Long Affronts Poems

[Now ShallowMan is quite content
receiving FactoidMan’s consent
to quibble and express dissent
as long as keeping covenant
with fingers crossed and belfry bent
when viewing Facts in sealed cement:]

SM
“The Facts you give me circumvent
those ‘truths’ your chuckles supplement;
although they...

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Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
With footfalls that loom, a sweet scented voluptuous sound
Which gently strike...

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she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado of naughtiness in candour yet tacit

 

“Free me to free me”, rants in...

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she pips in fear for lateness like her peers,

hauteur cloaked with reticence,

her-boo-boo-vague, though walled around and palpable

official Narcissist disguised in rude affronts

Bravado of naughtiness in candor yet tacit

 

“Free me free me”, rants in melancholy

as...

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Billowed in black by my schizophrenic ponderings, these personalities are somehow resolute.

Within a matrix of survival; they coincide.

Fractals of quanta and wavelengths that fall from grace, will soon depict a Homunculus face.

Spanning out into oblivion...

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When old vets gather at a pub to reminisce with their peers,
And their tongues are mellowed with a few free-flowing beers,
Raucous war stories and much back slapping are apt to befall,
As unique people, places and...

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Once upon a time, a love story began,
Two hearts intertwined, a woman and a man.
Their love was pure, their love was true,
And in each other's arms, they knew what to do.
    ...

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If (I / you) were to observe (myself / yourself),
Would (I / You) really know (myself / yourself)?

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We prosper but we also strain -
This "Game of Life" is that refrain.
It carries on from day-to-day
And we...

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Natural Curiosity

Do you wonder about the me on my inside
As you gaze at the me on my outside,
A counterpoint to those around us?

What expectations do you hold, in keeping with my
Wrinkled brow and silvering hair...

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Rain slapping me in the face as i contiued to cross the street...
Hardest the pain from slaps of rain, excruciating jolts thru down to my legs.
I pray to the almighty God-stop this pain, Relief cannot...

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College students today are a professor's worst nightmare
   They come to class late, with ripped jeans and purple hair
Without a word of apology for interrupting what's going on
   They proceed to...

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IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : PART XXXVIII

IF you pull a long vacant face
Might be you just have nothing to say
Which is not a crying disgrace
Empty drums need be beaten to bellow away

If you...

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What's fair and right we oft dismiss
While clinging to our prejudice.
But biggest biases of all
Are aimed at us, the short and small.

What's tall or towers people praise,
But opposites get no bouquets.
Short applicants are shown the...

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Schooling life- a main pursuit to learn,
Is surrounded by various impairments:
As much as catching fun-fill cruises, spurn!

Easier said than done- taking the right turn;
Good enough to measure apt adjustments,
Schooling life- a main pursuit to learn.

Goals...

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Tactile oscillations that are caused by vibrating sound,
Crash into my eardrums until plugs for them are found.

Audible affronts to human hearing creates cacophony,
Someone says run for you life and that’s good enough for me.

The noise...

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A candle of optimism,
a light of expectation. 
Imprinted in the heart,
bounded by faith.

Hope! Very persuasive, 
confronting affronts.
Diligent and patient,
always marching forward with faith.

Hope! The mother of success.
Built in all, manifest in some. 
People achieve with...

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A candle of optimism,
a light of expectation. 
Imprinted in the heart,
bounded by faith.

Hope! Very persuasive, 
confronting affronts.
Diligent and patient,
always marching forward with faith.

Hope! The mother of success.
Built in all, manifest in some. 
People achieve with...

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I hadn't noticed them when she was well—
The deep creases in Mother's face.
Now as she lay dying, they told a tale
Of selfless service nothing could erase.

In one crease I saw myself at age four
Crying out...

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Graciousness

Graciousness reaches out to smooth, to embrace, ruffled emotions
Looks beyond affronts – lifting mercy up on reconciling arms
True thoughtful courtesy caresses inflamed scars like a soothing lotion,

Graciousness reaches out to smooth, to embrace, ruffled emotions
Listens...

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