Long Abdicated Poems

A scientist pursuing research—
with disinterested curiosity,
Poets distancing themselves—
from personal emotions,
from ‘personality’ (in Eliot’s idiolect),
A sportsperson focusing on the event—
not obsessed with results,
demonstrating sporting spirit,
Anyone doing their karma—
regardless of results,
as characterized in Indian scriptures,
notably the Gita—
All...

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she's not rock postal... 
she designed the plank... 
Knows how to avoid the edge... 

she doesn't need to talk to you, 
...but will listen with intent... 

she used to pull the wings 
off flies... 
something,...

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My Pet Poems, Max

I hopped onto Craig’s List, made a phone call.  

Next day, with a royal blue, nylon carrier, which had a small, zippered door, sitting on the back seat ready, we drove...

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In search of summer though hopeless but in vain I cry for summer. Pain broken heart sorrows and hopelessness I had to deal with to get to my destination. Pain over here pain over there,...

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You grow so fast, already showing glimpse of awesome creativity
and transform discoveries from the industrious nature of your observations
so squat at my feet and raise your attentive head up high
to be equipped for this compulsory...

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The 8th of September twenty twenty two
A day of sad news is brought to you
London Bridge has fallen this was said
At eighteen thirty two Queen Elizabeth II  is dead

Her Royal Highness reigned for seventy...

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It's the most significant day in Black American history
December 6,1865 the legal ending of chattel slavery
It was 157 years ago
When they finally let God's people go
 
In the year 1619 was when it all started
Africans...

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Once upon a time holly loosely based 
upon a true story 

There was a man who shall be called

Lord Mountbatten / Battenberg 

A true Hero in every sense of the word

Or so we all we're...

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There are those engaged in pedagogy
To facilitate the drip... drip... drip
Of poison to accost a child's ear.
Maneuvering with glee and juicy decadence...
Sequestering all they say and hear.

Filled with righteous indignation
And a blind sanctification to their...

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The Adversary

He watched them as day passed upon day, peering upon the intimate scene,
As God communed heart to heart, one on one with the woman and the man the only
Beings where his likeness and image...

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It seemed so easy to love you-
Effortless to touch such perfect
Skin that I thought longed for me. 
In the gentleness of the night you
Left and I was forsaken and
Abandoned without reason.

It seemed so easy for...

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Poetry is like medication, in each release of expression,
there is healing - Poet.

In the realms of lost childhoods,
where demons prey upon the defenceless -
no one hears your screams.

I wandered spiritless,
like an abdicated soul,
renouncing my existence.
But...

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My scaled lips have a story, repelling
enough to well up tears in the telling.
My heart is rocked at its place of dwelling
Expect not a merry word from a face unsmiling

Toppling of troughs in the shrine...

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Christmas carols
ADORE HIM ADORE HIM
THE KING OF KINGS LORD OF LORDS
HAS ARRIVED AT BETHELEHM
‘LET GLORY MAJESTY BE UNTO LORD ON HIGH PLACES AND PEACE UNTO HIS CHILDREN WHO LOVES HIM ON EARTH’
The greatest gift from...

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I’ve been deserted and forsaken, 
relinquished and reawakened.
Renounced and completely vacated,
living a life intensely complicated. 
In the throes of woes, I’m saturated. 

No more time of sincere elation, 
now only a lonely sensation.
To this pain...

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The king is dead! Long live the king!
History of rulers is no different from ordinary mortals,
The crowns and kohinoors travel from one head to another uneasier head.
Emperors, Monarchs, Kings, Pharaohs abdicated
By methods natural and unnatural,
Thrones...

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Hidden dreams silently fall

upon the window pane of love's antiquity

where I find your face,  drifting in an out of view

until I leave...with my delirium 

to rooms of what should have been

forsaken to a spiritual...

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Duality which is in motion must be stilled
If we would observe singular reality within
Muddied waters need to be distilled 
Only when the mists clear, may meditation begin

Perpetual motion of body, senses & thought
Grooves of habit...

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transfixed
I stumble down
shifting halls of
my angst my
distress
a cold stale breath
stagnates and permeates
its doom
onto my essence.

beguiled
I entomb myself
in the moment
asphyxiating
flailing
clawing
grasping for
desperately
disintegrating walls.

abdicated
I capitulate to
the lair
that cold cavity
pit of dread
that
pool of tears
where my devotion
thrashes plangently.

interred
in the filth
of...

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Love asks of love to resolve a dilemma arisen between two souls 
That reflections display perfection within dreams at both poles
Both being love enabled and acceptant in innocence of surrender
It seems inevitable that any verdict...

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King Edward The VIIIth, pitiable blighter, abdicated the throne.
He had the hots for an American divorcee - this the Brits would not condone!
He was King for a spell and the paramours continued their torrid romance.
They...

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You eager commuters
you don’t see me
in the shadows shivering
Remembering that green door and the
warm baking bread smells
A king in a pocket sprung bed
Beside my abdicated queen
And the curly haired prince who
No longer hears my song

You...

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I was abdicated, not once, but many times
by many different people;
but still, each rejection
drove a cool red down, down,
in between my teeth
which were ground-white stubs
of glum, glum, glum.

And the way they tread on my tenderness
is...

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Eddie McGuire made us all groan,
Eddie the eighth (VIII) abdicated the throne.
Eddie "The Eagle" flew through the sky,
Eddie Van Halen made his guitar cry.
Eddies Murphy and Izzard made us all laugh,
Eddie "The Beast" tore a...

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Ardent death imagines a self haven

Entrance glowing by distraction

World speed redolent of circulation

 
Social climbers ringing out

Transposed at the gates of bounty

Advancing as far as time allows


Currents sweeping have abdicated

A constant pursuit, jury-wrangled doubt

Still born...

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