Long Abjure Poems

Harriet Harris née Kuritsky...

Despite being a nineteen year old bride
she wed Boyce Brandon Harris
half a decade her senior,
(where I ranked less than a twinkle in their eyes)
during the month of June 1955, 
not quite half...

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Harriet Harris née Kuritsky circa November 13th, 
1935 - ~ May 4th, 2005
(untimely death sentence ordained ~ early February 1935)

I trot out a poem acknowledging birthday
of dear ole mom, who succumbed, 
lost lease on life
nearly...

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I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that now burns on my cheek may impart
The deep thoughts that...

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she had put a band on her wrist

          in case she got lost on the journey

          ...

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Back in the mists of time
Were stories sung 
Where minds in thrall by minstrels 
Were held
With tales revealing 
Viscerality and viciousness
The currency of glory and shame.

Who does not marvel at 
Achilles's pride
A ruthless killing machine...

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A period here. a question mark there?
A handful of commas,,,tossed in the air
To fall all willy-nilly but he doesn't care.
Then he closes his eyes so he never sees,
And does it again with apostrophe's.

Next colons: and...

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Enverated by the history; man's
Credulity, his weakness;
Give upon yesterdays, cause
It will hurt, day's risibleness...

Time is a fulsome mate, let go 
Of her mawkish cast;
Hope is all but that is reigning,
Peaking the sinking mast...

Lives as ransom...

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The pretense of sincerity 
will never extend beyond its mask
and even though a puddle reflects the endless sky
its shallow containment will eventually turn dry

As the players in the field of emotionally
turn their hearts away from...

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Bells ring through the dusk, soft and low. 
     Smokey eyes narrow. 
     Sultry pout on her lips. 
Wrapped in black lace and chiffon, 
  ...

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The corporation offers logo wear

Dazzling subsidized cafes

State of the art fitness centers

They bring the dentist, dry cleaners 

And hair stylist to you

No need to leave our campus

Ever! Never! Never!

You won’t be able to resist

“Resistance is...

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There are times that amity is like an ice cream form me
‘Cause human being have different personality.
They are bonded with happiness,
But sometimes separated by doing amiss.

Ice cream can different in flavor
And nobody can make it...

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The Forgotten ?

To live with this conscious contusion
and forget how babies cry

Become so untouched by horror
commonplace a communion with nothing

Care less for hunger
and wish the lacerations pestilent

Abjure the reminder
and seek instead disjunction so cognitive

Every scream...

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When the sky kisses the ocean
Its hue is alluring as the rising sun
I see beautiful bed of roses
Near the dancing green grasses
 
A winged- creature soars
As I travel while I glance unto the shore
Leaves fall...

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The Hole Deep in One’s Own Heart

In moments of greatest loss, sadness and sorrow,
A hole forms so deep within one’s own heart;
There it shall remain so for each ‘n every morrow,
Until life’s end when comes...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 6

Should the State legitimate entity be
To make the use of force It generates valid
True father protects for life his progeny

Change helmsmen and change its personality
The State’s a will...

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To glance at the jagged hill is a dream
Just as I yearn to amble over its magma flow 
Like a million salmon swimming up my bloodstream
I will see the Soufriere Hills, I just know
As the...

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The man who walked on the face of Earth
Before the seas gave the fishes birth
Before the trees traversed the land
Saw darkness and fear go hand and hand
	
But comes the man who speaks the word
And tells...

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Love’s Spirit Speaks to Us

Love’s spirit speaks to us with deepest emotion, 
Giving us all that touch of God’s true love divine,
Whilst helping us find the words and the rhyme,
To express His love eternal with...

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My love for him I’d finally abjure.
My grief was brief ; he was a heartless fake.
But what my dark knight wrought will long endure.

He flew in on a steed, a soul cocksure,
A vision that I...

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I accuse

Bankers who compulsively their creditors lure
Bid them colossal loans and obscure
To erect fantasies and a castle in Spain forge
Later arise manacled with a dolor mortgage

Employees who secretly squeeze through
Evacuate their jobs unattended and eschew
Occupy...

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I wear the crown.

It gives me recognition
for my works
and the things I've caused.
But my most recognized work
is my sorrow.

I give, no taking
I lend, no borrowing.
I sow, no reaping.
I let others take, borrow, and reap
while I...

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1.Eating meat to swell	
how can pity?
2.Protect hoarding as to
mercy abjure meat.
3.Heart of tasting meat
as armed unkind.
4.Mercy is unkilling, unkind
kills, flesh-eating unrighteous.
5.Life, non-eating flesh even
hell retains eater.
6.If unkill for flesh-eating
none sell it.
7.Avoid flesh-eating if realizing
sufferings of...

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It started with a thought -
a solitary lie.
Cunning in it's deceit,
no freedom, lest I die.

No normal pangs of hunger -
gorging beast within my face.
Heaving it up in sacrificial abjure,
a rejected fall from grace.

An act of...

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To dwell  in the realm of Doggerel Bank
Shows the writer up as  a crank.
Should anyone my poems  stoop  to chronicle,
I would surely be ranked with the Great  McGonagall.

Whether I rise...

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Are you the one 
Whom I see in my dream
Or the one 
Reason behind my scream
Whenever I think you are just a hokum
You prove me wrong 
Making me feel 
You are a handy one
Are you...

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