Long Drop in the bucket Poems

~ (~) "Because yes I believe as well-true abhorrence is the springboard for more pain, love 
is the land of peace that lie between." "Denial the raging river running through it!" (~) ~


~ (~) "Who...

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*Aphorisms/ Idiomatic expressions*
(Short, pithy, instructive sayings passed down through the years)
Composed: by Tom Wright
7/12/2018

The man who coined the aphorism “Seize the Day”
Didn’t always mean “The Ends Justify the Means” but may.
Many have said “Rules Were...

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Ten seconds is a very long time
When that’s all you have to live
There’s time enough to make your peace
But not time enough to give…

…to give your sweetheart one more hug
To squeeze her oh so tight	
To...

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from a young child they were groomed
a silver spoon they new not of
they were born in the gutter
there mother was a whore
selling her junk from a trunk in back of the liquor store
many moons ago...

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They are like night and day
Always there,
Even when not seen, I know they’ll be here
Treat me like a brother, oh how much they care
How many are they?
Who do stick around when we try and fail?
To...

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In the beginning of time
We sought out a rhyme that would make things begin to shine
Each of us has been given a real talent to discover
We all must look within deep inside
Love is  a...

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Some people suffer a lot and some people suffer hardly at all
Some appreciate what they got some wanting what they saw
Why then the difference, and how fair could that possibly be
The answer being too immense...

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**** that ****.
I’m not a diagnosis.  
Something to be “fixed”.
I am a combination of traits and features
that make me a woman of depth and intensity.

I will not succumb to trite references
about how much better...

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I spoke to God the other day
Wanting to hear what he had to say

My ask 
What is my task

Why am I here at all 
Every winter, spring, summer and fall

The reply is always the same
Make...

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Pattern creator weaving through semantic gridlock. Synaptic blockage has me dining on feedback. Consuming concepts of Id's bleeding out a dissociative psychocollage. 
No Map No-Thing.
Images overlapping gaps of referential perspective all lapping up my awareness...

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All criminals drink water
Therefore they are guilty
The proof is in the wetness
In the weather, in the pleasure 
In the drinking, in the thinking
Which way the wind blows 
As long as it is in a westerly...

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drop in a bucket
the molecules dont stay still
moving before our motion

expression in many facets
the dimensions beyond a mention
these edges erased with questions

this isnt supposed be understood
is how ive come to understand
over analysis, exhausting our chance
to...

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I thank you, Lord, over and over again,
for the love within the story never comes to an end,
the now that shows light like never before,
the eyes contentment for what you now have in store,
the building...

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Now with mass media
I can see over there
So many disasters
The World now can share

Numbing our senses
With sensory overload
Hunger and pestilence 
I see bombs explode

For me to stay sane
I have to ignore
When it comes to news
it's...

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a new dwarf planet...
announced only this past year...
"hello...distance here...

eleven...billion...
miles away...orbiting now...
just off to one side...

gravity well...yes...
twenty two billion miles wide...
a spin round the sun...

it is some wonder...
the gravity well does stretch...
half way...the next star...

eleven billion...
just...

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