Long Deadness Poems

Written: March 05, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest
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Oh, Hermes, during historical eras of reign,
Greek...

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It took me all night and day
To become whole again
I pray I stay…away from dismay
Isn’t it lovely where I’ve been?

Who there is done with you?
I was always remaining by your side
Who there is the sun...

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September 7 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 8-10

Key Verse – Matthew 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not...

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There’s a beach I found
Somewhere on the coast of Massachusetts.
Its sand is ivory white
Unblemished by seaweed or driftwood.
You have to walk through the forest to get there,
But the skeletal trees stop just at the beach,...

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Five years

Slipping under
Falling deeper
So deep I couldn’t see the surface
So deep I didn’t realize I was sinking

It’s comfortable down there
Peaceful, if you could call it that
Nothing to feel
Nothing to live for or dream about
Simple existence...

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Standing in the tallest grass
With whispers, phantoms in the wind
I held aloft my one true love's last wish:
   That I come find her by the waves

It was all that I had
By which I...

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You’re an overnight cessation                               ...

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I hate the essence of you
Killing I shall not do
I will have babies a many
Teaching them my hate
Tutor them to swing the sword

You shall be beheaded
Bloody and red
Better of dead
Soon to be
I will stare into...

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How do you feel about ai ?

The sophomore's been hijacked by the Robot, all pretentious speech, vain trifles, and vacant syllables. What a lullaby of sterile verse, a monotonous drone of uninspired ink. The timid...

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Deny the lies
Remember the cries that I utter
I fear this...I fear that
Someone will eavesdrop
  
And deny those implicit lies
They don't see it
They won't believe it
I can't hide my confessions

My bones are no longer fit to fight

If...

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When the heart sinks deep
And gloom overshadows
The fragile gossamer of the soul 
Lo behold!
As waves of melancholy, so full of dolor and agony
Sweep away memories, so bright and sunny
When the past prances sarcastically before the...

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Post Mortem

  Did you hear them sing dirge:
  When the world comes crashing down on me,
  Did you hear those voices across the divide?
  A cacophony of tormented brain
  All...

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Lord, 
freedom I seek in life.
Freedom from religious war,
Freedom from self centered restlessness,
Freedom from self destruction within,
Freedom from spiritual deadness,
From guilt, discipline; and unbridle ambition.
Discipline is such a dirty  word fouled.
It brings image of...

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Dead works...
sown to profit with grandiose worth
midst carnal motives of utilitarian gain
lurking in the guise of selfless sacrifice
yet awaiting futility's harvest...
Woe unto me, and my vain effort!

Dead faith...
persists to please the Almighty
while vanquishing lingering angst...

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Hate me, but for goodness sake
Don’t be indifferent
At least hate is a testament
To my power over you…
A warped and deranged compliment
To my importance…
For it takes passion to hate
And none at all to be
Indifferent

Hate me…but for...

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What says the silence between us now 
  With dour acoustical deadness? 
Roaring waves of invisible vagrancy, 
Breaking down the white rock transparency 
  Heavy and burdened with leadenness. 

And all that is...

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sometimes staring at a wordless emptiness of white 
hesitant fingers hover over keys like a fox ears over snow 
It's there reflecting in time's vibration smelling of salt and tar 
Lines twisted taut by steady...

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When she stepped into the traffic
did she see the oncoming,

judge the distance;
the fleet footedness
of her thoughts calculating
the crossing,

or did she read the red end of her life
the way a deer might
caught in a blind light,
paralyzed...

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Beneath blossoming, neat rows
Spring thoughtfully seeds
Once inchoate, now transformed
Were they visible, naked.

Coaxed or neglected
Into more important things --
Their outgrowth substantial
And beating, alive.

A pounding or downpour, 
The influence prized
Insomuch as it aided
Propagation. Spread.

The seeds, so once...

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Hidden in the recycle bin, 
I found your resentment towards yourself-
To desire my love is no more, fine?
For your failure, you blame yourself,
And forgetfully, you forgive me mine?

We travelled together far in time
To the future,...

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There’s a door through every form of deadness,  
Marking the beginning of a fresh era,
The cosmos heralds its emergence,
Life forms at the gate of the deep.

The silence within every deadness speaks volumes, 
It takes...

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another human’s art
affects directly---it
drills down into the core,
lifts up from inside,
inspires behind the eyes,
burns away the tears,
creates tears of smiles 
when a deadness & a
numbness was though to be
all that remained,
stirs up a group of...

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Neglecting spouse
on tempting lover 
lavished 
champagne and roses
luxury car... caviars
blue pearls on satin
perfumed embracing
on burning sands 
of passion 
on meadows bed
asleep in arms 
of vices
deadness hidden
by green 
of wrapping vines
like tree 
when dead twice
night of...

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Numbness prevails over me,
Masking me… sending me pangs of suppression
Deadness tears its way inside of me,
Consuming me… devouring me with yanks of oppression

Darkness frowns upon me,
Dragging me down…sending me scraps of sadness
Gloominess molds me inside...

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Help me please
I’m falling apart
Make me invisible
Give me a new start

Help me please
I’m out of control
Make me an illusion
Life has taken its toll

Help me please
I’m at my wits end
Make me disappear 
It’s too far gone...

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