These lone fears, a raw howled wind
Did exacerbate
Can't thwart me today.
Nor gloomy cloud, those wept for
Filled with more dismay.
Winter-callous, this springtime
Walk does mitigate.
Enwrapped, visually
Of what of their heed shuts out;
Soft and fluttery.
it is truly difficult to provoke, exacerbate or rile me up.
I had a horrible mean temper when I was but a pup.
But it never did anything that helped me in any way.
Matter of fact, it brought regrets every time it would play.
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES WEIGH ME DOWN LIKE AN ANCHOR, KEEPING ME STUCK IN THE SAME PLACE, WHICH FEELS LIKE AN ETERNITY.
THE FEELINGS OF GUILT AND SHAME I CAN'T SHAKE OFF, POWERLESSNESS OF THINGS THAT I CAN'T CHANGE.
AS MY BODY WITHERS AWAY, SO DOES MY MIND.
MY BEST MEMORIES SLIP AWAY, WHILE THE WORST ONES REMAIN EMBEDDED IN MY THOUGHTS.
THE ACHES AND PAINS RADIATE THROUGH MY BODY, AND THE EMOTIONAL TRAUMA AND SCARES ONLY EXACERBATE THE ONE THING THAT I KNOW TO BE TRUE: PAIN, LONELINESS, AND ABANDONMENT.
FINDING MYSELF ALONE WITH NO ONE AROUND, WITH MY LIFE IN CHAOS AND DISARRAY, SEEMS TO BE THE STATUS QUO.
Pain managed; not at T E N!
Nor at two, four, six a.m.
Not so much a squeeze
as a labor-like pain.
Intensity of calf cramp,
beyond imagination’s stretch.
Worthwhile epidural; we will see.
Something replaced the relief.
Invasive ivy wraps around my right.
Leg in turmoil; spoils of success.
Information relays that exercise
can exacerbate; cut me a break.
Steepled hands, then knuckle hug.
How can we manage to get it right?
God knows. God knows. Good…
all that ails me will be used for good,
but meanwhile it’s very bad. Sorry
for those who groan in suffering.
Politicians are paid as a last resort
to attend the summit accomplishing nought
but flap their lips expose their gums
feed their face and fill their tums
all the hot air they expend
I don't exaggerate
discussing climate change in the end
will only exacerbate
the ongoing problem long-since forming
a future foreboding of global warming
for every page and pamphlet printed
put in the post or stuck on walls
about ecology and saving the woods
it seems to me yet another tree in the forest falls
and I believe for every drop of acid rain
a flower dies
somewhere under the darkest skies
a new-born baby cries
With apologies to; Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl & Al Stillman
Civilian communicator
Manager and organizer
Reckon it really is smart?
Tests for IQ hadn't passed it
Sense much it doesn't real make
Shall we announce a tender
Requirements for contenders
Who and or what judge will take
Pairings and the APIs
Monopolies marketing lies
Vs this Predator Apex
If human is website
Your slice
How will your memories
Of brain yours and enemies
Forget all that what they had seen
What does mean elaborate
Shall you forge exacerbate
The quantum eraser of screen
Your new capitcha
Extra word
If you are literate
We're talking about disparate
Literate human literate bot
The breast tumor can be
Removed by scalpel
What about the feeling in it
It means your heart
Is functioning well
It's better to remove the tumor
That not removing the feeling
The heart can be tamed
But not the tumor, it grows
It's fatal and dangerous
The destructive cells can kill
But the feeling can make
A person happy or sad
Time can heal for a broken heart and tumor
But the tumor exacerbate if not treated
Better take medication both
The tumor and the broken heart
For the preservation of life.
The bonus layer of filth
Coating the experiential asphalt
Native to this smitten land
Where you either
Accelerate or exacerbate
For the bulls run hard here
In clever, desperate ways
When stacked two or six to a room Hoodies line the highways and runways Because bad hair days
Attempts to stay warm
And inconspicuous strutting
Make sense for this first dew
After a Christmas sunset
Humanity yawning
Some obligated to grind
As the sun turns again
To wonder
Where wander is the most
That many can afford.
(12/26/17)
A thunderous rumbling,
lightning flashing
all within my troubled brain,
I wander in a daze,
afraid of crashing.
The cause is plain,
I must see you again.
The passing years,
where each does live,
In joy and Sorrow,
and happiness spent,
Each with another,
who of themselves did give,
repaid by our lost time,
we to them lent.
