Long Inconsistencies Poems

I say I want peace
Yet I hate my brother
It's not what I was taught by my mother
She said get along with one another
But that's not what I learned from my father
His propaganda soaked in like...

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Expiry date               
                 14.

I taught...

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hearken to the sound
of reality come round
crowing to the sun
a brand new day just begun
much more mundane than profound

the universe hums
until eternity comes
shifting light plasma
moves through sparse cosmic miasma
the interstellar stanza

universe springs forth
actual mountains of...

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By Curtis Johnson

Please allow me to introduce myself. Many know me presently as well as in years gone by as one who is both kind and strong.  Some of course even dislike me, and...

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Life is a dangerous struggle 
Full of inconsistencies, challenges and pains
Life is not fair even to the fair skinned 
The dark skinned are not faring better either 
In everyone's backyard a little rain must drop...

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The Accoutrements of Knowledge



The accoutrements of knowledge
had crept into his life, overtaking it.
No more did he sit and think,
idly allowing nuance to shade gray
the black and white of learning’s
playful inconsistencies.  Old books,
manuals, manuscripts, texts,
subscribed...

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Men say they don't like masculine women, but will put you in a position to where you have to be one. 

Where is the money coming from if my hands aren't the ones that are...

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he got up at bedtime stretched and gathered the sheets

shook up the pillows sorted the pages and went to his desk

thoughts and emotions dripped from fine ink on paper

looked at a day’s worth of poetry...

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He believed in inconsistency, with the claim that he believed in me...

I held onto every word as I watched the the ashes of my heart scatter into rain and I
stopped, stuttered and shut.down., the key...

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I will start with a word
Not knowing where it will take me
"inconsistencies"
No never mind
Forget that word
Oh shit I can't think of a word
What kind of a poet am I?
I'll sit here and scratch my head
Until...

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July 23 Scripture Meditations Based on Isaiah 49-52

Key Verse – Isaiah 49:8 Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and...

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September 18 Scripture Meditations Based on Matthew 24-25

Key Verses – Matthew 24:4-5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I...

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(The rehab of a supervisor)

My eyes!  Saturated
with industrial crap, eventually
to intoxicate what’s left of one’s
bewildered brain.
My sight!  Shackled to the
delusion of corporate inconsistencies,
when leading one’s head through each
enigmatic juncture.
My ears!  Burn with...

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To some it is overrated
To others it is never done

A lie is but the underside of truth
To spin a web of deceit is only
The stretching of the facts for greater appeal

Lies will be facts if...

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When did it turn around? I wonder now  
when the exact moment was I stopped 
looking ahead? Some moment in time
I looked back.  Back, back and back
and yet it is not far since...

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A ‘superbubble’ called bizarre
by some star watchers from afar
albeit it known as N Four Four
emission nebula with score

or scores of stars midst gas aglow
in Magellanic Cloud’s outflow
with dusty lanes we dreamers stride
inside the Cloud termed...

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SIT- STAY- ROLL- OVER- BE GOOD

Stay stagnant right where you are now
because as for loving a man truly I truly 
    don't think you know how
I once thought we could get through...

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THESE FLUTES WERE MADE FOR WALKING           

Stay stagnant right where you are now
because as for loving a man I truly 
    don't...

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STAGNANT STUPIDITY

Stay stagnant right where you are now
because as for loving a man truly I truly 
    don't think you know how
I once thought we could get through anything that came
 ...

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Just a bit of black pepper
As your breath brushes against my neck,
Dangerously close.
Don’t forget the heavy cream
You whisper gently in my ear.

My knees slightly shaking as I stir 
You passionately intertwine the broth 
As I...

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Freedom asserted, freedom elevated
At the price of abandoning trivia
Jettisoning frills in the context of flights coveted
When whites and nights turn cold and Sylvia

Despite her brown complexion tolerates ebony skin
Rating it high, far above the artificial...

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I just want a 24 hour period 

of seductive listening.  

Intently awaiting 

your body's calling. 

A standing ovation 

after your speech

 is  finished.  

I want to know you 

by your idiosyncrasies 

and inconsistencies.  

Let me formulate...

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I'd nurture the World if only they would Appreciate it. The passion that Rains in my heart is a Storm trying to Soak up Roots in the Ground of my past. But Still i have...

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Attendants

Attendants once were happy in the ancient mansion 
Made of sand and granite by the cliff
How fortuitous to be employed in these harsh times
Tending to the mundane chores and sober orders
The rule of life for...

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Don't be afraid to go back in time and see the life you lived. 
Artificial smiles in a world stained with pain. 
People you trusted, you deemed as your friends. 
Only later they were icing...

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