Long Burnout Poems

#BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, OH WHAT WE STORE! SILENTLY ABHOR! TO OUR DETRIMENT, {CHANGE}THAT SHOULDN'T BE IGNORED. DOING NOTHING OR LESS, WHERE PERTINENT, INSTEAD OF MORE!  TURNOUT/BURNOUT...AN UNEVEN SCORE. 

EATING, DRINKING, SMOKING, "YOU NAME IT"...

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Burnout
is what can come of inspiration,
if you're not careful.
     Gish Jen

Degeneration
is what can follow manic fast-growth regeneration,
if you're not well-seasoned.

War and terror
can come from tribal competitions,
peace and freedom fighting and squabbling
for...

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Taped to the door’s plexiglass pane, a portrait
Of a Savior with ardent heart burning
Sunlight invades with the turning of hinges
Untethering the hospitality of Tony, the lone waiter
His Brazilian arms are swinging doors, open to embrace
He...

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Ash - grey chemised
she shifts her shape
as silver flakes float coat
stripped naked places, 
sheath curves and angled spaces
Angry glitter tingle stings
thick earth skin with prickly flames
and rumble rise regurgitates
shimmy - shake shudders
in magma's deep thrombosis.

Her...

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Observe and see
Festive cheer warms;
Spirits set free

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Cherry blossoms
Pink carpet pathway;
Waiting patiently

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Here's to you
Sakura moments;
Sparkling sunshine

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Moon overhead
View from my window;
Tender conversations

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Mahjong games
Relatives chit-chat;
My winning streak

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Touch of magic
Spring wind rustles;
Cheery blossoms fall

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Moonlight stroll
Old arch bridge;
Squeaky wood groans

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Two...

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Stark realization, I harbor sacrilegious objection...

Against merry christmas premature blowout,
(or otherwise) ejaculation galore burnout,
hence I feel like the odd man out
neither yours truly, nor the missus
spends money and/or
time at checkout

avoid madding crowds like the plague
elbowing,...

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“POETIC JUSTICE” (VIRTUE OVER VICE)

Virtue over vice—who will pay the price
Ironic twists of fate are flawed if virtue does not equal reward
Logic needs to triumph—to beat and defeat
The tragedy of treachery that strives to cheat...

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Strophe
I
Outside on the terrace  ,I feel at peace
I hear bird songs they  so fill me with cheer
My bugbears for a while outside do cease 
My mind is quiet and I feel no fear
Doing...

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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’d change the hearts of those who doubt…
The wonder of love that never dies out,
The beautiful that...

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If the waves 
the shore stored
parted for a new Moses,
I'd fissure these hearts
composed of stone
beneath flash floods
blue, bolts
incarcerated
in your chaos order.

Absence makes
the fall much stronger,
months I hate
they undulate
transfigure blindness
still subtler
until my mind goes we're back...

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At 21 I should be filled up with more than just questions
that go unasked and unanswered, I always hated thinking 
of the things I'll never know because I never tried. 
I'm rising up in some...

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With the prison bars behind him 
A different life has died 
He now reads the bible 
For he knows how Satan lied...

With a bible and a guitar 
He’s finally free at last 
The songs that...

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Watch the multi-tasking drivers talking on the phone.
This is a story of our daily life-style that we overlook and condone.
Recognize the familiar a.m. and p.m. rush-hour cast? 
Could this be you in traffic on the...

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The forenoon Show 
 There is a ship anchored close to the shore
in the bay, I wonder what the cook is doing now
perhaps he is chopping onions for frying
with a bit of meat from lunch...

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Burn out

keep the pedals turning
Within the cogs inside your mind
Staying late to get it done
With solutions that you find

Skipping lunch time after time
The weights drops from your thighs
Taking lows throughout the day
Forgoing all the highs

Deadlines...

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I'm fighting it desperately with everything I have.
       If you've ever had it you'll know what I'm saying when I say,
        ...

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At the shrinkage of the page
Expressions plead for length
Inhibition imposed on lines by columns
Words already accustom to scarcity
Pieces find focus in incompletion.

Thoughts flutter toward temples
Ready to leave prints on a canvass
Diving into ink, drying before...

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I took a walk through the depths of my soul
Truth be told I didn't know what I'd find
There were signs of corrosion
And many of the monoliths were crumbling
But sitting on the steps of one
Was but...

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Footsteps! which swallowed up many cities while roaming,
Swallowed by cities.
It's the end of the no end!When the earth little shaken and cried,
When the directions! prevent footsteps from the country's sun.

When a flock of gulls! passing,...

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Put your chin up and stand tall 
Your best foot forward to conqueror it all
Keep looking in the right direction don’t look back
When your ambitions are falling, kick them and pick up the slack

Your life...

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The flame of the candle in our hearts
Struggling to keep alight,
Trying to keep our hearts from breakin apart
But we will keep this candle burning bright.
Baby you cant let go of me,
Can't let this heavenly love...

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I love the challenge of poetry forms
Giving my brain an excellent verbal workout,
Experimenting with writing beyond the norms
Lest I become stale or suffer burnout.

Giving my brain an excellent verbal workout
A critical, indispensable exercise
Lest I become...

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Home sweet home on Christmas day.
Children and grandchildren
come, but not to stay

Home smells of pumpkin spice,
gingerbread cookies,
ham and turkey in the oven
Yeast rolls rising,
flickering cinnamon candles,
oakwood burning in the fireplace
The taste of eggnog and wine,
all...

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Where were you when time stood still?
When the world was no longer there?
Nothing was left, only ill will.
Little left to matter, no one to care.

Is this where it will come to an end?
If we have...

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I stand tall; the luckiest man alive. 
Knowing full well, my life's true direction;
For I'll be sure to amount to something, 
Or burnout rather than fade to nothing. 

Though here I stand full of ambition;
Lowly...

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