It is not with covetous envy,
but with joy,
I look upon the sacrifice we made,
though self interest now,
is what we must employ,
For what has gone before,
was but a masquerade.
Millennia come and go,
and decades fade away,
I know that we,
should not have parted,
And rue what happened,
on that fateful day.
But time will not give back,
what man has started.
Exacerbate the problem,
convolute the time,
Pick the optimum moment,
grab it if you can,
To love beyond reason,
is said to be no crime,
Insipid love, however,
has no passion or elan.
and wastes the little, that there is,
Of the time of man.
What if the whole street blithely celebrates
What if the neighbours quaintly decorate
What if the well wishers advocate
" Oh ho! Life has to move on, Forget!"
It's we, agonizing over the happy days gone
Pondering on the deeds you gleefully did in
the festive seasons, the dress you donned
Our bountiful Pongal pot you spotlessly adorned
Don't you fathom it's immensely tough for us
To celebrate any festival with same zest?
On our exaltation graph, after your demise, no crests
Bracing smiling mask, they see tearful face lest
So, Appa, what if the whole street celebrates!
Can't you see our minds still exacerbate!
I arrived at a residential facility today,
The people are nice but the thoughts scream profanities
my overalls get looser as the day goes on,
and I feel like I'm shrinking, but maybe that's a good thing
my mind is a sullen cloud,
heavy with the weight on my shoulders
I sit in a chair unable to think, they may think I'm disgusting too
the echoes exacerbate the evil spirit that eggs on my eagerness to escape
never have I felt so welcomed, yet so alone
I scream and suffer in silence.
Major and Champ our DOTUS elect.
Bring joy to the White House and help us respect
..that color of fur is not cause to reject
..other people or dogs with whom we connect.
There no longer is reason to show disrespect
..for differing views that we think aren't correct.
So Major and Champ please help us protect
..the rich diverse differences that we can detect
..and please don't infect us with insults and hate.
Don't wait but instead set the date for us all to relate and collaborate.
Reject (don't erect) walls that exacerbate and separate our polarized views.
Refuse the fake news. Believe scientists' clues.
Be the example, with love and good sense, that heals and improves,
..BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE.
Reference: see the Biden Election Website showing Major (black German Shepherd) & Champ (brown German Shepherd) - "First Dogs Elect(s) of USA" https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/hobbiesandactivities/763312/meet-us-president-elect-joe-biden-s-first-dogs-champ-and-major/story/
(To be sung to the tune of “Alouette”)
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
When you muddle and confuse, then you simply cannot lose,
Complicate, obfuscate,
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
Use a complicated word every time your voice is heard
Dazzle twits with your wits,
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
Seven letters and above are the words the game’s made of
Show your knowledge learned in college,
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
If your meaning’s understood, then the words are just no good,
Make it sound tres profound,
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
You will sound like such a whiz if your word selection is
Unintell - igible,
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
Postulate, exacerbate, extricate, pontificate,
Inundate, aggravate,
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Obfuscation, we like obfuscation
Obfuscation, the game we like to play
In the deepness of my solitude
is when I dare think of you
Locked inside my broken heart
your love from me never will depart
Forlorn our love by other hands
always our love forever stands
Like a fish in a dry pond
I slither away life prolong
by dreams of dreams of loving you
It is all my soul has left to do
Time is eternal, will love ever die
Will mercy kill love so time abides
Rouse my fear contemptuous
scorn my pain as silly lust
Secretly I knock at your hearts door
my lips utter, forevermore
My love for you is how I survive
always to live always to die
Callous mocking by those who hate
my sadness they only exacerbate
Taste the sins life tries to hide
swallow hard that selfish pride
There is no reason whom we adore
only always wanting more
self to expound,
whereby scrawling how painful
eye experience,
where 21st century
urban jungle doth abound
to exacerbate anxiety and panic,
aye noticed round
about puberty, and plugged up ears
to dull the nerve wrack
king Breitbart cacophony
even family pet
dogs (part Border
Collie and Hell Hound)
barked with shrill torturous yap,
which reverberation did
assault and pound
delicate constituent
audiological organ of mine
impossible to avoid unwillingly
being part of loud culture club
emanations impossible to dub,
thus helplessly bombarded, exposed,
and subjected to discordant
damaging noise found
me to flub
attendant tasks, especially grub
bing to earn chump change
to avoid mingling at social hub
rather remain hermetically
sealed, where nub
body cant see me, hence
that concludes thine literary rub.
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