Long Complacently Poems

Cosmopolitan suburbs take shape
Seem to form alone, not far from the metropolis
Streets bustle, enlist design by men                  ...

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Cosmopolitan suburbs take shape
Form, not far from the metropolis
Streets bustle, enlist design, become cities 
Drawn down the street, concrete solid
Buildings line up one by one
In the calm one structure at a time evolves
There on the...

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A Rant – The Quiet Hypocrisy


it seeps in through gradual osmosis

and soon is ingrained in pliant minds

it mutates and thrives in tunnels of vision

and then is fused into the fiber of unreason

the quiet hypocrisy that...

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Once upon a time when I was just but a little a boy
My grandmother of illustrious memory – told me many a story
A lot of them funny but some scary 
But her favourite tale which...

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Gathered my belongings and I burned them as an offering
to who I might one day become if I could let them go.
I knew this gesture could be seen as one more case of posturing
but I’d...

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When the opaque nights were starless, 
and the depressing days desolately cloudy,
the journey through the tortuous valley of life 
wasn’t easy as it was meant to be.

When the wilted flowers turned pallid, 
and the defoliated...

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When the opaque nights are starless, 
and the gloomy days cloudy,
the journey through the vale of life 
is not easy as it is meant to be.
When the wilted flowers turn pallid, 
and the defoliated trees...

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Many a day I've wondered in tranquility-
Who am I? What was I meant to be?
For friends fail to understand this enigmatic me:
And decipher me to be an unknown entity.
To the world, I'm just another human...

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Scared
   by Odin Roark

Fear saved the fly
The spider wept

Fear kept men alive
While Napalm paved the way

Fear keeps the 1% insulated
Handlers and mental bodyguards 
At their beckon call

The mongrel on Manhattan’s frozen streets
Knows well...

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If food for finer thoughts we did not crave,
If sense of purpose we did not apply,
If we did not critique how we behave, 
If dormant laid Alert Judgmental Eye…

If float and breed were our exclusive...

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Inside the teardrop I see elephants roaming;
Voices echo across the waters as if moaning.
The elephants take the form of a child’s size,
They invade the teardrop under any guise,
Coloring the waters with feelings of deep blue,
Until...

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I see all of the darkness and all of the light
They can crash and collude, but blood-red is the night
I see all of the stars as they were meant to be
I can look to the...

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Hope is dangerous in times like these;
I see the actions of others and I just
Can't believe.
I put myself in their shoes, knowing 
that they would never wear mine.
And I try to see through their eyes-...

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I lose myself by the placid pond
brimming with yellow and iridescent fowl!
Are they held together by filial bond
in that enchanting man-made bowl?

Amorous duo in a trance profound
drift complacently in love's slow ebb
One of them turning...

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"Chai Tea, Vanilla: Writing it All"


We are a cauldron
steeped, stewing bitter,
unlike sweet chai tea

boiling 
and bubbling,
our reality, 

is hard
to swallow.

how do we live
with ourselves,
knowing,

we live
complacently?
we observe,

we write, 

we watch it all,
the killing of 
innocence,

the black
and...

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Style

Compass points in more than one direction
Lays low its feelings before the landscapes gravity
Magnetism searched below the skin of Earth       
Substances you can’t touch or feel or see between...

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I Stare Into the Water

I stare into the water
(The water stares back at me)
In harmony with Terra Mater,
I expend no energy.

Without a paddle or wind to sail,
My prospects are unavailing;
I position myself not to turn-tail,
But...

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Constantly check your mind and bring changes
Never allow the same rule to stay there forever
Bring new ideas and alter your plans to better
A broad invitation to new thoughts ever helps

Find out new ways to do...

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Diseased incubator of mutated humanity
A festering cesspool of rotten ideals, 
And ancient plots of religious restraint
Or the liberation from.
Acidic with greed and selfishness.
Base and seductive, the nature of societal allure
Indulgence, self-satisfaction and gross misconduct
Or just...

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We are all queens or kings
Some are both; but only a few.
We know the king is the last to give up.
But the queen is more versatile.

She has all the moves, except the knight’s.
The bishops and...

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They caught me in the library—
Reading the selected poems of,
Whoever.  When this day ends,
I feel as if someone lit a match
Inside my mouth.
When I walk down the aisles of books 
Warped with titles by...

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Something happens in our lives causing us to question what we know.
We open our eyes and seek the truth learning more as we go.
The more we uncover the hungrier we get for more understanding,
but the...

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I wade the waterside enticing death.
The sea extols the brash to th’ outermost
Abyss. A ‘know it all’, I challenged this 
Watery host.

I capsized in the tumultuous seas;
I’m in the heart of the abyssal deep.
The billowing...

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A creative process
disguised as a French Bulldog
has pooped in my mind-pot,
where I was complacently
growing small obscure weeds.

Muse me, or abuse me you poetry bug,
if you are a stinkbug, I will take it,
fake it until…

The Frenchie...

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Inclinations Of Fan

Ceiling fan mesmerized the day’s hypnotic flashings
Sunlight fractured through rotating blades
Someone must have traduced it with black magic
Or a switch turned on when we weren't looking
False currants of air, created up there 
Pretending...

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