Transmutation
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In the landscape of entangled existence,
we traversed life on the path of no essence.
Ego chasing the mirage of endless desire,
wandering cynical in wasteland made us tire.
Vanity and cr...
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Categories:
egocentricity, self, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever Happened To Glasnost and Perestroika
...Whatever Happened To Glasnost And Perestroika?
Hobbit those characters who lived
within the realm
of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
as far removed as
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
upon squ...
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Categories:
egocentricity, absence, angel, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
New Life
...Vanity and desire innately compulsive
distort the ethos of obdurate ego,
conditioning the vision to look at others,
for self-consciousness turns opaque layer.
Divine intervention in lif...
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Categories:
egocentricity, analogy, life, love, vanity,
Form: Free verse
The Debate
...After enduring their egocentricity for centuries…Gaia could no longer wait…so she summoned every entity on the planet…to listen to the debate.
“The humans think they are more important than all of...
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Categories:
egocentricity, earth, earth day,
Form: Rhyme
Learning, Studying, Loving
...Against the evil that enslaves,
our musculature
is the reading and information....
that reveal freedom...
Evil makes wars
we make fight... evil does
malice, egocentricity, ignorance
stupidity,...
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Categories:
egocentricity, abuse, allegory, allusion, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Bits and Pieces
...BITS AND PIECES
Bits and pieces they say makes the whole
A whole of what I can't help but ask
Bits and pieces of pain - despondence
Bits and pieces of lies - distrust
Bits and pieces of self -...
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Categories:
egocentricity, africa, character, fruit, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Through the Spirit
...Through the Spirit
Seven Spirits of Darkness, Seven Spirits of Light.
Spirits of Darkness= 1. Hatred, 2. Mistrust, 3. Despair, 4. Evil, 5. Incompetence, 6. Illiteracy and 7. Stupidity. Misery fol...
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Categories:
egocentricity, bible, courage, inspirational, parents,
Form: I do not know?
Ode To the Egotist
...I have listened to your moaning,
A voice that trembles with pride;
I have felt your anger so violently,
Thinking you were about to subside.
I have sought shelter far away,
Where all-inclusive ...
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Categories:
egocentricity, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
The End of Mankind
...THERE IS NO MUSIC
There is no music, I hear no more song.
Is it really true that we are all gone?
Yet life does continue without any rush,
And the music now heard, is the song of a thru...
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Categories:
egocentricity, destiny, earth day, future,
Form: Free verse
Who Owns a Poem
...Who Owns a Poem?
Could I call a poem – a poem
if I titled it as such
or would this egocentricity
cause the poets to turn on me?
Words - shifting sands - rolling stones
shadows cast by meatl...
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Categories:
egocentricity, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
Custody of 2020 Eyes
...Monks and nuns,
ascetics and miscellaneous humble proletariat folks,
were taught custody of the eyes,
to show respect for those older
and/or wiser
and/or more supremely royal,
and/or in other p...
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Categories:
egocentricity, games, gender, health, poverty,
Form: Political Verse
Heroism Dream
...Heroism Dream
They have forgotten the athletes.
Heroically, I run to grab
as much of the vaccine as I can find.
I dash through the tunnel
to where they are about to board the bus.
But I mu...
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Categories:
egocentricity, allegory, social,
Form: Light Verse
Break
...Yesterday I saw a man with no face
Today he is still yet the same
“Tomorrow”, he said, was his name
He told me of a place where time never moves
A place where the world can not find you
A bett...
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Categories:
egocentricity, faith, life, philosophy, religionme,
Form: Free verse
Fathomless Love
...searching through the rubble
of shattered egocentricity
sculpting reality from the substance
of the indwelling Christ...
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Categories:
egocentricity, hope,
Form: Free verse