Long Impairing Poems

CANCER

I was ten when you invaded our family, when my sixty year old grandfather
died with lung cancer and at that time I never really understood it; but knew
it was a deadly disease for two women...

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Being given the pen is supposedly mightier than the sword

And knowledge is king

How is it then that the hall's and
positions of power and official office

Are so often filled by warmongers
and people who can barely string
a...

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But for these two things,
My head would stop its imaginings,  
And the chance of a good nights sleep would not go begging.

To my views I am sticking,
In believing there may be a final reckoning
For...

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*Based on Plato's Allegory of the Cave

Numb fists with bloody wrists 
chained to crumbling walls.
Glazed eyes that never spy 
a single truth or fault.
Dim light impairing sight 
in spaces dark and shallow.
Stone walls where lies...

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Was it the death of the child,
playing in the busy street,
where traffic frequently exceeds speed limits,
in neighborhoods like this one,
even in summer evenings when children gather
with stick and ball?

Or was it the single mother,
who allowed...

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Extending far beyond the darkest night
Passing through deep gullies and narrow holes
Sweetly impairing him from deep within
Cry of a shattered soul echoing miles away

Within a cold glass-room, helpless
Spiraling deep down into despair
Spent days, heartless, locked...

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Don't be ruthless in communication
be it written or verbal, teacher told,
never say 'no' as wise people have told.
Feel the impact in brain with negation.

A 'No' word releases dozens of stress
producing chemicals in brain forthwith
interrupt normal...

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Current station in life no final destination
To sway and slay
The bright future which procrastination
Serves to waylay and delay

If temporary setbacks your vision should blur
In times of reverses
Attitudes should slur
In occult verses

Couched in perceptions
Marred by short...

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inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.

uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicose clumps that then gush and bleed-
underneath-
addling- 
marrow now callousing,
blood pools in pockets that...

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UNIVERSAL TRUTH 


Universal Truth,
Divine essence of eternity’s will, born even 
Before the time,
Creation’s unfailing architect, guardian of 
Transcendental law,
You trace the path of every being, that obediently 
Has to follow 
For your design to complete,...

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Pouncing wind of the North, what's the unexplainable folly 
for enacting a surly deed?
Stripping my stately pines
of their verdant leaves,
give back their esteem!


Impetuous is your haste,
immutable and imperative,
impairing these sentinels
that guard the feeble ones,
but you...

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Guard Your Tongue,
For
Words Never Retreat
Written: by Tom Wright
10-22-2016

Our words become heat seeking missiles,
When impairing others is their intent.
Once launched they can’t be retracted,
By the tongue from which they’re sent;

It’s in our hearts these words are...

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Life is like a pitfall,a quick pull to out the fall;
There is one way other than all;
Direct your life, you will find a wall;
Start digging it up, it will help you crawl;
It will take sometime,...

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