Long Exasperating Poems

A total Jedi mind f*ck from Hell is what this is. I feel like a nuclear bomb has exploded in 
my mind of Hiroshima proportions and I am on the brink of a Chernobyl meltdown....

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Reflections haunt me,
Mortifying me…longing to be free…
Drifting away
Go ahead and throw up your explanation points!!
Raise your voice at me again
Give me all you got
Get me something I forgot…

Frustrated to say the least
Your words, they’re not...

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Just beyond the silence, a secret
Blowing, breathless, through the spirit
Sweetening moments, preparing
Laughing kisses, reassurance
That forever lives, steadily coloring
Skies and seas in hues of beautiful,
Hues of dreams – hues of gentlest peace

Just beyond the moments, joy
Pouring...

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Here, at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 

Poetrysoup is on the menu! 

And to save our sacred website, perhaps the world ...

We must entertain and enter vague conspicuous contests 
With a true...

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My harmony is the preserver of my banality, which, when shaken and stirred by the disturbers, pump up the mouth by Words, occasionally jargons. But having a very keen eye at my aloneness I safely...

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It was a woodcut in our high school history text, Unit 4 Beginnings of the
      Modern World, that so disturbed,
from the Nuremburg Chronicles depicting the burning of the Jews, flat
...

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WONDERS OF IX A (2019)
Millennium is a box of wonders which crave
To get knowledge, values, principle and love.
In my satchel I have eight wonders that drive
Me crazy, frenzied, rabid. But lo how I love
All of...

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Like the autumn weaves warmth
With hope and grace, 
Inspirations in temptations of laughing scarlet,
Blazing tangerine and glorious gold,
Soothing away the darkness as beautiful
Casts its shadow over my spirit,
A dream reflecting peace that rouses me to...

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Let me set something straight -
Right here, right now!
Let me put India in the right perspective,
Let me banish some myths,
Some gross misconceptions,
And take you beyond elephants,
Sacred cows, snake charmers and yoga,
Beyond Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Taj...

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I hear her 
When, in stillness – peace,
She surrounds me with her promises,
Light, mist on the morning, hope
Lifting away all the doubt, the darkness
With a feeling, a soul stirring scream

I hear her
Beating, in rhythm –...

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HOLDING BACK TEARS

Being a single mother is rarely appreciated,
when it is a very demanding, challenging, complex
responsibility to take on and carry on for years.
Who wants to be a single mother?  I chose to.

Couples marry...

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this story will be told and
retold
eternally, endlessly, ad infinitum, forever, for    ever
about school yard politics, or should I say school yard bullying

it started for me in elementary school    
I...

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I woke up this morning,
and then without warning,
I rolled off the bed,
soundly bumping my head.
That was just the beginning of what I call,
my most exasperating day of all.
Here's what happened next:

Got into the shower,
then suddenly...

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“Go BANG!”



"Is that a gun in your pocket?"
She said

"Careful, I recommend
you need to be undercover, 
and soon, call it Espionage M
You’re so disjointed
It's exasperating
but endearing"
He said

"Danger is Your Middle Name
You’ve been decoded!"
She said
"But rest easy,...

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Look at me carefully, staring at me in the eye:
am I intimidating you? Where's your trust in me?
Another friend more royal than me does not exist!
I fought for a free and free existence,
not to be...

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When I see injustice bribe
The heart with hope
The mind with confidence
The soul with enlightenment
Anger silences my dreams
Colors my voice, my speech
In hues of exasperating need

When I see darkness begin
To win the struggle, making sin
Feel like...

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I wasn’t boy crazy, they didn’t make my young heart sing.
Silly older girls might yearn for them, but they were not my thing.

I had four older brothers, there was no mystery about them,
And other than...

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Phantoming my generation
I get mesmerized each time I try
Most things I see break my heart
And at the same time blow my mind

Education is no more for liberation
But a focal tool of oppression
Wealth and generosity are...

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If I could be a plant, I would be a cauliflower, or a cabbage, or a flower.
Maybe just a flower, as they are not usually consumed.
But which one?
The daffodil is so arrogant and sunny, leading...

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He made his money solving mysteries
Where he would find out the histories
Then painstakingly put together the clues
Knowing that the mystery would be solved too

So we told of the special time on that day
When the first...

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What is it about two people holding hands

That says so much about them

First of all it says love and usually young love

But when you see couples in their golden years holding hands

We smile and say...

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Spring drew closer,
  warming my soul once more.
Inspiring rays of hope    
  enticed my life to renewal.

With spirits soaring,
  happiness ordered depression to exit
  down his murky tunnel.
Hopes...

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Topics of conversation seem to change as we approach maturity.
As kids we talked of love - now it's lumbago and social security!
It once was enlightening to simply discuss the weather,
But now it's a litany of...

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The light along the bay burned through the night
as if to emphasize the dark, not tame it,  
throw the hours upon slow fire and show
that one keeps watch, and may not sleep, as if
there...

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Lance was a drifter, a gypsy, a loner, a lone wolf. Proud of it.
Not a highway man, not a flim-flam man, but a man who had traveled and knew things.
He had never settled down.
Or so...

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