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Hedonism Poems

missed summer

I should’ve had a hedonistic summer, a roundup of long, sun-kissed days and even longer, undulant, kissing nights.

There are no riviera pics this year - set against the blow-out backdrop of Saint Tropez or Heraclee - with their sunlit-deliriums, cracked plaster beach bars, aromatic trailing Jasmine, lavender, umbrella pines and baking Socca.

No nights of dense,

Categories: hedonism, beach, environment, fun, missing,
Form: Free verse

Someone always makes the rules

It is now legal to take THC
A drug now in gummies and Cannabis tea
But in Siskiyou County the Hmong growers move in
threaten the natives, who must lose so you win.

[bridge]
You can love him and leave him, have a sweet fling,  
The government helps with the baby you bring,  
We've got the highest percent

Categories: hedonism, irony, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Lyric

hedonism

Hedonism 

There was a time when ships were hard to handle
a crew of thirty-four or more and boys of fifteen 
were employed to do the washing up after meals
and clean floors
A fraught time when hormones rage blatantly
we boys met in a cabin for communal maturation
to see who could hold it in the longest 
I lost and hung my

Categories: hedonism, absence, allusion, anger,
Form: Blank verse

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Hedonism

We were born in a time where we cannot
Ever afford to break the rules
Taught unto us by different schools...
Different trains of thought...

Being the starving artist I am, as the fruit will rot,
I continue to observe and paint what I see:
The fruits of the old love you had for me,
The basket of grapes we had once

Categories: hedonism, first love, muse, romance,
Form: Quatrain

Hedonism

In this Equinoctial Splendor,
Around us cebelean surrender.
Nature’s love doth abound,
Leaping out of the ground.
So why’s my son still glued to Tinder?

Categories: hedonism, fun, spring,
Form: Limerick

Hedonism Todays Song

Glad,hedonistic lad;
Delighting in delectations,
Amusing affectations,
Posturing pretension
with ogling ostentation!

Professing pleasure seeking
Confessing,leisure leaning.
Reputation so revealing,
Passe peer appealing!

Performing,extroverting,
Showcasing,demonstrating,
Superficial and artificial;
Pleasure without measure.

Sad,sad,so sad !


 Year Posted 2007

Categories: hedonism, word play,
Form: Alliteration

Sign of the Times Hedonism

Glad,hedonistic lad;
Delighting in delectations,
Amusing affectations,
Posturing pretension
with ogling ostentation!

Professing pleasure seeking
Confessing,leisure leaning.
Reputation so revealing,
Passe peer appealing!

Performing,extroverting,
Showcasing,demonstrating,
Superficial and artificial;
Pleasure without measure.

Categories: hedonism, allegory,
Form: Alliteration

Charlatan

Hedonism echoed
every pore of charlatan
bleeding illusion
mirage of grooves of magic
rode hollow soul to the black hole.

Categories: hedonism, dark, philosophy, poetry, senses,
Form: Tanka

Hedonism

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah biblical sense
The inability of repentance

Turned to a statue of stone
The truth as it was shown

America may suffer the same fate
Evangelicals at the pearly gate

Lust, greed and debauchery 
A government in the troughs of tyranny

Vulgar and uncouth pronouncement of discourse
A divided nation without remorse

Plotting tax break for the most wealthy
Eliminating

Categories: hedonism, confusion, philosophy, political, power,
Form: Canzone

Hedonism

bare hedonism

anesthetizes the mind,

then the soul goes blind!

Categories: hedonism, introspection, people, social,
Form: Senryu