Long Cagey Poems

Says Csikszentmihalyi,
"Social scientists
(Abraham Maslow, Lawrence Kohlberg, Jane Loevinger, [Ken Wilber, Edward Podvoll, Julian Jaynes, Jack Kornfield, Richard Dawkins, Clare Graves, Carl Jung] and James Fowler)
describe a dialectical motion
between [Yang-ego-form] differentiation
and [Yin-eco-logical function] integration,
between turning attention...

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*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.

Out Of The Way

As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,

Upon my own free will,...

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#moon in Scorpio... 
As a result,
poesie naturally gravitated
toward intimate situations
that allowed her free reign 
to openly express herself. 

After I gave her psychoanalysis
I found her to be only half-baked. 
Inquiry into her private matters,
mainly an...

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...At this point Rob stopped, slowly shook his head,
while we all though this whole thing was unreal,
then he said,”The damnedest thing that I saw
was that the Devil, at this point, did kneel.

“The fiercest rebel in...

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[A classic example of a tale that wouldn’t 
Behave itself]

Pilchard the penguin shed icicle tears
He cries at the movies as Christmas time nears
While watching ‘The Snowman’ he claps and he cheers
But cries when the friendly...

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The wife and I just recently, joined the clan of scrimp and save,
But we’re hoping that this attitude won’t send us to our grave,
So we added to this latest fad, and put upon our plate,
That...

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(alternately titled:
why yours truly crafted six electronic aliases).

No rhyme nor reason beatle browed
beastie boy long ago
created INXS of half dozen
email addresses gallivanting
feigning himself a most sought after

singular modest beau
courtesy crass brazen duplicity
eventually forced to eat...

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Pure coincidence that live sheep are exposed in a new atom test 
I do not think so, as I am sure I am not exactly like most of the rest.
Pure conjecture brings me into my...

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Poems I wrote saying what changed me
some sort of unseen sabotage come at me hard 
shattered parts 
undone 
wiped clean 
pushed back to start 
raped me left me 
imprisoned cagey 
question marks hang over strangely...

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Kyiv, cultural hub of Eastern Europe
         ancestral home of ancient Slavs
         bombardment implacable 
     ...

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TODAY’S WOMAN

A column can scaffold a back that is enervated.
We as women will burden ourselves with hate.
That is we will take on another’s disintegration.
All in that business is a mess.
It becomes our plight to fix.
We...

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Ah, So, said the monkey,
as he scurried up the tree.
You'll give me two,
I return you three?

Yes said the snake,
as he slithered right beside.
I promise, and swear:
By the legs that I hide.

The monkey was shrewd;
he really...

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In the black days of the deadly pogrom
Why thou rose against me with dreadful weapons
Of such magnitude that even the rocks shattered in pain
Never had I imagined this cagey life with hateful brethren
Living in great...

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Those with the superiority complex
(that ignoble Cain addiction)
patently labeled their Abel-bodied brother
as frontal lobe,
     mental inferior capacity suspect

So it iron oar made copper sense
to capitalize
on recessive hereditary arrogance

Brass bracelet shackled to...

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We tiptoe past her, the violets said. She does not like our colors.
They are every hue of violet, purple, and a few are azure blue.
But you are beautiful, I assure them. They scoff at my...

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Well Andrea, :)
 I suppose feral ferret gets loose a bit, 
when he aint n isn't on the tit, 
lived too long with little wit, 
the ferret comes out cagey.
 so sneaking through the tall,...

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One thing a pink fox needs is a silver fox fur.
She is so mystifying; this will make her purr.

Lady with pure instinct; can never be tracked down.
She can mesmerize her mate, with her triple crown.

Her...

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My uncle is dead.
Funeral or no funeral?
He was a blue baby; born dead.
Oxygen did not get to his brain in time.
The doctor worked on him too long.
He had multiple mental, social and emotional challenges. 
He...

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Dog and the mule came to the outer space challenge without a clue.
Calico Cat arrived fully prepared, knowing exactly what to do.
The dog and the mule resented her at first, for she was so smart.
But...

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Through thickened woods and thorny brush
I chased the elf in silenced hush
Around intoxicating pines
And mossy-covered hanging vines

Taking care to mark the way 
With petals dropped from rose bouquet
My distance safe from prying eyes
And forest creatures’...

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PANACEA FOR FREEDOM

Time enclosed in the date numbers
Lies dormant on leaves of calendars
Life revolves around the pressing days
Moves on course in all possible ways.

Routine activities don’t ever stop
For everything has priority tagged top
As the sun...

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I see you on stage, accepting your badge
Looking like time erased all definition
From your stodgy face
Sometimes I wonder if you realize
what you've done-
In interviews, always cagey
Mercurial like the days of England
prancing on half-beaten guitars
With a...

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So you’re feeling like a lab rat,
cagey edicts don’t experimentally sit well with you
Those white coat government cats
be cheesing you off with the moldy logic they spew

Lockdowns are the latest liberty mousetrap — 
Regulatory rules...

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Have a marvelous parvelous snarvelous jarvelous
carvelous warvelous trarvelous barverlous quarvelous Christmas
Do something spectacular, vernacular, trick-trackular.
Be your most endearing, panderfearing, jandergearing self.
Be happy to be you, get yourself a giant cagey sexy Christmas elf.
I guess what...

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WE HEARD HIM SAY"
The Peolpe Will make him a DRAW!

"They read off names of
guys liklyto replace him
and he just sat thre like nothing was wrong.
muscle men
Rich men
Crafty cagey men
more atheletic men
Phyc gimmicky men

if he losses...

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