Long Aspirational Poems

I watched “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” last night - we’re going to be reading Truman Capote’s book after the break and I wanted to start thinking about it. The movie rewrites Truman Capote’s story, turning it...

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A Thousand Points of Light! ! ! ! !

Once a beacon of democracy
A shining light on the hill
The ‘American Dream’
	Anyone can ‘make it’  
Never more than aspirational
Structurally delusional

Always susceptible to its 
	Achilles heel of...

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{Verse 1} 
Starting a war with myself, you're the giant and I'm the elf
Scattered like mini shards of mirrors 
Can't help but say - keep your arrogant comments to yourself 
Stop pointing out my every...

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Bombarded by myriads of daily data without cease,
I suggest a forthright discourse on this topic,
carousel of trend and sound adherence  merely looming?
some unwitting sentiment  an aspirational diction,
reverberation or innuendo pending aftermath augur,
the world...

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In the deep mystery of the night, when the nocturnal light becomes a taciturn witness,
I feel that our nature pushes us to swing between extremes,
The stronger the inner fire, the greater the leap.
Perhaps it is...

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The picnic came to a close 
But it seemed as if Polly really 
Didn't want to leave.  Damian 
Said, "I hope you enjoyed 
Yourself Polly but the picnics
Over now Molly and Dolly will
See you...

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So, I play my game
Yes, play your own too
If mine affects your aim
Change strategy or rather boo
My efforts than trying to clear my path
For redress would fire back my math

My morning is to learn
From the...

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You say you used to dream but now you’re old
and have no more dreams in you?
and you say you have no more gas in the trunk?
that life has not been good to you

That your arthritis...

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IN A TIME OF MICRO-IDENTITIES

At my Unitarian Universalist Society 
no one is Jane Doe or Jack Spratt anymore!
A person being introduced or referenced for their 
political, social or spiritual wisdom, their positive
impact on business, industry,...

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There once was a tech enthusiast,  
Name of Phil, and in him an obsession did persist.  
It was with his laptop that he couldn't part  
And so he took it, truly, everywhere...

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Looking out for a reputation in vogue 
Very sanctimonious
Well you're the queen of making it obvious
 
She'll walk away hastily with her head down 
But it's never long enough to pull out her phone, and...

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Let me begin by saying
Personally i am Pro-Choice
Its your life live it as you see fit

Who am I to tell you what to do ?

So what I am about to say 
I know in reality...

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Well! sycophantic misanthropist, verbose agitator of spite
Club footed whore master, couldn’t goose step for his life
Malicious propagandist, spreading hatred in every breath
His wife willing disciple, poisoned their 6 children to death 

Demanding patriotic nationalism, big...

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Hello there, oh glowing one 
Radiant in resplendent light
We see you have travelled far
In as of course vibrationally
Nestled in a cocoon of bliss
Speckled by the elixir divine 
Emitting soothing fragrance 
Wafting across the inky void
Dwelling...

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If freshman year was aspirational
and sophomore year was unhinged
junior year was put up or shut up
and senior year is a dash to the finish line

This year’s on fast forward—and it’s for keeps
every to-do list has...

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Bound to form, habituated to conditioned patterns of experiential thought and aspirational imagination interpreting sensory signals, yet recognising the inherent limitation of such stuporous indulgence, awareness gradually unshackles itself from these narrow fetters, embracing the...

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I was just so young,
And searching for something new.
I wrote a letter.

Pouring out my heart
To you, a complete stranger,
I let it all out.

I turned a corner.
I danced toward a new life,
Risking what I knew.

The uncertain...

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Look up, look up, so one can clearly see -
To change our world, we first must change our mind.
Up is best and it shall always be,
Hope in happiness, one is sure to find.

Basic injustices cannot...

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Ignite the barren clay, I need
some rare elements
to tie a thread to the moon.
Upstaging the sun.

Not aspirational he was stripped
to become radical
like the dark blood of a white soul.

Pentadactylous was losing the big toes
under the...

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Ignite the barren clay, I need
some rare elements
to tie a thread to the moon.
Upstaging the sun.

Not aspirational he was stripped
to become radical
like the dark blood of a white soul.

Pentadactylous was losing the big toes
under the...

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