Long Compartmentalized Poems

Skinned shins on tree skins,
Space-viewed landscapes of rust and paint 
Showing mirrored continents imagined; 
Worlds within worlds at every turn, 
Outlines of Octopi on Oil slicked streets;
Every post and pole or stone a step:
Sat on,...

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 It's the weekend.


So here's a brief distraction for those needing something to read and absorb.

Salute.



Q:



What made you write poetry?



Was it an unconscious calling?



A need or just a natural progression of self-expression?



Or maybe even the...

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God Is

God is not confused
God is not amused
God is not impressed
God does not watch commercials
God is not the target demographic
God does not buy name brand clothes or slave labor labels
God is not stylish
God is not...

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Title:

The Concubine 

(A lone voice whispers)

Sometimes 
I stand silent and still 

Just
Staring up at the blazing hot sun

Is there nowhere left
For me 
To now quickly run

No retreat or temple of 
Salvation

After all is 
Said and...

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I am The Artiste. 

I draws lines by cutting carcasses, among other things.

I am the crazed dancer, down pouring a diaspora of red essence and entrails as I sporadically spin.

I am the antagonist; the anti-hero...

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I have worked in ten schools as a school counselor.
I have had twelve administrators over twenty-seven years.
This one was the quintessential ridiculous administrator.
Let’s call her Dorothy Doo Wrong.

Dorothy Doo Wrong compartmentalized grades 3rd-5th.
It ensures that...

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I have worked in ten schools as a school counselor.
I have had twelve administrators over twenty-seven years.
This one was the quintessential ridiculous administrator.
Let’s call her Dorothy Doo Wrong.

Dorothy Doo Wrong compartmentalized grades 3rd-5th.
This ensures teachers...

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He made me ponder my greatest fear
not ghosts nor goblins grinning ear to ear
The one that I really fear most 
is the one peering back from the mirror
Is he real or will he just disappear...

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(A lone voice whispers)



Dare you name them, or are they just fleeting memories or impressions?



For muses come in many forms, and this relates to all those emotional tributaries.



You consciously or unconsciously carry.



In mental interdimensional abstracts



Which...

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Oh, that magical age of 5 -that long-ago time 
when memory sharpens and events recalled
get compartmentalized into something more
than mere wisps of mist! Infancy’s vast fog lifts!
My own childhood more vividly recalled began with a...

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Remembrances lead to longing for souls once united in time long ago
still precise in memory now only in far distant accounts long closed
unreachable and compartmentalized without any semblance to reality 
like snowflakes hypnotic white illusions...

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               Words are emotion's instrument,
language elementals playing verse's lament, consciousness', lined segment.
Like a Toon, in idea delineation,
incharacterizing, crystalizes stylizes component, tending...

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Moves To Zero
                (Randometer Functionality)

Randometers measure sequential ordered elements
Coded, incomplete, repeating
Drawn to the core of reason compartmentalized
Run from pens with...

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The abstract is creative confusion,
    Both infinite and void with its form.
        Compartmentalized by any illusion,
         ...

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Four hang ups, no messages left.
Bereft of those moments near the phone,
a lonely heart could only hope it was you
who called while I was required to be away.
A pay phone call would disguise my ID.
Pleas...

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your touch
Ability to speak
or walk sucked up
into your mind
compartmentalized
As if your spirit
was packing up shop
and taking your memories
on a long vacation,
 telling your body
"Sorry hun, you
cannot go."
Locked inside
full conversations
where people
ask rudimentary
questions
and you reply mentally
"I do,...

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COMPARTMENTALIZATION 

Friends, absolutely believe why
not in the “Loony Bin?
Compartmentalized my stresses, 
so messes … not get in!

Compartments help me remember,
one illness at a time.
Must do cause, "nine" problems have, not
about to loose ... my mind!

Compartments,...

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Those who were blind, deaf, dumb, and held by the evil powers
Like chicks from the eagle-hold or deer from the tiger-hold
They felt freedom dawning and mercies flowing like showers.
Forgetting all their fears, they were turning...

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You are the return of words;
A sound I had almost forgotten; 
Articulated phrase I let go of  
compartmentalized 
in a place nobody was meant to wander; 
I let that part of me die, 
why...

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Love’s wheel must be steered in honesty
The unity we once had turned into ice
I believed in her heart but
Deep down I never thought we would grow apart!
In reality, it takes courage and grit to break...

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Keep God in mind when you look within
for answers to self
Everything you need to know is inside the
cabinets of your soul
The pantry is full of soul food waiting to be
taken from the shelf
Compartmentalized pieces of...

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Genocide is a method discussed in Sun Tsu's writings,
The art of war through the use of internal fighting. 

Divided and conquered by powerful political people,
We have been compartmentalized for control over diesel. 

Vietnam and Cambodia...

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Insulations’ design keeps you warm or cool,
not knowing of others looking a fool.

Among those who can’t reach out.
Pity their attitude, what’s that about?

Living inside silent corpse of bones,
struggle to breathe, no one phones.

Surrounded by scary...

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October days with overcast; hauntingly dreary skies
Underneath which; I am drawn to your essense breadthwise
Strong Northwest winds, become the summers greenest leaves demise
Your Auburn eyes; are my vision of monarch butterflies
Floating on air, gliding; you...

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Wondrous…

Efficacy enhanced; potency proliferated;  
Encyclopedia at fingertips concentrated;
Communication convalescent; multi-merchandised,
The universe, like a toy at infant’s hands, mesmerized...

Yet…

Psychic eccentricities; emotional erosion;
Disorientation; bedim in vision and mission;
Homes divided; globe compartmentalized, isolated,
Rhythm of cosmos, like music...

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