Long Indifference Poems

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I Flew the International Route

I flew the international route
Had an epiphany, no doubt 
Surrounded, the mix of folks
Of ages, languages, life walks

What if we suddenly can share
One intellection, maybe pair?
A story from a distant nook
Earth’s wisdom, ready for a book

Of money, family and love
Tradition, habit thereof, 
How we can learn, and why we don’t?
Out of indifference, we wouldn’t

This plane, a sample of mankind
Hey, guys and girls, come read my mind
I long to share, trick or two
You get to wear my old shoe

But no, they slept, restrained and fed
No brainstorms or plans instead
No passing secrets, gained advice
Within our reach, free and precise

No business chat, no meeting place
Or knowledge gained in plane’s space
Polite and friendly, shut as clams
No handshakes offered, only dams

We ate, we read, had movies watched
This opportunity was botched
And as we land - “goodbye, primates”
We split and run, to transfer gates

March 22, 2025
© Ed Kay  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Just the Truth

The times have fallen hard now, to scenes played on 'unmade' roads
Without my volition, and despite intentions, goals;
Indifference took precedence; a lust of life was part,
The key to understanding then, as now,Was placed a piece apart;
Carousing life held quietude.?
Whilst roles to play stood by, as unready future partner,
For when times would come rushing, all arrived..!
I've striven with understanding, and carried in part its lode,
Found 'light years' were really heavy... .’ 
Did some things that I was shown.
Now still I face an uncertain future, as a world in conflict roils,
Self-interest & self-importance, still… the poison in its ‘coils.’
I have observed full many persons from cooks, to magistrates...
Who have introduced first their credentials,
The institutions they'd attended, then put on the desk their brass name plate.
No, the magistrates, not the cooks..!
I’ve seen it happen thus, and I see it with world leaders, and the media making fuss..! 
The Olympic Torch was taken to heaven; yes they showed it on TV..'
I wondered at the gestures value, for Gods sun gives all the light we need?
Still I 'spose he must have seen it, and all the 'special peoples' smiles,
WOW look at what mankind’s achieved yet still raw conflict boils..!
Perhaps a little more understanding..? And a lot more less of 'ME'
Coupled with acceptance of human mortality, and His death upon the tree..!

©Joe Maverick 30-11-2013
Form: Verse

Premium Member Liberal

A word free from sin 
now it's used as a godless word 
taking all freedom from it's choice

Which direction do you take 
as it only sees through purity of a soul
all forgiving where good finds peace 
in order to stand against wrong doers

Which side of the scriptures are you 
protecting language indifference 
when tongues become disoriented

The good battle has begun 
to protect innocence

There is only one language 
when held with loves immaculate grace 
my liberal view from reading the Holy Bible 

I believe in God our Creator 
not destruction of his words twisting His Spirit 
or trying to render them meaningless without Faith

in the land of shadows only the soul runs

 one last wish? am I still entitled to this?
 I would like... I would like a lot … ah… how many there are
 the one who has no memories cannot have a future
  
 before reaching a name on the long list of lost objects
 realizes the value of regret and time (the lost past)
 and it's as if you still want to let the wind touch your hair and pull furrows in the sky
  
 sometimes I feel like I can be the summer solstice
 to divide time into hours, days, moments
 but what I don't have is already past. I will be lost too
  
 souls, don't let indifference wash away your colors
 because you need the soul, not the eyes, to find the way
 and to help you pass all the customs of heaven

Shattered

See it?
The cracks, the fractures - open, bleeding.
My mind laid bare, a battlefield of glass,
barbed wire threading through my thoughts,
indoctrinating spirals slicing through every soft impulse.

Chaotic proportionality,
twisted in the wake of your hands.
You constructed this wreck,
hammered rules into bone,
scarred my spine in silence,
every word a shard left to corrode in me.

visceral in every memory,
every cut screams with the echo of control.
Ant still-
you walk on it.
step after step,
your words drive splinters deeper into my skin,
indifference pressing down like stone.

Every slash bears your signature,
every jagged edge charts the space you occupy
while I lay shattered beneath it.

I do not flinch.
I do not move.
I am the ruin you made me,
exposed,
and yet you're still upright,
on the pieces of me
you discarded.


