Long Existential angst Poems

Why do I love poetry? Well, it's none of the usual: beautiful words, lofty thoughts, noble sentiments. I can get all that from Tolstoy or the Bible. No, I love poetry, good poetry, because it...

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I should have been a Beat Poet

I should have been a Beat Poet
Like Ginsberg or Ferlinghetti
They were good but not that great
Oh, maybe I'm being petty.

I could have driven across the States
Like Cassady and Kerouac
But...

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I've felt it said
here
time and again

That a personal issue
is also about political tissue
reconnecting economic responsibilities
risks
opportunities fiscal
annual
perennial

Centers of felt pleasure
and good humor
are Passions,
not only small
and great transitional
but resonantly
resiliently multi-anecdotal,

Excluding all DisPassions
DeGenerations
and humorless passions
actively resisting future dispassions,
loss
suffering
mortality
and...

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It’s summer, hurry up. Let’s not waste a minute.
Where’s the sunscreen, where’s the party, who’s knutching who?

The sky was crowded with bright, balloon stratocumulus clouds, hanging mountain-like in the air. How can something that big...

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(fear not stalwart reader, the sword of Damocles just grazed thy chest when fate found us a place to call home).

to avoid the pitfall of prospective homelessness
which near future prospect 
   induces existential...

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written just a couple weeks before the lease at prior abode would expire, and no affordable habitat....just by happenstance and a thankful invisible hand of destiny.
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Absent Motility Against Staid Inertia

impossible to describe listlessness
     bedeviling this body electric aye attest
motivation to counter glumness
     seizes motility temporarily

     to stave off...

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Food issues bring odd stealth
        (not obsessed with broccoli 
         inexplicable phobia of brussel sprouts)
It's potato chip indulgence
  ...

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At Customs

Delayed fatigued grumpy and miserable there was I
yet another queue at Oliver Tambo on arrival another

Check scan body search and
mind games in my baggage

Damascus had been an unusual holiday destination
had firmly attached a couple...

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Plummeting void of primitive desire
All is passion and idolism
An existential angst, consuming your thoughts
What meaning is there behind "the one"?

You're a caveman deep down
Starved for attention
Feeling nothing
And everything


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Note: this poem is the combined result of...

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Camouflaged Beauty

Before ‘essence comes existence’ existential beauty in the

Eye of the beholder and in the making when fragments disperse

And grimy misunderstanding of what life is about to become is

United in shards of stained glass mosaic...

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What is life's meaning?
What is the purpose in life?
I'm afraid humanities insatiable appetite for answers
Is creating existential angst in our lives
 
A brain hardwired on the savannas
Full of fear and aggression has become wise
This is...

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Silence reigned….for the moment.
Nothing stirred in the garden.
No owl screeched.
No bird flew.
And inky darkness seemed to spread.
Even the moon 
hid itself in shame.
A light breeze rose suddenly freezing all.  
It rushed through the trees,...

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Fighting against external enemies is natural.
Isn't my fight against myself a Herculean task?
Desires and drives that decrease me into an animal
In my predicament, my consciousness is in a mask.

Values and valuations, like heroes and villains,...

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When existential angst tests faith, we hope
     that in the new-risen day there's a God
from high above Who inspires us to cope, 
     tho' life strikes us...

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When existential angst and doubt meet faith,
     the saved hold on and cleave unto their God
through prayer; like Job's wife, apostates oft' saith
     “Curse God and die!”...

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"Why must we suffer hardships and disease?"
     we ask. Pain? Hunger? War? Adversity? 
     Death? Misery!?...Our best philosophy
cannot put these concerns to rest or ease.

Dysphoria, psychosis, pathologies
...

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