Long Intemperance Poems

A single ray shone light through a knothole and anchored his thoughts

At daybreak for the spider-web’s shadow enlightened the beach hut

Tim had lived in a mansion but hardship had unburdened his soul

He was happy because...

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All we eat is elk meat, boiled elk, roasted elk, elk jerky
sometimes fried elk if we get bear or whale oil,
oh, and sometimes elk soup,
for four months we've subsisted exclusively on elk
except for occassional dog...

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With him beside me, recklessness intensified
I knew a wildness which colored my spirit purple
A color I know would begin to describe me inside
The way that it feels to know this uninhibitedness
~~~
With him beside me, there...

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She hailed from the kingdom in the north named Israel.
This woman must have had her beginnings in hell.
She was wicked princess of Ahab and Jezebel.
Intemperance nearly led to great Judah’s death knell.
A heathen worshipper of...

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Existential fear abandoned for the sake of delusion

Nuclear freeze in her heart of alchemy’s shivers 

Veiled shadows dancing to the echo of silence

Intemperance sounding choral confusion of fate 

Rosemary scents a bunch of renegade petals...

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Loitering in the lair of incontinence without askance
Chaufeured by alter ego looking for any appealing circumstance
Besieged by an uncontrollable libido that craves a licentious remonstrance
Bridled by an insecure complex that insists on a meaningless dalliance
Bethrothed...

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Black Seed by Black Seed

Every day the same people
at the same table 
at the rear of the cafeteria.
The maiden, 35 at least, 

is gray at the temples,  
sour at the mouth.
The widow, 55, waves...

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Every day the same people
at the same table
at the rear of the cafeteria.
The maiden, 35 at least,
 
is gray at the temples, 
sour at the mouth.
The widow, 55, waves
a cigarette like a wand.
 
Girdled and...

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Scar-like Healings
               by Odin Roark

Scar laden perfections
Where life's training wheels balance
One's child-like trust
Adolescent-like daring
Adult-like intemperance

Scratches
Bruises
Broken bones
History's incidentals heal easily

While

Challenges of the...

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The tiger, majestic and proud
Fearless, strong and solitary
A predator by nature
Domineering yet wary

The dove, gentle and harmonious
Passive and apprehensive
A free spirit by nature
But always on the defensive

The jungles most perilous feline
Encounters the fragile dove
A most...

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Written in response to listening to Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9, No. 1

Heaven awaits me, fleetingly
Captured in your sight
I came alive, I am alive
With a permanent vision
Of a vanishing dream
Awaiting me, there you are
I will dance,...

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Embrace your inner hatred and release 
Love; fullness forever, to realize.

Embrace your unhappiness and release
Joy; fullness forever, to realize.

Embrace your hostility and release
Peace; fullness forever, to realize.

Embrace your impertinence and release
Patience; fullness in life, to...

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He sinks further into bitterness 
with each sip of oblivion....... 
slurping....gulping grudges and blame 
with every malicious mouthful. 

He remains suspended in cynicism; 
hurtling missiles of misery mixed 
with murky twisted memories in an 
attempt...

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Dark shadows stalk the imaginary paths of my brain
Mirroring conscience reflects the torpor of my anguished soul
Black clouds hover in every dark corner of my jaded psche
Raining doubt and fear on the canvas of my...

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There are no gentle movements
into a calm goodnight


there is a rage 
of intemperance
in the stupidity
of attempting to mark, 
as to be in memory


there is no remembrance


as one I arrived bare
maggots my butlers,
devouring each and every
shedding,
eventually...

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From the anise do I awaken.
Molten sugar dribbles into my veins;
O languor! My mind’s overtaken—.
The green fairy has me forsaken in pain;
a siren, she beckons me to her shore:
her green eyes incense my intemperance! 
Saffron...

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She waits within abiding stealth
Fashioning control over herself

But she is so acute to cryptic failings
Flinging against my invisible railings

Not to be subdued or silenced still
She rages with uncompromising will
Confined by these weak temporal walls
Undone she...

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