Long Idealists Poems

Vets Know
                  by Odin Roark



Deployment
(Via Refrigerator Magnets)
 
Sweetheart

Should have told you

I’m sorry
I’ve buttered
the last piece
the heel
you never eat

Can...

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Say bye-bye to these:
    "Hold, please." (Hold what?)
    Typewriter Repairman Ads
    "Dial this number..." (What's 'dial?')  
    Down-time... Offline
   ...

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Prior To Commencing Poem, I Dreamt Contretemps Escalating fusillade...

Galvanized hotheaded idealists (jaded
locals - kindled moderates) nursed
oppressive proletarian quavering riot
spearheading triumphant utopian voice...

whether contrived right here and now,
or purportedly fragmented remnant
occuring during REM sleep
beside the point,...

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Regardless of how you paint the reason for the season
(or ignore it), I hereby invite you to join me in a call for/wish for/thought for/prayer for/(insert your word here:  ____ for) 

Peace on Earth...

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Nobody knows how life will play out-
the steps of a journey marching through each scene,
for futurity is sightless, only the beginning has eyes.

Nobody knows the number of heartbeats...
no artist, craftsman, designer, seascapist,
no orchestrator or sculptor-...

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When the frustrated socialist sees that health care isn't free
He turns into a killer, claims he's saving you and me
He murders a CEO, to make a point, because he could
For the goal of perfection is...

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I grew up a child of the ’60’s
together my life and the hippie movement dawned…
now when I look back at that time I wonder…where have all the hippies gone?

Those long haired tie-dyed idealists who walked...

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Without solid footing, idealism is a dream
From a position of strong sociopolitical reality
Words kill idealism without a scheme
Idealists deem the short-term triviality.

The ideal balance between man and nature
A serene scene of transcendence unfolds
Driftless area, spawning...

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I've experienced the exuberance of youth. Through endless summer days, of blissful 
childhood ignorance.

I have dreamt the most glorious dreams. The ability to soar with the eagles was 
mine, most any night. I was to...

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Spring of 1971, happy laughter
Multi-colored flowers and happy faces
we drive painted vans our parents can afford
We pile in, meeting new friends, some potential lovers
Peppermint breath greet us in half beat valentine waves

Idealists abounded, we flash...

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David sought a vanguard for revolution,
The Black Panthers seemed the perfect solution.
He built them a foundation, it employed his friend,
Until she found fraud and met a quick end.

Betty’s murder raised questions—who and why?
An inconvenient truth...

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The congregation of passportology
Is an overwhelming majority
Don’t know much of my geneology 
Even don’t belong to minority 
But anyone can attach me of course
To the less equal nation in Orwellian sense 
For that mental trick...

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Family Matters
There is a family nearby argues a lot fall out then makes 
 friends again with a glass of bubbly and an embrace.
 As it is, I have fallen out with an assortment of...

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Maybe one day.


Maybe~ one day l will fly away,
Fly away to the moon,
And dance among the stars,
To discover the essence of spring,
On Jupiter and on Mars,
Ceteris~paribus (other things being equal),
To fill my heart with tranquility,
Fill...

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The other night I dreamed of spiraling downward,
But the earth delayed rising up to receive me.
I watched my unending fall into masses of despair
Falling rapidly, I found that I could not flee;
I could only hope...

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Where do we poets go?
Hiding in the shadows of small towns and big cities,
Where do we poets go?
Spilling our hearts out onto paper for the world to see,
Where do we poets go?
When we no longer...

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The idealist sees the world as moments away
From bounding into a Utopian day
And the people that steal-
Can’t truly be real-?
For what helps another- is theirs they say
And the idealists see the moon with delight,
A gem...

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Optimism pranced up and down in hip hugger bellbottoms
Joy resonated from those who wanted peace not war
Gratitude basked from the corners of those who had not been drafted
It was 1969, and we were in our...

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Wandering along I came to a throng being addressed by a voice.

With Rhetoric so strong it did not take long to realize this voice's choice.

He spoke of our "due " and convincingly too promised to...

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P oets, Bards, inspiring, uplifting, admonishing
O ften prophets, idealists, weaving words from within
E expressionists, reciting feelings into the night
T his web site unites, illuminates the music we write
R eleasing the need to speak our truths
Y...

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Will there be someone for me
Who loves me with insanity?
Who wants me, entirely?
Who touches with intensity?

Will there be someone for me?

Will there be someone to kiss?
Who when gone, my kiss will miss?
Someone full of honesty…
Whose...

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Philosphers
They chase black cat in a dark room
And box ears of invisible gloom

some say world is an illusion
To others senses deal in delusion
A few maintain that world is in a state of flux
To others it...

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*Music or Die*


I have greatest delight in music
It carries me, permits me to live
Bringin' memory of matter and spirit
Fascinating, beyond what is classic

Playing along, sitting, on the beach
Music clears emotion, it's dramatic
Changing a world, winning...

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Sitting in the dark corner kind of people
Sloshing their troubles over beer and ale
Rolling their eyes and making fun of pussies
Who drink mixed drinks and wine

Putting up their fingers and laughing
at those who think they...

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DEEP AUTUMN’S RISE

Deep autumn rises
Alike a fond glance
At a balding friend

One is suddenly aware
That life – almost suddenly – changes
Almost certainly ends

Some idealists reach back
To summer    to a warmer time
And find upon...

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