Purpose or Obliteration
...I dreamed I was inside a bulb—
a cathedral of filament and glass—
not dead
not born…..
but shumming**.
Glass walls curved like time
sealed but translucent
my fingers curled around ...
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Categories:
hardwired, identity, imagination, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
The Big Lie
...This is the century of the Big Lie.
Right from the beginning
With the Dot Com boom
9/11 attack and subsequent counter attack
We’ve been living
In one continuous deceptive news cycle
Of mi...
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Categories:
hardwired, addiction, fear, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative
The Madness of the Crowd and Other Popular Delusions
...(Dzachuka Tibet, summer of 2017)
The Madness of the Crowd and Other Popular Delusions
The crowd is always prone to madness
Since reaction as a herd in danger
Demands conformity without...
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Categories:
hardwired, life, perspective, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
The Route
...Right now I’ve still got all this fight in me,
even as I wage war with bulletproof;
I’m ready sucker punch for the knockout;
Enemies try but just fall short daily,
hardwired sarcasm explodes with...
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Categories:
hardwired, anger, emotions, feelings,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Right back where I found you
...You wanted your world to change
You wanted a life with a family
Somewhere you could feel safe
Feel the love you so dearly desired
In your mind you felt that this family
Could replace the on...
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Categories:
hardwired, abuse, heartbreak, journey, moving
Form: Free verse
Eagle Swift
...
Eagle Swift, My Conscience Uplifts
Upshifts the Swiftness, It's Blissful, My Soul Drifts
Solo Drifter, I Sail The Abyss
One with the Quasars, I Scratch Off The Bucket List
High Born, I Soa...
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Categories:
hardwired, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Quantum math
...The boomeranging echo
deafening to receive
retro rockets smoking with the effort to retrieve
What dignity affords
Approaching the singularity
Where mathematics misbehave
Infinitely distort...
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Categories:
hardwired, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
The Cork Solicitor
...Carrying their brief to Washington Street
Ready to present before the court
A solicitor’s compelling case
Based on the law of tort
The judge arrives on the circuit
Yet in his ways he is hardwi...
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Categories:
hardwired, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
The Evolved Brain
...This modern world we inhabit
Is millions and millions of years old
And out of this world evolved a brain
That became self aware; and eventually out of control
Hardwired with a conglomeration of...
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Categories:
hardwired, africa, allegory, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Climaxing Prevolution
...He feels less photogenic
as he ages
more pornophobic,
watched
and found wanting
with judgment
and not amazement
As he displays his patriarchal
militant
fading software
No longer hardw...
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Categories:
hardwired, health, humanity, integrity, metaphor,
Form: Political Verse
My Dear Fear
...What is fear; something outward or within?
Strangely serene; how darkness holds all still.
Fight or flight? On either, truth will transcend.
Of life, love, and lust; risks rewarded thrill.
A fe...
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Categories:
hardwired, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Sonnet
Going In Within
...Oft in the still of the dark unforgiving night
We do wake up trembling with remorse
Ego borne ferality cause of our plight
Consciousness correction the only recourse
Hardwired and left brained ...
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Categories:
hardwired, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Let It Be
...There's a perturbation beneath the surface
An impulsive dilemma of wants and needs
It's a cognitive battle
Should I refrain, or should I feed?
The desires are instinctive
The hardwired cravin...
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Categories:
hardwired, beautiful, celebration, courage, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Unrest - a Sound of Jumbos
...They punch a fist in the air
Anger written on their faces
Those deaths of their own..
Having ignited hidden fires
Rushing over each other arsonist...
Reason and civility is thrown away
Adopti...
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Categories:
hardwired, anxiety, black african american,
Form: Blank verse
Age Has Not Aged
...we gathered lilacs
you&I
in that faroff land
distant
now uninhabited
unvisited
'cept by memories
those days so real
more real the...
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Categories:
hardwired, love, romance,
Form: Verse
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