Long Disengaging Poems

Slang..
Chick-fil-a = the best place ever
jade = 
brooke = gorgeous 
mishin = the boss, as in “You aren’t the boss of me.”

Orpheus
We’re on vaycay. School is OVER, COVID is over. We’re in New York City...

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My educational system
has a diseducating problem.

How to engage young minds,
like young ideas,
easily distracted,
and potentially miseducated,
by vicarious
and often trivial entertainments.

Superficial disengagements
too much the reverse
of social capital investment
in re-educating research
fully engaged in cooperative design

Therapeutic redevelopment plans
by and...

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When the leader of a nation tells lies 
creating varied crises, chaos ensues.
Using more lies to change the narrative
indicates actions of an aberrant mind.

When the leader repeats untruths, ad infinitum,
the world around him becomes a...

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If now is your time
in this final threshold
between life
and death,
then this is our passion time,
remembered past
torn from imaged future.

I cannot bear this burden
this loss
this relinquishment of relationship
in which wealth fully invests
in knowing
and growing our love
together.

If...

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My road to hell began with good intention,
Floating up then crashing down more times than I can mention.
Tripping through time in  a parallel space,
The scars of my life reflect upon my face.
Mistakes interwoven with...

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In the 80’s I first learned of Assertive Training
My husband thought it would do me some good.
I laughed myself silly 
 As the teacher explained things.
If someone tries to put you down, you say this.
If...

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At the dead end of broken road, losing hope
my introspecting mind took a disengaging view
of life wandering in wasteland, trying to cope
with trying times to reach the destination new.

I heard someone from within say, explore...

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I remember when and how it all started..
On when, it was few months ago we chatted..
On how, along a thousands of strangers our ways threaded..
Now, you keep wandering in my mind.. 

A dreamlike statutes, you...

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Up the shore the rhythmic tide strides.
Twice a day, the army marches in succumbing.
Then retreats, tail between its legs, discharging
Its grip and flooding embrace, releasing, disengaging,
It's ebb and flow, a never-ending sleep-breath sigh.
The tide's hidden...

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As if startled awake
from fitfull sleep

Of dreams both cartoonish
Yet with meaning deep

My life having passed
as this very repose

A young woman
Now grand dame all as I dozed

For I must have been asleep
At the wheel

Alternately engaging
 disengaging...

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Give me space
I want to disappear
I’m purposely invisible
There’s nothing to see here

Allow my disconnection
As I'm guarded and afraid
My boundaries have been set
Don't approach my barricade

Packing and triggered
Examining my impurities
I turn my weapons inward
and unload insecurities

All of my...

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Once I had a girlfriend and ex-wife.
Two ladies at the same time in life,
Mistake I made this day.
Not proud in anyway.
First mistake, second retake in strife,

Girlfriend I gave flowers for the day.
Ex-wife and I married,...

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Encapsulated, trapped,
  energy reserves tapped,
   vitality gone, sapped,
    lost, though we penned our own map.

From the wings we watch, raging,
  at the play they are staging,
  ...

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The prophecy came true in the swamplands 
She rose from the bowels of an alligator’s belly
Disengaging herself with the hands of a sorcerer
Those who saw were struck as if by lightning
She was confident and unhurried...

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