Long Adheres Poems

“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”

Mental “Masturbation”

(The title...

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What to gladly sing
about our global economic politics
and socially inept monoculturing predation?
divinely self-righteous 
missionary terrorist zeal
also known as religious
colonization.

Such global
and national
and local PatriarchalCapitalist
RightWing unhealthy issues

Seem to have started
sometime after we stopped
singing and dancing 
together

And before...

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Red Sunsets On The Blue Hills

What of soft red sunsets on the blue hills
Or true love found in sweet dreams of the light
Just as night frights give deeper cold chills
Crimson sunsetting views show heaven's might.

Such...

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I leave buying food at the market to the spouse...

one helluva comparative
humdinger savvy shopper,
who can rattle off the best buy
for most any given item,
at the drop of a hat
analogous to baseball fanatic
(unlike myself who knows...

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Generations of the entire world.. Once abided by a force fed conditioning, 
An indoctrination so deep, so vast and yet so hidden.., 
Reveals a new rekindled conscious bliss, 
For our obligatory fair questioning, 
And so,...

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Hi everybody, I am nobody; Why do all the somebodies keep jacking my... junk.
Nothing I say changes or sways opinions: Stop looking for LINES WITH the punch.
I am out to lunch, just a li'l old...

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A phenomena misinformed is a mispronunciation of a garbled gargled juice. Only released once. Not twice. Nor three times. In fact the catchment period for enticing a cake is relative only to atmospheric pressure conditions....

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Down a runway skybound
to cross a continent, 
see from a window
a city fall away
with bright beads 
strung along a coast,
then turning inland, 
clumped townships 
shrinking to solitary lights
sunk far apart
into hours
of featureless dark. 

Disconnected
from the...

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Inside a boisterous tavern,
a-light with drunken gaiety
of spilled ribald laughter,
he quietly sits alone ...
gently cradling his mead darkly
Brooding thoughts of past paid coverings
buzzes inside his head
Talking flies having the faces of the dead
“Have mercy, please”
This...

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Can anyone on this planet see that many unexplained occurrences are happening?
Can a group of scientist, agriculturist, solve the worlds food problem?
Can anyone control the weather?
Can anyone truly say they can make the world better?

Can...

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I live in a world where there is no flow and ebb 
where flies are snared in the spiders web

Where anger is the clothing that spirits wear 
hand me down garments soiled with fear 

Where...

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Rufescent clouds descend on the Victorian horizon as the sky dies
Beneath them bone chilling winds roar as salvos,
I feel like an acceptor who adheres to the doctrine of disguise
While looking through the prism of a...

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Un-nerved by formal sentencing assemblies,
Marks and Words, bound by conjunctive amenity.
The tried beliefs that short cuts speed words into action.
Made stuffy Old School feel out of fashion.
Punctuation board-slams her silver gavel;
“A shortened distance, yet far...

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DEATH WAS THE SECRET AND  DOPE WAS THE PRIZE

We had so much back then to apologize for
A thousand things, perhaps even more
There was the broken, the smashed and much of the cracked
We did a...

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Sometimes love has thorns
It pricks, it rips You mourn
Your mind is worn Your heart is torn
Waiting for love to be reborn

Surrounded by the flame of my desire
Amidst dancing shades of orange and blue
My soul emits...

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The past and I we met once more
as the heavens were opened 
to an all familiar war
for the past is a battlefield comprised of tears
battling between wishes and fears 

Fueled by an arsenal of disappointment...

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LIES

A web that has no ending
For I can not stop 
Even though I try
Something is wrong with me
Because my judgement is blinded
And I can not see
Every time I make the promise
To quench the desire to...

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Through birth, adolescents, and then through youth
The shapes and colors all remain so new
The shine adheres without dissipating
No rust, nor mar, perfection not fading

A house but built the day before
No cobwebs cling, no warped squeaky...

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Departure from the land of death and dying

Enter a beautiful, perfect land of the truly alive 

Also, when faced with death's call, some introspection

Take into account how we are living

Honing in on values and priorities
...

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BLACK MONA LISA
 
Art renaissance, a masterpiece did appear,
A captivating portrait, both bold and sincere.
Splintering ebony grace, a figure so rare,
The Black Mona Lisa, with brown eyes and flair.
Her visage, a canvas of shadows silent...

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Forty days and forty nights in lock down

	Breathless for inhaling my own air ad infinitum

		Could be worse if I was left out to dry in the desert


Isolation in my own four walls in solitude

	Puffing and...

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I wish I could wake from this dream to see everything before me.
The clouds, the sky, the birds that sing, a soul in early mourning.
It's raining the same way it always seems to rain.
The street...

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Worthy worship welcomes divine bated breath of well-done work
Invigorating my earnest praise-offering and prayer-intercession 
Triumphing over turbulent trials along toilsome tests
Hoisting me toward God’s heavenly hope.

Braced-up with Christ’s strength during righteousness’ bouts of bated-breath
Assured faith...

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The shaft breaths while the leaves drop to attention, as the frozen air eats its way into the black gold lair, 

Welsh communities were made and paid for the pleasure of the dirty raid, 

Train...

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She sacrifices herself,
on an altar of secrecy.
Leaving the best of her,
on the cold stone of iniquity!

Hidden behind a smile of "I'm okay",
she says she can't remember yesterday.
Yet those scars on her bitten lip,
have a different...

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