Long Conventionality Poems

"The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns"



Reversing roll calls
the Anti-Hero 
jumps through 
burning hoops
instinctively

bathed in the magnum glow
designed to fire cartridges
with a kick like a field gun
a bloody victory 
is eventually won

lacking conventionality
novel and picaresque
placing bad...

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From devadasi  in temples to women of the streets,
Form hooker to harlot,
From courtesan to call girl,
Whether a paramour in the hands of wealth,
Or a Whore engaging in promiscuous sexual intercourse, 
So many names and...

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"You are ... different, aren't you?" she said, crinkling her nose.

That sentiment, spoken by my fourth grade home-room teacher
Had been paraphrased many times before
(And would be countless times again)
Different, unusual, odd, weird, curious, complex, or...

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From the book of revelation the warning is clear,
people will be deceived in worshipping the master of fear.
Predicted in scripture to lead most into loosing their salvation,
when false Gods are the symbol of appreciation.
The mysteries...

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When did this ambivalence fluxed into happiness,
When this happiness boisterously took over mind’s stagnancy,
Till today I had bounded it to mere laughter,
Till when I kept waiting for my jocundity in the mere faces around,
Didn’t I...

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The critical tendency coming from the untruthful agitation of the mind,
while the disliking of our dislikes is the beginning to like all in kind.
Like the infant brings with it the air of the heaven and...

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When taken past experience to future consequence,
one has very little or even nothing as reference.
Experiences from the past and its present handicap,
the same same and its changed attribute gab.
That where the times as one speaks,
giving...

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A time may come, when heart, which is said to be a soft piece of flesh, turns to a stone. A stone beating in your chest doesn’t just free one but opens a shell with...

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You wear this conventional life as a mask of death.
A heavy robe covering the infection of freedom.
Innocence of self that was severed from you at birth.
Trickery under the guise of normalcy where any deviation illicits...

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Senior retirement that defies conventionality,
The power to endure and stay strong.

To return to passages that reflect a forever young concept,
I choose to wash away the gray.

Stay slim and regain my young figure,
Resume hobbies that are...

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Self-expression is dependent upon personality
We can only really be who we are deep inside,
Some folks by their nature defy conventionality.

There are folks who can set inner nature aside
And, with strong determination, choose to be
Whatever they...

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FIRST LOVE

Never speak of first love in the past tense
For the depth of a first love is eternal, ever present
To place it into the recession of our memories
Is to negate the essence of what is...

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Two activities I love have a similarity,
To experience and conjecture in verse,
And to explore limits of certainty.
Rhyme and meter, whether wordy or terse,
Enact seeing freshly, banning banality.
Math proofs are finding a needle in a hay...

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SILVER-LINING

Cheated life occasionally yet it couldn't play even. 
In life's sequel, I'm swivelled into a deep sweven.

Where's conventionality in a cosmos that's so odd? 
Everyone that ever rocked my world
I've dexterously dovetailed into words;
Lyric, ballad,...

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The clichéd cavalier 
clings to his 
carbon copy life with 
constrained complexity 
and settles 
for conventionality. 

Miss originality 
and Master clarity 
dismantle, reconstruct 
withered concepts 
within a cul-de-sac 
of ubiquitous creativity 
by alienating themselves 
from...

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Critical tendencies and agitated mind,
misread beginnings to like all in kind.
Air of the heaven and sensation in prime,
force of life and death at the same time.

Devotion aroused giving all for nothing,
which reality turns perception touching.
Endurance...

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I would love thee man of my dreams,
Conventionality steps in the way.
I would love thee man of my dreams,
What is adult age when you love.
I would love thee man of my dreams,
Distance between the years.
I...

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A rather young couple have
Moved in together
In the two up, two down
Across the street.
Not for them conventionality
Or conformity:
No wedding band offends
Her third finger, left hand
Nor, it must be said
From appearances,
Does bath water very often.
Long, lank...

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Real!

Can I cope with this reality? 
The love and knowledge of past heroes, 
Brimming up from within, 
Accounts for me and my situation - conventionality, 
And inspires me to love, care and liberate.

History partly gives...

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Caring deity wandering reflection,
love light celestial inward perfection.
Luminous serene time maternity,
conceiving womb sustainity. 
Silent voice drifting flow,
water of mercy and compassion beau.
Provident sphere radiant shade,
heart endurance to be not afraid.
Beyond all conception,
drifting towards the ultimate...

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COLOUR MY DREAMS

partake of my dreams tonight
exotic places unrelated
as I fly on stars of meteors
quick light

colour in my dreams tonight
hypnotic kaleidoscope displays
as we defy all conventionality
in sight

seduce all my dreams tonight
erotic tracing unexplored
as I drown...

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