Long Empty talk Poems

In a world burning under the weight of its own infernality,
Empty words destroy suffering like a lost art.
Those who write only for applause and hollow idols birth dead phrases,
Devoid of pulse and blood, fragile facades...

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For a second there
in my lousy little life
there used to be a someone
who made me smile
and to me
I have this rule
Never to hate someone
That once made me smile
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But the feeling is inexplicable
When that specific someone
Put...

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Old facade
Museum facelift;
Joy sparkles

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Uneasy buzz
Empty talk ooze;
Juicy bits

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Pokemon fling
Sure strokes sling;
Crazy madness

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Newspaper headlines
Too much noise;
Trade deficit

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Violent protests
Crowds angry now;
Defiance congregates

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Bad news sells
Print run profit;
Violence breeds rape

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White wake
Gloomy death black;
Grief suffocates

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Single rose stalk
Sad parting gift;
Funeral pyre

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End...

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"Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary
 tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

                 ...

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(A lone voice whispers)



In this life
What you choose to let others feel

By practicing these three key major principles linked to love

Care
Understanding and
gratitude

Can be the difference between appearing fake with a pious platitude

Or being real

Don't let...

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(The writer Bourget is discussing the murder of
his friend, Gaston Calmette.  Sixte is the hero of
one of Bourget's novels.  Proust, another novelist,
lived in the street where the murder occurred.
Sorel was a pre-Fascist philosopher.)


3....

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Political debate
Sense and nonsense;
Emotional postures

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Strange faces
Prowling vampires;
Blood bank rapture

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Another field day
Fiery speeches;
Free-for-all postures

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Scramble around
Hustle and bustle;
"Vote for me!"

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Easy promises
Entertaining smudges;
Crazy claims galore

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Witness here
Good, bad, and ugly;
Vote with eyes open

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Empty talk hurls
Acidic vitality;
Bizarre entertainment!

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Floodgates open
Hungry ghost...

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The world has fashioned ways
to put you under me...
I want you to know
that's not the world I see.

I see you as you are
as all that you can be
within a bond
in which both of us fly...

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I
Walk
We learn with many a fall
Walk
With Jesus, ye heard the call
Amos said (3:3) "Can TWO
WALK
TOGETHER
Unless they be agreed?"

II
When biblical pastors urge fellow-saints
To grow in their Christian Walk
That is essential, as Paul taught the Ephesians
Otherwise we...

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When you can't protect your own.
If you fear walking on your streets,
the only streets they let you walk
and you're sick of empty talk -
your view changes of what's fair.
It's only human.

When no other way seems...

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Those river banks were known to me
But, so full of youthful joy was I
That I longed for love and in the gloom
Your exotic beauty caught my eye

Dazzled by your salesman's pitch
Your merry jive and empty...

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Weary this world where dirt flings stain.
Dreary the swirl in crude terrain.


Pain seeps through stuff to corrode zest,
Troubles make rough to cancel fest.


Strange is the way of tempest found,
Fear speaks to say with empty sounds.


Hope...

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I
Hours and hours of empty talk
filled with the lull of piano, pianissimo.
I felt your passionate words through each
round hole on the cordless telephone,
I drank your syllables, sweet like cranberry juice,
feverish syrup melting my ears.
Our minds...

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CIRCUMLOCUTION


Today’s problems seem insoluble,
For empty talk is often voluble.


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I think I'll do the wash today so much
Has piled up since. But then the shopping must
Be done, of this I am convinced. How such
Predicaments evolved? I guess I'm just
A lazy cuss who'd rather stay...

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Don't understand how anyone dares to promise anything
Promises that are difficult to keep
.. gold and green forests -
.. happiness and wealth -
... eternal friendship and love
.. never promise more than you can keep

Some promises will...

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