hammered glue striking blue in moods
she lay there in pool of her own 
working hard and fast she had got that
thoughts were full and act was a pull
validation lay in thoughts she vowed by that
disarming and endearing she had proclaimed
not once but several times hence
whether...

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You are an enchanting cynosure
Beyond my naked eyes could see;
An unbounded briny exposure
Where tiny drops assemble sea;
Unpretentious blustery waves
Evolve from phenomenal ripples;
Flowing endless murmur cripples
Heart deep embedded peeves.

Tuneless prayers by lonely seamen
Resonate in salty humid air;
Buried history at fathom unknown
Sleeps among tussocks somewhere;
Wonder world beneath...

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In the hot desert night he sat all alone
holding a letter in his trembling fist.
A lone tear rolled down his cheek as he read;
her reasons so neatly declared on a list.

She claimed that the love light had drifted away
just as he had to that far...

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MY CONDITION

Earlier the snow fell sideways slowly in gigantic flakes
but now their weight is too great; they descend straight down hard.
For her everything is constantly changing…a mind in flux, ebbing and flowing,
a wavelength on a nearby monitor…never quite sure where you are,
who you are. “Who...

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Like a rose lacking its pedals,
My tranquility disregards its fascinating smells
Like a tree shaking off dashes of its mangled leaves 
The switch of seasons interweaves... 
You infuriate me with petrifying peace
You unlocked the gate... unsealing healing doom

Miniscule doom rummages through the town,
Wreckage brings peace, making...

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She crushes the discolored leaves,
And drops them in the water, and stirs.
Over the fire, the water begins to heat,
And she stirs.

The bedimmed room is enveloped in its potency,
As she brings the boiling liquid to the table.
Poured into a cup, inhaled, drunk,
By the intoxicated patron.

The cup...

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My mind is stripped of crippling inhibitions
It rummages, unfettered with mundane thoughts
delving along beveled edges of a distorted mirror
as though it sees inside my sutured heart
In its scarred reflection is a sanguine painting
An original piece of bloody abstract art

In translucent shadows
shades of red interlace, light...

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though she tells herself she trusts him
the minute he is out the door for an extended trip of business
she finds her way to his desk &
with suspicious fingers, she rummages through his things
looking for evidence of something that might explain his
recent melancholic manner &
though to...

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I slowly come to 
as light creeps across the floor
and dissolves what I thought
had fallen through
the torn sides of a dream.
Nothing is there but
the scuff marks left 
by fleeing ghosts.

Unalterable facts assemble 
and lock shut around 
a narrowing space housing all 
that I think I...

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