Long Deluding Poems

A few years back,
in the prior millennium,
1993 to be more precise
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
born without a stage name
had his book entitled "The Evolving Self" published,
by which he meant The ReGeneratively Nutritious Flowing Self,
but he was probably shy...

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Let me speak clearly with you
dear religious and atheist Trumpians,

A fool in executive office
is a leader
only in foolish directions.

A rich thief
is the worst thief
as survival motives
are absent,
so self-thrival motives
remain pick your pocket rampant.

An intellectual prostitute
to...

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Since the 1990's Red China has been using an intelligence gathering
radar station monitoring USA's military operations of the southern
United States.  Now they are establishing a military training center
also located in Cuba just a few...

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Her lips caress another cigarette
A fading belle looking for love
The smoke veils a creature of habit
Chasing a young girls dream

But this Genie found the palace doors locked 
Her youth distilled into a bottle of gin
Diluted...

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I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
Let it sink in
I don't know the answer
I don't know who you are
I don't know myself
I don't know how to get there
I don't know her
I don't know you that...

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DARK ARE MY DAYS

My thoughts become perforated with pin prick holes, exuding darkness.
Darkness sucking some of the light, the life from my memories,
from my experiences - in doing so they rob me of the last...

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Between the craziness of politics and art my mind wanders
looking to find peace, 
but between the beauty of art and the craziness of this president
I die

But it improves my art
although it thrusts me between dark...

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Man In My Head, 

You live there– 
(here I should say) 
but I suppose I don’t need to tell you that.
You’re the one making your space.

You’re forever within the confines of my mushy, distorted headspace;
so...

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*(A Journey from Physical to Digital)*

Value of an asset, divided by cost,  
In a world where wealth is constantly lost.  
Inflation creeps, deluding worth,  
Financial assets, tethered to earth.

Income tax grows with...

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How you doin'?

Why are you feeling
how we are doing
here in our unspoken thoughts?

Right now
here
perhaps far from our deep
primordial feeling
reservoir

Of what are your passions
doing?

Abundant warm regarding
spacious compassion

Or cold scarcity of time
to not thrive together
much less apart

From...

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In vivacious luminous 
landscape of luring longing, 
desire sculpts dream,
spreads spectrum of ardor 
in sapphire sky,
fervor floats on cloud,
shaping sensual crave,
          charismatic.
Spring-soaked beguiled brush 
paints passionately...

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My soul wanders in the dark alley within me,  
plunges in the abyss of discontent.    
The unsatiated life, unframed and uncertain, 
casts a formless shadow of ambiguity on the being,
that flares...

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Title 2/   BAIT
Quote:  Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare. William Blake


The transiting sun shines on you deceptively,
spreads shifting spectrum in chameleon sky,
the masked faces designed by innate ingenious...

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“21"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22Many will say to me on that...

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In the stillness of a clear summer eve
I gaze upon eternity's countless stars
Amazed at the vastness of space
Who am I on such a scale?
What is living life?
Where do I exist?
Why am I here?
When will we...

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(The news of the death of dear and near ones reaching us on a daily basis has left me thinking of the transitoriness of life and hence this poem) 


Is not our life a wave...

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Foolishly I acted in her presence
 After she left me ,realised her essence
  
an inextricable thread got removed, now my world looks palid
She embellished my life, like veggies to a salad


For she was the...

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Splinters and Beams

                    Stream of consciousness gleams under stark cover
      ...

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Sweltering anger spills raw emotion 
dispatching choppers in the air,
intense heat disseminates murmuring voices,
discharging menacing messages packed with fear.

Suddenly the academic mob appears, 
and storms up the bullet rigged stairs,
while the deceptive tree watches with...

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Realization

Fear is cancer’s preservative,
As Embalming fluid to the living.
And you, oh accuser,
Are fear’s embalming salesman.
You are a snake,
Paradox bound.
Wrapped around the rod that binds you,
Depraved.
Attempting to free itself from its own fault.
Deceiving and deluding all...

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For the maneuvered inducement of compulsive being,
the transmuting tenet of titular uniqueness,
the personified convoluted identity,
changes in the self-devised palette of color mélange,
while the conjured chameleon furtively cocooned,
paints the shifting façade of disparaging deception.  

In...

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If he can hold on to that rare haven— 
To that retreat if but for a moment, 
Never mind that it stands to no reason— 
He loves to dream, gossamer its garment, 
Let thoughts go...

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TRUTH OF MY LONELY TRUTH

Alone in my own lonely world
I see the truth hidden inside me
And the lies that has kept me company for a long time
Deceiving myself of my own deceit
Making a fool of...

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Without sadness in our eyes
By Michelle Morris
26/01/2023

I tried to smile
But it did not reach my eyes
I felt uncomfortable
Deluding myself with lies

Surrounded by no one
Only glimpses of the world
Trying to hide away from humans
Trying to avoid...

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Deceit and duplicity, vengeance and vanity
Exploit our weaknesses and dissipate our souls’ strength
As arrogance cockroaches multiply their insanity
We diminish the strength of our faith 

The more we immerse ourselves in new technologies
Stung by advances in...

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