Long Despond Poems

When breathless pain of sorrow 

                          Steals the joys of...

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No time to write a sonnet 
Tip of my tongue not rehearsed
Might be time spent useless
But that’s ok here’s the verse
In the water you set me free
How can i forget
Sins forgiven once for all
Atonement you...

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A force  far deeper than our anger

Elemental as a storm

Annihilating all before it

Terror makes man’s rage perform.

This  force saying self is threatened

Runs to  rise and to protect,

Most murderous when  we’re most...

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The Silent Comment




              No,you cannot hear it, as it
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COMEDIC REDEMPTION

Once when that black ice cloud chilled me again
In mind and heart, it froze all aspiration
Taking me below resentment fear or pain
To a hopeless state of cold dark enervation

A voice on air waves transformed...

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OPEN THE FLOODGATES

For weeks I’d suffered writer’s block,
Devoid of inspiration.
I couldn’t think of what to write. 
I was close to desperation.

Rhymezone wouldn’t accept my rhymes,
My syllable count was awry.
I was closer to throwing the towel...

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Like termites surface from the clod, out of the blue,
Or like small snails creeping out without any clue; 
Boredom dwells in my psyche like a three-toed sloth,
Puts a halt to my day-to-day temporal growth...!

As though...

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It has been standing here forlorn:
Now a burning house on fire;
None’s here to rush or shout for help:
There’s None for it a crier…

A gloomy place this has been
For past a year and score;
I’ve known this...

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So many weep from pleasure or from pain
and raise their invocations to the sky.
I watch them from the corner of my eye.
Their exhibitions I would likely feign 
to match expression shown when masses cry.
My eyes,...

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EVERMORE AWAY:
Sorry I have made a repetitive effort
To hurt you’re helping everybody.
I longing for you, to really see you,
Look intently withering
With be you while I can.
But, you push evermore away
Despond. What do you feel 
When...

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