(a series of Senryus)
Oh merciless tease,
heaven’s greatest injustice
must be temptation
There is no sense in
in the sensual and no real
care in the carnal
They’d begun the rites,
delights and wrongs of such love
an unworthy two
Anointed and sworn
by covenants to faithful
others as they were
Was a single kiss
what set the violently
borne fire of thirst?
Which, carried by the
winds of want, brought misfortune
and misadventure
There followed a swift
contract to sin that enriched
impractical love
Their delightful and
perfect lowliness of mind
banished dull conceits
And then afterwards,
a bookful of non-binding
promises of love
.
.
A song for this
the feeling by Steve Lacy [E]
None of the practical rules apply
To an impractical person
Like a figure of our imagination
Nothing can be certain
And whatever form they take
You can't be sure of their version
I'm trying to reconcile
What can and what should be
And as I navigate insecure waters
I still hope for bounty
Touchstone is an honest fool
He is considered as a comic tool
He often speaks about impractical love mockingly
But falls in love with a shepherd girl shockingly
Shakespeare’s character in ‘As You Like It”
pressure to conform
prissy Dorothy liked dresses
impractical though
burned rear on park bench
showed pink panties in the wind
she favors slacks now
Once understanding truth, is when fiction becomes paramount.
If not for fiction, truth would never expand, rather stay static.
Without fiction, invention would not become possible, just a cosmetic.
Without fiction, creativity would become impractical, in turn ceasing much doubt
Without fiction, where's contradiction? Relying on fact alone creates a closed mind,
Unwilling to learn or listen to opinion or interpretation, with a mind stuck behind.
Letting go of what is already known imbeds a sense of venture, a willingness to interpret.
If not for this sense of venture, opinion becomes subvert.
Learn from past followings of mass consensus,
Think for yourself, form your own opinions, free from collectivization.
Only once you have your original thought, begin intertwining with truth, make it pragmatic.
In order to grow, you first must relinquish that which is known.
Handsome Hardy Hal haphazardly hung horrid hearts on healthy hedge
Impossible? Impractical? Improbable? Too near the ledge?
Justifiably joyful, joked Jerry’s jolly jubilant jonquils, gyrating
Kansas kittens carried kaleidoscopic kits that clung to the ledge
Legitimizing lovely lively lilies laying in lovable lulls near the hedge
Leo’s whacky ideas were impractical
implausible
unthinkable
impossible
until he brought them into fruition
showing his relatives
and his neighbors
the faith it takes for a bumblebee to fly
MAGIC Minichu
Happens impractical .
Great wonder ! Each objects : Not easy to admit.
Magical.
Impossible,
if possible, magic's credit.
Simple.
This fun :
Magic permits.
Done.
Happens impractical.
if possible, magic's credit.
Done.
Graveyard of Lost Thought
David J Walker
There is a graveyard
of lost thought
Bad dreams
and lost scenes
And ill-advised impractical schemes
The meaningless Things
Incomplete and fraught
There is a graveyard of
Hopes unheard
Of songs unsung
And things I would have
And should have
done
In unexplained and meaningless word
There is a graveyard
Of days that last
Of slow but fast
And the varied past
Engraved in time
Of a nether rhyme
And forgotten cast
Of the departed
~"I am covered by the dread. I'm encased in brown this has been dark since birth. For you the means a angered person. So impervious to include and yet so impractical to explain excludes me. Enraged you get still enthrall awaken not in daylight. And yet so impractical to include me, you called me not human. You choose to not accept my light. Never the less I shine. Throughout my outer skin I'm risen. So I am broken I stand through I've been crawling
~
Trapped in a testament I believe do my spirit starling resonates. As mine soul cries out mine freedom dies. And I am so denied yet I still. I rise
And I am so denied hidden high rise rose my persecution
I rise
Denied my humanity caught up in my other color brother's
Enslaved in the hundred years past
Once suppressed now I am risen
I rise"
I guess I expect
Those Exceptional
Best of the Best
OR just let it Go
Passing the Test
That's Incredible
The Last to just Rest
Past Invincible
Has to Impress
In Visual
Ask with no less
Dependable
No nag or no pest
Recommendable
Classiest yet
Impeccable
Don't ask but just gets
So Sensible...
Yet the facts will show
That it's Impractical
To expect the Rest
To be so Flexible
Acrobatical
Intensive mode
So Radical
My intent should go
So Compatible
Sensational
My paddle rows
My engine goes
Infallible
Pretending though
I needed to know
Till I leave it & Go
Revealing what may be
rhetorical perspective
Concealing vagueness of
others as a collective
Irrational is the truth
from all the official lies
Impractical to expose
those once thought so wise
Anonymously to be judged,
I then had to reflect
Inconspicuously to be ignored,
just show me respect
Dismissiveness from others
can be so undeserved
Submissive assumptions
repeatably observed
Deception experienced in
an inferiority disguise
Exceptions delusional
fundamentally they deny
Concerning yet I do
appropriately understand
Discerning discriminating
principles are at hand
Generated tremendous
excitement and in debate
Sedated by unparalleled
contributions dictate
Double standards and chauvinists,
there’s no doubt
Troubles considerable,
as they would openly flout
Able to see into other worlds it seems,
the star at dawn or a bubble in the streams.
The psychic nature in its spirituality,
highly sensitive to all motion capacity.
Romantic flashes from the summer cloud,
colorful faraway places dreaming world.
Near water living to sooth eternal space,
then true generosity never runs out of pace.
Natures priestess to teach confidence,
contradictories and its individual sense.
Multiverse applicable by innocent motion,
then every relation has its different potion.
Ascending and descending character of goodness,
retreating from a point of fullness.
Expansive enthusiasm and vulnerable delicately,
demonstration of faith and its important ceremony.
The impractical ideal so amorphous,
discrimination by true virtue is formless.
Verily, the heart that is respondent,
to the many divine worlds is liberated.
Truth that every soul is seeking,
virtue will exalt that while sleeping.
Spiritual attainment is to become conscious,
enfoldment of the soul that is calling us.
12/30/20
Feeling like a human
Trying to avoid financial ruin
With marijuana and alcohol, I've been abusive
Yet I've still been lucid
Not completely useless
Despite me being foolish
To me music
Is rather therapeutic
I'm feeling like an actual
Animal
Evolving and being adaptable
Not concerned with capital
Or being impractical
Close and far from objects that are flammable
Life going up, down and diagonal
People are weirdos, like Hannibal
Happy to be a cannibal
I'm fallible
Feeling detachable
Or radical
Among items considered 'taxable'
Got the job done by being rational
Not tyrannical
What I learned and experienced is invaluable
He obtains fancy chopsticks,
hardly uses them, forgets he has them.
He drapes ornamental trees
with cheap pocket watches
let’s the batteries run dry
hardly ever looks at them.
A suitable receptacle, a container
or an old cigar box must be filled up
with whatever is small enough
to be collectable.
Seashells he keeps in chests
along with unusual pencils,
pens, and pen knives.
There are other acquired
gewgaws and fripperies.
His poetry is a collection also.
One day he will move on
to yet another creative collection
of his ever expanding hollowness.
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