Kant Touch This
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In Konigsberg's silent, winding streets,
A scholar kept a clockwork beat—
Immanuel Kant, whose daily round
Set city watches to their sound.
A mind both shaped by science’ light
And mystic mo...
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Categories:
critiques, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Couplet
A Child Of Light
...Light I see so dim
My eyes blur as they humour my sin
I watch and wait while they teach
And nod and annoy my eye and throat
My write scratches and marks
I smile when I remember my stupidity
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Categories:
critiques, art,
Form: Free verse
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
...Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Elocution lessons for the morality police
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique
Revolution f...
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Categories:
critiques, life,
Form: Rhyme
Misanthropic Melodies
...Misanthropic melodies played from a broken violin
Prehistoric prophecies that ignite new ideas before they begin
Telescopic telomeres that formulate a scientific grin
Endoscopic X-rays and a docto...
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Categories:
critiques, life,
Form: Rhyme
Trashcans
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Mentally we rummage through
Our trashcans of the past
Viewing what was worthless
When in that trash were cast:
A milestone magazine we see in there
Worth thousands in “green backs” now
Oh m...
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Categories:
critiques, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror, Mirror
...Mirror Mirror everywhere
Large Small and Pale
None it spares from the critiques of its glare
Mirror, Mirror, it Surrounds me from everywhere
Like Im in a mirror maze, growing inside, in layer
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Categories:
critiques, anger, angst, character, identity,
Form: Political Verse
Right Cause
...Right Cause
Risk all for the
Right cause, while you may not be
Rewarded in the way you expect you might
Realize that the journey was a
Reward in itself. Others my
React negatively to what you...
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Categories:
critiques, philosophy,
Form: Pleiades
Once Again
...Once more, I am thinking about writing -
coils are uncoiling,
snakes study the intricate anatomy
of legs and next steps.
My audience of one
must be propped up as if yet still alive,
geriatric...
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Categories:
critiques, poetry,
Form: Free verse
DIALOGUE WITH ONESELF
...Neither academic, nor preacher, nor politician, nor judge,
But a writer, with a fetish for the act of creation —
Not to broadcast my thoughts, or to synthesize critiques for others,
But for the va...
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Categories:
critiques, violence,
Form: Free verse
SYMBOLS
...emphasized
distinguished
& scattered
spread out
pretexts
for
reflection
of
nowaday
notions
influenced
&
flavoured
with
humour
prompted
by
contemporary
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Categories:
critiques, art, symbolism,
Form: Verse
Serpent-Shaped Tears
...Serpent-shaped streams of tears slithering down my reddened cheeks
As I silently cry out all of the feelings built up for weeks.
Quietly reflecting on how he's changed because of my critiques.
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Categories:
critiques, break up, cry, heartbreak,
Form: Sijo
Upside-Down In Politics
...Strange things happen in politics
We cannot trust the polls
Life has its own dirty tricks
We can play divers roles
This is not business as usual
Always fight to save one's soul.
Things are up...
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Categories:
critiques, america, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Are you ready for some Football
...Are you ready? I mean, are you REALLY ready for some football?
Are you ready for some yelling, some fun, some cussing, some drinking, partying and tailgating?
Are you ready for some fussing, so...
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Categories:
critiques, celebration, city, emotions, football,
Form: Narrative
My Favorite Teacher
...by Khalil "The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
The teacher I remember as the best
stood out easi...
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Categories:
critiques, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
My Fellow Poets
...Does not matter what they say..
Poetry is easy but it’s not poetry…
Hallmark cliché is not a poem I am afraid..
You can spot a poet.. By their words…
Spilt from lips with gusto and fervor!
Grote...
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Categories:
critiques, appreciation, art, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
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