Long Despondence Poems

As October 1 approaches, HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY……………………
I have enormous tracts of land and vast volumes of water, but cannot feed myself.
So I spend $1 billion to import rice and another $2 billion on milk.
I produce...

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My eyes couldn’t help 
But wander 
And smile at every passing inch 

Aimlessly following the walls 
And your voice 
Throughout the house you lay your head at night 

It was cozy 
Decorated delicately 
In memories...

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We found the smoking gun but we wouldn’t tell a soul
The you that I would tell everything to 
Left me sinning and spinning in my own cave of exulansis, 
on my own island of impending...

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Death of a Dream
      by Amy Swanson


Time
   existence
       goes by
          *long drawn out...

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SECRET  OF  LOVE


                Secret of my love sank in despondence.
        ...

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LUDix-Rym

      
       Charm of glory glistened to glow
       when hand in hand, we stepped on snow.
  ...

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EarthMother grows impatient,
despite her curiosity driven
cooperative inviting polyculture
reconnection with SunFather's Great White
monotheistic climate
of Patriarchal-Capitalist classroom activity
RightHand saluting
salutary competitions.

Your historic move,
S/He dissonantly
defiantly intones,
from sacred polytheistic peak experiences,
inherently dipolar co-arising,
not monotheistic judgments
punishing bipolar sick people
for manic/depressive original...

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Another poetry reading.
I arrive late and drop my phone in a workshop.

I capriciously retrieve it and slink to the corner,
My notebook and pen
Poised and ready
For my muse to be resurrected after
A long hibernation.

This is why...

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COMING HOME
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS

I Was Just a Teenage, Yet I’ll Not Forget That Day
When We Were Notified That My Brother Was an MIA
That Chilling Notice Was to Play Hard on Our Lives
A Long Lasting Memory...

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  " Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become,
   and people will start seeing you as that person.".     Mark  M....

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Weeping Ash
Mourn for me tonight, Weeping Ash;
Break my heart and all my hopes crash.
Let your gnarled knuckles crack and creak;
Let your contorted mouth still shriek
Silently. 

Come under my dark canopy
In the storm’s hidden harmony.
My dancing...

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ISOLATED

                    Confined in isolated island.   
        ...

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When the ocean swells the boat of life shreds shoddy anchor line
I put to words from pen and keyboard what matters most in time
and seek a buoy a float some flotsam dejected towards the storm
then...

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Over the tumultuous high sea in dismal night   
The pole star may disappear out of sight 
Behind the shroud of the tempest cloud 
The home-bound agonized sailor
You lose the sense of direction in...

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ENLIGHTENING LIFE

   My life dawned with dulcet dream 
   commencing curious carefree childhood,
   rolling cheerfully till innocence to hit by cruel complexity.
 
   Vibrant brilliant arrogant youth...

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COMIC REDEMPTION

Once when that black ice cloud confined me again
Penetrating mind and heart, freezing all aspiration
Taking me below resentment fear or pain
To a hopeless state of dull weary enervation

I heard a voice that transformed my...

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TIME IS UP.

                  My dream of childhood soared high
         ...

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Cleaning for a yard sale, it was that old envelope she found,
The envelope worn and frail, but the ribbon around it still bound,
A tear coming to her eye as she knew what was inside,
And the...

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Cleaning for a yard sale, it was that old envelope she found
The envelope worn and frail, but the ribbon around it still bound
A tear coming to her eye as she knew what was inside
And the...

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PEEP DEEP to COLLECT GEMS

         Gems should sparkle in poems, worth to mention
         Poetry to touch mind in emotive...

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Wondrously divine in its transcendence
God’s love* affirms kindness of providence
Radiating tender mercy’s resplendence
Defying any counter evidence….
My heart does claim with grateful confidence. 

Marked by compassionate condescendence
Christ’s love is offered with heaven’s credence
Midst His sacrifice against...

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Black brings beauty to white and coral opalescence
Lends obscure luster to gold and yellow’s fluorescence 
Artists present wondrous reality with its clear presence
Creation of God* is never complete against night’s essence
Kindness’ purity becomes perfect vis-à-vis...

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Not I, Then Who



Another blood bath. A bubbling bunch of innocence      
Shot down by an ogre, in brutal arrogance;           ...

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The Christmas Story
The Christmas story we were taught so well
And it’s a story that we love to tell
Tales of sweet angels who excitedly 
Permeate sky with song beautifully.

On the unforgettable holy night 
The star of...

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POET AND POETRY

    Poetry to touch mind in emotive beauty.
    Poet to undertake this responsibility.
    Might be specified as a poet’s duty.
    ...

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