The Foreigner Next Door

There's this nasty lady living right 
by ours
A cranky old mare holed up next to our house 
Her garden is minging and her blinds 
are a lot worse
She acts dead weird, I reckon she's proper mental 
Her knees are knobby and her walk is
a bit wonky
The foreign woman next door has no right to be here 
She doesn't fit in so she stays out of sight 
She has no mates, always mutters to herself 
We want her out, she's not one of us 
Let's egg her house for a laugh and scare the pants off her
So they pelted my door with rotten eggs then posted dog poo through the mail slot 
While I remained quiet as a dormouse 
and prayed they would just let me be
The natives glozed over their mean deeds
And claimed they meant no offense 
My hands were tied, what with being odd man out 
So I chose to feign indifference, and passed the baton to the Gods of karma
While I laid back to feast on a larger slice
Of this local brand of hospitality
Form:

The Living

Wondrous ignorant blindfold convenient,
beauteous ideal woven lenient.
Instituted wayward thinking,
availing woes spirits sinking.
Stretching heads unfailing blow,
the best of attitude to go.
Befriending death cares for all,
rising above the flaming small.
Knowledge from the skeptic side,
consecrated muse runaway bride.
Substance reasons such,
indifference of too much. 
The doubted mind in chaos,
black hole attraction cosmos.
Riddles of enthusing world,
poor judgment of truth enrolled.
When comfort in every state attend,
bride and ego are best friend.
Passion fits in every age as hope,
fortunes by small difference scope.
The living unseen and unknown,
poor visions stage outgrown.
When a glimpse of our image is caught,
and miracles of heaven are sought.
The living world all in spirit benign,
expressing feelings and our art divine.
Form: Ballade

Premium Member Power of Hugs

I make it a must to do it at least once a day
Regardless of whether my dog is clean or not
As a hug given to her
Calms me down as much as it calms her down,
Taming the raging torrent that rages in me
Into a magical clear water pond
And making of me,
A mystical Queen always accompanied
By her companion, a pawed super hero,
Both living only for the joy of discovering the cosmos!

A hug, shared with my fluffy pet,
Reminds me always of the need to keep my heart
Bursting with love, even if the rest of the world
Is made of hatred, indifference and selfishness
As the rules of life are and shall keep on being harsh on us
To live we do, but someday, we shall no more
And if we can share hugs, just for the sake of giving ourselves
A feel good element, 
Well, why not become angels of hugs
Spreading their power to all humankind?

Premium Member The Beauty of the Disequilibrium

I was born in a spoken Word
a universe of infinitesimally low entropy
energy and matter
pressed into order
incredibly dense
God breathed

Since that first compression
I have been sliding
toward indifference
toward equilibrium
and yet your existence remains
statistically staggering

You are temporary whirlpools
in my river of chaos
the bloom of a flower
the warmth of a coffee cup
the span of a human life
beautiful because they are
fleeting states
of disequilibrium

You live in the pinprick window
between my highly ordered beginning
and my ultimate stillness
the Heat Death
where every particle
surrenders
its last difference

You call it paradox
that life seems to break my rules
but life does not break
the Second Law
it discovers
the loophole within me
the narrow passage
between collapse
and creation

You intercept sunlight
like a waterwheel
catching a waterfall
performing thermodynamic work
building order
from my downhill slide

But there is no free lunch
to create a pristine room
you must sweat
breathe heavily
radiate heat
you make the room ordered
and the air around you
more disordered

Life does the same
on a grander scale
to keep your body
your brain
your memories
in a state of low entropy
you consume
transform
and return
chaos
back into the room

You pay me
an entropy tax
you become
a masterpiece of order
only because you turn
your surroundings
into a stadium of disorder
faster than they would decay
on their own

You are temporary
stardust
golden
brilliant knots
tied in my fraying rope
tight only because
energy continues
to pass through you

And still
after knowing
the fate of stars
after hearing
the silence waiting
at the edge of time
you plant gardens

Premium Member Come In Said the Spider To the Fly

What kind of prissy, prancy, fanciness is afoot?
I look down, afraid my wizened mouth might reveal something
I truly have nothing to divulge, but I act mysteriously coy.

She looks like a Cheshire Cat, someone whispers within my hearing.
None of them know that I have dog-ears; only my friends know.
Who? 
I hear my name. 
Two or three co-workers who rarely speak to me
Come into my office,  under weirdly suspicious pretenses,
acting like buddies, four minutes apart.

I gloat in my spider’s chair, thinking of how I would
devour them if I was a praying mantis, wishing I was actually.
“What is new?” one asks me. 
I pretend indifference. “You tell me,” I say.

I have never had this much attention.
I guess I should have my buddy, the police officer,
stop by daily, and shut my door.
She seems to have stirred
great interest.

Maybe they think I am more
than a pirate, a criminal?
I put on my poker face for 
another round, loving my web today.

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