Long Dictum Poems

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

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Thiru-Valluvar on Praising the Good Qualiities of Ladies: Canto 112 - Nalam Pinainththu Uraiththal

[The poet devotes the third part of his treatise, the Thiruk-Kural to INBATHTHUPPAAL, the amorous relationship between the sexes, i.e.,  cantos...

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          Johnny and Amber

To get my mind off war and inflation
I’ve watched the trial for defamation.
  After her shameless turd
  that scorned Amber Heard
should...

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The moral mortgage of mice and men 

Yours truly quite astute,
especially regarding cute
little field mice, also known 
as meadow voles,
which imprecation one doth emote,
when aforementioned animal burrows inside
leaving pellet size poop in their wake
suddenly presenting...

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Grant this civil yankee to doodle till Lee gets blue in the face 

blowing 99 red balloons April 9th, 2023
will signal 158 years since Appomattox
plus what would have been ninety sixth birth 
of the late...

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Transl. of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private - 2 with a Clive Bush comment on Mottram's poetry 

Excerpt from an article, “From space to caves in the heart recreating the collective world in Eric Mottram’s...

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UNQUOTABLE QUOTES : LV - Mind unwinding tweezers

If you let « bygones be bygones » , there’ll be no FUTURE left, and since we can’t always live in the EVER PRESENT (yet that’s what we...

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You've visited me after a long time: Remember; once, I was brimming with might? Named babbling brook, revered as a singing deity, how blissful was my sight! Have reminiscences of your childhood, in my mellow...

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OPEN

Each
      chiselled
                     line
enamel
       ...

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(alternately titled fancyfeast feeds finicky folky fungi) 

No matter this omnivore 
experiences stomach rumbles like birth
(pains) of a nation (loud enough to be heard 
clear opposite side of Earth), 
this self actualized (1% Neanderthal 
ask...

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There once lived a worthy, wonky his view, 
Having invented a business model, 
Craftily he called it as Debt Spiral—
This creative, cock-eyed guy— Brummell Beau!

Got many a suit by his tailor made, 
All on credit—...

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The policy of hate and date,
You may not like but it’s the truth,
The bitter truth mate!
Was it a lone wolf terror or was it a coordinated fight?

Who cares since it targeted souls
Despised by night.
But you...

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Murder of the Bethlehem Children
Matthew 2:16-18

When you consider the wealth of love, 
Language, fashion and script of cree,
We have in today’s society - stealth dove,
Then you see past societies as plea.

Savage, murderous and passionate,
The governments...

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A beautiful box in the golden morning when you are watering plants
At midday a workshop where you are providing me with the ladder
In the evening a walled closet to transform the personality and gravity
At night...

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I wish I had a someone to have morning coffee with.
I wish I had a someone to talk to, share and to please.
Someone I’d be myself around, accepted and at ease,

I’d make him yummy breakfast,...

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No "FAKE" Fire Drill

Residents at high
     land manor apartments
     (aside from myself)
     got rudely awakened -
     by what sounded
...

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Spare the noose - let one live!

Just moments and life's gone,
for the lives one hack
and for it never to come back!
Isn't justice flawed with 'glee' to adorn?

The noose has a strong say
and so do the...

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Fasting cleanses both body and soul
It breaks you only to make you whole
Its spiritual connection plays a vital role.

Now not only the wearer knows the shoe pinches
for you get the chance to be in the...

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“In no time, made myself indispensable
I bask now in the sunshine of my popularity
I have made the young and old my minions, 
Giving each one what he wants

Snippets of news, served in lightning speed
A magic...

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He has a Roman nose, bright eyes, flashy teeth,
Chocolate brown complexion,
Features which animate only when he interacts—
Otherwise, typical unscholarly looks!
A nonconformist in religion, a revolutionary in spirit,
A stoic in practice—
Epithets can be multiplied.

Sought strange experiences:
Travelling...

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A DICTUM BY DARROW

If you add an “s” to the word care you get scare
Perhaps that’s why it scares me to care
I’d like to care but simply don’t dare
And to me that really isn’t very...

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Written: September 08, 2023
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In the realm of truth and its design
Let us embark on a quest to refine,
To explore the truth, both wild and tame,
And demystify doubts that whisper our name.

Validation, the yearning to improve,
Space...

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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,

Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;

Followed the old teacher’s dictum, “memorise by rote,

To succeed in life”, she...

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SAY AMEN!
Sometimes the world tries to come in with confusion and 
misconceptions but the hand of God is seen and the world disappears. 
When the soul becomes dishearten, and spirit lies heavy within, I am...

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Cleanse - To plant 'A Seed of Virtue'...!


Cleanse my mind, cleanse my heart 
and cleanse my thought I pray;
seething anger, insatiable desire
and pangs of fear way-lay!

Easy prey for stimulant, that prowls 
for a hunt and...

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